Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-08-26
NEWS OF THE IA Y


Three men working in sewer at the
Giant OF the American Viscose Com
pany, artificial. silk manufacturers, at
Marcus Hook, near Philadelphia were
overcome by gas Thursday night and
died shortly after being taken from the
inlet. The men, all foreigners, had
been cleaning the sewers OF the inlet
which carries the waste and refuse
from the plant into the Delaware river.
It is said that the poisonous gases were
formed by backwater from the river
coming IN contact with the sediment
at the bottom OF the sewers, II feet
below ground. The men we're dragged
out in subconscious condition, hay
ing swallowed quantities OF the poison
Gus sewer water.
Joseph M. Davenport, well-known
resident of Drswbridge district, Dor
chester county, Md, was killed by
during a storm last week.
The bolt pierced the roof of his house
and STUCK Davenport rs he was COM
ing from an upper to lower floor.
Alightning bolt last night practically
destroyed the home of Thomas Nc
CannGin Wilmington, Del. The bolt
entered, by way OF rear chlmn ey,
back bedroom on the second floor,
passed down into the kitchen and
thence into the yard. The rooms were
torn apart, and the upper portion OF
the house was overturned into the
yard. No one was injured.
Friends OF Mrs. Grover Cleveland
announce that they are authorized to
deny that her daughter, Miss Esther
Cleveland, is engaged to marry. The
was made in Farms.
worth, n. H., Wednesday that Miss
Cleveland was to be married next
October to Randolph D. West, OF New
York, son Of Princeton professor.
Gilbert Jenkins, 16-ysar-old school
boy, who fought for the entertainment
of a dozen women and several hundred
men on the steamer keystone State
last month is lying at his home in
Edwardsyille, H., OF injuries received
in the bout. His life is despaired of
by two physicians who are attending
him Young Jenkins went on with
Bobbie Brendie ia curtain-raiser. He
was knocked down in the second round
with blow on the left side Of the
abdomen. He fell limp to the floor,
and while conscious, was unable to re-
gain his feet.
Mrs. Daniel Ferguson, OF Atlantic
N. j., fell unconscious at
a window in her room in New York
early yesterday, when a vivid flash of
and loud crash OF thunder
frightened her. DR.. E. E. Failing re
sponded to hurried summons and
found that she was dead. Mrs. Fer
guson had always dreaded lightning.
The first peal of thunder during any
storm brought terror to her.
: a Quadruple murder, followed by
the slayer's suicide, took place at kath-
leen, near Tampa, Fla, yesterday af-
ternoon, when Needham Anderson
killed bis wife and three children, and
then himself. Anderson had an alter
cation with his wife during the morn
ing. Neigbbors say that he whipped
her numerically before leaving the
house. Yesterday afternoon be re;
turned He had been drinking. Upon
entering the home where bis wife and
were, he discharged the con-
tents of shotgun at his wife. After
he saw that she had been killed, he
then turned his weapon upon the child
rem. Anderson shot himself in the
head just after the neighbors were
coming to the house.
Justice Scudder, in the Supreme
Court in Brooklyn yesterday granted
Capt. Peter e. Hams, jr., who is serr-
ing eight years in Sing Sing for the
shooting of William E. Annis, of the
Bayside Yacht Club, three years ago,
an interlocutory decree OF divorce from
his wife, Claudia Libbey Hams.
Led by pretty 20-year-old girl,
four men held up Casimi Kranz and
robbed him OF watch and SIS, then
beat him. aud threw him into yard
10 Chicago. Detectives arrested Kitty
Klinski, the leader of the band, and
Paul Mawrot, is after revolver
battle. Mawrot told the police that
he and friends decided upon career
of crime and organized week ago by
Kitty Klinski leader. The
plan was for the girl to lure the vic
TINS to unireeuented streets, where
they would be robbed Kitty Klinski's
room was used as a headquarters for
the band.
Mems fine Oxfords $3.50 and s4.O0