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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17
Attempt to Smash Communi-
cation Lines and End
Campaign
ATTACK BABWNA PASS
Outcome Of Fierce Conflict Yet in
Doubt and Reinforcements Rush
cd to Oppose Allies.

London, Nov. IT, phree great bat
ties are raging today in southern
Serbia.
The capture Of Bapuna Pass north
of Prilep by the Bulgarians from the
Serbs. as reported from Athens is be-
lieyed to be preliminary to drive
upon Monastir.
About Strumnitza the Anglo
French expedition is attacking IN
force and the outcome hangs in doubt
Military experts here say that cap
ture of Strumnitz will cut the Bull
oar line of communications and open
the way for the Anglo-Frcnch to drive
upon the Nish Constantinople ra!-
road to block the Austro-Gcrman ad-
rance.
The attack also is designed to up
set the Macedonian campaign of the
Bulgars.
At Veles, French troops are direct
ing fierce attack along the Var
lar river. Bulgar re-enforcemcnts
have been rushed to the city's defense
and the outcome is still! in the bal
ance
Athens, Nov. H. Overwhelming
the Serbs north of Prilep, Bulgarians
entered Babuna pass today.
Small bodies of Serbs are still de-
Tending some of the heights, but the
Serbian loss of the pass exposes
Prilep to speedy capture. It's inhabl-
tants are fleeing southwark
With Prilep in their hands, the
Bulgars' natural next objective will
be Monastir, twenty-five miles south.
Hugh losses on both sides marked
the Babuna pass fighting. Strategy.
cally the position is one of the most
important in southern Serbia. 1t has
been bitterly contested.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17
WILSON'S CRITIC RESTORED
President Orders Him Reinstated III
Postal Service

Washington. Nov. l7.-Defnite in
structions went from the White House
to the Postoflice Department yester,
day to reinstatc George Burkitt. IL
assistant postmaster ut Winnetka. H.,
regardless of what other charges. in
addition to that Of criticising the
President for his engagement, were
pending against him.
The instructions sent to the Post
Office Department were that Burkltl
should be rcinstated if no other char
geS were pending against him. Yes
terday. the question was taken NJ
again. and as result orders were
issued rhat he be reinstated uncondi-
tionaIly without further delay. Any
other charges against Burkitt prob
ably will be investigated by post
Office inspectors later.
Assistant Postmaster General Ro-
per at once telegraphed instructions
for the immediate reinstatement OF
Burkitt.
Chicago, Nov. l7.-Gcorgc Burkitt.
who was ordered reinStated as as
sistant postmaster at Winnetka. "
suburb. by President Wilson yestcr-
day. returned to his post yesterday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17
TORTURED AND SHOT
piIlista Indians Reported to Have
Killed American

/ 2, Paso, Tex, Nov. l7-Tortures
after being stripped and forced to
walk 5 miles across desert while
suffering from thirst, Joseph W. Tays
is reported to have been robbed and
killed by Villista Indians near San
RlaZ Mexico. Protests that he was
an American citizen were not needed:
according to letter from Tays fathef
received by local relatives ane
made public. The execution took place
! in September, the letter stated.
| According to the letter dated Sep
tcmber 20, Tays set out Tor Los
Mochis 25 miles away, on September
Is in company with four companions
and three Indian teamslers. They
;; were met by 500 Indians of the Villa
faction and made prisoners. Despite
his protest of American citizenship.
they were forced to march naked and
afoot 5 miles across the desert to the
camp of Bachomo, Indian bandit
chieftain.
Tays and his companions begged
for water and their entreaties only
brought forth thrusts of rerolvers
in their sides. All the while the H.
dams dangled full canteens before
their famished captiveS. On arrlv-
ing at the camp of the Indian leader.
the American and his companion were
robbed of 5000. Then they were lined
up and shot. The Indian teamsters
fied but ore was killed in trying tc
make his escape.
The father, accompanied by sever
armed americans. visited the scene OF
the tragedy next day, but was un.
able 10 recover the body Of his son.
Two days later Bachomo sent word to
Tays that he would kill him too if he
persisted in searching for his SON:
body.
Three Americans were killed it is
said in the interior of Mexico recent
ly.
The Americans reported killed were
Maurice Free and Charles Colds
borough. slain November a, a: Gatcva
and w. S. Windham, killed at QUINN
CHS Topic.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17

