Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-15
NEWS Of THE DAY.

With both the STRIKING carmen. anu
the Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Company still standing pat In
their differences; last night saw the
first realV.violence. Strikebreakers
pulled revolvers to escape from peer
ing and molesting mobs; clashes oc-
Cured between the conflicting par
ties; and, many cars were damaged.
The company made vain attempt to
run it's cars until midnight, but early
in the evening then. operation on re-
gular schedule was abandoned be-
cause of the confusion which pre-
vailed. By II o'clock practically all
of the cars were in the barns. :
A force of police under command
of Maj. Joseph Norton was sent last
night to Boonton, N. j., by the Jer-
sew CITY authorities to. guard the sew
en-billion-gallon reservoir which
forms the water supply of Jersey
CITY. The reservoir has shore line
of eight miles. This step was taken
Immediately upon the disclosure OF an
alleged German plot to dynamite the
dam of the reservoir, which holds IN
check enough water to flood the en-
tire Rockaway and Passaic valleys.
Emergency measures for the calling
of general railroad strike were
completed yesterday in New York.
The shop chairman of the four big
railroad brotherhoods, for the mem
bership working on railroads enter
ing this city, voted unanimously for
the strike which has been called 1or
Saturday night, Sixty-nine chalrmen
were present.
In the presence of United States
officials, foreign diplomats, eccleslas,
teal dignitaries and prominent
clergymen from other denominations
MGR. William T. Russell, for nearly
decade pastor of st. Patrick's Cath
olc- Church, Washington, was ele-
waited to the bishopric this morning
bv Cardinal Gibbons in the Cathea-
raj at Baltimore.
Six men were killed in explosion
which demolished the solven factory
at the Howard plant of the Aetna
Explosive Company at Emporium, Pa
Yesterday. simultaneously with the
explosion in the solvent factory, fire
was discovered in the cotton storage
building half a mile away. The fire
in the cotton storage building was
extinguished before serious damage
was done.
The capture by the Russians Of the
Persian town of Kermanshah is re-
ported in an unofficial dispatch re-
ceived in London yesterday. The Brit
| ish have advanced 80 miles above
Bagdad, it is announced officially:
The statement says that the British
artillery taken by the Turks at thu
time of the surrender of Gen. Towns
hend's army at Kut-el-Amara ma:
been recaptured at Bagdad by thu
British.
Shell-wrecked Bapaume, one OF
the main detectives of the presen
| british advance on the western front
probably will be in English hands
within few hours. Dispatches from
the front yesterday told of stead!
British progress. The Germans ar
slowly falling back, covering THEN
retreat as best they can with heav!
salvos of artillery fire.
Cuyler Mowrey, paymaster for n
J. Rich & Co., knit goods manufac
turers of Cleveland, Ohio, was sho
and killed by two automobile ban
dts in front Of the Rich factory yes
terday afternoon. The robbers secured
$5,4O0 and escaped in an automobile
Robert Hall Mccormick, Chicago
capitalist, died at a hotel at Augusta
Ga, last night.