Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-03
rr,renApH1c BREyITIEs.

renort reached Dallas, Tex, this
afternoon that passenger train on the
Southern Pacific was wrecked at Sandy
Fork. Many passengers are reported
injured.
1t is currently reported on the New
York stock exchange that in the coai
conference this morning President koose-
welt came out fatty with proposition
to refere the whole question to Justice
Brewer of the Supreme Court as an ar
bitrator.
Another attempt is to be made IN
Chicago to combine the principal pillow
manufacturers of the country into trust,
two previous attempts in that line having
failed. The new combine probably Will
he capitalized at S75, 900, 900, OF which
one half will be in seven per cent cum
ulative, the other half in comman stock.
Astride horse at the bead Of a pro-
cession of 500 miners, Harris Collins
boss of the largest of the mines, OF the
Horse Shoe Mining Company, was es-
corted out of tie Black Hill, 5. d.,
Thursday and ordered never to return.
Collins has been regularly exacting
monthly tribute from men under HIM III
consideration of keeping them at work.
A misunderstandingor disobedience Of
orders caused most disastrous wreck
on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in
wears in tunnel No. II, mil east Ct
CORVALLIS, w. Va, last evening. Many
cars were piled up in the wreck and the
tunnel was filled with wreckage. Both
trains were at full speed when they met
and the only wonder is that any OF the
crews escaped alive.
sTom' the mad elephant in the
Central Park Zoo in New York, was
executed today. Two steaming pals o.
bran mush containing 500 grains o.
syanide of potash were showed within
reach of his trunk by his keeper A
few minutes later "Tom" was in hi
death agony. The other animals in the
Zoo heard his terrible trumpetings ant
ioined the chorus. For weeks ''Tom'
had been so crazy that his keepers coult
not approach him. He was held b.
foot lengths of chain.
Niles J. Anderson attempted suicide
at his boarding place in Worcester
Mass. at five o'clock this morning
with gas, and the attempt partially
wrecked four story brick block AM
caused injury to five persons. Ander
son pulled the gas jet from the wall o
his room and lay down on the bed. Mrs
l.. C. Clark, the landlady smelled gas
and went to the room. She started t.
rouse the man, but was overcome ant
fell to the floor screaming for help
Her husband and several boarder
rushed to the room and Mr.. CLAIR
lighted match and the explosion fol
lowed, blowing out all windows on thu
lower floor and throwing sleeping person:
from their beds. Mr.. and Mrs. Clark
Henry Foster, and Miss Mabel Ward
, were severely burned.
Snow pows have been ordered to the iron
by the mountain roads in Colorado owing .
the severity of Wednesday nights storm
Wnicn DleW INTO II pillldiu dYVNc 'u''"ei nv
Buena Vista reports there was a fall Of tire
t feet of snow and the storm on Alpine Pass wa
! never known to be so severe at this season
. Leadyille had 12 inches Of snow with WIN
, blowing 40 miles an hour.
A collision early this morning. between
westbound combination train which left Bos
! ton at 1l.29 last night, and switching engln
q and caboose in the yard at East Deerfieio
, Mass, resulted in the killingof two men, tn
probably fatal injury of ore man, and tn
D more or less serious injury to several Others
Two persons were killed and nine badly in
r iured by the collapse of an elevator IN tn
shoe factory of A. f. Little in Lynn, Mass
this morning. The chain carrying the courl
terbalance weight parted and the mass OF iro
fell on the elevator, which went TO the bottor
of the shaft, falling from the fourth floor.
. Rev. Roland Cotton Smith, rector Of =
i Johns Episcopal Church, ln Northampton
l Mass. has received call to st. Johns Episco
2 pal Church in Washington, ID: c. Nj
NTH was formerly an assistant of Phillip
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