Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-16
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBoRs.
Happenings of Interest in Several States
 Briefly Chronfcled.

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 Briefly Chronicled.
 John Shulmer, a rag sorter in Lang's paper mill at Philadelphia, discovered among the rags bottle containing white pills, which he supposed to be candy. He ate a number, and gave some to a companion, who chewed up three of the pills, and fearing they were poison spit them out, and told Shulmer to do
 the same. Shulmer had already swallowed some, and he immediately fell to the floor, and in a few minutes he was dead.
 The firm of J. B. Williams, James Will jams, John Williams and Thomas Patterson, of Pittsburg, known as the Grand Lake Coal
 company, one of the largest companies en- gagged in the coal business on the Ohio river, failed for over S25O, ,OO0. The failure was
 caused principally by the loss of 140 barges of coal in a storm near New Orleans.
 At the conference between Col Fellows, of
 New York, and District Attorney Hamilton, of Saratoga, held at Albany, the third trial of ex-Alderman McQuade was set for the
 May term of Oyer and Terminer at Ballston.
 The trial will be moved May 27 or June 3.
 Being denied admittance to shanty occu-
 pied by three Italians at Pittston, Pa., John
 Gray poured coal oil on the shanty, and at
 tempted to set it on fire, when he was shot
 through the heart by one of the inmates. Widow Van Coutz, young and pretty, of
 Franklin, N. J., is in a cell charged with
 murder. A male child was born to her, and she plunged it into pail of water until it
 was dead.
 Fireman Crockett was killed and his body thrown 500 feet away, and Engineer Me Gowan was fatally injured by being pinned
 under the wreck caused by the explosion of
 North Penn freight engine at Centre Val ley, Pa.
 Four lady passengers and the driver of a Chester, Pa, street car were injured by the car being struck and wrecked by Baltimore and Ohio locomotive.
 Dr. J. B. Taylor, physician for the Middle sex (Mass.) county jail, died of apoplexy while attending patient He was 67 years old, a native of Hinsdale, N. H., and had practiced in Cambridge forty years The Keeney house and the Bronson at Pike, N. Y., were burned. A domestic named Jennie Mach and her little niece, Pearl, per ished in the flames. Loss, s6, 6,OOO; insurance, $S,OOO.
 There was a very large attendance at the twenty-second annual reunion of the G. A. R. department of Connecticut, at Winsted. Governor Bulkley and staff arrived in the evening. Department Commander Horne gave review of the work of the year, which was very satisfactory. The adjutant generals report showed total membership of 6,721, a gain of 2S9 during the year. A mass meeting of colored citizens of vest | srn Massachusetts was held in City hall, Springfield, to protest against the suppression of the negro vote in the south. Resolutions
 were adopted protesting against the social 1 and political oppression of the negro race in
 the south. Letters of regret were read from President-elect Harrison, Vice President-elect | Morton, Senators Hoar and Blair and John Boyle O'Reilly. Among the speakers were Hon. John E. Langston, of Virginia; Hon. George w. Williams, of Worcester; Mayor Bradford and others
 The Harvard freshmen eight pared crew | has accepted the challenge of the Columbia 1 freshmen crew to race at New London some | time in June.
 "She," the female chimpanzee at the Phila- | delphia Geological garden, dropped dead last night. She had been widow over six years since the death of her husband, Mir l O'Reilly." Grief and consumption carried 1 her off
 A. s. Tracy, of Middlebury, was elected department commander by the Vermont G l A. R. encampment.
 The New England Amateur Rowing asso 1 ciation voted to hold two regattas during | 1SS9-one before July 1 and another abou, Sept. ?. It is believed the first will be held l at Worcester and the latter at Boston