Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-06-03
rELEGRAPHIC RREvITIEs

William Reed, aged 30 years, OF
Reading, Pa, shot and killed himself
last night because he was out of work.
An unknown man, about 95 years
old, committed suicide during the night
by hanging himself from the limb of a
tree in the woods near Jersey City.
The Cottonwood and Neosha rivers
in Kansas are still rising. The river
valley from Emporia to Florence, sixty
miles west of Canute, and 100 miles east
is one vast sea.
Important political conferences be-
tween Senator German, of Maryland,
and Col. J. NJ. Gu6ey, national COM
mitteeman from Pennsylvania, are be-
ing held in Bait more today.
A murder and suicide took place in
view of scores of people in Harlem this
afternoon, when Charles Robinson shot
and killed Josephine Whales, a young
woman, on the sidewalk and then shot
himself.
Dispatches from Trail Lake, Miss,
state that John Simms, a prominent
planter of that place, and Mr.. Cato, his
manager, were killed last night by two
negroes, but one was captured and
lynched.
Seven men chung to the trestle bridge
at Henderson, KY, yesterday while a
Louisville & Nashville passenger train
killed two of their companions, and a
third jumped from the trestle fifty feet
below to his death.
A severe cloudburst today caused
much damage to wires and the Western
Union Building in Dallas, Texas, caus-
ing report to be circulated that a
cyclone had swept the city, but there
was no serious damage in the city.
The well known stallion, Sir Modred,
died Yesterday at the Ranckgo Delhazo
farm, California, of old age. He was
by Traducer out of Idalia, and was
foaled in 1877. He was a big winner
in Australia and was purchased by a
representative of ]. B. Haggin for his
stud.
With completion of the new $10,-
900, 600 tube mills, the contract for the
construction of which has just been
awarded by the National Tube Company
of the United States Steel Corporation
to the American Bridge Company, of
McKeesport, Pa, will have the largest
tube works in the world.
A terrific wind storm struck Okla
homa last night, doing great damage to
trees and outbuildings. A heavy wind
storm in Indian Territory, 1at White
head, lPaolin and Ruff caused much dam
age, and especially at Whitehead, where
a number of buildings were blown down
and crops almost ruined.
Judge ]. Sharp Wilson in Beaver,
Pa, today handed down a decision in
the famous SANDER suit brought against
John Wanamaker, by former State
printer Thomas Robinson, of Butler,
and decided that new trial could not
be grantad. This is a victory for Wanna
maker, as Mr.. Robinson had asked for
the new trial
The Kansas river had risen four inches
an hour at Kansas City, Mo-, this morn
ing as the result of torrential rains.
With today's downpour an even foot of
water has fallen in four weeks. Railroad
communication west is in chatoic con-
iition as result of the foods. The
river jumped a foot over night
md the Kansas river is rising as far ba, K
Is Manhattan.
Peytor Wyeth, who had been for
10 years assistant general manager of |
he Greenwich Fire Insurance Co., of |
Philadelphia, committed suicide today
~ drinking a glass of cyanide of potas-
ium in his apartments in Brooklyn.
dr. Wyeth was 39 years old and rela-
i've Of John Wyeth the millionaire
of the John Wyeth Chemical
Works, of Philadelphia. He went to
hat city with his young wife last We'd
les1ay from Philadelphia to be treated
or nervous prostration and melancholia.
At Tamaqua, Pa, today, President Dettery
tated that meeting Of the executive boards
( the three anthracite districts had been call
for Monday to inauRulate general strike