Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-08-19
NEWS OF THE JAY

Edward NJ. Heishel, aged 50, a far
mer, hanged himself from a tree
Thursday, at his home, near Largent.
". Va. His wife says he was worried
over debts which he feared be would be
unable to pay.
E. H. Sotbern, the American actor,
and Julia Marlowe, the actress, were
married yesterday in the registry Office
at Knights Bridge, London. Both
Sothern and Miss Marlowe have been
married before, and in each case the
matrimonial venture terminated un-
happily. Miss Marlowe got a divorce
from her actor husband, Robert Taber,
in 1900, and Virginia Harmed was
granted decree against Sothern last
wear, at Reno, after he had made an
unsuccessful attempt to have their
marriage annulled.
One OF the most peculiar cases in the
history of the Pasteur Institute, Chi
cago, was treated there yesterday.
Clemens Schroeder,a Chicago plumber,
was the patient. Schroeder was bitten
by a pet cat, which had gone mad.
The animal Embedded its teeth ID
Scbroeder's forearm, and he found it
impossible to loosen its hold. II was
necessary to cut the cats head from
its body to pry the jaws apart.
Charles n. A. Radmer, of Troy, n.
Y, "a years old, got out OF Utica on
freight train Thursday night just in
time to miss fortune Of s120, 600 left
to him by his grandmother. Radmer
is now being sought by relatives and
attorneys. He was practically pennl-
less when he left Troy.
Mrs. Calvin Lovett, wife OF q retired
farmer living near Kalamazoo, Mich,
and recently released from an insane
asylum, was blown to pieces Thursday
by an explosion OF dynamite. The
charge, which also badly wrecked the
Loyett home. is believed to have been
exploded bp the woman herself.
Four men were killed, four were
fatally injured aud nine others suffered
fractured arms and legs in an explo-
sion late yesterday which wrecked the
moulding building at the Illinois Steel
Company's plant at Joliet, H., and
imprisoned 100 men.
While raking hay in field near her
home, at Emaus, Pa, yesterday after
noon, Mrs. Joseph Bobjack, 45 years
! old, vas instantly killed by lightning.
She was the mother of five children.
Fearful that harm had ovcrtaken the
second son OF the former president,
who is hunting in Mexico in the vlcln-
ity OF the Gulf OF California, residents
OF the Imperial Valley and OF the
northern Arizona border towns are or
eanizing a bodyguard to hurry to find
Kermit Roosevelt.
j Mrs. Amanda Baldwin, widow, was
, admitted to Bellevue Hospital, New
York, Thursday, suffering, the physi-
clans said, from hydrophobia, the
symptoms OF which have been unuo-
ticed for five years. Mrs. Irwin was
bitten by mad dog in 1906. Physi-
clans at the hospital declared that the
inoculation Of five years ago had been
slowly working through her system,
and it had at last emerged in an acute
attack. The ambulance surgeon found
it necessary to use streit.iacket to get
her tc the hospital The case is hope.
less.
One white man was killed and many
other persons Injured in race riot be.
tween whites and negroes in Harlem,
In. Y, last night. The race riot started
early in the evening, when white
man and o negro accidentally collided
on Second avenue. Soon volleys OF
stones began to lie exchanged between
the crowds, the disorders continuing
until the fatal shooting.
The Russian cabinet yesterday
awarded the contracts for two battle
ships, tn be added to the Black Sea
fleet. Each ship will cost 50, III ,095,
with S4,347, 14G extra for armor and
guns. Six submarines, to cost $500, 600,
will be built by Baltic firms. The con-
racts for nine torpedoboat destroyers
we're given. The destroyers will cost
81, 100000 euch.
A storm of cyclouic velocity yester.
day afternoon blew over Philadelphia
and sections ofPennsylvania and New
Jersey, leaving death and destruction
ia its wake. At one time the velocity
OF the wind registered 80 miles an
hour.
Another severe thunderstorm, almost
a duplicate OF that OF last Tuesday,
struck New York yesterday afternoon,
ana caused heavy damage in many
sections. The thermometer dropped
16 degrees in less than fifteen minutes,
the wind increased to 63 miles al
hour, and it grew so dark that llg hts
had to be turned on all over the city.
Tightening demolished 400 feet OF q
giant roller coaster at Brighton Beach
The bolt cleared away a section OF the
tracks and left clean-cut end project
ing into space 40 feet above the ground
Jacob Swencer, president Of the
Woodbridge Automobile Company, OF
Newark, n. j.. is de1d at his home 10
Wo odbridge, n. j., OF rabies, after
two days illness. 4 pet dog, which
licked his hand month ago, went
mad few days later.
There is no doubt that Pope Plus is
| COW convale-crnt. He arose earlier
than usual yesterday morning and
went to the chapel to hear mass. In
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