Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-05-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

missionary society At Tie nome al
farmer living three miles north of Pea
body. kans., twenty-six people were
poisoned from eating chicken pie IT
which ptomaine had developed. Two
of them have died since and the othe
twenty four are now in a dangerou:
condition.
Objection Of her parents against hel
receiving the attention OF certain
young man OF the neighborhood is be
leyed to have caused Miss Levie Jarvis
the handsome 16-year-old daughter D
Mr.. and Mrs. sWiliam Jarvis, OF nea,
Jarvisvile, W Va, to commit suicide
by hanging. The girl procured rope
and hanged herself to tree near bel
home. Her mother found her dead
body few hours later.
The story of a massacre Of 200 Chi.
nese at Torreon following the rebel oc-
cupation Of that city last week has
caused Chinese charge d'affaires al
Washington to Immediately make for
NAL representations to the Mexican
government.
A quarrel over a poker game result
ed in one man being killed, and an
other wounded at the Sunshine coke
works No. l near Unlontown, Pa,
Sunday night Three brothers named
Logwahaca were playing with Frank
Pecan and Frank Rinite. The latter
charged one OF the brothers with hold
ing out four aces and it is alleged Log
wabaca drew 4 revolver and killed
Pecan and shot RiDitc i'll the right leg.
The three brothers escaped.
Irene O>good, the novelist, author OF
To a Nun Confessed" and other
hooks yesterday pctitioned the courts
in London for judicial separation
from her husband Robert III. Sherrard,
who has also written some books, She
charges cruelty
Riding home together after a ccle
hrailon in which liquor Is said to have
played an important part, Cal O'Ncii
and Lee Reagon. ranchmen on the
Shoshone Reservation between the Big
Wind and Little Wind rivers near Ian
der, Wyo., Saturday, became involved
IN !. quarrel O'Neil shooting and kill
ing Reagon.. On Sunday O'Neil rode
back TO the spot where the body Of his
friend still lay and put bullet through
his brain. The bodies were found side
by side by searching parties
In an address upon scian titic ma
aeement before the Economic Club in
New York last night. Secretary Of the
Navy Meyer described the vast improve
ment in navy gunnery since the battle
Of Santiago by means OF scientific
study, and asserted that Congress is
compelling the department to keep in
commission a number Of useless navy
yards. The upkeep OF these yards, he
said, cost 81 600, 600 year.
Following quarrel about domestic
affairs James Heron. Il Sunday school
superintendent and church worker is
dead and Homer Highland, a justice
oi the peace for the Middle Fork dis
trict, Randolph county, w. Va, is
badly wounded and voluntary pris-
ontr having surrendered TO the authori-
ties after the affray. The trouble oc-
Cured Sunday night while the two men
we're returning from church at West
Huttonv!le. There was a dispute aud
knives were drawn. Heron was not
killed until after he had inflicted knife
wounds upon Highland, who was in a
sorry plight when the tight ended lie
surrendered to the sheriff.
Henry Baxter colorcd, walked into
Rocky Zion Church, near Newberry,
,. c.. Sunday evening with his hat on.
Baxter Is dead and four or FIVE other
negroes are wounded as a rasnItsof the
shooting caused by tins lack Of respect
for the meeting place. When Baxter
was taken TO task by member Of the
congregation for failing to remove his
hat Is he entered the church a qdarreI
ensucd. Then there was an adjourn
mcnt Ia the grounds outside where sew
cral pistols got INTO action and 40 or 30
shots were fired.
John Holiday, OF Wilkinson, shot
and fatally wounded his wife yesterday
III Law office in Greenfield, Ind. Mrs.
Holiday vas i'll consultation with a
lawyer preparatory to filing a suit for
divorce. She was sitting at the table
with a member # the law firm, when
her husband entered and began to beg
her TO live with him. On her refusal,
he shot her in the face. She fell to
The floor, and before he could be hind
cred. he shot her again in the neck
aud shoulder He was then arrested
Five children in Yonkers. New York
were attacked aud bitten yesterday by
a crazed monkey The animal was
killed after struggle by Henry Brandt
lanitor Of the City Hospital. The
monkeys brain Is now being examined.
The children were playing in the street
when the MONKEY suddenly appeared
and attacked them. Several men hear
ing their screams ran to their aid but
the animal appeared to show no fear OF
diem and lo1ged the blows. Finally
Brandt managed to crush in the ami
mails skull with an iron bar The
monkey is believed to have been bitten
by dog
HARD CIDER CAUSES TRAGEDY.
With the exclamation 1T is lime