Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-09
CONDENSED NEWS.

Mary Anderson tainted away on the stage of Albaugh's theatre, at Washington. after the dance in "A Winters Tale," and has can- celed her engagement there. She is suffer ing from mental and physical strain.
 Editor $. J. Roberts, of The Lexington Ry) Leader, sharply criticised Charles Scott's management of the Lexington Opera house. Scott attacked Roberts on the street and punched two holes in his head with brass knuckles. Public sympathy is with Roberts.
 Insurance companies interested have em. ployed q detective to ferret out the author of numerous fires that have recently occurred in Moorestown, N. J.
 Capt. Fred l.. Cunning and Thomas R. Bran were walking on the New York, Penn. sylvania and Ohio track at Kent, O., when an engine backed down upon them, killing both.
 Capt. M V. Berry, master at the Boston house of correction, has been removed by the public institu tions board, on charges of in- toxication. Col J. c. Whiton, superintendent of the house of industry, was made superin- tendent of the house of correction. Deputy Master Christie, of the house of correction. who brought the charges against Berry, was dismissed, and J. R. Gerrish, superintendent of the aims house, was appointed in his pace.
 William L. Smith, a Canandaigua, N. Y., merchant, aged 30 years, committed suicide by taking strychnine He had met with busi- ness reverses, which unsettled his mind. He leaves a widow and child
 Moses L. Myers, a clerk in the registry division of the New York postofflce, has been arrested and has confessed to rif1ing regis tered letters of small amounts.
 The Sioux City corn palace train, just from the Washington inauguration, is attracting great attention at the Jersey Central depot at Communlpaw. Its decorations with corn ln the various stages of development are unique and handsome. It consists of five coaches, on the last of which is this inscrip tion: Westward the star of empire takes its way and anchors in Sioux City"
 Egbert Sterns, chief clerk in the postoffice at Evergreen, Ala is about $l, 900 short in his accounts and has disappeared.
 Several workmen were seriously hurt bv the fall of the roof of a cyclorama buildine in Cincinnati, which they were tearing down.
 George Cook, aged 70 years, an inmate of the poor house at Charlottesville Ind, was on Thursday discovered to have $6, ,52S hidden in box under his bed S4, GOO of it in gold.
 While sitting at his 1ireside with his wife. about 10 o'clock at night, A. w. Busby. a prominent citizen of Gate City, Ala, was shot dead by some one at his window.
 Ernest Schroeder, Milwaukee and St. Paul baggageman, is under arrest in Chicago for stealing canceled railroad tickets and restoring them to their original value by using his baggage punch over the conductors punch, thus obliterating the former and giv- ing them the appearance of new tickets.
 Nelson C. Dewey, he first governor of Wisconsin, 75 years old, who was stricken with paralysis on Monday, is dying.
 The Colorado house of representatives ha, expelled Thomas E. Mitchell, of Arapahoe for having entered into corrupt bargain tc vote for . candidate TOT United States seua tor at the late senatorial election in that sfafe