Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-08-11
NEWS OF THE JAY.


Pisgah, Charles county, Md, are op-
posed to the young men of Indian
Head visiting the young women OF
their village and vicinity. A youth
OF Indian Head was recently arrested
on FIVE alleged "trumped.up" charges,
four of which were dismissed by Magis-
trate Carpenter, the other going to
the Circuit Court. AS this did not dis
turb the young man to any extent,
a trap was set in the shape of barbed
wires stretched across the highway, so
placed as to catch his motorcycle in
the darkness. Az the intended victim
did not travel the road that night be
was not caught, but Walter Chapman.
driving horse and buggy, was, with
the result that the horse was very
badly cut by the wires.
Luther Thompson, Joseph Sauls-
berry, Willy Goforth and c. F. Currin,
all of respectable families living uear
Gladsden, Ala, were given pvelimin-
airy hearing yesterday on the charge of
numbering Nicholas Shentzen, the
German hermit miner, who was robbed
aud killed at Altoona several weeks
ago. The murder vas most atrocious.
The victim was beaten to death on the
night before be intended leaving for
his old home in Germany The body
decapitated, was hidden under his
cabin, where it was found the follow.
ing day. lmmediatelY after the muir
der the four boys suspected OF tie
crime visited Birmingham and are
said to have spent considerable money.
Within day or two they disappeared.
Capt. E. McMullen, Of the British
tug Bermuda, which arrived at Taco
ma yesterday from Texada Island B.
c., reported that at 6 O'Clock Tuesday
evening in the vicinity of Active Pass,
ID the Straits Of Juan De Fuca, he saw
man thrown overheard from tramp
steamer flying foreign flag which was
passing out to sea from Victoria or
Vancouver. was looking at the
vessel through the binoculars" said
Captain McMullen, when I observed
a commotion on the forward deck, aud
from the struggling mass of sailors a
man was seen hoisted over the bulTarks
with a rope around his neck. He was
lowered to within few feet of the
water aud then the rope broken or vas
cut"
A husband can be too affectionate
and too poetical, according to the testi-
mony of Mrs. Wentworth Carter, who
was granted divorce in the Circuit
Court at Kansas City yesterday. Too
much poetry, too many kisses, too
much love, too many smiles, and too
little work make an unfit husband"
she said. Mrs. Carter SAID that when
she married ten years ago she was
temporarily blinded by love and a
deluge of poetry. He was positively
but he would not work,
Judge. When our last cent was gone
he went to South Carolina, where he
bad an uncle who, he said, had money
and liked poetry and wine, too"
That they lived together as husband
and wife for seven years without speak
ing to each other, their only commun,
ication being by means of written
notes, was one of the statements made
by Mrs. Ellen klitgerard in San Fran
cisco yesterday in her application
for a divorce from Carl A. Klitgaard,
4 maritime engineer. This silence,
she declared, was enforced by her bus
band. One day she wrote to him:
How long are you going to keep this
UP ?" Forever, was the written re-
ply, I want you to get a divorce. :"
This she declined to do, but changed
her mind when Klitgaard removed the
furniture from their home, compelling
her and her baby to sleep on the floor.
Strike sympathizers and labor slug
gers who have operated in Los Auge-
les, Chicago, and Pittsburg, Pa, are
blamed for the blowing UP OF Pitts
burg, Butler and Harmony interuban
car at Evergreen, three miles north Of
Pittsburg, last night About twenty
persons we're more or less seriously In
jured, but none fatally. The station
OF Evergreen was blown into match
wood and the front cab of the trolley
car was crushed like house of cards,
while tracks, ties and ballast we're
torn and twisted mass. The explosion
broke windows for miles around.