Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09

f. Bierne, of the Covington COM
pany, to major in the Coast Artillery.
Lieutenant Burnham has for about
10 wears been agent Of the Southern
Railway, having resigned recently TO
leave with the First Regiment.
The second days meeting of the
fortieth annual session of the Prohib-
ition and Evangelical Association OF
Loudom county, yesterday was at
tended by equally as large crowd as
on Tuesday, when $500 were present
at the grounds at Purcellville. The
Rev. Clarence True Wilson, d. d., OF
Oregon, delivered one of his prohibit
: ton lectures in the morning. In the
afternoon j. Sidney Peters, prohibi-
ton commissioner of Virginia, spoke
on "The Enforcement Of the Mapp
! Prohibition Law telling his audience
i that it is only through rigid en-
forcement of such statutes that the
United States can ever hope to at
i tain the ideal of universal prohibi-
ton.
| The mysterious disappearance OF
Catherine S. Ross, Is. from her home
at Burke Station, Fairfax county, or
Monday, was solved by Detective
Sergt. Tom Sweeney, of Washington
last night, after the police had been
requested to assist in locating the
missing girl by James O'Mear, or
uncle. Investigation developed that
she had eloped to Rockville with
Randy Harmon, Is, residing near
Burke Station, where they were mar
ried.
The seized Austrian steamer Buda-
pest has, been sold to the Kerr
Steamship Company of New York,
kand will be known as the Kerawood.
The. steamer is being repaired at an
Atlantic coast pier, in Newport News,
whereeshe has been tied up since the
:outbreak of the: European war. Capt,
'Kerher, former master of the steamer,
! wastSent to a. detention camp when
the United: States DECLARED war on
Germany, but liberated later, as the
United States had not declared war
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on Austria
The situation in Poland is.fcritical,
according to, information RECEIVED at
Lausanne, Switzerland. The Ger
mans ARE said to- be discussing the
possibility of an. organized. revolt on
the part of the Poles. Al! German
women in Poland, including the wives
of high military and civil officials,
have returned to Germany. Martial
law, the correspondent adds, has
been declared. at Warsaw and in other
centers. Riots which have been sup
pressed with much blo6dshed in the
mining area, have been renewed.
Russian troops are on the offensive
in the Chotin region, near the
southeastern frontier of Galicia. On
Tuesday they drove the Austro- Ger
man forces from two villages, cap
tured a. height and took more than
800 prisoners and four machine guns.
A Teutonic attack in the region of
Brody where the Russians are still
on Galician soil, was only, Temporal
rily successful. A counter attack re-
stored the Russian position that
had been penetrated.
Struck by Baltimore and Ohio
train early yesterday morning, while
operating an automobile in Baltimore,
Ollie Hood, %. of Ogden, Anne Arun-
del county, was carried 10 Hyattsvllle
on. the cow catcher of the engine be-
fore being discovered. He was
brought to Washington on the train
and sent to Providence Hospital,
where lis said his only injury IS a
fracture of the left arm.
A big shell from practice cannon
riocheted from the top of kenesaw
mountain near Marietta, Ga, yester-
day afternoon and hurtling into
group of persons watching student
artillery at practice, killed four and
wounded three. The student officers
were aiming at the side of the noun