Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-06-01
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIEs.

Prof. John +. Hicks, assistant b0tanlst
of the Ohio Railroad Experiment Station,
was assassinated in Wooster, Ohio, this
morning. The assassin is unknOwn nor
has the notice been OWNED.
Captain E. 7. Waive, a native of the
United States, started from Sydney, n. S.
to day to crossed the Atlantic in boat
eleven feet nine inches in length. This
is the smallest boat ever used for an I'M
dertaking of this kind.
Leddon Flick, editor and publisher of
the Wilkesbarre, Pa, Times, and Miss
Henrietta Wridgeley, of Baltimore, Nd,
will be married tomorrow afternoon at
the residence of the brides sister, Mrs.
F. E. Camp, on Morris Heights, New
York.
Because she could not go housekeep-
ing, Mrs. Sadie Jenkins, who lives at
GIL Grant avenue, Washington, at
tempted suicide last night by taking
poison. For economical reasons her
husband was content to board, and after
a quarrel in which he refused to take
on more expense, the wife attempte'I
suicide. She will recover.
The Atlantic Yachts Clubs ocean
races started today at New York. with
six schooners participating ir a fresher
ing breeze. Estelle got over the lin
first, and the other yachts crossed in tn,
following order: Fledr de Lis, Iroquois,
Endymion, Kiwassa and Thistle. The
schooners bore toward the Fire Island
floating ligb., and thence to and around
the Northeast End lightship, and re-
turn, The prize, which is offered by
Commodore Robert E. Tod, owner of
the Thistle, is silver cup. Approach
ing the first mark, the Estelle had a
comfortable lead.
Forty carpenters, as many more
masons, and the same number of hod
carriers, went to work this morning on
the Buckthorn plant of the John A.
Roeblings Sons Company at Trenton, n.
]. This force of workmen supplants
the men who went on a strike three
weeks ago because the company refused
to place the carpenters employed at the
new Buckthorn building on the union
schedule of time and wages. Efforts
have been made by the union officials to
70 adjust the trouble that theI strikers
might return to work under absolute
union conditions, but all propositions
for an adjustment of that character,
were turned down bY the company.
President Roosevelt and party left the
Interocean Hotel, an Cheyenne, Wy,
early this morning for a drive around
the city. At ten clock the fair grounds
was reached, where an old-fashioned
brOncho buster show was given.
Wild steers were lassoed and roped |;
bicking horses were put through
their strunts and pony races were
given. During the show, President
Roosevelt was presented with a fine gated
horse by the citizens of Douglass
A fine outfit, consisting of saddle, bride,
blanket and spurs went along with the
horse. When Rag-a-Long was present
ed to Mr.. Roosevelt he was brought out
clothed in all his new accoutrements,
and at signal from his owner, bowed
and knelt in front of his new master
During ball game being played yesterday
on Blennerhasset Island, near Parkesyille, w.
Va, Pitcher Frank Tucker delivered swift
ball which struck the end Of Frank Mounts
bat and then struck him fairly over the heart.
He dropped 10 the ground and was dead when
picked up by his fellow players
The annual feast Of roses took place at the
TulpehOcken Reformed Church, near Myers
town, Pa, today, the congregation paying 10
the heirs Of Casper Wistar, red rose as a
years rental, this having been stipulated
when Wistar transferred the land 10 the con-
gregatioD 80 years ago.
Black Feather, Shawnee chieftain, lost his
case in the Supreme Court today. He wanted
the United States TO reimburse the Indians of
his tribe for individual losses sustained in the
civil war The Court held that only tribal,
not individual, losses could be considered.
AS the result Of a rear end collision between
two Philadelphia q Reading freight trains
near Shippensburg, Pa, yesterday, one man
was killed and another was seriously injured,
an engine and II freight ears were broken up
and traffic was blocked for several hours.
The Old Dominion steamship Monroe