Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — MERCHANT ENDS HIS LIFE. [ARTICLE]

MERCHANT ENDS HIS LIFE.

Former Head of n Chicago Store Shoots Himself While 111. Abraham M. Rothschild, millionaire and former president of the A. M. Rothschild & Co. big Chicago department store, committed suicide Monday afternoon in the bathroom of his residence. He accomplished his purpose of self-destruction by sending a bullet through his brain. Insomnia from overwork indirectly caused Mr. Rothschild’s death. Always a hard worker, he was obliged to retire from business on arccou.it of ill health last May. Since then he had been suffering from the disease which was the indirect cause of his tragic act. Friends and relatives believe that he was temporarily deranged. That is the only explanation offered as a solution of the suicide. The merchant was prosperous and happy in all of his relations. Mr. Rothschild listed to call himself “No. 13." He was proud of the fact that from being the thirteenth child in a poor family in the Black Forest of Germany he hud risen to a position of prominence in the American business world. At the time of his death his estate was conservatively estimated to be worth ut least $1,000,000.