Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-03
STARVING FOR LOVE.
A Young Wife, Deserted, Refuses T<
 Touch Food.


 CLEVELAND, O., August 2.-A sad case of woman's devotion and mans inhumanity was brought to light here. Mrs. Alexander Gro yer, a wife only eighteen months and not yet twenty-two years of age, taken to the Huron street hospital on Wednesday night in slightly demented condition. She has a strange history. Her husband, painter by trade, has deserted her six times and has once tried to poison her. Last fall, after Grover had been mysteriously missing for several days, his wife heard that he was in Toledo and going there found him. He consented to come home and under some pretext lured the unsuspecting woman into the woods, five miles from the town, and there left her to her fate. She was found the roadside. Mrs. Grover tried to starve her self to death last summer, but was prevented from doing so by friends. Three weeks ago her baby died and last week Grover again deserted her. Since then not a particle of food has passed her lips. On Wednesday she visited the house of lady friend Wilson avenue. A physician, who chanced to be there, saw at glance that her mind was affected and had her taken to the hospi- tai. The poor woman pleaded so piteously to be allowed to remain in her home that her request was granted and an attendant placed there to watch her and prevent any forcible attempts at self-destruction. She is very weak from the effects of her long fast, but steadily refuses to receive nourishment, saying she does not care to live. Mrs. Grov- CT will receive a small sum of money in Sep tember, left her by deceased relative. The police are on the lookout for the runaway husband, though Mrs. Grover still professes 8 willingness to forgive his offences, and de- clares that as she loves him and cannot live without him. if he refuses to live with her the only alternative lett her is death.
 A CAPTURED DEVIL FISH.
 Am Ocean Vampire Captured in a Net
 Near Galveston.
 GALVESTON, Texas, August 2.-Immense crowds of people gathered at the beach to see devil fish which had been cap tured yesterday. For some days past school of marine monsters has been seen dis porting in the Gulf short distance from the shore, and all efforts to harpoon or capture them proved futile until Friday when one was caught in fishing seine. Ropes were thrown around the monster and with horses it was dragged ashore It proved to be specimen of very rare fish, the "Cephal optera Vampyrus," also called devil fish and vampire of the ocean. Its weight is about two tons and it lies spread out on the beach dead it has every appearance of an enormous bat or vampire. It is fully six teen feet wide from the extreme edges of the pectoral fins and fourteen feet long. The mouth is four feet wide and is protected on either side by formidable appendages resem- bling horns, with which it scoops in food.
 Santos Released From Custody:
 WASHINGTON, August 2.-Information has been received here of the release of Julio R. Santos, the naturalized American citizen who was arrested and imprisoned in Ecuador last winter. Santos was accused of aiding in a revolutionary movement against the govern ment of Ecuador. Recently the United States steamer Iroqrois was sent to Guay- quil with demand for his release This de- 1nand was complied with and the Iroquois is now on her way to Panama with Santos on board.