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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-18
ppJzrs AWARDED FOR ORArORy

CANASDAICUA, March 1.-THE prize oratorical con-
test of the students OF CsDandaigua Academy was
held at Kingsbury's Opera House on Thursday. The
first gold medal awarded to William Gray Lsphsm
OF syracuse Joseph b. O'Brien. OF Cnsndaigua. 10
ccIvei the second prize and the third Was won bJ
william Ii. Drisco OF Stanley.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-18


NEW BEDFORD Mass, March II (Speciall.-Tho
price OF liquor licenses for the coming year has been
fixed as follows First class, inn holders 5000 first
class, common vctualers, $500, fourth-clsss $500;
first and fourth TO Inn holders at the place,
300; first and fourth 10 common ylctualers, 1880,
NTH class. 800 This IS an increase two yeaN
ago of Ahnut 30 per cent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-18
DISSENTING THE AFRICAN COMET

Rochester, N. Y. March l7.-Th- comet first seen
from South Africa at Warner Observatory
ssmuu oAg uIqIIM o. p9hIssQO SEN pIs suIuIom SUI
ufcs of O'Clock II IL Just visible 10 naked -
with tail two degrees long. II IL too both tho
sun and the horizon to DO we'll seen. Its position
wa. abom right ascension II hours, 10 mlnues doc
luatiOn sOuib To- 3V.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-18

Philadelphia, Marrh II (speci@l)-1he Reading
Coal and IRON Company has fixed these pr'ces for
coal during April broken. esg and chesnu', - 6o
stove and small stove - 80, and pea VI Ju at tho
mines There are 10000 tons vi all sizes stored at
Port Richnond
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-18
nLS RrSLNrSS NOr rNLrsrLr INLrRrp

HIS BISINLSS NOT INJUSILl INJURED
Boston. March II CspeciaD.-Ihe suit for $4,000
damages, brought by George J. Raymond. dealer in
small wares. against the Russell Commercial Agency
which he claimed had Injured his business ended yes
terday IN a verdict for the defendants.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-18
4 syoW.PL0UGH TRAIN WRECKED

NEW HAVEN, March 1.-THE big snow plough break.
ing out the New York and New Haven Railroad with
three engines struck big drifr Pennington this
morning and thrown from the track
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-18
4 Dividend FOR THE WHISKY TRUST

Pcoria, Ill, March 1.-THE meeting Of the whisky
which concluded here last evening, has been In session
three days. Nothing could be found out as to tho
nature OF the business transacted except the de Nara
ton to-day OF dividend vi one half " pei Cont
for the month Of February.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-18
A NEW PASTOR.

NEw-BFDFoRD, Mass, March II (speclaD. THE Rev.
A. Carroll OF the New. England Southern Methodist
Episcopal Conference, Will DO asst ned to tho County
Street Church in this city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-18

Detroit, Marh 17.-With tho election In Oscoda
County the local option campaign in Michigan closed
for lthe summer Oscoda was tho shirty-dourtb
county TO give a prohibition majority.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-18

Chicago March IA dispatch from Racine, Wis.,
saws al. |. Case has refused an Offer of $40 900
for Phalas from a Kentucky stock farm companyS
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-16
Paris Is getting tsred 9. the ballet In Is

Paris Is getting tired c. the ballet In 1854
the Opera gave - ballet nights; IN 1855, %;
IN $50, y, and in 1851. l3. Thus far Il ballet
performances only have beaa given II 1859
Charles Hoyr, perpetzato- Of a Rag
Baby The Tin Solder" "A Bunch Of
Keys a Hole in tks Ground and a
Brass Monkey Is n0~ a. work ca =" = Slngsi
Ca.-
John ". Thompson, well known actor OF
sensational plays 8 few years ago, Is losing
els mind and addresses lounesrs on tie stress
o. San Francisco, giving tseza r.=elAt4ons
from TIE spirit ot Shakespeare
!. Is feared by Paul Czssaguac that lis
play, Pear VIII be prohibited d. tire
French Sovernr,~zs on snccua. q tsae pot..
.cai EXPRESSIONS TIA: b azs aset in tie els
lOg1e II torbijdsn u supPssssd Il VII D.
Az 49, 6A---a.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-16

call it; that Is, the sane or similar traits re-
appear In each second or third generation
From the English regicide Harrison to the
Harrison who signed the Declaration Of IN
dependence was considerable Of gap; but
the president OF month in ls4l is PARTIAL!
reproduced in his descendants Although
BENJAMIN Harrison's father was once a MEN,
bar OF congress, he was such quiet one that
As VIII probably live in history ouly a. the
son q one pre1Sdsnt and ths father Of an
othsr; and IL b reasonable 70 expect tia.
After the present. prsidsnt-eiscs the family
greatness viii take . long rest TIL tbs grand
SOD comes to the front
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-16
A Queens Remedy for Nsrvouxness

