Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-06-24

NEWS OF TIL &c Ia \ .

JEWS OF TIL E la u.
Thunderbolt, a valuable coon dog
belonging to Police. Justice Hartle, Of
Hagerstown, Nd became mad, sup
posedly as result OF the intense heat
Yesterday, and before it was finally
killed the animal had bitten five per-
sons.
The seventh Jail delivery within the
last year was made at Falrmont, w.
Va, Yesterday morning when nlne
prisoners escaped. They pricd the cages
in which they were locked from the
floor, turned them over and then forced
their way through triplelocked door
into an adjoining room. They broke
a window and iumped a short distance
TO The ground.
Choosing midnight as the honr OF
death, Patrick Ready, Al years Old, i
Grocer. locked himself in the bathroom
Of his home, I'LL Pennsylvanis ave-
nue. southeast, WashingtoS and draw
ing the blade az = raAaf across his
throat, inflicted wounds that proved
fatal shortly aGterward. Ready had
been = sufferer from rheumatism and
had confided t. friends that ii he dLd
not recover from his aiiment he would
end his life.
One man was killed and six were
seriously hurt yesterday by the collapse
of a trestla used III construction Work
on the Western Maryland Railroad
near Connelsviiic, Pa All the VIC
Tins were Italians working on the con
struction train Which carried down the
trestle, buying them under debris "
feet below.
John Barton Miller, former secre.
tary-treasurer OF the First c. Opera
tive Building Association OF George
town, now defunTt, was sentenced 70
90 wears in the penltentlary at hard
labor by Justice Wright, in the Crlml-
nal Court, Of tie District Of COLUMBIA
Yesterday on charge Of emhezzlemeht.
Sentence for destroying the books OF
tie association vas deferred. The court
limited that the return Of the books
might mitigate the harshness OF the
penalty. Miller VIA indicted more
than a wear ago for en.bez@lament Of
funds from the associations convicted
and sentenced 10 20 yea ). He APP.
pealed to the District Court OF APP
meals and secured . new trial, being
released on 500, 900 bail. A motion
Yesterday for new trial had been
oyerruled.
Peter Larson, wealthy farmer, was
found dead in cistern at hls home
near Fowler, Ind, yesterday, and Mrs.
Larson is under arrest. The top OF
Larson's head had been chopped of
with an axe, and it wss crushed IN
other places. Larson and his wife had
been quarreling all night, according
to neiehbors, and at 3:l3 yesterday
morning we're seen in the yard en-
gagged in m argument. AT = O'Clock
Mrs. Larson went u a neghhor and
said her husbend had disappeared. The
neighbor vent to the Larson house,
and in the barn found pool OF llood
and a blood-stained axe lying on the
ground. The stalls and walls of the
born were spattered with blood.
Captain D. II. Jarvis, noted archi-
tect, explorer and hero OF the Attic
country, former master Of the United
States revenue service aud later repre-
sentative of vast field projects IN
Alaska, having been until recently in
charge OF the Guggenheim Interests in
Seattle, sent bullet into his brain at
the Seattle Athletic Club early yester-
day. Captain Jarvis won fame and a
gold medal from Congress for q he
role rescue OF 215 arctic whalers.
Edward Valentine Lee, formerly pay.
masters clerk in the uavy, accused Of
embezzliug $i6 600 from the hattlrsl'ip
Georgia, and now in a Buffalo jail, yes,
terday obtained license there to marry
Miss Audrey F. Kelsey, of Washington,
who. despite vigorous parental object
ion, went to Buffalo, accompanied by
her brother to wed him. Lee aud Miss
Kelsey were married at Trinity Church,
Buffalo, in the presence OF the United
States marshal, two secret service msn
and clerk from the United States
district attorneys Office, Immediately
after the ceremony Lee was taken back
to a cell.
Richard n. Wright, millionaire and
traction company owner Of Durham,
n. c., is to be tried Oh the charge OF
assault with a deadly weapon on Rufus
Iseubour, city editor Of the Durham
Sun. Tie cause OF the assault vas q
story published Wednesday, ia which
Wright was accused OF listing his taxes
in Durham under the gentle persua-
sion Of road sentence held over him
by the county commissioners" and
which further represented him as hav
ing eva6ed taxation by swearing in
New York that his citizenship vas in
Durham and making oath in Durhan
that bis property was in New York.
The paper congratulated him upon
locating in Durham.