Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-07-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Michael Curley, at one time the:
proprietor of the most prominent
drinking place in Trenton, N. j. was
sent to the workhouse to serve three
months because he tried to drown him
selk in a creek. He was pulled out
in the nick of time by policeman.
When arraigned in court, clad only
in blanket, Curley delivered brief
speech in which he said: 81 am So
Der, all right. | attended funeral a
few days ago, and then decided three
was nothing more to live for, so
jumped into the creek. No one cares
for me, and Tam just in the way.
The German press is realizing that
the Marne- Champagne offensive has
ended in disaster. One paper says:
eve are unable to conceal any longer
tie fact that German prisoners be,
trayed our offensive plans. We must
recognize that the German offensive
has been a failure. The German
people are patiently awaiting the
issue"
John S. Sauer, % years old, an en-
plcye of the bureau of engraving and
printing in Washington Of Hyat:s-
vile; Miss Katherine Koran, is years
old, daughter of Joseph N. Koran, OF
Hyattsville, an employe of the Smith
sonian institute, and Miss Florence
Boughtnight, of Florid=, an employs
of the war risk bureau, were drowned
yesterday afternoon while bathing at
Benedict, Nd.
The 10000 CZecho-Slav soldiers IN
Siberia will be- persuaded to- renonncc
their agreements with the Bolshevist
party and will remain to aid the al
lies in the peaceful penetration to hc
inaugurated by the United States.
Napoleon Higgins of Newark, N. j.,
was sentenced to three months in the
penitentiary and fined 500 for VIC
lation fthe anti-loafing law. He
was the first man to get the full
penalty. His mother complained to
the police that she was forced 70
support him.. go, $500 {:
Mrs Mary Loveall was charged
with being a witch in Criminal Court
at Wheeling, w. Va, by Mrs. Theresa
Kullman, who alleged that Mrs. Love-
all obtained $500 from her to cast off
a "spell' from her son.
A dispatch from johannesburg,
South Africa, says: "Ten earth shocks
occurred in that region Saturday. They
caused the collapse of the mineworks.
Damage and casualties are not yes
determined.
Early in September the Secretary Of
War will sumit to Congress a new
man-power measure providing fer
such extensions of the draft age and
such other notifications of the Selec-
tive Service act as will put the Gov
ernment in command 100000 men.
Details of this new military program
are being worked out by the General
Staff, the War College and the higher
civilian officials of the War Depart
ment..
Twenty persons are reported dead
and thirty hurt in the collision of a
Detroit United railway interurbaM
passenger car and freight car near
Chelsa last night. Nearly all Of
those dead and injured are soldiers
from Camp Custer to spend the week
end with relatives in Detroit. Three
of the injured are members of the
train crews. Two of the dead are
women.
The Rev. Octavious C. Marriott, Is
years old, son Of the late Joseph ana
Sara, Marriott. of Rockdale, Md, died
yesterday at Westminster, Md. Mr..
Marriott was meber of the Baltimore
Methodist Episcopal Conference 70:
l5 years. being retired three years ago.
Just as he was about to enter an
automobile to leave Webster, W. Va,
D. l.. Phillips, postmaster was arrest
ed on a charge Of misapproprlat!ng
the funds of his office to the amount
IF NOT loss than 81 mn