Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-03-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A large number of the striking dock
laborers of Liverpool have resumed
work.
The French Senate and Chamber of
Deputies adjourned to May 8.
Cardinal Gibbons is in Milwaukee to
attend the funeral of Archbishop Heiss
tomorrow.
The Lutheran Church and lecture hall
at Gordon, Penn, was destroyed by fire.
Loss 10000
The Hon. Whitelaw Reid, United
States Minister to France, and Mrs.
Reid are in Washington.
F. H. Thomas, a drummer for rhomp-
son & Co., of Albany, shirt manufac-
turers, has been missing from Provi-
dence for a week.
The trial of Father Boyle, the Catholic
priest of Raleigh, N. c., was concluded,
and the jury brought in verdict Of
not guilty.
day from the Manitoba Cabinet, ow-
ing to differences with his followers
on the separate schools and railway
questions.
Jonathan Wuchter, aged 81, Of the
firm of Whether 4 Dillon, of Elizabeth,
N. j., dropped dead in the Elm House
cafe yesterday. The deceased was a
prominent citizen and leaves O widow
and one son.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York has authorized its general
agent in Louisville, Ky, to draw Oh the
head Office for necessary aid to it's policy
holders who have suffered by the
Cyclone.
Mrs. Belle Hatch has been lodged in
Jail at Towanda, Pa, charged with the
murder of J. w Wilcox. A warrant
has also been issued for the arrest of
John Mann, who is supposed to have
been an accomplish
Forty thousand factory hands at
Catalonia, Spain, have gone on a strike.
The leaders of the strikers and the fac
tory owners are comforting with view
to reaching settlement. There has
been no disturbance.
Acknowledgement Kirkpatrick of
Pennsylvania has refused to issue
| quo warranto in the Pittsburs
burg Traction Company is endeavorins
to disPossess the Duquesne Traction
| Company of certain streets.
James F. Davis, who was hanged at
| Pittsboro, N. c., for the murder of John
| Horton, q young farmer, confessed his
| crime, and further stated that his real
name was Shackelford, and that while
| living in South Carolina several years
| ago he had murdered his six children.
President Harrison signed the bill
which suspends for year the opera
tions of the law requiring steamboats,
to carry life lines and guns for protect
| ing them. This bill is the outcome OF
the recent attempt of the manufac.
turers to foroe steamboatmen to pay
sxorbitant prices for the outfit required
| under the low now suspended.
General Daniel E. Sicklss, in accept.
| ing the appointment of Sheriff of New
York, says he will charge only legal
fees, and If they should prove not &c
be sufficient to run the Office he will sc
inform the Legislature, for the benefit
| of his successor. AS for himself, he is
| we'll off, and does not need to make
| money out of the place. He will hold
tho office until January l.
The mutilated corpse found in the
| river at Fox Point, R. l., has been iden
tilted as that of Charles Brownell, Z
boiler maker of Provi dence, who disap
psared February 81. There were numer
GUS cash es on the head and body and {
leg was missing. The wounds NIGH
have been caused by Brownell beinl
struck by some propeller, but the body
was nude, even the boots being gone
| and fonl NAV in feared