Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-14
NEWS OF THE JAY.

The village of Wassel, Germany, re.
ports domestic tragedy. A laborel
named Zautze while suffering from
.nlelancholia cut the threats OF his wife
and five children with razor and then
hanged himself.
Ripping the roof off OF the statehouse,
nashiDg plate glass windows right and
It, rocking homes terrorizihg persons
throughout that city, uprooting many
trees and ripping the limbs off OF hum
dreds of others. a terrific windstorm
struck Springfield, H., at 5 O'Clock
yesterday morning, causing loss varl-
ously ESTIMATED at from $1,000 to
s4OO. 900. 1t will take $4,000 to re-
place the statehouse roof. The glass
door Of the Dome building at the fair
grounds was shattered and the roof
blown off of the lSattley Plow Works.
Corn in the neighboring fields was
leveled and the fruit shaken from the
trees in orchards in central Illinois.
The crop and fruit damage will be
heavy. Many residences were badly
damaged by falling trees.
Della Halsey, 22.year-old daughter
OF a ell.known farmer of Hardin
county, was dragged from bakery
operated by james Watts in Kenton.
Ohio, last night by an unknown man
and murdered. She was shot through
the heart three times. The man who
vas quite young, entered the store
where Miss Halsey was clerk, seized
and dragged her into the street. A
short distance from the store he fired
the revolver shots and disappeared.
DR.. James e. Stone, of Washington,
answering the divorce suit Of his wife,
Mrs. Rlla M. Stone tells the District
Supreme Court, through a petition
filed yesterday that his wife drank
cocktaAs in private dining room of a
hotel will, prominent police officer
until after midnight. He said be re-
monstrated with ibis wife about her
iondness for intoxicants and even went
so far as to burn her clothes to keep
her home. He denies her claim that
she needs clothes, and says she bor-
rowed $500 on her interest in their
home several days before she filed her
divorce suit.
Many OF the younger school chill
dren of Kansas City, Mo-, were dis
missed by their teachers yesterday be-
fore the regular closing time on ac-
count OF excessive heat. A tempera-
ture of % degrees and higher prevailed
all over tho southwest At Topeka the
maximum temperature was 50 degrees,
and at Wichita. Kans., 81 degrees.
The grand jury which made special
investigation into dYnamiting outrages
and other acts OF violence along the
liue OF the Harmony, Pittsburgh, But
Ter and New Castle Railway yesterday
in Butler, Pa, indicted twenty labor
leaders and former employees Of the
company. Two charges were brought,
fifteen Of the men named being charged
with conspiracy for dynamiting cars
and for other attempts and several for
conspiracy for soaping or greasing the
tracks.
Prof. Francis z. Leayenworth, head
OF the department OF astronomy OF the
State University at Minneapolis, has
sighted the Brooks comet, recently dis
covePd. 1t is now visible to the naked
eye in the early evening, near the pole
star. 1t will never be visible again.
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1t is claimed that Germany has the
fastest big warsbip in the world. The
new dreadnought cruiser Moltke is
credited with speed OF % IL knots on
her trials. The MoItke is a ship of
23, 900 tons and S,000-horsepower.
The strike OF the women 8 tailors and
dressmakers OF New York, started in
earnest yesterday afternoon, when TO-
600 or more employed in the various
shops walked out.