Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-06
NEWS OF OUR NElGH9ORS.
Happenings of Interest in Several State
 Briefly ChronicIcd.


 Briefly ChronicIed. Pidock Bros. saw mill and peach basket factory was burned at Whitehouse Hunter don county, N. J. Loss, $iSOOO.
 While speaking ill a flippant manner of death, John w. Cowdery, a professional mind reader and faith curist, was striken with paralysis at West Haven, Conn.,, and died shortly after
 Marshall Birds large picture factory at Changewater, N. J., has been burEed, throw ing forty people out of work, amt causing a loss of $25, ,OOO.
 The Massachusetts house ados,tcd the pro- posed prohibitory constitutional amendment Among the nominations for p,st.nasters sent to the senate by President Cleveland were A. c. Newing, it Long Branch, \. J.; R. s. Bowman Berwick, fa., and T. B. Pat ton, Altoona, Pa.
 s. E. Todd, of Orange, N. J., has brought suit against J. w. X J. K. Field, lawyers, for S4 900 damages He claims to have sustained loss because defendants did not properly at tend to his interests in litigations in which they represented him and by fraudulent bills of costs.
 The third annual session of the Merchant Tailors' Exchange of the United States is be- ing held in New York, with l5o delegates ill attendance
 Plainheld, N. J., which has heretofore charged $500 for liquor license fec, the high est in the state, has increased it to SsOO in the hope of reducing the number of saloons. Nevertheless there is one more application than there was last year for the excise board to consider.
 Rev. H. P. Fleming, rector of St. Johns Roman Catholic church, Orange, has written to both branches of the New Jersey legisla- ture an "open letter" on the high license local option question protesting against the repeal of the law.
 Mrs. Katherine Wannemacher, leading lady, and Louis McCarter, stage manager, for the Norristown Dramatic association, which gave a very successful performance of Boucicault's 1.-The Willow Copse' the other night, are to be disciplined by the Baptist and Methodist churches, of which they are members Mrs. Wannemacher expects to go on the stage professionally. John Welsh, a brakeman, jumped off a 1 train at Bergen Point and was struck by a passing engine, thrown long distance and l fatally injured
 Cerebro spinal meningitis is spreading | among the horses ill the vicinity of New l Brunswick, N. J. Several owners have lost | a number of valuable animals l Arthur Decker, of New York, was con- v1cted III the United States court at Trenton, l N. J., of fraudulent use of the mails, and of l attempting to bribe the postmaster at Cliff | ton, N. J. He worked what is known as the sawdust game. Anthony Comstock was the principal witness for the prosecution.
 Mrs. R. Loughlin, aged 103 years, the old | est woman in northern New York died at Eeekmantown. She was in good health until a week ago.
 Billey Dacey, of New York, defeated Jack Costello, of Bay City, Mich, in fight on Long Island last night, knocking him out in l the second round.
 Harry Gasner, the diamond thief, attempted suicide in Raymond Street jail, Brooklyn, last night, by jumping over railing to the iron floor thirty feet beneath. He was se- verely injured but may recover News reaches Canajoharie, N. Y., that seventeen men and four teams broke through the ice and were drowned while dragging logs on Pine lake, Fulton county.
 Elizabeth Munday, maiden lady, aged O. was murdered and robbed at Friendsville, Susquehanna county, Pa, Sunday night, by Q man in her employ, who has fed sheriff's jury in Brooklyn returned a yer dict of $25, 900 in favor of James J, Meehan of that city, against Garrett Brinkerhoff, @ wealthy man of Communipaw, N. J., for alternating the affections of Meehan's wife.