Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-06
NEWS OF THE DAY

l2 900 and $4,000 picked troops from
tile northern provinces to EUROPE
according to cablegram received by
the Chinese World Of San Francisco.
The troops comprise some OF the
best military organizations IN emma
A fleet of German aeroplanes, es-
timated as numbering twenty, dcs-
cended upon London Tuesday nlg1lt,
scattering death and Destruction
Almost simultaneously a German
submarine bobbed up off the British
summer resort of Scarborough and
hurled thirty rounds of shells INTO
the town. The casualties in the
two raids were: London-killed, II;
wounded, 62. Scarborough-kllled,
3; wounded, 5.
Headquarters of the striking NINE
workers union, and the |. w. W.
in Butte, Mont, was raided yester-
day afternoon, by United States
Marshals and Secret Service Agents.
The records were searched In an cf-
fort to discover if the German gov
eminent is financing the strike and
the |. w. VS.. Several other places
where the I. w. WIS congregate
were also searched.
A cabinet crisis in Italy is immi-
nent. 1t was reported on good au-
thirty last night that Minister OF
the Interior Orlando is about to
tender his resignation, if he has not
already done so.
E!ghty-one speeders were arraigncd
yesterday in New York and fined
total of $4,000.
BY vote of u to yesterday,
the Senate adopted the finance COM
mittee plan of conscripting $l,2S6,-
100000 of the war fortunes. OF this
amount 81 $50 100000 is raised under
the pending bill and the additional
1926, 100000 by existing taxes.
NJ. Irwin, resident Of Washington,
* believed to have been drowned
when the tug Martin Dallman. on
which he was empolyed as engineer,
sank sutlslenl yearly yesterday morn
ing ut Baltimore. The tug was &C
quired recently from its Washington
owners by the Dorsey and Miller
Company, contractors.
Commodore F. C. Goldsborough
one of the most highly esteemed men
of Talbot county, Md, was drowned
Tuesday night at the steamboat
wharf near his home at Oxford.
Bespeaking the desire of Japan
for a lasting friendship with the
United States, and pledging unset
fish support, without motive other
than the common force that drives
us all today" Viscount lshii, special
ambassador from Japan, addressed
the House from the Speakers ros-
.rum yesterday and was given an
ovation by the crowded floor and
galleries. Every reference to friend
ly relations between America and
Japan, and the insiditious efforts to
mar them was warmly received.
c. II. Johnson, Of Urbana, H., said
to be member of the faculty Of the
University Of Illinois, was Instantly
killed, two other persons were in
jured and two-score had narrow es-
capes in an auto accident on the
Washington Boulevard at Elkridge,
Nd, Tuesday night. The accident
occurred at st. Augustine avenue.
when the machine in which Johnston
was riding, driven by his brother,
George. A. Johnston, of Chapel Hill,
n. c., crashed into jitney bus Both
machines were coming down steep
grades at the time.
A sheriff's posse of 1G men were at
Wilton, Ky. Tuesday night, where
several hundred angercd miners early
yesterday exchanged shots with
company employees at the plant of
the North ,Jellico Coal Company.
Striking miners. it is said, endeav-
ored to turn back q number of miners
coming to work, and, failing in this.
opened fire on the power house, which
was occupied by guards and en-
ployes remaining at work. For half
an hour bullets were exchanged with
out fatalities.
Entente aviators, returning from
extensive reconnaissance. continue
to report signs Of forthcoming
German retirement on a large front
in Flanders. Military experts look
for an inundation of more than 200
Square miles by the Germans in or
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