Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-26
News of the Day.

joseph Murray, q New York contrac-
tor, has been arrested on s1spicion OF
being connected with the murder OF
Julius ROsenheimer in New York re-
Gently.
Mis- Louisa Schmitt, aged l6 years,
of New York yesterday fought Oft two
colored burglars with hatpin until she
was overcome by blow from revolver
and chloroform.
Conditions in southern France are
said by newspaper correspondents to be
still serious, notwithstanding the an
nouncements made by the government
to the effect that quiet is being restored.
Mrs. Virginia Spear, aged sixty-three
years, and Matthias Forney, aged seventy
two, we're married at Baltimore yesterday
afternoon at the residence of the bride
sister, the ceremony being performed by
Rev. Robert Gamble Lee, relative OF
both bride and groom.
The body of Grace Burns, a fifteen
year-old girl, who disappeared from her
home at Fargo, on last Friday, wss taken
from the Red river yesterday afternoon.
An examination Of the body indicates
that the girl had been ASA ulted and then
killed by being choked. There is no
clew to the murderer.
Harry X. Thsw's condition after a
year spent 10 prison is such that he was
ordered to exercise daily in the prison
yard. The hot weather and the months
of confinement have combined to break
down Tnaw's health. Thaw WIS 40
weak today he could only walk twice
about the prison yard. 1t was the first
time rbaw has really been out OF doors
since he was locked up.
"Lord Stanley, Earl of Aberdeen"
who claims to be King Edwards cousin,
married Miss Irene Clayton, wealthy
spinster of Calvert county, Nd, in de-
fance of the vigorous opposition of the
lsdy's brothers. He left his bride yes
terday and later was arrested at Lincoln,
Pa, on the charge of desertion. When he
was taken back 10 Calvert last night to
face his wife there was almost riot, and
Stanley was taken to Oxford for safe
keeping.
A dispatch from Santiago, Chile, says
that it is officially announced by the
Paci6c-Steam Navigation Company, that
only one passenger was aboard the San
tiago, wrecked in heavy squall fifty
miles north OF Corral, and he was drown
ed. The only survivor WAS The fourth
officer. All the rest of the crew, number
ing ninety and including twelve English
officers are said TO have persisted. Only
one boat was launched and it was dashed
to pieces on the rocks after drifting for
several days.
During thunderstorm which swept
with disastrous effect over Takoma Park
near Washington late yesterday after
noon the home of Maurice Appleby was
set a6re by lightning and burned to the
ground. The occupants OF the house
narrowly escaped death from the flames
Mrs. H. L. Morris, wife of an electrician
who boarded with the Applebys, while
shutting the window of her room, was
struck and rendered unconscious. Both
her right arm aud right leg were terribly
torn and burned.
Unusual secrecy surrounds the evil
dence taken in the divorce action brought
by Mrs. Constance Knower DraytoO,
a society woman of Manhattan, against
her husband, Henry Coleman, DraytoD,
grandson of Mrs. William Astor, as
all the papers we're filed away yesterday
ia sealed envelOped in the Westches-
ter county clerks office at White Plains,
by order of Supreme Court Justice
Tompkins. Before the papers were
sealed Justice Tompkins signed an in
terlocutory decree of divorce in favor Of
Mrs. Drayton.