Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-20
SHE WILL WEAR STRIPES.

young woman who was convicted of be.
ing an accomplice in the murder OF her
husband, and John L. Page, her lover,
who was convicted on similar charge,
were removed yesterday from the
Jail here to the penitentiary at Colum-
bia, where, unless executive clemency
intervenes, they will spend the rest of
their days in stripes, says Spartan
burg, S. c., telegram.
So far as these two parties are con-
cerned, the curtain drops upon one of
the bloodiest tragedies that ever dis.
graced the criminal annals of Spartan
burg county. Green, who committed
the murder and was sentenced to hang,
remains closely confined in jail and
seems to bear up surprisingly well. His
case will be appealed to the Supreme
Court, which will delay execution until
October, 1896, when he will be re-
sentenced, if the decision goes against
him.
Page has grown very restless while
in Jail, and said he would be glad to be
taken to the penitentiary. He still
maintains his first story, and says he
had no hand whatever in the murder of
Ban Carson. Colonel Johnson, his at
torney, says that Page never confessed
the crime even to him, but maintained
that the story he told at the coroner''s
inquest and in the courtroom was true.
The friends of the prisoners were
with them up to the time they left for
Columbia, and did all in their power for
their relief. Both appeared to muster
up considerable fortitude, and did not
appear to feel the degration before
them.
Mrs. Carson will probably be set at
work sewing on convict clothing, while
Page will he kept at work around the
State house and public grounds, in
Columbia. 1t is against the policy of
Colonel Neal to hire out white convicts
and he keeps the women as secluded
as possible. Mrs. Carson may be put
at work in the knitting mill, which is q
light and cleanlv task. She is iii fine
health, and apparently has long life
before her.
1t is believed that when Green is ex-
ecuted, that he will divulge the story
of the crime, for he will not want to die
with a falsehood in his mouth. The
friends of Page assert that if Green does
confess, that it will be found that the
story told by Page is true, and that he
is innocent OF direct completely in the
murder
The FASTEST WAR SHIP IN THE
WoRLD.-The pennant for extreme
speed among gun-oarrying ships, ex-
oluding the nominally armed torpedo
boats and their destroyers, must be
transferred from our own Minneapolis
to the Buenos Aires, a cruiser built on
Tyne for the Argentine government by
Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. The speed
of the Buenos Aires has been produced,
moreover, by two screws, instead of
three, as in the Minneapolis. She is
sheathed steel-built boat 396 feet be-
tween perpendiculars, 424 feet over all,
AZ feet 2 inches deep, AZ feet inches
broad, and displacing 4740 tons. Esti-
mating her beam as 1, her length is S.39.
The Minneapolis figures corresponding
to this is 7.0S, as she has beam of 5S
feet 2 inches, and displacement of
1900 tons. The Buenos Aires carries 9
S-inch guns, 6.inch guns, u 47-inch
guns, and "a smaller guns. Her con-
ming tower is 6 inches thick. Her
pr ,tecting deck is inches thick on the
sides, except that it is 5 inches thick
over the machinery. She has 5 torpedo
| tubes. and her bow is a ram. Her esti-
mated horse power was II 900. The high
est speed attained on her six-mile runs was
23.529, and for a six-hour trial the figure
was 23.202. The air pressure during the
trial never exceeded four-tenths of an inch,
and occasionally the stokeholes were open.
The boiler pressure was 155 pounds to the
square inch, and the mean revolutions of both
engines averaged 151 per minute. Only
natural drsugkt was used, and the indicated
horse power was approximately but IA, 900.
England again leads in this procession =