Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-06-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

muddy 1OrQ OF tue Sotltu oapaatt'n'
river Thursday Mrs. George Glover
and her three children, OF Mellett,'
Okla, we're drowned. The team stuck
in tie mud. While Mrs. Glover was
trying to get the horses out the wagon
was upset.
OscarP. Bowers, prominent in Wells
vile, Ohio was found murdered in an
,lIey near his home at an early hour
this morning. Mr. Bowers head was
crushed and he had been robbed OF
from S3OC TO 81, 900, a diamond ring
and gold watch and chain. There Is
no clue to the murderer.
James j. Murphy, 81 years old, a
Waterman at the Navy Department
in Washington, sent a bullet through
his head at his boarding house, yes
terday evening. Beside his body was
found a note which showed his appar-
emily confused mental state. The note
read: If you see anything OF the little
girl or cat, or the window, | am going
to shoot her through the left eve. This
will show you il | bit her." The note
refers to the fact that he shot into a
picture OF young woman and cat
in his room before he fired bullet into
his head. Murphy had been drinking
hard for several weeks and IS thought
to have been temporarily insane.
Pm out Of work; | can't get any
thing to do I've tried hard to make
living, but l can't. / codld starve,
but I won't. I'd rather die now. >
| This is what Frederick Schultz. Pole,
| wrote in his native language before
putting gas tube in his mouth, end
ing his life in his Third avenue home
in New York. Schulz was a high-claSs
| skilled clothes cutter who vas unable
TO find work only about two months
in year. because he declared, he
refused to Join union and only q few
houses could employ him.
Lewis Long, light and bantam
weight prize fighter, was murdered and
Mrs. j. H. Riley was shot and perhaps
fatally wounded, by the woman's
husband, ]. H. Riley, OH the county
road between Opal City and Redmond,
Oregon, Thursday. The shooting
I followed long automobile race he.
tween the m;>chine in which were Long,
Mrs. Riley and another woman, and
light runabout driven by Riley, who
is a cigar salesman Of Portland. Riley
and his wife separated in Portland q
week or so ago.
4 terrific thunderstorm which broke
over Paris last night did considerable
damage in that city and other parts OF
France. At Grenoble, battery Of
artillery while maneuvering wa. struck
hy lightning aud an officer was killed
and xix men were injured. Al Evreux
bolt sci fire TO the law courts build
ing, which was destroyed with all its
archives.
L expect some day to 60 before the
Great Judge, and that time will Eope
for leniency. That is the reason | am
lrnient TO offenders in my court. >
Thus United States District Judge d
=. Dyer explained the leniency he
showed Thursday to H. a. To,sch, al
ST. Louis, who pleaded guilty &c
making moon5hine olemargarin anc
threw himself on the mercy OF ths
court Out of consideration for the
defendants family and his plea, be
escaped with a fine OF $500 and three
months in jail
New York's second bashtub murder
mystery to develop within week wa:
discovered yesterday when, in the
apartment at 100 linton avenue,
Bronx, the body of Mrs. Maurice
Hoppe, was found in crouching posi-.
ton, with marks on the arms and
neck, indicating that she was strangled
during a struggle for her life. A rear
window OF the apartment was open,
indicating that the women's slayer
made his escape by that means.
Maurice Enright, business agent OIL
the steamtitters' union of Chicago
charged with the murders Of Vincen,
Altman and William Gentleman, and
believed hy the police to have been
implicated in other labor union shoot
Ing affairs and Slugging, confessed last
night that he shot and killed Gentle
man while in saloon on May %.
,nright absolves labor union officers Of
any responsibility in the murder, and
declared he shot Gentleman after the
latter had fired several shots at him,
following a personal quarrel.
a dispatch from Cananea. Sonora, says
Red" Lopez, ordered imprisoned by
Francisco I. Madero, jr., on the charge
that he had sold out to American in
forests while in command Of section
OF the insurrecto garrison at Aqua
rrieta, has been put to death.
Frank L. Averi]l, locked man
named Samuel Boxwell in a cold
storage room at the Arcade Market,
Washington which is owned by Averi!l,
while he tried to make Bowel pay
some rent he owed for meat storage.
Boxwel told Judge Pugh he was con.
fined in the refrigerator for 80
minutes, and almost froze to death.
Tie court decided that Averil's tactics
constituted simple assault under the
District code and imposed s25 hne.
Averill paid
When tue afternoon passenger train
Of the Georges Creek and Cumberland
Railroad. from Cumberland, rolled in
to the station at Lonaconing, Nd, at
4G5 O'Clock yesterday afternoon, Con-
d, or B. B. Coulehan walked into the
wa.uug room of the station and found
the dead body oftI'e station agent aud
operator Harry L. OleTine, lying on
the floor Of the waiting room in pool