Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Edison says that with his new electric
motor one will be able to ride one hun
dred miles for thirty cents.
The imports Of sugar into the United
States during the last fiscal year exceed,
ed 5000, 900, 600 pounds and broke all
records.
J. Pierpont Morgan is reported to
have said that there would be no more
failures and that the stock market WOULD
improve.
The convicts who escaped from the
Folsom Cali penitentiary got safely
away after their battle with the soldiers
on Saturday.
II is said that on accountof the strong
race feeling in the navy, all negroes now
in the naval service will be gradually
eliminated and no more will be enlisted
It is said that the kissing OF Booker
T. Washington in Boston recently was
due to the fact that many negroes there
are opposed to many of his ideas and
methods.
Dora Clay Brock, formerly divorced
wife of Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay, claims to
have his latest will, dated in September,
1901. in which he bequeathes White
Hall 10 the nation.
Senator German and his party return
ed from Europe on the steamship New
York, arriving at New York on Saturday
evening. The Senator was in good health
and spirits and freely discussed politics.
Attacked by a furious bull, Miss
Annie Styer, of East Vincent, Pa,
climbed tree on Saturday and stayed
there. The bovine brute, tired of wait
ing for her to come down, finally lei1
the scene baflled.
The trustees of the Newport, K. L.
Hospital have received from Mrs. Van
derbilt the formal transfer of the $3.50,
600 ward which she has caused to b
erected as a memorial to her husband
the late Cornelius Vanderbilt
The royal yacht Victoria and ALDER
reached Cowes yesterday evening, ant
King Edward Immediately ordered thu
issue of an address to the Irish people
urging more practical education, IN
dustrial enterprise and mutual tolera
ton.
Nineteen people we're injured in
head-on collision last night on the Ia
Handle railroad near Hartford City
Ind. The accident was caused by a
east bound passenger train running IN
, to a west bound freight None of tn
passengers are badly hurt.
Mrs. Matilda Hertzler, Sc years ole
was found dead in her room at the Cri'
, tenden Mission, in Washington, yestel
day. 1t is believed she committed SUI
eide. Mrs. Hertzler is believed to hav
; a husband living in Washington, and
the mother of number of children, VIII
, are grown and married.
A waiter whs had been directed to RI
, the Bell Eating House, in Baltimore,
reaches by liberal application OF case
, line to the woodwork in the establish
ment was indirectly responsible for a
explosion yesterday, which caused con
sternation in the house and resulted /
severe burns to four persons, one
, whom is expected to die.
A Journalist of Peking named She
, Chen was executed there on Saturday
, According to the official report OF tn
execution, Chen was beheaded, but
became known that this report was false
and that the condemned man was beate
to death in accordance with special in
structions issued by the Dowager En-
press. who desired to make an exampl
of the journalist with which to terrif
other reformers. The victim had advoca
ed reforms and for this he was condemne
l to death, and as an object lesson it wa
1 decreed he should be tortured.
Sofia Krawczewiez, tie pretty youn
Polish immigrant who journeyed
: America on the steamship Chemnitz b
( means of a fund supplied by five Pc
! landers residing in Baltimore, who ha
Q become enthused over a description (
her beauty and who had decided to brin
her to America and then let her choo;
I her future husband from among then
/ was married on the immigration pier o
g Saturday. Strange to say no one of tn
I anxious five played the role ofgroom, an
2 the man who had so ably described he
: as to cause his friends to raise the funt
= carried off the prize.