Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-06-18

| Cne BZura 1rOnC, IN POlanu, recently,
a shell exploding close to staff head
quarters and destroying the Emper-
or's motorcar.
F.! Henry Beach Needham, correspon-
dent for Golfers in France, friend of
Theodore Roosevelt, and formerly a
lawyer and news writer Of this city,
was killed yesterday in the fall of a
military aeroplane near the French
trenches.
The Swedish consul at Archangel,
Russia, has been advised by his gov
eminent that the Germans have
mined the entrance to that port,
through which the Russians have
been getting most of their supplies.
Archangel is on the White Sea.
Germany is making strong bids for
the continued neutrality of Roumania
and Bulgaria. Emperor William
has invited the foreign ministers of
both those countries to visit him at
German imperial headquarters for a
personal discussion of the war situa-
ton.
Lightning struck a power mill in
the upper yards Of the Du Pont Co.,
plant at Henry Clay, near Whining
ton, Del, Wednesday night and set
fire to hte building. Employees risk
ed their lives to extinguish the
blaze, which would have resulted in
serious explosion.
To be given 25 lashes across his
bare back and to spend one year in
the House of Correction was the sent
ence melted out yesterday by Judges
Duncan and McLane to Samuel Coop
err, colored, found guilty by the court
of beating his wife, Hattie Cooper, at
their home at Relay, Nd.
Unless immediate aid is extendc,l
by the United States or some other
neutral power, the entire civil Dopu-
lation of Montenegro. comprising
$4,000 people, will face extinction By
starvation. For four months the
little kingdom has been without flour
and GOOD essentials.
There was revolt last Tuesday
on the part Of the inhabitants of
Malines. German soldiers fired into
the crowd, and it is reported that 700
civilians were killed. Since this oc-
currence, according to the traveller
Malines has been isolated by means
of electrified wire fences.
Capt. Ewald Hecker, head of the
German Red Cross in this country,
has produced letter which he says
proves the falsity of the story that
the DR.. Anton Meyer Gerhard, who
recently visited the United States,
was in fact DR.. Alfred Meyer, of the
Berlin war office, who came here to
buy war supplies
w. S. Henry, Amos Smith and
Archie Lee were arrested yesterday
on murder charges in connection
with the wreck near Birmingham,
Ala, Wednesday of Seaboard Air
Line fast passenger train from New
! York. Three persons were killed ir
the wreck, which was attributed by
railroad officials to removal of part
! of the track. The men under arrest
/ live near the scene of the wreck.
Three Turkish troop ships have
! been torpedoed at the Dardanelles by
a British submarine, it is stated in Z
dispatch from Tenedos. A majority
of those on board the transports were
killed. The Turkish ships we're at
tackled in the Golden Horn, the har.
Dor Of Constantinople, by a subma
rine which had passed through thu
Dardanelles and underneath the
Turkish fleet in the Sea of Marmora
John H. Shutz, So years old, ;
farmer of Manchester township. Pa
was found dead yesterday in fielc
near his barn. From the appearance.
of the body and the clothes, which
were torn to shreds, it is believe
that the man was killed by Lightning
, during one of the electrical, storm
, which passed over York county SUN
day. !:
Thomas J. Jarvis. once Minister t
5 Brazil and former member OF t.