Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-12

Pittsfeld road. Mrs. Dunn YVES adj
judged insane shortly after the
shooting and sent to the State asy-
lum at Northampton.
The latest rumor from the western
front is that the Kaiser never goes
anywhere unless accompanied by one
of the greatest nerve specialists III
Berlin.
Destruction by German submarine
of nine fishing schooners off the
Massachusetts coast was announced
late last night by the Navy Depart
ment. The loss of life is unknown.
The grain storage elevator at
Camp Meade, Nd, was struck by
lightning about s o'clock Saturday
night and was destroyed. Sever
hay stacks nearby also were set
afire and consumed. The elevator
stood near the ordnance depot and
remount station and was across the
road from the hay shed that burned
about a week ago, at an estimated
less of $4,000.
During a severe storm that swept
over the Cumberland Valley, Friday
Harry Robinson, tenant OH the j.
Sollenberger farm, three miles from
Churchill, Md, was severely stunned
by q bolt of lightning that ran down
a spout, under which he was dipping
water. His shirt was torn off and
one foot was badly burned. A Cum
berland Valley Railway train was
compelled to stop three times to re-
move large trees that had been blown
on the track. Teh corn crop was bad
ly damaged and many apple and
peach orchards were stripped OF
fruit. HUNDREDS of telephones were
put of commission. Roads were
badly washed.
That marriage may it itself con-
stitute deferred classification under
the new draft regulations, which are
soon to be formulated, was stated by
Secretary Baker before the Senate
Military Affairs Committee yester-
day. "The new regulations are not
yet drawn said the Secretary. Il
am inclined to think that the marri-
age relation will III itself constitute
deferred classification. What I want
to get in the regulations, if possible,
is to"have, them so that, the govern
'ment does the selecting, rather. than
putting it up to the individual. That
is, where there is a man, who. ought
to be exempted from the point OF.
view of the national interest, do not
want to put the man, in the. position
of having to. claim exemption, but
have him only answer some questions
of fact and let the rules take care of
the classification. That is what l
am thinking of just now"
Austin r. Lunde, aged "a, of Scan.
dinavian extraction, an inmate of the
Government Hospital for the Insane
at st. IElizabeth's hanged himself last
night with a sheet. Lunde was ad-
mitted to the; hospital June 10 last,
having been sent there by the military
authorities at Madison, Wis, his
home. He was quiet, the hospital au-
thorities stated last night, and his act
was entirely unexpected. Lunde had
been drafted and was in camp before
his condition was discovered. He
has mother in Wisconsin.
Secretary of War Baker yesterday
said: ~ have no information on the
subject of the morale of the people
of Germany except what appears in
the various extracts printed in : the
newspapers from German newspap-
ers, and comments by persons who
have access in one form or another to
German opinion. 1t seems more or
less clear that the people of Ger
many are beginning to realize that
their army is not invincible and that
a victorious force is being built up
against them On the French 'front.'.