Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-25
TELEGRAPHIO BREvITIEs.

In the yacht races today Reliance beat
Columbia and Constitution and Sham
rock, III beat Shamrock |.
AS the result of fight at La Toilette,
Tenn, last night, growing out of the
transfer of brewery agency, two men
and boy were killed.
The Commercial Hotel at Nashville,
Tenn, was partially destroyed by fire
early this morning. There were a num-
Der of thrilling escapes by the fifty
guests, many women and children being
carried down ladders by the fremen.
Russell Sage, who has been in poor
health for some months, was seized with
an attack of Vertigo in his Office in New
York this morning, and was obliged to
call for assistance. When he recovered.
he refused the opportunities of his
friends that he 60 home and rest. He
said he deemed it his duty, in the face
of the rich mans panic, to remain at
business.
A dispatch received at the DEF art
ment of Justice this morning from
Mountain Lake Park, Nd, announces
the death at that place of Maj. Frank
Strong, the general agent of the de-
partment in charge of all property at
the penitentiaries, etc. Maj. Strong
was appointed to the position from New
York State during President Clevelands
first administration.
The Mongolia, the largest steamship ever
built on the Delaware river, was success
fully launched from the yard Of the New
York bodybuilding Company at Camden, n.
j., this afternoon, in the preseLce ofnatiOnal,
State, county and city officials and a large
number of distinguished guests. She is in
tended TO run between San Francisco, the
Hawaiian Islands, and China and Japan.
The dimensions are, length, 6l5 feet inches
breadth, 60 feet depth 81 feet 3 inches in
dicated horse power, 1910 O. speed Is knots
Henry Shotz, carpenter, of Soudertown,
Pa, was struck by Reading Railway train
in the Philadelphia city limits this morning.
While patrol wagon was taking him 10 the
Samaritan hospital, the conveyance was run
down by trolly car. Shotz was taken from
the wreck dead 1t is not known whether he
was killed by the train or in the collision.
Three policemen, the trolley motorman, and
a passenger were hurt. There was a panic in
the car.
Caught in the crash in Wall street, which
had swept everything away, and facing the
fact that instead Of the handsome fortune he
had few weeks ago, he was now practically
penniless, DIR. Louis Shaw, fashionable den
fist Of Brooklyn, to-day shot and killed him
self. He had speculated heavily, and his
losses will exceed $4,000.
Iafnaa Nuoonf pbfIa In a fri,bt c.o,,, a
dream, leaped out Of a second-stOry window at
Chicago early this morning and sustained in
juries that may prove fatal. In his plunge he
fell on picket fence and one of the pickets
penetrated his right lung, and his jaw was
broken in two places.
While resisting arrest this morning Thomas
Daniels, a mOOnshiner, shot Chief of Police
King, of Stonega. w. Va, in the breast fatally
him. Drniels was then shot ami
killed by another officer. The other members
Of the gang were captured in the raid and
placed in Jail.
j. Nj. Keat0n, Carter county (Tenn.)
farmer, died last night as the result of low
IN the head with an axe, dealt by his young
step son, Joseph Pickens. Keaton had slapped
the boy and threatened to kill his mother.
when Pickens struck the fatal blow.
A child weighing twenty pounds was born
. Mrs. Frank i. Bowers, Of West Medford,
Mass, yesterday, establishing what physicians
i long experience say is a record. The child
lied of strangulation Immediately after birth.
Five boys and two men were seriously IN
ured by the explosion Of three cans of powder.
shich they were hauling this morning. The
powder had just been loaded in wagon nc
Vest Newton, Pa.
Judge Ellery A. Hibbard, one of the abIest
md most successful practitioners and best
Snown lawyers in New Hampshire, died at
.aconia to-day.
On arriving at West Point this evening, as
General Corbin's gnest, Sir Thomas Upton
will witness parade by the cadets in his
lonor.