Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-24
rEI,EGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

Mill employees In Lowell, MISS, arc
endeavoring to force an advance III
wages. and strike is imminent.
One hundred boys and girls employed
in the Nourse mill at Woonsocket, II.
l. have struck for an advance OF ten
per cent. in wages.
In q fracas between Italian women in
McAdoo, Pa, this morning, Mrs. John
Lamoss. was shot and killed by Mrs.
Raphael Siorentino.
The employees of the United States
Leather Company at Davis, W. Na''
have been granted voluntary increase
in wages of ten cents day.
Miss Elenora Bush was killed and
Miss Nellie Bower fatally hurt in an ac-
cident on the Auburn, n. Y, branch OF
the Lehigh Valley Railroad early this
morning.
Yelled in damage suit at Louisville,
Kv.. for $40, 600 lies question that IN
wolves the right of the Louisville Rail
road Company to operate in Louisville.
1t is alleged that the company's charter
expired in 1897.
James r. Sullivan, alias Whitley
Sullivan. who was convicted of the muir
der of night Waterman Wilson, OF Coble-
skill who was killed in an attempt to
rob the bank in that village IN l9OO,
was electrocuted in Dannemora prison
this morning.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, who
is in Atlanta, Ca, inspecting sites for a
postoffice building, was accOsted today
bv wealthy young woman of unsound
mind. who demand that he purchase Tor
the government alot which she owned IN
the reaidence section of the city.
VIM. H. Cullingsworth, who was post
master at Richmond, Va, under Presi-
dent Cleveland for two terms, died this
morning. aged &C. He was famous as
the man who made a thousand pound
plum pudding and served it at banquet
on the occasion of Mr.. Cleveland hrst
election as President.
During dense fog at Chester, Pa,
this morning passenger tram on the
Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington
Railroad, ran down number of work
men on trestle across Chester Creek.
One man was killed, his head being 81
most severed. The others jumped and
escaped.
Adyices received at New Orleans indi-
cate that the expected revolution IN
Nicaragua as result of Zelayas Trend
ship for Sierra and Arias in Honduras
has been started. Zelaya has notified the
telegraph companies that no messages
excepting those going to or coming from
the Nicaraguan government will be per-
mitted TO cross the frontier.
After yawning without interruption
for three days, despite every effort 10
relieve her. Mrs. William Henry Jenner,
of Oshkosh, Wis, is dead. Physicians
decided that the woman was suffering
from obscure lesion of the brain, produc-
ing laryngitis spasms. The spasms con-
tinued and finally after seventy-six hours
of suffering dissolution occurred.
| Miss Ettie Waggy, daughter OF VIM. az
gy, a prosperous farmer, shot Ralph Mellon
aid Monday afternoon near Weston, w. va.
Four years ago Miss Waggy alleges, Nc
Donald who studied medicine in Louisville;
Ky, college, betrayed her. She says she had
9 been waiting her chance ever since to XII
|. him. The physicians entertain but little
hope of McDonald's recovery. Miss Waggs
is still at liberty.
General w. T. Clark, Of Washington, d.
C.. was knocked down by cab on State
street in Chicago last night. The injured
2 man is 70 years Of age, and having sustained
il Is believed, two fractures of the skull, and
, internal injuries, his recovery is said to bt
r doubtful. General Clarke is holding a posi-
ton in Washington but is retired from thu
army.
e Fire broke out in the fifth floor of an eight
D story brick building, in Pittsburg, Pa, TIM
morning. The building is owned by Henr!
Phipps' and is occupied by the McElveI
Furniture Company, which earned "a a 81, sscel
, valued at 100000. The building wiii ilkel.
be Quilted. Two fremen were sent 70 the nos
pital unconscious overcome by somoke'