Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-23
NEWS OF THE DAY

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Publishers in New York say that any
one who possesses a set OF electro
tyep plates for the New Testament,
pocket size, owns something almost
, as valuable as steamship. New
York publishers report their presses
running from fifteen to eighteen
hours day, but they are still seV-
eral weeks behind orders already re-
ceived.
Speed the parting guests" is now
the motto Of the Bavarian govern
ment, finding that the plague OF tour
lists in the Bavarian highlands and
other resorts is eating the natives
out of house and home. Visitors
now have been limited to one weeks
stay, and the police have been in
structed to expel without even this
delay, any outsider guilty or sus-
pected of buying up food. Every eff
! fort will be made to discourage the
winter season at the mountain re-
sorts.
The second section of Columbus
Retail Grocers' Association excursion
train on the Toledo and Ohio Cen
trail Railroad, was wrecked at 10
o'clock yesterday morning at Lime
City, 10 miles south of Toledo,
Ohio. One railroad man is dead,
several passengers are dying and
&c to 80 more are injured. James
Morrison, travelling fireman, of Co
lumbus, was killed instantly when the
engine-/turned over.
Lord French, commander of the
British home forces, announced yes
terday that the latest report showed
that although number of the enemy
airships approached the Yorkshire
coast Tuesday night, only one, and
at the most two, vensured overland.
Twelve high explosive and thirteen
incendiary bombs were dropped on
three small villages near the coast.
A chapel was wrecked and several
houses We're damaged. One man
was injured. Lord Frenchs report
also SHOW: that bombs were dropped
yesterday by raiding airplanes on
Dover, AiGrgate and Ramsgate.
There were no casualties at Margate,
but at Dover and Ramsgate eleven
persons were killed and thirteen in
jurcd. 4 hospital and some houses
were damaged
Cattle reached the highest price
in the history of the Chicago market,
at the stockyarts, when top steers
were quoted at $3.50 Yesterday.
Hogs dropped from the high price Of
$40 on Tuc5day to $3.50 hun
dred weight, with few sales, and
bids ranging from so to S19.25.
Pope Benedict's peace message to
the helligerents lends interest to the
fact that Catholics among the CEN
trail powers are outnumbered almost
two TO one by persons Of that faiti!
in allied nations. Roughly, the
central powers have 55.90GC00 Cath
o!ics and the entente Allies 10O,s00,-
O0C. Tie Pope is the spiritual leader
of about 2S7,000,G00.
The Berlin Voss;sche Zeitung an
nounces that Peru has sent an ultl-
matum to Germany. The Hamburg
prize court recently refused dam
ages to the owners of the Peruvian
sailing vessel Lorton, which was sunk
by a German submarine on February
) Off the coast Of Spain. The reason
assigned By the court was that the
Lorton, when stopped and asked for
her nationality, hoisted the British
flag. Il is also alleged that the
Lorton vas carrying contraband for
England.
The German submarine u, which
sank an American steamship recent
" and made prisoners Of its cap
tain ard five members of It's gun
crew, vas itself destroyed b. q
French patrol vessel on The same day,
and all eli board are believed, to
have persisted, according to Third
Officer J. y. Bruce of The ill-fatcd
tanker, who was brought to an
American port yesterday on vessel
from a French port.
According to Die Morgcn Post, Of
Berlin, the police in Germany intend
to prohibit smoking in the streets
in view of the decline of tobacco
stocks. The prohibition will be OK
tended 20 the whole Of Germany.
Zeabrugge and environs were
bombed by airplanes yesterday
| morning, great explosions occurring
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