Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-08-21
News Of the Day.

The boycott against American goods
in China is said TO be weakening, and the
intended mission Of former Minister Con-
ger is considered to be entirely super
fuous.
The resignation Of Lord Curzon OF
Kedleston az vicefoy of India and the
appointment of the Earl of Mimic as his
successor was announced at the lndia
office in London last night.
An announcement was received IN
Paris Yesterday of the death at LaRo-
chelle of Adolphe William Bouguereau,
the painter, whose serious illness was
made known in a dispatch from LaRo-
chelle Saturday.
A dozen persons we're injured at Mar
blehead, Mass, Saturday night 10y the
collapse of a pavilion at CrOcker Park,
where large crowd was watching the
fireworks in celebration Of the arrival OF
the New York Yacht Club fleet.
While making excavations on We'd
nesday on the land of the Pennsylvania
Glass & Sand Company, near the new
sand mills, along the road leading from
Hancock to Berkeley Springs, w. Va,
force of men discovered a vein of
bituminous coal.
Mistaken for strike breakers, Hartley
A. Long and George S. Klimm, union
ironworkers, on Saturday received a
terrible beating at the hands of union
men who were acting as pickets near the
new Blackwelrs Island bridge in New
York, where strike of ironworkers is
in progress. One of the assailants was
arrested and identified by his victims,
but the other escaped.
Vinson Walsh, son of Thomas F.
Walsh, of Washington, was killed and
four other prominent young members OF
the Newport summer colony were iDjur-
ed in an automobile accident al Newport,
r. l., Saturday afternoon. The auto
mobile, which was driven by young
Walsh, struck the railing Of a bridge
spanning creek near Eastern Point and
plunged into the water
Mrs. Beatrice Young OF William
G.. Young, who employs several stenog-
raphers in New York hotels, on Satur-
day shot and probably fatally wounded
Mrs. Catherine Morgan in parlor, OF the
Hotel Imperial, where the latter was en-
ployed by Mr.. Young. Jealousy Is be-
believed to be the cause Of the shooting.
Mrs. Young had separated from her hus-
band, and believed Mrs. Morgan was to
blame for it.
Five hundred pounds of dynamite, gun
powder, rockets and bombs exploded at
River View, resort on the eastern
limits of Baltimore, Saturday afternoon,
with a conclusion that demolished the
pier, lighthouses, and pavilion, and
blew several launches and small boats
out of the water. A dozen people on
the pier or in the launches alongside II
was injured, and it is remarkable that
no one was killed.
The formal dedication of the new Do
minican College of the Immaculate Con-
ception, which has been in process Of
construction four or five years, took place
Yesterday morning in the building at
Brookland near Washington. Cardinal
Gibbons presided at the ceremony, and
at noon performed the formal act of bless
ing the building and the community. A
large company of eminent DOminicans,
priests, and secular visitors was present.
More than 500 men, women, and child
rem were precipated fifteen feet INTO a Gel
lar by the collapse ola platform in Pitts
burg, Pa, yesterday during the exercises
incident to the laying of the cornerstone
of the Beth David Russian Hebrew Orth-
odox Synagogue. Nearly all were cut
and bruised, but It's believed none wa
fatally hurt. Three rabbis were among
those who went down, and although in
iured, they concluded the ceremony alteI
the panic had subsided.
The Associated Press is able to an
nounce, it is said that the feature of the
proposition of President Roosevelt, com
municated through Baron Rosen to NJ.
Witte. and transmitted by the latter tC
Emperor Nicholas, was based upon the
principle of arbitration. Whether the
proposal cOntemplates arbitration of all
the articles upon which the pleniPoten-
tiaries have failed to agree, or only upon
the question of indemnity, cannot be
stated with positiveness, but it is more
than probable that it relates only to in
demnity, or to indemnity and the cession
of the Island of Sakhalin. Gen. Line
witch has cabled NJ. Witte urgently op-
posing peace.
Cardinal Gibbons, ia a statement IS.
sued yesterday, makes it plain that the
much discussed Rospigliosi marriage
case will not be reopened at Rome. The
messenger Monsignor Marchetti, sent
by the Pope to examine the chsncery
book, it is stated, found that the dispen-
sation granted for the marriage OF Miss
Reid. a Catholic, and now the Princess
Rispigiosi. to Colonel Parkhurst, an
unbaptized person, was the proper one
to be granted. Therefore the Pope has
decided that this marriage was valid,
and that Mrs. ParkhursPs marriage to
the Prince, after her divorce, could not
be recognized. He declares no further
appeal should be entertained.
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