Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-15
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

noon entered the West Lake branen
!! Of the Home Savings Bank at Los
Angeles, Cal, and held up the EN-.
ployes and escaped with several
! thousand dollars.
Russia has called to the colors the
! class of 1898, youths under 20.
British aviators dropped bombs on
!! children's skating party near bru-
cgge last Saturday, killing sixteen OF
them.
A diplomatic break between China
and Germany can be momentariiy
expected. 1t is said that President
Wilson'S invitation to neutrals to
break with the Kaiser's government
caused intense excitement there.
One glass of beer has thrown Ma
rissa, ILL.,, into an uproar. One month
ago, Robert Born, athletic director Of
the Marissa township high school,
went to Freeburg, ILL.,, with the
basketball team. Between halves
he slipped out to a thirst emporium
and drank one glass Of beer which
has caused the following to happen.
Born has been tried and "iircd" by
the board of education. Five young
women teachers walked out and de-
mandcd Born's reinstatement, 300
students are enjoying an indefinite
holiday, and two members of the cdu-
cation board resigned, but later came
back
After walking the streets of
Newark, N. j., all night, brooding
over the Affections Of her husband
and her son, Mrs. May Henscr Law
renee took a tablet of bichloride of
mercury Tuesday in restaurant in
New York, and is in the hospital
there The women's husband,
German soldier, is paralyzed in
military hospital in France. Her son,
who has just conc out Of an attack
of smallpox, is in Montreal, where
the surgeons fear he must undergo
serious operation. Mrs. Lawrence
is % years old and was married IN
Montreal when Is years old.
The three Scandinavian countries
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
have joined in a protest to Germany
against tie new submarine warfare
edict. Scandinavian shipping has
suffered severely since the unrcstrict-
ed submarine warfare started. At
least thirty ships arc known to have
fallen victims to the German under
sea boats. The notes declare that
Gcrmany's action in declaring a
barred zone is clearly illegal, and
that it is in direct violation of inter-
national law, inasmuch as it does not
Il naval blockade
A meeting of labor representatives
from France, Germany, Belgium
and possibly Sweden has been ar
ranged, to he held in Switzerland
while the war is still going on.
Democratic members of the Senate
and House broke out in tumultuous
applause yesterday when Congress,
in joint session, officially proclaimed
Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Riley
Marshall elected by the people to
succeed themselves, as President and
Vice President, respectively, Of the
United States. Vice President Mar
shall, presiding at the session as
scmbled to canvass the electoral vote
of the States, made strenuous CT
forts without avail to curb the cxu-
bcrancc Of the victors. Aside from
the mcrrimcnt on the Democratic
side, the ceremony was devoid of in
cidcnts to break the formality. The
Vice President suggested that the
result Knight not be satisfactory to
both sides"
The intcnsificati0n Of submarine
warfare in the Tyrrhenian and Medl-
terrancan seas is the SOURCE of the
-ravcst conccln in government cir
clcs in Rome. If the reports cur
rent az Gcaoa, Naples and other
ports are Only partially true, the
Mediterranean is now the scene OF
the most litter and relentless sub
marine campaign Of the whole war.
Germany is said to be bent to do her
utmost 10 st;,rvc Italy and paraiyze
her industrial life in the hope OF.
inducing her T., conclude a separate
peace or at least to compel her to
act as q pcacc-makcr among the al
lies.
The body of Sanford Stephens, for
mcrly of Spo:sy,vania county, who
was killed at his home. near Laurel,
Md, by an automobile on Monday