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

! The city water mains VII! De liusuou
at 7 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 a peck etbook
from the hand of Pearl WEIGH, seven
year-old Write girl, last Saturday even
ing and made her escape with it. me
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:3o
O'Clock instead of 10 O'Clock.
Mr.. A. J. 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 IN
Alexandria.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union held q meeting at Trinity Metho-
dist Episcopal Church this morning at
which matters of importance to the Or
ganization we're considered. An after
noon session was held.
The alarm Of fire about $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, As years
old, member of one Of the gun squads
at Indian-Head proving grounds, ap-
piled at Emergency Hospital, Wash
ington, last night for treatment for a
fracture of his left collar-bonc 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 l5-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, sol south Washington street,
this afternoon at ] 80 o'clock. The
funeral services were conducted by Rev.
w. +. Watson, Of the FirsE Baptist
church, and the pallbcarers were her
four lit,l' cousins, John and James
Murphy and Willie and Clarence
Moore. B.!rial was in the Methodist
Protestant cemetery.
On the day Pedro Maloncy was born
discordant note was struck in the general
tranquility Of existing conditions. Pedro
was the product OF II half-brccd Mexican
Indian woman and n typical bad man
from Tippcrary. Said Pedro invariably
carried blood in his eye and ~ in
his holster. till one day the mixture
wouldn't mix, and Mr.. Maloney was the
unwilling recipient of n hole thru his
heart. And now Pedro is hobnobbing
with Panhandle Pete in Kingdom Come.
enjoying these irresistibly delicious
Auth's Sausages and Puddings from
Blondheim's Auth Stand and Market.
ARMOUR ALEXANDRIA BRANCH