Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.
big Tim" Sullivan gave his usual
hristmas dinner to the poor in New

big Tim" Sullivan gave his usua
Christmas dinner to the poor in New
York.
Admiral Dewey yesterday in Wash.
ington, celebrated the 72nd anniversary
OF his birth.
a Christmas wreath, swinging from q
chandelier forced open a gas cock in q
Chicago home, last night causing the
asphyxiation OF q woman who was ASLEEP
in the room.
Oscar Chitwood, charged with kill
ing Sheriff Jake Houpt, was taken
from deputy sheriff at the jail at Hot
Springs, Ark, yesterday by a mob OF
masked men and shot to death.
The surgeon general OF the army
says that olive drab uniforms for the
army are not good for use in times O.
peace and not as cool as the KHAKI
they replaced.
A new reapportionment plan under
which no state will be compelled tc
lose congressman has been worked
out. The new plan provides for a
house OF 435 members.
Four mail clerks and helpers were
killed and several others were injured
in the wreck OF Norfolk and Western
Railway passenger train in tunnel
near Williamson, w. Va, Saturday af
ternoon.
The wage dispute between the
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineer:
and the 81 railroads west, north and
south OF Chicago was settled Saturday.
There will be no strike. Instead, the
engineers get an average increase IN
wages of 10 1-3 per cent.
While delivering Christmas packages
in big automobile truck for a Phila.
delphia department store, two men
and a boy who were in the vehicle were
killed Saturday night when q
Baltimore and Ohio passenger train
struck the truck ct Moore, ten miles
from Philadelphia.
Strike pickets, chiefly Italians, are
introducing atrocities in the garment,
workers strike hitherto unknown anC
not countenanced in American labor
struggles. Hestitating to face non
union men workers and policemen
they seek ont the unprotected home!
OF men at work and terrorize the in
mates.
Held up by negro. who clutchet
her by the throat and threatened he
life, Miss Myrtle, IS years old, daugh
ter Of William Gorgas, OF Collingdale
Pa, on Saturday morning pluckily
fought off her assailant with 4 hatpiI
till he fed at The approach OF 4 white
man, who responded to her cries.
Seventy. five thousand people saw
Hoxsey, OF the Wright team OF ayiators
break the worlds record at Aviation
Field, Los Angeles, Cal. yesterday He
soaredmore than two miles upi in the sky
his Paragraph registering II ,474 feet, oil
almost 1000 feet above the altitude oil
10, 499 feet, recently attained by Legag
neux at Pau, France.
The plant ofthe Evening Times, Col
John W. Avirett, proprietor at Cumber'
land, Md, was damaged SIC, 900 yester.
day morning by fire. The loss is covered
qy insurance. Col. Avirett says the
janitor allowed water to run low in the
boiler room, and that the top Of the
furnace ignated the woodwork
around it.
Paroled on Wednesday from the
federal prison in Atlanta, to which he
was sentenced for alleged violation oil
the federsl banking laws, James G.
Lowden, former president OF the Amer.
lean Bank OF Abilene. Tex, reached
bis home at Fort Worth, Saturday af,
ternoon, and his death was announced
ut 7:30 o'clock at night. His death is
attributed to heart disease.
The Llewellyn Ironworks at Los An.
geles, CAL, were party wrecked by an
explosion, presumably OF dynamite,
early on Sunday. The force OF the ex'
plosion tore out the front of the build
ing, smashed windows for more than
block and awakened persons more
than two miles away. The night watch
man was slightly injured. Who placed
the supposed charge OF dynamite is un.
known to the police, but it is believed
to have been the outcome of genera
labor troubles, in which the Llewellyr
Company has been involved.
Leonard Thomas, q 19-yearold negro
who lived near Laytonyile Montgomery
county, Md, shot and instantly killed
Isaac Copeland, also colored, aged 4(
years, in the lattcr's home near Lay
tonville, about 10 O'Clock Saturday
night, and later committed suicide by
sending 4 bullet into his own brain in
cornticld on the farm OF Alden D.
Allnut, about a mile from the scene oil
the murder. . Although Copeland and
Thomas had trouble several weeks ago
they Ii nd, it is said, apparently settled
their differences.
Tenement Dynamited.