Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.


big Tim" Sullivan gave his usual
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
chandelier forced open a gas cock in a
Chicago home, last night causing the
asphyxiation OF 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 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 OF
peace and not as cool as the khaki
they replaced.
A new reapportionment plan under
which no state will be compelled to
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 at
ternoon.
The wage dispute between the
Brotherhood Oh Locomotive Engineers
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-S per cent.
While delivering Christmas packages
in a big automobile truck for Phila-
delphia department store, two men
and boy who we're in the vehicle we're
killed Saturday night when q
Baltimore and Ohio passenger train
struck the truck at Moore, ten miles
from Philadelphia.
Strike pickets, chiefly Italians, are
introducing atrocities in the garment
workers strike hitherto unknown and
not countenaDced in American labor
struggles. Hestitating to face non
union men workers and policemen,
they seek out thu unprotected homes
OF men at work and terrorize the in.
mates. -
Held up by negro, who clutched
her by the throat aud threatened hel
life, Miss Myrtle, is years old, daugh-
ter OF William Gorgas, OF Collingdale
Pa, on Saturday morning pluckily
fought off her assalant with hatpir
till he fled at the approach OF a white
man, who responded to her cries.
Seventy. five thousand people saw
Hoxsey, OF the Wright team OF ayiatorsi
break the worlds record at Aviation,
Field, Los Angeles. Cal. yesterday Ht
soaredmore than two miles upin the sky
bis Paragraph registering IL ala feet, OF
almost l 900 feet above the altitude oil
10, 400 feet, recently attained by Legag
neux at Pau, France.
The plant Of the Evening Times, Col
John w. Ayirett, proprietor at Cumber-
land, Nd, 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 Of
the federsl banking laws, James G.
Lowden, former president OF the Amer.
lean Bank OF Abilene. Tex, reached
his home at Fort Worth, Saturday af
ternoon, and his death was announced
at 7:30 O'Clock at night. His death il
attributed to heart disease.
The Llewellyn Ironworks at Los An
geles. CAL, were party wrecked by ar
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 thar
a 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, a 19-year-old negro
who lived near Laytonville Montgomery
county, Md, shot and instantly killed
Isaac Copeland, also colored, aged Al
years, in the latter's home near Lay
tonyille, about 10 O'Clock Saturda!
night, and later committed suicide By
sending bullet into his own brain il
a cornfield Oh the farm Of Alden D
Allnut, about mile from the scene o
the murder. Although Copeland anc
Thomas had trouble several weeks age
they h ad, il is said, apparently settle'
their differences.
Tenement Dynamited.