Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-29
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The failure OF Inc Union liuSV Oon
pany at Sioux City, Ia, is announced
Liabilities $4,000.
A dispatch from Mecca states that
$50 deaths from cholera occurred III
that city yesterday.
A slump of over 2 cents a bushel IN
the price of wheat occurred in Chicago
to-day before trading had been in
progress an hour.
Reports from Tennessee, Mississippi
and Arkansas show that the growing
crops are in good condition, but be-
ginning to need rain.
1t is said liz Baltimore that Mr.. Will
liam S. Carroll, president of the Peo-
Piles Bank of that city,is to be appoint
ed consul to Dresden, Germany.
A dispatch received from a private
S ,urce in Berlin states that Princess
Bismarck is dangerously i'll at her home
at Friedricharuhe.
The Mollie Gibson mine at Aspen,
Col, the largest silver producer in the
State, closed down yesterday and will
not resume operations until the out
look for silver is improved.
The Kansas City, Mo-, Circuit Court
Yesterday annuled the decree of di-
vorce granted last month to Mrs. Jen-
ME Taylor, and the action leaves Fred.
H. Wilmeth with two wives and Mrs.
Taylor with two husbands.
Mgr.satolli and party arrived at Hele-
ma, Mont, yesterday and were accorded
a cordial reception. The archbishop in
reply TO the address of welcome spoke
extemporaneously in English for the
first time in this country.
Four high officials of the postal de-
partment of the German empire are in
Chicago. They are much chagrined
and piqued at the cool reception they
have met and in q few days will re-
turn to Europe with no friendly feeling
for Postmaster General Bissell and his
cohorts.
A terrible boiler explosion has oc-
CARED at the saw mill of Logan Davis
at Yale, Va, ON the Atlantic & Dan
vile railroad. There was q large force
of worlimen in the mill at the time OF
the explosion and two of them were
killed outright and several others wee
badly scalded. The mill was COM
pletely wrecked entailing q heavy loss.
The drop in silver in London to 3li
pence per ounce demoralized the mar
ket for the metal in New York. AT
the stock exchange silver certificates
broke from 6S4 to 60 while outside OF
the board commercial bar silver fell 10
81 and Mexican dollars to 55. Up to 2
o'clock not q sale was reported in the
mining department of the New York
stock exchange.
Pietro Buccieri, an italian, 81 years old,
was hanged at Reading, Pa, this morning
While in st. Joseph Hospital in February,
1892, he killed Sister Hildaberta by plung.
ing 4 knife into her abdomen. Buccieri's
motive for the killing of the innocent sister
has never been divulged, and it is the uni
versal belief that he plotted the murder with,
out provocation and in his WI iiendish ma
ture carried it out. Over seven hundred and
fifty people were present at the hanging.
General Benjamin Harrison, accompanied
by his daughter, Mrs. Mckee, and Baby Nc
Kee, passed through Harrisburg, Pa, ell
route to New York this morning.
According to advices received from Phila-
delphia this morning New York Exchange in
that city is at u premium of . for $1,000, or
half a cent on the dollar.
News was received at Victoria, 1. c., from
the North last evening that the British Column
bia sealer Ainoka, has been lost in northern
waters.
The Wood River, Idaho, silver mine owners,
with few exception, have suspended opera
tons owing to the fall in silver.