Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.


 Robert S. Dalton was broiled to death by electric wires in Toledo.
 Wm. G. Chamberlain, tor 50 years con- nected with the Springfield, Mass, Ar mory, is dead, aged 73.
 The Union League, of New York, gave the Pan-American delegates a grand reception last night.
 The funeral of Cardinal Ganglbaner at Vienna, will be attended by the Emperor Francis Joseph.
 The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Consolidated road will be held to-day at New Haven, Conn.
 The President has nominated J. w. Jacobus. of New York, to be Marshal for the southern district of New York.
 The Earl of Euston's libel suit against Editor Parke of the ''North London Press,' has been set down for tomorrow.
 Miss Lizzie King, of Rochester, N. Y., was found dead in bed at the City Ho- tel, Frederick, Ind. She died of apo plexy.
 The British barque Tenby Castle was wrecked In tho Irish Sea off Holyhead, and thirteen of her crew of twenty were drowned.
 Iron Works, Johhstown, Pa, and Engl- neer Henegan was roasted to death by escaping steam.
 Edward Carl, an employe of tho Co- checo Manufacturing Company, of Do ver N. H., fell down an elevator we'll and was killed.
 George N. Evans, a carpenter of Springfield, Ill.,, has been notified that | he is one of six heirs to S2,o00. GOO, de- | posted in tho Bank of England by his grandfather.
 John Pettit, of Orange. N. J., has bought the Bennett building in Nassau, Fulton and Ann streets from James | Gordon Bennett, Jr. The price paid is | over Sl,000,000.
 James B. Allen, a young man from | Albany, N. Y., shot himself threo times in the head under the stoop of Dr. E. Mott, 400 Carlton avsnue, Brooklyn. N. Y. He died in the hospital. l The ship Reporter, Capt. Geo. Spauld- ing, of Newburyport, bound from Hong Kong to New York with a general cargo, is total loss in the China Sea. The captain and crew were saved.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Cuddy died at Man. chester. N. H., from the effects of a dose of paris green, self-adminis tered. She would give no reason for taking the poi son. She leaves a husband and five children.
 The two-story brick building at the foot of Claremont avenue and the Mor- ris Canal, Jersey City, N. J., used by ex-Congressman John Pidcock, of War saw County, for the preparation of sheep skins, was burned to the ground.
 A freight train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ran into coal train cn | the Jersey Central Railroad at Bergen Point, N. J., badly wreclIing the en- zine of the Baltimore and Ohio train and seriously in uring it's engineer and a brakeman.
 fire at Calais, Me-, destroyed the roller-rinll building, which was oc- occupied by the Gillis Brothers as a bakery, confectionery and news stand, Doyle Brothers confectionery, M N. | MckuSick, carriage storage, and A. | MacNichol carriage storage.
 The British schooner Mary, from Cape Broyle, N. F., with a cargo of fish, 1 was seized at Gloucester, Mass, by Col lector Presson for diScharging her cargo | without permit. The penalty IS s1,OOO, and the matter has leen for warded to the authorities at Washing | ton.
 There is much complaint among the business men of Franklin, Mass, at the high freight charges of the New | Ork &5 New England Railroad. and it is likely a road will be built from Frank lin to Wren ntham to connect with the new branch of the Old Colony, now building.
 Trade in Shamokin, Pa, and ad joining towns and villages is becoming more desperate daily. Trevorton, eight miles distant, had 5000 inhabitants over a month ago. Now it has 5000. People are being driven from the place by actual hunger on account of suspension of work in a large number of mines The foreigners are going around the streets in a suller manner. Many begged for while from door to door.
 The report comes from Washington that Cassius M. Clay Anistett, of the Treasury Department, who was some years ago District-Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, does not agree to the theory generally ac cepted that Franklin B. Gowen com mitted suicide in his room In Worm ley's Hotel. He believes that MT Gowan was assassinated by Mollie Ma guires.
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