Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

 Cora A. Matson has been appointed @ N. Y.
 The International Peace Congress has voted to hold it's next meeting in Chicago in 1893.
 It is announced that large distillery will soon be established in Chicago as 8 rival of the Whiskey Trust. The corporate existence of the Lehigh National Bank of Bethlehem, Pa., has been extended to Sept. 6, 1912. Gen. John Bidwell, Prohibition candi- date for President, has written letter in which he accepts the nomination. George Withers, noted horseman of Columbus, Ind, had his skull crushed in drunken brawl at Greensbury, Ind. The people of Ogden, Utah, are exer- | cised over report that City Treasurer l Helfrich is defaulter to the amount oi | $15,000.
 | Constantine $. Erdman has been nomi- mated for Congress by the Democrats in 1 the Ninth Congressional district of Penn | sylvania.
 | Richard Babcock is under arrest at Pat erson, N. J., charged with abducting Liz zie and Mary Clitfe, daughter of a Pater | son silk manufacturer. Berry Turner, the desperado and noun. tain killer, has been sentenced at Pine vile, Ky, to 20 years in the penitentiary at hard labor.
 Three fishing schooners, Lizzie NJ. Stan- wood, Mascot and M. A. Barton, dragged their anchors and went ashore at Rocky l Neck, near Gloucester, Mass, during the night
 The Mississippi State Farmers Alliance at Starkville, Miss, denounced the 4 cents mileage received by Senators, anc | demanded that a reduction be made to l cents mile.
 | The Assistant Secretary ot the Nav
 has announced the selection of the United
 States steamer Enterprise as the nautica
 training ship for the Commonwealth 0 I Massachusetts.
 A syndicate of New York and Phila
 delphia capitalists are trying to secur
 the passage of bill which will giv
 them the right to build an elevated rail
 road in Boston.
 A dispatch from Rome says that tn
 Congregation of the Propaganda ha | asked the French government to protes | to Great Britain against the closing c
 the Catholic schools in Manitoba.
 Thursday night in the Northwest Leg
 islature at Winnipeg, want of conf
 dence vote was carried against the Gov
 ernment by one vote. Premier Paultai
 will thus be compelled to retire and a neN
 Government formed.
 The smuggling schooner Halcyon ha I left Victoria with u cargo of opium va
 ued at S3O,OO It is supposed her de-,t
 nation is some place on the Californi
 coast. The authorities are looking fC
 her.
 -Michael F. Dwyer of New York has sol
 Potomac, the noted son of St. Blaise an
 Susquehanna, winner of the Futurit
 Stakes of 1890 and other valuable races
 to $. Sanford Sc Sons, the well-know
 breeders of thoroughbreds.
 George Hoey, an actor in "My Jack
 Company, and son of ex-President Hoe
 of the Adams Express Company, was al : rested yesterday in Albany by a Troy d.
 tective for swindling the American Hous = in Troy out of a small sum of money. \ William K. Vanderbilt has given col ? tracts to the Herreshoffs's, of Bristol, 1 l., for two new yachts, to be ready ft f next season. A large steam yacht, whic
 is to be the finest in the world for spec
 and comfort, it is said, will be one
 them.
 o Thieves operated successfully at u New Grand Hotel, near Pine Hill, N. Y
 in the Catskills, early yesterday nor d ing. They secured from S2, 800 to $;}, Oi j. and escaped The rooms of sever V guests were entered and their valuabl,
 taken.
 $ Five prisoners escaped from the coun d jail at Lima, O., Thursday night 0 knocking down Turnkey Fink. Fran " Taylor jumped down the embankment il l front of the sheriffs house and broke h leg and was captured. The others 5 capped.
 Charles L. Hoyt, prominent figure j. sporting circles in Findlay, O., has lt y for parts unknown, leaving behind hil 't it is alleged, between $7,0O0 and SS,0 's worth of forged mortgages, etc. Mi le years ago through marriage he came in f. an estate valued at $100,000, of whi
 only about 5000 remains, the otl
 1000 having been spent in eXtravaga D. living
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