Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

A quaTtette Of notorious criminals es-
capped from Jail at Jackson, Tenn, at
$3.50 o'clock this morning.
Yale has decided not to send team
to London to compete in a track meet
with the Cambridge team in July.
Irene Max, little girl, was run down
and killed in st. Paul, MINI yesterday
evening by an automobile containing
two young men and two women.
William Nellsmith, a Philadelphia
policeman, attached TO the Germantown
station, was today convicted of house
robbery. He was trapped in the night
after forcing entrance into a saloon on
his beat and which had been robbed
several times of money and liquors.
ave predict that we shall see the
time when we will regard the contract
breaker, whether member or non-mem-
Der with as much contempt as we do the
scab." When these words of Grand
Master Morrissey rang out clear and
strong Yesterday afternoon in the con-
vention of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen at Denver, ColJ,all the dele
gates rose to their feet with a prolonged
shout that echoed for fully five minutes.
A freight train on the Pennsylvania railroad
crashed into a derailed freight in the lower
end of Newark, n. j., this morning, killing
two laborers who were at work helping re-
place the derailed train, injuring five others
and badly scalding the engineer and fireman
of the colliding locomotive.
Archie Brown, who was arrested in Massil-
Ion, o., Thursday, has been positively identi-
fed by Hazel Wilson, aged 10, as her assail-
ant. Brown is 10 years old and will neither
deny nor admit the charge. 1t is feared
that an attempt will be made to lynch the
young man.
Mrs. Rachel Roosevelt, wife of the Presi-
dent. was in Boston this morning for more
than an hour on the way to GrOtOn to see her
son. Theodore. graduate from the GrOtOn
school. Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by her
sister, Mrs. w. S. Cowles, and maid, left at
$50 for Groton,
Judgment for $1,000 damages against
George J. Zoll owner of dog which went
mad and bit several children at Louisville,
KY, was returned yesterday in favor Of
Theresa Stengel, aged II, one Of the victims.
Two other suits for damages are pending.
In a battle between an automobile and
bull, near Urbana, ILL.,, the animal got the
worst of it and fled. lie made determined
effort to smash the machine, and while he
damaged it somewhat he was clearly licked.
By dropping a lighted lamp, which set her
clothing on fire, Mrs. George Grothe was
burned TO death at York, Pa, this morning,
before she could be rescued by the neigh
L. no 40 "a har kurnino az O uindo4r
Mysterious" Billy Smith lost to Joe Wal
lott. colored, in the fourth round Of what was
10 have been twenty round contest at Port
land. Oregon, last night. Smith broke his
hand in the third round.
The threatened great textile strike is on in
the KensingtOn mill district, in Philadelphia.
BY Monday morning ii is expected that
100. 600 workers will be out. The employees
ask 55-hour week.
The investigation into the enforced slavery
of negroes in Alabama has developed one
death from i'll treatment and the arrest Of an
agent who is accused of plotting to sell ne
groes into peonage.
The strike at the sulphite mill Of the Union
Bag and Paper Co. at Fenimore, \. Y, has
ended, the strikers having waived all demands
and requested that they they be allowed to
return to work.
There are now four bad forest fires burning
in the timber lands of Maine. Nothing save
a heavy rain will stop the fires. Nothing in
the history of Maine parallels the drought of
this spring.
James Brady, marketman Of BrushtO6, n.
Y, was assaulted by an unknown person last
night. His skull was crushed in near the
base of the brain, and he was robbed of $50.
Nat c. Goodwin, the actor, denies that his
wife, Maxine Elliott, is to bring an action for
separation or divorce at the end Of the season.
A fire in the Perkins shoe machinery. plant
in Boston last night, resulted in loss OF
s1On 600 and the ininrY of SIX fremen.