Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-29
CONDENSED NEWS,

J. D. Thurston, manufacturer of boots and shoes at Montreal, has suspended Liabilities between $40, GOO and $50, 600. The estate shows nominal surplus of about S20 GOO. Losses by recent failures are the cause of the stoppage.
 At Elmore, Colc., Constable Montague was shot and killed by three drunken cowboys whom he attempted to arrest for disturbing the peace. The murderers escaped to the hills. The sheriff, with an armed posse, is in pursuit of them.
 Several distinct shocks, accompanied by rumbling noises, were felt and heard at Buckeyetown and Jefferson and along the Monacacy river in that vicinity of Hendrlck county, Md, Wednesday night. The shocks are supposed to have been due to earthquake
 The notorious Mrs. Howe of Woman's bank fame, who was arrested in Boston about three months ago upon the complaint of some of her victims, was discharged by Judge Staples in the superior court at Boston, the witnesses ill the case not appearing against her.
 The Burlington hotel, at Gloversville, N Y., has been burned. The building was a frame structure, three stories high and con- tained, besides the hotel, a liquor store and barber shop. The fire started in the liquor store and made rapid progress Loss, S20, ,OOO; insurance, $l0,00O.
 The Connecticut legislature has voted to commute the death sentence of John H. Swift to Imprisonment for life. Swift shot and killed his wife on July ', 1887, and was sen fenced to be hanged on April 5, 1889. The governors approval is necessary to perfect the communication
 At meeting of the railroad managers and Grand Army men held in Milwaukee all diff ferences as to the rates to be charged by the railroads between Chicago and Milwaukee during the Grand Arm encampment in August were anicable settled, the railroad companies agreeing to the one fare rate.
 Mrs. Eliza Davidson Rockefeller, the mother of William and John D. Rockefeller of New York, and Frank, of Cleveland, died at the home of her son William, at Mo- 6S9 Fifth avenue, New York, Thursday. The body will be taken to Cleveland for burial, where the funeral services will also be held.
 The Washington inaugural centenn ial committee at New York has suggested to the president to issue proclamation calling for special religious services in all the churches of tn" country the morning of April 30, at o'clock, the hour at which ser vices of prayer were held in the churches of New York on that day 100 years ago. The executive committee of the Northern Pacific Railroad company has rejected the 1 proposed traffic agreement with tho Wiscon- | sin Central Railroad company, and discussed | modified agreement which will be forward | ed to the executive officers of the two com | panies for consideration. Another meeting | will be held next week. The original agree | ment was deemed too favorable to the Wis | consin Central.
 | The Hartford Board of Trade has directed its special committee to oppose before the legislative committee the proposed bonding | of the Hartford and Connecticut Western | railroad in order to build an extension tc | Springfield. At the hearing before the legis lative committee Charles J. Cole, counsel fol the stockholders who opposed the bonding argued that the statute had not been com piled with in bringing the resolution befors the legislature, and that therefore the bond would not be valid if granted. Tho com l mittee adjourned the hearing in order tt further consider this obligation