Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-26
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The disruption of the tin plate COM
bination has resulted in slaughter OF
prices and tin plate is now selling at
81 20 per 100 pounds. This brings the
price so low as to practically exclude
the Welsh product.
The Amazon Hosiery Co., Of Muske-
gon, Mich, has announced itself fnan-
cial y embarrassed and applied for the
a, pointment of receivers. The com
pany's secured Indebtedness amounts TO
$3.50 600. The concern has 1925, 900
capital and employs 500 people. 1t is
the largest of its kind in the world.
The Chicago Tribuue sa Us: 'If pre-
sent negotiations should succeed, the
American company, cigarette trust,
will absorb its big rivals in the tobacco
business within the next few weeks.
According to information received by
insiders there, it is almost conceded
that the big st. Louis concerns which
have resisted all efforts at purchase
will capitulate and become part of the
trust" 1t is said the Drummond Com
pany is to buy o majority of the Liggett
& Myers stock, and then to sell out
bodily. Mr.. Drummond, it is said, is
to succeed Major Ginter.
Adjutant General Tillinghast, of New York,
in reply TO a communication flom the Navy
Department as to whether New York State
could furnish sufficient men OF the naval re-
servo to man two of the old monitors at
Philadelphia and take them to New York
bas replied that il can and will send as many
men as may be needed at the call of the Navy
Department.
A battery of artillery from St. Francis
Barracks st. Augustine. arrived at Charleston,
s. c., this morning and was taken ut once to
the Notifications on Sullivan's Island for re.
enforcement Of the garrison there. The work
of mounting the long range rifles is being
rushed and mines are in readiness for placing
in the channel
The most notable feature of the Yale.
Princeton debate last night was its aftermath,
the banquet st the Princeton Inn. Fx-Pres-
dent Cleveland occupied seat of honor, and
during the evening made speech in which
he cordoled Princeton in their defeat.
Within the next two months the great
lakes and lake cities will send from six to
eight thousand men to join the force of the
U. s. navy, according to the statement of
lieut. B. G. Dcnig of the U. S. navy, now
il Pittsburg on recruiting mission.
Advices received from Port all Prince,
Hayti, report a terrible fnsncial condition to
be existing there. The premium on gold is
22O per cent, the greatest misery snd starva-
ton prevails in the interior and -four costs
$50 barrel.
Sherwood S. Cunning, receiving teller Of
the First National Bank of Cincinnati, who
pleaded guilty to embezzlement Of $4,000
from the hank, was to-day sentenced TO fvs
yesrs in the peni tentiary.
The strike of operatives in Simps MS silk
mills at Paterson, N. J which was inaugu
rated October 8, 1897, has been ended by a
compromise. The weavers will resume work
on Monday.
Rumors that President Burt Will reduce
wages all along the line of the Union Psciic
railroad snd that employees were preparing to
strike, have no foundation whatever
b. Walter Webb, on account Of bad health
has determined to resign the third vice presi
dency of the New York Contra ard Hudson
River Railroad.
The Holland submarine boat wa; given
another trial at New York 10 day, W lich was
said to be successful in every particular.