Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-13

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of masked men. His body was found
| yesterday swinging from a bridge.
1t is learned that the Lafayette
family has become impoverished by
the war. Having DISPOSED CT all its
available property, it is now offering
for sale the well-knoWn chateau of
Gen. Marquis de Lafayette in Au-
vergne, France. A price OF $4,000.
! is asked.
| When Collector Zerbey went to the
home of foreigner at Summit Hill,
Pa: to collect taxes he was inform
ed by the boarding mistress that she
had no money, but she proposed that
he take one of her numerous children
in payment. But he had five Of his
own, and couldn't.
Since the beginning of the war
fourteen battleships and battle cruis-
ers, all superdreadnoughts, have been
added to the British fleet, as well as
a large number of minor warships de-
signed to meet the demands which
have developed during the course of
the great conflict.
A 1O-horsepowcr boiler which oper-
ated Charles Stffler's sawmill near
Cross Keys, in the vicinity of Altoona
Pa, exploded Thursday, killed two
men and injured four others. How
ard Brubaber, aged Is, Cross Keys,
and William Knott, aged AZ, Altoona,
who We're standing near the boiler,
were beheaded.
The Italian government has agreed
to give the entente allies sufficient
support in the Balkans to assure
complete triumph there This decision
was reached at cabinet council
Thursday night. 1t was agreed that
the Balkan situation had become urg
emit and that action by Italy must be
taken at once.
Bishop Alpheus w. Wilson, is suf-
fering from another attack Of asthma
in Rome, Ga, where he went Monday
to attend the North Georgia Confer
ence Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. The Bishop collapsed
Thursday evening after delivering an
address to the conference, the strain
proving too mitch for his fcebleness
and his 81 years.
President Wilson yesterday took
personal charge Of the investigation
into the charges made by DR.. Joseph
Goricar, former Austrian consul, re-
garding the activities in this country
1t was indicated in official circles that
the President has come to the conclu-
SIGN that supreme effort must be
made to stamp out any propaganda,
inspired by foreign agents, which is
intended to interfere with American
industries.
From injuries sustained in a So
foot fall from window, or the fourth
floor of the Hotel Allen, at Al!cntowr
Pa, John Merton, Of Ward, Della
ware county. a senior in chemistry al
State College, met death early Thurs
day. Merton was one Of party Of
27 students, chaperoned by Dr.. J. B
Churchill, professor of industrial
chemistry, on a trip CT inspection to
industrial plants in the Lehih Valley
and New York State.
People in Germany and Austria are
virtually starving and in many In
stances are forced to eat dead horses
and refuse in order to sustain life,
according to Mrs. Donselo Witowski,
who has just arrived in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Witowski declared that she and
her sister we're forced by the Aus
trians to dig in trenches and that they
assisted the soldiers in throwing up
earthworks to defend Przemysi
against the Russians.
Compressed air pumped into his
body by two practical jokers probably
will cause the death of John WazeE.
SIS years old, of Philadelphia, an en-.
ployea Of the Midvaie Steel Works,
who was taken to the Germantown
Hospital with his body inflated be
yond recognition, Accordin gto the |
physicians, virtually every organ in
Wazck's body was rnptured o.