Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-26
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

O'Clock yesterday a1terh'oii.
sa;d to break all records for FoDru-
any in SO years.
The German Admiralty announces
that the Italian transport Minas, car
rvine 1000 soldiers to Salonl!;. has
been sunk, and that all on board, ex-
cept two men, persisted
Tn the debate in the Swedish par
lament Saturday, the foreign minis
ter, K.rA. Wallenberg, declared that
something has happened in the last
few days which makes it necessary
for Sweden to take sterner measures
to safeguard her neutrality.
The German Chancellor, DR.. Won
.Retbmann-Hollweg, is reported -
have invited the Ambassador anu
minister's of neutral countries 10
conference Saturday at the Foreign
Office, in which Foreign Secretary
Zimmerman took part
An avalanche swept down on VIC
buildings of the North Star NINE =
,,s;,as northeast of HALEY, Idaho
early yesterday, demol,shng .ms
compressor house, warehouse anu
hunk house, smothering and crushing
several sleeping men in the snow anu
debris. IA
Edwin Gould, Jr., % years ola'
son Of Edwin Gould, president OIL inc
G. Iouis Southwestern Railway, ana
a grandson of Jay Could the man
c;er was accidentally killed near
:1ekvll Island, the millionarie's winter
rosort near Brunswick, Ga, Satur-
day night while on hunting 'rip'
punching at a raccoon with his gun
held by the muzzle, the weapon accl-
dentally discharged. Gould died WIFI
in ten minutes.
Four men lost their lives, three
being burned to death, three were IN
iured, seventeen horses killed, nine
cars burned and thirty-odd cars, both
express and freight, loaded with per-
ishable food being rushed to relleVe
the famine of food in cities were de-
stroyed in the worst wreck which
ever occurred on the New York OIL
vision of the Pennsylvania. The
wreck was a mile and half east OF
Bristol early yesterday.
Crazed by the prospect OF trouble
between this country and his 1ather-
land, Novos Povlch, an Austrian, 50
wears old, ran through the Penn aye
nuc district, Pittsburgh, Pa, yester-
day. Spying vacant lot, Povllch
ran into it and, uttering maledictlons
on this country, tore up $2oo IN
American banknotes. Not satisfied
with destroying his money, he pulled
out his watch. which was of Amerl-
can make, and after breaking the
case, destroyed the movement. He
was arrested.
DR.. Yen Hui Ching, Chinese Min
lister to Germany, has sent cable
gram to DR. WI Ting Fang, the For
eign Minister, announcing that the
German Foreign Office had verbally
informed the Minister that Germany
could not alter her submarine cam
paign, but that she would not break
off diplomatic relations. The Minis
ter added that Germany also prom
ised to do her utmost to secure
China's participation in the peace
conference if friendly relations be-
tween the two countries were main
tanned.
John Leoni, 81 years old, and
Joseph Disanti, IS years old, were
arrested at their ice store in New
York and locked up on a charge of
felonious assault Gustave Mayer,
80 years old rival ice dealer, is the
complainant. He was found Friday
night with a fractured skull and a
broken arm. He regained conscious
ness in Lincoln Hospital Saturday
and told detectives that Leoni and
Disanti quarreled with him at his
store concerning business and the
war. He said they assaulted him
and then, picking him up with their
ice longs, carried him to Westminster
avenue, where one of the men struck
him in the head with an ice pick.
Authority to take the fateful "next
step" in the German crisis will be de-
of Congress by President
Wilson during the coming week, prob
ably on Wednesday. There was a
well-grounded belief among admins
tration officials last night that the
President will not alter his plans be-
cause of opposition to his foreign pol
lev in Congress-, but will ask for all