Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-21
BREvITIEs.


Meadville, Pa, is the graspo of the most
destructive food in its history. The en-
tire FIRE department has been called out
to save property.
Mr.. Bryan will arrive in New York
today, to attend the dinner of the Hol-
land Society. 1t has also been an
nounced that Judge Parker would attend
the dinner and that he and. Mr.. Bryan
would meet for the first time.
E. H. Erler, a German baker, of New
York, 20 years old, who says a secret
agency is endeavoring to get him to go
to Washington and kill President Roose-
welt, was sent to Bellevue Hospital today,
to have his sanity looked into.
The State Normal College at Green's
boro, N. c., was burned early this
morning. Three hundred and fifty girls
were asleep in the building at the time,
but all were saved. Some of the girls.
however, were thrown into violent hys-
terics and it will take them some time
to recover.
Charles II. Trelawney, formerly a
captain in the British army, who was
convicted before Judge Foster, in New
York, on January eth, of forgery in the
second degree, was sentenced today to
nine years and seven months at hard
labor in Sing Sing prison. 1t is said
that Trelawney had two wives and two
sets Of children.
The two cracksmen who were operat-
ing in the p%ostotice at Copley near
Allentown, Pa, were disturbed early this
morning by j. G. Nelly, a baker, who
was on his way home from work. Nelly
called to the men and following a COM
mand to "shut up", you old duffer, two
shots whistled past his head. Nelly fed
10 terror, but the cracksmen stuck to
their job and blew open the safe, secur-
ing Sc. The populace was aroused by
the report of the pistol shots, and pur-
sued the cracksmen who, however, es-
capped.
Emma Baldwin. IL years old, was conveyed
to the hospital in Chicago last night suffering
from what the physicians think is hydro
ph0bia. Some time ago the young woman
had her hand scratched by a kitten and this
leads her parents to believe that this is the
cause Of her condition.
Fire broke out at 9 o'clock last night in the
small stock house at the Shelby Steel Tube
Works, a branch of the United States Steel
Company, at Shelby, o., and in fifty minutes
had completely destroyed both of the i'm
mense stock rooms and the entire contents.
The loss is about So, 000, 900.
Judge Alfred Hugg, former Judge of Cam
den, n. J.. Common fleas Court, was a vic
tim Of gas asphyxiation this morning, due it
is thought, to his accidental turning on Of the
key to his illuminating bracket, when shut
ting of the key to the gas heater.
Three persons were killed, two fatally in
jured and eight dangerously injured in a gas
explosion in the Sitz Hotel, located near the
entrance to the National Soldiers Home,
three miles south of Marion, Ind, at 4 o'clock
this morning.
Elders of the Mormon Church in Chicago
are said to have threatened the life of Mrs.
Maria Weed, a speaker of the National W.
c. 7. u, who has been lecturing against
Mormonism in the city for two weeks.
A plan has been agreed to between the GOV
eminent and the farmers in the neighbOrhood
to convert Utah lake into a government reser-
voir to cost 81 200, 900. This will redeem
10000 acres in the Salt Lake valley.
L. II. Kaufman, a representative Of the
firm of Loeb, Schwartz 4 Co., of Philadel.
phia, committed suicide in the Windsor
Hotel, at Montreal. last night by strangu-
lation.
Two rather serious tenement house fires oc-
Cured in New York in the early morning
hours, and while no one was killed, there
were many narrow escapes.