Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-24
NEWS OF OUR NElGHBORS.
Happenings of Interest Tn This and Other
 States.

NEWS OF OUR NEiGHBORS. Happenings of Intersst Tn This and Other
 States.
 The collision at Columbia, Pa., which re. suited iu the death of Conductor J. C. Ryan, was caused by the engineer and fireman fall. ing asleep in their cab. They had done duty sixteen hours
 Charles McCarty, noted crook and bank robber. was arrested in Philadelphia dime museum while attempting to pick pockets He Is in Moyamensing awaiting a hearing.
 L. w. Covey, good looking and moneyed bachelor. aged 3S, has been visiting for two weeks with Edward Potts, an organ manu- facturer at Washington, N. J. He started away, and Mir Potts l6-year-old daughter casually remarked to the family that she would accompany MT. Covey to the depot The family was startled not long after by 8 telegram from Phillipsburs, ten miles dis tant stating that the couple had been mar ried aud wore off on their wedding tour
 jury sitting in liquor case at Lancas- ter, Pa, decided that cider was not vinous or spirituous liquor.
 Henry Lueke. a baker residing on Madison avenue, Albany, x. Y., committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with . .44-caliber revolver. Nc cause is assigned fer the deed
 Charges are made against Lawyer Howard AacSherry, of New Brunswick, that he has not accounted for sl ,oo0 of Sl 400 which he collected as assignee of \. c. Garland
 Unless their scale is accepted l4. 900 miners will probably strike at Scu,:,alc, Pa, next Saturday.
 The ninety pound steel iais which the Philadelphia and Reading ..ruai has laid on portions of it, Buuad Eio.x route arc probably the bsa,iest in us. wi;min the United States. They are n,c.~ .i'., Ii h,- the steadily increasing weight "t e ;:'.,..> .nl the development ot spee.i which In... til, time we live in.
 The weavers employed at trmpnrl'', ,nill, In Chester, Pa, are stili on s,riAr for i,.-ler wages The claim of the hannS is that under the present scale they cannot earn more. than half the wages they should,
 bill is now being framed which, when completed, will be introduced into the New York legislature calling for the appointment of sight female factory inspectors. The draft of the bill has been shown to Governor Hill, and 1t is said he approves of 1t.
 The station of the West Shore Railroad company and the steamboat landing at Cranstons, N. Y.. were burned Loss about 5000.
 At the Connecticut legislative hearing President Starbuck said the Housatonio road wanted to build from Milford to Norwalk in order to parallel the New Haven road from New Haven to Norwalk Counsel for the New Haven road opposed tho petition.
 Morris Bowlett was arrested at Trenton for smbexxling $4 900 from William Dolan 6 O., wholesale grocers of that city. He was ono of their salesmen, and failed to turn In all tho cash
 Dr. Charles Bliss fell down a flight oa stairs at his residence, 235 West Fifty first street, Now York, and sustained injuries from which he died soon after
 Richard Croksr, the leader of Tammany Hall, Now York, is seriously ill His friends fear that his nervous system is In danger of giving out, owing to the late exciting cam. paign in that oity His physicians have or dersd him to go south for the winter
 Theodore Wahl. the janitor of tenement house on Allen street. New York, was shot in tho abdomen by a person whose name he refused to reveal, and died from the effects of the wound. The police were notified that Paul Cokor, @ years of age, of 400 East Eighty-second street, a cigarmaker, had at tempted suicide by shooting himself in the breast, and that he had informed the phvsi. clans at the Presbyterian hospital that he had shot WahL