Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Influenza is spreading rapidly in Lon don, and several cases havc resulted fatally.
 The President had very few visitors to-day. Many presents reached the White House.
 Tho Pittsfeld National Bank, of Pittsfield, Me-, capital $50, 1000, has been authorized to begin business.
 MT. Edward T. Waite, son of tho late Chief Justice Waite, died at his moth er's residence in Washington.
 Secretary Tracy has named the coast at San Francisco, the Monterey.
 The statement of eleven of tho Cronin jurors will likely not be pu ublishcd until after the jury bribery trial is over.
 Eugene Ferguson, brakeman on tho Southern Central Railroad, fell under his train and was killed at Sterling. N. Y.
 Isaac Phillips was struck and instant ly killed at Leicester N. Y, ,sby Della ware, Lackawanna & Western passen- ger train.
 Robert Martin, merchant of Mar tins, Calleton County, $. C., was way laid and killed last night by unL nown parties.
 A fire at Lewiston, Pa, burned the mo- tion store of I. Leapold, a batber shop, six dwellings and a job printing office. Loss, $15, ,00O
 The Novoe Vremya, of St. Peters burg, states that Bulgaria has pur chased from Austria 100000 rifles and 100, GOO, 900 cartridges. drick of Buffalo, N. Y., to one years imprisonment for attempted blackmail on Judge Lewis family.
 The Bell Telephone Company's net output since Dec. 2l, 1888, has been s2,- 900 instruments, an increase of 2,192 over the previous year.
 Rev. Edward J. O'Reilly pastor of St. Stephens Catholic Church, Brook lyn, N. Y., is dead. Father O'Reilly was born in Ireland, about 63 years ago.
 WY. Cavan, who was running a Berk shire piggery at Alden, N. Y., is under arrest for receiving money from people on orders for pigs, which fhe failed to fill.
 Wm. J. Mcdonald was found guilty, while insane. at St. John, N. B., of the sent poisoned candy through the postoffice.
 The United States steamer Baltimore, now lying at Cramps yard, Philadel phia, is completed, and next week she will be put to sea, going either to New York or Norfolk.
 Charles w. Roll cobbler; Geore l.. Mitchell, cloth cutter and J, Franz, of Newark, N. J., claim that they are heirs to property in Mohawk Valley, N. Y., valued at 10000, 900.
 William Eubanks, of Los Gatos, Col, shot and killed his 16-year-old daughter because she refused to give him her wages. Then he cut his own throat, inflicting serious but not fatal wound.
 Two confidence women have secured 1000 from chariuably inclined people in Westtield and other Massachusetts towns, alleging it was for a needy old couple who had lost their house and furniture by fire.
 The Wood ballot-box forgery case at Cincinnati was called for trial and postponed for thirty days, the Court be- ing desirous of getting the Congress Sional Committee to make the inveSti- gation first.
 A call has been issued for general convention of miners to- be held in Co., lumbus, Ohio, Jan. 2+, next. The prime objects are the amalgamation of the mining forces and the fixing of na- tional scale of prices for coal mining.
 President Norton, of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad sent from New York $2, 900 of the railroads stock and handsome memorial to Mrs. Mario Lemon, of Louisville, whose husband, conductor on the Louisville X Nash vile, was murdered by drunken ruff fan he was attempting to eyect from his train.
 Dom Pedro and the ex-Empress of Brazil Sunday bade farewell to the Queen and Dowager Queen and started for Coimbra. The Duke of Oporto and a number of Rrazilians witnessed their departure, The ex-Empress was deeply moved. The news of the Provisional Governments action in issuing de- cree suppressing the allowance to the ex-Emperor, and forbidding the return of the imperial family to Brazil, has been withheld from Dom Pedro by the advice of his physicians.