Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-11-09
! ! NEWS THE 4 Il

It's the secret source, say authorl--.
ties Of the house; of correction in
schicago;. Of the quantities of dream
provoking drugs that are struggled
constantly to prisoner patients in the
~adope cut;so ward of;fthe bridwell.
a prisoner is beings weaned away
from the morphine habit against his
will. Some bright daysa pretty wo-
man comes along He says she is his
wife, or his sister, or some other
near relation. She is overjoyed at
meeting her dear one again, and
naturally she throws her arms around
his neck, pulls him close and plants
long, lingering kiss upon his lips.
The patient shortly afterwards shows
signs of having had access to the
"joy" drugs. The "dope" was slip
ned to him in that long, lingering
kiss, perhaps as much as fifty or
sixty grains.
Rumors have reached Sofia that
the new Russian Dreadnought I'M
peratiza Maria has been sunk with
practically her entire crew by an IN
ternal explosion. The 1mperatlza
Maria was. one of the latest types OF
Russian Dreadnoughts.
IL. The sixty-ffth Congress, accord
ing to present indications will be
Democratic in the Senate and Repub-
lican ins the House. The latest re-,
turns indicate the Democrats will
hold ffty-two seats in the Senate
{ and the Republicans forty-tWo. In
the House of Representatives there
will be 21sS Republicans, PIP Demo-
Gratis, three Progressives, one hide
pendent, one Socialist and one Social
! Democrat.
!: Headquarters of the Antisaloon
League at Westerville, a suburb OF
Columbus, Ohio yesterday reported
it had information that the dry
forces had won Statewide prohibi-
ton fights in five States at yester-
davis election. The States were
Michigan, Montana, South Dakota,
Utah and Observation-Disclosures by
10000. With the addition of these
States Antisaloon League officials
said, "a States, one-half of the Union
are now in the dry column.
Four men engaged in pistol duel
and shot each other to death yester-
day at Magdalen, N. Mex, in
quarrel, which followed an argu-
ment over the election.
Charles Samister, a millowner Of
Manayunk, Pa, was crushed to death
when his automobile turned turtle
while rounding sharp curve on the
Germantown pike, near Philadelphia
early yesterday. Two other occu-
pants of the car escaped.
Inez Milholland Boissevain, famous
New York suffragist, at the point OF
death in Los Angeles according to an
announcement by her physician. Mrs.
Boissevain underwent second blood
TRANSMISSION operation yesterday, and
unless she responds to this, no hope
( is held out for her recovery.
Three persons were killed and sew
eral injured yesterday when an ele-
vator carrying more than a dozen
men and women, fell from a upper
story at the Florsheim Shoe Com
pany,s plant in Chicago.
The. defeat of a British detachment
in Mesopotamia and the destruction
; of a bandit band, which, under pro-
lection of the entente fleet had been
creating terror on the Anatolian
coast, are reported in an official
statement issued by the Turkish war
office.
A, great French ammunition depot
at Cerisy, on the Somme, was de-
stroyed in the raid made on Monday
night by German aerial squadron,
the German War Office announces.
1t is said that a series of fires and
ex plosions was caused by bombs
dropped by the raider. Other aerial
raids on the same night inflicted
damage in about 20 places behind the
French lines where Russian soldiers
were billeted.