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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
ENTIRE FAMILY
DIFFERENTIATED
cleveland Maehinist Kills Els Wifa
Three Children and Himself.
CRIME CAUSED BY POVERTY

Cleveland. Dec q. - Roscoe W
A'eroy, machiniSt and about As years
Oh age. eXterminated his family by
ahooung his wife. his three children
and then himself. The crime is be-
neVed to have been due to despondency
over the impoverished condition of the
EMILY purse and the near approach of
Christmas
The crimes were extraordinary in
sheir thoroughness and there was evil
gently no miShap in their enactment.
Sne wife was killed first while Sleep
ing at her husbands side in bed: two
OF the children were killed as they ran
hither and thither through the house
IA the darkness of early morning en-
seavoring to escape their mercileSs
parent. The third child was killed in
ITS bed after his elder brother and Sis
ter had been killed
The dead are; Roscoe Derby, his
wife. Della; Harold, aged s; Alice, aged
L and Thomas, aged 5.
The crime is believed to have been
committed about o'clock in the morn
ing. Mrs. Derby was shot to death in
BED, two bullets having been fred into
her forehead and third. probably fired
after the children had been exterfni-
mated. in the hack of the neck. Mrs.
Derby probably was killed during
sleep, the expression on her face show
Ing no sign of struggle and il was
calm and peaceful Two of the chill
dren. however. probably had a struggle
with their inflri2ted parent. because
they had been awakened by the noise
OF the revolver being fired and sought
20 escape him. bit without avail. Har-
Odds body was found lying in q pool of
blood in the Kitchen and that OF Alice
IN the dining room with her face to the
hoor and bullet in her breast. Har.
old may have been chased bv his
rather, as there was evidence of nisht
In the manner in which the furnishings
or tho kitchen were thrown about
From the location of the bullets in his
head the boy evidently was caught nv
mis- father in strong grasp and held
while the weapon was placed against
the little fellows forehead and the bull
lets sent into his brain.
There was also evidence of a struy.
gle on Aive's part The last of the
children 10 die was Thomas. aged :,
'''-N ''AA'NAitN III DPt, DIDDIDlN Sui
asleep, and also received bullets into
mis- head. dying instantly. After the
extraordinary crimes had been com
mitted the perpetrator of them went
into the bed room where his wife had ,
been Killed and lying down at her side
nred bullet into his own brain and
died at bis wife's side. 4
a number Of pool room checks were
found about the house. showing that
Derry had h|"n trying his luck on
betting.
The G,st knowledge of the crime was
made in letter written by Derby TO q /
Friend who lived not far away ana
which was sent him by special deliv-
cry. The letter was to the effect that
when it had been received the Derby
family wo"ld be dead. When the
friend hurried 10 the house ala that
had been promised was seen 10 have
been fulfilled.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
MINE ENGINEER A HERO
Badly Injured BY Explosion of Air
Tank, He Hoisted Men to Surface.

oeOiy injured Sy Explosion of Air
Tank, He tioisted Men to Surface.
Scranton, Pa. Dec 21.-John Nc
Ginnis, engineer at the Mount Jessnp
shaft. in Peckyille, proved himself
quite a hero. Near his station in the
engine room an air tank used to help
In ventilating the distant parts of the
mine exploded. He was blown against
the wall with such force as to fracture
his arm and fairly cover him with cuts
and bruises. Flying coal dust almost
blinded him. and the shock rendered
him half conscious. Suffering and
dazed as he was, he rushed to his en-
CINE, signalled the men to take the
carriage and raised them all safely to
the surface. Then he swooned. He was
the only man about the place who
could run the engine, and had he not
retained his senses and nerve it IS
probable that the 80 men in the mine
would have been the victims of the
gas that would have accumulated with
the air cut off. The force of the ax-
plos.on badly damaged the engine
house and broke windows in both jess
SUP and Peckville.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
SURPRISE IN eEcHTEL CASE
District Attorney Says He Has Wit.
ness Who Knows Whole Story.

