Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-11-04
Alexandria Affairs.
Reported for THE EVENING STAR.

Reported for THE EVENING STAR
ELECTION NIGHT.-No queter election than
Cured in Alexandria. The democrats kept
headquarters at LanDan's opera house TO an
nounce the election returns, and soon after ten
among whom were Gen Fitz Lee Chairman
Barbour, Judge Keith, Gen. Eppa Hunton, and
rooms of thu Westsrn Union .n teearash This
throng fingered long, but before two o'clock
this morning the successful and the yanqnished
were alike asleep.
BUILDING AssocIATIoN.-About 800 shares
have been subscribed to the Mount Vernon Co
operative Building association No. 2. f. f.
Corbett has been chosen temporary chairman
and >. n. Unler secretary pro TEN. The perma-
nent officers will be chosen at the next meeting
OF the association,
Notes.-The prisoners at the station house
this morning are James Kelley. Reuben Wash
lngton, Henry Anderson and Nathaniel jack
The Reform club, at its last meeting, elected
It's ofhcers. ID. w. Whiting was chosen presi-
dent and w. II. Lyles secretary.---Sir Knights
n kemper, Edgar Warfield and A. A. War
Held are delegates from the Knights Templars
OF this city at the session of the Grand Com
Jones, the health officer, yesterday performed
the operation for hair-lip upon a son of Mr.
robert Williams, of this place
The Andre Monument Blown Up.
AT 1920 o'clock last night the Andre monu-
ment, near Tappan, N. Y, was blown up by the
explosion of a dynamite cartridge. Both bases
were blown into atoms, and the iron fencing
that inclosed the monument was completely
destroyer. The shock was SO great that IL
broke the glass in windows of houses a mile
away.
This is the second attempt to destroy the
monument. the first being about six years ago.
when dynamite was placed at the base and the
stone was disEgured. The monument was erect
ed by Cyrus w. Field, of New York, to the Eng
llsh spy Andre, who visited the traitor Arnold
to negotiate surrender of West Point.
A MOther.in.Law with n Ratchet.
THE ALLEGED WIDOW OF PHILANTHRoPIsT
DURANT, OF BOSTON, ASSAULTS HER SoN-IN-
LAW.
special to the New York World from Boston,
November 3, says: The CONSERVATION caused in
the cultured circles of Wellesley college when
Mrs. C. L. Shelley boldly asserted that she was
the real widow of Philanthtopist Henry
Durant, the founder of the college, and as such
was entitled to the millions Mrs. Durant is now
enjoying, was equaled to-day when Mrs; Shelley
attempted to Kill her sOn-if-law with hatchet.
Her claims against the Durant estate have not
been pressed, and she had disappeared from
public notice Lately she has been advertisns
street, South Boston. Mrs. Shelley has
daughter married 10 portrait artist named c
II. CoOnton. Mr.. and Mrs. COOntOn have lived
with Mrs. Shelley. and she. it would seem, has
proved lively mother-in-law
Last night" says Mr.COonton, "when came
nome from work neithcrmy wife nor her mother
would speak to me- My mother-in- law ordered
me To leave the house. / wanted to sec my
and l went around the house and
climbed into the window of our room. My wife
recognized me, but began to scream Murder!
murder. At the first Shrek out rushed her
mother, who was in her nj INT clothes, into the
street crying: Some one is trying to murder my
daughter She Gained down after awhile and
came in and wanted to know what l was doing
there. Ill kill you, she shriekcd, If you don't
get out OF here at once She struck at me seve
raj vicious blows, but lodged her and got into
the street Then my wife locked the door and
refused to let me in. j married my wife in
Jersey, when sine was called Ada Myers"