Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-07-22

box filed to the cover with valuable ex-
hibits. He carries, among other Gocu-
ments. an advance copy of the forth
coming seusa ional report of the commits
i ner Of corporations Of its inquiry into
the management and operation of the
oil industry.
The application Of the Georgetown
Gas Light Company to increase its cap
tai stock to $500 OOG, which was to have
b zen considered this morning, went over
until next MONDAY, when it will be con-
dered in judi e GJuld's Court.
Charged by Lee Ga, Chinaman,
employed at MOy's store, on Pennsyl-
vania Avenue, with holding him up at a
revoIver's point, aud demanding a pipe
full of opium, Harry NJ. Puryesr, OF
Richmond, Va, is under arrest. The
young man says it is all mistake, that
he was broke, and merely asked the
Chinaman to lend him 50 on the gun.
Pnryeal's relatives have been informed
Of the arres'.
In the Absence of advices from the
American legation 10 Caracas, State De-
partment officials 10 not believe that
President Castro has taken exception to
the awards made on American dAims by
the arbitration of 1908, as has been re-
ported, on the ground that the awards
were excessive.
Fire completely wrecked the stables at
Lyndenhurst, the country estate OF John
WaDamaker, near Philadelphia. yesterday
afternoon. The villa was destroyed by hre
on the night Of February 9 last with loss OF
q. OC0,OC0. Three horses were burned yester'
Il y, together with the carriages, harnesses,
coachmen's equipments, and, most valuable
Of all, brOnz-s, statuary and costly china
,avsd from the February fire. Estimates
I'll zee the value Of the stable property at from
$50. so to $4,000 and the contents at about
800 900 additional, Fortunately nearly all
the important paintings of Mr.. Wanamaker's
collection, such as Munkacsy's Christ Be
fora Plate, had been removed to Phlladel-
phia few weeks ago.
1t has been the fortune of Cecilia johnson,
sister of ."Mushmouth" Johnson, the negro
gambler, whose Illicit traffic has been the de-
spair of Chicago's reform element, 10 furnish
the greatest sensation ever uncovered at the
University of Chicago. AS leader In society
in the Rockefeller school and member OF
one of TIE most exclusive sorOrities, Cecilia
johnson posed f. more than three years 8s a
white girl and won her way to the top OF the
varsity social ladder. Her identity has just
been discovered and she has been dropped. "
AguinaldO's cousin ProctosO Castro, is IN
the station house charged with flourishing a
revolver. A policeman, who made the arrest
last night, says the Filipino was just about
to use the gun on Miss May Kaiser,a pretty 20
wear old girl of whom Castro had been enam'
Or,d. The young man who is messenger IN
the War Department, protests that he had no
murderous designs, but drew the gun merely
to emphasize his protestatons Of love.
John S. Smith, of Baltimore, Nd who is
training Tommy Lowe, for his fight with
Jimmy Briggs. is under arrest on a charge II
vagrancy. Policeman NJ Donald says Suith
brought two yonng women from Baltimore
aud delivered them from So a piece to local
dive.
Mss Annie Wood, of Norfolk, Va. tenn
poiarily etiinel at the government hopital,
for the insane, will be turned over TO her
relatives, who have beer SUMMONED to Wash
ingtOn. She was arrested on the steamer
Newport News. She declar, d that she had
come to interview President Roosevelt.
"Slave diver" and bully" are among the
epithets applied to Public Printer Stillings
by employees Of the Government Printing
Office. Resolutions denOuncing in vigorous
terms Mr.. ShlIing's recent order iiaing proof
readers for overlooking errors were today for
warded to President Roosevelt and laid be
fore the d, pai tment Of justice by Columbia
Typographical Union. No. l0l.