Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-06-20
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIEs.

The Cunard line has withdrawn from
the recent shipping combine and
freight and passenger rate war is pre-
dicted.
A. Floyd Byrd, Commonwealth At
torney OF Breathitt county, KY, who
prosecuted White and Jett at Jackson,
has disappeared.
Lightning struck quantity of dyna-
mite at Senecaville, Ohio, today, and a
terrific explosion followed. Five men
are reported dead and fifteen badly
injured.
The employees of the leading Chicago
hotels and restaurants who have been on
strike for ten days returned to work this
morning. The terms leave the en-
ployers freedom of employment.
One man was fatally burned, six
others painfully, and at least fifteen more
were slightly injured in Chicago last
night by the explosion of bomb which
some men had found and exploded for
fun.
The safe of the Pennsylvania Railroad
office at Strouthers, o., was blown open
by burglars at an early hour this morn
ing. Five men were arrested on the
charge of doing the job. An attempt
was also made to rob the Poland Bank,
and it is supposed that it is the work of
the same gang. All they got was $50,
which has been recovered.
The body of Fred Mckinney, the out
law, who escaped from the Glasgow,
Mont, Jail with Tom Hardee, Jack
Brown and William Pierce on June 7,
after killing two guards, has been taken
back to Glasgow. Mckinney was killed
by Darnell, rancher, to whose ranch
he fled after escaping the posse that
killed Hardee in the Bad Lands late
Monday.
Interesting exercises will be held tomorrow
at the Sd Baptist Church, corner of Patrick and
Princess streets Rev. ID. G.. Henderson, pas
tor. This is q well-known colOred Baptist
congregation of the city, the late Reys. Geo.
| Parker and Fields Cook having for years had
charge of the flock A baptizing in the
church pool will take place at IL I'm.
Robert B. Hopkins. At the night service Rev.
Wesley Graham, of Richmond, will preach.
Capt. Charles w. Lindenman, generally
known as Capt. Collier, prominent figure at
| Colonial Beach, and well-known to many in
| Alexandria and vicinity, committed suicide
| Wednesday evening by taking large dose Of
rat poison. Capt. Lindenman drew pension
of s. a month from the government, but hewas
getting too feeble to work, and the problem Of
| living on that sum worried him until he final
ly determined TO end his trouble.
Capt Henry Cattlin, editor of the first out
spoken abolitionist newspaper printed in Erie
Pa, before the war, died suddenly last even
ing aged 76 years In 1853 he edited the
True American. Its strong editorial utter
ances are said to have inspired John Brown
who was then engaged in the tannery business
in Crawford county Pennsylvania to attempt
the raid at Harper's Ferry.
Rev. Ernest Earle OsgOod, NJ. A., who was
ordained at the Theological Seminary last
Friday, and whose excellent essay at conf
mencement on Thursday was so favorably
received, will preach at Grace Church tomor-
row morning and assist the rector in the COM
muni0n services.
This morning between two and three
o'clock an accident occurred on the Della
ware & Hudson Railroad near Dresden, n.
l., the result Oi u coiiisioh Det"So"
freight train and light engine which result
ed in the death of four men and injuries to
two.
The Pope has expressed desire to consult
an American or English doctor regarding the
ailment to which he is subject. lie is greatly
encouraged since hearing of the cure recently
of Lord Salisbury, the aged former Premier
of England.
The postal inspectors having made an official
report of a shortage Of 81, 1871 in Postmaster
DE Rousses accounts, his bOndsmen met in
Camden, n. j., this morning, and arranged
for immediate payment of tina. amount.
The torpedo can factory in Cincinnati
owned by Frederick Pape, was wrecked by
an explosion this morning. Pape and several
Others have been taken from the ruins badly
injured.