The amazing ruscs employed by
female spies attempting to cross the
Austro-Swiss frontier are revealed. IL
= dispatch from Geneva. The Aus
trian military authorities force al.
women travellers to disrobe since II
was discovered that military docu-
ments had been concealed be-
meath porous plaster on the back
Of one Of the spies.A woman. who bore
her arm in sling, was found t" ne
carving a message in a small tube
inserted in wound on her arm. ~.
women travellers are led by Ifema'c
attendeants into a bathroom. where
thew are stripped and scrubbed, with
Int water. Frequently this reveals
small pieces of very thin tissue paper
unon which are written Dli!itary see:
rets. Often thin strips Of tissue paper
have been found stuck to women
bodies or hidden. beneath cosmetics.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17
ROBBERS GET S3.075.
Dynamite Safe in the st. Michaels
Md, Postoificc.

st. Michaels, Md Nov. 17.-Yegg-
men broke into the St. Michaels post
Office earl y yeste Hay morning, dyna-
mited the safe and secured about
$4,000 worth of stamps and about S73
in money. The Toulouse of the section
foreman at the B., C.. & A. R. R.. sta
tion was also broken into and the mo-
tortruck car stolen, it is supposed.
by the gang, the truck being used to
make their getaway. The work was
evidently done by experienced ysggs.
A crowbar stolen from the same tool
house was used in gaining an en-
trance to the resr of the po,toffice.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17
MURDER SUSPECTED
Finding of Human Foot on City
Dumping Grounds in Atlanta
Creates Mystery.

Atlanta, Noe. 1.-THE finling by
negro boys of a human foot on city
dumping grounds in the outskirts OF
Atlanta has led police inveStiga
ton. which disclosed other pieces of
human flesh the trunk and thigh. The
foot and other flesh appeared to be
that of white woman. The police
theory that woman had been mur.
dered and parts of her body hidden
in tie garbage pile apparently was
strengthened by statements OF three
negro women living nearby that
early Sunday morning cab dashed
past their homes and they heard :.
woman scream for help.
Detectives later found pieces of Il
womans clothing near where the hu-
man remains lay, hut were unable to
discover other human parts. The
clothing appeared to have been hack
ed up with Il sharp instrument. Search
is being made tonight for cabman
who might have passed that section
early Sunday.
Atlanta. Nov. 1.-THE finding Of
parts Of a woman's body on the city
dump heaps last night was explain
ed today when 4 surgeon identified the
parts as those amputated from a wo-
man injured in a street car accident.
Her husband failed to bury them a.
directed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17

lntanity is on the increase in Vir-
ginia, according to the annual re-
nort of the Eastern State Hospital at
williamsburg, which was submitted
to Governor Stuart yesterday by Dr..
George w. Brown, superintendent OF
that institution. DR.. Brown stresses
the need of additional accommoda-
tions for the insane in his report. set
ting forth the fact that the hospital
is now taxed to its capacity, having
eighty-seven more patients than dur
ing the previous year.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17
SINKING OF THE ANCONA.
Austrian Statement Places RespOn-
sibility of Loss of Life upon
Officers and Crew.

Vienna. Nov. 1.-THE full report
of the commander of the submarine,
which recently sank the Italian liner
Ancona in the Mediterranean has not
been received, but the report, on which
the statement sent out Sunday by the
!Austro- Hungarian admiralty was bas-
ed, showed. according to authorita-
tive officials that the loss of single
life was unnecessary.
1t is alleged that the crew of the
Ancona were panic stricken from the
beginning and actually lowered life
boats while the ship was moving Il
miles an hour. These boats naturally
were swamped. but it is asserted that
there were still enough lifeboats tc
save everybody.
Furthermore, the charge is made
thatithe members of the crew premp
ted the boats and rowed far from the
steamer, the captain Of which hat
been allowed almost 80 minutes fol
the safe removal of those aboard.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17
ATTEMPT TO FIRE TRAINS.

Hoboken. n. j.. Nov. lT.-Thrce
attempts were made within an hour
last night OF set fire to two strings
of freight cars lined up in the Eric
yards at Weekawken. containing five
hundred horses awaiting shipment to
the allies. The watchmen who dis.
covered the fires spied three men in
he yards. gave chase and fired sew
oral revolver shots. but the fugitives
made good their escape.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17
BISHOP THOMAS LETTER.
Takes Issue with British Government
In Impeding Emigration.

