The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-06-29

~ Jr&a off, Of 1892 81. may. may ,... cause
ested in the announcement. On the 2nd Of
February in the year above stated a number
Of business men of town received postal
cards on which were printed an invitation to
attend "a meeting Of personal interest to be
held in the Ferguson House on the evening
Of that day. The invitation was signed
"P Ferguson, per c. p. H." Five business
mon responded and after formal greetings
"C p. H." proved to be Charles p, Hover,
formerly of Bryn Mawr. He was gonte
man of plain, but well -to-do appearance, and
suave in manner. He was about az years Of
age but being prematurely gray, looked much
older Mr.. Hover stated that the meeting
was called in the interest Of the Norfolk,
Wilmington and Charleston Railroad Com
pany which was intended as an aggressive
competitor Of the Atlantic coast limo. He
produced numerous maps and papers showing
the line OF the latter company and the pro-
posed line of the former, which Mr. Hover
claimed had been chartered with a capital
stock of $6,OOO,OOO, The general offices Of
the company he said were at 212 South Broad
street. Philadelphia. The special claim for
the new line was that it would form the in
side Atlantic coast route and shorten the
distance between northern points and
Charleston over 100 miles less than the
distance traversed by existing lines.
Mr.. Hover painted the prospects Of the
| proposed line in beautiful colors and declared
there were millions in it," He said Mr..
| p. ]. Ferguson had taken a $1,000 block of
stock and for that reason had been made
director in the company. There was only
about $l4,OOO worth of stock left Mr.. Hover
added and the company was willing TO give
it to Shenandoah people with bonus Of
seven directorships in the railway, construc-
tion and land boards
The picture painted was very attractive
one, but the Shenandoah people said they did
not quite understand it. 1t looked too much
like wheel within wheel arrangement
The HERALD did not like the appearance
Of the picture, either, and limited to that
effect in its report of the meeting. Mr..
Hover called at the HERALD office after the
report appeared and good naturedly COM
planned. He said he recognized in Editor
Boyer the captain of his old war company
which was a slight mistake and his respect
for veterans of the war alone prevented him
from becoming angry and making the paper
account to the law for the report it had
published. Mr.. Hover was given chance
to explain. He said he was the financial
agent of the N. w. & c. R. r.. that he was
not selling the stock of the railroad company,
but placing the guaranteed six per cent.
bonds of the construction company. He also
gave assurance that the unsold bonds would
be taken up by the moneyed men in shenan-
> doah.
Mr. Hover left Shenandoah few days
later after an unsuccessful attempt to float his
bonds He kept up a correspondence Of both
friendly and business character with sew.
eral people of town for a few months and
sent the HERALD copies of southern papers
containing accounts of his efforts to make his
railroad scheme go.
Some time last summer all correspondence,
d ceased and nothing was heard of Hover un
> til yesterday when the Philadelphia papers
gave an account Of his suicide According tC
. the reports Hover ended his life on Tuesday
last, at his home, sos Preston street, Phila
g delphia The deed was a deliberate one
After drinking two ounces Of ether he at
tached a rubber hose to a gas fixture and
putting one end in his mouth, turned the
z gas on full head and lay down on his bed t.
d await DEATH 1t was the second attempt a
suicide within three days. 1t was successful
for when his wife discovered him some tim,
subsequently he was dead. In speaking o
his history the Philadelphia papers say Howe
was prominent railroad contractor ten year
> ago and made comfortable fortune most o
/ which he invested in railroad stock Abou
= three months ago this stock fell and his los
was $65,OOO in consequence. This preyeC
upon his mind and he began to act queerly
Several times he put poison in the food Of hi
, wife and child and the danger grew to sucl
/. an extent that finally the family physician
S refused to attend the family unless Howe
was confined in an asylum. He was finall,
sent to an asylum, but returned in few days
= Last Sunday he went into the bath room 0
f his residence and got into the tub and turne'
: on the water, intending to drown himself
9 To make his attempt doubly sure he ais
:. turned on the gas, which was detected b.
Mrs Hover before he succumbed.
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r "THE KDDTHAT CUREs".