Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-15
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The total paid admissions to the
Chicago fair to date is $2,32S, 759.
Mayor Gilroy says that the cost to
the city of New York of entertaining
the Infanta will approximate about
$4,000.
A great multitude of people swarm
ed into the Worlds Fair grounds at
Chicago this morning. This is German
Day at the fair.
When the Infanta Eulalie returns to
New York tomorrow or Saturday from
her trip to the West she will no longer
be the guest of the nation.
Rev. Father Darius NJ. Hubert, S. j.,
the soldier priest, died in Macon, Ga,
yesterday. Father Hubert went through
the war on the confederate side as
private soldier.
The First National Bank of Arkansas
City, Kan, one of the oldest and gen.
orally believed to be one of the strong
est financial institutions in the south
west, has failed.
1t has been discovered that monks
stole the plate, gems, &C., valued at
abont 5000, 900 roubles from the Church
of the Chudoy Monastery, within the
walls of the Kremlin, recently.
At the second days session of the In
ternational Printers Protective Frater-
nifty at Chicago yesterday resolutions
were adopted favoring the adoption of
typesetting machines in newspaper Of
fees.
Some of the best informed wheat
growers of Wichita, Kansas, state that
the reports of good yields in that State
are quite unreliable and that field after
field will not run over three bushels to
the acre.
This is election day throughout the
German Empire, and almost tropical
weather prepails everywhere in the
country. The socialists are displaying
more activity than any of the other po-
litical groups.
Mrs. Ed Curry, of Mason, Mich, yes
terday took fatal dose of morphine
and died soon afterwards. Last night
the woman's husband attempted to kill
himself. The cause is attributed to
domestic troubles.
Sam. A. Walker, a constable of Knox
vile, Tenn, and brother of NJ. A.
Walker, a member of the legislature,
was arrested and put in Jail there last
night, charged with the murder of a
ten-year-old child.
Reports from several towns in west
ern Missouri tell of severe electrical
storms yesterday. Four people were
killed, four injured and considerable
damage of minor character was caused
t. barns and other buildings.
The congress of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, which was to
have been held at st. Paul, MIMI, on
June 20, has been given up on account
of the illness in the family of Mrs. Will
liam d. Cabell, of Washington, who
was to have presided over the con-
gress.
The double decked ferryboat F. 2.
James, of the College Point and New
York ferry company, was sunk in the
fog last night off Berrians island, in
Long Island sound. There were no
passengers or teams on board. The
captain and crew of the vessel are still
on board.
The Arkansas building at the Chica-
go fair was opened to the public to-day
with appropriate ceremonies. The
building is one of the handsomest on
the ground and is fashioned after the
old style French structures, in the
honor of the French who first settled
Arkansas.
Burglars last night entered the
beer bottling established of D. II. HUFF
fines, at Fayetteville, n. c., and crack
ed his safe and got si,730; they also
entered the mills of J. D. Mcneil,
cracked his safe and got 5000 and valu-
able papers, and tried to enter a pri-
vate residence.
The parade through the down town
portion of Chicago by the local and Wis
iting German societies this morning in
honor of German Day at the fair
grounds was a magnificent success. 1t
was over 10000 strong, accompanied by
eight magnificent floats depicting some
event or character prominent in the
history of the Fatherland and America.
| 1t is stated that an issue of clearing house
certificates will pc recommended by the clear
| ing house committee in New York in conse-
quence of the tremendous demand fer ac-
commodation in that city by mercantile
houses, in addition to the demands for the
country.
A wreck occurred on the Rome, watertoBn
and Ogdensburg railroad at Philadelphia, n
Y, this morning in which number of 1tal-
ian laborer employed on the road are reported
TO have been injured.
Six brothers named Wright were standing
under tree near Adrian, 40, yesterday,
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