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i ; ( It f i . i I i i! I ! ', i , -.1 I h i i t 1i FIVE ARE SLAIN BY INSANE NEGRO IN LOVE CASTLE Last Page of Notorious Affinity Case Is Written With Bloody Slaughter. MURDERER IS ARRESTED Chef, After Killing Person. Seta Fire to Home Which Burns to th Ground. Spring Green, Wis.. Aug. 17. A mad negro, armed with a hand ax. Saturday wrote the last page of the romance of Mamah Bouton Borthwick, formerly Mrs. Edwin H. Cheney of Oak Park. 111., whose affairs for five years hare been named with those of Frank Lloyd Wright, a wealthy architect and her neighbor. Mrs. Borthwick and four others were killed, one other was probably fatally Injured, and three less serious ly hurt. The elaborate bungalow built by Wright for Mrs. Cheney was burned. Julian Carlton, employed by Wright as a chef, accused of the crimes, sur rendered after a search of several bours had been made for him. He was hurried Into an automobile and rushed to the Iowa county Jail, eigh teen miles away. The Dead and Injured. " The dead are Mrs. Borthwick and her two children. John, aged 13, and Mar tha, 10; Emll Brodelle, a draughtsman employed In .Wright's office, and Ern est Weston, the 15-year-old son of Wil liam Weston, the farm foreman. Four others were seriously injured by the blows of Carlton's ax, and one of these Is not expected to live. - .William Weston, the farm foreman, who Is 60 years of age, has several 'bad cuts in the back of the head, where Carleton's hatchet struck a glancing blow, and his face and arms are badly burned. . Tom Brunker, a 60-year-old farm hand, the most seriously Injured of the survivors, la not expected to live. His skull was cut through by a blow from the shingling hatchet and both legs are charred to the bone. It Is a marvel to the doctors that Brunker Is still alive. David LIndblom. the gardner, is ex pected to recover. He has hatchet marks on the head and shoulder, and his arms and body are badly burned. Herbert Frits, a Chicago draughts man, who escaped the hatchet but fractured his arm in diving from a win dow, is under medical care. Funeral of of Mrs. Bothwick. With simple ceremony Frank Lloyd Wright, principal in the "spiritual he gira' 'and builder of the "love castle" here, yesterday buried his soul mate. Mamah Borthwick. There was no funeral cortege. There were no services, not even prayers, at the side of the grave nor in the hcne. Mamah Borthwick was laid to rest In a plain pine box near tn lore cat tle where she had lived wiTTi tTright, the former Oak Park architect. . On the box was heaped a mass of flowers taken from the garden she had loved. Although E. H. Cheney. Mamah Borthwick's husband in the days be fore the spiritual hegria, was in Spring Green he left the funeral arrange ments in Wright's hands and did not attend the obsequies. . Cheney left on tne noon train for Chicago. He took with him the bodies of bis two children. John and Martha. The farewell of Cheney and Wright was as dramatic as their meeting the day before on the train from Chicago la Spring Green. They clasped hands in silence and went their ways. Cheney stated that the bodies of the two children would be cremated in ac cordance with an oft-expressed wish of their mother. Sheriff Bauer organized the search for Carlton as soon as he learned of I Gold There's lots cf it hut generally too mixed with rock to be profitable. Much the same with food value. The nourish ment in many foods is in . such form that it cannot be readily assimilated. GRAPE-NUTS is scien ,'. tifically m prepared from " wheat and barley to pre . sent their rich nourish- ment in easily digestible form. Long baking (about 20 . hours) breaks down the starch cells making it . partially pre-digested and - readily assimilable by the most delicate stomach. The food is delicious! 'There's a Reason" for Grape -Nuts sold by Grocers French Troops This photograph, which was made TEDDY SPEAKS ABOUT BIG WAR Declares Monroe Doctrine Pre vented Country From Being Drawn Into the Strife. Hartford. Conn.. Aug. 17. Nearly half the political speech Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt cellvered Saturday night before the progressive state con vention here was devoted to a discus sion of "the great cataclysm which has engulfed all Europe in war." If the Monroe doctrine had not been stead fastly maintained, he said, the United States, in all probability, would have been drawn into the present struggle. "Africa, south of the equator." he said. "Is now being drawn into the fight, although without any interest in it. We would have been drawn in In the came way if it had not been for the observance of the great principle which the Monroe doctrine contains, the principle that this continent shall not be treated as a place for territor ial aggrandisement by old world pow ers." the murders. Posses of farmers Join ed with the sheriff's deputies and bloodhounds were obtained to take up his tralL The men were at first in clined to believe that Carlton