The queen Of Sweden, who, is is wei
known, Is great sufferer from Nervousness,
has lately found much relief in adopting tie
following mode OF LIE, at the advice Of Ler
physicians See rises at tee early hour O,
I, sweeps and dssz her rooD, ard then
breakfasts Lightly a . glas Of milx. Tie
morning shs spends IA gardaninS After
hnch hsr majesty sleeps a bo1r, and than u
again ia the opsa air until 6. when size dimes
Bedtime 1t closes The day. wonder how
many English sufferers from nervousness
would care to curv Themselves Ia les saxt-
ioa--Loodon Life
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-16

BEyyU 4KEk
He ats next to his grandfather at the table
and Is the boss Of the house when that gen.
tle1nAn is at home; no has already mastered
that fact, and shouts with the delight Of q
suddenly freed child when be sees his great
ancestor coming up the front walk. Little
Ben is the son Of ]. Robert Mckee and Mrs.
Mamie Harrison Mckee. Mr.. Mckee is in
the wholesale boot and shoe trade, and is the
son of one of the wealthiest men In Indianap
oils. When he won Gen. Harrison's daugh-
ter he was allowed TO marry her only on the
condition that the young people would agree
to make their home with the Harrisons, and
this explains why they all have lived to-
gether in the generals house at No. 674 Della
ware street.
Often when visitors were coming in pla-
toons to see his distinguished grandfather,
young Benjamin Mckee would Be carried in
on his grandmothers shoulder. and, nesting
thsre, would shake in great glee the hands
of the callers BE also persists in crawling
into the room Of the president-elect, and
helping him confer with party leaders. No
one will restrain hun, and he seems TO know
it. Already he Is as big man as Cen Har-
rison, and if he keeps on growing, he will
be q strong factor in the next administra-
ton. His sister Mary, though not quite able
to help her brother receive visitors, gives
promise Of taking much honor to herself in
Washington. 1t is long time since there
have been babies in the White House, and
there will surely be delightful amusement
some Of these coming days, when tue two
Harrison grandchildren shall insist upon
descending to the Blue room, or some other
room, to help the president shake the hands
Of the long lines Of people.
Benjamin Harrison and Caroline Scott
were married when he was but twenty and
she nineteen years Of age, and became the
parents of two children. The first was the
son Russell, and the next was the daughter
Mary Scott Each is hving and married
Russell caught the heart of Minnie, the
daughter Of Senator Saunders, Of Nebraska,
and lives with her at the head OF stock
farm near Helena, Montana Mary Harrison
married J. r Mckee, a merchant in
Indianapolis While these children were
growing, the father, busy with law cases and
battles and politics, and then with law
cases again, increased his earnings, but
never got them far beyond his constantly
growing expenses. Nevertheless the young
Harrisons saw great deal Of society, and
Miss Mamie was quite belle They had
dances and receptions for their friends and
made the Harrison home quite social cen
ter in indianapolis. Russell Harrison never
became prominent in Indiana politics, and in
state so intensely political, non-action
means either total indifference to or iucapac-
ity for politics. He is business man, and a
N Their quiet ona Soon after the campaign
began he came TO his fathers at the latters
request, and though he did some work dur
ing the campaign he did It SO quietly and
escaped the newspaper men so successfully
that he must be credited with
.. large share Of his fathers habitual
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-16


caution. It is not
probable that he
viii be more active
AZ Washington, as
his tastes and ca
paciclss do not run
in that direction
The pride aud the
hope Of the family
seem to be conferred
on the grandson
There is in the
Harrison fsnny,as
in many o t b q r
noted families, q
curious + en- dency
70 "atavism," as
fhA narxinians
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-16

