Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-09-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Ex.Secretary Carlisle has. written
letter indorsiog the gold democratic
movement in Ohio.
A warrant was issued in Washington
yesterday against James G. Thomas
and Milton Cramer, of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. charging them with
violating the grade crossing regula'
tions.
Six young men were drowned by the
capsizing of yacht near Wind Mill
Point, in Lake st. Clair, near Detroit,
late yesterday evening. There were
fifteen persons in the yacht when it
capsized.
The Trades Union Congress at Biz
mingham, England, yesterday passed
resolutions demanding change in the
jury law, providing for payment OF
members of Parliament and urging the
passage of the miners eight.hour bill.
From the description, the woman
whose skeleton was found near Laurel,
Md, is believed to have been the wife
of VIM. Drown, an old junk man, OF
Baltimore. The description OF the
man with her accurately tallies with
that of Drown, even to the missing lett
eye.
The London Chronicles Paris CORE.
spondent says that startling attempt
to revise the French constitution is
contemplated. The National Assem-
bly, is to be convoked at Versailles to
consider plan for the modification of
the Office of the President of the repub.
lie.
The fight between "Kid" Mccoy, of
Indianapolis, and Tommy Ryan. OF
Syracuse, at the Empire Athletic Club
in Syracuse, N. Y. last night, was
stopped by the police in the fifth round
and declared draw. Ryan seemed to
be having the best of the encounter and
his friends charge that there was collu.
sion.
Miss Sallie Chapman, living at Ma.
con, Ga, with her half brother, J. G.
McInvale, was assaulted in her bed.
room by an unknown man, between
three and four o'clock yesterday morn
ing. There is not the slightest clue to
the assailant. This is the second as
sault, of like nature, in the last two
weeks in that city.
Col. Isaac W. Avery, at one time ed.
itor of the Atlanta Constitution, and
former commissioner to Mexico and
the South American republics for the
Cotton and International Exposition,
of 1895, fell from the porch of his resi-.
dence in Atlanta, Tuesday night, and
died yesterday from the effects of the
fall.
Lutte A. Little, twenty-three-year-
old negress, in Memphis, yesterday en-
, tered the Criminal Court room and
presented her duly authenticated claims
to the privilege ofpracticing the law in
the courts of Tennessee. She was ad-
mitted to the bar without question.
She ia the first representative OF her
sex, of any color, to be admitted to the
bar OF Tennessee.
Shortly after 10 o'clock last night a
carriage occupied by MIR. Carl Auer.
bach, well.known business man of
Washington, and his wife, and Mr.. and
Mrs. N. L, Rosenberg, of Norfolk, was
struck by an engine of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad at the corner OF
First and NJ streets northeast, where
NJ street crosses the Metropolitan
branch tracks, in Washington. The
vehicle was completely demolished,
and all the occupants were thrown out
and more or less seriously hurt.
Hawkins, the colored messenger
who recently absconded with about
$9, 900 from the Office of the tax collec-
tor in Washington, arrived there last
night from Toronto in custody of De.
tective Helan. The police expected
him all day, and Major Moore, Inspec-
tor Mattingly and several others await
ed him at headquarters, Maj. Moore
and Inspector Mattingly questioned
Hawkins regarding his crime. BE
confessed that he had taken the money
and fed. He eXonerated his wife, cay
ing that she was ignorant of the crime,
and thought the money he gave her
was his salary. Hawkins was sent to
the sixth precinct station for the night
and was taken to Jail to day.