Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

Governor Murphy today called a
special session of the New Jersey legis-
lature for October 18th, to remedy the
school muddle.
The grand jury of Wilmington, Del,
today ignored the bills against the men
charged with recently lynching a negro
rayisher and murderer.
\ Chesapeake & Ohio passenger train
due in Cincinnati at five clock this
evening, vas wrecked at Cotton Hill,
w. Va No particulars have been re-
ceiyed.
Influential interests in Norfolk &
Western are authority for the statement
that Vice President Johnson will be
elected President at the annual meeting
in Roanake on October s.
The condition of Archbishop Kahn, Of
St. Louis, who is under treatment at
Baltimore, was greatly improved last
night, and it was practically decided
that no operation for appendicitis would
be performed.
A friend of Mr.. Geo. w. Vanderbilt
is authority for the statement that Mr..
Vanderbilt's presence in Asheville, n,
c., this week is due to the fact that he
has been robbed of 80, 600 by Office en-
ployes on his BiltmOre est ate.
The Brown pool in New York in Sep
TENDER cotton forced the shorts to cover
their contracts this morning in a hurry
and secure the commodity for this month
which sold for 10 cents. This is the new
high for September cotton, this year.
The butchers of the Chicago stock
yards, representing 10000 members,
voted last night to refuse the demand OF
the packers that the amount of work be
increased for an increase in wages. A
general strike is probable if the increase
is denied.
Mr.. Benjamin f, Zimmerman, aged
81 years, the oldest living past Grand
Master of Odd Fellows, of which he
has been a member for over half cen
fury, is lying critically i'll at his home
in Baltimore from weakness due to his
age
Notices have been posted at all of the
collieres of the Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western Company, ordering the men
on half time until further notice. This
will probably continue during the month
of October. The company operates
twenty-one collieries employing IL, 200
men.
An anti-screen ordinance went into
effect in the village of Dresden, o.,
Saturday night. Men entering the back
doors of the four saloons in the village
were supplied with false faces with an
enlarged mouth. The masks made an
effective covering. Others BROUGHT UNI
brellas and drank under their shetering
spread of canvas.
Col. Buchan left Toronto Ont, with
a detachment of Royal Canadian Dra-
goons today for Sault Ste Marie, and
was followed by seventy men drawn from
the Toronto regiments and under COM
mand of three officers. The militia was
sent in answer to an urgent appeal from
Col. Elliott, of the 9th regiment of the
500. who stated that the force now there
could not maintain. order.
Covered with mud and grease and
almost frozen by the rush OF cold night
air Bert Holcomb, a Hartford, Conn,
chauffeur, arrived in Cleveland, Ohio,
this morning at $40 on a record break
ing trip from Chicago to New York.
Holcomb was in charge of a "A horse
power touring car which is expected to
cover the distance between Chicago and
New York in forty-eight hours. The
run to Cleveland was made in twenty
hours.
The builders trial Of the battleship Mis-
souri, at Newport News, Va, has been fixed
for next Saturday