Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-12-30
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

The Philadelphia police have just dis
covered that man was found today In
third story room at 324 Callowhill
street, with his head chopped off. His
brother is said to be under arrest.
Tho Board of Managers Of the Della
ware & Hudson Railroad Company, has
declared dividend of 7 per cent. for
1904, payable out of this years earnings,
and payable in frour quarterly install
ments.
Aaron Wolf, who for number OF
years conducted large department store
in Jersey City, N. j., was arrested this
afternoon on charge of conspiring to
kdelraud wholesale. and retail dealers in
New York. Anticipating the appoint
ment of a receiver, Wolf recently con-
veyed the store, stock, and his real
estate holdings to relatives.
The marriage of Miss Caroline Green Nit
chell to Rev. Arson Phelps Stokes, jr., took
place at st. Demands Church, Bernardsville,
y. j., at noon today. The wedding guests
were brought TO New York on a special tram.
After short wedding trip in the South, Mr..
and Mrs. Stokes will return TO Mr.. Stokes 5
home in New Haven, where they will reside.
Going to a telephone, Frederick Lindstrom,
for fourteen years a trusted employe and lat
terly cashier for Friend, Moss Morris,
wholesale wooden merchants, at Chicago, yes
terday called up his employers and confessed
that he was an embezzler. He said that he
had stolen $4,000 and that the money had
been wagered on race horses.
VIM. II. Bowling, the agent Of the Adams
Express Company in Rock Hill, Conn, was
found lying unconscious in the snow few
rods from his home this morning. He was
half frozen and there was large cash in his
forehead and $4.f5 in money belonging to the
Express Company when he left the house was
missing.
Dashing over burning bridge near Crooks
town, Mimi, in light locomotive at the risk
of the lives Of himself and his fireman, Engi-
neer Greenhough yesterday succeeded in
warning the approaching limited Of its dan
ger and prevented the heavy train from be-
ing plunged into the Mouse river.
Professor Frances f. White, for many
years prominent in Philadelphia medical
circles, died yesterday in Jamaica Plain,
Mass. She was graduate Of the Woman
Medical College of Pennsylvania, in which
she later became professor of physiology.
Charles Haggerty, one of the oldest men,
bers of the Mobile. Ala. police force, was
shot and killed early this morning by man
whom he had under arrest. The murderer
escaped. Haggerty recently had an encounter
with two desperate men, killing one Of them.
Fireihis morning at Glassport, a suburb of
McKeespOrt, Pa, destroyed the borough's
only school building. 1t is supported that
party of tramps lodged in the frame addition
last night and left burning embers, so that
shavings on the floor became ignited.
1t is officially announced in New York that
President Williams has resigned from the
SeabOard Air Line and that Vice President
Barr had been elected to succeed him.
Mrs. Mary Holmes Fuller, wife Of Peter
Fuller, of Palatine Bridge, near Amsterdam,
N. Y, is dead from general debility. She was
born in Connecticut 100 years ago.
August Russell, the self-confessed murderer
of Theresa Heating, was declared insane to-
day by commission in Rochester, n. Y.
William J. Bryan was passenger on the
Celtic, which sailed from Liverpool for New
York today.