Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-16
CONDENSED NEWS.

The prospects for the passage of the Wei don bill in the Canadian parliament are good, All the American booders are under slrveil- lance of detectives to prevent their escape before the bill becomes law.
 Cashier Royce, of the Willmantic, Conn. bank, has published his story of the famous complication. He admits making mistakes. but disclaims criminal intent. He says the board has made a studied attempt to ruin him financially and socially, and drive him from the town, but he proposes to fight it out.
 Samuel Gordon and George Kelly both loved Ella Duke, at Industry, Mo. They met accidentally at her house, quarreled, and re- paired to the back yard to settle their claims with kn,ves Up to date neither one has the girl, as Kelly is in jail and Gordon has big hole in his side.
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 Seventeen society men of Topeka, Kan. are under arrest for participating in com pli,nentary wine supper, given by visiting Californian. The host has fled
 Joe Snow, aged 14, was married to Chloe Poland, aged 13, at Keeper, w. Va.
 Elizabeth, N. J., is greatly excited over a row in the common council, supplemented by a personal encounter between President Smith and Alderman Moves Another alder man threatens to introduce 8 resolution at the next meeting declaring the chair vacant, unless the president apologizes for his con- duct
 Buffalo expects to have the grandest drive in the world-a boulevard POO feet wide across Grand Island to Niagara Falls
 An Indian and a Japanese woman were among the thirty-six graduates of the Woman's Medical college at Philadelphia
 Detroits club for the International league has been complete with fourteen players.
 Thomas R. Evans was crushed to death and John Walsh fatally injured by the fall ing of Q large slab of roof coal in the central shaft near Hyde Park, Pa.
 Maj. Thomas Howard celebrated the Tooth anniversary of his birth in Brooklyn Friday
 Warren Townsend, president of the Lake wood, N. J., Trust company, and for many years leading merchant, died suddenly of heart failure He was 64 years old
 A coal train jumped the track at Plain field, N. J., and fifteen cars were smashed to splinters.
 A movement is on foot in Ohio to nomi- nate Allen w. Thurman, son of the Old Roman, for governor on the Democratic ticket
 Chicago baseball enthusiast ts are preparing Q grand reception for the tourists on their re- turn.
 The spring meet of the Delaware and Schuylkill river canoeists will take place at Delanco, N. J., from May 20 to June 2 There will be several clubs from Pennsylvania rep resented, and most enjoyable regatta is an ticipated.
 Willis Green, Anderson Mitchell and Dan Jones, colored, were hanged at Arkadelphia Ark, for the murder of a negro preacher named Arthur Horton, May 21, 1858. The execution was private.
 A First avenue tenement in New York, containing seventeen families, was set on fire at night with the evident intention of incinerating all the occupants, which no doubt would have been the case had not the fire been immediately discovered and extin- guished.
 Pope Leo has provided in his will for the disposition of his jubilee presents among the members of his family.
 Twenty to twenty-five weavers in the small Riverside cotton mill in Rumford, East Prov idence, R. l., are on strike for an increase of wages The firm say it pays as much as any other mill making the same kind of goods.
 George H. Lounsbery, at present cashier in tfe New York postonice, is 8 candidate for P ,stmaster Pierson's place.
 John A. c. Stacy, about 75 years of age, dropped dead from heart disease at Newport, R. l. The deceased was very rich, his prop erty being acquired in land speculation in stone QuarTies. He was never married.