Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-04-25
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run through Montana and entered
Wyoming without special incident
Miss Florence Bradley, daughter of
millionaire ]. Harley Bradley, Of Chi
cago, has renowned society for the stage.
Mrs. G. II. Duyan, was robbed of
pocket book, near her home in Chicago
last evening, by man who was pursed
and captured by 'officers.
About 5, 900 people were thrown into
panic at the Peoria, Ills, skating rink
last night by an alarm of fire and up
wards of two dozen were injured in the
rush to get out of the building.
John Ryan, lately the head of a get
rich quick turf syndicate, has been max
ing series Of phenomenal plays at the
roulette wheel in West Baden, Ind. In
three nights play he is more than $lO,-
900 winner.
The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance of Ambrose p. Mullin, the
wealthy Chicago shoe dealer, which for
weeks baffled the police, was partially
cleared up yesterday by the finding Of
his body In the Chicago river.
In front of the Rochester apartment
building in Chicago, Mrs. Barber, cashier
at the Great Northern Hotel, was held
UP and. robbed by two men last night.
Diamond rings, and watch valued at
$500, was taken in addition to purse.
A wild woman now infesting the woods
about Quogue and Good Ground, near
East Port, N. Y, is being eagerly
sought by parties of men. Women and
children are intensely alarmed at the
maniac's presence and seldom venture
out. The woman is described as
stubby, short haired, and nOseless.
A dispatch from Asbeyille, N. c.,
says infatuated men are today scour-
ing the surrounding country in search of
man named Harris, who last night
criminally assaulted an 11-year-old child
of the Galloway family. The assault
was unspeakably brutal as it was COM
mitted while the child was sick in bed.
E. L. Lynch, well known attorney
of Woodsfeld, O., was horsewhipped in
that city Thursday by Mrs. Maggie
Nauer. Mrs. Nauer clai ms that the
attorney had attempted to defame her
Character. She met Lynch in the street
and attacked him. The attorney seized
her and choked her until she promised
to desist.
Rufus Cantrell, and members of bis
gang, were sentenced to the penitentiary
for from five to ten years in lndianapo-
lis, Ind, this morning. The case against
DIR. Alexander, DR.. Lott, and DR..
Weight will be dismissed as the ghouls
refused to testify against them. This
ends for good the indianapolis grave
robbing sensation of the last six months
The long police search into the muir
der of Benedtto Madonna, whose body
was found stuffed in a barrel in New
York, has not been without its turning,
and today damaging evidence against
one of the thirteen counterfeiters was
obtained tending to connect Tomaso
Petto, an Italian clothing presser, with
the crime. Petto isnow in the House OF
Detention.
VIM. Florence, an employee Of the East
Tennessee Telephone Company, met
death while engaged in blasting post holes
Yesterday near Paris, KY. He had in
his pocket two stocks of dynamite
and battery attached. The battery
dragged on the ground while he walked
toward the hole and catching on some
thing caused it to go off. His whole left
side was torn to pieces.
Three men robbed the postOf6ce at
Ferguson, six miles west of st. Louis
about $50 this morning. They blew
the safe and the explosion which wrecked
the building, aroused the citizens. The
robbers were heavily armed and several
hundreds shots were exchanged with the
posse which pursued them to within a
mile of the city. The robbers booty
amounted to only about 5000.
Chicago may have Malta mystery TO
solve. A. Baffetti, of No. n Indiana
street, told the police yesterday he was not
satisfied that the two Italians who were
asphyxiated by gas in the Northwestern
Hotel, 80 Wells street, Monday night,
came to their death by accident.
Baffetti said the correct names of the two
men we're Giacomo Morelli and Enrico
Tamei, and the former was sculptor of
some reputation in Italy, and the other
was stone engrayer.