Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A 22-story hotel Is to be erected on
Broadway, New York.
Eighty United States artillerymen
deserted the transport Logan yesterday
as she was about to sail from San Fran
cisco for Manila.
Warner Greene, a clerk for the
Northern Central Railroad jumped from
a ferry boat at Baltimore yesterday and
was drowned.
All the railroads which are affected
by safety appliance laws passed by
Congress during the last year or SO are
preparing to ask for extensions Of time
in which to comply with the new regu-
lations
Prosecutor Burke at Springfield Ills.
has gotten a confession from Senator
Lorimer's manager that he collected all
of the fish jackpot" and held out on
the legislators. This confession def
nitely trails the graft to Senator Lor-
inner.
The board of public works at Annap-
oils yesterday reelected Col. Buch
anan Schley tax commissioner c. B.
Howard commander of the oyster po-
lice force, and several deputy command
ers. The shellfsh commissioners were
also reelected,
Charging that 1t has been defrauded
of about 81, 900, 600 on repair work in
a period of four years, the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad Company in Chicago yes
terday filed suit in the Circuit Court for
an accounting against four OF its former
officers.
Goodwin Smith, famous author,
historian, lecturer and ltterateur, is
dying at his home in Toronto, Ont.
His physicians do not believe he can
live through the day. He broke his
thigh during the winter and has never
recovered from the effects of the in
jury.
In an interview at indianapolis, Ind,
yesterday John f. Lamb, who served in
Congress with the late Thomas B Reed,
Speaker Of the House, says that Reed
always believed that the blowing up of
the Maine in Havana harbor was the re-
suit of accident and no way chargeable
to the Spaniards.
J. 2. Battle, % years old, son Of P.
f. Battle, of Union Point, Ga, at
tempted suicide at the Hotel Arlington
in Bristol last night, shooting himself
twice in the right breast He has little
chance Of recovery. He admits he at
tempted suicide because of having been
Inundated by being locked up for
drunkenness. He was in the train
service Of the Virginia and Southwest
ern Railway.
Later reports from the stOrm-swept
area in southwestern Virginia revealed
the destruction of the historic Presby-
terrain edifce at Paperville, west of
Bristol, brick structure with history
of IS years. 1t was the mother of the
first Presbyterian church at Bristol, the
"a charter members having been trans
ferred to the Paperville church. The
Methodist church in the community,
a traffic structure, was demolished.
Representative Lee O'Nell Browne,
democratic leader Of the Illinois Assem-
bly,, was denied a writ of habeas corpus
by Judge Seaman in Circuit Court in the
Chicago today. The writ had been
sought by Brownies attorneys to pre-
vent the legislators trial in Cook coun-
ty on a charge of bribing Representa-
tive White to vote for William Lor-
liners election to the United States
Senate.
Col. ]. c. Phillips, one of the best
known Confederate veterans of east
Virginia, died at his home, in Eliza
beth City county, yesterday, aged
eighty-nine years. Col. Phillips served |
with distinction in the Confederate
army. While he was the colonel of
the Thirteenth Virginia Infantry Gen
eral Magruder ordered him to burn the |
town of Hampton, which was then in
danger of falling into the hands of the
federal army. Colonel Phillips execut-
ed the order, and the old town was al !
most completely destroyed
Frank R. Conner, 80 years old, a !
teacher in the public schools of Wash |
ington, was arrested last night on a
charge preferred by Mrs. Lalla NJ.
Snead, wife of Larry Snead, a clerk in
the Treasury Department. In the
warrant it is charged that Conner Of
fered indignities to Mrs. Saead on May
% He admits being at the Snead |
home on that date, but he declares
that Snead, his children and his mother
also were in the house when he called.
Patrick Drum, employed on the
estate of Levi C. Weir, of Locust Val
ley, L. l., was instantly killed yester
day while moving the lawn in front of
the house He came to a piece of wire
from pole, but paid no at
.entiOn to it, As the steel running
gear of the moving machine struck the
wire in spot where the insulation had
been worn, the man fell lifeless. 1t
was then discovered that what he ran
over was a live electric light wire blown
down in a storm Sunday.
- DALZELL TO FACE CONTEST.
Declared winner of the republican
g,