Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-14

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 NEWS OF THE DAY.
 season.
 Prof Briggs has begun his defense in
 New York.
 -Iesterday Mir Gladstone completed his sixtieth year in Parliament.
 The yellow fever has entirely disap- peared from Cordova, Mexico
 Jose Serpa has been appointed Consul in Havana for Peru and Chilli
 The Sarah Disbrow will contest at Brooklyn, N. Y., has been ended. Robert Daller, Central Hudson brake man, was killed at Fonda, N. Y. The Oakland, Md, woolen mills have been destroyed by fire. Loss, $15,OOO. The New York State Dairymen's asso- clatlon Is in session at Cableskill, NY. The annual meeting of the American Sabbath Union is being held in Chicago A vein of good anthracite coal six feet deep has been discovered near Uniondale Penn. -Croso Duckworth has been sentenced to death at London for the murder of Alice Barnes.
 Henry A. Marsh, Republican. wa. elected mayor of Worcester, Mass, yes terday.
 The Essex, Conn.,, wood turning mill was destroyed by fire yesterday Loss, $15,000.
 Seventy houses in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. have been ordered quarantined, owing to scarlet fever.
 Nathan Matthews, jr, has been re- elected mayor of Boston The city voted for license.
 William Potter, the newly appointed United States Minister to Italy, has ar rived in Rome
 A new steamboat company, with A oani- tai of $l6O, 900, has been incorporated at Fall River Mass
 At the municipal election at Keene, N. H., Frederick A. Faulkner, Republican. was reelected mayor.
 It is again reported that Kina Charles of Roumania, will abdicate in favor of Crown Prince Charles. The Hudson Sand and Mining company of New York city has been incorp orated with a capital of $90,00O. Two persons were killed, many injured, and much property destroyed by . cyclone at Summit, Miss, yesterday. Secretary Foster gave dinner last night in honor of the Vice-President and members of the Diplomatic Corps. -George J. Gould has been elected presi- dent Of New York's elevated railroad sys- tenn in place of his father, Jay Gould. Jacob Van Slicke was struck and al- most instantly killed by a West Shore train near Herkimer, N. Y., last night m -Tu Sing, the steward of the Wandering Jew, charged with smuggling cigars, has been held under bail for tr ial at Boston. Secretary Noble gave a dinner last night to the Cherokee commission and the Senate and House Indian committees. -Fourth-class postmasters have been ap- pointed as follows: Jessie NJ. Hiney. Drinker, Pa; e. H. Shupe, Fitzhenry, Pa. David Young, a Pennsylvania railroad brakeman, fell between cars at Trenton. N. J., and was literally ground to pieces. The steamship H1bernian, from Glas- gow, with large consignment of Shet- land ponies for Philadelphia, has arrived at Halifax.
 -Seeley Olion, colored of Goshen, N. ". attempted to kill his wife and then cut ms own throat from ear to ear, dying in q few hours.
 The bodies of James Mills and Judson Wilkinson, supposed to have been killed by Philip Nicholas at Richmond, Va. have not been found. The slate pickers and driver boys of the Eddy Creek colliery at Oliphant, Pa. have gone on strike for an increase of 10 cents per day in wages. The Mexican government has granted q concession to Steenmann HagIe to estab- fish line of steamers between Mex icau ports and London and Antwerp The Jesuits are trying to arrange q matrimonial alliance b etween Don Jaime. son of Don Carlos, and Infanta Mercedes, daughter of the late King Alfonso. A double murder occurred in a house of ill-fame at Yellow Springs, O., by which . man named Koogler and & woman named Lou Kris wero the victims. -Gov. Flower has commuted the sentencs or John McNamara, of Corning, N. r., who, 16 years ago, murdered his sweet. heart, and was serving . term of life i'm. prisonment.