Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-25
NEWS or THE DAY

t..c Of Maryland announced ycSt.r.
In Howard county, about % miles
of the liberty loan and did not know
Irr2m Baltimore, 80 had not hcard
:, the liberty io.r, and did not know
rt;rrt the United States was ar wal
iu.jth Germa..:. "..e committee stated
that the woman was intelligent, and
mother of several mall children. She
said her husband went to work daiiE
"s 4 a. m., ana vas too tired When
iln came in from the field at 6 p. nj.
it1 talk. She stated that she hal 70!
ibccn out Of her home except to 20
10 church in five years.
A torrent of Liberty day suescr1p-
It;ons has swept the liberty loan near
i.r its goa! by hundreds OF millions
~ dollars. How far forward the huge
Total had been carried by tie ban
ncr days activities, no one cou!d tell
last night. Indications, based on
Ccager and scattering returns. were
th"t it had reached or passed me
S. OO0, 900, 900 minimum, but still
lacked approximately $2,OoO,oO'''oo
Of the maximum hoped for.
two mmaskcd robbers yesterday
afternoon rode into the town o, Zane
nil, in Washington county, Ark.
robbed the Bank Of Cane Hill Of 81
600. and escaped after locking the
cashier in the vault.
The Echo de Beige says that 100
workmcn, including 40 BrlgianS, were
killed and 100 injured by an explosion
~,.ccntIv a; Luttrc, in liainault PROV
nee. Belgium. The material dam
4re is reported 10 have been consid-
cradle.
In AN emotional address to the
preliminary Parliament yesterday,
Premier kercnsky appealed to the
delegates to cndcavor to arouse IT
,hc ncnplc the same sense Of lndlvld.
nal responsibility at the front and
in the rear which carried the Rus.
sans to victory for Il time in the
Observation-Disclosures offensive early IN
,lJuly. The Premier dcplored the
j., present decentralization of the army.
IF only We could rekirdle the en-
,husiasm Of those July days in the
heart of each man. lie said, eve
should have peace by Christmas, an
honorable peace for free Russia. with
the war fought to an honorable end
The pending notification OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church and the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
was Yesterday declared to have the
strong endorsement Of the leaders
Of both churches. . This statement
was contained in a report made to the
board of bishops at Atlantic City,
n. j., by Bishop Earle Cranston, OF
Washington. Bishop Cranston is
chairman of the commission appointed
Two years ago when the movement
first took form since the secession.
! Bishop w. A. Gambler, Of Atlanta
Is head Of the Southern Commission.
The chief difficulty in the way Of
swift accomplishment lies in effect
mo a reorganization acceptable to the
membership at large of both churches.
Food prices as a whole have Nd-
vanccd IL per cent over the year be.
fore the war began. Latest com
i~.ilation OF prices, announced ycster-
day by the United States Bureau oil
Labor Statistics. shows flour prices
in August were two and one quarter
times what they were in August.
i9l3. The increase was 100 per cent.
Cornmcal advanced almost as much
J with an increase Of 12O per cent. Po-
tatoes advanced 81 per cent, sugar Il
per cent. lard 70 per cent and pork
chops IS per cent. During The year
ending August -. The onion was the
only article to decrease in price.
Cormcal doubled in price. flour ad-
vanccd 70 per cent. beans 80 per cent
and other articles to 4 lesser degree.
dispatches from Capctown state
that . japanese steamer, bound from
/ London for C]apetown. was twice at
tackled BY submarines on September
% and escaped both times. The first
attack was made by one, the second
by two submarines. The steamers
| runners are certain one periscopC |
was destroyed. The Japanese
steamer Ilitchi-Maru, due at Durham
! rom Colombo on October Z, has not
been heard from since September "a.
She is believed to have been lost in
i.b,. nlion Ocean.