Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-10-27
rELEGRAPHIo BREvITIEs.

A large section Of the business portion
of Chase City, Va, was DESTROYED by fire
today. Ten business houses were burned.
Runs are in progress on the Missis-
sippi Valley and Mercantile Trust Com
panies, two of the strongest financial
institutions in st. Louis.
Notice has been posted in the Cohoes
Tube Works, at Troy, n. Y, which is
a part of the United States Steel Cor
poration, that the plant would close Sat
urday night.
The Stella Pynites mines. located al
Hermen, N. Y, which were opened
few years ago by New York parties, who
later went into bankruptcy, have been
abandoned and all the machinery is being
taken out. The mines have not been
operated the last two years.
A brakeman on the Norfolk & Western
Railway reports at Tazewell, Va, today
that the body of Earnest l.. VENT, son
of the Philadelphia millionaire, has been
found mile from where the horse on
which he was riding was found. The
young man had been shot and instantly
killed.
Officer of the Rock Island, st. Louis
and San Francisco and Chicago & East
ern Illinois, railroads. in thirty leading
cities of the country and at 120 smaller
points, are be be consolidated and all
business will be transacted from one joint
Office under the management of the Rock
Island system.
A calf which was born in the town Of Pei
ham, N. H., two days ago, had two heads,
| two tails aud six legs, one of the legs having
three boofs The calf, which weighed 20
pounds, had TO be killed to save its mother, a
| valuable milk COW. the carcass having been
sold to physician for exhibition purposes.
! A dispatch from Chicago says oyertures of
peace made to the National Metal Trades AS
ISOLATION by the International Association of
Machinists have been rejected and officials of
the latter threaten to call out sixty thousand
men in the United States to force the making
Of an agreement
The provost guard stationed at Jackson,
KY, last night gave minstrel show to a
packed house, at the courthouse. A notable
fact was the presence of the feud leaders on
various sides who mingled with the crowd.
Nine steamers en- route to the United States
from Dawson, N w. t., have been stuck in
the ice jams and it is feared they will be
crushed. Three carry perishables worth
| 100000 The total cargoes are estimated TO
be worth 100000.
Disgraced by the charge of desertion
brought By his wife, Thomas F. Oulette, a
travelling salesman, threw himself in front OF
an elevated train in New York early this
morning. lie was ground to pieces.
| A riot almost occurred at the penitentiary
at Folsom, CAL, yesterday. when guard
knocked down a convict. Three hundred
convicts made rush for the guard and tried
to lynch him, bnt he escaped.
Because he voted for the Wabash Railroad
franchise, Councilman Riley, of Grafton. W
Va, conductor on the Baltimore Il Ohio
Railroad, was discharged by the latter COM
pany.
John F. Elk collapsed from the cold and
exhaustion near Bellevue Hospital, New
York, last night. His life might have been
saved he'd any one seen him fall
The first snow flakes of the season, in Phila-
delphia, fell at S:i5 this morning They were
few, but conditions seem TO indicate snow
fall before long.