Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Quebec.
 The steamer Rockton has been chartered to bring home the victims of the Samoan naval disaster.
 Forest fires arc devastating Patrick county, Virginia Fifty farmers have al ready suffered.
 Thirty-five residences and business houses in the little town of Muir, Mich., were burned yesterday.
 Charles Funk, cigar manufacturer, of Kalkakee, Ill, yesterday shot his divorced wife and then killed himself.
 Upon the authority of Russell Harrison 1t Is stated that the White House inmates suffer from plague of red ants. ~:
 Thomas Rodriguez, Buffalo, N. Y., Span- lard, cut his wife's throat with a razor and then cut his own. Both died instantly.
 Bill Ryan. the Missouri train robber and associate of Jesse James, was released from the penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo-, on Monday The body of an unknown young woman, who had starved to death, was found yester- day In Q vacant house in Harlem, q suburb of Chicago.
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y., were convicted of ceiling obscene literature and were fined $50 each.
 Mayor Cregler, of Chicago, appoiLted W. J. Onanan, president of the Catholic Col onization society of the United States, City Comptroller.
 The powder mills situated between Valley Falls and Schaghticoke, N. Y, blew up yesterday. Two men were serious ly injured.
 Ellsworth White shot Mrs. Kellogg at Lockwood, N. Y., on Monday. White was arrested, but refused to give any reason for l the shooting.
 Tho schooner Rio Lupton capsized N. c. The captain and ono of the crew | were drowned.
 The New York city authorities yesterday made a general raid on tho property of the Western Union Telegraph company. Poles | and wires were torn down. ! Two daring robbers yesterday attempted | to rob the State bank in Minneapolis. They secured s14. 900 and were making of with it when they were overtaken and arrested. | A. R. Chandler of Chicago, president of the Postal Telegraph. Cable company, denies the rumored consolidation of the Postal Telegraph Cable company with the Western l Union.
 The Richmond and Aleghany railroad, which runs from Richmond, Va, to Clifton l Forge, Va, was sold yesterday to Charles Cox of New York, representing syndicate, for e5OO, ,OOO.
 1 At a meeting of Harvard college students on Monday night committee was chosen | to confer with a committee from Yale, as to the advisability of forming dual athletic league.
 1 A majority of tue skilled workmen in H. A. Douglass tannery atChateaugay, N. Y., went on strike Tuesday, claiming that back wages are due them. A few unsl1illed en- ployes rcmain at work. George s. Haskell, the big seed man of Rockford, H., made an assignment on Mon 1 day. A. B. Cleveland, of New York, who absconded some weeks ago, Is said to be re- sponsible for the failure.
 The Navy Department has received no information concerning the reported colli- 1 sion between the United States schooner
 Enterprise and the German mon-of-war
 Make off Port Said during hard storm.
 Tho remains of Charles Vivian, the noted comedian and founder of the Order of EllSs,
 who died Tn Leadville some months ago of
 consumption, are to be removed from that city to Boston for interment.
 Tho misunderstanding by which the 10, GOO Pennsylvania militiamen thought the Gen. tennial committee ought to pay their travel ing expenses, and the resulting complicat- ions, which have been the biggest of all
 centennial "kicks," will probably be fixed.
 A colony of old soldiers with train
 numbering 700 wagons left Wichita for the Oklah oma border yesterday morning. All of the West adjacent to the promised land Is wild with fever and excitement, which Increase in intensity as the opening days draw near.