Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-12-29
TELEGRAPgIc BREVITIES.


Geslach & Ha'jes, bankers and brokers
of Philadelphia, have failed.
Sir Joseph Hicksoa mas resigned tbs etico
o: general msnager Of the Grand T1upk
Railway, OF Canada.
Fire this morning destroyed the main
building of the Camden, n j., Floor OIL
Cloth Works. Loss $4,000.
Alexander g. Absll died at his home. in
San Fen, isco, yesterday. He vas widely
known through lis activity Ia establishing
masonry On the Pacific ooass.
Hal ". aver, Of Raleigh. n C, has bseo
appointed secretary to Col. L. L. Polk,
President CT the Farmers Alliance, Wash
ingson city. vice D. Il. Rittsnhouse
1t ia reported that the notorious Missouri
bandit Jim Cump.!ns. for whom standing
reward is offered dsad OF alive, was recently
seen Of tha streets Of San Diego, Cal.
Such storms o! sand aad dust as are pre-
vailipg in central Illinois have oever been
kao8p ct TILE season OF .hs year. No ran
has fallen in eome OF The eouaties for nolths.
William Blaney. vho was Convicted Of tho
murder CT his grandmother ead sunt en- TIE
night of May 2 last, was to-day sentenced
in Baltimore to D. hanged. TIE governor
fixes tho date OF death.
Fire yesterday III she new rouad house OF
tbs Raleigh sad Castor E. T., 81 Raleigh. n.
c., dessrcyst. the building aud seriously
damaged soveutsso locomotives housed IN it.
The Ices is probably $40 600.
The award OF tbs contract for insuri1g the
Baltimore 6:smen to q company bidding
$50 par msa hgasr than tbs lowest BID
der is crsati9g talk Ia that city. The MAYOR
is M ex-ofii Clio member OF ths Ere boaEd
AMI his father Is an agent CT tho company
which got the contract.
Judges Fowler and Burke, Of Towson,
Nd. today fled an opinion overriding the
demurrer to tbs stats'a replication il the
Archer bond cosos. This ruling makes the
suretiea liable for the defaication of eZ-State
81 easnrer Archer occurring bstween Feb. Is
1883, snd Nov. Is, 1889.
An Interview with President Frank Nc
Grain ct Topeka, would indicate that the
farmers Ailisnce hss for the present de-
cided 20 aroo ihe third party movement.
Il sage: "Tao agitation in the South over
tho Lodge bill p.ec.udes thu possibility of
arg independent movement st th!e Tine"
lately b&na Of countecfeiters has basa
aoodiug hEonisne with siiger doiare. Sat
urday y. 9. MareheI Dayoe found deserted
cabin, near Gesy Cif, CO ha C:ow :eseT-
vasiop, in which gers aIi tie eppe.at fer
chs manufacture OF the sanr!oaa ccin. q
man named Frank Ellis ges teucd 10 the
Locality and was arrested. BE rsfraed to
say sn5thng.
The action OF Secretary Rask, CT tha De-
psrtment Of Agriculture al Wash;ngtoo, in
closing cartan Vermont port5 for entry o.
Canadian cattle iuao tEe United States o'-
ing to the alleged existence OF pieuro-pneu
mon;a ip the Dominion is Enohlcri.lc!se6 il
Ottaws. Tue government clli2iala assert
shat !here Is mol . single caso ofta9 disease
ID existence in tho Dominica.
L movement IL On foot in Cologne to restore'o
the Catholic Church the property coaf. Gated du-
rag the snti.Casholic agitstion.
one thousand girls returned 10 work ct Clark's
thread mills, at Newark, N. j., this morning.
Tho death OF Octave Fuellit the well known
French veli=t sud d.sms5ist, is announced.