Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-12-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The mercury at Fort Fairfield, Me-, wa
30 below zero yesterday morning.
Dubedat 8 Son, of Dublin, whose
failure was announced Monday, have been
adjudged bankrupt.
The Gem City Stove works at Dayton.
Ohio, were totally destroyed by fire at an
early morning hour. Loss, $4,000.
A special from San Augustine, Tex.
gives the particulars of the burning OF
the entire business portion of that town.
The Granite Hall block at Augusta,
Me-, was destroyed by fire during the
morning Total loss, $50, 900; insurance,
$50, 1000.
Madame Eyraud, the wife of Michael
Eyraud the convicted murderer of the
the notary, Gouffe, in Paris, has been
granted a divorce
Chancellor McGill has appointed ex-
Judge Barkalow receiver of the firm of
Nightingale Brothers, silk manufac-
turers, of Paterson, N. J.
!. The fine saddle horse Fencer, owned by
Prof. De Dussignny of Boston, which
had taken first prizes at horse shows here
and in New York, is dead.
An Ottawa dispatch says that the
Dominion Government will ask Parlia-.
ment during the coming session to i'm
pose an export duty on nickel.
A building at Twenty-ninth street an d
First avenue, New York, which was being
rebuilt, collapsed yesterday afternoon,
killing four people and injuring six
Frederick D. Worth, 10 years of age, a
clerk in the Brooklyn, NY, postofice has
been arrested on a charge of opening
registered letters and purloining their
contents.
w. @. Murray, a prominent tailor of
Toronto, Ont, has fled to the United
States leaving a large number or cred
itors. Total liabilities are estimated at
$4,000. p
A man named Halliet of Camden, Me-,
who had been in Boston selling horses,
was robbed of 81, 400 while asleep on the
night Pullman train. There is no clue to
the robber.
DR.. Charles h. Hall, a prominent ply
stefan OF Boston, has been arrested
charged with criminal malpractice upon
Agnes Hitchcock. The doctor was re-
leased onN SIC, 900 bail. The woman's
condition is not critical.
Ex-Mayor Navin, of Adrian, Mich,
who bankrupted that city seven years
ago by stealing nearly $500, 900, has been
pardoned from State prison, where he
was serving ten years on his plea of
guilty. He will now practice law in De-
troit.
The spinners of the Clark Thread Com
pany In Kearney and Newark were notified
that unless they applied for work at the
gates of the mills without further delay
their services would no longer be re,
Quired. The spinners, generally, refused
to return to work. T..tS
The ship Rappahanock, American,
from Hiogo, Japan, has arrived at San
Francisco. During the trip from Phila-
delphia to Hiogo two seamen, John
Bauer and Thomas MCGEE, were killed.
Hermann Grantz, another sailor, was
also killed on the way from Hiogo.
Charges against Daniel E. Conway, the
County Clerk of Rensselaer, county, W,
have been filed with Gov. Hill by Super
visor Durham Of that county. Conway
is charged with inserting fraudulent
items in his bills, including bills for
election expenses, court expenses, etc.,
which were enlarged.
An epidemic which is as annoying as
last years grip is prevalent at Amster-
dam, N. Y. The disease is an en-
teric fever, having most of the symp-
toms of typhoid. The first sign is nausea,
followed by violent headache, soreness
in the muscles, pains in the back, diarr-
hoea and high fever. It is said that over
sixty sufferers are now under the doctors
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