Dolls OF every description at 2,
8, 10, is and 24cts.
Fine kid body dolls at %, 80 TO
6ocrs.
Fine imported dolls Gointed)
33c to 14Scts.
Extra fine kid body dolls with
dresses and hats) $50 to 133cts
Jumping Jacks SC to 2ec.
Birds In cages 1Oc to 2oc.
Railroad trains and coaches.
40c.
Mechanical railroad trains, csc
Wooden horses and wagons.
Csc to 69c.
Metal horses and wagons, SC to
25c.
Illuminated houses 16c.
Races in pagodas Csc.
Wooden creamery sets, COM
plete, 15c.
Baby rattlers, all kinds, sc to
29c.
White and grey wolves, Is to
Zoe.
Black poodle dogs, 15c to Csc.
Fire engines with horses, SOC.
Horns Of every description, &c
to 15c.
Clair onetS, to 10 keys, II to
CSC.
Bugle and decorating horns, 7
to Ice.
Toy watches, stem w1nders, &c
to CSC.
Spinning tops. grand variety,
5 to 25c.
Tumbl1ng men and board. 15c-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-16

Musical pop guns, 1Oc.
Mechanical alligators and
turtles, 15c.
Ten-pin alleys and pins, Csc.
All kinds OF musical animals
ana birds, sc and 1Oc.
Surprise boxes, Is to Csc,
Heavy metal dishes, complete,
12c
Ten kitchen sets. complete. 5 to
Stoves and utensils, 1o to sec,
Kitchen and utensils, complete
80 to CSC.
China dishes, Is to CSC.
Musical double faces, sc.
Champion toy scales, 12c.
Wooden horses, 5 to 2ec.
Musical catch balls, 15c.
Wash tub, ringer, bucket, wash
board, brush, clOthe rack, al
complete, 69c.
Boys saw and sawbuck. SOC.
Banks, special designs, 10 to %
French harps, z, 10 and 15c.
Lottoes, complete, z to CSC.
Cologne In fancy bottles 8 to
2Sc.
Smoking sets % to CSC.
Easel mirrors. heavy French
glass, CSC.
Plush autograph albums, 80 to
73c.
Fancy len bk autograph
albums. 4 to 29c.
Picture frames, 10 to 15c.
Plush photograph albums. 50
to 14Sc.
Leather photograph albums,
19 to 14Sc.
handkerchief and glove boxes
75c each.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-31
AS THE WORLD WAGS.

JANUARY. f. Bark Alfred | Snow wrecked off Irish coast; 9 lost. G. English steamer Maude foundered in Black sea; 12 lost. 1o Thirteen killed at Haverhin bridge over ths Merrimac on Boston and Maine railroad. F. Blizzard in the northwest. Immense damage done; many frozen to death. F. E. c. Wathall reelected senator from Misss- sppi IS. Norwegian bark Freidas sunk in collision with British steamer Toronto off Ireland; Is drowned
 Court Clerk Irion, of Birmingham, Ala, de faulted in S20,000, 10 Hatfield Mccoy row. p Fourteen burned to death ct Tower, Minn. 8 Charles O'Brien cashier, and Elmer E. Morse, bookkeeper, Albany First National bank, de fauted in S200,000. a4 Colliery explosion at Wellington B. C.; g killed. g. United States Senator Wilson, of Iowa, re elected 9, 26 Great storm on the Atlantic coast. 27. Deficit of $50 900 alleged in the accounts oi the late government of Manitoba
 FEBRUARY. l. Twenty-two drowned in wreck of the British bark Absacom mouth of the Columbia river. 5. White Cap outbreak in Indiana. z Failure of the Metropolitan National bank, Cincinnati, President Means Cashier Harper and others arrested. g. Murder of Amos J. Shell, Chicago. CTascott easel.
 Henry Reece, cashier Continental hotel, Phila, delphia defaulter in $60,0O0. H. James Albert won six-day go-as- you please walking match in New York; breaking worlds record. F. Two American ships ordered to Tangiers, Morocco, to settle row between the sultan and the United States consul 1s Tornado at Mt Vernon, Ills; 21 killed. n. Twenty-Five killed by explosion of boiler of steamer in the United States of Colombia. a Mackay and Flood quarrel over losses in wheat and dissolve nartnerShiJl
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-31
SEPTEMBER.

 g. An anti-Chinese immigration bill passed by the house. 2. The Chinese exclusion bill passed & The Canadian retaliation bill passed by the house, only three negative votes being cast. IA Resolution to appropriate S20o,0O0 to guard against the spread of yellow fever passed by both houses. 2 Joint resolution to provide for an international commission to settle Mexican boundary ques- tions passed by the house
 OCTOBER 1 message from the president with his sigma nature of the Chinese exclusion bill & Substitute for the house tariff bill reported in the senate 10 Bill to pay to the widow of Chief Justice Waite his salary for the remainder of the year passed by the senate 19. Both houses adjourned sine die
 DECEMBER 8. Last session of Fiftieth congress opened A message from President Cleveland trans mitted 5. Consideration of the substitute for the house tariff bill reopeued in the senate. 13 Congressman Butterworth introduced a bill providing for the annexation of Canada to the United States
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-31
A YEARS RECORD.
Peace and Prosperity I ogether
 Rule the World.
AN AVERAGE TWELVEMONTH.

