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VOL GXXXI— 251.WINCHESTER TO GET $1,500,000occasion the fury of the people led toHandley Bequest For Edu- his being stonedcational Purpose About to be Turned Inms oe.ng ^u..cu on the streets of Scranton. He was frequently denounced as a “copperhead, the epithet ap_ plied to Confederate sympathizers ir. the North.—. This proud lawyer, with the bloodof Irish Kings in his veins, had thatIS WON BY COURTESY Spartan courage which enabled himto face his enemies and command their respect, which was shown by his election some years later to the place as President of the Lackawanna county court. Handley, however, never forgot tffe insults, though he continued to live among the people.Judge Handley accumulated a small amount of money, which he invested in Lackawanna ccuwty lands. Later these lands were found to conjoin anthracite coal, which formed the basis for his princely fortune. He then bought city property and his wealth increased.-0-Fine School to Rise as Result ol Kindness Shown Millionaire by Vir ginia People.Winchester, Va., Oct. 25.—'The city nf Winchester, a community of 7.000 people, will in a short time come into possession of approximately $1,500,-•00 for educational purposes, the fund •epresenting the accumulated estate f Judge John Handley, an eccentric nilHonaire, of Scranton, Pa., who died n 1895 without heirs and left the mlk of his property to be delivered :o this historic place 20 years after ris death. Judge Handley also left mother sum of $250,000 to Winches-:er for the erection and equipment of i library, which has been completed.The circumstances surrounding hose bequests’ the reasons why Win-■hester instead of the dead man’s own •oinmunity was favored for the benefaction, and how the heart and affec-ion of this stern Pennsylvania lawyer, maligned at his home for his Southern sympathies, were drawn to Virginia by his admiration and thirst Cor knowledge of Gen. Robert E. Lee, »nd Gen Stonewall Jackson, and then completely won by the warm-hearted hospitality and courtesy of the Valley people, are unusual and dramatic in the extreme.The estate was to have been delivered to Winchester last February. It:i of schoolhouscs for the educationthe pooiness heart of Scranton. It consistssalawhich will enable him toiness heart ol sernnui... it u,e wol1i.ncipally of department store build ’ (... .s, bank buildings and other real ite, valued at ?1,250.000, the gross ' ime from Jhis property, however, ig only $50,000. The estate includ-$•25 000 in loans on real estate in an ton, and about $150,000 hi cash, executors, in llieir 20-year admm. atioi). or the •educational funds. Tank, rebuilt and: remodeled much oforiginal Hundley property, there increasing largely the original unt intrusted to their hands, jhn Handley staTted life in Am-a at Washington, the national ital, when a poor Irish immigrant of 10 years. He was born at En-•orthy, county of WeHford. and : the son or a carpenter, although came from a noble family, one ch • gave Ireland great militarywanted to stay at home and vocally j light the batfles on the street corners | far from the sound of the cannon sj roar. Handley’s honesty was never in?- j pugned, but his activities aroused strong antagonisms. So bitter was popular feeling at times that threats were made to lynch Him, and on onePORE ARRES IN BOMBPlans to Destroy SI in Germany, On soner SaysIS FURNISHEDGerman Secret Service. II is Behind PreSenl Opi Uniled Stales.SAN ITATION MEET IN G.Alexandria County Wants a Rcalfh Officer to Devote His AMoi'tum lo Sanitary Matters.New York, Oct. 20.—II plot to hamper the shipme tions of war to the Allies clock-worked bombs on t or propellers of ships, so the ships would be disabl way across the Atlantic, w l ed today in the conlessioi j five men charged in a con I with a United States comn j conspiracy to violate a Fee Following upon the co I Robert Fay, a lieutenant I teenth Saxony Infantry, ted that he came to this i | April through an agreeme I German Secret Service to delay steamers laden witA sanitation meeting was held at he Alexandria Court house last night Among the speakers were Representative C. C. Carlin, Ur. William C. | p'for'the Allies, Willia Woodward of the Washington herd - , o( the Secret Serviidfice, Surgeon L. L. Lumsdcn. u- ^ UnUe(1 guUes ( f charge of .rural sanitation ror th. Houghton a complaint in United States public health service. | ^ ,,ay but foul. othei and R. P. Hough, superintendent of , ^ ^ wJth promot5ng t lonstruction at Fort Myer. | RlJ. The hearing on iA sanitary survey of Alexandr a i ^arge was set for Novem county was proposed by Dr. Hugh .Collins, president of the citizens’ as- : l ay confessed that wsociation at Fort Myer Heights, six battle neld be