Milford chronicle., 1883-12-28
NEWS OF THE DAY
aENERAL ITEMS.

of abducting Annie Bresnan, a fourteen
year old girl, from her home in Astoria
l.. L, in the Hudson County Court Ot
Sessions at Jersey City, was sentenced
to be confined in State Prison at hard
labor for five years and to pay fine Of
ST, 600 and costs.
The New-Englanders in Brooklyn
honOred the memory of the Pilgrim
fathers on the 21st in feasting and
oratory. Among the guests were the
President of the United States, General
Grant and other prominent men.
The church war at Hebron, Conn.
in consequence of a sermon against the
prevalence of divorce, will culminate in
a church meeting for the purpose if pos
sible of deposing the plain spoken min
lister.
The top story of the east wing of the
Wards Island Lunatic Asylum, New
York, was destroyed by fire; loss 500, 900.
A fire drill with which the patients
were familiar enabled DIR. Macdonald
and his assistants to remove the inmates
to place of safety.
The contestants of Mrs. FillmOre's
will have been defeated at Buffalo by
She admission of the win to probate.
The expenses of the contest were or
dered to be paid out of the estate.
The New York Herald says there is
Trade Dollar ring in Washington.
The New York Elevated Railroads
carried 80, 124, ,943 passengers and earned
$6,3S6, 500 for the year ending Septem-
Der Both.
Typographical Union No. 6, of New
York city, has decided to enter upon a
movement to boycott the Tribune.
Two Germans became acquainted in
New York saloon, and, accidentally
discovering that they were married to
the same woman, caused her arrest for
bigamy.
AT Chicago the Grand Jury has
subp@naed nearly all of the proprie- |
tors, editors and reporters of the daily |
press In regard to published rumor of |
an alleged attempt to influence improp- |
erly the members of the Common |
Council.
The comet of 1912 is now visible to
the naked eye as q small, round nebu-
lous mass IN the constellation Cygnus.
The comet presents fine appearance.
The comet will grow brighter till the
latter part of January, its perihelion
passage being on January 25, when it
will be in the tail Of Cetus, or the Whale,
and distant from the sun 70, 900, 900 miles
1t will be nearest the earth about the
middle of January-about 60,O0O,O0O
miles. After January it will recede from
the sun and, pursuing its long journey
through space, return to visibility in
seVenty-one years thereafter.
1t is feared that thirty-eight men
left on board the burned ST. Augustine
have perished.
The leader of a gang of counter
feiters was arrested at Vincennes. Ind.
with quantity of spurious coin in his
possession.
The organization of a secret society
to protect hen roosts in Camden county,
N. j., was followed by the shooting of
negro chicken thief.
Governor McEnery of Louisiana,
was renominated by the Democratic
Convention at Baton Rouge.
Policeman William Conroy, the
murderer Of Peter Keenan,, was SEN !
fenced to be hanged on February s I
next. Motions for arrest of Judgment !
and new trial were denied by Judge t
Oowing. {
Permanent organization of the
Louisiana Democratic State Convention I
is delayed over contested memberships c
growing out of the exciting struggle be- /
tween McEnery and Ogden for the Gu /
bernatorial nomination. |
General Sherman has been elected [
of post of the Grand Army
of the Republic. i
Two more of the Gloucester Mass. a
fishing feet, with twenty-five men, are +
given up by their owners as lost. 1
Two boilers exploded at Pittsburg, Il
Pa, mjuring several workingmen.
Baker, the Plymouth MASS wife t
killer, pleaded guilty to murder in the c
second degree, and was sentenced to $
prison for life. s.
Five Georgia Ku Klux pleaded !.
guilty at Atlanta, and were sentenced to a
i've years imprisonment at Alba nv, .
N. Y. o
Rat Portage, Manitoba, has again !, I
been visited by a disastrous confaora y
hon, the loss this time amounting to ,,
800, 600, with insurance of but S12, 900. E.
The Upper Hudson is closed by ice
AT Durango, COL, a citizen was 70
Eilled by burglar engaged in breaking D
nto the bank there.
Stephen K. Lane g. Son, grain in
commission merchants and brokers of d
New York, failed with liabilities that
nay reach $780, 900. in
AT a workingmen's demonstration dc
q New York city in honor of the Paris
7orkingmen's deputation, speeches ad- di