Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-09-03
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIPS

AiA0 oaEf IllEN.
Vest makers to the number Of 9.
thousand went Cd strike in Nan VI i've
to-day for higher wages. Siytssr tOik
dred cloak makers are on striEs =. ugo'
in four shops, and as result Of . ..,,s!
ments 1900 cloakmakers re,r,n aes's'
work to-day in other shops. %
Louis Jordan, who is beliav.a
have been travelling salesman ie % %
employ of a Charlestown, ". Va a. 'ae
tabllshment, was found dead in h. b.a e.
Slate street, Chicago, lodo;na J S 10
to-day. In his pockets were es t 1Uuss
letters addressed to his wife and b ,ruaa
er in Cincinnati. ''O'n'
Captain Henry Soper OF the scboo.
Henry Finch, which arrived 81 %
York to-day, from a Virginia nor, New
ports that on August 80, w gU.,' Il,
Chesapeake Bay, a heavy squsII A a.. %
sized several schooners which had S Sap.
sailing in company with the Fi T1sa
and that a number of men VIZ, W..
drowned. were
John B. Pickett, a prominent nl.,.
er of Ouachita parish, La.. Was F fonai
dead in lonely part OF yjck. ivuua
Miss, today. A stab wound IN y
neck caused death, but it is believed iI ,s
have resulted from some family tronbi. -
and that Pickett either committsS WY
eide or was killed for revenge bv .n guy
one be had injured. The police s'' ",,
satisfied they have discovered trscs. ~, y;
a deadly struggle near the fatal sno,
The democratic State central conmi,,.s :,
Iowa secured to-day temporary iuipr rYT y,
restraining the Secretary Of State from manu- NV,
ting the ticket of the boiling popusts on f ~.
official ballot. The boiling popui:t, ,ic =,
was filed with the Secretary Ten mime T,ns.
before. --'''
Rev. Frank B. Vroomau, co.pas,or o, IL,
fashionable Peoples church in Chicago s. .r'
he has been frozen out Of the Presby,e,;:s'
church and starved out of the PEOPLES cSn-aS
in one year, and will now go TO the Kloni;ka
Fire totally destroyed the machine .b,,
and car house at Seth and Church syenrt
Brooklyn. n. Y, belonging 10 tho Ns,,,
Electric Railroad Company this morning and
entailed a loss of 100000
Mr.. Seth Low, who is at Northeast H.,ho.
Maine, has siguided his acceptance Of n.
nomination as Mayor of Greater New York
rendered him by the borough committee, #
the citizens union.
The pesrl hunting industry is spreading al
over Arkansas and people are abandoning II.
rops to engage in uncarihing the muYsl
shells in search of pearls.
I Rev. Bryan A. Woods. pastor OF the Geb.
semsne Baptist Church, Philadelphia died
, this morning at Hamilton, n y =, where he
had gone to recuperate.
In the Luetgert murder trisl to.lsy the
rings found in the vat in the sausage tsc,ory
were identified as those of Mrs. Luetgert.
HUSBANDS TERRIBLE CHARGE.-In
New York yesterday District Attorney
Olcott made public remarkable state.
meDt made by Herman Mack, the luz.
band Of Mrs. Augusta Mack, who, with
Martin Thorn, is charged with the mut.
der of William Guldensuppe. 10 the
statement Mack says that his wife has
been illegally killing children for
number of years. He gives the whole
career of himself and his wife during
their marriage life from 1855 to the
time he left her, in October, 1896.
Mack states that his wife made liy.
ing through illegal operations, iuvOly.
ing the murder OF children. He said
that she was a so called midwife, but
that she never had diploma.
At one time, Mack states, there we're
as many as six dead children preserved
| in some kind of spirits in bottles in Biz
room in their house. He also states
that she murdered from two to three
children every year for period Of from
eight to ten years.
Mack also alleges that his vile was
assisted in all the details by humber
of physicians. He also drags in under
takers names, charging al OF them,
both physicians and undertakes, with
completely with his wife. He says that
they aided her in making away with
the bodies of the children. Mack fur
Their alleges that many OF the children
were born dead, the result OF Mrs
Nsck's illegal business. The state
ment of Mack was got from him through
the persistent efforts Of Assistant DIS
trict Attorney Mitchell.