Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-14
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

Clarence EgnOr, who, while serving
sentence in the prison at Auburn, n. y,
murdered Archibald Benedict, his keeper,
was electrocuted today.
The condition of Judge Richie, of
Baltimore, who is critically i'll at Mar
ragansett Pier, r. l., is pronounced by
his physicians this morning to be un-
changed.
Kaiser Wilhelm has arrived at Belize,
Hungary, from which place he starts on
his hunting trip with Archduke Fred
erick. When the trip is completed he
will visit Vienna.
1t is reported that three men were
killed and eight injured by the fall of
wall at the United Gas Improvement
plant in Point Breeze on the outskirts Of
Philadelphia this evening.
Mrs. Mckinley this morning drove
to Westlawn cemetery, Canton, o., and
placed on the casket of her husband a tri-
butte of flowers. There were many
from strangers and friends which came
in by express Sunday night and Mon
day.
Alexander Southman, aged % years,
died in the hospital at Chambersburg,
Pa, yesterday. He was car inspector
of Mains circus, and was under car
of the circus train Saturday night, when
the engine was started and both his legs
were cut off.
President John w. Newbury and
Treasurer Rudolph Neuman, of the de-
funct Mercantile Cooperative Bank Of
Freehold, n. j., were today convicted
of illegally conducting a banking bust
ness in connection with building and
loan association.
Isaac Mcclellan and George H. Hunt
ington, of the Columbia Supply Com
pany, who have been indicted in Wash
ington, in connection with the postal
scandals, surrendered themselves to
United States Marshal Henkel, in New
York this morning.
Tracy Barrows was shot and killed by
Frank Gale in McDonough, Chenango
county, n. Y, yesterday afternoon. The
murder was the result Of a quarrel over
Barrows wife. Gale went to Barrows'
house and was first shot by Barrows.
Gale then fired on Barrows. Gale, who
is not seriously hurt, is lodged in Jail.
Rudolph Mason, a white man 30
years old, wanted at st. Louis Mo-, for
the murder of policeman, there, is un-
der arrest at Tarboro, n. c., where he
was captured by an officer of that town
after desperate struggle, during which
Mason came near killing the officer.
There is reward of $500 for the return
of Mason TO St. Louis,
Among the passengers on the steam
ship Caracas which arrived at New
York today from Venezuelan ports was
Robert G. Morris, special counsel for the
United States government to present
claims to the Venezuelan commission.
Mr.. Morris Estimated that the report of
the commission would be issued in about
two months.
In all probability secret service agents
will soon make a number Of arrests as
result of the startling disclosures made
public yesterday that for months past
convicts of the Eastern Penitentiary, Of
Pennsylvania, have maintained a CONF
plete plant for the manufacture OF bogus
coins and have even passed them outside !
of the prison walls.
President Roosevelt this afternoon |
sent letter to Colgate Hoyt, chairman /
of the board of the Seawanhaka Yacht |
Club, telling him that he would be de-
lighted to meet Sir Thomas Upton at
the Club dinner Sept. 18th. By 50 |
doing, the President hopes to counteract |
the effect of the story printed about his
refusal to attend if the Irish Knight
were present.
After binding and gagging the night
gateman at the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad station at Sharon,
Mass, early this morning, four burglars
attacked the safe in the Office and robbed
the company of $500 in money The
robbers escaped, but two arrests on slis-
picion have been made in Mansfield.
A charge of nitro-glycerine was applied
to the safe door, and the safe itself was