Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-26
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBoRs.
Happenings of Interest in Several States
 Briefly Chronicled.

 Happenings of Interest in Several States Briefly Chronicled. The annual meeting of the New York State Intercollegiate Athletic association was held last evening, and these officers were elected: President, c. w. Culver, of Union; vice president, J. H. Pardee of Hamilton; secre- tary and treasurer, F. c. Carroll, of Union There were no delegates from Columbia or Hobart.
 William B. Rotnschiid of Hartford, Conn | called at ths morgue in New Yorls and after reviewing tho remains of the man who com mitted suicide ill Central park, declared that l the body was not that of his missing brother | Samuel
 Nearly a score of persons, including ten women, met at Mo- $50 Arch street, Phila- | delphia, to take part in the annual conven- | tion of the Union of Societies for Ethical Culture. There were present twenty-two delegates from New York, Chicago, St. | Louis and Philadelphia, ill which cities the l four branch societies of the union have been established.
 1 Twelve switchmen in the Nickel Plate yard in Buffalo struck because of the refusal of the company to discharge 0 switch engineer who was not a member of the union. l The recent sudden departure from Bloom | field, N. J., of ex-Cnef Marsh, of the fire l e 1 sation in the town. The friends of tn. old soldier, Myers, who loaned Marsh Sl,OOO, l are indignant and talk of appealing t, the grand jury. Myers takes his loss very hard. l William $. Pierson Post No 5S, G. A. R., | of which Marsh was a member, has a chat l tel mortgage on his furniture to tue amount of 500, and will be unable to get the money, 1 IS the furniture is held in his wife's name 1 Lawyer Howard MacSherry, of New ! been mentioned, has disappeare and his de- falcation is growing to great proportions. 1t is now thought they will aggregate $l5,- 900, most of which comes from poor clients It is said MacSherry has Leen leading a l double life
 The residents of Sea Isle City witnessed a 1 very unusual spectacle Thursday afternoon Swimming back and forth i'll the ocean, a | short distance beyond the breakers, was an l object pronounced by some to be a whale. It seemed about forty or fifty feet long, with a head bearing a resemblance to 0 huge alli- gator, and its back appeared rough and cor l rugated- It Is thought by some that the creature is woundei and may finally be cast
 upon the beach.
 A trial is on in the Union county, N. J.,
 court at Elizabeth, which is causing deep anxiety to many prominent gentlemen.
 Jennie Wiley is defendant on a charge of
 keeping disorderly house, and spicy revela- | tions are promised.
 It is rumored in inner political circles at 1 Elizabeth that Governor Green is likely to s-rprise the knowing ones in his appointment
 of a successor to Supreme Court Judge
 Dixon It IS said that Leon Abbett could
 have the position, but his friends are saving
 him for 8 guberAatorial candidate next fall
 Judge Kirkpatrick has been prominently
 mentioned; but the man Governor Green has
 in his mind is ono whom the others have not
 thought of at all
 The senate has agreed to the house bill for
 the establishment of a light ship, with fog
 signals, at Sandy Hook, N. J.
 The senate has confirmed the nomination
 of George Washington Hensel to be collector
 of internal revenue for the Ninth district of
 Pennsylvania
 ] Bishop Whitehead, of Pennsylvania, as-
 sisted at the conservation of Rev. Boyd Vim
 cent as assistant bishop of the Protestant
 Episcopal church of the southern diocese of
 Ohio at Cincinnati
 l Two years ago the Knights of Labor held
 convention in Harrisburg at the beginning
 of the session of the legislature, and passed
 judgment upon the various bills that had
 been introduced affecting the general interest
 of the wage earner. The disintegration of
 the Knights has been 50 marked since that
 time that the order now finds itself both too
 poor in membership and in finances to call 8
 convention for this legislature. There arc a number of important measures pending
 which deeply concern the workingmen of
 the state, and particularly those engaged in the mining industry.
 Newark fears an ice famine l While on bis way home at night, George Rafferty, who lives near the Belleville } N. J., poor house, was startled by loud } cries for help. On going to the pla-s he bound woman standing in the road scream Ing and two well built men fighting savagely l M the mud. Finally one pulled a revolver And fired. Rafferty succeeded in separating the copbatants when the under man got uF and ran. The other man pursued and fired
 again, without apparent effect. Then he re l turned, and was about to assault the woman but was prevented by Raff-rty. It transpired l that he was tho womans husband and the other man was her lover, and they had beer followed by the suspicious husband. The in. , jured man later applied to Rafferty for di . rection to Newark. He badly pounded but the revolver wound was only skin deep. 3 l Jersey City detectives are following the l suit of Philadelphia officers in looking out , for crooks. They arrested two mon on sus
 picion and discovered t!Iat they hnd two oi : the most expert all around crooks. The meeting of the Central Baseball league at Eluira, N. Y., was attended by repre- sentatives from Newark, Jersey City, ElmirA
 Hazelton and Wilkests,rre Ea>ton's fran chiss was declared forfeited. Secratary C. : R. Fuller resigned and J. N. Braien wae , elected to the vacancy. Appl cations fol a membership were received from Ha tford a New Haven, Worcester, Lowell, Auburn and Shenandoah. The next meeting will bt > held at Jersey City during the first week i1
 March at which vacancies will be filled.
 About twenty five clergymen from various !. Congregational churches in New York Penn
 sylvania and New Jersey assembled in th,
 school house at Cedar Grove N. J., and th new Congregational church organized in tha 7, place recently was duly admitted into tn. g union of the Congregational society. Worl @ will be begun on a church adifice in tn @ spring.
 l. The Hudson county board of health an, n vital stetistios reports COG deaths during tn