Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-09
NEWS OF THE DAY

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Vice Admiral Rokuro Yashiro'
Japanese minister of marine, touch
ing on the war in speech in the
/ diet today, said: "While the war in
Europe enaures the japanese navy :
duties will continue. In the mean
3 time our fleet, in conjunction with
an English fleet, seeks the Germans
in South American waters
John Biebish.s a farmer fivingl SIX
miles from Norristown, Pa, yester-
dav barricaded himself in his hos'e
and set FIRE to the dwelling. Nelgt-
bors who tried to force an entrance
were driven away with threats to
shoot. and before an overpoWerlng
force could break down the door,
Biebish had been burned to a crisp.
1t is supposed that he suddenly went
insane.
Word was received yesterday al
Lima. Peru, that the mountain town
of Coracora, about 800 miles south
east of Lima, was destroyed by an
earthquake Sunday with several
casualties.
Thirty-four members of the crew
OF the oil steamer Vedra, en- route
from Mexico to Barrow persisted
yesterday when the vessel took hre
and burned The Vedra was sight
ed ablaze off Walney Island. Two
members of the crew were rescued.
,',adiy burned and taken TO Bar
row. The remainder were lost.
The strike which had paralyZed
the coal mines of Colorado COR more
than year was declared 10 be OF
last night by the union miners, in
their convention.
William w. Rockhill. the disting-
guished American diplomat, died
yesterday at Honolulu.
1t was officially announced In ber-
lin yesterday afternoon that Emper-
or William is i'll The announce.
ment states that he is suffering from
feverisk bronchial catarrh. anc|
has. been obliged to postpone for
some days his return to the front
which had been arranged for today
Despite his indisposition, it is said,
he is able to give attention to re-
ports of the war situation from the
chief Of the general staff.
In the possession CT young wom-
an arrested in San Antonio, Texas,
the police yesterday discovered on
the fly leaf of a bible the name
"Dorothy Arnold" written in ink
and hidden by slip of paper over
the inscription. The first endeavol
will be made to have the prisoner
tell where she secured the Biole
and then inquiries will be made OF
the publishing house which printed
it in hope that some clew may be
gained to the whereabouts of he
New York girl who has been mis-
sing for several years.
Baron Takaaki Kato, the foreign
minister. answering an interpelta-
ton IN the Japanese Diet yesterday,
said it had not been decided whether
Japan would return the captured
German base of kiauchau to China.
He added that Japan had made no
promise to any country concerning
Kiauchau Following the surrender
of the German fertilization at Using
tau and the surrounding territory
of Kisuchau, the Japanese embassy
at Washington announced that ia
pan had not altered her intention,
made public at the declaration Of
war by Japan on Germany. of event
ually restoring Kiauchau 20 China.
c. w. johnson, superintendent of
Consumers Chemical Company, was
Killed in the plant at Cart;ret. n j.,
yesterday when his long overcoat
was caught in the flywheel Of some
machinery. The entire machinery
had to be taken apart hsfore his
body could be recovered
A correspondent of the lausanne
Tribune asserts he possesses know