Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-04-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Serpa Pinto has arrived at Lisbon.
 The greater part of St. Elmo. Col, was destroyed by fire. Loss, over $25,- 900.
 Emperor William intends visiting Lisbon and Madrid during the month of October.
 Over 95S,OOO has already been con. tributed to the Tenants Defence Fund of Ireland.
 Ex-Governor William Warner. Hoppin died on Saturday at Providence, R. l., aged 82 years.
 MT. Henry Bryant has sold the fast schooner-yacht Alert to Lyman Mich olas of Boston. for $35, ,000. The piggery at Randolph, Mass, was burned, together with 300 pigs. It was owned by Frank Watson. By fire at Greenpoint, L. l., yester- day, lumber yard, two stables and six horses were burned to death.
 Lord Harrington has returned to London, considerably improved in health by his recent pleasure trip.
 The stationary establishment of the William NJ. Hoskins Company, in Phil adelphia, was damaged to the extent of S60, ,000 by fire.
 Dan Sneed and William Oxford, oon victs, attempted to escape from the stockade at Palarm, Ark, and were killed by the guards. Murat Halstead, editor of the Cincin- nati Commercial Gazette, to-day assum- ed charge of the Brooklyn Standard Union, an evening newspaper of Repub- lican proclivities.
 The Bevans Hotel at Cobourg, Ont together with several frame buildings adjoining was destroyed by fire. The British Hotel was damaged. The total loss is 5000; half insured.
 Everything is quiet at the Jackson Company's mill at Nashua, N. H. It appearing that the wages are as high at this as at other mills there is a prospect of an early settlement of the strike.
 A telegram received by the Chief of Police at Louisville, Ky, states that William H. Pope, teller of the City National bank, who absconded with $70, ,OO0 of the banks funds has been arrested at Lamy, N. M.
 Isaac Dubarrow of Mount Joyce, Pa., was arrested at Baltim ore, Md, charged with appropriating 5000, the property of Mrs. Calvin Rudisell, entrusted to him as her guardian. He was asked for statement how the money had been used and this not being forthcoming he was arrested.
 Workmen at Nauvoo, Illinois, while excavating in the grounds of the ruins of St. Mary's Convent discovered an old well over a thousand feet deep. It Is believed to be a relic of the Mormon regime and to be connected with sub. terranean passages. If possible, it will be explored.
 All the section men on the Boston and Maine Railroad system, includ- ing leased lines, have been granted an increase in wages of % cents a day. They are all members of the Knights of Labor and the Steam Railroad Mems Union. The coal-heavers on the Mystic wharves also received an increase of 10 cents day.
 Lieut.. Colonel Dugas, Commander of the 65th French Canadian regiment, who was charged by the English press during the Riel rebellion with theft and other crimes, has secured a verdict fof $lO, 900 damages against the newspaper 'Le Monde," which ridiculed Dugas' conduct during the rebellion and charged him with cowardice.
 The National Life Insurance Associa- tion of Hartford, Conn.,, by Roger Eos ter, its attorney, have commenced an action in the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of New York against William Cauld- well. for $50, 900 damages for libel on account of the publication of a series of articles in the New York Mercury at tacking the company. The complaint IS under oath sworn to by o. H. Blanch- ard, the president of the company; and denies all the charges made against it.