Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-17

tricked Chief Judge Parker out OF the
nomination for Governor at the Saratoga
convention.
The Atlantic Coast Line stockholders
met in Richmond, Va, today and rati-
fed the purchase Of the Louisville "
Nashville railroad and decided to in
crease the stock of the road. They are
still in session.
Mrs. Roland B. Molineux of New
York, have arrived at Sioux Falls, 5. ID.
and taken up apartment at the Cataract
Hotel for the purpose, it is reported OF
remaining six months to procure a
divorce from her husband.
The Norfolk and Western Railway
Company has declared dividend of l
IL per cent on its common stock for the
half year, payable on December 10.
This dividend is an increase Of IL per
cent. and places the stock on 3 per
cent. basis.
Reports from Pell City, Ala, say that
two persons were killed and ten injury,
two fatally, at o'clock this morning by
the burning of the Southern Railway
depot, followed by the explosion of fifty
cases of dynamite stored in it. n. b.
Spears member of the legislature and
Mrs. Hardy Cornett, proprietress ofthe
Pell City Hotel were fatally injured.
Two Southern freight trains at the depot
we're partially wrecked and members Of
the crew hurt
The New York Evening Journal this
evening prints a statement from Edward
p. Remington, brother of Robert f.
Remington, to the effect that the latter
did not meet his death by suicide in the
)oms of the Reading Club. of Newport,
on August Is. Remington declares that
he has investigated the circumstances of
the death; that he had an autopsy per-
formed by four eminent physicians, and
that detectives are now working on the
case. Every fact points to murder, says
the story.
BY the sudden collapse of a two and a
half story wooden building in the south
ern section of Fall River Mass, this
morning, two men were killed, two
probably fatally injured, and four pain
fully injured The building was an old
one and was being raised till the apex
of the roof was at least forty feet from
the sidewalk. 1t stood on jackscrews
and beams. Carpenters were putting
studding under it to take place of jack
screws today when suddenly the struct-
ure slid away and fell on the workmen
below. The fire department was sum
moned and with police chopped away
the debris.
Charles Mclaughlin this morning at
tempted to cross the Pennsylvania Rail
road tracks at the George street station,
in New Brunswick, n. j., and go through
the gates. He was caught by an express
and jammed against the fence. His
body was turned around by passing cars
and his clothes torn half off, One hand
was cut and he was terribly bruisd, but
no bones were broken. Assistant Bag
gage Master Enos Ryan in trying to
open the gate rom the opposite side had
his hat knocked off by an express going
the other way. He jumped in time to
save his life.
The coal traffic over the Reading Railroad
yesterday was the heaviest since the resump.
| ton of mining. Thirty-nine coal trains
passed down the road and forty-nine trains OF
empty cars were sent back to the mines.
George Perry, the mulatto, was arraigned
| in court at Somerville, Mass, this morning on
| the charge of numbering Miss Agnes McPhee
on October 81. He pleaded not guilty.