taUeJ wh month ago. It was sent with approv- er.or officers about a dev - • • up ships; that later his hing to America and ca scheme through was well the German Secret Servi date board of health . This move- j cuihv WeR etiuush mppkw meat is progressing and at the same . ey to act on his own resal to the County Civic Federation , * , . f i i,0 and bv that central body to the eoun-I to Winchester last Febiuni. - he.;]th boar(| with rec0mmendation,sfer by the executors has been - requested by thesfrr by the executors has been requested by the„ up by litigation ,n the Scranton J heaUh* T!li, m„.,.irts, involving, among other things ■ size of the executors’ fees ............. —■ , , mont is nrogressmg anu at me same ey —.........size of the executors fees. ^ ^ ^ ^ I anA that he talked with CThe Handley property, to which Corb(,u Ralph Quick and A. C. pen, military attache, ai -heater falls heir for the erec- ,g ^ supu,.visors toouscs for the euucauoi ,„ now in theBoy.-ed, naval attache of Embassy, about the plan, t refused to have anything it.on the general I Tbe confession of Fay, subject of sanitation. Dr. .Woodward ba(| bc(,n decorated with th jn ‘‘Relations of the District and I foj. fitting in the Cham Alexandria County,” Dr. Lumsdcn on j jn pranCe, covers hi ••Necessity of Sanitary Prohyhix’.s,” j thp’ United States on Apt md Mr. Hough read n paper on “Con- . b!s lviaking clock-work struct ion and Operation of the Septic i sincc tbpn and his activitii I menting with explosives j Hudson river. A quantity SHOOTS BOYS' EYE OUT. i the room occupied by Fa _. j ter L. Scholz in • WeehavBoy of 10. Playing Indian. Fatally i I boxes each containing Wounds Lit He Brother. I of chlorate of potash, us _ing so-called sugar bombsNew York, Oct. 25.—Hearing a shot j house on the Hudson had as* he passed a house in East Six- j after the arrest nf the tpenth street Sunday night. Patrol-j Sunday. Schulz, a brothc man Terry Smith, went in. and on the! Fay. is a mechanic.third floor, found Angelo Rinaudo, 10 Two other men were ayears old. crying and holding upon his I tc1-day and another, makiH • gave x11.mini ........years um. » i \ ..._ ......... -tains and in the fourth century I )ap bis baby i,rothc-r Antonio, aged ii..imIIqv mbip to this .n't... .l.ln».Ldllis* ••• ---- .mg. When Handley came to this on in the eighties he impressed a being descended from a proud mighty! race. .smiley followed the carpenters e in daytime and studied law at t by candlelight after locating at hington in 1854. His quick Irish made him. ’ an . apt law student, tit 1857 he married a widow wholap his baby tnovnc-i- Antonio, ugra ; was named in the cornpl 2. The elder boy was holding a piece j bali nol keen apprehendc of cloth over the right eye of the j -*.........arrests were:younger. j pauj Deaeh, Jersey vit;“Him got sore eye.” was the first I ^ hg waR a gra(]ualcexplanation Angelo offered. ^ i University and-come towhen the policeman found that the j |nlfl2.boy’s eye hud been shot out the bro- j *•ther confessed that he had found a , Dr. Herbert kienzle, -pistofon the street and. playing, ‘‘in- ■ manager of a c.oek comp»!( lie um.»-.......— . jdians, with Antonio in bed, had ac-j in the complaint withae son, a child of feeble mind, j ^nUllc discharged the weapon. The , in procuring explosive morward moved lo Scranton, tak- bu)]et ha(J lodge(1 in ,he bark „f the | by Fay. committed to th child’s brain, and he probably will die. I examination on XovembeI vt** ill 1“^ ~ivith him his bride and her son lived happily there for years prospered. Handley and his wife had some disagreement over the agement of the boy. which led to • separation. Mrs. Handley left nton and died in 1S91 at Augusta, leaving a large fortune. It has •rally been supposed that Hand-j ; treatment at the hands of thej inton people, which led him to j e his fortune to Winchester, was! nptd by his domestic troubles, but j is far from being correct, nndley’s first clash with Scran-.] people came durmg the Civil War iod. He was regarded by many as j 'rebel spy1' and - disloyal to the 1 re which the people or Tennsyl-1. ia held to be right. Hostility to-, •d him was increased by his ac-' tics as a practicing lawyer before Draft Commission, a body to re-] it the Union armies. By his wit and j iliancy, he secured the discharge; m military service in the field of ny who. while clamoring for war,REMSCHELL SERVICE LINE COMME OPERATION ON STREETS THIS MORN StationService operates between King and Fairfax Stre ,d Rosemont, every 20 minutes, stopping at alliiors lo pick up and let off passengers. Fare 5 cents.
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Alexandria Gazette
Alexandria, Virginia, US
Tue, Oct 26, 1915
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