district Attorney Says He Has Wit.
ness Who Knows Whole Story.
Allentown, Pa, Dec. %. District
Attorney Lichtenwalner confidently
expects to convict some of the persons
under bail for alleged implication in
the murder of Mabel Bechtel. Mr..
Llchtenwalner has a star witness. who.
he says, knows the whole story of the
crime.
There is one person." he says. "who
KNOWS the truth and did not hesitate
to tell it. This person will be the
star witness of the trial. BY the tes-
timony of this witness the direct eyi.
dence | speak of will be made known
to the jury. No one out myself knows
the identity or whereabouts of this
person"
The district attorney declines to say
whether this witness is a man or p
woman. but intimated that the state
would direct it's principal attack
against Mrs. Bechtel, the mother of
the murdered girl.
Il have in my possession" said Mr..
Lichtenwalner. facts bearing directly
against the accused persons that are
not known to the public. The most
sensational disclosures are vet to
come. You were under the impression
that the entire story has been told. It
has not. 1t will not be told until the
trial. And when the true story is told
1t will be startling in the extreme"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
JAPAN ANSWERS RUSSIA
Cars Government Asked to Recon-
slider Certain Essential Points.

Cars Government Asked to Recon-
slider Certain Essential Points.
Toxic, Japan. Dec. 22.-Japan's re-
ply to Russia's proposals on the Man
churia-Corea question was handed to
Baron De Rosen at a conference be-
tween the Russian minister and For
eign Minister Komura, at the Russian
legation.
Japans reply is in no way in the
nature of an ultimatum, but she asks
Russia to reconsider certain essential
points in her note to Japan. Baron
De Rosen has now sufficiently recov
cred from his recent illness to resume
the negotiations.
Sixty military engineers have been
dispatched 70 Corea to replace the civil
telegraph operators attached to the
Japanese telegraph lines on the Corean
peninsula. II is officially asserted that
the step taken has no military signi-
cance
St Petersburg, Dec. 22.--Odiciais Of
the foreign Office do not share the pes
simistic feeling regarding the situation
In the Far East which now seems to he
general. They say there is no reason
to despair of a peaceful settlement of
the difficulties over which Russia aud
Japan are at variance.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
Remarkable Enoineerino Feat

Newark, N. j.. Dec. PA remark
able engineering feat was successfully
accomplished by the shifting of the
great double-decked draw of the Lack
awanna railroad bridge over the Pas
sale river from one pier to another.
The draw, which weighs 1000 tons and
Is 22O feet long, was shifted a distance
OF 80 feet and lowered liz feet. The
nfting power was the rising tide acting
on .pontoons, on which the draw was
raised and loated to the new pier.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
I. o. o. r. to Bar saIoonkeepers.

Springfield, o.. Dec. 22.-Grandmas-
ter Charles c. Pavey, OF the Ohio
grand lodge OF the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, has issued a circular
to the effect that on January 10, 1904.
all saloonkecpers. bartenders or pro-
fessional gamblers shall either Quit
the order or those occupations In the
event of a refusal to cease such call
ings, they will he tried and expelled.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
Live Stock Markets.

Union Stock Yards. Pittsburg. Pa,
Dec. 2S;-Cattle higher; CHOICE S5g
Hogs higher prime, heavy, mediums,
heavy and light Workers and pigs. 81 GO
@4.65; roughs. S3@4.5Q. Sheep were
lower; prime wethers, $4.10@4.25;
culls and common, S150@2.25; choice
lambs, $6.10Q625; veal calves. $40
TBS per 100 pounds.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
Pope Grants Dispensa.ion.

Washington, Dec. 23.-The apostolic
delegation has received word from
Rome that the pope has granted dis
pensation from abstinence on New
Years day. which falls on Friday this
year. The delegation has sent out let
tors 20 nj ;he bishops notifying them
O. 'h!r fact.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
A FAMILY MURDER
Relatives Of Miss Gillespie Indicted at
Risino Sun Ind.

