Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-20

dam.
The heart of tn Tamaqua, Pa,
business section was swept by ire
yesterday. Two firemen were injur-
ed. The loss was $200,OOU.
It is said that Austria plans to
unite Montenegro and part OF o!d
Serbia in new kingdom under Aus
trian protectorship.
Provisions for The addition of So
900 more men to the British navy Is
looked upon in some quarters as {:
preliminary step toward the laying
of a blockade of the entire German
coast.
One man was killed, one fatally
wounded and number injured, in
riot;ng late yesterday at the plant
of the Edward Valve Manufactur-
ing Company, at East Chicago. The
Edward Valve Company manufac-
lures war munitions.
j. O. Welday, Socialist state chair
man and former high school teacher,
at Oklahoma City, shot and killed
himself yesterday. He was to have
married Miss Olive Todd, daughter
of a prominent oil man, last night.
Harold j. Tenant, parliamentary
undersccretary for war, announced in
the British house Of commons yester-
day that the total German casualties,
as published in the Berlin casualty
lists to date, total 2,535,76S. Of this
number he said 59S,9S6 were killed.
Using parts of her clothing as
moose, Mrs. Anna Coleman, 80 years
old, hanged herself yesterday in
cell at the Jail in Alliance, Ohio, she
escaped Tuesday night from the Mas
&illon State Hospital. She had been
put in jail pending the arrival of the
hospital authorities.
A summons was filed yesterday in
New York. in divorce action to be
instituted by Mrs. Elise Holmes Folck
against Morris r. Volcls. Because of
her prominence in society and dip
lomatic circles the name Of the cor
espondent WIS carefully withheld
when the summons was filed.
Nineteen air encounters lii one day
between sGuadrons Of the allies and
The Germans at LIE Sars, northeast
Of .Amiens, a renewed aerial lombard
mcnt of the great German fortress
of Metz, by French squadron and
scattered cir fights at Thiancourt and
Freilinghein took place yesterday.
Gen. Carranza notified the Mexi-
can embassy in Washington yester-
day that be had formally proclaimed
Francisco Villa, Pablo V-opez and
Rafael Castro outlaws because of the
massacre Of American citizens at
Santa YsDbcl. Under the decree, any
citizen Of the republic is authorized
70 execute sl,c outlaws without for
mality.
Urgent wireless calls sent out by
The British steamer Pa)lentina in
mid-Atlantic were rclaycd TO Hall
fax yesterday The UaIlcnn;na re-
ported that she was leaking badly
and that her pumps were unable to
keep down the in-rushlng water. The
Italian liner Cuisscpi Verdi has IL
.crcd her course and is under full
steam TO relieve the Pallentna.
The Pan-American building ir.
Washington presented a festive ap-
Ecarancc last night. when the Ambas-
sailors, Ministers and charges d'af-
fairs of the pan American republics
represented at Washington entertain
cd at g ball in celebration OF the mar
riagc of the President and Mrs. Will
SCH. The floral decorations were of
the most elaborate ,chDractcr, also
hero were illuminatiohs.
a bitter debate in which pcrsounli-
ties figured to large extent was
prccipitatcd in the convention Of the
United Mine Workers, in indianapolis
Ind, yesterday over proposition to
have l committee appointed,to3 inves,
tigate alleged extravaganza IN the