Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-21

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Violate %cnion rules and i'm
mediate stopped work. The strike
only lasted a half hour, however, as
the foreman removed the woman to
another place.
Lewis Dickson, u. was fatally
burned yesterday by all explosion Of
powder at the home of his grand
mother. Mrs. Mary Ellen Elliott, IN
Mount Savage, near Cumberland. Md.
lie was playing with companions in
an outbuilding, and placed q lighted
match on a can of powder.
Official accounts Of the occurrences
at Barcelona, Spain, Thursday III
connection with the attempt by mem
bers of parliament to hold an unau
| thorized session there minimize the
Importance OF the happenings. Com
plete tranquility now prevails IN
Barcelona, it is declared.
Frank Ostct, 80 years old, was
drowned in a tank OF gasoline in the
i Atlantic Refining Company plant in
Philadelphia. Ostet fell into the tank
when he was operating a hydraulic
| press. Fellow workers vainly tried
to rescue him. Nearly $4,000 gal
Ions Of gasoline were in the tank.
A human chain, with Chris. Gels
Ter, - years old, a Boy Scout, and
Ed. Bitters. a plumber, as the links,
saved 2~-year-old Paul Mcpherson
from death in a sewer in Cincinnati.
With Bittcrs holding him by the
heels, young Geisler went down into
the sewer and was pulled back with
the baby in his arms.
Seventy-one per cent Of the first
1000 FL Pasosns drawn. in the Sc
lective draft yesterday We're Of
Mexican parentaSe, but citizens CT
the United States. The population
OF FL Paso is almost equally divided
between American and Mexican resi-
dents. Germans in JuareZ and other
Mexican cities yesterday spread u
propaganda in hand bills stating that
a majority OF the men drawn in the
! United States were Mexicans. The
| German subjects tried to incite Mexi-
cans by informing them that, prior to
the drawing Of the numbers. they
had warned them that 90 per cent Of
! the persons drawn would lie Mexi-
| cans.
II is reported N = dispatch from
Lausanne that no more Zeppelins are
being constructed at Friedrichshafen.
The workmen who hitherto have
been employed in building airships
are now said TO be engaged in the
constructor Of a large number Of
ailplanc&.
The French have smashed two
fierce German attacks on their lines
south Of st. Quentin, he Germans
being driven back with very heavy
losses. The first, which was delivered
on 4 front of about half a mile,
gained a footing in parts Of the
French first line, but lost the greater
part in a counter attack on the
French.
Holland will not tolerate any sub
marine within her neutral waters.
VI. voH Rappard, the Dutch Minister
Yesterday made this statement. say
!ng that recently he had noted in
some newspapers the accusation Hot
land was allowing free passage 20
German U-boats. The Netherlands
government has "Strictcr rules than
am other neutral" on the submarines
he declared.
The shipping board and Maj. Gen,
GGrthalS. general manager 81 the
Emergency Fleet Corporation are
still said to be very far from any
agreement on the Generals program
FOR the building Of the emergency
fleet. the building of two government
ship plants, and the communicating
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