Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-09-20

Sonora Luz Aspiroz de Rivera,
well known in WASHINGTON when her
father was Minister from Mexico
committed suicide yesterday in Mexl-
CO City by taking laundanum. Her
father had a prominent part in the
court-martial which condemned Maxi
milan to death.
Before he could carry out threat
to kill his wife, several members OF
his family and himself, Garnet Nolan
81, prominent planter residing &c
miles south of Yazoo City, Miss, was
shot and instantly killed by his SIS
ter-in-law, Mrs. R. D. Strong, at MS
home late Saturday night.
William E. Mooney, farmer who
never wore shoes except in winter
died Saturday night at his home, m
Union, N. j., at the age of ninety
two. He ascribed his longevity to his
custom of going about in his bare feet
MONEYS death was due to injury
on Labor Day, when he fell and frac-
tured his right hip.
Ninety persons were killed in the
wreck of a military train near Saltii-
10, Mexico, Wednesday. The train
carried large body of Carranza
troops and left the track at point
near a canyon, precipitating two
coaches with their occupants to the
rocks below. Soldiers. women camp
followers and children were ground
t, pieces in the derbis.
fhe proposed mammoth loan to
Great Britain and France, it was re-
ported last night, is to be underwrlt-
ten by a large syndicate of Ameri-
can fnanciers and bankers, who are
to receive commission for their SER
vices. The securities offered, it was
said will be British and French 8
per cent. government bonds, and the
price to the investor is to be par.
Ankedwycke the historic mansion
at Wraysbury, England in whose
grounds King Henry VIII. wooed An
re Boleyn, was destroyed yesterday
ty fire. The house was built around
the ruins of one of the most famous
pricries of the Middle Ages, found
ed in the reign of Henry II. Adjoin-
ing the property is Runnymede Mea-
low, where the barons forced King
John to grant the Magma Charta.
Capt. Philip M. Lydig, who arrived
IN Paris from London for a weeks
stay during which he hopes to visit
the French front, said that although
he had left Russia six weeks ago, he
could, nevertheless vouchsafe for the
seriousness of the holy war under.
Gar Nicholas Capt. Lydig said that
courtesy as well as incompetence"
prevented him from commenting up
IN the Russian military situation.
Herr Won Jagow. the German for
eign minister, in an interview to the
representative of a news agency, eX-
pressed confidence that through the
Instructions given to German subma-
inc commanders and the precautions
low being taken, the possibilities OF
further Incidents in connection with
German submarine activity, which
might disturb the relations between
he United States and Germany viz
tually had been eliminated.
Paul Maroni, Vincenzo Borrelll
and Giovannia Verugino, laborers in
keystone quarries, below Port De-
oosit, Md, we're drowned Saturday
night in the Susquehanna river at
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
bridge. The three and another man
had been cruising around the Chesa-
neake Bay all day in a motorboat
They were within sight Of home, east
Of Garrett Island, when they struck
submerged rock and the boat was
literally torn to pieces. The fourth
member of the party reached shore