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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09
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 sAnAroc.N N. 9., July 0-The State Tsaohors' A 6OiStion was called to order at O;4S d. m.. when President Gunnison announced th Standing Committees.
 The next th.Nng in order was the pa per by Nicholas Murray Butler, P. H. b., of ColumbiaS Coslege, upon "The Duty of the University 70 the Teaching Profession"
 In the discussion which followed, Frank 8. Capsn, P. H. D., prin, @pai or the State Normal School at New A~SLtz, presented his views with signal abiI wy from the Normal School standpoint, taking the broad ground that among the agencies thus far devised the Nor nal School training stands pre-eminsnt in It's aims to make successful teachers.
 Francis J. Cheney, P.H.D., Principal of the Kingston Academy, advanced many interesting propositions from the point of view of the academy, claiming that in the common school and the academy the foundations of stable government are laid, and that the time has gone by when 1t was necessary to apologize for the existence of training schools.
 Tho afternoon session was devoted to the hearing of . paper by Hon. William A. Poste, Civil Service Commissioner, on the question, " Is special training in the schools for the political duties of citizenship practicable
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09
CLOSE OF THE rURNFEsr.
Otto Book Receives a Number O
 Prizes and Diplomas.

Otto Book Receives Number of
 Prizes and Diplomas.
 The thirteenth annual state turnfest was was brought to a close in Bridge port last night after a three days session. The judges announced the following as winners of prizes: First prize, class turning, to Holyoke. The silver wreath now belongs to Holyoke, she having held it three years, New Britain second, New Haven third. Hartford stood first in the individual turning, her class cap turing three prlzes, Holyoke and Bridgeport tied for second place, each receiving two prizes. In rope climbing Hartford took first; in broad jump, Hart ford first; fencing, Steele of Meriden first: five parts contest, Holyoke first; wrestling, Holyoke first; broad jump, Meriden first; running race, Holyoke first. A large number of diplomas were awarded to members of the different so- cieties. Otto Book of this city received second prize for wrestling and diplomas for individual turning and vaulting. F.. Stennor received a diploma for rope climbing. Otto Book hurt his foot by striking a stone while taking part in the jumping contest.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09
D1soBEDIENCE TO ORDERS.
Orders For ReGimental Court Mar
 tial Issued By Colonel Doherty.
 The following special orders were is- sinnd tn-AnHr hu Enlnnnl nnhnrtu

Orders For Regimental Court Mar
 tiRl Issued By Colonel Doher1y.
 The following special orders were is- sued to-day by Colonel Doherty.
 HEADQUARTERS SECOND REGIMENT. l
 CONNECTICUT NATIONAL GUARD,
 Waterbury, Conn, July Sth, 1890. SPECIAL ORDERS
 1. Lieut. Col Frank T. Lee is hereby ordered to convene a regimental court Conn, on or before the 18th inst, to try the following case Joseph J. Brady Company c, Second regiment,
 Charge first, Disobedience to orders. Specification On May 2Sth, 1890, on the highway between the city of Meri- den and town of Wallingford, at about II o'clock a. m., the said Private Joseph J. Brady when ordered to attend to his duties by the first lieutenant of Co c, Second regiment, to wit Lieut. James J. Kennedy, positively refused so to do.
 Charge second. Conduct prejucial to good order and military discipline. Specification That the said Private Brady after refusing to obey the com mand of his superior officers, did con- tinue to abuse both Lieutenant Kennedy and Lieutenant Plunkett of said com pany by using vile and abusive lan- guage; which will more fully appear in evidence before the court.
 3. These charges are preferred by Lieutenant James J. Kennedy and the court will notify Lieutenant Kennedy to produce such witnesses as he desires in the case.
 8. Lieutenant-Colone Lee will imme. diately at the close of the court, report to headquarters, his findings and sen. tence in the case.
 By order of Col JOHN B. DoHERrY.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09
A VACANCY TO BE PULLED.
Many Candidates For the Position
 of City Engineer.

