Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-10-19

Five persons were burned to death
! and three injured in a fire IN ilVe-
story Third avenue tenement house on
the upper East Side of New York
Sunday.
Pope Benedict shortly will hold a
consistory at which new Cardinals
will be- created. The consistory prob
ably will take place before Christ
| mas.
Eipht men and two women were
lost when the gasoline schooner Al
lance No. 2, was wrecked on Nal
pass Rock, 6 miles north OF Point
! Arena, Cal, yesterday dense fog
After shooting at mis- son in law
who attempted to interfere, Louis +.
Wade shot and killed his wife at
| Ocean Springs, Miss, Sunday, and
| then committed suicide. Mrs. Wade
had filed suit for divorce
A large German torpedoboat was
run down and cut in two by a Ger
man steam ferry, which left Trelle-
borg, Sweden, Friday night, with al!
lights out. Only five Of the torpedo
boats crew of 45 were saved.
Count Won Bernstorff, the German
Ambassador, announces that an OIL
cial communication from Berlin states
German submarines had recently sunk
twentv-three vessels, including four
transports of the allies, in the Medit-
erranean.
Three men were killed outright and
three injured in an automobile SMASH
near Bryant avenue in the Bronx,
New York, yesterday. The car that
was wrecked contained eight men and
was speeding up Boston road when
it struck a pillar near the lT1th ST..
subway.
|, A national defense program that
probably means an expenditure on the
army and navy Of upward of 81 ,OOo.-
600, 900 in the next six years vii! be
laid before the people by President
Wilson November i. when he goes to
New York, to make his first puniic
| address since the scope of the policy
upon which his administration has
embarked became known.
Robbers, who evidently were fam!l-
lar with the Federal building at Ev-
| ansville, Ind, forced open the safe
| in the Office of the United States in
ternal revenue collector early yes
terday and took $4,000 in emergency
war stamps. The theft was committed
while post Office employees were busy
on the floor below and while the night
watchman was making his rounds.
+, Edward Teare Taubman. Of .Aber,
deem, S. Oak, SD Mason and sovcr,
iegn grand inspector general of tho
Scottish Rite. who suffered a stroke
of paralysis on the train as he near,
| ed Washington Saturday to attend the
| ign grand Inspector general OF the
Temple, Sixteenth and streets. dlet
yesterday morning at George Wash
ington University Hospital.
| According to dispatch from Wen
| ma, Russia inquired informally o
Roumania whether that country woul'
permit the passage of Russian troop
through the Dobrudja district. TIL
4 hOullldindu pliIiiS iliiiISbSi' ~ Li'N
iano. however, declared that it Wa
the firm decision of Roumania to de
!! fend her neutrality most energeticall.
against all armed encroachments.
| Sir Edward Carson, attorney gen
eral. has resigned from the Britls
cabinet. The resignation of S:r I'D
! ward Carson, the first open NANTES
tation of the divergence of view
known to exist among the ministers
} is the result, according to an authori
tative statement not of the controv
ersy over conscription, but OF the cor
dition of affairs in the Near East.