Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-13
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

The special train bearing President
Roosevelt south, struck and killed a
colored track walker near Beach, 16
miles from Paducah, KY, this morning.
The safe at the postoflice at New Hol-
land, Pa, was blown open last evening
and robbed of $50 in cash and $50 in
stamps. Four men were seen running
from the building.
F. NJ. Davis, republican, T. w.
Simms' opponent in the Sth Tennessee
congressional district will it is said con-
test the election, claiming fraud. Simms'
majority was but 1883.
Four men made an unsuccessful at
tempt to hold up passenger train at
Cyclone, Ind, at Q O'Clock this morn
ing. The men placed torpedoes upon
the track but when the engineer did not
stop and the men fired into the train.
The annual convention of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church, of the diocese
of Albany, N. Y, today, by vote Of
90 to 81, declared in favor ola move
ment to change the name of the church
in the United States without suggesting
the title which it preferred to be substi-
tinted for Protestant Episcopal.
The 22nd annual convention of the
American Federation of Labor was
called to order in New Orleans this
morning by President Samuel Gompers,
with $50 delegates and local committees
present President Gompers took oc-
casion to score President Eliot, of Har-
ward University, for the statement that
a strike breaker was hero.
Roland B. Molineaux paid visit to
the Tombs prison shortly after noon to-
day. He remained in the prison about
As minutes talking with Warden Van
decar and Edward Hackett, who was
Moineux's exercising mate during the
latters Imprisonment. Before leaving
Molineux went to his old cell and pack
ed up his belongings which had been
left there.
The Camden, n. j., police may have
another murder mystery to investigate.
The dead body of male child was
found on Vine street ferryboat last
night in womans hat box. The odor
of ether permeated the box and the child
had undoubtedly been smothered with
this drug few hours after its birth. A
we'll dressed man left the bundle in the
ladies' cabin.
At the session of the American Bank
ers' Association in New Orleans today
Caldwell Hardy. President of the Nor
folk, Va, National Bank, was elected
President John SHELTON Williams,
President of the Richmond Trust and
Safe Deposit Company, is a member of
the executive committee council.
Oscar Bergen, ten years old, was ac-
cidentally shot and instantly killed by
his brother Gustav, fourteen years old,
at Proctor, VT, last night. The two
boys had been hunting. The older boy
in cleaning his gun, forgot it was loaded.
The trigger snapped and the charge
entered Oscars head
ElmerA. Smith, barber, 3S years old last
night fatally shot Miss Gertrude Walsh, aged
80 years, at her boarding house, in Portland,
Me. Then he shot himselfn the arm. He
will recover. Smith claims Miss Walsh tried
to poison him. At the hospital Smith made
a statement in which he said Miss Walsh sh I
him in hes room and then committed suicide
A journal on the first ear in the rear of the
tender of a Lackawanna freight train, burned
into two pieces before the train reached Corn
ing, N. Y, this morning, causing one of the
worst freight wrecks the road has had in q
long time. Eighteen ears were demolished
and thousands ofdollars of damage resulted.
No one was hurt.