Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-07-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

| Cal, recently rewarded y. LAWS Y!
Marysville, for returning her purse
containing $4,000 and valuable jew
elry.
Crushed under his automobile which
overturned after colliding with stone
fence, near Sharpsburg, Md, Perez
Kerlin received injuries SaturdaT
night which resulted in his death
few hours later. Leonard hines, =
Camp Meade soldier, accompanying
kerlin, was badly injured.
In a masterful drive supported b.
the most violent Of artillery fire, the
Italians swept the Austrians forwar..
Saturday in charge that regaineG
Cor the allies the whole o: Monte Va
bella. Eight hundred prisoners were
taken, together with cannon, trench
mortars and machine guns.
Base prices for wheat are advanced
by the government to y cents be-
ginning July !. The advances are .
equalize the advance in freight rates
recently announced by the Railroad
Administration. They are to protec;
the producer against the tendency I"
deduct the rail increases from his base
price as previously fixed BY the pres
Dental proclamation of February 2.
Much speculation as to whether
| murder had been committed was
aroused yesterday by the finding o
the skeleton of q young woman buried
in the beach in iront of the ORIENTAL
Yacht Club at Mamarcneck, n. J..
/; Coroner John Sella and Dr.. John HUI
ter expressed belief that the body ha4
been buried in the sand some five o:
six years ago. An examination Of the
skull gave the ground for the belief
that the woman night have been
murdered
S. j. Konenkamp, president of the
Commercial Photographers Union Of
Amerca, yesterday in Chicago issued
a general order to all subordinate I'M
its calling a strike against the West
ern Union Telegraph Company on July
S, at Z o'clock in the morning. The
action of tbs union follows months OF
negotiations through the National
War Labor Boara whose decision
granting the telegraphcrs the right
to organize was rejected by the West
ern Union.
Vicksburg, Miss.-'I am for Ger
many and | am awaiting the day-an1
it won't be more than two or three
years at most-when Germany IN
vades the United States. German!
will make real country out Of this
slipshod, grating nation This state
mcnt, accredited to NJ. WilkcrsoA,
caused him to be taken from pas
scnger train ard treated to coat OF
tar and feathers. He was then COM
mitted to Jail.
Amid great excitement, the Hun
garian premier, Herr Wekerlc, adj
mitted in the Hungarian parliament
that the Austro-H Hungarian losses III
killed and wounded during the recent
offensive amounted to 100000 ami
that $4,000 were lost as prisoners.
Fifty thousand Italian prisoners wera
taken, he added. He asserted that
the withdrawal Of the Austro-Hun-
garian forces across the Piave WIS
undertaken to spare the lives of oar
soldiers" zF:7g
The failure of Berlin TO express It's
displeasure over the recent "we-can-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" speech O. Foreign
Minister Won Kuehlmann will be used
by allied statesmen as q further argu-
ment in favor of the immediate cs-
adjustment of an interallied dipIo-
matte board to direct in unity the po-
litical offensive CT the nations leagncd
in the defense OF democracy. III o.
fetal circles in Washington, the belief
, is held that Kaiser wilhelm will not
-Isplacc Won Kuchlmann, inasmuch AZ
"pcace by negotiation drive is IN
doubtedly favored by the kaiser.
! Potato candy is the latest wartime
offering in sweets, the Food Admins
tration announces. II comes III the
form Of bonbonS, which look Ike
chocolate, taste like cccoaHut. am
have delicate bIittleness about them.
When munched slowly, says the ar
nounccment, an agreeable flavor IS
j apparent. Potato candy, it is added.
is in logical line with a tspioca-flour
bread. whole steak. norpoise til!ets,
mesquite strip, cotton seed fionr muf-
fms. canned shark meat. and other
interesting food revelations brought
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