Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-03
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIEs

The Reading Railway is considering
the establishment of commercial coal
yards in cities along its lines.
Theobald Chartran, the renowned
French artist, was an arrival on the
steamship La lorraine in New York
today. Chartran comes to paint the
portraits of many Americans, whose
names he refuses to disclose.
Mary G. DAILY, a pretty sixteen-year-
old girl, was struck by a train on the
Greenwood Lake branch of the Erie
Railway today near Forest Hill station,
n. j., and instantly killed. She was
crossing the tracks at the time.
Four persons were injured and many
others had narrow escapes last night
when a Chicago electric car collided
with cable car. The cable car was
partly demolished and all Of the injured
persons were on that car.
The Chicago & Milwaukee Railway
Company's property, between Evanston
and Waukegan, was yesterday conveyed
by deed to the Chicago and Mil
waukee Railroad Company, the con-
sideration being placed at SO, 400, 900.
A monstrosity in the calf line died at
Hot Springs, Va, today. The beast
had two mouths and three eyes. In
other respects the body was natural.
Ben Layman, of Hot Springs, owned
the animal. 1t succumbed to the cold.
As further evidence of the ia ct that
the Standard Oil Company has acquired
control of the southern oil field, notice
has been received by the Lone Star and
Crescent oil companies that it would not
deliver fuel in New Orleans after jan
uary LIST,
The trappers yesterday evening while
looking after their traps in the woods on
farm near the village of Harveysburg,
Ohio, found woman lying outstretched
on the snow dead with a bullet hole
through her breast aad another through
the head. Later il proved to he the
young wife of Mayor Scrcggin, of the
town. She had left note saying that
she had gone for good.
Officers on the French liner La Tor
raine, which arrived at New York today,
tell of an unusual experience at sea on
Tuesday. Early in the morning huge
wave boarded ship, smashed the
windows of the smoking room, and
flooded the room. When the passengers
in the smoking room, after
breakfast, they found a thin sheet of ice
covering the floor and for time they
amused themselves by sliding on the ice.
The Adams Express Company is
holding for transportation charges the
body of Andrew Pfaum, private Of the
18th regiment United States army, who
died in the Philippines in March last.
The body arrived at Elizabeth, n. j..
yesterday and the unpaid express bill
from Sgi Francisco, is $l15. IS. The
body was delivered to an undertaken
under promise that burial is not to take
place until the express claim is paid.
A brother of deceased has applied to the
War Department for relief.
The Spanish ship Remedies Pascual, from
Buenos, Ayers, for New York, with hides,
went ashore near Atlantic City, N. j., in a
heavy fog early this morning. The ship |
struck heavily and was seriously damaged. |
1t is likely that she viii break up. Life cav
FRS boarded the wreck in a surf-boat and |
took the crew of q men ashore
Herman Helsher, the anarchist, who shot !
Voltarine de Cleyre, in Philadelphia, was ar
aligned today and held under 81 800 bail for
,ourt. Miss De Cleyre was asked il she rec
,gnized the prisoner as the man who had
hot her, and she answered: mo. He does
lot look anything like him."