Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-10-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Ex-Judge Oliver Miller died at hi:
home, near Ellicott City, Md, yester
day after long illness.
A band of kidnappers have been car
rying of the pretty girls in Austrian
Galicia and selling them to Turks fol-
the harems
In the series for the baseball cham
pionship of the world the Bostons de-
feated the Clevelands at Cleveland yes
terday by score of to 3.
Samuel Davis has sued the Union
Baptist Church, Baltimore, for 5000
because of his expulsion as member
On the ground OF his obtaining di
vorce.
The grain trade of Russia is in crit
zeal condition owing to the refusal o.
foreign merchants to purchase the sur
plus grain from the interior of that
country.
4 colored boy named Joe He II |, alias
Alfred Brown, eleven years old, was
arr ested in Washington yesterday
charged with having assaulted \ little
white girl named Agnes Harrison only
two and a half years old.
Mrs. Henry NJ. Teller, wife of the
United States Senator from Colorado
was reelected president of the
Woman's Home Missionary Society Of
Baltimore Conference, Methodist Epis
copal Church in Baltimore yesterday.
The sequel of the episode at the Ma
tional Hotel in Washington, Friday
the 7th instant, when Surgeon Dick
son, of the navy, confronted his wife in
room with Herbert Carter, a swell
young Englishman, has appeared III
the form of a divorce suit.
An incendiary fire on the famous
Hellerton Cave farm, near Bethlehem
Pa, yesterday, destroyed the barn,
with all its contents, consisting of fiji
teen head of cattle, sixty tons of hay
this years harvest. grain, and Loon
worth of farming machinery.
An elderly and well-dressed white
man, who gave his name as John A
Powell. and his occupation rs physician
was locked up in Washington yester
day on the serious charge Of commit
ting an indecent assault on Bessie
Moore, pretty twelve-year-old girl o
that city.
The traffic officials of the Baltimore
and Ohio, Pennsylvania and Reading
Railroad Companies have come TO al
agreement to maintain the rates OF
grain for export, which go into eilec
on November lst. under the old rate o
twenty-gve cents hundred on whea
from Chicago.
During the hearing of the bill for TIT
injunction by Alexander Shaw ant
others against the West Virginia Cen
trail Railroad Company, in Baltimore
yesterday, Mr.. Shaw stated that he hat
been Systematically robbed during ;
er.es of years by Stephen B. Elkins
Henry G.. Davis and Thomas b. Davis
who own a majority of the company
stock and manage its affairs.
Mitchell called at the London Sport
ing Life office yesterday and stated tina
he was now prepared to fight Corbet
for $4,000 :. side The fight is to be de
| cldcu III May III new OrleaHS, IL lL'
Olympic Club offers the largest purse
Peter Jackson, the colored pugilist, viii
sail from Liverpool for New York tc
day. The object of his visit is to AZ
range for fight with Corbett.
Edward Parker Deacon has received
ON his wife oyertures for compro
mise regarding the children, but HI
has come to no decision, except t
hasten preparations for the hearing a
AK. He declares that he will be salts
fed with nothing short of the posses
sion of all the children. The people
and the newspapers of the Riviera sup
port Mr.. Deacon in the controversy.
Ills TEE HAD CoME.-"Is there
man in all this audience" liercely OK
claimed female lecturer, chat ha
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