Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-03-12
NEWS or THE DAY.

Henry M. Stanley has finished tho last pages of his forthcoming book.
 James A. Wood, of New Hampshire, has been appointed Consul of the United States at Sherbrooke.
 Arbor Day in New York will fall this year upon Friday, May 2, and a general observance will be called for.
 Charles D. Baker was appointed As sistant United States District Attorney for the Southern district of New York.
 The striking shirtmakers in New York have joined hands with the strik- ing cloakmakers and will fight for fewer Hours.
 The Executive Committee of the Vest ern Union Telegraph Company recon mend quarterly dividend of one and a quarter per cent.
 The Central New Jersey Herald, the Democratic organ of Elizabeth. N J., has been sold to Prosecutor of the Pleas William R. Wilson.
 MT. Lodge, of Massachusetts,. intro duced in the House a bill appropriating $50, 900 for the erection of a public building at Msdford, Mass.
 The Court of Inquiry to examine into the charges made against Commander Bowman II. McCalla, of the U. s. s. En- terprise, has been opened at the Brook lyn Navy Yard.
 The pool tournament at Syracuse, N Y., has just closed and the cham. pionship of the United States was won by D'Oro, who defeated Powers in the deciding game.
 Aaron Kohn, the noted criminal lawyer, of Louisville, Ky, and Judge Hargis, tho well known jurist of Ken lucky, have been engaged by Kincaid's Kentucky friends to defend him in his trial.
 The President has denied the applic a. tion for pardon in the ease of William T. Dorrancs, convicted of embedding funds of tho Providence National Bank of Providence, R. l., and sentenced July ?, 1885, to six years imprisonment. MT. Roland Mather has resigned tn, presidency of the Society for Savings eleven years. Mir John c. Parsons who has boon counsel and trustee to tn, society was elected president. Several ice-houses at Somervilie Plainfsld, Round Brook and neighbor ing places in New Jersey, have beer partly filled with snow, over which water has been plentifully thrown ant the whole left to freeze. The ice i: rather porous.
 Major Clark, who shot Milton Ran | dolph as the result of quarrel at tn, | Southern Society in New York city, ha been expelled from the society, after al investigation of the charges agains him. Randolph. on the other hand l was acquitted and exonerated. l The flames in the South Wilkesb barr | Pa, shaft were sxtinguished last even ing and the pumping process has beer l stopped The water will be allowed t. | remain in the mines for Q week, at tn end of which time the strata will b. sufficiently cooled to prevent an othe outbreak.
 The New Jersey Senate committee o1 the Hudson County contested electio1 case has begun the hearing of evidence l Sheriff Robert g. Davis, chairman of tn
 Hudson County Democratic Executiv Committee. testified as to his share il
 the appointment of election officers wh
 served in the last election. Senator Coffin has presented to tn
 Railroad Committee of the Massachusett | Legislature a bill for the abolition o l all grade crossings in the State. Tn | initiativa may be taken in any ca-
 either by the local authorities or by tn railroad corporation and the work is t be done under the supervision of tn the Railroad Commissioners. The Philadelphia Times offers re
 ward of $1 ,00O to the person or person
 who may discover and bring to convit
 tion in the New Jersey courts the mul
 derer or murderers of Annie Leconey
 The money will be promptly paid ol
 the joint certificate of the judge win
 tries and the prosecuting attorney wh
 prosecutes the case, after the final con
 viotion of the murderer or murderers I I'm | wAsHiN0rn March T.. For New En,
 lnnd. Eastern New York Q New .Ierss,
 Rain: southeastery y winds: warmer. | For N ester. New ,rk and Pennsvl uni:
 Rain: followed by n"rthcasterly winds an
 older tomorrow mo; nint.