Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Seven thousand persons were at the, Interstate Fair at Trenton. N. J., yes terday.
 Buffalo, N. Y., will go to the jury this afternoon.
 Isaac Chaplin, aged 80 years, of Mil ford, Mass, has been deserted by his fourth wife.
 George L. Britton. ex-Mayor of Tren- ton, and for many years Justice of the Peace in Camden, N. J., is dead.
 Mrs. Francelia w. Ridgeway, of Nor ristown, Pa., widow of the patentee ot the Ridgeway refrigerators, has made an assignment.
 Professor J. B. Leslie, Pennsylvania's State Gcologist,i is one of the few Ameri- cans to secure the award at Paris for individual research.
 A dense black cloud accompanied by a high wind swept over Paterson, N. J., yesterday and grand stand at the race track was blown down.
 The members of the New Haven, Conn.,, baseball team were paid off yes- terday and disbanded. All of the men were reserved for next year.
 II. w. Stevenson has been appointed receiver of the defunct St. Albans, Vt., Trust Company to fill the vacancy caused by the death of C. w. Rich.
 The engine house and new dummy engine at the Philadelphia and Reading Coal Company's yard at Newburyport, Mass, burned yesterday. Loss, s5,OOO Miss Annie Louise Cushing, pretty young woman, and for several years an organist in the churches at Utica, N. Y., has cloped with Eddie Frey, 14-year- old choir boy.
 Tho funeral of the late Rev. Father O'Haran was held this morning at Wilkesbarre, Pa. The church was heavily draped in mourning and the effect was most solemnly imposing. The Coroner finds that William Anderson, of Philadelphia, who jumped from an electric car at Newport on August IS, came to his death by his own act and not by the carelessness of the officers of the road. Secretary Dec, of tho Pennsylvania State Board of Health, reports that Gov. Beaver will arrange for tho reten- tion of a sufficient force atStony Creek, Johnstown, so that the sewerage may be carried away.
 Father Comiskcy of Hazleton and appointed by Bishop O'uara to take | charge of St. Mary's parish at Wilkes l barre, Pa., until a pastor is appointed. The New Jersey State Homeopathic 1 Medical Society met i'll Jersey City l yesterday A rcSolati recommend l ing the formation of a National Board l composed of the legislative committees of the several States was adopted. l The funeral of the late Judge John 1 T. Nixon of New Jersey took place yes 1 terday at his late residence on Prospect l Hill, Trenton. Dr. Murray of Princto1 l College officiated. As the dead Judge
 requested the services were simple.
 The Philadelphia and Reading Rail
 road Company has given out contracts for new freight and passenger stations
 at Milton and at Akron, on the Reading | and Columbia branch. New station:
 have been built at other points along
 the line.
 The annual meeting of the delegates
 of the New York District of the Eas I Conference of the Herman Mcthodis l Episcopal Church was held yesterday il
 Jersey City, N. J. They intend to cs
 tablish in Jersey City a home for aget
 and infirm Germans.
 An important conclavo of the clergy
 men and elders of the Presbytery o
 New Brunswick, N. J., is now going ol
 in that city. The Presbytery include
 the parishes of Trenton, Prince ton
 Perth Amboy, Milford, Lambcrtvill ! and New Brunswick,
 Vice-Chancellor Pitnoy, of New Jcrsc y
 has rendered decision in the cole
 brated Colwell foreclosure case. In Iii
 decision he says that under the act o 1882 the title for the land which wa sold for taxes, became the property o
 the City of Egg Harbor, free from tn
 lien of the complainants antecedent t } the mortgage.