Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

E. B. Hemingway, banker, at Whit
 ney's Point, N. Y., has failed. Secretary Windom is in New York. He will return to Washington to-mor- row. Jane Dobson, colored, died in Provi- dence, R. l., at the reported age of 113 years.
 A branch of the Tenants Defence League has been inaugurated in Dublin with great success. MT. Charles Parnell is i'll in London and will not speak at Nottingham to- day as announced. The captain of vess el just arrived in New York thinks there will be a gen. eral uprising in Hayti.
 Cholera is raging iercely at Bagdad.
 Business is entirely suspended, and the city rigidly quarantined. MT. Edward P. Booth, for years land
 lord of the Mansion House at Mauch
 Chunk, Pa., died suddenly at Pain sville.
 Ohio.
 The congregation of Shiloh Baptist
 Church, colored, Williamsport, Pa., is
 ina state of war over the election of | new pastor.
 Claus Spreckles started up his sugar
 refinery in Philadelphia, himself dump ing the first hogshead of raw sugar into
 the melting pan.
 Henry Sturgeon, father of Robert Sturgeon. one of the editors of the liar risburg, Pa., Sunday Capital died in Carlisle, Pa., aged 65 years. George Clemens, an insane criminal, | confined in the State Asylum at Buffalo, N. Y., committed suicide by twisting a towel around his neck until he stran-
 gled.
 The efforts of her son to have Mrs.
 Josephine Cope, of Philadelphia, pro- nounced of unsound mind, has failed.
 Her sanity has been judicially an nounced.
 < Fire in the upper stories of the large | wholesale drug house of McKesson &
 Robbins, 91 and 93 Fulton street, New
 York, caused damage variously esti-
 mated at from $50, 900 to saOo, 900. Hon. Patrick D. Dwyer, of Lee, Mass, is dead, aged 32. He was promi-
 nent in State politics, serving three | terms in the lower and two in the upper House of the State Legislature. | Ames building at Boston have been | identified as those of D. F. Buckley, a | fireman. His name was found on a portion of the underclothing adhering
 to the body James Gilson, aged 25, was shot and killed at Rome, N. Y., by an Italian
 named Mark Cheebo. When arrested Cheebo at first denied the shooting, but subsequently confessed and was locked up.
 A. Mozarki was driving along liberty street, Pittsburg. Pa., last night with
 heavy load of tobacco, when two mon
 knocked him off the seat, seriously in-
 turing him, and then coolly drove of with the load.
 The State is willing to accept the plea
 of murder in the second degree in tho
 case of John Daily, who was to be tried
 at Springfield, Mass, for the murder of Policeman Abbott. The prisoner will | receive a life sentence. William N. Riddle. who was Presi- | qenG of the Penn Bank at Pittsburg at | the time of it's disastrous failure in | 1884, and was at that time heavy | speculalor in oil, died last night at St. | Vincent's Hospital, New York, of | dropsy.
 The Rev. Dr. Fulton, late of New | York has written letter declining the l pastorate of the Emmanuel Baptist | Church in Toronto It is said that an 1 effort will be made to organize con l gregation for him in Toronto, m order 1 that he may be induced to remain here.
 The Colchester Rubber Company ot 1 Wllllmantic, Conn.,, announces suspen- sion of operations until January 9. It
 Is reported that the company is in ar
 rears to the help for seven weeks pay
 aggregating over $40, 900, and consider.
 able anxiety is felt among the en-