Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-19
NEWS OE THE DAY.

] The Warron County Prohibition Con- vention at Glens Falls, N. Y.. nomin- ated J. P. Randall for tho Assembly.
 The Grand Army posts of Washing. ton have begun to agitate the subject of the removal of General Grants body to that city
 John Brewer, the crack live-bird shot of Pennsylvania, has sailed for Austra- lia, where he intends stopping until the spring of 1S90
 David Runyan, aged 55, a bookkeeper employed by the Mutual Benefit Life Company at Newark. N. J., dropped dead at his desk yesterday.
 Loren s. Knight has been appointed postmaster at .Gaskills Corners, and Thomas Cunningham at Mohawk, both in New York State.
 Merritt's shirt factory at Kingston, N. Y., was damaged by fre last ight to the extent of sl2,O0O. Thirty men are thrown out of work.
 William l.. Jordan, son of tho post master of Richmond. Va. and a clerk In the office, has been arrested for rob- ping the mails. He has made confess sion. :.
 The inquest in Now York city on tho death of lineman John E. H. Feel1s who met such horrible death on telegraph pole on the 11th inst, is now under way.
 Yesterdays programme wound up tho Reading, Pa., shoot. 1t was intended te continue the tournament through to. lay, but as many of the shooters left for home last night the shoot was declared over.
 The Mount View House and contents. et Ldttleton, N. H., owned by G. G. and L. D. Quimby has been destroyed by fire. Loss S7,000. Insurance S5, 900. Cause unkn own.
 The man killed on the New York and Now England railroad at Hyde Park, Mass, has been identified as Edward Adams, aged 34 and unmarried. He was a teamster for the firm of Richard son & Rafter, carpenters.
 Mrs. May Callahan. of Jamestown N.Y., was detected setting fire to apart by T. T. Clancy. Tho fire was extin- guishod before much damage was .dono The woman was arrested.
 While showing two young men in search of a room through the Sherwood block at Hornel1svi1le, N. Y., Miss Nell lie Webb stepped into an elevator shaft and fell to the bottom. Her injuries are serious and may provo fatal.
 At Allentown, Pa, the Reformed Synod changed it's name to the Eastern Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States. Matters pertaining to the Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip were referred to special committee.
 Action has been commenced and filed by J. & M. Van Voorhis of Rochester, N. Y., on behalf of Mary s. Anthony and Susan B. Anthony against the American Glucose Company of Buffalo. The Anthonys claim that they are cn- titled to s125. GOO worth of stock.
 In the District Court at New Bedford, Mass, Luwin l.. Tillinghast was held in the sum of s2, 900 for the Superior Court on the charge of embedding s5, 900 from his former employer. Edmund Grinnel, of the New Bedford Iron Foundry.
 The School Superintendents of New York State elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Supt. w. H. Maxwell. Brooklyn: Srperinten- dent Barney Whitney, Og1ensburgh, Vice President; Supt E. N. Jones, Saratoga, Secretary and Treasurer.
 John Higgins. of Jersey City, N. J., the clerk of the Central Chemical Com pany of kearney Township, who was employers, was sentenced yesterday to three years hard labor in the State prison.
 The two young ladies of New York city, who were reported on Wednesday night as missing from their fathers resi- dences on Fifth avenue returned home last night saying they had been visit ing friends in Yonkers. Who they are, is still mystery, the police refusing to divulge their names.
 Preston Pratt, of Weymouth, Mass, who has been missing for a week, has returned homo. He tells a vague story that he was knocked down and robbed on the Common in Boston, and when he regaired consciousness found himself on steamer bound for Vir- ginia; that when he got ashore he walked to New York, and there raised money to get home.
 Henry Smith, a defendant on the eA0rge of threatening his wife's life, @vrqed upon her in the court at Indian Que9e add plunged large knife into
 N throat within a quarter of an inch q fhe jugular vein. The judge, sheriff cad others present struggled hard with him to get the knife. Mrs. Smith will live.