Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-11-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Spartali & Co., merchants, OF London,
have failed; liabilities, s2,5OO,0OO.
At the suggestion at Mayor Edison the 81.
perintendent of police in New York yester-
day was ordered to prohibit glove fights III
future.
The sugar refinery of E. G. knight * Co.,
Philadelphia, will shut down to- day for an
indefinite period. aud nearly 800 men Will
be thrown out OF employ ment.
Work on the Baltimore and Ohio's through
line to New York is progressing rapidly,
and it will be completed several months
earlier than was anticipated.
Cholera continues on the increase in Par
is. One American, from California, died
! from it Yesterday. In eighteen hours there
were II deaths in the city and 81 in the hos
pitfalls.
The National Board of Health has issued
communication to the governors OF Inc
several States, requesting them TO nave
strict sanitary measures adopted for the pre-
vention ofcholera.
A north bound passenger train on the
Houston and Texas Central Railroad was
thrown down an embankment, and wrecked
near Galveston yesterday. A number OF
persons were killed and injured.
in the Storey will case in Chicago yester-
day the court refused to admit 10 probate
the will drawn by Mr.. Storey in 1881 which
is known as his lust will, on the ground
that he was then of unsound mind.
The centennial anniversary of the conse
Grafton of Bishop Sesbury, the first Amer
can bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, was appropriately celebrated yes
terday, throughout this country and IN Eng
land and Scotland.
VIM. L. Thompson, an engraver, was ar
rested at Philadelphia, yesterday, on suspl-
cion of being one of the parties that have
been flooding Camden with counterfeit ten
dollar bills on the Third National Bank 0!
Cincinnati
Sull van, who was shot by the negro Car
ter ia Washington on Thursday night, did
not die as stated yesterday but was able TO
return 10 his home that evening. II is
thought that the wound Is not serious, and
that Sullivan will soon recover.
The board Of canvassers in New York
concluded the work in the fourteenth dis
trct Yesterday, but the returns in the first,
seventh and ninth districts were not com.
pleted. The total result varies 30 little
from the figures of the national and State
democratic committees as not to call for
mention.
Hon. George W. Jones died at Fayette
vile, Tenn, yesterday. He was born III
Virginia in 1907, was a member of the con
stitutional convention in 1884, member OF
the Legislature from 1885 to 1899, presi
dental elector on the democratic ticket in
1910, member OF Congress from 1913 tc
1850, member of the Confederate Congress
for one term, declining reelection, and a
member of the constitutional convention OF
1870.
At Galveston. Tex, yesterday, the United
States Court dissolved the injunction OBJ
tanned by the Western Union Telegraph
Company restraining the Baltimore aud
Oaio Telegraph Company from building its
new lines through Red River county on the
right of way of the Texas and Pacific Rail
way. The Baltimore and Ohio Company has
also obtained an injunction against the Tex
as and Pacific Railway Company restraining
it from any further Interference with the
Baltimore and Ohio in Fanuin and Red Riv-
er counties.