Many Candidates For the Position
 of City Engineer.
 Speculation is rife as to who will suc- ceed the late F. Floyd Weld as city eugi- neer. The position is an unusually inn portant one, to successfully fill which requires a man of recognized ability and steadfast honesty. No other position in the city can be made to serve dishonest ends with greater ease or less liability of detection than that of city engineer, and for that reason the road board should look well to the qualifications of appli- cants for the position before making an appointment.
 City Engineer Weld's term of office expired July 1, of the present year, his last appointment having been for three years, at an annual salary of S2,OO0. At present the business of the office is being conducted by Frank w. Whit lock, who has been assistant city engi- neer for number of years. He feels that he is in the line of promotion and will press his claims upon the road board.
 Others whose names are mentioned are H. J. Kellogg of New Haven, who was formerly an assistant to Engineer Weld Fred w. Laforge, of this city and William G. Smith, formerly in the employ of the Naugatuck Railroad com pany.
 Yesterdays New Haven Register an. nounced that Assistant City Engineer Ferry of that city, had received an offer to assume charge of the office here. This report is not only premature, but wholly without foundation. The ques' tion of appointing Mir Weld's successor has not yet been discussed by the road board
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09
CHARLES OFFICER KILLED.

Thrown From His Carriage Last
 Night While Driving Home.
 Charles Officer of Waterville, met with injuries last night while driving home from this city, that proved fatal this morning. At the Elm street cross short and was thrown from his carriage, striking heavily upon his head. He was picked up unconscious and carried to his home. Dr Anderson of this city was summoned, and found the man suffering from concussion of the brain. Hefailed rapidly during the night and died this morning at 8 o'clock. Mir Officer was 37 years of age and leaves a wife and four children. He was employed as a machinist by the Welch Hosiery com pany, Waterville, and was we'll known in this city.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09
An Obnoxious Walking Delegate.

STAMFORD, July 9.-The walking del egate has been creating dissatisfaction among the carpenters in this section of of the state. The bosses and their men have never had any disagreements in any of the towns in which the delegate is making the trouble and frequently the employer and his workmen have been like one large family. But the presence of the walking delegate clamoring for eight hours work with ten hours pay has created unpleasant discussion and made dissatisfaction where none had ever ex- isted. The other day a walking dele- gate went into a shop and shouted: "I order you men to work but eight hours a day ?" He was promptly ejected by the proprietor's son and then tried to get out warrant for his arrest but none was issued.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09
THE LE coNEY MURDER.
New and Important DiscloSures Said t.
 Be Under Way.

New and Important DiscIosures Said to
 Re Under Way.
 CAMDEN, N. J., July GA special from Columbus, Ohio, says: A gentle man who lives at Waverly, Ohio, the homo of Miss Le Consy, who was mur- dsred at the house of her uncle in New Jersey about a year ago, says that since Charles Ls Coney's acquittal important evidence has been discovered tending not only to establish his innocence, but pointing strongly in the direction of another.
 Detectives are now working on the case trying to get the $5, ,000 offered by Le Coney for the conviction of the murderer, and hope soon to have the suspected person under arrest.
 He says that they have found that the blood blotches on the pantaloons produced as evidence in Le Coney's trial were put on them subsequent to the murder.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09
Dr. Wagner a Paupsr Lunatic.

FREDERICK, Md, July 9.-Dr. Hsrri- son Wagner, the litigant, who has been confined in the county jail here for the past three weeks, has been arrested un- der . petition in lunacy and taken be- fore the Circuit Court on 6 writ of habeas corpus. He admitted that he is lunatic pauper, and it was ordered that he be delivered into the custody of Hansan Wagner, his brother, of Ohio. to be taken by him to that State. He agrees to use his best endeavors to pre- vent him from the further prosecution of his suits against residents of Mary land and the Adams Express Company.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09
FATAL CASES OF sUNsrRoKE.
Two Deaths in Middletown and one
 In KensfnUton.

