Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-26

ALEXANDRIA GAZE
it had been referred. The minority
report DECLARED that the proposed
step was unconstitutional. President
/ r.. E. Davis, who was to have receiv-
ed a salary of 81, 1850, agreed with the
minority.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was married
at Ellicott City, Nd, Wednesday at
ternoon to Virgil Janias Montani,
son of the late Brigaiier- General
Joseph Montana, of the Royal Italian
Army, and nephew of Comte Esmer,
I.aldo Enrico Milo, Italian minister Of
marine. Mr.. Montani is better knows
as Jack Clifford, his professional
| name for many years. For three sea-
J sons he has been the dancing part
ner of his bride and it was general
ly believed he would wed her when
her marriage bonds with Harry H !.
! 1haw were severed.
Oran Cox, of Chicago, was model
husband and a devoted father, the
widow says, Oran Cox was be-
trayer and an unnatural parent, de-
clares "the other woman" Mrs. Rose
Goldie Krogh, who settled her score
yesterday when she shot Cox dead
just outside the door of his place of
business. "He refused to care for
our child" Mrs .Krogh sobbed after
the shooting. "He laughed at me and
dared me to pull the trigger" Mrs.
Krogh made written confession that
she shot Cox because he refused to
care for their Is month old child.
With two great austrian armies
already on Italian soil, and pounding
furiously at the Italian lines in an
effort to overrun the vast plain OF
northern Italy, the war Office at
Rome last night admitted the sit
uation developed by the Austrian
drive was serious. The intensity of
the Austrian drive is for the NOM
emit, dit least, considerably diminish
ed, and high officials, both minister
ial and military, express utmost
confidence, according to dispatches
from the Italian capital. The ltal-
ian lines are now formed strongly
on line from Arsiero and Aslago,
to the north of those towns. The
Austrians are attacking in three
groups.
Gwendolync Collins, the 10 year
old daughter of Mrs. Anna Collins,
was found dead in her home in Au-
rora, ILL.,, Wednesday night, and Jack
Armstrong, 10 years old, confessed
yesterday the police say, that ne
choked the girl to death through
jealousy. Beside the body was found
a cup of poison, which, the boy said,
he intended to take himself had not
his nerve failed him. Armstrong,
whose real name is believed to be
Verhoe, is said to have attempted to
pursue his courtship after the girl
had tired ofhim. Mrs. Collins found
the body of her daughter on couch
in an unused room of the house. The
room was locked and the keys were
in the lock on the outside.
Dancing, card playing, and theatre
going are still under the ban OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church and
members who indulge in these diver
sions are liable to expulsion under
the laws of the church. The gener.
al conference at Saratoga Springs,
n. Y, rejected yesterday by a vote
of ABA to goo a proposal offered by
minority of the committee on the
state of church recommending that
paragraph 271, which specifically
pronounces against these amuse-
ments and provides penalty for
violation of the rule, be removed. Had
it not been for the solid opposition,
of the negro delegations, the ban
might have been lifted. Nearly every
one of the negro delegates, however
and there are about 100 in the con-
ference, voted against changing thee
paragraph.
The Rev. Charles B. Ackley, vicar