Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-02
rrr,rcRapHlC BREvITIEs.

The failure of A. b. Stockwell was
announced at the New York Consolid-
ated and Petroleum Exchange today.
The August reports of the anthracite
coal-carrying roads and mining COM
panies. are all out and show loss of
over 50. 500. 900, as compared with the
statements OF August last year, when the
strikers were working full time.
Alderman William Dickinson, of Will
liamsburg, New York, was arrested this
morning by street commissioner John
Mc(;raw Woodbury.. for attempting to
influence the commissioner in behalf of a
constituent who had lost his job in the
department. The charge was bribery.
John w. Gates has won decisive
victory in his contest for the control OF
tho Colorado Fuel & Iron Company.
Judge Henry Caldwell in Denver yester-
day handed down decision sustaining
practically all the contentious OF the
Gates faction and appointed Seymour d.
Thompson, OF St. Louis, master in
chauncery to conduct stock holders
meeting for the purpose of electing
new board of directors.
Everybody Obliged to be out at nights in
Columbus. Ohio, are taking the middle Of the
streets sidewalks are deserted. The town
is in darkness and the street is taken bypedes-
TRANS on advice Of Chief Of Police Kelley.
This is to minimize the danger from footpads.
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NAV soon be overrun. There are inJunctiohs
against Director of Improvements lmmel ne
newing the contract for street lighting. The
old contract expired with September. and the
city was in darkness last night and may re-
main so indefinitely.
John woerner, 40 years old, of Newark, n.
, J.. who was respondent because his eighteen
year-old daughter had left his home, was this
morning found dead In his room with rub
Der tube in his mouth the other end Of
which was connected with gas jet. The
girl wanted to marry George Biller but her
father opposed it because of her youth. Then
she left him alone and went TO live with rel
atives.
! Roland B. Moineaux charged with tine
murder of Katherine b. Adams, will again
face a iury in New York on Monday in a
fight for life. His trial will occur in the
|, Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court.
Doubt is expressed whether Molineaux can
again be convicted.
Five masked men broke into the Montonrs-
vile, Pa, trolley power house last night ana
opened fire on the engineer, who though twice
wounded seized a revolver and shot one of
the robbers dead. The others fed On the
dead mans body was found a United Mine
Workers badge.
At Suffield, Conn, yesterday, Clarence
Iamberton, aged ten, was accidentally slot
by a companion and his grandmother died a
short time afterward from grief and shock.
Mrs. Wilbur Lamberton, the mother OF the
boy, is very i'll and may not recover.
, Richard J. Dodge, formerly newspaper
writer and at one time connected Win the
Congressional Library, died suddenly yester-
day at Woburn, Mass, aged 70 years.
The Century Magazine for October
has been received from its publishers in
, New York. The table of contents is az
follows: The New Photography, On the
Links. Artist Life in Venice, Autumn
Mathis. Recollections of American Poets,
A Voice in the Scented Night The
Quest for Cages, John Henry's Lobster
Trust. A Dream, or What The Nation
Builders, Rolling Stones, The Maple
Tree, nWhen Mother was a Girl" Con-
fessions of a Wife, After Year, Builc,
ing New York's Subway, Difficult En-
I. cheering in the Subway, Art in Public
. Works, Chapters from the Biography Of
: a Prairie Girl, Dowie, Analysed and
. Classified, John Alexander Dowie; The
! Prophet and his Profits, The Unleafed
Beach, A Spanish Opponent of the
Louisiana Purchase, The Cardiff Giant
r Andrew Carnegie, Betrayal, The Sens
n of Humor in Children, Topics of The
: Time, In Lighter Vein.i