Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29
rELEGRAPH1c BREvITIEs.

TELEGRAPHIC BREFiIiEo.
Lewis & Dryden, the largest pub
fishing house in Oregon, has gone into
the hands of a receiver.
George T. Carpenter, chancellor OF
Drake Univerity, at Des Moines, Iowa,
died at / o'clock this morning.
The loan committee Of the New York
clearing house issued $4,000 certifi-
Gates making total outstanding to date
s25,45o,OoO.
A registered mail pouch containing
$4,000 in securities left the Salt Lake
postoffice, eastbound, July s, aud has
not since been heard from.
At the picnic of the hop growers as
ISOLATION at Sylvan Beach near Rome,
n. y, to-day, Senator David B. Hill
made an eloquent address, his subject
bling personal Liberty"
The building occupied in Chicago by
the Chicago Oil Refining Co., a large
Lumber shed, and four dwelling houses
We're destroyed by fire last evening.
Loss &c., 900, insurance about the same.
In Mobile, Alabama, yesterday, Boil
var Hudson, man SO years old, was
convicted of q homicide committed a
years ago and sentenced to five years
i IMPRISONMENT in the penitentiary.
Gov. Boics, of Iowa, says he is
through with politics. Under no cir
cumstances will he accept another nom
nation for Governor, and says he
would not accept the senatorship as a
gift.
A cable dispatch from London says
the yacht Britannia has been selected
to protect the gold cup challenged for
by the American yacht Navahoe in
September. The race will take place
off the Isle of Wight.
George C. Perkins, the newly ap-
pointed U. S. Senator from California
yesterday said Il am in favor of BIZ
metalism to certain extent and will
do everything that consider will bene-
fit the middle classes Of the country on
which 1 consider our prosperity main
ly depends"
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is preparing to run series of eXcur-
sions to Chicago for its employees. Trans
portation will he free and the employ
ccs will be given a weeks holiday.
The transportation agreement provides
that the wives, daughters and brothers
of the employees may accompany
them. The first train will leave New
York to-day.
At Pittsburg this afternoon seven
story brick and iron building at the
corner of Spring alley and Ninth street,
owned by the Second National Bank
collapsed and crumbled to the ground.
About forty workmen were seated in
side the building eating their dinners.
The men all rushed for the street and
escaped, save two, who are yet missing
and are supposed to be covered under
the many tons of debris.
Chambersburg, Pa, was crowded
yesterday with people from all along
the Cumberland Valley from Harris
burg to Winchester, Va, to witness the
dedication of the monument erected by
popular subscription. This monument
commentaries the burning of Cham
bersburg by Confederate forces under
General McCausland on July 30, 1864.
The exercises consisted of parade,
participated in by civic and military
organizations from a radius of fifty
miles, the singing of national airs by a
choir of one hundred voices, and an
Grafton by w. L. Cook, of Baltimore.
The monument was presented to and
accepted by the City Council.
No. 2 Corning Mill of the American Powder
Company at South Acton, Mess, blew up at
500 o'clock this morning One man was in
,iantly killed The explosion was very Sc
we're AMI broke most of the glass in the build
in.s near the mills. There were $500
pounds of powder in the mill at the time. Last
year the company had two mills blown up.
An amputation of the hip joint, one of the
most dangerous of operations and the thir-
tcenth of its kind in the annals Of surgery in
this country, has been successfully performed
upon Mrs. josephine Jaherg, of Railway, N.
j.. by Dr. Victor Marvlag. The form Of
operation was that known as DiiIcnbach's
operation
The following failures are reported to-day:
Farmers and Merchants Bank of Covington,
Ind. the c. W. Chaplin & Co.'S private bank
at Stanton, Mich the Pineville Banking Com
pany at Pinevillo, Ky; the Citizens Saw
ings and Loan Associations Bank of Akron,
Ohio; and the First Natodal Bank of Kan
kakee, Ills
NEW YORK APPoINTMENTs.-Presi-
dent Cleveiand's private Secretary, Dir.
Thurber, at six o'clock yesterday even
ino announced the following appoint-