Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-21

killed bis wife 10 Pitt-ton, PennsylVanis,
yesterday, as the woman WIS en-
tering the side door o. saloon.
Nrs. Ntztko wss csrrying an infant child
10 her arms at the time, but the BABY
wss uninjured. The murderer fred
three bullets irto his wife's body. Be
said be had killed her "becsuse she was
unfaithful."
"Somebody's pulling my leg" shout
ed Mrs. William Fslck, of fashionable
Mcclure avenue extension, at Pitisburg
early yesterday. keep quiet. You're
dreaming" was the answer of her hus-
band, who is superintendent OF public
highways. just then Mrs. Falck saw
a hand disappear under the blind In her
room and abe rooted ont her husband.
Supt. Falck reached the window In
time to see a man jump from step
ladder, which had been placed against
the house and disappear.
While the inmates we're sound asleep,
two masked burglars, at an esrly hour
yesterday forced an entrance into
the house of Jacob P. Blank and wife,
an sged couple living at Mt. Blair, Md,
along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
four miles south OF Keedysyille, and
while one Of the robbers covered the
couple With his revolver, the other ran
sscktd the premises. They secur'd but
81, missing $3.50 in locked chest.
Waiting until her mother ran from
the house to summon help TO wrest a
quantity of poison from Der Respondent
daughter, Miss Ella Catherine Redmond,
twenty years old, cashier of scent the
stsr, hurried into the bathroom Of her
home in southwest Washington, at noon
yesterday, and drank glassful Of bug
poison, mixed with water. She died q
half hour later at the Emergency Hes
pital.
With only II minutes to spare in a
race across the ocean to catch train to
take her to the desthbed CT her mother
in Ssnts Fe, N. NJ, Mrs. 8. Eylar
reached New York yesterday in the
Hambnrg-American liner Deutschland.
To permit her to make her train connec-
lions, Col. John N. Bishop, deputy sur
veyor, assigned several customs inspec-
tors 10 hastily inspect and pass the tfav-
eltrs' baggage, but it was close cal,
and when Mrs. Eylar reached the Lack
swsuna depot in Hoboken, the gsteman
wss shouting the last call for "All
aboard"
Six children are dead and two others
are burned so seriously that recovery ia
doubtful at the Il. w. Schultz ranch,
between Colfsx and Palouse, Wash. Il,
resulting from Ere that destroyed the
home Wednesday night. Four of the
dead were children OF Schultz. The
other two we're children Of W. W. Fox,
a brother-in-law. The men we're away
harvesting and the mothers were ct
tending theatrical performance. The
two eldest Schultz girls attempted to res
cue the children, but lost the way to the
door and were forced to drop the babies
to make their own escape. The cause
OF the FIRE is mystery.
While Mrs. Frederick w. Woerz, OF
Greenwich, CT, wife of the millionaire
New York brewer, was appearing in
court yesterday with a charge Of assault
againet a gardener, sneak thieves drugycd
the dogs left to guard the house, opened
a window from the piszzs in broad day
light and hurriedly searching through
the three rooms of The suite occupied by
Mrs. Woerz, took two pieces Of jewelry
valued 1T more than S., and some
money from bureau and escaped with
out drawing the attention of the two ser
wants at the house. That the whole
house Was not ransacked and other jew
elry TO the value of more than $50, OOO
was not stolen was probably due to the
crying Of Mrs. WoerJ's small child, who
had been awakened from It's sleep.