Two Deaths in Middletown and one
 In KensinGtOn.
 M!DDLETowN, July 9.-Two deaths were caused by the intense heat, in this city yesterday. Louis M. Crowell, a farmer in the Long hill district, was overcome while having, and died last night. He was 45 years of age and leaves a wife and four children. Fred Kinley while hayIng upon the asylum grounds, was overcome and dIed at 5:30 o'clock. He, also, leaves a wife and four children. Michael O'Neil, employed in the quarry at Portland, was prostrated and is dying.
 NEW BRITAIN, July 9.-Charles Will Hams, aged 56, of Meriden, went to work having, for Levi Hutchinson, in Kensington yesterday. He complained of the heat and at 2:30 quit work and lay under a tree. An hour later he was found dying and expired before help could be summoned. He was a veteran of the war and leaves a wife and several children in Meriden, where his body was taken to-day.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09
Fonr Lives Iosr.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA, July 9.-A passen- ger and freight train on the Louisville and Nashville road collided last night, with terrible results. Engineers John Green and John West, Bremen Thomas Swope and Charles Wilson were killed and ten passengers were injured. The accident was caused by the failure of the passenger train men to obey orders.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09
Meriden,s Formulation.

Meriden enumerators had a meeting last Saturday night at which they com. pared notes and signed supplementary lists that had been secured in their re- spective districts by outside parties. The result is that the population of the city is now placed at 25, 130, and there is a possibility that it may reach 500 more, as there is some uncertainty about the returns of Enumerator Danaher in the Third ward
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09

DIsTkICT OF WATERBURY ss Problte u Court, July 8, 1890.
 Estate of Thomas Sears late of Waterbury, in said District deceased,
 The Court of Probate for the district of Water bury hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof, for the creditors of said Estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts, properly attested, within said time, will be debarred a re coVery. All persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 MARY SEARS, ExecutriX.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09
LOCAL LINES.

A few barrels of Niagara Mills Flour at $5. 50 per barrel, at LADD's.
 We are with you with the finest line. of Watches that can be found anywhere in the state, at LAKE, STRoREL & Co.'S.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09

Meetings This Evening. Second AdVents.
 Amphion club rehearsal. Excelsior council, No 2, O. U. A. M. Waterbury Temperance Alliance. Waterbury Turnverein. Canton Waterbury, No. 14, P. NJ. Court Fruitful Vine, A, O. F, of A. Eureka chapter, No 9, R. A. NJ. Mattatuck council, No 713, R. A.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09
SOCIETY AND CLUB MEETINGS.
Meetings Thi

w Secretaries are requested to send in the dates of meetings of societies, lodges and clubs, and to notify us of any changes of regular meet ing nights.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-16
WEST AND SOUTH.

OK the sth the National jackson Club
was organized at Nashville. Tenn, with
\. ID. Mcclure, of Pennsylvania, as
president
AT Elko. New, spirit thermometers
registered so degrees below zero on the
Sth.
OK the sth George L. Woods, who was
Governor Of Utah in 1871, died at Port
land, Ore.
FLAMES destroyed the Western Union
Telegraph Company's building at St.
Louis On the Sth. Loss. Sl0O.
For participating in the Sullivan
Kilrain fight William Muldoon. w. K.
Harding. Mike Cleary and Mike Dcno-
van were arrested at New York on the
Sth and held for extradition to Missis-
sippi.
IL Indiana the Patoka river had over
flowed its banks on the sth. and track
Of country twenty miles long by three
to four miles wide in the vicinity of
Jasper was inundated.
Is Oklahoma and at Fort Worth,
Tex. labor agents were on the sth said
70 be DESTROYS of obtaining colored men
from South Carolina. and were Offering
facilities for the organization of colo
mics.
The fourteen-months'-ol child of
Peter Martin and the five-year-old
daughter Of Mrs. O'Brien we're burned
TO death on the Sth in Kansas City.
BY cave-in in the Victor coal mine
near Trinidad, Col, five men were
killed on the sth.
The Secretary of the State Agriculture
al Society of Iowa on the sth estimated
the crops in the State in 1859 TO be:
Corn. $40, O5S, 600 bushels: oats. II3. 000.-
900 bushels; potatoes. 2I.O0O. 600 bushels;
/, wheat. 2I,O0o, 600 bushels. The value
of the total crop, exclusive Of grass, was
estimated at Sf37. Goo 900.
On tive 9th John Hicks. aged eighty
four years. was released from the north
ern p5iscr ~ Aii higan City, Ind. He
had SERVED forty-eight years of his life
behind tae bars.
DUEE.G the last six months OF 1889
the disbursements from the pension
Office for the Milwaukee district. which
includes Wisconsin. Minnesota and the
Dakotas. were Ss,O75, 1915, against So
$40. 460.0l for the last six months of isSS.
NEAR Poplar Bluffs, No. on the 9th
Cane creek overfowed its hanks and
nearly hundred families were forced
TO abandon their homes and over one
thousand acres of corn in tho shock were
destroyed.
DEMOCRATS in the Ohio Legislature on
the 9th nominated Calvin q. Brice for
United States Senator
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BIG BOILER EXPLOSION.

