Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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 Col. John A. Cockerill was reelected President of the New York Press Club. of New York now amounts to $, O5S, 377.
 The Czar has presented Anton Ruben. stein, the pianist, with an annuity of s4,Ooo.
 The headquarters of the Salvation Army at London were burned last night.
 Scarlet fever exists at Pittsfeld Mass, in a mild epidemic form, and fifty cases have been reported.
 Atlantic City, N. J., is to have a brewery with capacity of 10000 bar rels of beer per annum,
 Henry Snoddy and Lawrence Beatty, of Bolton, N. Y., were drowned in Lake George yesterday. Their boat has been found bottom up.
 For the first time in aquarter of century a Democratic Board of Free holders in Essex county. New Jersey, met in Newark.
 Prominent mem bers of the Portuguese colony in New York city express the belief that Dom Pedro will shortly re- visit this country.
 Prince Dhuleep Singh, of Halifax, authorizes an emphatic denlal of his reported engagement to Miss Jeanne Turnure, of New York.
 The Secretary of the Treasury re- ceived the resignation of Joseph A. Neill as Examiner of the National Banks in Pennsylvania.
 It is reported that the immense plant of the Michigan Stove Company, of De- troit will pass into the hands of an FnpliSh syndicate. shortly,
 The large dry-goods store of Rowland & Austin, at Macheas, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., has been destroyed by fire. The loss is not stated but is heavy.
 The new steam ferryboat Groton, re- gently purchased by tho Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. was burned at sea while on her way to Baltimore from New York.
 The Hartford Baseball Association will hold a meeting tonight to decide whether Hartford, Conn.,, will have a team in the Atlantic Association next year.
 The Meredith homestead, familiarly known as Belmont, in Mount Pleasant stroyed by fire last night. The dwell- ing was one of the handsomest in thab region. s>'-
 Representatives from baseball clubs of Allentown, Lebanon, Harrisburg, Altoona, Scranton, Wilkesbarre, Eas- ton and Wilmington, Del, met in Har- risburg, Pa., and organized the Inter- state League.
 The New York Board of State Can vassers will be called together as soon as the Rensselaer, County election re- turns, now before the CoArts, have been filed with the Secretary of State.
 Frederick F. Hopkins was found guilty at Media, Pa, on fifteen bills of indictment, charging him with burglary and larceny, and was sentenced to five ern Penitentiary.
 Josh Mann, of New York, for their share in Mrs. Eva Hamilton's plunder- ing of Robert Ray Hamilton, was put over yesterday until to-day.
 Ernest Porter, proprietor of the Wal pole Mills at Newton Center, Mass, and having other large business in- terests in that State, committed sui eide by shooting. His mind had become impaired by serious illness. He leaves a widow and one son. 5.>- ,, The ''Daily Herald," of Newbury- port, Mass, has been purchased by a company, consisting of F. c. Hills B. A. Appleton and Caleb B. Huse. Messrs. Hills and Appleton are experienced Boston newspaper mon. The 'Herald' will continue to be Republican.
 The object of the meeting of the Ma tional Association of Wool Growers, now in session at the Ebbitt House in Washington, is to consider the necessi- ties of the wool-growing industry and to decide upon what legislation, if any, shall be requested of Congress. Charles H. Bishop, aged 55, well-to- do farmer of Wilton, Conn.,, was found dead on his barn floor. His head was fractured. and other indications led tc the belief thak he had fallen from a mow while getting hay for the cattle He leaves large family of small chil dren.