Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-04-04
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

Charles NJ. Schwab, bought five
81 900 watches abroad to give to tn,
five most efficient superintendent Of th'
steel trust.
The American Telephone and Tele
graph Company, of New York, has flee
certificate with the Secretary of State,
increasing its capital stock from $3.50,
900, 900 to $3.50, 900, 600.
Two-thirds of the business section Of
Salisbury, Conn.,, was wiped out by fire
this morning. Seven buildings were
burned including two large stores anC
the postoffice aud the loss is estimated al
from $50, 900 te $40, 900.
With the exception of a portion of the
working rules proposed, the Wabash
Railroad and its firemen and trainsmen
have reat hed an agreement. 1t is be-
ieved that but little difficulty will be
experienced in reaching a satisfactory
settlement.
A heavy storm suddenly developed
into a furry of snow in New York at
noon today. Yesterday was extremely
warm and there was wholesale discard
ing of Overcoats. The change came
with cold west wind. The fall lasted
some time. Snow also fell in other
parts of New York today; also in Con-
necticut and Massachusetts,.
After being out twenty hours, the jury
at Rutland, VT, today, in the case of
the +. r. Patch Manufacturing Com
pany, against Protection Lodge of Me-
chanics for $4,000 damages for alleged
unlawful acts connected with the strike
at the Patch plant, begun May 20, 1902,
returned verdict for 80, 500 in favor
of the F. r. Patch Manufacturing Com.
pany.
William j. Hartman, brother Of
Edward H. Hartman, the western rail-
road magnate, died early this morning
from complication of diseases at the
Plaza Hotel, New YoEk. He was 4s
years of age and was once engaged to
Miss Anna Gould, daughter of the late
Jay Gould, now the Countess de Castel-
lane, but the engagement was broken
off by mutual consent.
News was received at Jacksonville,
Fla, today that the steamer John bill
was sunk off the coast of North Carolina,
on April l. The news came from Cap
tain Jones, who with six of his crew
were picked off the sinking steamer by
the Southern Pacific steamer Excelsior.
Captain Jones wires that five of his crew
were drowned. His telegram says the
vessel was broken up and abandoned but
does not state the cause.
Tom Jenkins, of Cleveland, at Che Arsenal
in Buffalo, N. Y, last night, before an audi
ence of 5000 persons, regaine1 the heavy.
weight wrestling championship of the world
by defeating Dan s. Mcleod, of Hamilton,
Canada, who won it from jenkins several
months ago at Worcester.
The new law against betting on horseraces
or selling pools in Texas is to be attacked in
the courts by the Western Union Telegraph
Company. If the new law stands in the
Courts it means loss of nearly halfa million
dollars revenue In Texas annually.
No trace of Adolph Openheym, the million
aire silk merchant, who disappeared from
New York Monday, has yet been found. The
family has increased the reward for trace Of
him from s., 900 to 5000
Men and firms of high standing in the
Chicago board of trade and in brokerage and
financial circles were yesterday indicted by
the grand jury on charges Of bucket shopping.
A dispatch from Chicago says that the
locomotive plant of the Pease Corporation,
at Hegewisch, was placed in the hands Of
receiver yesterday.