Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-08-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Wm. Boyce, an ex-soldier, was hang
ed 10 the jail yard at Tacoma, Wn.,
this morning. He met bis fate bravely,
saying he was being murdered. The
condemned mans father went to Ia
coma from Denver to witness the exc
cution. Though intoxicated last night,
Boyce sobered up before the execution.
The badly deoomposed body OF we'll
dressed woman about so years OF age
was found on mountain at Mauch
Chunk, Pa, today. A bottle OF Car.
bolic acid was found near the body.
The dead woman is supposed to have
been one of party ofexcursionists who
came here from Newark, N. j., about q
fort night sgo.
The Black Diamond express, the Lehigh
Valley railways prise train, was wrecked ct
North lie Roy, N. Y, at 1 o'clock this s'tsr.
noon and six persons we're injured, one fats-
ly The accident happened while the train
was running mile a minute and was due
to tie rails spreading. One coach only left
the track, but the occupants Of the Others re-
| ceived q severe shaking up.
MIRA Fred Shepard. Of New Glasgow, met
her death today at Halifax, N. 4, in an ef-
fort TO save her little boy from drowning
The boy fell into an old quarry in which was
ten feet Of water. The mother plunged into
| the water TO rescue him and she mansged to
hold the boy up until assistance came. The
| boy was saved but the mothers strength was
| exhausted and she was drowned.
| Edna NJ. Crawford, daughter of Chief Craw-
| ford OF the Cincinnati detective bureau, has
brought suit against two corset manufacture
| era and the publishers OF two periodicals for
publishing her photograph, and against
Ssrony, che photographer, for selling the
photograph to the other defendants Esch
Of the five suits Is for $4,000.
Charles A. CTegsn, supervising engineer OF
the Michael ]. Daley Construction Company
and who had just returned from Cardenas
Cuba. where the company has q dredge con.
tract. killed himself at the st. George Hotel
Brooklyn, today by shooting himself through
tho abdomen. No reason can be assigned fol-
the dead.
Secretary OF the Navy Long, accompanied
by his wife and son, arrived in Portland,
Me-, this morning on the dispatch boat DOL
phin. ue left on the morning train for
Buekfeld, bis birthplace. Wednesday he
will deliver the chief Grafton In Portland at
the old home week celebration.
1t is reported that the engagement OF Miss
Kathleen Nelson TO Reginald Vanderbilt
son OF Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, will be az
nouneed during the winter In New York
Mics Mellon is tho sister of Mrs. Arthur T
Kemp, and niece Of Frederick Gebhsrd, and
is decided beauty.
| A carload OF machinists arrived in Chicago
this morning to take the place OF the striker
at the Twelfth street works Of Frste snt
Chalmers. Police escorted them to thu
shop. No violence was attempted.
The handsome Maidstone Club boilding st
East Hampton. L. l., was destroyed by fir'
today snd the Maidstone Inn, a fine structure
had q narrow escape. No one was injured
Loss about S25, 900.
james E. Furlong, q Rochester, N. Y,
lecture manager, yesterday sent Mrs. Carrie
| Nation money to pay her fine and for tn
purchase Of a ticket to Rochester, when sh
will begin her crusade in New York state.
Nine gangs OF section men on the Zsnes
vile and Indianapolis railroad at Washington
Ind, declared strike yesterday add qui
work. They ask for an increase OF wages.
A rosboat containing nineteen passenger
was run down by tug of jersey City thi
morning, but all the luckless passengers wer
rescued, none the worse for their mishap.