Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-06-13
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

The schooner G. III. Davis, has just
sunk off the Cleveland, Ohio, harbor
The life saving crew have gone to the
rescue of the crew.
In saloon fight at Niagara Falls last
night Joseph Winker crushed Albert
Goodroes head with an axe. GoOdroe
will propably die.
The steamer Lucania, which sailed
from New York today for Liverpool had
among her passengers the American
Rife Team who are going to compete at
Bisley, England, for the Palma trophy
The match will take place during the
week OF July IL.
BY their decision to take no radical
action in dealing with the situation at
Bernice, Pa, the executive board Of the
First Anthracite District, has made it
plain that the conservative element will
rule the sessions of the big convention to
be held on Monday.
AT 1920 o'clock last night crowd of
citizens went to the Jail at Greenyille,
Ills, to secure Ben Lee, cOlOred, ac-
cused of assaulting white woman. The
mob broke in the doors and found the
prisoner gone, the sheriff having taken
him away about seven o'clock.
All danger of a food from the Della
ware and Neversink rivers overlooking
their banks has passed. The damage
caused by the high water yesterday will
amount to several thousand dollars.
The washouts on the railroad have been
repaired.
The body of Mrs Rundstedt was
found floating in the lake at the foot of
George street, Chicago, today. She left
husband and five children. Floating
in the lake, the body of Charles W.
Boyce was found by fisherman. BOyce
was a butcher and disappeared from his
home about two months ago.
Loser in a gambling house and en-
bezzler of thousands from his employers,
Ernest Naoroji, % years old, native
of Ceylon, and cashier for Edward
Reumbe & Co., a commission house,
committed suicide in the safety deposit
vaults of the Prairie State Bank, in
Chicago yesterday evening. In the
presence of Mr.. Reumbe, and a bank
clerk, who had gone with him to safety
deposit box from which he had taken
the small amount of money he still had,
Naoroii took a revolver from his pocket,
and shot himself through the head be-
fore either companion could wrest the
weapon from him.
Henry Freeman, a witness on whom the
Commonwealth depended in the Marcum
murder case in jackson, KY, could not be
found " sterday when officers went to his
house TO serve summons. GOOdlOe COmbes,
who accompanied the officers, ran ahead and
fiaed pistol, declaring that he saw men
with revolvers ahead Of him. Ii is believed
this was a signal for Freeman TO leave the
house, as no men were found in the read. NO
action has been taken against COmbes.
Fire from some unknown cause in the store
room on the top floor Of the Victoria Hotel, at
Chicago, last night, caused panic among the
guests. though it resulted in but little loss.
1t was the opinion of many Of the guests and
of the manager that the blaze was Of incen-
diary origin.
Officers after several days hunting in biz
thicket in Montgomery county, Tex, have
located a spurious mint, where cOunterfeiting
has been under way for years. Ii is believed
vast amount of the bad money turned out
there has been distributed throughout the diff
ferent states.
A large portion Of the village Of May6eldi,
mining hamlet near Wilkesbarre, Pa, has
been flooded by the overlooking Of mountain
reservoir, and fifty families barely, escaped
with their lives. Nearly every colliery IN
the anthracite region has been damaged by
water.
Standing on the steps of the Lincoln monu-
ment. in Chicago, an unidentified man fired
bullet into his brain about $3.50 last night.
The suicide was well dressed. He was about
81 years old and had in his possession nine
cents.
The association oflieensed automobile man.
ufacturers, a new combination, will in future
control the automobile industry Of the United
States. The sum of so, 100000 is invested in
it by the manufacturers.
Two stOkers aboard the American liner
Philadelphia were run down and killed
by switch engine in Southampton today.
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