Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-13
NEWS OF OUR NEIcHeoRs.
Happenings of Interest in Sevcra. States
 Briefly Chronicled.


 A = five br---,a1s raide> Cunn v open tho of Gray -- sHHT., cod i:'',ke into l. l----'---., ;:.oa,. depot Four of them were ar, estt - .-.- d desperate fight
 Burglars broke into the summer residence of Mrs. Grubb, at Burlington, \. J., but secured little booty
 Henry Campbell, Paterson clerk, paid too much attention to the young wife of Farmer Wynant, of Avondale, N. J. The farmer caught the couple skating together. and lashed the festive clerk with a horse whip.
 The estate of E. S. Wheeler, the insolvent Of New Haven, will pay to the creditors 10 per cent
 The Newburg Skating association has called the national skating races for Washingtons g birthday.
 Many incendiary fires in York county, Pa. are causing excitement Eleven barns have been recently destroyed.
 Rev. Father Damien, a former missionary of Jersey City, now gagged in mission work in the Sandwich Islands, is dying there of leprosy.
 The work of building the trestles and ap- proach on the Jersey side to the big bridge of the Baltimore and Ohio company at Elizabeth port, N. J., has begun.
 Dr. Mary Henderson Stn,son, leader among the women physicians of the country. died at her home in Norristown, Pa, at the age of 7o years.
 c., of So; .:ara aged S4, was .;y fou..' " , e.. .~. is oA" s:'- in t'"'' 'eying of ST: wand exhan>lon. Hu --~.ns .ne :, 4 = d homo Jith weah- -J- relatives, pr :. .s ais h~---:> -Ie, W h what liquor he cali secure
 George Mecum, prominent citizen of Salem, N. J., was taken ill on the street and died few minutes after being taken to the office of physician.
 Samuel H. Middlebrook, of East Bridge port, Conn.,, aided by "divinmg rod,n is digging along the shores of the sound for Capt. Kidds buried wealth
 The inventory of the estate of Miss Gather inc Pierson, an eccentric character who re- gently died at Richmond, aged about so years, foots up S45O, ,0OO, much to the delight of the relatives, who knew that the old lady was pretty we'll off, but did not expect such a windfall
 At meeting at Hartford last night it was voted to form stock company, with shares at *5o each, with view to placing nine Tn the Atlantic Association. Messrs. Burn ham, of Worcester, and Powers. of Jersey City, were present representatives of the association.
 While a number of young men were re- hearsing border drama at the house of George Dimock, at Carbondale, Pa, William Dimock, aged years, picked up a revolver from table and fatally shot Arnold Diets, who was acting the part of a cowboy in the play. The revolver was supposed to be loaded with blank cartridge.
 The New York Yacht club has taken five years lease of Savers wharf, New Haven, Conn.,, for boat landing, and will erect club house.
 A charter has been granted at the Penn sylvania state department to the Beech Creek and Hudson River railroad. It will be twenty-six miles long in Lycoming and Northumberland counties, and will run from Newburg to Turbotville.
 Edward M. Baker, a miner, was killed by coal car dashing down the incline at G. A. Grows mines, near East Brady, Pa Robert F. Criswell received injuries that may prove fatal.
 Major John McHall, of the Fourteenth regiment, N. G. s. N. Y, late captain of the Eighty-fourth New York volunteers, and brevet major United States volunteers, died at Brooklyn Mass, aged 55 years