Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Board of Trade of Washington
Yesterday adopted resolutions favorin9
the extension of civil service regulations
to District employees.
The political friends of Premier Girls
nj. of Italy, say that he has no inter-
ton of resigning, aud that the Chamber
will he dissolved early 10 January.
Labor Commissioner Wright has
drafted bill, which will be introduced
in the House, providing for arbitration
of strikes by national commission.
A divorce has been granted in Denver
to Mrs. Gertrude Hutchips Clark from
Clarence W. Clark. the New York ad-
venturer, now in Jail, to whom she was
married after two days acquaintance.
Judge Grosscup has made an order
that VIM. ]. Stark, one of the deputy
marshals arrested during the railroad
strike in Chicago for killing, be dis
charged, as the prisoner was in custody
for an act done in pursuance of law
of the United States.
Fire broke out in the Oregon I'm.
provement Company's Newcastle coal
mine at Coal Creek, ten miles from
Seattle, Wash, yesterday. Over 10
men were working in the mine at the
time but they were gotten out safely,
though Just in the nick of time.
Miss Mary Florence Lynch is su-
ing DR.. Hubbard W. Mitchell in New
York to recover $4,000 damages for
reach of promise DR.. Mitchell brands
her story as an outrageous piece OF
blackmail. He is very we'll known in
bis profession. and enjoys large prac-
tice.
Delegates from twelve different States
and representing fifty lodges met in
formal session last night in Buffalo, and
d. cided 10 withdraw from the knights
of Pythias. and to establish new ma
rionaI association, to be known as the
Improved Order of the Knights OF
Py thias.
Before the LeXow investigating COM
mittee yesterday officers, wardmen and
sergeants testified that they collected
blackmail, which they paid wholly or
partly to Inspector Steers and Captains
Schmittberger, McAvoy and Allaire.
Superintendent Byrnes, when told OF
the testimony against ex-Inspector
Steers, manifested great establishment.
Coroner Lowrason held an inquest in
New Orleans yesterday on the death OF
Andy Bowen, who was killed Friday
night during a fight in the ring with
Lavigue. The jury returned a verdict
that the death Of Bowen was due to
conclusion of the brain, and that the
fatality WAS due to the neglect of the
club in not padding the floor of the
ring.
The case of the Central Transports
ton Company against the Pullman Pal,
ace Car Company, which has been in
litigation for nine years, was decided
in favor of the transportion company
in the United States Circuit Court,
Philadelphia. yesterday. The case in
volved several million dollars. A mas
ter was appointed by Judge Dallas.
and he will report in sixty days,
1t was announced We t,rday by the
New York Sun, ION the highest
authority that Joseph H. Choate and
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income tax as unconstitutional, and
that both these eminent lawyers would
represent large body of public spirited
New York merchants and business
men, who propose to test the constitu-
tionality of the law in the courts.
Wilson Brown, jr., well,known and
prosperous lawyer of White Plains, n
Y, was sandbagged within fifty feet Of
his home Monday night by two men
They were frightened off by the ap.
proach of some one and only succeeded
10 bearing away the lawyers leather
satchel, filled with legal papers. Elk
Alderman Hugo Schmidt, contractor
living in the Sunnyside section of Long
Island City, was sandbagged and robbed
of $3.50 about two o'clock yesterday
morning.
DR.. Herbert A. Starkey, of Harvey
H., surgeon of the Grand Trunk
and Illinois Central Railroads, was
shot in the thigh by burglars last night
who attempted to rob the house of hi;
mother.in. law, Mrs. Sleight, neal
Kingston, N. Y. About eighteen
months ago DR.. Starkey was shot and
sand bagged in Chicago and left fol-
dead on the tracks of the Grand Trunk
Railway by two desperate criminals.
He will probably recover from his
wound although it is quite dangerous.
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