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Information was received Wednesday morning that Reuben Davis, of Davis, this county, had committed suicide at 10 p.m. Tuesday, by shooting himself with a revolver.

Davis had been ailing for a period of 17 years with Bright's disease and had been incapacitated from labor for a number of years.  He had been confined to his bed for some weeks and had been attended during each night by several nurses.  Thursday night, his brother, John Davis, and William Harris were attending him.  Davis asked his 15-year-old son for his revolver saying he desired to trade it off.  The son brought the revolver to his father.  John Davis was fanning the sick man and being sleepy, stepped out on the porch to be revived by the wind.  Harris was reading at the table absorbed in a newspaper.  The report of a pistol was suddenly heard and both watchers rushed to the bed to find that Reuben Davis had shot himself in the forehead, and he breathed his last as the men raised him.

Davis was about 42 years of age and leaves a wife and seven children.  F.M. Darling, justice of the peace in Worthington Twp., was notified and is holding an inquest. 

The cause of the rash act is supposed to be melancholia caused by so many years of suffering and dread of future suffering.

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