Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-03-28

mine shortly after leaving port and
that only 70 of those on board wero
saved.
! From one-eighth to one-tenth Of
the State of Wisconsin is suffering
from floods. There have been eight
deaths, scores of miles of railroad
trackage is tied up by wash-outs, and
the danger is ecomirs greater every
moment.
DR.. Arthur Warren Waite made a
statement in his prison room at Bel
levue Hospital in New York to his
brother, Frank A. Waite, in which
he is reported to have confessed to
the murder of his millionaire father
in.law, John E. Peck.
General Pedro Gozman and %
others, all members of a Villa band,
were killed in battle Saturday in the
neighborhood of Laguna and Dinami-
ia. In this action between CaranZa
forces and bandits 10 prisoners were
taken and summarily executed by
hanging.
All American passengers aboard
the steamship Sussex, blown up in
the English Channel, are safe, &C
cording to an official announcement
made by the American Embassy in
Paris. Several of the Americans, how
ever, suffered serious injuries in the
disaster, but it is thought that all
will recover.
An ultimatu mdemanding the resig-
nation and exile of Yuan Shi Kai
and the execution Of twelve Of his
advisers have been handed to the
Yuan Shi Kai government by the
military governor Of the revolving
Chinese provinces, according to cable
advices to the Chinese Republic As
ISOLATION in San Francisco. -
Roiting started afresh yesterday in
Wilkesbarre, Pa, when two trolley
cars were attacked by mob of sew
cral hundred. The crews of both cars
dragged to the street and beaten and
the cars were wrecked with fusill-
AIDE of stones, bricks and clubs. No
arrests were made.
When d carload Of steel shipped
from Youngstown, Ohio, to a carriage
goods concern at Cortland, N. Y,
was opened yesterday the body of
Frank Carroll, of Syracuse, N. Y,
was found in the car, dead from
was found in the car, dead from
starvation, and frozen stiff. The car
left Youngstown March 6, and came
through with seals unbroken.
William Pasco, a tcamstcr, Of
Chaddsford, Delaware county, Pa,
applied for raise in pay at the OPP
ening of his employers office yester-
day, and gave as his reason the birth
of bankruptcies at his home. Three
girls and boy were born during the
night, and all arc alive and apparently
in the best Of health. Twin boys were
born to Mrs. Pasco Is months ago,
these having been their only children
before the advent Of the four:
The Mexican Minister Of War, Gen.
Gavira, describes another severe de-
feat inflicted on the Villa bandits in
the ncghborhood of Namiuipa, Villa
and his followers were said TO be sur
rounded. In the skirmish, the adviccs
say, thirteen bandits were killed and
100 horses and Il number Of stands
of arms were captured. Gen. Gavir'
: declares in his dispatches that Villa
was being so closely harasscd as to
! make his capture q question Of only
Il short time.
Less than 2 feet Of reinforced lev.
ccs at Columbus, Ohio, last night
damned the rising waters OF the
Scioto River and prevented flood
which earlier in the day had threat,
cncd to equal that Of 1913, when IS
residents Of the West Side Of Col
umbuS were drowned and hundreds
Of homes swept away. Thousands OF
persons moved from their homes tt
high ground yesterday. Chances fav,
or passing of the floods crest with
out break in the leyees.
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