KILLS HIS DAUGHTER IND THEN SELF Bloody Double Crime of a Trouble Crazed Farmer, SHOOTS AT HIS CRIPPLED WIFE. Efforts Of Mrs, Grover To Prevent Her Husband's Suicide Leads Him To Attempt To Exterminate The Family—Crippled Woman's Lonely Vigil With The Dead And Her Pitiful Flight Across The Fields When The Horror Of The Situation Overcame Her, Richmond, Va. (Special). — pondent because of financial reverses, over which he had brooded for sleepless nights, and porarily insane through W. B. Grover, a farmer of Ckesterfield County, to be thwarted in an end to his own life by daughter, attempted to his entire family, succeeded ing hig 20-year-old daugter, attempted to kill his wife, at he fired point blank with the weapon that had ended the girl's and then sped a bullet a his brain, The father and daughter gether upon the bedroom floor, ing the crippled wife and alone in a house of horrors. Des- probably the well-known same cause, about his desire to put his wife and exterminate in slay- Louise, whom life, own died leav- tO- mother It was between one A. M., Grover, a troubled sleep by the a passing trolley upon suicide in order troubles Dressing and revolver, he told his wife that he was going out into the yard, Read- ing his purpose in his eves Mrs er crawled painfully from her and started to accompany him He ordered her back to bed, telling her finally that he intended to end it all. Miss Grover, hearing the tion came from her bedroom on floor above and entered the room oc- cupied by her parents. Seeing then that he would not be allowed to carry out his intentions regarding himself Grover determined to usher his entire family into eternity him. when rumbling securing his the She Pled In Vain, lHled his daughter first, si as she turned from him hold of his bedroym door made a vain attempt upon his wife, trying to shoot the room, when became broken in scuffle again is the hall, when from him, after a sharp struggle, while the woman upon he pleading vainly for : Thrinking that his wife was Jdead, the man went back into his bedr« and fired a bu into hig own hig body fallin at right ang that of touching, th blood gether in a : over the floor Out in the yard, crawled in her terror human soul living her voice, Mrs. Grover her agony until an an came from Lewis negro who, with his dogs, was possum hunting in the neighbor- hood. Mrs, Grover had seen the light carried by the man. She redoubled her cries until he came to her, when €he told him her husband had killed her dauhter and himself and begged him to go for assistance Preston ran to the home of W. P Shonway, three-quarters of a mile distant, aroused his family, whom he told that something awful had hap- pened at the home of the Grovers but they doubted the man’s story and sent him still further upon his way Alone With The Dead, In the meantime Mrs. Grover, t« frightened to stay longer in t neighborhood of aer now desolated home, with only a thin skirt over her night dress, thout shoes and out covering for her shoulders, start. ed alone for help, Suffering with a dislocated hip, which had made her an invalid for many months, and without even the assistance of her crutch, the woman made her way painfully across lonely fleids, her fear of the night as nothing to the dread of wha ad left behind her. She manag crawl] somehow the intervening stance to the home of the Shon falling in collapses ACTozs Sobbing hs to tell had In the meanti gone on to the whom the trage holds y a carriggs being Is i at the posal of M I ! The badie ere still we the parties home, bad evidently He ki ing her the thres He then the life of her first in 1001. his pistol and fled and Was +h the sae knees fe her H ¥ + 4 orain, dark pool shrieked wering cory Preston, th at » ae being their she managed what ocenrroad me the ne had home of W. M. Willis he aroused with the story olf both Zro Be men of house. for ReONe, dis- the Grover but both ir and daughter igtant Aviator Falls Into Pines. Berlin (Special) Hans Grade made the first attempt to win prize of $10,000 offered by Hans Lanz, a merchant of Mannheim, for a 2%-kilometer flight in a German aeroplane. Grade used a monoplane of his own construction, but the propeller broke after it covered half the course. The accident occurred when Grade was 50 feet above a pine grove, which broke the fall, the aviator escaping practically unhurt, Cleyolands Sail For Burope: New York (Special).