Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-11

terriar III the lower Adriatic ses
Thaifasday.
It was officially announced last
| night in. Queenstown, that Thomas
| Rent, another Of the Irish rebel lead
king Alfonso declared that Spain will
On opening the Spanish Parliament
| King Alfonso declared that Spain
maintain its neutrality and aid any
possible way towards bringing to an
end THE War.
The steamer Roanoke, which left
san francisco, at midnight, May 8,
for Valparaiso, fouindered at sea
about: 16o' miles south Of San Francis
CO. Three survivors have arrived at
San Luis obispo,, Cal.
Dr.. H. L. Donsife, at one time a
prominent physician Of Frederick,
Nd, died yesterday at Montevue
Hospital as tRisF result Of Being scald-
ed in. a bathtub. Whether he turned
on, the hot water to end his life or
/ did SO accidentally could not be learn
| ed.
| Demterio de Id Cara, noted bad
man of the Big Bend country. and
reported leader of the Glenn Springs
raiders, was killed in fight with
two American caSairymen at Deem
ers, Tex Tuesday. De la Cara open
| ed fire on the troopers and was rid
died With bullets after a sharp fight,
The Democratic State Convention
of Connecticut yesterday adopted re-
solutions indorsing the Administers
ton Of President Woodrow Wilson
aid ihstrdctihg the Connecticut del
egs;ai1tes to vote for his reformation
and also that Of Thomas r. Marshall
for vice President.
White en- route from Fort Mycr,
Alexandria county, to the. summer
camp at Tobyhanna, Pa 500 United
States regulars of the Third Field
Artillery were stopped at Reading
and ordered to leave at once for the
Mexican order. Tie force consists of
Batteries D, E, and F, under COM
| nand' of Maj. Manus McCloskey.
w. r. Baird, Pittsburgh coal cp-
orator and formerly president of the
Interstate Young Mems Association
including West Virginia, Maryland,
! New Jersey and the District Of Col
umbia was found dead in a hotel at
Marietta, Ohio, yesterday. Police be-
lieve he fell in a fainting spell and
was choked to death by a tight col
lar which he wore.
George Buesing, formerly of Bal
timore, cut his throat from ear to
ear with a razor yesterday at Fred
erick, Nd, and bled to death. Buesing
had been married only about a month
and was out Of a job and respondent.
Recently he was notified that S. Of
an estate was due him, but he did not
have 10 cents to pay for the affidavit
and was forced to borrow the money.
Manufacturing bakers at a confer
cnce with committee representing
the women who declared a boycott
and picketed bakeries in the Jewish
quarters of Pittsburgh, because the
; price of bread was advanced last
night agreed to acede to the demands
OIL Inc HOUSEWIVES anu puo ei'S I'
back to the former figure. The boycott
, was at once declared off.
The Bull Moose party will ask the
Republican and Progressive Nation
al convention at Chicago on June 7
to nominate Theodore Roosevelt. for
President and Charles Warren Fair
ranks for vice-presidcht. This was
decided upon yesterday at an all-day
session of TIL, Progressive National
Executive Committee in New YORK.
and issued later in the form OF a
statement by Chairman George W.
Perkins.
Secretary of State Lansing yester-
: day made public a note from the I'M
perial Government admitting that a