Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-27
TELEGRaPHIC BREvITIEs.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
S!r. Powderly says the rumor OF bis
resignation as general master workman
of the knights of labor is without foun-
dalton.
Pueblo, CAL, was flooded to-day by
rise in the Arkansas river. Hundreds
of people living in the flats fled to high
er grounds.
A false report was in circulation in
Taunton, Mass, to-day that Lizzie Bor-
den had made confession and had sur
rendered herself.
A dispatch from Palmyra, Pa, says
that fire started this morning in plan
ing mill, and that the destruction Of
half the town is threatened.
The Complaint of forgery against
Llyod Aspinwall was dismissed in New
York this afternoon, and Aspinwall
was discharged from custody.
The handsome suburban residence
of Mr.. Dan. P. Eells at River Bank, O.,
was totally destroyed by fire last night.
The total loss will probably foot up
5000, 900; insurance not known.
Cashier Edward S. Francis, of the
Pittsfeld, Mass, National Bank, who
had been the subject of much unpleas-
ant newspaper talk recently, and who
resigned his position last Monday, COM
mitted suicide this morning by shoot
ing.
Last night about II o'clock two huge
boilers of the Belleyile Distillery Com
pany at St. Louis exploded with ter
rifle force, tearing the boiler house to
fragments and badly wrecking part of
the main building a portion of one OF
the boilers was blown dista ace of $50
feet. Fortunately nobody WAS injured.
VIM. G.. Taylor, colored, who killed
fellow coored convict in the Auburn,
n. Y, prison last September, was cleo,
trocuted in that prison to-day. The
dynamo gave out and Taylor came to
life, grooming as fin great pain. He
was conveyed back to his corridor and
morphine administered. The second
attempt proved successful.
Pleasant Weddell and wife, of Ell
wood, Iud., have eloped. They were
married last spring and she tried to
commit suicide because of bad treat
ment at his hands. They separated,
she living with relatives, who would
not allow her to see him. They plan
ned an elopcment, succeeded in elud-
ing her relatives, and are in Cincinnati.
a wagon load of nitro-glycerine ex-
ploded this morning near Temples sta
tion Pa. Two brothers named Van
Buren, were in the wagon. One escaped
uninjured, but the other brother and
the three horses and wagon were
blown to fragments. The whole town
felt the conclusion and several persons
were injured by flying fragments OF the
wagon.
Owing to the extreme dullness in the
jewelry trade, due to the lack of orders
from large jobbing houses in the West,
manufacturers in Plainyille, North At
tleboro, and Atlleboro Falls, Mass, have
been compelled to close their shops and
the present indications are that all of
the factories will close. In this event
no less than 5000 persons will be out
of employment for four weeks or over.
At Pittsburg to-day the coroner's
jury in the case of George Schmaus,
who yesterday killed his wife and two
little daughters by beating them over
their heads with hammers and then
tried to conceal his crime by setting
fire to the house, rendered verdict
finding that the three victims had died
of wounds inflicted by hammers in the
hands of George Schmaus, with felon-
ious intent. Schmaus was committed
to Jail.
Among the failures reported to-day are the
First National Bank of Seattle, Wash, the
Spokane, Wash, Savings Bank; the First
National and the Montana National Banks of
Helena, and Ticknor & Co., publishers, New
York the First National Bank of Middles-
borough, KY; the Farmers Bank of Mt
Sterling, KY; the Oregon National Bank and
the Northwest Loan and Trust Company of
Portland, Ore, and the National Granite State
Bank at Exeter, y. III.
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.
Np,p vnpy Juiy Of The early trading