Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-09-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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ITO sho1o the very age and body Of the Times. -
In St. Louis, yesterday, Mrs. Mike Walsh
and Mrs. Tom Moran, wives Of two laboring
men, quarreled, and Mrs. Moran had her head
cut and bruised. Last blight after the men came
home the quarrel was taken up by them, and
Moran stabbed Walsh 10 the neck and left side,
kiIliug-him almost instantly. Moran is not yet
arrested.
Benton, the Washington safe burglar, is said
to be willing to turn States evidence in the
event OF new trial, provided he is protected
from prosecution. The whereabouts Of Miles,
Benton ADD Nettleship are known to the Dis
trct Attorney, and it is thought they will
be brought 10 WASHINGTON in few days for
trial.
The trial of the Georgia insurrectionists came
to an end yesterday by the acquitta Of Jack
Hicks Judge johnson charged the jury that
the evidence adduced was not sufficient to con.
vict, aud after half 40 hours absence they re-
turned verdict OF aot guilty, after which all
the other prisoners were discharged aud the
court adjourned.
In Gowanda, Chattaraugus county, N. 7 Il,
yesterday, Chas. Blockney, an attorney, was
met on the street by Lewis Darby, who drew
pistol and fired at him, killing him iustantly.
The murderer then fed to the woods aud com
United suicide by cutting bis throat No motive
is given Tor the deed.
A tramp approached a farm house near Ba-
tavia, n Y, Tuesday, called for food, and
when the hired girl refused his demand be shot
her in the left arm, and attempted to fire a
second time, but the girl got out of the way.
The Sheriff, with about fifty deputies, are in
pursuit.
Forest fires arc raging in the neighborhood
OF Massena, New York, and have swept over
tract of country one mile wide by FIVE miles
in leogth. The flames have run through the
sWamps and fields Of standing grain, and in many
cases farmers have been compelled to abandon
their dwellings,
The trial Of Westervelt, charged with COM
plicity in the abduction Of the child, Charlie
Ross, was continued at Philadelphia yesterday.
Additional evidence was gvep tending to show
Westervelt's Intimate connection with the alb
ductorS Of the child.
A report has reached New York that the
fugitive murderer, VIM. j. Sharkey, has been
banisEed from Cuba, aud that he had been put
on board a Spanish steamer, the captain Of
which received strict Djunctlons to land him iu
San Domingo
The reported loss of life by the explosion 10
a ceuoid factory in Newark on Wednesday
evening was greatly exaggerated. DULY one man
was killed, aud one other is missing, supposed
TO have been burned to death. All those injured
will recover
The Farmers and Mechanics Conference
which met at ST. Louis, yesterday, had a very
inharmonous session, the Eastern delegates
hnally withdrawing. Only thirty-eight delegates
out of two hundred who had signed the call were
prescott.
John Green, who had been discharged in
Washington on charge of personating fraud
uleDtIy John W. Edes, of Georgetown, was
rearrested in Baltimore, yesterday, on the same
charge.
Patrick Doyle, while intoxicated, threw bis
wife, Mary, from window of their residence
10 Brooklyn, N. Y, yesterday, causing probably
fatal injuries.
While the steamship Nova Scotau was COM
ing up the Bay to Baltimore, yesterday child
aged three years, crawled through the netting
and falling overheard was drowned.
To. day being the anniversary OF the battle of
Lake Erie, Gov. Lippitt, of Rhode Island, has
ordered salutes Of one hundred gus to be fred
at Providence and Newport.
Three fatal railway accidents occurred on the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway, Wedues-
day night, all caused by the severe transforms
that prevailed 10 the West.
The offer of the Pennsylvania Railway CON-
pauy to run fast mail train from New York to
the South and West has been accepted by the
Postofice Department.
Gen. T. 4. Spinner announces his acce ptance
of the Repu blican nomination for Comptroller
of New York.
Virgil D. Stockbridge, of Maine, has been
appointed Examiner.iu Chief in the Patent
Office.
None Of the Directors Of the Bank of Cali
tornla were present at the meeting held in mem
DRY of Ralston.
A Milwaukee numbering firm has suspended
with liabilities of SG50,O0O
The sub-Treasurer at New York, yesterday,
sold half million of gold at is DO.
County Items.