Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-11
NEWS OF TILE DAY.

Mrs. John BodelI on Saturday night
shot and killed her husband, who con-
Quoted restaurant in Hunt City, Ill.
He had just returned from ST. Marie,
ILL.,, where he had spent the afternoon.
He had left Mrs. Bodell to conduct the
restaurant while he was gone and called
to her when he drove up. When she
came to the door he jumped from the
buggy and they walked down the street
a short distance, They we're talking
excitedly and stopped. about 80 feet from
the restaurant. Mrs. Bodell drew re-
volver. Bodell, taking it az joke,
jumped at her and brushed the gun
away. She stepped back a second
time, and before any one could inter
iere she fired. The shot entered his
right breast. He died short time
later.
Two of the crew OF. the ill-fated
dirigible America, in which Walter
Wellman met disaster year ago on
his attempted transatlantic voyage,
will be included in the crew of the
Akron, the airship in which Melvin
Vaniman will attempt the trip. jack
Irwin, who kept the world in touch
with the movements Of the America
with his wireless flashes, will have
charge OF the wireless outfit aboard the
Akron. Louis Loud, who served as
assistant engineer to Mr.. Vaniman on
the trip, will he chief engineer. Appli-
cations from all over the world have
been received from persons who are
willing to pay almost any sum to be
passengers.
Two women OF party OF nine were
drowned in the rapids in Mankala
river at Heisingfors, yesterday. The
wind caught the sunshades of the wom-
en- and capsized the boat in which they
we're shooting the rapids. Seven we're
saved, but the Two drowned we're Wear
ing hobble skirts, and 30 we're unable to
swim. One of the women drowned vas
German artist OF the name OF Lingen.
The cloudburst and rainstorm which
visited the Bald Eagle valley at Tyrone,
Pa, caused the death OF IN aged Wom-
an, Mrs. Rebecca j. Hinkle, and
John Scruders. Spruce Creek farmer.
Claiming that her husband allowed
| her less than cent day to live on,
Mabel Smith, who was-married in
Grand Rapids. Mich, was awarded
divorce N Los Angeles, Cal. Her
former husband is poet and she warns
girls against marrying men who .le-
| pend on their poetry for a living, She
says she was deserted in Chicago.
The Berlin financial market on Sat
urday experienced the worst day since
the beginning of the Moroccan crisis.
1t was darker than any during the
American panic OF 1907. Although
there we're no developments to justify it,
feeling approaching panic was easily
evident throughout Germany. News
paper offices we're repeatedly questioned
as to whether it was true that the mob
ilization Of the German army already
had been ordered a storm of selling
orders burst upon the bourse. Further
saving bank runs we're developed at
Colonge, Essen, Aix-les Chapelle, and
other places, even including Berlin
suburb.
Jacob Zimmerman, of Wellsville,
Ohio, pleaded guilty in the probate
court in Lisbon, O., several days ago
to charge Of hitching his wife to a
pillow and beating her because she fail
ed to pull it. Zimmerman sought the
mercy of the court, but was sentenced
to ninety days in the workhouse.
A dispatch from Port Limon, Costa
RIGA, says fourteen men met death 10
miles off the Nica,aguan coast early
yesterday when the schooner Whisper,
with a cargo OF mahogany, burned to
the waters edge and finally went TO the
bottom. The Whisper was in COM
mand Of Capt. Winston Hall, of Phil
adelphla. An explosion of a gasoline
tank on board is said to have caused
the disaster. The schooner had several
large tanks OF gasoline on board, and
her crew refused to permit would-be
rescuers to get within hailiug distance,
fearing an explosion OF the whole mass
at any moment.
Miss Matilda Moisant, in her speedy
Moisant monoplane probably reached
higher altitude at Mineola, L. L., yes
terday evening than any other woman
aviator has succeeded in reaching. Miss
Moisant was nearly $500 feet up and
banded her aeroplane with marked
skill. SheI made an exceptionally
pretty landing after volplaning down
nearly 500 feet. Andre Roupert then
took Miss Moisant's flight over the
Wheatley Hills and Long Island Sound.
W. B. Hixson, superintendent of
bridges and buildings for the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad,
was found dead in his Office in the
Lackawanna station at Scranton, Pa,
yesterday. Hixon's body was found in
a chair at the desk. with a bullet hole
in the right temple and revolver
lying on the floor. The coroner decided
it was suicide. No cause for the deed
can be assigned He was So years of
age.