Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-08-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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The second contest between Coyle and John
son for the international swimming champion
ship took place yesterday, the latter being vic
torious, going the entire distance from Laza.
retto to Gloucester, on the Delaware river,
while Coyle was taken from the water after
swimming about six miles, showing indications
OF being chilled and unable to 20 much further.
Three burglars attempted to break into the
residence of DR.. VIM. A. Hammond, 43 West
Fifty-fourth street, New York. at one o'clock
a. M. yesterday. They set off an electric alarm
while prying open window. DR.. Hammond
was aroused, and seizing his pistols, fired four
shots at the burglars, wounding one. The lat
ter returned one shot and fed.
An explosion, caused by escaping gas, oc-
Cured last evening at the residence Of L. G..
Webster, Brooklyn, N. Y. MIR. and Mrs. Web.
ster, Mr.. 6. Thrall, and Eliza Wilson, servant
we're all badly burnt. All the windows were
broken and the walls badly bulged by the con-
cussos.
Albert Molitor, merchant, of Rogers City,
Mich. and Edward Sullivan, his bookkeeper,
were both shot. probably fatally, on Monday
night, while standing at desk in Molitor'
store. The assassin is supposed to be one oil
Moltor's laborers he had been quarreing with.
General kaufman has sent communication
to the Khokan rebels in which he agrees to re.
cognize the new Khan if Russia is Unidentified
TOR the losses by the instruction, and if the
treaties between Russia and the late Khan are
accepted by the new one.
AT the trottiDg races at Springfield, Illinois,
Yesterday, the 81, 900 race for horses that have
never beaten 2.38 was won by St. Julien over
eight others, and the race for 81 900 for horse:
that have never beaten 224 by Joker.
The Atlantic Cotton Mills, at Lawrence
Mass, which stopped work on the 10th of July
will resume operations on Monday next with a
iull force. They employ twelve hundred AND
fifty operatives
A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo-. says thai
r. Z. Sprague, noted counterfeiter and muir
derer, who was under sentence of death 10 the
| county Jail Harrisouville, Mo-, broke jai
Monday night and ped.
Twelve thousand animals are said tie be dowr
With the foot aud mouth disease in Dorsetsbire
England, and the distemper is reported to BIZ
oPASoNiu6 ioPioiy W otuct
Reports from the Ottawa valley state thai
the crops 10 that section have not been mater
ally injured BY the late rains. Iu many places
| an improvement is noticed.
A special to the London Standard from
| Vienna says that the oldest SOD of the Sultar
is going to Crete with squadroo to proven
the threatened lnsurrection 10 that island.
A convention of Protestant denomination
meets at Sea Grove, N. j., to-day. Two hun
dEed delegates arrived yesterday.
There are rumors at San Francisco of dis
covery ofexteusive swindling on the part o
dlstillers and revenue agents 10 that city.
The intended marriage of King Alfonso witt
the eldest daughter Of the Duke de Moutpen
sier is announced by l. Univers.
Willis Nary, Bishop of the British Metho
dist Episcopal Church 10 Canada, died on Sun
day last at Shelbourne, N. S.
Mr.. Ross, the father of the missing chile
Charlie Ross, has gone to Plattsburg 10 search
of his boy.
Sir Edward Ryan, Vice Chancellor of the
University of London, is dead