1888 Did Not Bring Any Great War Upon the Earth, and. Though There Were
 Crimes Disasters and Convulsions of
 Nature, and the Hand of Death Has
 Not Been Idle, Mankind's Progress Gen.
 eraIly Has Been Onward and Upward.
 The year 1888 has been comparatively un- eyentful and vet an era of continuous progress and almost unbroken prosperity throuchout tho world. True, there have been local troubles here and there-an inter- national dispute in Samoa, an lnbroGho In Hayti. quarrels in eastern Europe and small wars in Asia, raids by American Indians ana insurrections among West India negroes. True, also, there have been more important disputes in more highly organized societies; cabinet crises in France and Spain, change of rulers in Germany and continuation or the long and wearying contest III Ireland. But all have got through the year with less trouble than any expected at it's beginning.
 Of calamites caused by great natural forces there have been comparatively few; the greatest were the floods and earthQ Quakes in China, which caused the death of at least hundreds of thousands of persons and reduced ten times as many to extreme poverty and suffering. Ill Japan occurred most astonishing phenomenon. A lake on mountain broke through into volcano, the whole upper half of the mountain was blown into the air by the steam thus created, and in it's fall buried number of small villages and several hundred persons. In the United States there were terrible snow storms early in the year, causing great loss of life; and Ill the gulf states the yellow fever caused some loss of life late in the season. But taking tho year as a whole there has been unusual ex- emption; there has been no blight upoa the grain, no murrain upon the cattle; no general pestilence has anywhere fallen upon mankind, and the civilized nations have had no wars
 In the line of inventions and public im- soroyements the year has been q good one In every part of the civilized world railroads and telegraphs have extended, all the indus trial arts have hourished and the finer hu- manities have developed unchecked In short, the year 1888 must rank in history as one of those in which mankind are fairly happy because they are not making exciting history.
 Following will be found carefully con- piled and classified record of the moro inn portant events of 1SSS Of course it has been found impossible in the space available to in cude everything worthy of note, but it is believed that the true relative values of the years doings and happenings has hbeen ob- served with tolerable accuracy
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-31
Train robbery at sNnr1l. Ind.

Train robbery at fer1l, Ind P3. Thos. Axwortky, treasurer, Of Cleveland, O, defaulter in S500,000. 9. Daniel Hand, of Connecticut, gave Sl,ooO,0V for the education of the colored people in the former slave states. 30 Lord Sackville given his passports 9. Steamer Haytian Republic seized by the Hay tans. l. Serious trouble with oyster dredgers on Ches apeake bay. 4 Sixteen killed by mine explosion at Cooks Run, Pa g. One hundred killed by mine explosion ct Pitts burg, Kan
 Thirty-seven killed by fire in Rochester. N, Y, 15. Marriage of Joseph Chamberlain and Miss En- dicott
 Failure of the bank of Durham, N c. Liabili- ties S4o0,0o0 involving other failures aggre- gating s1,ooo,oC0 17~Perry Belmont appointed minister to Spain. % A. H. Colquitt reelected United States senator from Georgia 23 General Master Workman Powderly Of the Knights of Labor reelected J. E. Bedell mortgage forger in New York; sen fenced to twenty-five years aud four months
 imprisonment 2t 9, % Terrible storm on the Atlantic coast, 2. Fisk will case decided against Cornell nniver
 sity.
 Jacksonville reports clean bill of health. 30. Calumet and Hecla copper mines fired by in-
 cendiares.
 Treasurer Chas G. Winchell, or Splnk county
 Dakota, defaulted in S10O,00o
 pECEMBER. 5. Frank H. Bates, employed by Old Hutch de-
 faulted in S2O,O00. z Wholesale arrests of White Cappers in Craw
 ford county, Ind g. Mob attacked the jail at Birmingham, Ala,
 and attempt to lynch O murderer named
 Hawes The sheriff fired on the mob killing
 nine and wounding thirty. TO- White Gap outrages becoming prevalent ir many parts of the country. Rear Admiral Luce ordered to proceed with two ships to Hayti and demand the release oi
 the steamer Haytian Republic. Sailed the 18th IL Fifteen burned to death at a fire at Neumuns ter, Prussia. 1 F. Beginning of trouble between whites and ne groes in Mississippi
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-31
AUGUST.

