Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-06

QellI OIL Cue OllllSu StdtSo, Ia q
statement to newspaper reporters in
St. Louis Sunday night said that ne
had been threatened with death in
more than a dozen anonymous letters
which he has received recently.
Caught with their rowboat in 80
mile gale on Lake Erie near Toledo,
Ohio, Sunday night, Valentine N.
Huber, Is years old, an advertising
clerk, and Paul Shelter, 20 years old,
also a clerk, were drowned when
their craft was upset by the waves.
Russian aviators yesterday bonn
barded an Austrian envoy near Le-
jersk, in Galicia. Seven bombs were
dropped on the railway station 1t
PrZeworsk. An ammunition train was
blown up and the Austro-German
communications were interrupted.
Robert Mayors a family of four
was wiped out by death when their
automobile was struck by an express
train at the unguarded grade eros
sing Of the New Jersey Southern
Railroad Sunday afternoon near
Farmingdale, N. j., Sunday after
noon.
The condition of ). P. Morgan who
was shot last Saturday morning ~
Frank Holt, at his home, near Glen
cove, continues most favorable.
The bullet did not enter the
abdomen and an X-ray examination
showed that no bones have been dam
aged
Her arms appraised as though to
defend herself and with the marks Of
fingers on her throat, the body of
Mrs. Celestine Donau, 81 years old,
was discovered Sunday by the police
in the house iii Palmyra, N. j., where
she lived alone for more than so
years.
Two steamships have been added
to the list of British vessels sunk
by German submarines, the Renfrew,
in ballast from Marseile to Cardiff,
and the 4,355-ton steel coaler Larch-
more, from Cardiff to Bombay Both
were destroyed by shellfire about IS
miles from the Folf lighthouse off
the Irish coast.
Patrolman William j. Davidson, 4S
years old, Of Wilmington, Del, was
probably fatally injured yester-
day afternoon while arresting two
street fighters. One of the men,
Patrick Cunningham, who says his
home is in Philadelphia, shot the Of
ficer through the abdomen and
theovTh the leg.
ersons were drowned Sunday
IN IKE st. Clair, near Wallace
g.. H rs the result of sudden
So which capsized launch in
witch .ley were riding There were
me in the party. Five were rescued
by another launch after they had
chung to their overturned craft for
several hours.
Special Officer William Landlord
was shot and fatally wounded yester-
day morning by Albert Tull, a rival
officer in Seaford, Del The men
were employed by merchants as night
watchmen and feeling of luminosity
has existed between them for some
time Landlord, who it is said,
was under the influence of liquor, at
tackled Tull with blackjack.
The finding of the body Of a we'll
dressed young woman in St. Mary's
Park New York, early yesterday gave
the police d battling mystery, as the
slayer left not clew that can be
found to work upon. The woman.
who was good looking, was choked
to death. To make sure that she
could make no cutlery, a handkerchief
had been stuffed into her mouth.
With two negroes already lynched
and three others in Jail, posse of
fifty Jones County. Ca, farmers
yesterday continued to search for
John Hickey and Thomas Brooks,
who are accused of the murder of
Sails Turner, prosperous farmer at