Rising Sun, Ind.
Rising Sun, Ind, Dec. 23.-In Its
report of the investigation OF the as
sassination OF Miss Elizabeth Giles
pie on December s. the grand jury
returned true bills Of murder in the
first degree against James Gillespie.
q twin brother OF the murdered wo-
man; Mrs. Belle Seward. her wild
owed sister; Mrs. Carrie Barbour,
o niece Of DR.. Thad. A. Reamy.
an eminent physician of Cincinnati,
and Myron Barbour, her husband.
Mrs Barbour Is sister-in-law of DR..
William Gillespie. brother Of the naur-
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02

where 1t was lowered into place by
means OF SAND plungers. The transfer
was eTeced ia the presence OF Presi-
dent Truesds1e and other officials of
the railroad and many thousands of
spectators.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
Another Young Wife.

Mr.. Honeymoon-Why are you study.
ing the cook book, darling?
Mrs. Honeymoon am going to vast
tomorrow, love. and want a recipe for
cooking the clothes.-Cincinnati Com.
mercial-Tribune
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
No Cause for Worry.

She-Oh. Henry! found the cat or
the table. eating the biscuits made
for your supper!
He-Don't worry. dear; a cat hai
several lives, you knowi-Yonkeri
Statesman.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
GUILTY OF kisH,NeFF MASSACRE
25 Persons Receive Sentences Ranu
ing From 6 Months TO 7 Years.

25 Persons Receive Sentences Rana.
Ing From Months TO 7 Years.
kishineff, Bessarsbia, Dee. 22.-Two
Russians named Gentschin and Mares,
jeik, who have been on trial charged
with murder as the authors of the mas
sacrc of Jews here last spring, were
sentenced to five and seven years
penal servitude respectively.
twenty-five other persons charged
with being involved in the massacre
were sentenced to periods ranging from
one to two years each. One person
was sentenced to six months impris-
onment, and IL were acquitted, while
4S civil actions brought against the
accused were dismissed. The costs OF
the prosecutions must be paid by the
convicted persons.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
His Trouble.

Have any buz2ing in your ears?'
asked the doctor, who was trying to dag.
nose the case
NO" replied Mr.. Henpeck. mot ex.
cept when have to stay in the house,
Chicago Record-Rerald.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
SuspiciousIy Polite.

Pardon me, but am ADDRESSING
the lady Of the house"
"You are not. an what's more, yot
won't. You're too polite to be any.
thing but a book agent."-Chicagd
American. se'ils+
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
A REMARKABLE OPERATION
Western Surgeon Takes Daring Step
10 Save Man With Broken Neck.

Sioux City, Ia, Dec. 22.-An opera
ton having no parallel in the surgical
world was performed at st. Joseph 8
hospital by DIR. William Jepson, who
has the chair of surgery at the state
university. John Norstrom, OF DAN
bury, Conn. fell from load of hay,
striking on his head and breaking his
neck. He has been almost paralyzed
for weeks. and DR.. Jepson decided 10
operate on his broken neck. Accord
ingly, a portion of the third cervical
vertebrae was removed, the false
growth of tissue was cleaned out ana
the bone replaced. The patient is doing
well, with every prospect of recovery.
Operations have been performed for the
relief OF q dislocating of the lumbar
vertebrae, but no other case is known
in which the cervical vertebrate, Sit
uated so near the medulla oblongata,
the scat OF the vital bodily functions
has been successfully removed and re-
placed
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
Lost Arm in a Corn Shelter

Burlington. N. j., Dec. 21.-Charles
Flower, employed on the farm OF Har-
~ Wright, near Burlington, was feed
ing grain into a corn shelter when his
fingers caught between the cogs. Be
fore the engine could be stopped bis
entire arm had been drawn into the
hopper and mangled SO that q physi-
clan found It necessary to ampatats
1t near the shoulder.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
MAKES MEN VIGOROUS.
Valuable Prescription by Which Any
Ma Can Make His Own Remedy
TO Cure Himself at Home Sent
Free TO All. Write for it.
WILL MAKE A MANroF You

b c'SlSfNtt.
For the return Of that youthful feeling of
M hnhood prominent Detroit physician and
savant is in possession of a receipt which he has
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
Thought She Was Poisoned and Died

Chicago, Dec. 23.-"Not poisoned, but
dead because she thought she had been
poisoned" was the singular verdict pro-
nounced by Coroner's Physician Sprip-
ger after performing an autopsy on
the body of Virginia Jackson. an aged
colored woman and former slave. The
autopsy was performed in the belief
that the strange circumstances of the
woman's death were indicative of muir
der. This Old lady thought she mad
been poisoned" said DR.. Springer, and
It affected her heart to such an extent
that it killed her" neighbor known
to be a friend of Mrs. Gillespie gave
Mrs. Jackson a bottle containing kind
Of brownish liquid Evidently, say the
police, the old colored woman jumped
to the conclusion on feeling III imme-
diately after she had tasted of the con-
tents of the bottle that she had been
poisoned. and the fear of death killed
her
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-02
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, December II.

