Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-15
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES.

tried out by Joseph Jansen in Chlca
go. He tried to jab lead penci
through his stomach. Physicians say
the scheme may work.
When the Illinois Federation OF
Women's Clubs meets in Chicago
next week, part of the official bust
ness will be formulation of reply tc
Theodore Larsen, of Salem, Oregon
who wrote offering himself as mat
rimonial candidate.
To prevent minors from shooting
snipes" Lucy Page CASTOR, OF the
Anti-Cigarette League, of Chicago
wants an ordinance passed requiring
smokers to carry receptacles in which
they would be required to deposit the
butts
Columbus, Ohio, members OF the
Manufacturers Association denounc-
ed initiative and referendum sup
porters as Anarchists, demagogues,
blatant agitators and personal fail
ures with remedies for all human
ills"
Alfred Tennyson Dickens did not
have a chance to pass judgment on
Cleveland's women ankles. 1t neither
rained nor blowed during his visit
there.
Many women and several men
employed near the government build
ing, in Toledo, became ill when reve-
nue. officers burned ten thousand con-
iscated stogies. The ropes were
ten years old.
Wishing to exchange her hard
earned savings for title to save
Baron Adolph Scheip for deportation
Mrs. Olga Standia, of Meriden,
Conn, visited Ellis Island but could
not see the titled one.
Albert Hubbard may have carried
"a message to Garcia" but Ali Baba
cannot deliver a lecture Hoboken,
n. j., according to the unanimous
decision of the Hoboken Board of
Trade.
There were twelve minds in the
first woman jury in Los Angeles.
They couldn't agree on a verdict,
where or what they should have for
lunch or how to spent their jury
fees.
Repentant for having robbed Mrs.
F. ]. Swift's home, in New York,
Edwin Savage called on the phone
and offered TO return the loot If
promised immunity. Mrs. Swift re-
fused to prosecute even after his
arrest.
Yielding to pleas OF their wives the
United States District Attorney in
New York, reduced the bail of officers
of the mountaineering Publishing
Company so that they might leave
Jail.
Gov. Oddie, Of Nevada, gave it as
his opinion that the New York judge
who refused to permit an athletic
club to call itself Reno" was about
as narrow minded as toothpick.'
Excavators have found % skele-
tons in Boston, where skyscraping
business structure will be erected.
They are the bones of person buried
in Old Trinity Church Chapel in
1900.
Passengers just arrived in New
York on the Amerika tell of three
women and a man doing dances in the
restaurant in such filmy clothes that
the captain had to be appealed to to
stop it.
James P. Cooper, so, an under
taker, of Denton, Md, dropped dead
from heart disease while conducting
the funeral of Mrs. Wilmer B. Par
ker
Rivalry between Mrs. Clarence
Mackey and Mrs. OH. P. Belmont
caused Mrs. Mackey to ignore Mrs.
Belmont's suffrage efforts in her an
nual report to the equal franchise
society in New York.
To show their appreciation for her
activity in getting the equal pay bill
passed, women school teachers OF
New York, have started a 100000
fund, the income from which will go
to Miss Grace Strachen.
Calling women who drink and
smoke "a menace to the million,
John Wannamaker, Of Philadelphia,
asserted: at is sad time when those
morally above us are heading for a
grave"