Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-06-16
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

w. b. Williams, 26 years old, section
master Of the Seaboard Air Line, of Rich
mond, committed suicide at Grandy,
Brunswick county, today.
John w. Gates, the well known Wall
street operator, was passenger on the
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm III which ar
rived in New York today from South
ampton.
A battle with knives and revolvers
said to have been melted by jealousy for
the favor of girl, took place in Wolsey
street, Cleveland, o., last night, ard as
a result one of the combatants lies at the
hospital probably fatally stabbed and a
boy, who was watching the affair from
the second story window of his home is
dying, the physician, thinks, from
wound which bullet inflicted.
w. Spencer, the negro policy runner who
Yesterday shot and killed Superintendent Me-
Farlane, of the anti-policy society, in the
criminal court building, in New York, was
arraigned before Recorder Golf today and
pleaded not guilty. His trial was set for
June 30. District Attorney Jerome, who had
the murderer indicted one hour after his
crime. wanted the trial to begin next Monday,
but the Judge ruled that the prisoners counsel
should have more time
At Brazil. Ind, last night, Mrs NJ. f.
Neese. widow, narrowly escaped death from
an Internal machine, which exploded In her
arms. Mrs. Neese noticed queer shaped box
living on her front porch with string attach
ed TO it. When she raised ii by the string
L Ill .ar,oralt~ ht,Fufner bar
arms and chest and rendering her unconscious
for some time.
An attempt was made to wreck the court
house at Petersburg. Ind, at o'clock yester-
day morning. Eight sticks of dynamite and
a keg of powder connected by fuse were
placed under the hallway Of the building and
the fuse lighted. The powder exploded, but
the dynamite failed 10 90 of. The plastering
in the rooms above was torn of and the walls
shattered.
With curse on his lips for a woman whose
identity remains a mystery 20 the police,
man believed TO be Daniel Riley placed vial
of carbolic acid to his lips, In Chicago, last
night. and drank the contents. He was
Standing at 69th and Halsted streets. He was
carried into drugstore but physician was
unable to save his life.
Water is 1ain pouring through the Holly
brook crevasse at Lake Providence, La, as o
result of the rising in the river due TO the st.
Louis flood. As only rise Of two feet is
deemed possible the overflow cannot be of any
great duration, although the land being in
undated is the very finest cotton country in
the South.
Frank Dean, second vice president Of the
SeabOard National Bank, Of New York, shot
and killed himself in the cellar Of his home
at Orange, n. j., this morning. The only
reason so far assigned for the act is that Mrs.
Dean is in i'll health and that his 12-year-old
son is critically i'll from pneumonia.
The budget estimates of NJ. Rouyier, the
minister of finance of France, were announc-
ed by the minister today. The deficit Is
placed at 5S,000,0O0 francs. To avoid new
taxes, he said, measures are being taken to
augment the yield of the present taxation.
If the breeezs DO not blow too strong and il
is not raining the Reliance, Constitution and
Columbia will meet tomorrow in the regetta
of the Larchmont Yacht Club.
Henry Jesup, professor Of botany &c Dart
mouth College from 1877 to 1899, is dead. He
was II years Of age.