—Mrs. Grover Cleveland, widow of the former President; her daughters, Esther and Marion, and two sons, Francis Grover and Richard Folsom, sailed on the steamer Berlin for Gibraltar, Algiers, Naples and Genoa. The Cleveland children will enter a school at Lausanne, Switzerland, and Mrs. Cleveland will take up her residence near Lausanne for an indefinite peri WILL LET SPAIN FIGHT IT OUT United States and Other Powers Hands Off. —————— A War Between Spain And Morocco Now Seems Certain—Former Has 60,000 Troops In Northern Africa, With 11,000 More Mobilizing For Service—Spanish Forces Occupy- ing Peninsula North Of Melilla— Spain's Internal Troubles, Washington. D. C. (Special). — The attempt of the Sultan of Moroc- to obtain foreign intervention in the conflict between his country and was detailed in a dispatch Just made public from United States Minister Dodge, at Tangier, to the Department. In a note ad- dressed to the diplomatic corps the Sultan, through his representative, expressed his alarm at the Spanish force in the Riff territory, saying that the report had arisen that the Spanish government's object was limited to punishment of who killed certain mine labor- CO not those ers, The Sultan § no right to and request to infor they may invite the maintained that administer punish- ed the diplomatic m thelr governments the attention the Spanish government in a manner to the danger its action, Mr. Dodge add- the French Minister who is dean of the diplomat was about to address a c¢ note to corps, saying French government did sider this a case in which take action. Attention tion in the which the { ment Corps that of that corps, the ae not is called the Algeciras American mference {io convent represent: disavowed on d States, any rocco oO a pr han ridest lege th iae Cc in Mc ire for all of trade and country and declar that States would th farre te enforcement to f qual- in the peoples Lilie Uni- pon- the Ho res of thought, the United States will take in the adjustment of this fer ween Spanish government, C ARRIES SIG HT BY WIRE. therefore, any part ‘atest dif- bet and uitan Prisoner Claims Of Vision Transmitter Mexico > Sanchez, ecial ) an elect an inmate claims to have invented whereby vision as + be transmitted p wire He iopticon, that engineer at present Belem prison, tus may 3 AR voice his invention a { the p calls and Ohi sol i telerad cials admi* m essfu Accepts Tariff Board Place, ial) A announced his Chicago (Spe H, Sanders, of Chicago, President Taft's invitation on the new Commissioners, Mr. Sanders’ acceptance has been forwarded Secretary of Treasury Franklin MacVeagh, and makes it to effect an earl organization, is understood tha t a held for this pur shortly, acceptance tO mem. of bership Joard formal the possible it meeting will $10,000,000 Company Formed, Del, (Special). Western and Southern development Dover, capital of $10,000,000 corporators, including Southern Congressmen, and 114 prominent among them and William J. Stone. is known aa the Mississippi Valley Transportation Company and intends to revolution- ize traffic on the Mississippi. to be Accused Of Kidnapping Girl, Pittsburg (Special). The Pitta. burg police are searching for James Larry, aged vears, who is believed to have kidnapped Mary Cinimero, 13 yearg old, of Niles, Ohio, and brought her here. As®isting tae local authorities is Constable HL A. Walsh, of Niles Larry was a boarder at the Cinimero home. oy» wid Drowned Herself And Baby. Northport, IL. I. (Special).—The bodies of Mra. Mary Granville baby son were found in Salonga, where Mrs had drowned herself and fled from her home leaving her husband ghters asleep and a pond Gran nim her ville She and three dau Tries To Kill His Father, La Crosse, Wis. (8S attempting to Kill his liam Schaefer, aged 27 proprietors of a bakery, revolver on himself and shot, falling dead on the sanity ls believed to have pecial) father one of turned fired floor. been After Wil- the the one In- murder, Philippine Cigar Trade, Manila (Special). — The Pacific Mail liner Biberia left here for San Francisco with 2,000,000 cigars as the chief item of her cargo. This shipment has completely cleaned the local market of cigars and the fac- torieg are already advancing prices. Johnson Left $18,000, St. Paul, Minn. (Special). Fred W. Johnson, the late Governor John- son's brother; Fred B. Lynch and T. D. O'Brien, close friends of Gove ernor Johnson, began the work of getting the estate of the dead gov- ernor into shape so that It may be probated. Governor Johnson left no will, but it is understood that it was his wish, expressed before he died, that his entire estate be turned over to Mrs, Johnson. It is estimated that the value of the estate will not ex- $18,000, GREAT PLANET MARS 15 CLOSER TO THE EARTH Surface Marking and Polar Cap Observed. 