Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-09
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WASHINGTON. d. C.
TELEGRAPHIo BREviTIEs.

Inc lurulCurt ldClOry VI III. ,. eaNer,
at Morgan town, Pa, was burned today.
Gordon Tompkins, 8 year old boy,
died yesterday in Memphis, Tenn, as a
result of toy pistol accident. The
weapon exploded, causing lockjaw.
Coroner TRACER, in Chicago, examined
attaches of the Iroquois Theatre, this
morning to establish general case of
gross neglect against the management.
Henry w. Peacock, Philadelphia sales
agent of the Beech Creek Coal and Coke
Company, fell at noon, from a window
on the seventh floor of the Reading
Terminal Building, in PHILADELPHIA, and
was killed instantly.
Daniel ]. Sully & Co., the first of the
big cotton firms of New York to open a
New Orleans office since New Orleans
took the lead in cotton future trading,
have taken possession of a handsome
suite in the new Herbina building.
Ten pounds Of quartz, which is 80 per
cent. pure gold, has been taken from a
vein just struck in the Badger mine in
the Blue River district, in Oregon. The
vein is about an inch wide, and the ore
taken out assays 1892, 900 to the ton
President Lynch of the International
Typographical Union, has written letter
to the striking type founders in Boston
advising them to return to work on the
best terms they can secure. Similar
letters we're sent to strikers in Philadel-
phia, Cincinnati, New York and st.
Louis.
A delegation of forty prominent local
democrats will leave Chicago for Wash
ington to push Chicago's claims for the
democratic convention. The democratic
national committee will meet in Wash
ington on Thursday for the purpose of
naming the date and place for the next
gathering of delegates.
Seventy-fye st. Louis stockholders of
the United States Steel corporation met
last night to organize movement to get
representation on the Board of Directors.
Il. developed that about 300 st. Louis
spectators and investors had lost SO, 000,-
900 to $1,000, 600 as result of the re-
cent slump in the steel stock.
Lilywhite republican leaders in Ala
bama have been advised that just
after Senator Hanna's reelection to the
United States Senate in Ohio, next week,
big banquet will be given in his honor,
and the occasion will be utilized for the
launching of his Presidential boom in
force. Senator Hanna returned to
Cleveland from Chicago today. When
asked about the report he said al know
nothing about that absurd story. There
is absolutely no foundation whatever FOR
any such report"
There was an obstinate FIRE in the new Stock
Exchange building on Broad street, New
York. early this morning, and though the
damage did not exceed 81 900, it looked for a
time as though serious havoc would be
wrought by the blaze. The blaze started in
the battery room of the Western Union tele-
graph and cable Office, which was in the base
ment; When the fire fighters arrived they
found some difficulty in reaching the blaze,
owing to the network Of cables. Finally the
hose lines were taken down the elevator shafts
and the fire extinguished. The Western
Union officials say the lines burned out will
not seriously interfere with the service.
Mrs: j, Pinekney Smith, founder Of the
Lohl Louisiana Division, Daughter Of the
Confederacy, in lengthy statement publish
Ell in New Orleans today, condemns The ac-
tion Of the Savannah Chapter OF Daughters
which refused 10 place wreath on the tomb
Of General Longstreet.
The old Odd Fellows Building, adjoining
The old City Hall, in Lowell, Mass, was
Quilted by FIRE early this morning. Loss s5o,-
)00.