Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-20
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

The explosion of slasher cylinder a.
the Sibley mill at Augusta, Ga. early
today killed one man and injured three
others.
The Twentieth Century Flyer on the
Big Four, was wrecked at Flint near Co
lumbus, o., at 1920 this morning. The
engineer was fatally injured but none o.
the passengers was hurt The train ran
into an open switch.
The passenger who died on train en-
tering Chicago is Benjamin Greenwalk,
member Of the firm of Liyeright,
Greenwalk & Co., extensive clothing
manufacturers of Philadelphia. He died
on a train while it was entering Chicago
today.
Rev. d. L. O'Mahoney, pastor of
st. Augustine church, at Andover
Mass, who was recently ordered to the
Philippines to take up work among the
Spanish friarss began his journey to
Manila today. He will stop at Rome
for instructions from the Pope.
At a meeting last night at Providence,
r. l., cigar and tobacco dealers formed
an organization to fight the tobacco
trust. Twenty of the biggest indepen-
dent firms in the city are included The
fight is over cut in prices which has
demoralized the trade in that city.
The trial of Wilbur S. Sherweil,
charged with the murder of three women,
commenced at Evansville, Ind, today.
SherweIl and has been in Jail since Octo-
Der Is, 1901, was a member of the
Evansville police force at the time Of his
arrest. All his victims had been choked
to death.
James Thompson is lead; viii Toe
berts wounded, in the shoulder and
Albert Wilson is shot in the thigh and
heel, the two last named are negroes
and the first white, as the result of the
race riot at Litileton, Alabama, last even
ing. The trouble was precipitated by
negro woman who pushed Thompson
from a railroad trestlc.
President ELEPHANT of the Delaware
4 Hudson when questioned regarding
the Wilkesbarre repors that the coal
operators proposed to gran the miners
recognition and ten per cent. wage
advance, thereby doing away with the
arbitration commission, said he knew of
no such proposition. Other coal presi-
dents said the same thing
The Richmond papers aud represen-
tatives of New York newspapers report
ed in the Richmond police court TODAY |
charged with breaking the Sunday blue |
laws. Fully 300 cases were reported to
the police court today for the Sunday
law breaking. DIR. J. b. Hawthorne, |
will appear before the police board this
afternoon to testify as 10 saloons open on
Sunday. He says he has $50 witnesses
o back him in his allegations against
aloon keeping.
Mrs. Leah Betten, aged A. wife Of s. n.
}etten, junk collector, was burned TO death
n a tenement house fire in the Ghetto
# Worcester, Mass, this morning. The
woman got up from sick bed and carried
lighted lamp into dark closet. She tripped.
ell and the lamp exploded. She was burned
o death before help arrived.
Michael Ccnroy, of New Brunswick, ". j..
vas held up by tramps at midnight and after
icing beaten insensible was thrown ON the
Railroad tracks. He recovered sufficiently to
rawl to signal tower. His condition is
erious. Robbery was the motive of the assault
In Bridgeton, N. j., today Judge Hendrick-
on sentenced Job Williams to be hanged
November 10Th for the murder Of Holmes and
Hiss Shute. When asked if he had ANYTHING
0 say why sentence should not be pronounr
on him, he replied that he had no plea to
,ake.