Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs

A later dispatch denies the above.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES
Judge Geo. Gray leaves Wilmington,
DEL. at 1880 o'clock tonight for Bir-
mingham, Ala, where he will sit as a
member of the Alabama strike commits
sion. 4
One man was instantly killed, another
fatally and third seriously injured in
a premature explosion of blast at the
Cranberry Mines near Hazelton, Pa,
last night.
The barges Monarch and Bradley,
both coal laden and bound for Portland,
Me-. were lost in the fierce gale off
Montauk Wednesday. Their crews had
been previously taken of by the tug
Mars which had them in tow.
Before the Mortified gaze of a vast
audience at Pains "Ancient Rome
spectacle, at Chicago, boy Blondine, the |
slack wire performer, was hurled from
his perch rs feet in the air last night.
He alighted on the back of his head on
a platform. His condition is critical.
Jos. Cowan, head of the firm Of Jos.
Cowan and Company, consolidated ex,
change brokers, in New York, gave bail
today in &c., for examination next
Monday on a charge of grand larceny.
Blanche H. Smith, of Milwaukee, is the
complainant. She alleges that she gave
Cowan $53, 900 to invest and that he
converted the sum to his own use.
A Jury to try Caleb Powers for alleged
completely in the assassination Of Gov
ernor Goebel, was secured at George
town. KY, last evening. The jury as
seats consists of eleven democrats and
one republican. Immediately upon the
swearing of the jury this morning the
defendant waived formal arrangement
and pleaded not gnilty to the charge and
his counsel filed plea Of pardon.
The big beams to support the build
ing to be used by Lyman G. Smith and
Brothers for their new typewriter factory
at Syracuse, n. Y, had just been put
up when sudden gust of wind today
caught the structure and wrecked one
side of it, Sixty workmen were en-
ployed on the floor at the time, includ-
ing carpenters and iron workers. The
injured were taken to the hospitals.
No one was killed.
CONVERTS SILVER INTO GoLD?-Ru-
dolph NJ. Hunter, of Philadelphia, a
man to whom nearly 400 patents for vari-
GUS inventions have been granted, now
announces that he can transmute silver
into gold, one dollars worth of silver be-
ing converted into forty-One dollars
worth of gold, the whole process occupy
ing less than haitian hour. The process,
he explains, is a very intricate one, but
easy when all the apparatus is prepared
and in order. 81 do not propose to ex-
plain the exact process" said he "tor
that is nv. secret and that of the company
which during this fall proposes to lay
plans for the building Of large plant in
the vicinity of Philadelphia for the pur-
pose of making gold. But may tell you
that it consists in the disintegration and
separation of the ions of the baser metals
and by means of electricity regathering
them in different proportions, thus
creating a new element. | am told that
am not the first person to claim this
discovery. I do not care if that be
true. [ am told that, nothwithstand-
ing their claims, all have failed
am further told that am not using
an invention or discovery of my own,
but one made by Professor Emmons, OF
Staten Island, some few years ago.
And here is where want to differ with
my critics. Ny process is absolutely
original. The theoretical and expert
mental stages of manufacture OF gold are
already passed, and before a year Is
over we shall be making gold on a
large scale for commercial purposes.
ESCAPE FROM MORA negro, said
to be Frank Jordan, of Media, Pa, had
marrow escape from violence at the hands
of a number of farmers in the vicinity
of Beverly N. j., yesterday. Samuel
Llewellyn saw the negro coming out Of
bis house. Llewellyn investigated and
found that his house had been robbed.
He gave the alarm and gathered together
number of farmers, who searched for
the negro. He was located along Ran
cocas creek. He would not surrender
until after rife ball had shot of
piece of one of his ears. He was then
taken by the crowd and a rope was put
around his neck and the other end Of
the rope thrown over a tree. he was
told to confess, but refused, and it was
not until he was almost lifted from the
ground that he confessed to stealing
watch, ring, and some money. The
rope was then taken from his neck, and
he was marched to Beverly and lodged
in Jail.
FOREIGN NEWS.
A dispatch from Sofia says that secret orders
have been issued in Constantinople for the
Albanian troops to take up quarters in the
nrincinai villages of Macedonia and Bull
paria and 10 remain there until the rlyal
Taaadonian leaders have ceased their feuds.