had escaped down the Wisconsin river in a canoe. While neighbors guarded the grounds and the men with the hounds were searching for a trace, Carlton crawled from the doors of a boiler. He was nearly suffocated from the heat, and appeared thoroughly exhausted. He said he bad taken poison, but would give no reason for the crime. Mrs. Carlton, who had been employed with her husband, was arrested short ly after the tragedy when she was found, daed. walking along the high way near the house. She denied any participation in the affair. The negro, who is believed to have become enraged at some rebuke from Mrs. Borthwick, displayed fiendish In genuity in arranging his victims for the slaughter. The nine victims wore In the dining room when the negro lighted a rug soaked in gasoline in front of the door, according to William Weston, the least seriously hurt. This left but one means of egress, a win dow. Mrs. Borthwick was the first to put her head through the window to es cape the intense heat. The negro struck her down with one blow, crush ing her skull. He dragged the body out and waited the next. Little John Cheney was the second. His head was split open. "As each one put his head out," said Weston, "the negro struck, killing or stunning his victim. I was the last. The ax struck me in the neck and knocked me down, but not unconscious I got up and ran, and the negro after me. Then I fell, and he hit me again and I guess he thought he had me be cause he ran back to the window, an3 I got up and ran. When I looked back the negro had disappeared." By this time the bungalow was in flames, and neighbors rushed to the place. Carlton was gone and, although Sheriff Bauer and a posse began a search at once, no trace was found. The fire was confined to the bungalow and when it had been controlled neigh bors, many of whom formerly had been Mtter against Mrs. Borthwick, joined the posse In search of the mur derer. Wright had not been here for three days. He left on Tu-sday for Chicago and ordinarily wduld have returned Saturday night. He left for here at once after being informed of the trag edy. Story of the "Love Castle." A few days before Christmas. 1911, Mr. Wright mysteriously disappeared from his home in Oak Park. About the same time Mrs. Cheney also van ished. Th Cheneys lived In Oak Park and were friends and neighbors of the Wrights. The devotion of Mrs. Cheney to Wright was well known. Two years before they had gone to Europe at different times and had met there. They were seen together in foreign capitals, and made no secret of their relations. They returned to Chicago, Mr. and THE HOCK ISLAND ARGUS. MONDAY, Hasten to Battle; j-v;.i,.- ..,.11 tes on the frontier of Troyes. shows the flat cars directly behind the box car GERMAN SOLDIERS HARD PUT DRINKING WATER FROM PAILS WITHOUT STOPPING These German soldiers are on a forced march. There Is no time to (top even for a drink of water. So each thirsty soldier takes a drink from the pall as he passes, hardly slacken lng his po.ee. Mrs. Wright were reconciled and he returned once more to live with his family. Mr. Cheney took the same course toward his wife, and the two families continued to live on terms of friendly intimacy. When Mrs. Cheney and Wright dls- apepared from their homes once more the curiosity of those who knew the strange story of the Intermingling of four lives was roused to the highest pitch. Search failed to reveal the presence of the pair In Chicago. The mystery was not solved for nearly a week. Then It was found that Wright and Mrs. Cheney were together on the former's magnificent estate In Spring Green, Wis., 22 miles from Madison. Justified Their Course. Immediately the Wright mansion at Spring Green was besieged by an army of reporters. The architect and his companion, serene in their seclusion, refused to satisfy the curiosity of Chi cago. Villagers gathered in groups and threatened them. Threats were made that the bungalow would be at tacked and its occupants driven from the community. Nothing of the sort ever happened. After several days of silence Wright finally consented to receive reporters. Then came the deepest sensation of the entire romance the written state ments of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright. Justifying In their own eyes the course they had taken, defying the world and its criti cisms, announcing that they would live out their lives as they had chosen despite the ostracism which they knew would be theirs. The statements caused a shock In Chicago, where both principals were well known. They were given to re porters in the drawing room of the mansion at Spring Green. Wright, gowned In a silken robe, sat near a roaring fire of logs and dictated paragraph after paragraph, while Mamah Borthwick "Mamah of the Hills" lay reclining on a luxurious divan at his side, following the diet, tlon closely and voicing approval. Here, in part. Is the sensational statement Issued by Wright at Spring Green a few days after his "heglra" to the