Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-08
NEWS OF TEE DAY

chine IN the express car on 1raih W.
on the Northern Pacific caused the
destruction of the car near Windsor
\. D., Wednesday. It is said that
:. similar eorftrfvancc fired IN OK
nr2ss ,>n on another Northern
Pacific train near Bismarck TWO
weeks earlier
Nineteen Young women made thcif
an,,ea,ance ON Broadway, Ne" YORK.
Yesterday as street railway conduc-
tors, filling tie vacancies represented
l,y as many blue stars on the service
4lag on the New York Railway Com
many The young wo1nen are UNI
formed in blue skirts and rather man
nish coats, with caps like those OF
the men conductors.
Twenty-one survivors of the Amer
lean steamer Actaeon, which was
iorpetoed and sunk on November %,
have arrived at Madrid. They SUI
1ercd severely from exposure. Sixty
three others, in three boats. were
reported missing.
AZ spokesman of the American
neople, President Wilson yesterday
sent q message iof deep sympathy to
the stricken people Of Halifax
Thought to mourning by the disaster
Of Thursday.
Ruma1lia has officially Joined IN
the a,rnisitce agreement between
Russia and the central powers. q
t,u-day truce ON the whole front
from the Baltic to the Black Sea
went into effect ut noon yesterday
Mot !. word is said in the to1msL!
agreement regarding the transfer OF
German troops from the eastern TO
other fronts.
Thomas A. Edison, Americas fore
,rost inventive genius, has settled
down IN Washington. with the Anten-
t.Cn II !.iyng until We get some
thing chat will stop the submarine. :
IL. hos taken over the old office OF
the late Admiral George Dewey N
the Navy Annex and is engaged in
important laboratory experiments de-
signed to produce an antidote Tor the
U-boat. He is in constant confer
crce with experts of the Navy De-
partment.
What is probably the longest SEN
tence imposed in Criminal Court m
Washington during the last ten years
was melted ont to John Gibson, negro,
for :: criminal assault on Florence
Carter, an aged woman OF the same
race. In imposing thirty-ycar sen
tence, Justice Stafford said that the
iury which convicted Gibson would
have been Justified in bringing IN a
verdict calling for the Death penalty
The Cartel. woman, who lived III y
street northwest. was assaulted By
Gibson when nc entered the house
TO commit robbery. Gibson grnned
when he heard the sentence.
That reports upon economic afRs
military conditions in this country
lave been going from New York to
Gen. Won Mackensen cvc1. since The
United States declared war against
Germany, was one of the startling
discoveries made by headquarters de-
tcc,lwes and gove,pmcnt Secret Ser
vice agents yesterday, following the
arrest Of Otto Julius Mer-
;,el, self-stylesi secretary OF the Ger
1rln University League. Merkel
was arrested in the public library
and stalt bo Ellis Island for intern
.nent. Another sensational fact al
legged to have been revealed by the
mass of correspondence and private
papers seized at the office OF the Ger
man University League, No. 225.
Fifth avenue, was the definite inti-
nation III copies OF Merkefs letters
that military organization OF Ger
mans "for defense" throughout the
country was in process Of formation.
Count Germ. the Austrian foreign
minister, in an address to q delega-
ton Of Hungarian notahles, said he
felt sure that tho German alliance
would continue after the war with
both Bulgaria and Turkey in it, says
4 dispatch from Vienna. In review
ing the causes Of the war the Aus
trian foreign minister said that the
government recognized the neccssit"
Of preventing 4 greater Serbia"
from springing up.
Con. E. H. E. Allenbv reports
that he has occupied the town of He
bron, in Palestine. The tomb of
Abraham IS said to be in Hebron.
HAS GOOD BALANCE.