Word: affrays
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...business of congressional investigating will largely stand or fall on the issue of a legal affray which started at Washington. The case of Harry Ford Sinclair, charged with contempt for refusal to answer ten questions propounded by the Senate Public Lands Committee, came up in the District of Columbia Supreme Court...
...This distressing quarrel must stop at once. It is annoying the bystanders--me especially. I am not interested to inquire into the causes of the affray. They may be obscure. You will see that it would be troublesome. Besides, you both agree that you are fighting for the same thing, a purse. My advice is that you stop at once before either one has suffered the humiliation of defeat. You will thus, quite naturally, form a warm and lasting friendship cemented in mutual confidence and esteem...
This is the second and last week of "On the Mississippi," at the Columbia. The play is most exciting from start to finish. The Mardi Gras Carnival at New Orleans, the attempted lynching, the affray in the gambling house, the attack on the jail, the floating theatre on the Mississippi, the inimitable songs and dances of the darkies, are always welcomed by large audiences...
...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...