15,000,000 MILES NEARER NOW. Prof. Asaph Hall, Jr.'s, Long Vigil At The Naval Obsery story's Great Telescope In Washington In The Hope Of Making Some Interesting Discovery — Engaged The Past Month In Measuring The Two Moong Of Mars—8Some Curious Disturbances Noted. Washington, D. C. Mars and its moons were many of big various parts of the world, and with 35,000,000 miles from the roof of the United States Naval Observatory, as astronomical éharps figured it, the instruments of institution were in use all night. Friday's distance between the earth Mars meant a clipping § 000,000 mileg off the average vening space, and Prof, Asaph Jr., son of the who first discovered the of Mars, began training observa- tory’'s great glass on the big light the sky early in the evening, the prevailing clouds, 1 his purpose velopments unt All preparations with minuteness other observers had hopes of fic discovery (Special). the telescopes target of the in the planet only of dy inter- Hall astronomer satellites the naval and he watching lock AM had been like points, he scien time is and fons in this hould KIODRS an of de- 0 made fzon. Huh condi excellent observatons recorded of { ATi8Ce MAT the 8 aps yV While Lie planet than Nerval ions running at SXPEns confinin line. Prof gociates have be engaged sin gust 20 In measuring of Mars, and will for a month TT 1s - s + The polar cap hag taken up less their though very have made of determining the and of satellites are not Ng eir work Hall and his as- Au Wing the two md continue probably more time, a rvations f view some obse heen with glee feature of Mars The slanet bances luding r; markings as well to the rv curions di the planet, In markable parallelizing effects been noted To observers different portions of Mars, the appears in quite Jdifferent in the sk Ale and somes exXercive close atv by ather study moon gitions Omly Surviving Member Of Consti- tution Crew Is A Baltimorsan. Philadel; Ham Maca ©y like famous Bi } lies here a darling of his sallor will spend the his life in a roll him, crew,” remal nder ing chair Hil's leg was broken last month, but he retains a remarkable control over his faculties THESE BUGS EAT STAMPS, Someone With Insects Needed Badly, B.C Department Washington, The Postoffice ing great loss by a swarm of water to the present sheets of postage the mucilage from { Special) is suffer- the incursions bugs, which have time destroyed many stamps by eating the backs of So far the insects have withstood destroy them building are ide which the pests been strewn around to and the officials of searching for some insecti will rid the department of the Nine Die OF Charlotte, N. CC, death from peliagra since of the disease in t! was announced ocen od here, being Ella Bovee, gro. The woman was 20 years old All the cardinal symptoms noted in previous cases were There Are six caseg under i Charlotte Peliagra. fal) The the 1 Spe ninth prevalence munity the victim ne sreeRont $ vaens t trea: Mrs. Eddy Gives 85. 000, New York Mra Baker G. Eddy has sent the New York Museum of Safely and Sanita- tion her check for $5.000 Mrs. Ed- dy stated that she did so in appre- ation of the philanthropic efforts of the museum in the introduction safety devices to minimize the cidents due to railway travel and the use of machinery. Watchman Fires Factory, Indianapolis, Ind. (Special). Otto Truhon, night watchman of the Me- Dougal! kitchen furniture factory, which with several houses in the neighborhood was burned, confessed that he had set the factory on fire, according to the police. The loss was $150,000. Truhon is probably insane the police say. on — (Special) Mary NS A IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE At present 