Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

M Panczer, Russian Minister of Roads, is dead
 Camden, Ind, a town of about 1000 peo- pie, has been nearly destroyed by fire
 The village of Cannonsburg, Mich, was practically wiped out by fire yesterday afternoon.
 Violent earthquakes have occurred in Epirus. Their extent is not yet fully known.
 A nbill prohibiting training for prize fight was killed in the Wisconsin Senats yesterday
 Twelve families were evicted on the Ol phert estates near Dublin yesterday. No resistance was made. Seventeen Boulangists will be indie ted by the Senate. They will deny the Scnate's right to try them. The drivers and conductor on the Minne- apolis, Minn., Fourth Avenue and Lyndale Street Car lines struck yesterday. Arumor was current in Paris to-day that an attempt had been made upon the life of the Czar. The report has not yet been con- | firmed.
 Mrs. James w. Hart, of Brookline, Mass, 1 died at the hospital in Chicago, thus mak- | ing the fifth victim os the Illinois railroad disaster.
 | The hundred barrel steam Touring mill at 1 Beaver Creek, Minn., burned yesterday | morning, with a coal yard and q steam ele- | vator adjoining
 Fire in the business portion of Rising Sun, Ind, yesterday, destroyed property valued at $25, 900 on which there was only $8, 900 insurance.
 Appraiser Leach, of Philadelphia, has de- cided to advance the rates of duty on i'm l ported worsteds. so as to place them in the same classification as woolen goods. l horlo of near Buffalo, was awakened by his mother to go to work yesterday morning, he put a pistol to his head and shot himself. | A United States marshal is in charge of the office Of the Postal Telegraph company, in Hartford, on a writ of attachment sued out by the Bankers and Merchants.
 Miss Mary Anderson who is on board the steamer Germanic which arrived at Queens | town to-day says that her trip has done her | much good and that she is better than when she left New York.
 The wife of George Rheinhold, of Chi cago' fled from his cruelty to her brother 8 house in Milwaukee. Rhelnhold followed her, and yesterday comSAkted suicide on the steps of the house.
 George Semple Pembroke, the negro who murdered Edward Lepson, grandson of Po- lice Captain Lepsou, was yesterday con- vlcted in Towson, Baltimore county, Md. of murder in the first degree.
 A British Central African company is be- ing formsd with the purpose of developing the Zambesi county by the building of rail ways, ate. The subscrip tions already amount to s, ,O0O,O00.
 A strike on all the W estern roads center ing in Chicago is one of the possibilities of the near future. The impression prevails that the Western roads have determined upon a sweeping reduction in wages. It is rumored here that an attempt was made on Sunday to assassinate the Czar, and that he was in fact wounded by the eX- plosion of she'll The most strenous eff forts are being made at St. Petersburg to suppress the facts.
 The Michigan Legislature has passed a bill making 1t a misdemeanof punishable by fine and imprisonment to manufacture or sell, give or deliver cigarettes of any kind of tobacco or cigarette paper in books or blocks for wrapping cigarettes.
 The friends of MT. William O'Brien whose health1s reported to be very poor are trying to gain his consent to accepting the terms of release offered by the Parnell Commis sion. It is thought, however, that the Irish patriot will hold out in his present determ nation.
 Gen. aMahone, Warner Miller, Senator Jones, of Nevada, and Congressman West of New York, have begun suit in which the Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States Sen ate Is flatly charged with having deliber, ately swindled them as stockholders of the |, l coroI{na Oil and Creosota Comnanv.