Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-02-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

II ~ B.
Daniel H. Tolman, is, apr, ntic
seaman at Great Lakes Naval Train
ing Station, at Chicago, identified a
missing heir to the 100000 estat
of his uncle, Daniel D. Tolman, mil
lionaire loan agent who died yea
ago.
Precipitate fight was better thai
receiving constant and unwelcome at
tentions from fortune hunters, in tn
opinion of Miss Alice Antonitte La
mar. whose father the late J. r. La
mar, the mining magnate, OF New
York. left her the income OF $lO,'
100000. SO she fed to Hawaii wltr
two young women friends.
England may be plunged st any
lime into one of the greatest indus
trial upheavals, it has ever knova, J.
II. Thomas, labor leadc.. dclare.! dr.
iog an address on the labor situation
in the coal mines and on the railways
in the House of Commons yesterday
afternoon. He declared million
mer are unemployed in Great Britain.
Secretary of the Treasury Carter
Glass went before the HoaaSe Ways
and Means Committee yesterday and
explained his reasons for asking
wide powers in connection with the
Forthcoming victory loan. One Of the
most startling statements made by
Mr.. Glass in his testimony was that
in the three months since the war
has ended this country has spent at
the rate of nearly $4,000 100000 a
month, and the end of it not yer.
Charged with embezzlement of
$4,000, ]. S. Swartz, cashier of the
Park Bank, of Pittsburgh, Pa, which
was closed yesterday by the State
bank examiner. is in a delirious con-
lition. Swartz was arrested upon
charges preferred by the bank direc-
tors. The police found him n bed
suffering from a mental breakdown
and unconscious, it is stated. Swartz
was removed to a hospital, where ne
is being c:2$aiy guarded.
Storms ii the Middle West and
region yesterday virtually
suspended wire communication be.
tween the Rocky Mountains and
Pacific Coast and the remainder of
he country. Billiards in Nebraska,
Kansas. and Oklahoma, were accom-
,arcd - a crop in temperature that
loss of livestock in some
,cctians, and possible damage to
winter wheat. Rain and snow we're
a!ling ;ato Yesterday in Wisconsin
md Minnesota.
A CAPITAL Traction street car was
dded to the bootlegging squad or
ne District cf Columbia police, fol-
owing a collision between he car
nd an, automobile at Eighth street
nd Maryland avenue northeast. last
,irht. The machine was focnd e. be
.arrying 12S quarts of whisky which
Il the present stiff price is worth
.bout $500. The machine was badly
damaged. The driver jumped out and
,-capcd. The machine bore Virginia
az number 1856. The police request
hat the owner Of the whisky call
or it at the Ninth precinct station.
Lieut.. Col. Bennett Clark, assist
ant chief Of staff of the Eighty
,ighth division, now on duty IN
France. VIII return to Washington to
find that the House has picked some
BODY else for his job. which pays
aobut $4,000 per year. i,enr. Col,
Clark is a sen Of the Speaker. and
has acted as paclianentarian and
clerk at the Speakers desk sine" his
father has welded the gavel. When
the Republicans assume control OF
the House IN the Sixtieth-siXth Con-
eress. Col. Clark will be succeeded
By :. follower OF the G. 0. P, and
there are a number Of candidates al
ready seeking the place.