32,917 Connellaville coke ovens are at work and 5,642 are idle. Part of last year more than half were idle. Cotton got away above 13 cents and made a new high record for the yeay., This helped to depress stock prices, The enormous transfer of owner ship In Lehigh valley stock from Philadelphia to New York interests has brought millions of cash from that city to Philadelphia. WOMEN UNDER A BLAZING AUTOMOBILE The Terrible Ending of An All-Night Joy Ride. THREE KILLED AND FOUR HURT. Automobile Juans on A Trestle At Seattle And The Gasoline Tank Explodes — Two Women, Burned Nearly To A Crisp, Dragged From Under The Wreck — Chauffeur Alone Escapes And Leaves The Burning Victims, Three men Wash. killed and a woman seriously (Special) .- Seattle, women and three injured when were automobile containi eight off a Streets, an ng trestle at short sons and jumped Weller distance ’ today the tide fne tank 30 feet Union Station cal DeIOwW, here When the flats, 25 feet exploded and A fire eng landed on Lilies A801] flame S40L up and the from ging was called wWoinan automobile water 10 Le dragged a the blazing had been throwing wreck for several The driver, Henry been twice arrested driving, was taken to Only aped unhy The had Joy mii ue Oh party riding” ertainment Streets a sl tha trestle, but raig ahead and he wooden railing When the women and ght ing durne had been wen ing toward town ts $ ry Him #100 m himself 0 Robert Hoe Hes Lond { 81 naon In London, Members Present, al) Fellow States and Canada 25.000 members from every in the Union present A great will be held, when 20,000 regalia, leq by the will march streets, Order of Oda IAC No Thaw Insanity Commission, Pittsburg (Special) Wi ment Cohen, thout on the on Judges Swearingen and Carnahan down a decision refusing to commission to determine K. Thaw is insane The fon was filed in behalf of At- torney James B. Graham, of New York, who alleges he has a claim against Thaw of $2,954. appoint a petit Mayor Eby Convicted, Philadelphia (Special). Abram C. Eby, the mayor of Burkeville, Va., who wrote to President McCrea of the Pennsylvania Railroad, that unless he was paid $45,000 he would blow up the property of the Norfolk and Western Rallway, was convicted by a jury in the United States Court here by using the mall attempt blackmail. Sentence was deferred to Moors Severely Punished, Madrid (Special).—Official advices received from Melilla, Spanish with the operating here Morocco, 4 been say that a the westward possession of the Yatch the enemy sustaining Ten Spaniards were Ww ounde dd. Priest Killed In Religious Riot, Barcejona (Special) Religions at resulted in the of and the wound A religious pro where the forces have fighting column, taken Tasdirst, losses, and 70 Moora, io killed Castro men rioting killing ing of 56 others, cegdon, with the local priest at its head, was abot. to enter the chureh at Castro when it was attacked by | ap rmed mob, The priest and an-| other man were killed instantly. two Earthquakes And Storms, Paris (8pecial) —Southern France, especially Provence, has been visited by heavy storms accompanied by earth shocks. Considerable damage hag been done and railroad com- munition has been partially inter. rupted by the floods, LS A OA Expresses In Rear-End Crash, Patee, N. H. (Special). Three men were killed when the Montreal express, bound fromm Montreal for Boston, crashed into the rear of the disabled Quebec express, from Quebec for Boston, about a mile and a half from this station a a. Hundred Perish In Syria, Constantinople (Special). — Tor. rentinl rains have caused the joss of hundreds of lives and the destruc- tion of 600 houses at Homs, a town in Northern Syria. DR. COOK AGAIN ON AMERICAN SOIL Rousing Ovation Tendered Him in Brooklyn. Enthusiastic Reception Aboard Ship Followed By An Almost Riotous Demonstration When He Came Ashore—An Affectionate With His Wife And Childrens No Official Representatives—Rear Admiral Schley Sends A Kindly Message. New York -Dr, Fred- Ick A. Cook, home Arctics with the glory of being the first the North Pole, that was a triumphant hours long Tanned and seamed face (Bpecial). from the man to reach received a welcome ova throug all out moment emot only tial ual on Wills and forma reach Not coms LO arguments,” Ne Wrote prepared abo tain, he of atemer