Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-15
NEWS OF TIC DAY.


"If l stole that ring, / hope God
may kill me-" shouted Lee Million,
farmer of Madison county, KY, yes
terday, as an officer seized him on the
road to search him for lost dia-
mend ring. Then Million toppled over
in the road, dying instantly. In his
pocket the officer found the ring. Mil
lion was on road with his wife and
five children when he found hand
bag. He extracted a $500 diamond
ring, it is declared, and left the bag
at wayside store, saying it would
be called for. When the owner ar
rived soon afterward, she missed the
ring. Million was pursued and seized
in the road. His wife and small chill
dren, the oldest 10, heard his call on
the Diety and saw him drop dead.
Further importations of strike
breakers last night, with reports of
still more coming, are taken as ll-
dications that the Washington Rail-
way and Electric Company Intends
to fight out the strike. Statements
earlier in the day attributed to Clar-
ence P. King, president OF the COM
pany, that the company had no in
tention of recognizing the union, and
statements from the union officials
that the men were all equally deter
mined, strengthened the belief that
neither side is in a mood to yield.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger,
says Federal investigators at work
on the alleged German plot, which,
is said to have been revealed in the
arrest of five persons charged with
smuggling nineteen chronometers
ashore from the interned raiders at
League Island, discovered sensational
evidence yesterday. They learned
that Capt. Boyd Ed, the former naval
attache at the German Embassy, had
been in this city within a week and
is suspected of having visited League
Island disguised as woman.
"Do you expect the United States
to stand everything? Does the United
States expect to keep her ships off
the seas entirely?" Such was the
words of James. W. Gerard, recalled
Ambassador to Berlin, when asked
= number of question by a reporter
at Charleston, S. c., last night
while the diplomat was on his way
to Washington. Mr.. Gerard intimated
that his message to President Wilson
was Of tremendous Importance
Because she refused to see him,
Charles Steelman, Philadelphia
private detective, yesterday shot and
killed Mrs. Anna Mccoy, a young
wiGow, shot and probably fatally
wounded Mrs. Joseph Steelman, at
whose home Mrs. Mccoy was stop
ping. and then committed suicide,
Steelman was no relation of the wo-
man fatally wounded.
The official report from British
headquarters in France announces
the abandonment by the Germans O.
tkeir main defensive system west of
Bapaume on a trent of three and one
half miles. The British troops drove
back the German rear guard to d
depth O. a mile and occupied Grevil-
lers and Loupart wood.
On account of the strike on the
Washington Railway and Electric
Company lines the employees of the
Washington Steel and Ordnance Com
pany are being taken to work by the
steamer St. Johns. The steamer was
chartered by the steel company.
1t is officially announced in Tokyo,
that converted German cruiser has
been sighted in the Indian Ocean and
that it now is being chased by Jap
anese and British warships. The Ger
man has sunk a Japanese freighter.
Three German cruiser submarines.
capable of a wide area of operations
are lying in wait at base on this
SIDE of the Atlantic Ocean for de-
claration of war between the United
States and Germany prepared to at
tack instantly American coastwise
shipping, according to information
which has been sent to the New York
Herald by person who heretofore
has had authentic information con-
corning the German program. -Four
other submarines of the same type,
according to this informant, are toI
be sent to this field of operations
soon, making seven warcraft of that
type along the Atlantic coast.