Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-12-11
/ NEWS OF THE OLD DOMINION.
NEWS OF TILE DAY.

and Lee Lockard, each aged Is years,
yentured on the thin ice covering the
Allegheny Water Company's dam, one
mile west OF Altoona, Pa, and both
were drowned.
Charlie, put your hand on the
block" said George Williams, aged 8
years to his Swear old brother, yester-
day, in Atlantic City, n. j., while
cutting wood at his home. The keen
edged axe was already descending as
the baby obeyed' the command. Inc
blade clipped off three OF his fingers
and mutilated the fourth.
A dynamite bomb exploded last
night during a crowded cinematograph
exhibition 10 Liege, Belgium. A terri
BILE panic resulted in which 80 persons
were injured, several OF them mortally.
The police believe that discharged
employe threw the bomb for revenge.
Two men were killed when front
wheel tire OF an automobile burst,
causing the machine to upset on the
main road near South Deertield, Mass,
last night.
President Samuel Gompers, Vice
President John Mitchell aud Secretary
Frank Morrison, OF the American
Federation OF Labor, have decided not
to avail themselves OF their right OF
special appeal from the order OF Justice
Wright refusing to dismiss the con-
tempt charges pending against them in
the District OF Columbia Supreme
Court, but have chosen, instead, to
await the final outcome OF the proceed
ings.
Miss Mary Chamberlain. the pretty
school teacher OF Lincoln Centre, Kan,
who was lured to lonely spot and
smeared with tar by several men. will
probably accept s25, 900 in lieu OF all
claims, and the affair will be dropped
as far as the courts are concerned.
Following the conviction of some OF
the men engaged in the despicable
scandal, Miss Chamberlain contem-
plated bringing damage suits against
all those directly involved. but the
men against whom these suits were to
BIZ directed have opened negotiations
for settlement. Shady Bend, the
village which has come 10 for so much
unsavory comment all over the coun-
| try, is also contemplating change OF
name.
Charging that the District Of Colum-
~ is full Of resorts where young men
l women are tempted. Rev. DR.. E.
:. Chapman, of California, before the
District Anti-Saloon League, at Luther
Place Memorial Church, yesterday pro-
posed that William Jennings Bryan be
made President of the United States, in
order that lie come to Washington and
force Congress to take action on the
saloon question there. The meeting
was held in connection with tina annual
convention OF the District Anti-saloou
League, which convened Saturday. and
which will continue all this week.
The London Daily News states that
Russia is willing to withdraw her second
ultimatum to Persia in return for an
indemnity and the immediate conces-
sion of rights for railway from TIE.
heran to the Caucasus. The principal
demand made by Russia in her second
ullimatum was for the dismissal of W.
Morgan Shuster, the American treas
urer general.
Bishop A. W. Wilson, OF Baltimore,
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, is seriously ill at the home OF
F. E. Brawner, iu Pensacola, Fla.
Bishop Wilson is advanced in years, is
very feeble, and fears are entertained
for his recovery.
The Mcnamara brothers yesterday
entered San Quentin, CAL, peniten-
itentiary, where James B. is con-
demned to spend the remainder OF
his life, for his confessed crime OF
murder, and John ]. secretary OF the
international Association OF Bridge
and structure Iron Workers, is SEN
fenced to fifteen years Imprisonment for
dynamitipg. 1t was James B. who
blew up the Los Angeles Times build
ing, October /, 1910, witt the loss OF
81 lives, and John j. who allotted in
wrecking part of the Llewellyn Iron
Works, in Los Angeles, the following
Christmas day. They will be put to
work 10 the iute mill.
A 200 pound poker which John
Campbell purchased from William
Lee, in Plaiufeld, N. j., few days
ago was killed Saturday and when the
dressing operations were in progress
Campbell found there small diamond
ring. Lee, when he heard OF the dis.
covery, demanded the ring, but Camp
bell is said to have claimed ownerihip OF
the ring. The riug, according to Lee
was lost by his niece several weeks