Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-07-24

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+; pointed by State officials, subject to
approval by Gen. Villa, instead of ny
ia regularly ordained bishop.
h Two hundred persons have been
drowned in floods throughout Bull
garia. Enormous damage has been
done to property and crops, and rail-
road traffic is paralyzed.
Eluding guards stationed about
Buckingham Palace, London, to pre-
went an attack by militant suffra-
,gettes, lone fury stormed the
residence of King George yesterday
while representatives of all political
parties were comforting on Irish
Home Rule and created intense ex-
citement.. Windows were smashed
with stones.
The Panama Canal will be opened
for commerce to all ships needing not
more than 3 Ofeet of water on and
after August Is. This announcement
was made by Secretary of War Gar
rison yesterday afternoon.
h Thomas B. Lewis, Of Birmingham,
ALA, was fatally injured last Fri
day in the races being run under the
auspices of the Federation of Ameri-
can Motorcyclists, now in convention
lin st, Louis. He crashed into the
fence and fell over a 20-foot EN-
tbankment during the first race Of the
day. He died few hours later.
During three hours of rioting last
might in connection with the street
car strike in st. John, New Bruins
wick, soldiers charged mob of
II 900 persons in Marquet square, cars
were overturned and burned in the
square fremen in a power house
were stoned :and driven from work,
ami the city was left without lights
for a time. The disorder was the
most serious in 40 years. At mid
night. quiet had been restored, but in
aniI expectation of further trouble to-
1
day troops will be on guard in force.
1t became necessary for Speaker
Clark in the House yesterday to ad-
monish Representative James W.
bryan, of Washington, Progressive,
that the lower body of Congress was
mot a "school of pugilism." Mr..
Bryan, in a violent rage, had Just
trandisheJ his fist in the face of
Representat'v Martin B. Madden. OF
Illinois, and few minutes previously
he had approached Representative ],
Hampton Moore, of Pennsylvania,
who was making a speech, with the
fexpress intention of "curving the
form of the gentleman over the
benches" should he refer to him, Mr..
Bryan, in a derogatory way.
Kier Hardie in the current issue of
the Labor Leader, London, joins in
the attack on the King and says:
George is not a statesman. If he
had been in the ranks of the work
ing class, most likely his fate would
have been that of the street corner
loafer. And this is the man who. is
being made a tool of by the raction-
ary classes to break the power OF
democracy and weaken and finally
destroy the power Of Parliament"
Eugene Newman, 19-year-ole
5 youth, who last Saturday eloped witt
Anna Cleary, daughter of William
: C. Cleary. town clerk of Haverstraw
N. Y, and prominent in Rocklanc
: County Democratic politics, was shot
and killed yesterday in Cleary's. office
). here. Cleary surrendered himself t(
!. the justice of the peace, who com
dnitted him to the Rockland Count,
Jail. The boy had come from New
iiYork city, it was understood, to dis
fcuss with his wife's father the. elope
ment, which eliminated in marriage
> There was some doubt whethe
Cleary knew before Newman's ar