Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-06
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs

n. Y, last night on suspicion OF being
the men wanted for the murder of John
Won Corder and Miss Annie Farnham,
near Angelica, on Tuesday night.
Immense property damage attended a
storm that burst over northern and north
western Texas Thursday night, and sew
eral persons were killed. The storm
took the proportions of a tornado.
Judge Alton b. Parker, ofNew York,
will have the Connecticut delegation in
line for him at the national democratic
convention in st. Louis. This was de-
cided in a rather lively State convention
at Hartford, Conn, today.
Elmer Roberts, an eleven year old boy,
was found this morning in an clubhouse,
at Waterford, n. Y, with his skull bat
tered in. The murder, it is supposed,
was committed by some person who in
duced the boy to go to the place for a
vilepurpose.
Rev. Emanuel V. Gerhart, d. D.,
president of the Reformed Theological
Seminary of the United States, located
at Lancaster, Pa, and for thirty-eight
years its professor of systematic theology,
died today. He was eighty-seven years
old.
John FAIRY, aged IA, of Seabright,
n. j., while on the way to the Long
Branch High School, this morning, had
both feet cut off in attempting 10 board
passing freight train of the New Jersey
Central Railroad. The accident happened
at East Long Branch depot.
The fact has come to light that the
death of Rev. Barker B. Sherman, of
Medford, Mass, who returned to his
home from the Philippines last Sunday,
aud died on Monday, was caused by beri-
beri. Mr.. Sherman contracted the dis
ease while teaching in the Philippines.
Judge Barber, in the common pleas
court, in Toledo, Ohio. yesterday refused
to grant divorce decree, not because
the plaintiff had not made out case,
but because he declared it was evident a
divorce could not do the parties any good
nor would it advance the interests of the
community.
Fire which started in the Locust Gap
slope near Shamokin, Pa, last night, is
still burning iercely. Three men who
were in the mine at the time are entomb-
ed and it is not known whether they are
living or dead. A rescuing party is
sinking an opening to learn the fate of
the entombed miners.
Daniel J. Sully, the former Cotton
King" testified before Special Examiner
Alexander, in New York today, regard
ing the conduct of the business of d. ].
Sully(E Co. The hearing was had under
the involuntary proceedings in bank
ruptcy instituted against the concern
shortly before the failure. Mr.. Sully
told Of the operations of his firm in the
cotton market in the past year.
In Dover, DEL, today, in the Powell
trial the defence scored another point
when Mrs. Bessie Kenney was permitted
to testify that Elsie Albin had told her
she would kill Mrs. Powell. The girl
added that she would kill the whole
Powell family to gain her end, which
was to kill Mrs. Powell. Mrs. Powell
was recalled and denied that she made
threats about the girl to James H. Dick
erson, and witnesses testified that the
community would not believe Dickerson
on his oath. Following the sensational
testimony that the AIbin girl had at
tempted to poison Mrs. Powell and had
made threats, also, that Detective Rat
ledge had colored Mrs. PowelPs confess
fession, it is expected that mauslaughter
will be the highest verdict brought in by
the jury.
Mrs. William Morris Cruikshank,
daughter-in-law of G. NJ. Cruikshank,
head of large real estate firm of that
name in New York, committed suicide
this morning by firing bullet through
her heart. According to the formal
statement of Coroner Scholer, after his
preliminary investigation of the case
the cause as indicated in a letter left
Mrs. Cruikshank, which led her to end
her life, was domestic infelicity. TIE
letter was addressed to "Mrs. George NJ.
Adams, North Dana, Mass" Its con-
tents were not revealed by the coroner.
VIM. Morris Cruikshank, husband of
the dead woman, and who is a member
Of the firm of which his father is the
head, refused to make any statement
regarding the case.