Dublin, Nov. IT. : Rev. Edward
J Thomas. the Catholic bishop of Lin
| erick has written the following letter
to the Munster News, which has been
republished in other Irish newspap-
ers:
"The treatment which poor Irish
; emierant lads have received at Liver
pool, is enough tc make an lrishman's
blood boil. What have they done I'd
deserve insults and outrage at the
hands of a brutal English mob?
"They don't want to be forced into
the English army and sent to fight
battles in some part of the world.
They are supposed to be free men,
out they are made to feel that they
are prisoners who may be compelled
to lay down their lives for cause
that is not worth three rows Of nine
pins to them.
''These poor Connought peasantl
know little or nothing of the mean
ing of war. They much prefer to be
allowed to till their own potato gar
dens in peace. 1t seems Il cruel wrong
to attack them because they cannot
rise to the level of the new imperial
ism of T. P. O'Connor and the rest
of the new brigade.
''What have they done, or what
have their forefathers ever got from
England, that they should die foi
her?
"Mr. Redmond will say that the
home rule act is on the statute book.
but any intelligent Irishman will say
it is simulacrum of home rule, with
express notice that it is never to
come into operation.
"This war may be just or unjust.
but any fair minded man will admit
it is EngIand's war. not !rcland's
Yet the poor fellow who don't sec
the advantage of dying for such a
cause are to be insulted as Shirkers
and Cowards
"If there is to be conscription, lei
it be enforced all around. but it seems
to be intensely an injustice to leave
the English shirkers by millions tc
go free and coerce the small remnant
of the Irish race into war which
they don't understand"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17
DEATH SENTENCE FOR~ SPIES
Factory Superintendent and Former
Railroad Employee Before
Court Martial

Amsterdam. Nov. l7-lnformatlor
received to-day from Brussels sale
that at a recent court-martial ut Maui
bcuge, Northern France. Eugene D.
Halliun. a factory superintendent. ant
A. Chile Coucedan. former rail,
road employee. were sentenced Il
death for espionage. Five persons.
including two women; were sentenc-
ed TO long terms in prison, and man!
other to short terms on :! similar
charges.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

On account of changes to be made
in our switchboard it will be nee
essarv for us to shut down the flant
on Sunday. November q, from $50
a. m. until noon.
Alexandria County Lighting 90.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17

NGtice III State TaXpayers-l am
Row prepared to receive the State
take: for the year 1915. The atten-
uon Of taxpayers is respectfully call
cd 70 the Importance of paying the
same prior to December l, 1915, as
on that date a penalty of FIVE per
ecrS. will he added to all unpaid bills
and their collection enforced as re
quired by law.
THos. w. ROBINSON,
l2-ed-td. City Treasurer
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17
CARDINAL FR0WNS
ON ARMY PLANS
Thinks Nation Faces No
Danger That Militia
Cannot Meet
HONOR ARCHBISHOP
Jubilee Marks Fifty Years as Priest
and Philadelphia Cathedral's An
niversary.
niverSary

Philadelphia, Nov. li--For inc
United States to plunge into hys-
.erical expenditure of money for in
,reasing the army and navy at this
.ime would be folly according to
Cardinal Gibbons, head of the Catho-
ic Church in America, who came to
Philadelphia last night to attend the
fitch anniversary OF the ordlna-
.icn Of Archbishop Prcndergast, which
was held with many ceremonies to-
day. The Cardinals views OF prepar-
edness, as expressed in an interview
given last night, included merely an
increase in the militia of the various
States, with better training than at
present, but he is opposed to pre-
partition for war on a great scale be-
cause, he says, this nation has moth
ing to fear.
The Cardinal made it clear, how
ever. that he is not Il peace at-any
price man. The nation, he said, should
not be made defenuseless, as the eX-
trerne pacifsts demand, but on the
other hand, with nothing to fear, he
said, it seemed to him absurd to
plunge into warlikc preparations.
The Cardinal was the chief Of j
large group Of high church di%nl-
tarics who gathered in Philadelphi"
asst night, preparatory to the magni,
iccnt ceremonies today, He came
here from Baltimore, accompanied BY
archbishop Bonzano, apostolic dele
gate to the United States. Cardina!
Farley also came here from New York
yesterday. Numerous archbiShopS and
bishops also hocked into town. not t..
speak of scores of monsignori and
priests from all parts Of the country.
The celebration today marked the
tiftieth anniversary Of Archbishop
Prendergast's ordination to the prizes:
hood and at the same time the tif-
ticth anniversary of the opening OF
the Cathedral CT SITS Peter and Pau!
on Logan Square. The big Cathedral
had been entirely renovated for the
occasion. and is now one Of the most
beautiful churches in America. es-
| pecially on the inside.
Today's exercises included jubi-
| lee Mass in the morning. preceded b.
Il procession Of the hierarchy and
clergy, numerous receptions will bi
held in the afternoon and the mann
moth Holy Name parade of $4,000
! Catholic men in the evening.
Archbishop Prendergast entertain,
! ed the distinguished visitors at din
/ ner in his residence adjoining the
! Cathedral last night. After the din.
! ner Cardinal Gibbons granted the in
terview in the main reception room
! Of the residence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17

