Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-04-06
TELEGRAPHIo BREvITIEs.

Former Mayor Laurence I. Fell, of
Orange, N. j., died this morning.
Benny Yanger and Terry McGovern
has been practically matched to fight
next June before the club Offering the
largest purse.
President Roosevelt made speech at
Sioux Falls, 5. d., today. Later he left
for Yankton. He is reported to be in
fine condition.
The big power plant at Massena.
N. Y, which has just beenscompleted at
cost of 800, 900, 900, has been Seriously
crippled by a slide of the canal bank
IS feet long and II feet wide.
Eight hundred men and boys employed
at the Mineral Railroad and Mining
Company's Luke Fidler colliery at
Shamokin, Pa, were rendered idle today
by the strike of the leaders and drivers.
Reports from the farming districts re-
ceiyed at Worcester, Mass, this morn
ing state that the entire peach crop in
that section has been ruined by the
severe frost Saturday and Sunday nights
The American Textile Company'spant
at Pawtuckett r. L., was shut down to-
day, $50 employees being thrown out of
work. The concern manufactured ine
laces, and strike has been on since
February.
Miss Annie II. Hildebrandt, the
Orange, N. j., trained nurse. who on
July last shot Bernard j. McCallum
at his boarding house in Orange, was
sentenced to a term of six months in the
county Jail today.
Open charges of bribery are being
made by certain members of the New
York Assembly, and George B. Clark,
republican, is authority for the statement
that he intends to introduce a resolution
calling for legislative investigation.
Cotton continued to go up from the
opening of the New York exchange to-
day and at 1870 o'clock had reached
1874, with one exception the highest
quotation in many years. The market
was extraordinarily active, and the
trading was heavy.
Dispatches today announce strikes of
mechanics in Chicago and Woonsocket,
r. |. The movement in the former
place is sympathetic and that in the latter
for increased wages. Two thousand
screwmen have struck at New. Orleans
and the cotton commerce is paralyzed.
George H. Guest, a civil eng reer,
whose home is thought to be in Chicago,
and who, it is said, is a relative Of the
Duke Of Marlborough, died at Kansas City
Mo-, yesterday from the effects of NOR
phine. Whether he took the drug with
suicidal intent or by accident is a mys-
terry.
After steady decline in price for the
past week, coffee broke still fur
Their in New York today, until May sold
at 1886, ten points below the lowest
previous sale on record. Heavy liquida-
ton in June coffee caused a drop of 10
points. Over production is said to be
the cause of the fall.
Elder H. NJ. Brooks, of the Christian
Church, at Paris, Ills, has taken issue
with President RooseyeltOn the race sui
eide question. He says the one redeem
ing trait of the devotees of fashionable
society is their Discrimination to raise
children. He says that the sooner the
species becomes extinct the better.
Benjamin johnson, aged 80, farmer,
of Smithville, Pa, and his son Amos are
dying as the result of dynamite eXplo-
sion. Several sticks of the explosive
were placed under the stove in the resid-
ence this morning to dry. for use in b asst
ing stumps. Soon afterward an explo.
sion occurred almost completely demoish-
ing the house. The family were hurled
into the yard and buried beneath the
debris.
-Four men were badly hurt and scores
of Others injured in an attempt in Chi
cago last night on the part of followers
of Alderman Kunze to break up a meet
ing on behalf of Joswiakowsky, the in
dependent democratic candidate. Chairs
and bottles and stones were hurled from
the gallery upon the audience and for
short time the riot threatened to result
in several fatalities. The rioters we're
finally expelled from the hall and the
meeting was continued.