Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-11-30
News of the Day.


American milliopsires, were arrested In
Paris yesterday chsrged with wholesale
jswelry swindle.
The case Of Albert T. Patrick, OF New
York, who Yesterday asked to be re-
leased from Sing Sing, where he hassbeen
serving life sentence for the murder
Of VIM. Marsh Rice, was continued un-
I'll Thursday.
Secretary Kuox has come 10 the con.
clusion that President Z,lsya violated
al military codes, as we'll as interna'
tionsl law, in Iexecuting the two Amer
leans bat he is inclined to proceed 10
the case with care.
The keel plates OF two monster war
ships-the Orion, the improved dread
nought battleship, and the Lion, the
cruiser. bsltleship-Were laid yesterday,
the formers OF Portsmouth and the lat
ter's at Davenport, England.
Captain Jesse T. Jameson, aged
seventy eight years, the pilot who guild
ed the steamer Robert E. Lse from New
0lfaus to Nstchtz In her famous race
With the slesmerNstchez forty years ago,
is dead at S.. Louis following a stroke Of
PARALYSIS % Thanksgiving Day.
william F. Knott, tWenty.seven years
old, blacksmith, varquished a police
map, q conductor and a switchmsn last
night, and lied knot 10 the Pennsyl.
vanis avenue, Washington, line Of cars,
only to be overcome by superior numbers
and lodged In a cell at the FRS! precinct
station.
In the sugsr fraud cases 10 New York
yerterdsy all the motions made by the
defense by which 1t was sought to bfiug
about the quaShing of the indictments or
TO postpone the beginning Of the trial,
were denied By Judge Martin. The
court ordered that the trial proceed and
the impsneIllug of the jury was begun.
With the endorsement OF President
Taft, and declaring 1t to be the policy
Of the navy department to abolish all
the navy yards on the Atlantic coast,
with The exdeption of Brooklyn, Nor.
folk and Portsmouth, Secretary Mayer
will incorporate the findings OF the Swift
board in bis annual report, and make
the Later public December 4,
Gen. Luke E. Wright, OF Tennessee,
Who succeeded William II. TAFT as sec-
rsiary OF wsr 10 the Roosevelt Cabinet,
will, 1t ls said, be nominated for the po-
sitlon of judge 10 the Sixth Judicial Or.
cult court to Gil the vacancy that will
be created by the elevation OF Horace
q. Lurlon to be al associate justice OF
the Supreme Court Of the United States.
John Paucuer, leader Of the Iudus-
trial Workers of the World, who WAS
convicted of conspiracy to disrupt the
peace by encouraging street speaking
by socialists, Was sentenced at Spokane,
Wash, to six months 10 jail at hard
labor. Evidence was introduced that
PsucOer had come to Spokane to fight
the ordinance regulating street speaking
AID that be had sent ont kilograms to
nearby towns calling for "men TO Oil the
j lils In Spokane"
William o. Lilley, former treasurer
of the Pittsburg, Pa, Presby terry, who
disappeared from that city on September
20 last, is short 10 the amount OF SAL
034 g. In his accounts TO the church,
according TO statement given out yes.
terday at a meeting OF the board Of
trustees Of the presbyiery after receiving
aud adopting the report OF the commit
tee appointed to Investigate LilleJ's
affairs. The entire fund from the sale
of the Fourth Presbyterian Church In
Pitlsburg Is charged to Lilley's indebl.
ness, this ar o1nt bsing slS,Sl6. The
trustees would not ssy whether or not
they would prosecn!e The former treas
urer.
Augered by the refusal Of Maria
Acosts, Cuban woman, to allow him
to call st her house at TanpI, Fla,
MIguel Gomez, 1t Is charged, secured
bucket of gasoline, vent TO her house
With two men, threw the gasoline on
her &c che stood In her bedroom, aud
when one Of bis friends put out the
lamp be struck q match, which
be applied to her, making living pill
low Of fine. The men fed. Neigh
bors heard her screams and came In,
putting out the flames, too late. how
ever, 10 save her life. She lived long
enough to make a statement and identity
Gomez, Who was brought before her.
he is 10 jail.
Harris ROsenZweig was today acquitted IN
the court Of Oyer and Terniner in Philsdel'
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