Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Otto Betz, a lithographer, committed suicide at Rochester, N. Y.

UNC"S UT OA1s Otto Betz, lithographer, committed suicide at Rochester, N. Y. The Bank of England's rate of dis. count has been advanced to per cent |
 pr. J. c. c. Blackburn, veteran journalist of Georgia, died at Atlanta, | Ga.
 Mrs. Caroline Coleman, an actress, | died in Philadelphia from an overdose of morphine.
 The wife of General Longstreet died last night at the Generals home in Gainesville, Ga. Lord Salisbury is seriously ill, and his contemplated visit to Grantham has been postponed. Foster t& Jaquith's chair manufactory and steam mill, at Weston, Vt, were burned, entailing loss of S2, 900.
 An advance in wages averaging 11a cents per ton will be inaugurated at Car neg1e's Homestead, Pa, Steel Works tomorrow.
 Jake Gaudaur, of St. Louis, a three mile race for from 5000 to $5, 900 side, any time before July.
 Hattie Nisula, who was stabbed by Hattie Behilajam at Fitchburg, Mass, is dead. The murderer, who is under arrest, was drunk at the time of the stabbing.
 Martha Ann Swan, 60 years of age, was found dead in her home, fl West Thirty-fourth street, New York, yes terday, sutfoca ted by gas. The gas had heen blown out.
 Policeman T. J. Golden, of the four teenth precinct, New York, died from Ia grippe. This is the second death from that disease reported since Satur- day in New York.
 The bending and spoke works of Dow ney Brothers, and the umbrella factory of Samuel Downey at Lancaster, Pa., were destroyed by fire last night Loss, $40, ,ooO; partially insured. A suit has been brought by John Mulloy, of Bridgeport Conn.,, against his son, James Mulloy, to recover nearly s100, 900 worth of property, con- veyed in trust to the latter.
 Every physician in Trenton, N. J., is busy attending patients afflicted by the influenza, and druggists are reaping an unwonted harvest Very few fami- lies have escaped the epidemic. Mrs. Erwin and her two daughters, Mary and Bessie, from Benton County, | Mo-, were found aSphyxiated in their | room in hotel in Oakland, Cal. They l were not accustomed to the use of gas. Alfred E. Bernis, aged about 50. was l instantly killed at Marlboro, Mass, | by a large beam falling on his head 1 while at work in the barn of Daniel Hay den. He leaves widow and three children.
 Advices have been received of the | death at St. Martins, West Indies, of Charles R. Won Romandt, formerly Professor of Modern Languages in Rut gers College, and fer twenty years con- nected with the State Department at Washington.
 Samuel E. Scudder, alias Samuel E. | Johnson, a colored hostler of Newark, | N. J., attempted to murder his wife's father, but the ball sped wide of the mark. Scudder was subseq uently found by policeman, and, drawing pist tol shot himself. He will die.
 Welsh citizens presented MT. George w. ChiIds, of Philadelphia, with a statuette of Marguerite as she is repre- sented pensively at the shrine in 'Faust." It is two feet six inches high and stands upon pedestal of blue mar ble three feet high.
 Miss Gertrude Rapp is dead at her home at Economy, Pa., aged eighty one years. She was prominent granddaughter of it's founder, and has recently lived with Jacob Henrici, president ot the society.
 Mrs. Elisha West, aged sa years, died of paralysis, at the home of her son-in-law, E. Hartz Price, at Pleasure Bay, N. J. Her husband kept the first hotel opened at Pleasure Bay, where New York passengers for Long Branch landed and took stages down the coast.
 Fire Commissioner Henry w. Longley of Boston died at his residence in that city after brief attack of pneumonia. MT. Longley was afflicted with influ- enza last week, and it was supposed he recovered from the attack, when pneumonia set in with fatal resul t. MT. Longley had served in the war o f the rebellion under Gen. Butler. At one time he had supervision of the Com uissary Department in Boston Harbor.