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Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 October 1913, Page 3

reported the would result, 50 years old, a stone deliberately blew up his lioine with dynamite, killing- himself and his 17-year-old daughter Maude, badly injuring two other children and stunning uis wife. Hurst had been separated from hid wife for six weeks, and yesterday she finally refused'to take him back. In the explosion Mrs Hurst was the most fortunate. She had changed beds with her Maude only that night. After putting a stick of dynamite under each of the three beds ,in the house, Hurst ■ tied two sticks of the explosive to his own body, and then got into a bed. thinking that" it was his wife's. But there the three daughters were sleeping. \Vhen one of them spoke to him he growlingly told her to keep quiet and be still. He added: "We shall all die together." Before the girls could move the explosion destroyed the house. YOUNG MISSOURI DESPERADOES. New York, Sept. 20. Five youths, natives of Hannibal, Missouri, who had evidently been reading "Tom Sawyer," have made their home town ring with desperado adventures. Using the cave at Souih Hannibal that was mentioned by Mark Twain in his book, these young hopefuls have been storing plunder there for some time, and it is alleged tliev are the ringleaders of a band of youthful robbers. They have already confessed that they have committed many robberies in and near the city for j the last four years. Their ages are 15, IT, 19 and two of them IS. Four other known members of I lie organisation are still at large. EXTRAVA GANT DRESS MI. London. Sept. 20. The Countess Torby, wife of the Grand Duke Michael of Russia, ■who is well-known in London society, has caused an upset in the Royal household because of her expensive tastes in the matter oi dress. The countess is reputed io he t Inmost extravagant dresser in Eu- * rope, aud the antiquated arrangements at Balmoral Castle, when she was slaying there recently, gave no accommodation for her, 104 dresses. . She complained to the Queen. I but had to pack back in her trunks most of her gown?, leaving only four available for wear. SPANKED HIS FATHER New York, Sept. ~0. A sensation has been caused by the admission of Dr E. A. Hanly, president of the Franklin College at Indianapolis, one of the best known educational authorities in the State, that he went to his father's home at Middletown and switched and spauked "the old man." Over his own signature he says: '1 have been keeping my hands oil my father for 25 years, and much as I regret my action 1 believe 1 accomplished some good. When I learned that he had called my mother an unspeakable name, aud had said that 'he wished that she was in hell,' I could stand it no longer. I did not strike liini with my fists or with a club. I just 6panked him. APPLES FOR AUSTRALIA. Seattle, Sept. 20. A big shipment of apples for Australia left here yesterday to b.3 transferred at San Francisco to the Sonoma. There were in all 20,000 cases mostly from the Wenatche and , Yakima Valleys, Washington State., and the consignment will be followed others during the next few months. NEGRO DOCTOR BARRED. London, Sept. 20. The colour line is not often drawn in London, but the Camberwell Poor Law Guardians have declined to appoint a negro doctor as general officer of health on the ground that people were very fastidious in such matters. They, admitted that the negro's qualifications were better than those of the other applicants.