palatial mansion there bad been discovered. In It he seeks to Justify Go by Trainloads to Frontier 117 t&9 1 n 3 , f . French troops entraining. Their field and artillery pieces are mounted on In which the French fighters made the journey. t i the position of himself and Mamah Borthwick Cheney .before the world: "Here we are four people a wife and a man and a husband and a wom an who each according to his or her ability, assumed earlier In life the re sponsibilities of marriage and begot children. "Then the thing happened to them that has happened to men and women since time began the inevitable. "As soon as their situation became apparent to them there was the usual struggle with conscience, the usual concession to duty, but not the usual clandestine relation furtively contin ued to save the face of the situation not the usual suits and countersuits and quarrels and villiflcations or shirk ing of responsibility; on the contrary, as soon as the situation developed Its inevitable character a frank avowal to those whose lives were to be affect ed by a readjustment to meet the new conditions which had arisen was made. "Time was asked by the husband, a year in fact, was asked, and the man and woman agreed to make certain that love was love. The wife charav terized the matter as a mere Infatua tion that would pass, and consultations were held between the wife and the husband, the mother and friends. "Both the wife and the husband de clared that anything they could do to break up the new relationship they would do, and this they thereupon pro ceeded to do each in his or her own way, with plenty of friendly assist ance. "For a year the woman continued in her household separate from the hus band. The man likewise continued in his household separate from the wife. The established order and the claim of daily companionship with little chil dren were pitted against the integrity of life that Is the only real life. All was wretched, all false, all wasted. "And most will find In It the tri umph of 'selfishness.' I can not care. Perhaps the veritable, in a final analy sis is not much more than the "selfish ness" of nature. When the world is stripped of the meaning with which Christianity has misused It. and now that all have worn their hearts for daws to peck at, may not the matter be left in privacy to those whose con cern li chiefly Ur AUGUST 17. 1014. -a. - THINGS ACHIEVED BY THE PRESIDENT Democratic National Commit tee Issues a Bulletin in Praise of Administration. Washington, D. C, Aug. 17. The democratic national committee has is sued a bulletin giving some of the "achievements" of President Wilson and the present administration. Among the things of which the com mittee boasts are: A firm foreign policy. Watchful waiting, which prevented a war with Mexico, saved thousands of lives and prevented a war debt. Revision of the rules of business without litigation or panic. Constructive legislation in framing of the tariff, currency, income tax and trust legislation. A currency law that prevents panics and insures stability in financial con ditions. An Income tax placing on the rich their Just proportion "of the billion dol lar a year needed to rupport the gov ernment. An arbitration act to conciliate and arbitrate controversies between capi tal and labor. Reduction of transportation costs through enlargement of the scope of the parcels post. Trust laws compelling abandonment of unfair competition, discrimination and surrender of power through inter relation. DAVENPORT Arrest Man on Assault Charge. Harry Thompson, arrested at 413& West Second street, Friday night by Detective Boettcher, is being held at police headquarters on a serious charge preferred by a 14-year-old girl. Lwhose name has been withheld. It is claimed that the Second street house has borne an unsavory reputation for some time past, and various com' plaints have been received by the po lice. Expect Recovery of Miss Kimball. Most hopeful word w-as received Sat urday by Davenport friends of Miss Alice Kimball who was so seriously In jured in an automobile accident ot about three weeks ago near Boston, Mass., and who has been in the Brook line, Mass., hospital ever since. To Take Action cn Bond Issue. According to present indications the Davenport city council will issue $125.