Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-12-27
TELEGRAPHIC BREVTTIES.

John McSweeney, a Harlem, n. Y.
builder, went to the wall with crash
today. Ia a petition in bankruptcy
be states that he is debtor to The
amount of $2Ol,2 His assets are
giyec at $500
w. II. Smythe, graod secretary O
the Grand Lodge of Masons, of Indiana
was shot down in his office in Indian
spolis today at noon and probably
fatally wouGded. It is said q blonde
woman did the shooting. Smythe will
not talk.
A live baby nestled in q Christmas
tree was the present which Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred l.. Mcclellan, childless
couple, OF Minneapolis received. The
baby was the gift of Mrs. McClellau's
father, who said it made him blue mol
to fed baby or two when he called al
her house.
Charles A. TrOxel, aged 30, took out
q marriage license at Reading, Pa, to-
day to remarry his own wife. He is
under the impression that every seven
years the body undergoes a metamor-
phosis; necessitatipg husbands and
wives to wed again. Troxel's wife,
however, refused to be remarked.
They have been welded ten years.
Mrs. Louisa @. Hutchinson, 70 years
old, whose wealth is estimated at ST.
coo 600, applied in the Supreme Curt
in New York today for an order which
would set aside and make void a trust
deed OF her property 10 her young hus-
band, Willard H. Hutchinson, an actor
who she married in Richmond, Va,
three years ago, and Paul Sheldon, q
lawyer.
The New York Police found the body OF a
man In tho areaWay on west Forty.ffth
street early this morning. From papers on
the mans clothes be was identified as Doctor
Hugh II. Brown, a well.known physician OF
Syracuse. The police are fully convinced
that the man met death by an accident, as
his money and iswelry we're found intact.
After an sll.night search Sidney Miller,
aged seven years, son of Samuel d. Miller,
and who was kidnspped yesterday afternoon
by bis mother, was found in farm house at
Lawrence, Ind, about 4 30 m. today.
The Child was brought back to indianapolis
AID the mother took train for the est.
The guests in Fisher & Guliher's Hotel,
on West street, New York, were routed out
by the fire alarm gongs at an early holr this
morning. The fe was controlled before
much dam go had be,D done, but panic
rrsVsiled for time and several helpless per.
50 ls were carried ou by tho firemeD.
George W. Daniels, about % years old, be-
leved to be from Ksusas City, is in q csta!ep-
tic trance at the Emergency Hospstsl N Wash.
ington Tho only indications of life is the
steady beating of the heart. His limbs are
so rigid that they remsin in any position in
which they are placed.
Currier & Bunker. stock brokers, with Of
fees at 81 Park Bow and 90 Broad way, New
York, failed shortly befor re- noon today. The
firm had memberships in the Consolidated
and Produce Excha 1ges and had branch ia
Boston. 1t is said that short margins caused
the failure.
Next Saturday morning a photographer
will sltem II 10 take an interior view of the
offire of swift & Co in Chicago. The photo
graph, which will be the largest ever taken,
will be four and one.half feet high by five
feet long.
Col Joshua B. Baker, manager OF the La
fayette Hotel in Philadelphia, and for 35
years a well-known hotelman, oied this
morning of a complication of diseases follow.
log sn optrition for appendicitis.
AT Barre, VT, today two ltalisns, members
of the AnarchsIistic League, shot and badly
injured Chief of Police Brown, who had var
rants ror their arrest. The men were cap
tured.
The shops IF the Baltimore and Ohio Bail.
road at Conr lsville Ps., we're burned 10 the
Ground last night. Loss $4,000 Two
hundred men are thrown out Of employment
Two children of George Besttie were burn
ed 10 death at Shswmut, Pa, yesterday.
fur.yesr.od child set the house on fire.