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Show LHy W. U- Tel wrapt. DISt;.ACKFUL AFFRAY. Alexandria, Egypt, 13. A disgraceful disgrace-ful affray occurred yesterday between U. S. consul-general Butler and Wad-leigh, Wad-leigh, his secretary, on the one part, and generals Loring and Reynolds and major Campbell, ex-confederate officers in tho Khedive's service, on tho other. Shots were exchanged and major Campbell was wounded. Tho atiair creates great excitement, and there arc various accounts of its origin. Butler's But-ler's plea in justification of the imbroglio imbrog-lio is that tho Khedive officers mado a premeditated attempt to assassinate him. This the others indignantly deny and assert Butler was the aggressor. |