DAMAGE BY ITALIANS
Architectural and Ecclesiastical Land
marks in Gorizis Wrecked by
Shells.

Berlin. Nov. 1.-THE War Office an
nounced that on the western from
an attempt by the French to regalr
possession of trench east of Ecurlf
which they lost on November IA, re-
suited in failure.
In Lens, between October % ano
November u, SO civilians were kill
ed and 55 wounded by French artil
lerv fire. No damage was done, tho
War Office states, to military estab,
lishmcnts.
The text OF the announcement from
the War Office is as follows:
Western theatre OF wal: Three
attempts of the French to recapturt
trenches we took from them north
east of Ecurie on November IA fail,
ed. On the remainder of the front
with the exception Of artillery ans
mine warfare in different sectors,
nothing of Importance occurred.
Repeated bombardments OF Len.
by artillery of the enemy in the perioc
between October % and Novembe.
II have resulted in the death of 333 in
habitants and the injury OF %. Nc
military damage was done.
Balkan theatre Of war: Pursuit OF
the enemy continues vigorously. Yes
terday more than 1000 Servians were
taken prisoners and two machine
guns and three cannon were captur'
ed"
Dispatches received here as @iveI
out by the Overseas News Agency
furnish additional details Of the dam
age inflicted by the Italian lombard
ment Ct Gorilla. Shells struck the ia
NOUS tomb of Count de Chambord
the French Legitimist prince, some
times styled King Henry Y, who dice
in exile in Austria. The Sacr!sty o:
the Gorilla Cathedral was dcmolish-
ed. The Church Of Monte Santo wa
burned to the ground. rs was half o.
the convent of the Ursuline nuns.
Various other churches were dam.
aged or destroyed and manyl art trea.
surcrs were lost. Pictures in IN,
Franciscan Church of CastagnaviZzt
were riddled with shrapnel shot. Two
bombs fell among groups OF chill
dren. causing the death of eight OF
them.
The Austrian Hungarian army hea'
quarters reports of November l6
as received here says: in the NORTH
section Of the Doberdo highland. the
engagement continued day and night
One the north slope of Monte Sar
Michele, the Italians several times
entered the .Austro-H Hungarian posi-
tions at night, but have been almos
completely elected from them.
| ''In the Balkan theatre. the Austro
, Hungarians are advancing everywher
They have reached the district O
Uvae, Cigota Planina and the Javo1
heights. .
; THE German detachments O
General Koevess have advanced ol
both sides of the road running from
Kralievo to Novipazar and have takel
IUsice. The Austro- -Hungarians fur
ther eastward near Babica have eros
,sed the road from Raska to Kursum
:lya and stormed Servian trenches OF
the Lucak Mountain. They took a
prisoners three officers and 40 me
/! and captured one machine gun. Th
German and Bulgarian troops are al
! preaching from the north and east t.
point of iuction at Kursumlva.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17

Finest quality Of salt water oyS-
tiers received tri weekly by Steamers.
Quality unexcelled. shucked and sold
bv. J. l.. DELLA, 325 Qneen ST. Bell
Phone S70-J.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17

An oyster supper will be given al
Christ Church Parish Hall Thurs
day evening from ) 10 8 for the .bene-
fit of the Emmanuel Chapel, Braddock
Heights. Supper 2jc.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-17
DEATH NOTICE.