1t Occurs in Chicago Publishing House
Fourteen Persons Badly Hurt, but No
One KiIled-Considerablc Damage Re-
suits.
CHICAGO, Jan. IA terrific boiler
explosion occurred shortly after o'clock
Friday afternoon in the basement of the
John Morris Stationery g. Printing
Company Nos. us and 100 Monroe
street, causing S25, 900 damage but
no loss of life, though fourteen
of the small army of employees
were seriously and many slightly hurt.
The entire front of the building, as per-
tains to glass and doorways, was
blown like chopped straw into
the street. Great pieces of heavy
plate glass were strewn for half a block
around. So great was the force of the
explosion that pieces of glass were
stuck into the woodwork of buildings
across the street. A part of three floors
in the rear of the Morris building were
torn up and splintered as though by a
cyclone. The plate glass windows OF
many business houses on Clark street
were shattered. The cause of the ex-
plosion is not definitely known.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-16
The EAST.

Ok the eth the Glamorgan Iron Com
pany of Philadelphia failed for $3.50, 900.
The Legislature of New York con-
vened at Albany on the 18th.
No FREIGHT trains, except those
/ transporting perishable freight, will
| hereafter be run on the Pittsburgh &
Lake Erie railroad on Sunday.
on the 9Th Mrs. Hannah b. South
worth. who shot and killed Stephen L.
Pettus last November, died in her cell
in the Tombs prison in New York.
AT Pawtucket. r. l., Mrs. Elizabeth
Eaton Larned celebrated her one hun
dredth birthday on the eth.
The death of Elbridge G. Lapham,
who in ISL was elected United States
I Senator to succeed Roscoe Conkling, oc-
Cured in Canandaigua, n. ", on the
Sth, aged seventy-six years.
IN Brooklyn, y. ", the wall of a
church was blown down during a gale
on the eth, and it crushed a small house
adjoining, killing David Purdy and his
sister Mary, and badly injuring four
other persons.
AFTER a lovers quarrel on the 9th
William Torrens, of Philadelphia, IA
taiAF Suub DcAAs NdEbeE anu tutn suOJ
himself.
f. W. Nichols died on the 10th at
I Springfield. Mass. He was sheriff of
the Union prisoners at unreasonable,
| and helped to hang the ten men con-
victed by the prisoners court-martial
Of stealing their scanty supply of
ratiOns.
HOBBs, GLDDES & Co, dealers in
building materials at Boston, failed on
the 10th for $3.50. 600.
IHE coke operators of Connellsville,
( Pa. during 1889 marketed 5,S25. 600 tons
of coke. valued at IS, $50. 600.
FIFTEEN horses shipped from Penn
sylvania to Newark, y. J., were found
suffOcated on the 10th when they arrived
at their destination.
THE remains of two men and that OF
a woman-victims of the great flood
were found at Johnstown, Pa, on the
10th.
JAMES FRANKLIN FITTs, the we'll
known novelist, also poet, politician,
soldier and lawyer, died suddenly on
the 18th of heart disease at LOckport,
y. Y. age,i fifty years.
IL Boston and New York the number
of deaths were greater during the week
ended on the 18th than ever before and,
in fact, the mortality throughout the
East was unexampled. a fact ascribed
chiefly 10 the terrors of influenza.
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a SINGULAR CASE.
A Young Lady Resident of Danvilie, Ill.
Dies After "a Sleep of Twelve Days.

