Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-11-05
News or Eno SES.

The Chinese ambassadors visited the Iaaiy'
land Institute Fair in Baltimore last light.
Abner Gibson, while intoxicated, fatally shot
W. D. Coleman through the body ond leg a!
Macon last week. The night before Pug hlo.
Michael shot William Mayer four times, serl'
ousy woundipg him.
Jeremiah Kennedy. the wife murderer, who
on Saturday was found guilty 10 Chicago, and
sentenced to be hanged, yesterday nlo!alog cut
bis throat from ear to car With razor prccn7.
ed from an adjoining cell. lie tled IN lev
minutes. He was i1sloe.
A committee Of leading Washington cl;izaGs
have requested the President to appoint Jcs.
H. Bradley, en- old member Of the Washing
ton bar, to iudgeship Of the Supreme Court
| for the District OF Columbia IN tho event Of
the contemplated resignation Of Judge A. IS.
| Ou.
! Reasons were yesterday filed ia the Camden
| Court for a new trial 10 the case or ben]amin
| Hunter, convicted of the murder OF John VI.
Armstrong. Lawyer Thompson, Of Hunter 8
counsel, made lengthy argument ID expisna'
ton of the reasons presented, at the conclusion
of which the Court announced il Hau'd with.
bold its decision.
Yesterday Frederick Steliiog workman 10
the sugar refinery at Williamsburg \: ~
was engaged 10 stirring up boiling sugar in 40
immense vat. when, losing his balance, he fell
into the seethirg liquid, which dubbed Up
about bis neck The agoDiZiug screams OF the
wretched nan for help brought men to bis as
sistauce and be was taken out. He was re-
moved to the hospital, but be can scarcely sur.
vive bis fear(u! Injuries.
A dispatch fcom Nashville sa7s It is copjec-
| I,.l 49,, tI.t M tI.D,-oo3 tho
r1urderers of Edward Jackson, will PROBABLY
give Tennessee the 60 by &C route West, !vr
fear Of reqnisition for them from The Cover,
nor ct this State, 70. which, however, no ap.
plicstion has yet been made. Ths general IN.
preston Of railroad men, who are k@ca:9 %
the lookout for he fleeing quartet, il that they
vii! pass aloOg the southern boaraer Of lee.
nessee 10 avoid the service OF rcqu.5lt!0a, and
that, Is mary persons CT their acquaintance
live IL the western Wids "a Texas. they vii!
BE- likely to strike bee lice il that Direction.
Colonel Joseph 3. Stewart, Formerly Of
| Washington. has been arrested ia NaW \ ork
at the suit cf Samuel Churchill, Or the Charge
of having borrowed $500 bond Of the Portage
| Lake and Lake Superior Mining Company to
make some inquiries as to its Reliability aud
| value, promising to return the next day, but
| that Instead of doing 80 he. on the same day,
Gisuosed of it to satisfy CLAIM which the party
to whom it was paid had against hin. Stew
arc after soEo delay, gave bail lu $500 eod
was releas d. He says tho suit ia . blacknall.
| lug operation. but Mr.. Churchill il sal 10 be
q citizen of considerable means AMI some re-
spec;sbllIty.
At noon yesterday two men in wagon stop.
ped ct tho Halfway House, MonGonth county,
N. j., and Inquired for the road to Shark River
Station. Soon otter they had left their horse
came back, draggiog the overturned wagon.
search was made for the men, sud Que OF them,
named Cook, OF Long Branch, was found ball
q mile FROM the house, in the edge OF wood.
He had been stabbed il The throat and Was ln'
sensible. His companion had fed, aud g gun,
which had been seen 10 the Wagon, Wa9 missing.
As there is no physician at the Hallway House
it was necessary to send Cook, still unconscious.
| to Long Btadch, for treatment Search Is be-
ing made for bis ssssllaut.
Yesterday George HaukiGs' faro den IN
! Chicago WAS raided AID seventeen players were
| bundled in the FIRE. proof vault, the daor locked
aud the police admitted, Hsnkils aad negro
servant remaioils outside. lGs;esd ct going
away as u:ual on finding the room. deserted. the
otiicera, who were up 10 the dodge, sat down
and waited. 10 about an hour the air 10 the
vault, althcughit vas provided with ventlaiirs
holes, became SO vitiated that the Inmates be
came desperate, end from the inside came
faint cries of "Lat US out! We Gro nearly
dead !" Even then tbs proprietor refused Tor
o time to ibersta them, and whcn ne did The
inmates rushed out il e state Bordering Oh
suHocatiou. Oac old man was nssrly deed and
all were terribly exhausted. They were taken
to the station.