Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-11
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs

The next Typographical Union con-
ventlon will be held in Toronto.
At the Harland & Hollingsworth Com
pany's shipyard, at Wilmington, Del. =,
today, the steel ferry boat, Elizabeth,
built for the Central Railroad of New
Jersey, was launched.
Union butchers employed by packing
firms in New York allied with the pack
ing firms who went on strike yesterday
morning In sympathy with their Chicago
brethren, are in an unhappy frame OF
mind today because OF the large number
of strike breakers that have been already
put to work. In anticipation of trouble
the police guard in the vicinity of the
packing houses has been doubled.
The most serious automobile accident
of the season occurred at Newport. r. l.,
this morning, when r. Livingston
Beeckman's &c., forty horse power
Mercedes, containing four of his sell
wants, flew down the avenue towards the
Beeckman villa. When they reached
the abrupt turn at the Gerry place the
machine skidded across tie roadway in
the mud, struck the curb, overturned
and then smashed into the stone wall
which is now bespattered with blood.
Three of the men were badly hurt and
the fourth occupant received slight
seal Up wound.
BENJAMIN Franklin Fridley Needhsm,
10 years old, Of Cleveland, o., has a
remarkable decision to make. The lads
father is +. F. Needham, but il Benja-
min Franklin goes to live with him he
thereby forfeits an estate worth 5000, =
600, which was left him by his mother.
Ben's father and mother were divorced
four years ago. When the latter died,
few months afterward, she willed her
entire estate to the boy on the condition
named, that he stay away from his
father. The boys father has brought
habeas corpus proceedings in common
pleas court to secure possession of him,
so that the decision between his father
and his fortune may rest with other
hands than Benjamin Franklin's.
The work on the officers mess building at
the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Nd, was de-
layed several hours yesterday by strike
among the men who are employed on that
building. The trouble arose out Of the EN-
ployment Of non.uniOn painter. After sew.
eral hours delay an agreement was arrived
at between employers and employees which
resulted In the non-union man leaving.
Rev. T. s. Leland. pastor Of the Methodist
Church, in Victor, Col, was waited upon by
a committee Of three Wednesday, and ordered
10 leave town. The preacher is still there.
Non-union men object to the parson as a re-
suit of his utterances on the mine strike. A
score Of heavily armed men are prepared to
protect the pastor.
The Security Trust aud Safe Deposit Com
pany, of Wilmington, has been appointed re-
ceiyer for the United States Button Com
pany, which was yesterday adjudged an in
voluntary bankrupt. The company has assets
Of 81 10000
Despondent and unable TO obtain work, in
strange land, Wolf Gam and his young
wife committed suicide by: inhaliRg iilumi-
mating gas in their room on Norfolk street,
New York, this morning. GAM and his wife
came 10 this country two weeks ago. They
were unable 10 find employment.
The condition # United States Senator
Scott, of West Virginia, who was taken sud.
denly i'll in New York yesterday, was stated
TO be much improved this morning. lie ex-
poets TO be out shortly.
The Skeeis Brothers grain elevator. in
Cleveland, Ohio, was destroyed by fire this
morning. Loss 100000,