Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-18
rEI,EGRaPHIC BREyITIEs

Mary Allen Fuller, wife of Chief JUS
tice Melville Fuller of the U. S. Supreme
Court, died suddenly last night while
sitting on the piazza of her summer cot
tage at Sorrento, Me. Death was caused
by heart disease. She was SO years OF
age.
Thomas E. Watson and Thos. II.
TibbIes, presidential and vice presiden-
tial candidates, respectively, of the peo-
Piles party, will learn tonight at Cooper
Union, New York, that they have been
selected as the standard bearers of that
,arty's hopes in the coming election.
Mai. G. V. Menzies and John W.
spencer of Indiana, who went to Rose
mont yesterday to induce Judge Parker
to make number of speeches in Indiana
went to New York today. They tod the
nominee that if he hoped to keep the
Hoosier state he must makeup his mind
TO speak there, and they suggested In
dianapolis and half dozen other cities for
addresses. The most satisfaction that
thew could get was that he was to look
the matter over and would decide later.
Gen. w. w. Blackmar, of Massachu-
sets. was today, in Boston, unimously
elected comander-in of the Grand
Army of the Republic for the ensuing
year. John R. King, of Maryland, was
elected senior vice commander-in-chief
Geo. w. Patten, of Tennessee, was elect
ed Junior vice commandments. Rev.
J. H. Bradford of, of Washington, d.
c., was chosen chaplainin-chief and
Warren King, of Indiana, was chosen
surgeon general. Denver, Colo, was
chosen as the place for holding the en-
cam pment in 1905.
Arthur Meekeroof, Of Armour & Co.,
has returned to Chicago from New York.
He said: ''The strikers have lost their
cause and the proof of it is in the vol
ume of business we're doing. We're
shining almost as much beef now as we
do in normal times" Mistaking him for
a non-union man, strikers dubbed ThOs,
Handy, of London, England, and beat
him almost into insensibility before
he was rescued by DR.. William Kirby
A riot involving three hundred persons
centered around Ogden Bryant, a negro
strikebreaker, who was being severely
beaten when rescued by the police.
Bryant took refuge in a shoe backing
stand which was wrecked by the mob.
Two stockmen from Iowa, were mistaken
for strikers and were severely beaten,
one having his nose broken.
The situation at Statesboro, Ca, is
still quite serious. Unconfirmed re-
ports are coming in from all parts of the
country of promiscuous whipping and
shooting of negroes. The blacks are
thoroughly terrorized. The whereabouts
of Handy Bell are not known, and the
man who was riddled with bullets on
the bridge near StatesbOro has not been
identified. A quantity of the bones and
charred remains of Cate and Reed were
put in box and addressed to President
Roosevelt with this note; "You'll
never eat with these niggers," Le,el-
headed lien went to the express Office
and took the box out and the President
will not receive the gruesOme relics Of
Tuesdays burning.
When a freight train reached Pough;.
keepsie, n. Y, this morning trainmen found
the bodies Of two men on top OF box car.
The bodies were close together, and 1t Is
thought the men we're killed as the tram
passed through tunnel, the head OF one be-
Ing crushed in and the neck Of the other
broken. The men are thought not TO be ordi-
nary tramps.
The suspension of w. Franklin Burnham
& Co., doing stock brokerage business, IN
Boston. was announced on the Stock tx
change today. Ii is said that the suspension
has been caused partly through the sharp ad'
vance in wheat and partly because OF tue
rise in stocks in the Wall street market.
After an all-night search Roseyille Wat,
Who while drunk, shot and instantly kllled
Policeman Skidmore aud seriously injured
Policeman Atkinson, at GrotOn, a suburb oil
Newcastle, Pa. the fugitive is still at large.
The condition of United States Senator q.
F. Hoar, at Worcester, Mass, showed no
marked change this morning. be Is gradu-
ally growing weaker, and the end Is looked
for inside Of Is hours.
Five people were injured, one probably
fatally, in head-on collision between Twp
troI1axv "a 20 IN the street railway near Pea