Young Lady Resident of Danville, ILL.,,
Dies After a Sleep of Twelve Days.
DANvILLE, Ill. Jan. 14.--Miss Carrie
Barcus, aged 81 years, AID in perfect
health, lay down New Years afternoon
for nap. She fell into deep sleep
from which all efforts TO arouse her
were futile. Physicians were called,
but were unable to suggest any rem
edy. Her cheeks retained their usual
healthy glow and her respiration was
regular but scarcely perceptible. Her
only movement was slight turning of
the head. During the time she lay in
this sleep or trance she did not appar-
emily loose any flesh, but seemed
the perfect picture of health. Sun
day night she seemed to pass into a
deeper slumber, and died before her at
tendants realized that death was near.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

ADYICEs of the Sth from Prof. ). w.
Burnhanl, chief of the eclipse expedi-
ton sent from Lick Observatory TO
South America, announced that the OBJ
servation of the eclipse of the sun on
December % was entirely successful.
WHILE skating on the Sth at Lubbock,
Germany, eight persons were drowned.
ADvIcEs of the 9th from the curator
of the Museum of Egyptian Antiqui-
ties at Boulak announced that the tomb
in which Cleopatra was buried had been
discovered.
OWING to the stormy weather the
steamer Iowa from Boston which ar
rived in Liverpool on the 9th lost 519
out of G25 head of cattle on the trip.
THE total sugar crop of Cuba for 1889
was 4S7,3 tons; that for 1855, $40. sos
tons. Local consumption in 1889, $4,000
tons.
Mrs. GoRMAN and her two children
persisted in fire on the 10th at Mon
treal, Can.
AT Lyons. France, the Pilas silk fac
tory was destroyed by fire on the 10th.
Loss, 600, 600 francs.
on the 10th the steamer Duburg, of
Flensburg, Germany, was given up as
lost She had on board twenty-five
Europeans and 400 Chinese, and it was
supposed that she foundered during a
typhoOn.
THE Moscow chief Of police was shot
by woman while raiding a Nihilist
club on the 18th and the woman after
ward committed suicide.
IL n wv
ranged from so degrees to SO degrees be-
low zero, and railway travel was de-
layed by snow.
THE grip was mOderating throughout
Europe on the 18th.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

OK the evening of the eth the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Harrison gave their first
state dinner to the Vice-President. mem
bers of the Cabinet. leading Senators
and their ladies at the White House.
THERE were 46O.5l6 unadjudicated
and pending claims on file in the Pen
sion Office on the Sth.
WILLIAM ID. KELLEY (Rep) died in
Washington on the 9th. aged seventy
six years. He was serving his sixteenth
consecutive term in Congress from the
Fourth Pennsylvania district being
first elected in 1860. and ranked as the
greatest advocate OF protection in the
Nations councils.
Is the United States there were 334
business failures during the seven DAYS
ended on the 10th, against S22 the pre-
vious seven days.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated
SIS9. 967, 642. against Sl.219, 229. 734 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week of 1889 the increase
amounted To l45
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HEAVY FIRE AT PEORIA.
The Monarch DistiIlery Damaged to the
Extent OF SI6I,5

PEORIA, H., Jan. 13.-At $50 o'clock
Sunday afternoon the Monarch distil-
lery was discovered to be on fire. The
flames were pouring out of the tower,
and this and the meal house
and malt kilns adjoining were
totally destroyed. Seven copper stills,
with all the appurtenances. ma
chinery and pipes were destroyed. One
hundred thousand gallons of untaxed,
high-proof spirits lent fury to the
flames and swelled the loss SIS, COO
Two buildings, $4,000 worth of grain,
malt kilns, engines and machinery
destroyed foot up a loss of S161, 500.
The Monarch il owned by Z. j. Hen
messy, of Chicago, and Adolph WOolner,
Frank Corning and Charles ). Corning,
of Peoria and was the largest distillery
in the world. Its daily capacity was TO-.
600 bushels of grain, but it has only
been running 5000 bushels day. The
house was erected only few years ago
az a cost of 5000. 900 and contained the
latest machinery. 1t was insured for
$500, 900, which will fully cover all the
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The Indian Children.

Governor Hoard was visited the other
afternoon by a number of Winnebago
Indians from Marathon County, headed
by the chief, Big Hawk, who came to
solicit his support in securing for the
tending the State public schools. The
Governor promised to render aid in help
ing them to bett educational facilities,
and the red men are pleased at the pros
pect. The Indians do not take kindly
to the mission schools provided by the
National Government.