JOHN 7. RAFFERTY,.
at lO:45 a. m. Wednesday morning
Funeral from 715 King street, 9
o'clock Thursday morning. Friends
and relatives invited to attend.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
Reading Girl Killed in
Automobile Accident
BY Associated Press

Reading, Pa, Oct. lone girl is
dead and four of her companions are
in a hospital as the result of the wreck
of their automobile on the wyomissing
bridge. located in suburb, early this
morning. The dead: Miss Mamie
Fisher, killed instantly.
The injured: Solomon Cook, this
city, serious internal injuries; Jesse
Houck, decorations on face and body;
Florence Painter. serious internal in
juries; Mary Moore, serious internal
injuries
Eye witnesses to the accident say
that the car was travelling at a high
rate of speed when 1t ran into the rail-
ing of the bridge. The car turned
turtle and was burned.
SAILING VESSEL SUNK
By Associated Press
London, Oct. 1.-The sailing vessel
Helen Beyon has been sunk. Her
crew was saved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
S. P. C. A. Notes

If no one else is thankful for the
recent wet SPELL" the horses are,
according to the agent of the Harris
burg S. P. C. A. Because of the in
clement weather horses are enjoying
an enforced rest which is doubtless as
grateful to them as it is money-losing
for contractors. Horses. like people.
work all the better for not overriding
and many a scraggy animal is putting
on flesh because of the rains.
Senator Vest. in his "Eulogy on the
Dog" says: IF fortune drives the
master forth an outcast in the world,
friendless and homeless, the faithful
dog asks no higher privilege than that
Of accompanying him to guard against
danger, to fight against his enemies,
and when the last scene of all comes
and death takes the master-there by
his graveside will the noble dog be
found, his head between his paws, his
eyes sad but open in alert watchful-
ness, faithful and true even to DEATH"
1t would seem that Harrisburg mas
ters i'll repay their faithful dogs. One
of the recent prosecutions of the
S. P. c. A. was because a man threw
an ice tong at a dog and the prong
dug a hole in its head. garbage
man also broke dogs leg by hitting
1t with his can.
In view of the thousands of horses
being sent to Europe, it is comforting
TO learn from Edward Fox Saintsbury.
an Englishman who has seen much of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
When the Elements Have Hands and Feet

Many natural philosophers of our
life upon this planet was fortuitous
occurrence-that 1t was as accidental
as the fall OF a die, or as the profile
of the rocks-entirely the result of the
blind hit-and-miss method of Nature
as seen in the inorganic world. In the
last analysis, according to this view
we are all merely molecular accidents.
Let us see in what sense, if any, this
may be true. To come at the truth in 1t
we must look upon the fortuitous and
the accidental, not as they occur in a
world of mechanical movements, but
in a world of chemical reactions. The
fortuitous among chemical bodies is
quite a different thing from the for
tuitous among ponderable bodies.
We might shake together the parts
of a watch for all eternity and not
get that adjustment of the wheels and
springs that makes a watch. If a
thousand of brick are dumped upon
the ground, is there any probability
house? Or il the letters of the alpha
bet are shaken up together in a bag,
is there the slightest cnance that they
will arrange themselves into WORDS
and that the words will arrange them
selves into intelligent sentences In
all these things the parts have no at
traction for one another, but among
chemical compounds out of which liv-
ing bodies are built up, there rules the
selectiYe force of chemical affinity. The
clouds are ever changing, but they
never change into living rorms. The
waves shift and pile the sands end
lessly upon the shore, but the shore
is always essentially the same. Gravity
is the ruling force. But among chemi-
cal bodies a new force appears;
chemical affinity is here the determin-
ing factor. The law OF probability
plays a secondary part. Spontaneous
combustion, for instance, is molecu-
lar accident only in limited sense.
The antecedent conditions may be in
a measure accidental, but the chemi-
cal reactions that bring about the rise
of temperature to the point of COM
bustion are not accidental; they inhere
in the constitution of the elements.
Life may be of spontaneous and
fortuitous origin in the same sense;
not a meer chance happening among
unrelated bodies, but the continuation
of long-antecedent conditions brought
about by that mysterious force we call
chemical attraction. This rorce, as 1t
were. gives the elements eyes, and
hands, and feet, and power of choice,
and determines the line of their activ-
tiles. The scientific philosophers find
no tendency or activity IN living mat
ter that they cannot match in the non
living; hence to them there is no diff
ference between the two that expert
mental science can grasp. But behold
the difference to our consciousness.
The difference lies in the purposive
activities of one that is absent from
the other. There is no purpose in
the facets of crystal in 'he sense that
there is purpose in II . forms and
structures of living boGie-. The hinge
OF bivalve has purpose tnat is de-
termined by the needs of the organ
ism: but what purpose have the lines
of cleavage in the rocks or the con-
tours of the hills, or the courses OF