President Roosevelt sent to the SEN
ate the nomination of Joseph W. Fifer,
of Illinois to be an interstate COM
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-11-11
RECOMMENDS SMALL GUNS
FOR COAST DEFENSE WORK
Ordnance Board in Annual Report
Asks for Medium Caliber Rapid
A.,
e Armament.
Nov. 1n-T

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1O.-The an
nual report of the Board of Ordnance
and Fortifications, headed by Major
General Gillespie, shows that only
seven 12-inch guns out of the total of
100 guns contracted for in 1901 re-
main to be completed and the last of
these will be made by August of next
year.
The board renews it's recommended
ton of last year for the immediate
procurement of medium caliber rapid
fire guns for coast defense to the ex-
tent of 200 semi-automatic high We
lOcity, 6-pound guns on pedestal
mounts, 200 semi-automatic guns of a
caliber large enough to fire shrapnel,
mounted on field carriages and 200
automatic machine guns of 80 caliber.
The board also wants a reserve supply
of ammunition of at least 100 rounds
for the large guns and mortars and
$50 rounds for rapid-fire guns, as
without a sufficient supply of ammuni-
ton the coast defense armament is
useless.
An abundant supply of ammunition
for target practice is also requested
and other measures are recommended
looking to the installment of range
finders, searchlights, telephone lines
and other necessities of a modern
coast defense system. The board sub
mits an estimate of $4,000 to carry on
its work next year, which is only one
half the present allowance.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-11-11
OYAMA'S MEN
TAKE AND LOSE
THREE TOWNS
Vicious Fighting on
the Shakhe Barren
of Results.
NEITHER ARMY
GAINS GROUND
Russian Attacks Upon
Japanese Lines
Repulsed.

MUKDEN, Nov 10-The Japanese
to-day assumed the offensive on the
left bank of the Hun River and occu-
pied three villages. The Russians,
however, attacked and drove them out
and again established their original
lines of defense.
LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE Daily Tele-
graphs correspondent with General
Oku cables under date of November 8:
Last night the Russians made sew
eral determined attacks upon Lamunt-
ing and Sinchinpou, but they were re-
pulsed with heavy losses. The artillery
laid the villages in ruins"
HUANCIAN, three miles south Of
Mukden. Nov. 10.-The weather to-day
was warmer, with slight rain. Along
the eighty miles constituting the front
OF the Russian army everything was
quiet except for occasional skirrnishes
and artillery duels on the center and
left, where gunners fire occasionally for
the sake of practice, so as to have the
range Of the Japanese. When the Jap
anese jocularly display a white disk
Indicating miss, the Russian rifiemen
reply by raising shirt on a bayonet.
The Japanese are continuing work
under cover of darkness, constructing
immense bitches in which to defect the
water from the Shakhe River.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-11-11
ADVERTISEMENTS.
AN OBJECT LESSON
Ina Restaurant.

A physician puts the query: Have
you never noticed in any large restau-
rant at lunch or dinner time the large
number Of hearty. vigorous old men
at the tables: men whose ages run
from so to so years; many Of them bald
and all perhaps gray, but none of them
feeble or senile?
Perhaps the spectacle is so common
as to have escaped YOUR observation
or comment, but nevertheless it is an
object lesson which means something.
II YOU viii notice what these hearty
old fellows are eating you will OBJ
serve that they are not munching bran
crackers nor gingerly picking their way
through a menu card Of new tangled
health foods: on the contrary, they
seem 10 prefer juicy roast of beef, a
properly turned loin of mutton and
even the deadly broiled lobster is not
altogether ignored.
The point Of all this is that a Wig
orous old age depends upon good di-
gestion and plenty Of wholesome food
and not upon dieting and an endeavor
to live upon bran crackers.
There is a certain class of food
cranks who seem TO believe that meat,
coffee and many other good things are
rank pOisOns, but these cadaverous,
sickly looking individuals are a walk
ing condemnation of their own theo-
rieE
The matter in a nutshell is that if
the stomach secretes the natural di-
gestive juices in sufficient quantity any
wholesome food will be promptly d.
= Aa ot, -
so and certain foods cause distress one
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after each meal viii remove all diff
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-11-11
SLAIN BY THEIR OWN MINES.
Heavy Russian Loss Due to Japanese
MarkSmanShin

