Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-10-12
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The grand jury is to investigate vice
in New York city. Recent numerous
charges have been made that the city
is wide open" again.
Corbett has issued another challenge
to Jeffries in which he offers 10 fight
lhe champion, giving the entire receipts
TO he Galveston sufferers.
John Garrabrandt, the Jersey City
boy who killed his playmate, Henry
Mas. on May 5, was today sentenced
to thirty years 10 the State prison and
TO pay the costs Of the court.
Maryland Court OF Appeals today re-
versed the decision of Judge Sock bridge
who had decided that Prof. Van Sickle,
OF Dsnver, Col, recently elected Super
vas not eligible because of not being
registered voter in the city.
Thomas Barnes, eighteen years old,
attemp' ed to make a speech at Ash
burn, Go, yesterday. He was over
come with stage fight and did not re-
cover. He fell unconscious and died
10 that condition. Physicians who ex-
smined the body believe nervousness
stopped the action of the heart.
William Wolf. % years old, labor
er, slipped add fell into vat Of boiling
asphalt. in New York, this morning
Wolf kept his head and neck above the
not, mushy liquid by superhuman eff
fort but his body was practically parboil-
| ed when his fellow workmen hauled bin
out. He will die.
With as much calmuess and delibe, q
ton as she might have shown 10 selet T.
ing her bridesmaids, Miss Sarah ]. Ir.
win chose the psllbearers who escorted
her body to the grave at Philadelphia
on Wednesday. There were six OF
them, girls of her owe age, all dressed
in white and with bands of crepe
around their arms supporting white
roses.
Henry Lowell OF Lynn, Mass, sales
agent for Lynn shoe manufacturers, me-,
instant death in peculiar manner in
mis- Office 10 New York this morning.
He was talking to a customer and
thoughtessly sat at the edge of sky
| light, placed in the centre of his office
10 light up store below. In emphssiZ-
ing poin5 Lowell moved back few
inches and as a result. crashed through
che glass to the floor below 20 feet, he
landed head foremost and was instantly
killed.
William Schneider, the defaulting
Elizabeth, n. j., bank clerk, will soon
ne under arrest, according to the de-
tectives who are working on the case.
They cay they have reason to believe
the young man is in hiding near New
York. Meantime the sheriff, at the in-
stances of the bank officials, is losing no
time in confscsting property found 10
the possession of Mrs. Hart. the wo-
man on whom Schneider spent his steal
ings. They have seized jewelry valued
at 50, 900; horses aud carriages, valued
at$3 600 more, and today they will strip
Der fiat, furnished with stuff valued al
81 900.
A dispatch from New York says Miss Cast
the long distance cyclist, who recently started
out TO ride 1000 miles, in record time, is not
likely 10 finish the ride. She tainted twice
this morning and fell off her wheel Che is
now in state of collapse. Heavy rains and
bad reads have proved too severe strain for
the young woman. After few hours rest
Miss Cast resumed her race for the record.
She feels could mt that her strength will
hold out.
Thomas. Ingling of Bed Bank, who has
been visiting his grandson, w. W. Sherman,
at Mount Holly, N. j., occupies the rather
unique position of grest-grest grandfather.
lie ia in his 8Sth yosr, and enjoys the best OF
health. OF IngGng's 119 descendants 80 are
iving-5 chilaren, 81 grandchildren, AZ
great grandchildren and four great-gTeat
grandchildren composing his army of de-
| scendaDts.
A locomotive on Chicago & A lton Rsilro I'd
was blown to atoms near Curryville, NO.. ear
y this morning while running at regular
rate of speed. A colored porter had his head
cut off and the engineer and fireman were
BALI bruised. Four of the passengers were
al % injured but none fatally.
| As result Of the disco uton of the brass
trust, known as the Brass Association, the
| yellow metal is now being sold in the open
market for the first time in ten years, and a
merry war is on between the manufacturers.