Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

King Edwards progress IS uninter-
rupted. His majesty sleeps well and Is
gaining strength. The wound is slowly
healing.
News has been received of the death
of Hon. William Hayne Perry at his
home. Sans Souci, Greenyille, :, Z. lie
had been an invalid for several years.
Ada Gray, the actress, who is best
known to the theater-going public by
her personation Of Lady Isabel in East
LYNNE" died Of cancer Of the stomach
in New York, yesterday.
The Missouri democratic State judicial
convention at Springfield, Mo-, yester-
dav cheered for Roosevelt and Kissed
William J. Stone, candidate for the
Senate, who was not present.
A sensation has been caused at Rome
by the refusal of Cardinal Macchi to al
low sister of the church to nurse Prin-
cess Joseph Rospigliosi, the divorced
wife of Colonel Parkhurst, of Bangor,
Maine.
The seven masted steel schooner
Thomas w. Lawson, to be the largest
sailing vessel of that class ahoat, and
which will be seen in the coal trade out
of Baltimore, was launched today at
Quincy, Mass.
Flood conditions in Nebraska are
steadily growing worse. Every day
since June 80. with the exception OF
Sunday, rain has fallen, and every creek
and river in the State has oyerfiown its
banks and spread over the fiat country.
Much damage has resulted.
A cloudburst in the upper Bushkill
district of Northampton county Tuesday
night did considerable damage. Charles
Abel, a farmer, who, with his wife, was
returning from the harvest field, was
struck by lightning and killed. Bush
kill creek overhowed and many grain
fields were destroyed.
Marion Erwin, United States attorney
for the northern district of Georgia, who
has recently been investigating the ex-
tradition casas of Benjamin ID. Greene
and John f. Gaynor, returned to Wash
ington yesterday with a sensational re-
poet of crooked dealing on the part Of
the Canadian judiciary.
Corporal Samuel /. Boyd of the United
States marine corps was struck by the
Atlantic City special train Tuesday night
and almost instantly killed. The acci-
dent occurred near Magruder station, on
the Pennsylvania railroad, not far from
the Ordway rife range, where the marines
had been engaged in target practice.
A six inch Bethlehem plate, represent
ing side amor for the new protected
cruisers oftho Colorado and Pennsylvania
class, was tested at the Indian Head
Proving Ground yesterday. Three shots
were fred at the plate at velocities Of
1865 foot seconds each. The plate stood
an excellent test and appeared to be
fully up to the standard Of the armornow
being furnished for the navy.
China's protest, in which she had the
thorough sympathy of the United States,
against the severity Of the conditions
proposed by most of the powers for the
withdrawal of foreign troops from Tient-
sin. and the restoration of that city to
Chinese authority, has met with success.
1t is now certain that the conditions will
be materially modified so that China can
have no objection to accepting them.
The fight against Gen. Powell Clay
ton, United States ambassador to
Mexico, which was the primary cause of
the physical assault committed in the
Senate chamber by Senator Bailey Of
Texas on Senator Beyeridge of Indiana,
has been revived by Senator Penrose of
Pennsylvania, acting in behalf Of Will
liam II. Mealy, Pennsylvania man,
who has mining properties near Mont
Grey, Mexico. Mealy claims he was
not properly protected while under ar
rest in Mexico.
Forty prisoners confined in the Jail at
st. Joseph, Mo-, made daring attempt
at escape Yesterday by blowing out the
rear end of the Jail with dynamite. The
building was badly wrecked, and one
wing of the courthouse shattered. The
prisoners had seereted themselves in
their cells and none of them were in
iured. Jaier Thomas rushed to the
scene the minute the explosion occur
red and, revolver in hand, guarded the
hole torn out by the explosion, until
assistance could be had, thus frustrating
wholesale delivery. Not prisoner
got away.
The hearing of the charge of murder
against Lewis A. Disbr0w, who is ac-
cused of having caused the death of
Sarah Lawrence and Clarence Foster,
was continued yesterday at Good
Ground Long Island. Albert T. Hand
testified that he saw Fosters body the
day it was found, and that there was
cut over the right eye. James Cas-
sidy, who followed, said he also saw the
cut over Fosters right eve. Albert c.
Mott, bayman, said that there were
no oyster beds near where the bodies of
Foster and Sarah Lawrence were found.
His evidence was intended TO show that
neither body could have been cut or
otherwise injured by oyster shells. The
prosecution closed its case yesterday.
At the close of the hearing Disbrow was
held for the grand jury by Justice of
the Peace Foster.
A SON was born to Governor Aycock of
North Carolina, yesterday morning, at the ex-
ecutiye mansion. 1t is the first child born 10
governor there since the mansion was oc-
cupied.
MGR. FARLEY FOR ARCHBISHOP
On the authority of one of the most