Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-02-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Sir Wilfrei Laurier, former prem
ier Of Canada, is in a crit;cei cond
tion as result of severe paralyti
stroke yesterday.
Denunciation of the "urcivilizec
treacharous and brutal" tactics of tn
W. w. advocates Of country wild
strike on July l was made at meet
inr of Columbia Typographical Un
ion No. 1Ul, one of the stronges
printer organizations in the country
Yesterday Afternoon.
viii Fo, trer. 81 year old negro
was lynched by a mob of citizens a
Bossicr. near Shreveport, La, yester.
dav. Former had been ARRESTED
charged with numbering t. c. Owens
plantation overseer, and attempted
criminal assault against Miss Willie
Jeter, Owens niece.
"You ought to be strung Up by the
thumbs and whipped until you die.
| only wish l had the power to sent
cnce YOU" Recorder Cam TOLD Fred
erick Hanley and his sister yesterday
in committing them to jail in Bay
onne. n. J. The Hanlcys admitted
TO the cour- they had cruelty beaten
and deserted Hanley's two sons, both
under FEARS of age.
A hat trimmed with one hundred
one dollar bills and hatp!n made OF
So gold pieces were the gifts received
by an East Liverpool, Ohio, girl from
her. sweetheart, Beaver Falls, Pa,
business man. Enclosed III the hat
box was note in which the trim
mer said. "And the hat will never go
out of style, my dear"
Italy vii. ask that Germany be
held jointly responsible with Austria
for the Italian war indemnity, ac-
cording to Paris dispatches yesterday
to the Italian embassy. Austria S
affairs will be so unstable for many
wears, it is held, that the debt would
have TO be collected by force OF arms
,,nless ire entire sum to be demanded
,of the central powers by the allies
is pooled.
I would load then. AL on ship OF
stone. with sails of lead and the
wrath of God for gale ard hell for
the nearest port This is the dlspo-
sition of Rev. DR.. John Wesley Hill,
New York Clergyman and chancellor
CT Lincoln Memorial University
would make Of the Bolsheviki an!
radicals the United States is deport-
;r=. as SCI forth in interview in
Chicago yesterday.
An entente naval commission, ar
irving at Kiel, Germany, Oh d British
cruiser, has ordered the German ma
val administration to have all Z
boats building N the Germanla yards
which will not be finished by tebru-
AIRY II. dumped into the sen and sunk.
The German ravai staff Informed the
entente commander that the only pr
pose IN continuing construction OF
submarines is that it 'atfords en-
ploymcnt." thus reducing the great
army Of jyolc5s German workers.
Mrs. Margaret Clator. 30, wife of
Postmaster John Clator, Of Mount
Dechartal, y. Va. is alleged to haze
shot her husband ito death at their
home at Mount Dcc!1antel, near
Wheeling, Yesterday. Je:iIously was
said TO be The motive. MT;. Clator IS
in the hospital in a critjca! condition
After the shooting Mrs. Clator at
tcrDted tC end ner own HE by hacN-
;re beth wrists with a razor, the po-
lice said.
All biz married life Of fifty yeans,
John O'pilcy. seventy, Ct Kansas
City. No, rad been intending to geE
drunk. just to see how it would feel
Knowing nation wide prohibition was
coming. John decided delay was dan
mcrous, so he carried out MS long
cherished ambition. Mrs. o'R!ly hao
him arrested. Husband and wife 1acec
Judge Cashier WEIGH. John was
Drcod naturcd" drunk. she sad. III
that case II release him, SAID INT
nudge. tIll never DO it again, Judge
nv curiosity has been satisfied
C'Riley said.
With only thirteen more Legislative
days before the Sixty-ftth Congress
oxn;res, en- March 4. and the calendar
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