Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-25
NEWS OF OUR NEleHeoRs.
Happenings of Interest In Several States
 Briefly Chroniclod.

l the elevated road at the One Hundred and Fourth street station and several people were seriously, but not dangerously wounded. A similar accident occurred on the Kings county elevated at Nostrand avenue, and passenger crazed with fright leaped over the
 guard rail of the forward train, fell to the | street, and was instantly killed. Tho Govern
 or's island tug coll:ded with the Weehawken ferryboat Kingston in the North river Both l vessels were badly damaged, but no passen- gers were injured. There were several other
 minor accidents on tine rivers.
 The Fat Mems club of Jersey City com prises the maddest men in the state just now. While their annual ball was at its height at Cooper's hall the manager, fearing he would not get his rent, shut off the gas and locked l the doors on the obese revalers They fin- l ished the dance at their club house, and now they propose to make the manager dance if l there IS any law ill New Jersey for that pur- pose.
 Casper Lindeman, A years old died at his l residence, No. A Lewis street, Union Hill, N. J., of pneumonia. Mir. Lindeman was for | thirty-ive years resident of North Hudson, aud for fifteen years past, owing to some pc culiar fancy, he had never left his house. nor | was he confined by sickness or from other cause.
 Thomas B. Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, has signifiei his intention to found a new prize in the English department of Princeton college under the following conditions: The prize will be the yearly interest on $1 ,OOO to that member of the junior class who, at the close of the junior year, shall pass the best
 examination in early English and Shakes pearean English and offer a thesis on some
 assigned topic in English philology AL though this gift may have found its occasion l in personal friendship, MT. Wanamaker's pri- mary object Is to stimulate the study of l higher English at Princeton
 Philadelphia detectives are keeping the.r eyes particularly wide open for crooks ju st now. Two of them recognized Chauncey Johnson, notorious bank sneak and pro-
 fessional thief, lettering about the money order department at the post office, and arrested him. He was taken before a magis- trate and ordered to leave. The detectives accompanied him to Germantown function. and as the train did not stop again until it reached Jersey City they left him The murderer of S. Morris Waln, of Phila- delphia. a member of the city troop, and very well known to Philadelphians, and of C. Livingston Strong, of Roudout, N Y, has been captured after long and persistent chase. He is known as "Red Bill" or ''Red Shirt Bill" and he occupied the position of cook for the two unfortunate gentlemen ] while on their i'll fated hunting expedition of last year.
 Halcyon lodge, of Newark, and the Odd Fellows lodges of Eizabethport and Plaia- field, joined Memorial lodge, of Elizabeth in celebrating its seventeenth anniversary. There was collation. and pleasant fraternal speeches.
 While driving team at Constable Hook, N. J. last night, Henry Holldorf fell from a lumber wagon and died from the injuries he l received by the fall soon after.
 The New Jersey Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows held two days session at Trenton Over 100 members have been in attendance Charles Henry Mann, of Haddonfield, was elected grand master, and George ". Fort myer, of East Orange, deputy grand master. The reason of Frank Cameron's sudden disappearance from his pretty homo at Morristown, N. J., is found to be the em- | bezzlement of s3,o00 from his former em- ployers, Hutton & Son, shirt makers, of Philadelphia They caused his arrest at his desk in the office of Bennett S Co.,, Phila-
 delphia; his mother mortgaged her house to give bonds for his release and he disappeared Now Bennett $ Go. find he had been steal Ing from thenl. It is not known what he did with the money. White Caps have reached Jersey City Robert Barry has been warned to stop
 drinking rum, staying out late at night, and to take better care of his family. The sudden flight of George w. Ter williger, a school commissioner of Paterson, N. J.. and q we'll known and genial young l man about town, has caused a sensation in society there, where he was we'll known and liked Terwilliger is said to be about $I, 800 ahead of his unsuspecting and confiding friends. He borrowed money wherever he could sTi--+ed, Co:n, had a $40, 900 fire of un- known origin. Whiting's block, Camp & l Lees block aud several stores, offices and | tenements were burned. Among the stores
 burned out are Camp & Lees, the apothecar- 1 ies; Hall, variety store; Belden's photograph l gallery; w. Birch's jewelry store; Mrs. Linas' | dresslnaking establishment and others l The jury has rendered a verdict of acci-
 dental death in the case of A. D. Mcclure 1 who was killed by boing crowded off and run | over by Philadelphia cable car. | While Fred Lee, of Carbondale, Pa, was absent from home his wife took all his
 money, hired an express wagon and loaded l on all the best things in the house and eloped 1 with another man.
 Fire in the woolen mill of James Lies S. Sons, Bridgeport, Pa, burned the picker
 room, carpenter shop and boiler house before 1 controlled. Loss, SlO,0O0 The operatives nau not yet began Wofk A Ire department had recently been organized among the mill l employees and they had held their first drill
 in the mill eight hours before the fire broke out.
 l Palmer Wells, accused of sending obscene
 letters to Minna Irving, the Tarrytown, N. l Y., writer, was found guilty. Sentence de- 1 ferred.
 Franklin Nourse aged 5l, one of the most | prominent farmers in Berkshire county, | Mass, was killed while moving a small build 1 ing. He had crawlsd under it to adjust some ropes whom the structure fell upon him. He | leaves a widow and several children | The trial of the suit of Receiver Henry J. | Anderson, of tho First National bank, of Albion, N. Y., to recover $3i, 900 of the
 banks money from the firm of Chase &
 Atkin, resulted in a verdict for the defend
 ants in the United States circuit court. The
 funds of the bank were used by Cashier A. 1 s. Warner, now defaulter and fugitive
 from justice, in stock speculations A similar
 suit was tried some time since and Receiver
 Anderson recovered.
 Mrs. Roger Lamson, wife of wealthy I