Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-11-22
News of the Day.

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Norfolk aud Hamilton.
At Cambridge, Mass, on Saturday
Ypls defeated Harvard 10 their yearly
football game by score Of s too.
The District Of Columbis Commits
sioDers will ssk that they be given
control Of the Washington street rail-
ways.
A weddiog party oil seven 10 an adIo'
mobile Was dashed from 30.foot bridge
at Crawford, Ga, Saturday nigbt.
Three persons were instantly killed aud
two others fatally Injured.
The Grand Lodge Of Masons Of the
District of Colombia has decided to
Sccep. the practical ownership and COZ.
troll of the handsome new temple al
the intersection ofNew York avenue and
81 and Thirteenth streets northwest
Washington.
After conference yesterday between
President Taft and Secretary Knox,
orders we're issued 10 the navy transport
Buffalo to proceed at top speed to
Panama, where, 1t Is expected, 1t will
take on mariuts 10 land, II necessary,
In Nicaragua.
AS result Of general fight started
By young girl refusing to dance with q
young man Saturday night ct Barnswsll ,
Ala, Two ars dead and three people are
injured. Bert Pierce was beaten to death
With fence pickets, and Mack Mckenzie
was shot 10 the hesrt. The wounded
are John Fraley and two brothers OF tbs
dead Pierce boy.
While detectives we're waiting 10 New
York to arrest him on q charge.snf Gu.
btzzlement from The Manhattan Lighter
age Company, OF which he was cashier,
NJ G. Lennon, an assessment commits
sioner 10 jersey Oily, where he lived
with bis bride Of less than two weeks,
shot himself In the head on Saturday 10
the Continental Hotel In Newark. He
vas taken to hospital, where physicians
said his condition was critical. Even II
be RECEIVERS, they say, be will be blind.
John Jacob AsLor's steam yacht, Nour-
mabal, was safe in the harbor of ssh
Juan, Porto Rico, on November Is, &C.
cordiDg to the report brought to Will
lemsuad, Curacao, by the Red d liner
Caracas yesterday. The Caracas re-
ports that the NOurmshsl arrived at
San Juan on November II, sud that
she wac sill there on the 18th, safely
anchored Inside the harbor. The wire.
lsss operator st Savannah states that ct
5 P. N. yesterday he caught this mes
sBge from q ship st sea: yacht Nour'
mshsl safe at San Juan"
A mystery surrounds marriage
license issued 10 Baltimore which society
would like to solve Clifford Stanley Sims
OF Albany, N. Y, manager OF the Dela.
ware i Hudson Railroad and former
general manager Of the Baltimore 4
Ohio Railroad, took out q liCeDse Sllur-
day to marry Miss Martha Lee jenkins,
daughter OF Mrs. EdmuDd Piowden Jen-
kins, prominent In society circles. Ia
less then an hour Sims returned the
license 10 the court. Miss jenkins re.
fuses to discuss The matter, and Sims is
believed to have lett the city.
George McOounihay, member Of the
freshman class Of Bsthsny, W. Va, COL
lege, Sbo lives Gear Petersburg, was
hazed by The students, who compelled
him TO make a proposal of marriage to
the elderly matron in charge ofthe girls
dormitory at the college. The youth
made The proposal after he had been
decorated In preparation, his bair being
trimmed by q barber to represent
checkerbOard. The matron to whom
McOoDuihsy proposed is about so years
OF sge. The woman, suspecling the ma
ture Of the offer, Spnrued the young man.
Sliding down the chimney In an effort
to rob the houe of ]. II. Davis, at
Washington, N. O., at an carly hour
Yesterday morning, David Fulford stuck
fast. The burglars efforts to liberste
himself aWOke Davis, who telephoned
for the police. Though the chimney
was Tszed to the roof aud officers and
neighborS worked for su hour, efforts TO
release the man we're in vain, aud finally
the services of brick mason we're se.
cured, snd after the mantel and fireplace
we're removed Fullrd was taken out
more dead than alive. He was locked
up pending trial.
The people Of Hamilton Square, Tren-
top, n. j., are divided on very serious
matter and the BspIis's we're to decide by
their votes yesterday morning after the
church service whether or not to accept
the resignation oilheir psstor, Rev. John
w. LisseDdeD. Gossip Of familiarity
with feminine members OF his coDgregs-
ton and stories about indulgence In In.
toxicants led 10 the tender of the resig-
nation. By a vote Of 81 10 55 the con-
gregstiOn refused to accept the resigna.
ton OF lis pastor. This action officially
vindIcstes The pastor from the charges OF
indiscretion which were the primary
cause of the tepder.of the resignation.
The Washington police have sn enigma on
their hands in the shape of man, about "a
years Of sQe we'll dressed, intelligent and ap-
parently 10 good health, but who cannot re.
member his name. antecedents or address.
The man OF mystery was picked up by the
police last Thursday while walking dowc-
town minus his shoes and socks, although
otherwise irreproachsbly dressed.
FOUND ALIVE.
The gsmut from deepsg! despair to
sn hysterla of hope was run at Cherry,