Word: affrays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...celebration of the birth day of Ithaca as a city was the occasion of a scene resembling a Parisian affray between the students and townsmen. A number of Cornell men decided to blockade the street until a horse car driver should apologize for insulting a student. Accordingly, they stretched a rope across the street and piled boxes on the track faster than they could be removed. The mayor and several alderman appeared on the scene and tried unsuccessfully to quell the disturbance. Finally the "townies" obtained some hose, and fastening it to a fire plug, turned the water...
...Sultan invited Lord Dufferin, the British ambassador, to the palace yesterday, and expressed to him his regret at the affray on Sunday in Alexandria, and especially at the wounding of Mr. Cookson, the British consul, and the killing of the engineer of the British man-of-war Superb...