Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-09-07


Capt. William Mendin, Of Mobile;
Cook George Olsen, of Pensacola, and
six of the. crew of the fishing schoon-
er John S. Whilden, of Mobile. were
drowned when hurricane hit the
vessel off the Florida coast near
Apalachicola Sunday.
Two men, riders of a motorcycle
that crashed at high speed into an
automobile truck were killed early
last night at Mobile, Ala, and two
who were passengers of a side car
on the motorcycle were injured one
probably fatally.
Six second cabin passengers, six
third cabin passengers and thirteen
of the crew Of the steamer Hesper-
ian, torpedoed $50 miles off Queens
town Saturday evening are unac-
counted for. 1t is now mooted ques-
ton whether the Hesperian was
struck by torpedo OF mine.
A dispatch to the Paris Temps
from Dedeagatch says Turkish
colonel gives the strength Of the Of
toman army now as $4,000 Turkey
100000 men and has lost
hearly 100000. There are 100000 at
the Dardanclles, 100000 on the eau
casus front, 10000 in Constantinople,
$4,000 at Adrianople. and 100000 in
Syria and Asia Minor.
The Russians it is reported have
evacuated Dago. The Germans claim
Of the Gulf Of Riga. Re-
ports from all regions affected by
the invasion describe the unprece-
dented movement of tens of thou
sands of refugees. On the Warsaw
IL oscow road alone fully 5000 per-
sons are proceeding from the Cholm,
Lubin, and Lomaz Provinces.
Three women were almost instant !
y killed and two men injured, pro-
cably fatally, when the automobile |
in which they were riding was struck
by northbound interurban car al
a street crossing in Wyandotte, a !
suburb of Detroit, Mich, yesterday. |
The automobile IS believed to have be- !
come stalled on the car tracks. 1t
was carried 80 feet and demolished. ,
An earth shock Of extraordinary !
violence was recorded last night on
seismographs at Georgetown Univer
sity in Wash. The disturbance began
at 9:17 O'Clock. A violent volcanic
disturbance. Of two hours duration
coming from a point apparently B.
700 miles northwest of st. Louis, was
recorded by the seismograph at the
St. Louis University Observatory
last night. Twenty-threc distinct (!
shocks were recorded. /
Judge Willis S. Knowles, Of the
Eighth District Court of Rhode Is
and. was shot and killed in Scituatc,
about five miles from Providence
Yesterday by an unknown person. The
police have placed under arrest two
Italians in connection with the muir !
Ter. The district is thickly populated
with Italians and it is said Judge !
Knowles incurred their hatred by i'm |
posing on several Italians heavy fines
for violations of the Massachusetts |
game laws.
81 am glad | killed her." boasted !
Giovanni Viglione, aged q, after three
women had dramatically described III
The Central Police Court OF Phlladcl- |
phia yesterday how he had murdered
his pretty 23-year old sister Antoin-
cite by shooting her three times as
che sat in their Fitzwater street
home Sunday night. He explained
that he had killed the girl because
he feared she was living life that
would bring disgrace upon herself
and him.
Twenty persons were injured, three
fatally, when an aeroplane dashed
into crowd Of people at a Labor day
last night at Washington
Ind. Oscar Cook, Chicago aviator.
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