Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-04-11
TELEGRAPHlC BREVITIES.

Calvin E. Patterson, principal OF the
Brooklyn High School for girls, insists
that all his pupils shall be vaccinated
Two thousand FIVE hundred girls are
opposing his ruliog, and a big fight is
promised.
Zoos E. Stowe, for some time presi'
dent OF tho Peck, Stowe u Wilcox
Company, hardware manufacturers,
dropped dead at his home 10 Southlng'
ton, Conn.,, last night Of heart disease
aged II years.
Max Hohenstein, sub-contractor,
working on the government building al
the Pan.American Exposition grounds
was killed. this morning by falling from
a platform on the apex OF the dome, q
distance of 275 feet. q.
F. A. Ballipger. q wealthy retired
business man and politician and former
member OF select council, accidentally
shot and killed himself this morning, 10
Philadelphia. He was cleaning an old
gun and did not know it was loaded.
Serena Mayer North, daughter OF Mr..
Hugh NJ. North, of Columbia, Pa, and
Joseph B. Hutchinson, Of Philadelphia,
general manager of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, were married this afternoon
at st. Paul's Episcopal Church at Co.
lumhis.
A special from Sodus, N. Y, tells oil
q plot discovered to blow up the resi-
dence of Mrs. Margaret Wood. A man,
while splitting stove wood, discovered
q mammoth stick OF dynamite 10 one
of the logs. The property has been
the scene OF much legal trouble for
years and 1t Is suspected that this is the
basis OF the plot.
The right Of retail dealer to redress for
losses sustained to his business by being
"blacklisted" as bsd debtor, was establish
ed ut Philadelphia today, when a jury re.
turned a verdict of $303.50 in favor Of 4.
Groves, retail oyster dealer, and against W.
@. McGonigle, q member Of the wholesale
oyster men's association Groves claimed to
have been q victim of the blacklist"
Jack Johnson, . railroad map, was killed BY
Harry Barker, q clerk, last night in bloody
encounter at Memphis. Johnson's jealousy
caused the tragedy, Barker having wake !
with his wife several times recently. Mrs.
johnson CAUSED tragedy before this. Two
years ago w. II. Sears, an old man, killed q
man on her account. Barker Is not seriously
hurt.
Ton thousand people saw the Higgins oil
well spout six-inch stream over the top OF
the 60-foot derrick ct Beaumont. Texas, yes
terdsy. Then the big Beatty well. about 800
yards away, was shot and. proved to be much
stronger than the Higgins The excitement
is on the increase.
As q result Of the wholesale butchery Of
pigeons at Interstate Park Senator Slater and
Assemblymsn Bennett Introduced bills In the
New York legislature toisy to check such
exhibitions. Governor OdeIl is said to favor
the bills.
At Frankfort, Ky, yesterday and today
during the trial Of the Goebei murder case,
witnesses testified that they heard ex'Goy.
Taylor say the day before Goebel was muir.
dered, that he, Goebel did not have "a hours
to live.
A dispatch from Birmingham, Als., says
Jack Dodd, young white man, fell dead in
Q public roadway near Cshabs river yester-
day when be saw bis sweetheart driving with
another man.
Nearly 1000 passengers, chiefly steerage,
were landed st New York TO-DAY by four
transatlantic steamers.
Don Pedro Soils, the Spanish consul at New
Orleans died suddenly this morning.