Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-04-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

At Joint session of local unions rep
resenting Is, 900 locked out mine work
ers, in the MahanOy and Shenandoah
Valleys, held in Mabanoy City, Pa,
this morning, it was agreed to accept the
Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron
Company's Interpretation Of the Satu.-
day short work days. As result all
collieries will resume work tomorrow
morning, after an idleness of four days.
The warning factions al the Hymelia
Crevasse have at last declared peace,
and after the loss of $40, 1000, 600 has
been incurred will unite to effectually
close the fearful gap. The residents
of neighborhood comprising the wealth.
est planters in the Mississippi Valley,
differed as to the methods that should
be employed to repair the damage to the
levee, and in the meantime the swollen
stream ate a hold amile wide. Harmony
was effected late last night, and this
morning, thousands of men are at the
scene battling with the waters.
The residents of several of the south
ern towns in Bennington and Windham
counties, VT, have for several months
been experiencing severe attack OF
gold fever and have made investments
in supposed gold bearing properties.
Many persons who have bought claims
have sent samples of the rock to Pro-
lessor Mason, of the Rensselaer, Poly
tecbnic Institute, Of Troy. In every
case his replies have unfayorable and he
has done his best to discourage conf
dence in any profit from gold mining in
Vermont Thousands of dollars have
been thrown away during the last Is
months in wildcat mining enterprises.
Sixteen families were driven to the street at
2 O'Clock this morning by an apartment house
fire in Chicago, which totally wrecked the
structure. Most of the tenants were asleep
and barely escaped with their lives. The loss
on the building is estimated at $4,000. Fire
swept through the South Side Lumber Com
pany's yard, at 22nd street and Ashland
avenue, last night, causing loss estimated az
$4,000 A barn, in which we're stored sixteen
wagons, was destroyed, the horses escaping.
Sixty empty freight cars in the yard were
consumed.
Serious labor troubles at the leyee front are
imminent in New Orleans. 1t is likely that
1900 men will have gone on strike before
nightfall. The shipping agents state. that
they have all the necessary labor and that
probably by noon today, or at the latest by
Tomorrow morning, cotton would be loaded.
The police department will be asked to give
protection TO non-union men, and long siege
seems at hand.
Col. J. K. Hickey, originator Of the now
famous "gin Hickey" drink, died this morn
ing at his residence in New York Of heart
disease, aged 30 years. There were rumOrs
that the colonel had committed suicide and
partially emptied bottle Of carbolic acid was
found in his pocket but DR.. Finch, who was
called, said death was due to natural causes.
lie had been i'll for a month.
New Jersey Hall, the State laboratory of
the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment
Station, one Of the largest and best equipped
buildings on the campus of Rutgers Colleges
New Brunswick, n. j., was this morning al
most destroyed by fire. The loss will amount
TO nearly 100000.
At a signal from their business agent $50
deaf mute electrical workers in the automatic
electric company, in Chicago, yesterday in
augurated the first deaf mute strike on record.
lufcc HOufo idSck TIE pldDtS employing dlhOot
1000 persons. was closed down.
The report to the legislature of the Mas
sachusetts State Board Of Arbitration is that
the cotton mills with the exception Of the
Lawrence manufacturing company, cannot
afford to increase the wages Of their opera
tives.
John N. Crawford, literary editor of the
Chicago Evening Journal, died yesterday
from pneumonia, aged SO years.