CHEFU, Nov. 10.-Etz mountain, &C.
cording to Chinese who arrived here to-
day from Port Arthur, is proving a
costly obstacle to the Japanese. On
the morning of November 8 and 6
fierce assaults on the position We're
made by the Japanese, who were re-
pulsed.
During the second assault a shell,
soaring over the other hills from Pail
chuang. dropped on Etz Mountain and
demolished a land mine and the mine
controlling station and exploded other
mines. The Russians We're holding the
trenches on the boundary of the
mined section. Six or seven hundred
were killed or wounded. The Japanese,
not having reached the place, were un-
hurt.
EtZ mountain owes its strength to the
peculiar topography of the surround
ing country, which prevents a direct
artillery fire. The Japanese advanced
in both instances from behind distant
hills, with the fullest force the ground
would allow, but in the long distances
which they were compelled to traverse
in the face of machine guns their ranks
melted away. Both times the Japanese
broke the wire entanglements in places.
One soldier with leg torn off was seen
trying to bite the wires.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-11-11
KINGS BIRTHDAY OBSERVED.

GENERAL OKU'S HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Nov. 10.-A spirited Russian
attack on an advance post on Tuesday
night was repulsed after a half hour
OF musketry fire. The scouting of po-
sitions is progressing.
The birthday of King Edward was
celebrated by the military attaches
yesterday. The camp was en- fete
through the hospitality of General
Oku. Prince Nashimoto. Field Mar
shall Oyama and the correspondents
participated in the celebration, which
was succeeded by primitive dances and
wrestling. Colonel Tulloch received
the congratulations on behalf of the
British.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-11-11
St.Petersburg Rejects
a Peace Proposal
From Toxic.

LONDON, Nov. 10.-Japan, unofficial
ly. has made representations to Russia
looking TO peace. This action has re-
suited in failure. and such representa-
tions. even privately. are not likely to
be repeated by Japan
Although the suggestion of a pacific
settlement was made unofficially, it
actually had behind it all the weight
Of an offer by the japanese Govern
ment II was made directly 10 Russia
No power acted as an intermediary.
The proposition was put forward ten
tatively. and unofficially, so that the
japanese Government would be in po-
sition TO deny any report that II was
suing for peace The failure of these
direct negotiations. however, resulted
in bringing Intervention within a
measurable distance
Foreign Secretary Lansdowne's plea
for arbitration yesterday evening at the
Guildhan banquet is taken here to be a
pointed suggestion to the United States
and France that the time is approach
ing when the powers must take some
action. 1t can be definitely stated that
Lord LansdOwne made his speech with
full knowledge that the japanese would
not resent a proposition looking TO
peace from the three powers (the
United States, France and Great
Britain.
There is a definite impression here
that the initiative viii come from Pres
ident Roosevelt, though the action
would be joint. 1t is mOOted that LORD
Lansdowne spoke so openly yesterday
evening only because he-had good rea-
son TO believe that Mr.. Roosevelt, if
elected, contemplated making an eff
fort 10 bring the belligePents to dis
cuss terms Of peace.
Lord LansdOwne's remarks are held
by those in his confidence to mean that
whatever the United States may do in
the matter Great Britain will cooper
ate in, even in the event of France
not participating. It is known, how
ever. that ambassador Cambon, who
continues his work assiduOusly to bring
about some arrangement hopes for
joint action by the three powers.
In an interview regarding the fore
going. Baron Hayashi, the japanese
Minister, said;
i should not be surprised to ysee the
three powers named or two of them,
take the action suggested"