Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-10-13
NEWS OF THE DAY

| NEWS OF THE DAY
Sitting on his fathers knee watch
| ing a baseball game at Gillespie, nea
Springfield, ILL.,, Thomas Fisher, age
5, was struck and died almost IN
stantly.j
His mind unbalanced as a resul
of oyerstudy, in an effort to pass
law school examination, Charles Ger
son, 20, hanged himself in the celia
! of his home, in Philadelphia, yesterda,
When posse went to the home 0
Daniel Sims, yesterday, to arrest hin
for shooting to death Homer de Baum
druggist of Cornishville, KY, OF
Saturday they found he had committee
suicide by hanging himself. He had al
so shot himself in the head befor'
losing consciousness from strangula
! ton.
Russian troops have broken thu
Austro- German front on the Strypi
River in Galicia, it was announced
yesterday in Petrograd. The left wing
of the Cars army has captured SIX
ty officers, 1000 men, four cannons
and ten machine guns. The offensive Is
continuing, the enemy falling back te
positions behind the Strypa.
Great Britain has served all
diplomatic relations with King
Ferdinand's government. The Bulgar-
ian minister to London was handed
his passports, yesterday, and will
leave tomorrow. The British minister
to Sofia, has received his passports
and left the Bulgarian capital yester-
day.
Two tiie usand and fltty-six persons
were killed and 1886 injured on rail-
roads in the United States in the three
months ending with June 30, accord
ing to statement of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. AS compar-
ed with the corresponding quarter
of 1914, these figures show a decrease
of 16 in the number of killed and 1892
in the number injured.
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of
President Wilson, who sang at con-
cert in Buffalo last night, categori-
cally denied reports from Chicago,
that she is to wed Frank E. Compton,
a publisher, Seen at her hotel, Miss
Wilson said: "You know those reports
have been denied all summer" "Then
there is no truth to the reports? ?" she
was asked. absolutely"
Premier Brritaino of Roumania, has
given the Italian government to un-
derstand that Roumanian cooperation
on the side Of the entente may be
considered certain, says a special dis
patch from Rome. The Roumanian
government, however, will choose its
own time for taking the field against
the Austro- Germans.
The PolitiHen of Copenhagen, says
that British submarines in the Baltic
Sea are causing the German mercan-
tile feet great losses. give steamers
are now known to have been sunk. ="
says the newspaper, GLOW many Brit
ish submarines have got through the
narrow sound is not known, but it is
evident that Germany was too late in
laying the Baltic mine fields
Ambassador Morgenthau, at Con-
stantinople, reported to the State De-
partment yesterday that he mas
sacres Of Arncnians in Asiatic Tur-
key have been resumed since Bull
garias entrance into the European
war. The Ambassador stated that
the majority of the Armenians in
Asiatic Turkey already have been
slain.
The Austrian city of Gorilla, 90
miles northwest of Trieste, is about
to fall. The Italians, have brought up
a large number of neavy guns and
are bombarding the town from five
different points. At the same time
the Italians are attacking the inner
defenses of Tolmino, while on the