Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-19
LOCAL RREVITIEs.

The city water mains will be iiusheu
at O'Clock on Friday morning.
The members OF the Cardinal Athletic
Club and their friends went on an eX'
cursion to Colonial Beach yesterday
and enjoyed an oyster roast.
A warrant was issued today for the ar
rest OF John Henderson and Mrs. Gray,
charged with dispensing liquor without
license. They were later taken INTO
custody.
A colored girl snatched pocketbooK
from the hand OF Pearl WEIGH, seven
year-old Write girl, last Saturday even
ing and made her escape with it. The
pocketbook contained two dollars.
The Robert V. Schneider Company
has placed an electric fan in the Alex
andria Hospital, which has added con-
siderably to the comfort OF the attaches
and inmates during the recent heated
term.
Announcement was made at st.
Mary's Catholic Church yesterday
morning that beginning next Sunday
the last mass will be celebrated at lo:oo
O'Clock instead of 10 O'Clock.
Mr.. A. ]. Wedderburn sent to this
Office today specimens OF radlshes
grown on his farm in Fairfax county.
They are among the largest ever seen
hereabouts.
News has been received in this city
OF the death at her home IN Zanes-
vile. Ohio, Of Mrs. James Bucklng-
ham. who is the mother OF Mrs. Ed
ward Greene, who has many friends III
Alexandria.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union held a meeting at Trinity Metho-
dist Episcopal Church this morning at
which matters Of importance to the or
ganization we're considered. An alter
noon session was held.
The alarm Of fire about $3.50 O'Clock
this afternoon was caused by the ex-
plosion of gasoline stove in house
occupied by colored people in the
alley on Oronoco street, between Co
lumbus and Alfred. A colored woman
named Lee had one of her hands
burned.
Gunner William j. Brown, 4S years
old. a member of one OF the gun squads
at Indian-Head proving grounds, APP
piled at Emergency Hospital, Wash
ington, last night for treatment for a
fracture of his left collar-bone received
while firing a 14-inch gun Saturday
afternoon. Brown was knocked down
and as unconscious three hours. he Is
not seriously injured.
William Firth, jr., the companion
OF Ethel May Pierce, the 15-year-old
girl from Chester, Pa, who eloped
with him and committed suicide at
the Hotel Rammel last Tuesday after
noon, has announced his intention OF
revisiting this city for the purpose OF
thanking the members OF the police
force for their kindness to him during
his Imprisonment
The funeral Of little Madeline Ken
nedy took place from her parents
home, S0l south Washington street,
this afternoon at 80 o'clock. The
funeral services were conducted by Rev.
w. f. Watson. Of the First Baptist
church, and the pallbearers were her
four it'll, cousins. Johr and James
Murphy and Willie and Clarence
Moore. Birial was in the Methodist
Protestant cemetery.
On the day Pedro Maloney was born a
discordant note was struyk in the general
tranquility Of existing conditions. Pedro
was the product of hali-breed Mexican
Indian woman and a typical bad man
from Tipperary. Said Pedro invariably
carried blood in his eye and az in
his holster, till one day the mixture
wouldn't mix, and Mr.. Maloney was the
unwilling recipient of hole thru his
heart. And now Pedro is hObnObbiDg
with Panhandle Pete in Kingdom Come,
ENJOYING these irresistibly delicious
Auth's Sausages and Puddings from
Blondheim's Auth Stand and Market.