- 0000 worth of bouds in the very near future to pay for the construction of an Intercepting sewer at the foot of Marquette, Myrtle, Warren, Brown and Gaines street. Commissioner ot Public Works J. W. Crowley made an investigation following complaints of various citizens as to the stench em anating from the slough lying be tween the Davenport shore and City Island. He believes that drastic ac tion is necessary, and at the next meet ing of the city council will make rec ommendations, which If carried cut, will give temporary relief, pending the construction of the new sewer. Five sewers empty into this slough at Gaines, Brown, Warren. Myrtle and Marquette streets. There is no cur rent In this body of water, and tae ac cumulation of filth has become so great that in some places the separ ate sewers are burled under three feet of mud, causing the output to back up Into the pipes and into various man holes. Licensed to Wed. Jacob Johnson, East Moline; Saline Tindstraad. East Mollne. Carl Schweln. WUton; Alma Letli, Wilton. Charles A. 1-iley. Dav enport; Daisy Dnclorea Carmichael, Davenport. Carl S. TIedeman, Chica go; Anna H. Sievers. Davenport. Police Vlptlms of Bad Accident. Motorcycle Cop Bllckhan and Detec tive Charles S?hlueHer narrowly es caped serious Injury Saturday night, when their motorcycle crashed into the curbing at the corner of Kift'j and Harrison streets. Both officers were! speeding to the scene of the Johann sen murder on West Seventh street, and in rounding the cofner were con fronted by rig. which U on the wrong side of Oe street. . In order to avoid a collision. Bllckhan, who was steering, turned s'jarply to th right, and the motorcycle crashed Into the curbing. Detective Bchluetter, who. wag on the rear seat, was thrown a d'staUce of several feet through the air. His left knee was so badly lacer ated as to warraat the services of a physician. Bllckhan was badly shak en up but escaped serious Injury. Dike Floods Acres; Suit. Claim ing that a dike constructed by his neighbor. 1 H. Hennlng, has caused the inundating of his land. H. H. Hoist, a farmer In Butler township, has H'ed suit for $2,000 damages, the petition on file also asks the removal of thg dike and the Issuance of a permanent injunction restraining Henning from reconstructing. Hoist owns the south east quarter of section 15, township 80 north, range 4, while Hennlng is owner of the adjoining property to the north. The plaintiff declares that the slope ot the land is to the northwest, and that a swale there carries off the water of his land and Henning's emp tying into a county ditch. In order to improve his land he has drained it into the large ditch, which flows through his and his neighbor's prop erty. o Kindergarten to Open August 31. The West Side Settlement kindergar ten nursery will open Its doors to all little folks under school kindergarten age Aug. 31. Miss Chrlstl Jappe will this year have Miss Florence Brandt'B position as directress of the nursery. A light hot luncheon will be served to the children at noon and those un able to come alone will be called for. Miss Jappe has already had one year as assistant kindergarten at the set tlement, and comes with recommenda tion from Chicago, whefb she has been studying the past year. All donations for the children's room luncheon will be kindly received at the kindergarten rooms. Farm League to Meet on Sept. 5 The annual meeting and election of officers of the Scott County Farm Im provement league will be held Sept. 5, the date being set at a meeting of the executive committee of the league. Two weeks later the annual Scott County Farmers' picnic will be held at the Orphans' Home grounds. The exhibits which are to be shown at the state fair at Des Moines will be brought back from the fair grounds by this time and will be set up at the home. Arrangements will be made to accommodate at least 2,000 people at the picnic. Owing to new cases of hog cholera continually outcropping, G. R. Bliss today put In an order for 20,000 cubic centimeters of serum. The vaccine is purchased of the "Sioux City Serum company. New cases of cholera are reported on the farms of Henry Wuestenberg and Frank Ditt mer, near Donahue and W. E. Paul of LeClalre. Local Lodges to Hold Memorial Knights of Pythias of Davenport, to gether with the Pythian Sisters and Uniform Rank, chapters are to hold memorial services some time in the near future for John H. Merkens, grand keeper of records and seals for the Iowa lodge, who died of cancer at his home in Fairfield, Iowa, Friday midnight. News of his death was re ceived by Emil Silberstein, grand pre late, of the Iowa Knoghts of Pythias. Secretary Merkens had held the office for the past nine years and was one of the leaders In the lodge throughout the country. He had been ill since March 1. He was 56 years old. War Doesn't Affect Local Mill The present European embarglio has had anything but a deleterious effect upon the Western "Gold Rim'' flour mills of Davenport, according to offi cials who state that owing to the heavy demand for its output, the mill has been obliged to run on Sunday. The Western mills are now 30 days behind in their orders, despite the fact that 150 men are toiling 24 hours a day. The output is 1,800 barrels a day. $3,CC0 Damage In Barn Fire Over $3,000 loss was sustained Saturday night in a fire which broke out in the storage barn at Fourth and Brown streets. The origin of the blaze is unknown. Firemen at the Central station, seeing the flames before the alarm came in, were well on the way toward the burning building when the bells rang. The storage barn in the rear of 406-408 Brown street was a complete loss, two buildings to the south of it were partially wrecked, and a tinshop to the north was burned to the extent of over $1,000 damage. A dwelling at 424 Brown street was also damaged by flame and smoke. Obituary Record Mrs. Nancy Crip pin died at a local hospital following a brief Illness of but one week's dura tion. She had been in Davenport but three weeks. Three weeks aeo Mrs. Crlppin came here from Camp Point. m. Her intention was to make her home with her son, H. W. Crlppen, R. R. No. 1. ADODlexv. the first attack being received Aug. 6, caused her death. Deceased was born Ausr. 24. 