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.