Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Henry F. Downing, a prominent
New York colored man, will sue the
proprietor of Silsbie's restaurant for
ejecting him from his saloon.
Nine convicts made their escape from
the State prison at CharlestOwn, Mass,
yesterday afternoon through sewer,
and all but one are now at large.
The cholera epidemic is spreading
throughout Europe. The disease has
made tsappearancei in the militry camp
near St. Petersburg and new cases are
reported near Paris.
Burglars CARRIED away the iron safe
from the office of n. J. Houck, at
Hamstead, Carroll county, Md, on
Thursday night. 1t was taken to the
open and the contents stolen.
Archbishop Ireland, of st. Paul, who
went to Rome six months ago to eX-
plain the scholastic situation to the
members of the Sacred College, return
ed yesterday evening to New York.
He saws he is not 10 be cardinal.
The latest election returns indicate
that Gladstone will hardly have 4 reii-
able working majority. The liberal
party having failed to gain the number
of seats expected in England, MIR. Glad
stones majority must now depend ON
the Irish party.
The convention of the Christian En-
deavor Society held its second days
session in Madison Square Garden, New
York, yesterday. The feature of the
morning programme was the pastors
hour. Rev. Joseph Cook delivered an
address on "Watchwords of the Twen-
tieth Century," In the afternoon the
''Free Parliament was the feature.
Edward Mcdonald, q laborer, who
was defendant in divorce suit, enter
ed the office Of County Judge Clute, in
Albany, y Y, yesterday, and demand
ed that the Judge sign n promissoly
note for So, 900. On the judges refusal
Mr.. Mcdonald struck him and attempt
ed to draw pistol. The assailant was
secured after q scuflle. His mind is
unsettled.
For fancied insult to the niece of
Charles F. Mayer nj Bar Harbor, Ora
ham Johnson, who lives ut Boston, yes
terday morning came to Baltimore and
threatened serious injury to Sydney C.
Cary, wcll-llnown club man of that
city. Johnson called at Mr.. Caly's
home while the latter was at breakfast
and said he had come to 'do him up"
He was promptly arrested.
Sister Rose Gertrude, the member of
the English Sisterhood who two years
ago gained world wide notoriety by
Offering to devote her life to the care of
the lepcrs at Molokai, Sandwich Islands.
but who after Il years service in the
hospital in Honolulu, married DR.. Lurts,
the young physician at the hospital, re-
turned to San Francisco yesterday with
her husband, who lost his position in
Honolulu.
DR.. Henry i. Mccormick, GO years
old. a native Of New York and one Of
the best known electrical physicians in
the country, died Thursday night of
cancer in the stomach at Paterson, n.
J. After u years Of mercantile expert
encc in New York he removed to Rich
mond. Va. and made fortune in the
dry goods business, which he lost in real
estate in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Sadie Crandall, the wife of Rev.
Walter Crandall, q Michigan minister,
who has married her nine times and
wants to keep on marrying her, has APP
piled for Il divorce in New York. Ac-
cording to the statement of the petit
toner Mr. Crandall is marriage mani
&C. That is, he is ever seeking to be
married, never insisting on new bride,
but being perfectly content with Mrs.
Crandall in that role. Owing to this
matrimonial mania, Mrs. Crandall
says her married life has been long
and narrowing honeymoon.