& Italy notified the pc#ers that she had taken
 possession of MassoSah and surrounding dis
 trictS.
 2 Riots between French strikers and police at
 Amiens and Paris. IL Parneu took steps to The London Times
 for libel in Scotland i2- Strike among glass workers in Lyons. France. l3 Count von Moltke retired as chief of the staff
 of Germany. and was succeeded by the Count
 vou Waldersee IA Two thousand cotton mill carderS at Black
 burn, England. on strike.
 Steel works at Landaur, Wales, shut down.
 Thousands of men out of work. 15. Revolution reported in Hayti President Salo-
 mon left the island. 16. Boulanger riots at Amiens and Abbeville,
 France.
 Emperor William at a banquet at Franklin-on
 Oder, said 4G, 000 900 Germans would die ratber
 than give up Asace- Lorraine 17 Close of the Paris strike. % Honors conferred on all the British members
 of the fisheries commission, excepting Joseph
 Chamberlain, srprr,.rn l. Diary of the late Emperor Frederick of Ger
 many published
 4 Gladstone hissed at Wrexhan Wales. IA News received of the murder of Maj Bartteiot,
 leader of the Stanley relief expedition 26. Publication of further extracts from Emperor
 Frederick's diary forbidden by the German
 government.
 2. Samoans rebeIed against King Tamassee de
 
 OCTOBER 15. Dr. Mackenzie's book ordered seized by the
 German government. g. Great excitement in Wurtemburg over alleged control of the king by Hendry and Woodcock, American favorites. 24 The marriage of King Milan and Queen Ma thalie dissolved in pastoral of the Servian metropolitan
 go Accident to the czar's train The czar and his family narrowly escaped death NOVEMBER H. Rioting in Madrid Premier Canovas mobbed | IA Prado, the murderer of Marie Agaetan, con- | victed and sentenced to death in Paris. 19 Empress Frederick arrived in England. 2. Arrest of Dr. Tumblety American, in Lon l don suspected of being the Whtechapel mur- Gerer. DECEMBER. 1. The jubilee of Emperor Francis Joseph cele- l orated in Austria, and by Hungarians and Bo- 1 hemians throughout the United States and Canada | 1o A new Spanish cabinet formed. 1 il. The French chamber of deputies adopted the l extraordinary budgets for 1889, the estimates | being fixed at t99, 500, GOO francs. 1 IA The German reichstag passed the resolution l for the suppression of the East African slave l trade. | NJ Clemenceau. the French statesman, in l jured in duel with M. Maurel. l Advices received from Cairo that Stanley anc | Emin Pasha are the prisoners of ths Mahdi l who demands the release of Suakim by tht British their ransom.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-31
THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS.

April s-Body of Emma Elizabeth Smith found. Aug. 7-Body of Martha Turner found
 Aug. 3t-Body of Mary Ann Nichols found.
 Sept. 7-Body of Anna Sievey found
 Sept. 21--Body of unknown woman found at Gateshead in north England; had been dead some days: mutilated like those in Whitechapel and one of same class.
 Sept. 29-Just before midnight body of Elizabeth Stride found, still warm and bleeding
 Sept 30--Just after midnight and but few minutes after preceding find, the body of Cath crime Eddowes was found, evidently dead some hours Both killed on the 2oth. 8
 Oct. 2-Corpse of unknown woman, mutllated and decomposed, found on Thames embankmens. Nov 9-Body of Mary Ann Kelley found in her own room in a low tenement house cut to pieces.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-31

X List of the Most Important Hap pcnfngs in Waterbury and Vicinity During 1SSS-A Summary of Events Valuable for Reference.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-31

Continued on next page.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1888-11-22
The BURGLARS Mistake.

Two year ago, remarked prominent
business man, my house was robbed of
S4o0 worth of stuff Two of the gang
were caught and sent to prison for five
years each"
Well"
We'll. the other day man came to me
to sign petition for their pardon
No"
True as live What do you suppose
his argument was:
lie couldn't have had any. 1t was all
gall !,
but he did though. He said the men
got into my house by mistake. They in
tended to break into my brothers house.
but got the localities mixed up. aud he
thought ought to be willing to overlook
a mistake in such a thing as that
did you overlook
No, and the fellow went away saving
he hoped might never know what it was
to langui>h in a dungeon under an unjust
sentence. - D,tro0 Free Press
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1888-11-22
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