1S33. in Camp Point. Adams countv. ill. In the year 1856 she was married to Samuel U Crlppen, who preceded her In death 26 years ago. She resided on a farm near Camn Point, until her parture for Davenport. Mrs. Crippcn was o years old. The following chil dren survive: H. N. Cr--pen, Daven port; William Crlppen. Lyons, Neb., and Mrs. Mary Ward. Leavenworth, Kan. The body was sent to hr nii home in Camp Point where burial took place. . Word has been received bv J. G. GUlin of this city telling of the death of his brother, William J. Gillin. which occurred Saturday at his home in Den ver, eolo., after a brief Illness. Mr. NOW BUYING FEW FOREIGN AUTO 0 0 United States Exports Grow Whilt Imports Decrease Eapidlj. Washington, D. C, Aug. 17. Export? of automobiles from the United Statei In the fiscal year ended June 30, 1914, were the largest on record. Their to tal, Including shipments to Alanka, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, amounted to $40,130,505, against $3S,325.000 in 1313, the former high record year. Th year's total Includes C0.13C cc3iplet cars, valued at $27,797,642; automo bile tires. $4,159,454; automobile en glnes, $1,391,893; and ml&cellaneo&i parts not specified, $0,787,575. With the sole exception of 1908, ew ery year during the past decade bat shown an advance in value of Ameri can automobiles sold to foreign coun tries. In the fiscal year 1908, accord ing to the bureau of foreign and do mestic commerce, department of com merce, the value of automobiles ex ported was $1,895,605; in 19&S. $5, 387.021. and in 1914, exclusive of part and ehipments to our our own -non, contiguous territories, $36,574,574, hav ing quintupled in five years and in creased thirteen-fold in a decade. Europe bought nearly one-half of our entire saleB of automobiles to foreign countries last year, although gome ehipments thither are for reshipment to other parts pf the world. To the United Kingdom the exports amounted to 7,222 cars, valued at $5,853,127; to Germany, 1,435. valued at $1,059,429; to France, 1,429, valued at $924,130; and to other countries of Europe, 3, 271, valued at $2,580,428. Canada and Australia are also important markets. the former having taken 4,624 cars, valued at $5,919,776; and the latter, in cluding other British Oceania. 4,241, valued at $1,939,212; and to Mexico, 167. valued at $256,675. The growth In exports of autom biles has been accompanied by a cor responding decline in imports of like articles, the total having fallen from 1,624, valued at $2,905,391 in 1909 to 300 cars, valued at $620,493, In 1914, a new low record for the decade. Of the year's Imports, 134 were from France, 40 from the United Kingdom, 55 from Italy, and 21 from Germany. Gillin, who was born here, left Scott countv over 30 years ago and had, ol tate. resided In Denver. He Is sur vived by the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. W. J. Putnam, Agnes Gillin and J. G. Gillin of Davenport, Mary C. Gillin of Chicago, Thomas M. Gillin of Lone Grove, and E. J. Gillin Benson, Minn. The body will be sent from Denver to DeWitt, Iowa. Jacob Brenwalder, an old resident of the city, died at the home of hii nephew, Frank Widigan, 425 South Lincoln avenue, after a short illness, death being due to heart disease. He was over 73 years of age. Deceased was born in Underwaldt, Switzrland, May 39, 1941. and came to America 40 years ago. He was married in Daven port a number of years ago to Mis Marie Neufer. She died Aug. 14. 1909. FATHER DASHES BABE'S BRAINS OUT ON SIDEWALK Muscatine, la., Aug. 17. Tearing his six months' old child from the arms of its mother in a moving picture show at 9 o'clock Saturday night, John Mar tine, a drunken Mexican laborer, dash ed out the baby's brains on the side walk outside, and then ran away with the corpse into the woods. The po lie had difficulty in arresting him. Martine had been drinking heavily. He had had repeated quarrels with his wife. Neighbors who saw the tragely said that the babe was dead when the drink-crazed father picked it up from the sidewalk. They said &e seemed to hesitate a minute and then grabbed the lifeless body of the little one and dashed off at a dead run into the woods. Martine is 32 years old. All the news all the time The Argus. Quick Relief Warn Utterly Won. Oai Getting the Blood in Ordel Is Required By Most People. If yon think you have pone to sm3 - . i - ... . , . o tnr 10 Mood. 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