events admit it was a . : igh here as crowd ike his sim- i seemed to carry con- WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH The earth planet Mars was cl night by 15, has ever been observations were Oger tc last O00 GOO tdan it before ton and other The can appointment as the Coast Artillery Corps i. W. Call, of the District umbia, and C. C. Heth, of Vi Dr. G. Armour Hansen, Of ieprosy bacillus had found the bacillus in a piece skin taken from John 8. Earl suspected leper : Official denial has been the report that ex at Cludad Jaurez ident Taft and to mee of didates list discovers asserts that given plosives w found near where Pres President Diaz are re H. Pearce, aminer of the board sion Office, aged 54 years, iead in bathroom £ ane Big oar rivers of working Of his ning factories along the ryland and Virginia are overtime to take of the Guant of tomaloes Frank C. Weems, a former timorean, was awarded the ficate *honogra slitute at Cincinnati, © The Postoffice Department been searching for heirs W. Weart, a former postmaster, whom due $10. The Treasury Department awarded and silver medals for rescues in various parts of the coun. ry. President Taft denied a pardon to John B, Powers, convicted of peon- Ain ia Care it TR Bal- teacher's corti by the phic In has of George have been brutal, Congress passed a law, which will go into effect January 1, forbidding the issuing of checks for less than one dollar. John C. O'Loughlin, the old Capi- tol guide, who died In Washington, Wednesday, was buried in that city. The body of lieutenant General Henry C. Corbin was Interred in Arlington National Cemetery. A revenue cutter has been ordered to Nome, Alaska, to bring back 100 stranded Americans. General Corbin’s remains are to be buried in Arlington near General Lawton's grave, Secretary Wilson favors govern. ment control of rallroad securities to encourage investment on the part of farmers, i ¥ THREE WEEKS IN AN OPEN BOAT Hardships of the Crew of Wrecked Yacht. RESCUED BY STEAMER GERMAN, Rev. T7T. Walkup sure — Yacht Dies From Expo Capsized Near Tho Marshall Group, In The Pacific Of The Castaways Driven Insane By Suffering—Only Drops Of Rain To Drink. some missionary dingham capsized Marshal Wal group, rece died from BIG STORM'S DEATH LIST 15 GROWING Fifty-Five Known to Have Perished in the Hurricane, Communications The be Increased = The ( Beg To Choas—Thrilling still Crippled And Number Of Victims Likely To City Of Nar rescent ring Order Out Tales Of Will inning row Amount To Escapes] oss Millions, laid waste tically been ton gins and leveled News reached parts killed a fishi hurricane camp in were were in Parish dead are: Charles child named names and Robert New Orleans is stil 3 in the way of rallroad facili telegraph and telephone commun tion the outside world It not until Wednesday that the West. ern U was able to get a work- ci For two city only ou tion was over an phone and the Railroads ng children, with WAR union of the tance el linois Central and Nashville hoavy tracks having been washed away veral weeks before tl again be running ti will ining own tracks that aelr $e or 36 Mor» Found, New Bodies Orleans (Bpecial} Section Wis wv and Nashville Railroad found the dies of 36 ors and fishermen n tion his brings total resulting from in appre ied iat LE] sail Dunbar Sta- number Monday's ximately 200 decomposed the track of dead hurricane The bodies were badly wire buried nea bed without identification last old Wonld-Be Murderer Kills Himself, Walkall, N. Y. (Special) Oliver Relvea. aged 21, shot and killed him- self here after firing three shots at E. H. Van Wagenen, his former em ployer. Relyea had been missing for 10 days, together with $300 belong Ne to Mr, Van Wagenen He re. turned and, Mr. Van Wagenen said, offered to surrender. Van Wagenen started to walk to Justice Kain's of- fice, with Relyea following in a wagon, when the shooting occurred, Van Wagenen was unhurt. NR Sub Fireman Fatally Injured, ; Topeka, Kan. (Specialy. — Fire here destroyed the Otto Kuhne Pre serving and Pinckling Works, caus- ing a loss of $125,000, Two firemen’ were Injured by falling walls, one fatally. College President Dead, Dr. B. H. Cabell, for grenident o ot Potter College, sud. He was 62 years old.
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