Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Navigation on the HudsoH has closed
for the season.
The Thermometer registers& 10 degrees
below zero at Corning, N. u
Mrs. Lirl Lescsyhski, Russian, is dead
at New York, aged @4 years.
Augusta, Ca, was visited blythe heav-
lest snowstcrm in Eve years. =
-,Eavre striking dockefs accepted nj
creased wages and ended. their strik9A
John Rasmussen, his wife and child,
were,asp6yxiated by coal gas near Bardlsy,
S. D.
! y. ]. Gibson was shot and instantly.
killed III Chester county, S. c., by J. H
Barnes.
-Hane's Hotet'at Montvale station, near.
Roanoke, Va, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss 500
AT a dance given at the home of Walter
Green, colored, at Dover, Ky, fou1
negroes We're shot, two fatally.
The body of John Noble was found
frozen stiff on the railroad tracks at Har-
rison, N. j. Foul play is suspected.
There is to be 25 per cent. reduction
in the wages of iron workers at Whining
ton, Newport and Marshalltown, Del.
The colored editors of Georgia have Or
ganized State Press Association and is
sued an address discouraging negro emil
grafton.
The jury in the case of Mrs Anna
Makepeace, who is charged with killing
her. husband, were unable to agree in
Dedham, Mass.
The Allegheny, Mononganela and Ohio
rivers are frozen over and river traffic Is
entirely suspended for the first time in
many yedrs.
On Jan. 8 The Pope will personally re-
ceive New Years greeting from 1000
Roman children. He will give each child
little present.
Professor Andrews, of Brown University,
one of the American delegates to the
AMonetary Conference left Paris GU his re-
turn to New York.
The house occupied by Mrs. McClaire at
Tresckow, Pa, @as~destroyed by fire
The charred body Of the aged occupant
was found in the ruins.
Charles Gardner, Pennsylvania rail
road engineer, slipped from the step of his
engine at Sayre, N. Y. Both arms were
severed and he died from his injuries.
ATTORNEY General Miller is somewhat
disturbed by the report that Bill Dalton,
the notorious outlaw, has been appointed
a deputy United States Marshal Of Coffey-
vile, Kas.
Frederick 81. Frisch, who misappropri-
ated $16, 900 while New Orleans manager
of the cotton firm Of Gassner & Co., of
Liverpool, Eng, has been convicted Of
embeZzlement.
John D. Rockefeller, of New York, has
made another huge gift to the University
Of Chicago. The sum is understood to be
over $1,000, 900, but Che exact figures are
not given out.
The First National Bank, Of Appleton,
Mimi, capital $50, 900, and the First Ma
tional Bank, of FL Reno, Oklahoma Ter,
capital $50, 900, fave been authorised to
begin business.
1t is said at the Treasury Department
that the drafts for 1886, 500 in souvenir
coins which were supposed to have been
lost in transit from Washington to Chi
cago, must have been receivad there.
The entire management OF the CONNER
cial affairs of the Philadelphia & Reading
Coal and Iron company, ipcludihg its
finances, will in future be eondusted by
the Finance company Of Pennsylvania.
The body of Robert Quits, after whose
disappearance from Ardnore, I. T.y> a
week ago delinquent postdfiee account
was discovered, has bean found naAr his
| home He had evidently committed sui
eide.
John jackson, celored, who, sloped with
Jessie Hinkle, a pretty white waitress,
was taken from the Jail md tarrsd and
| feathered at West Libefty, o. The girl
claimed that she had been held against
her will
A tenement near Greensburg, Pa, in
| which about 10 Italian families lived, was
burned. James Anglico,t an old man,
was burned to death, and it IL feared
several small children win die from their
| injuries. !,
While Mrs. Arthur Rvard Was sitting
in her chair at Manchester, N. II. one of
her children dropped q lighted piece Of
paper IN her mothers lap. The Atter's
clothing took fire Immediately and she
was so badly burnedthat she died.
The Postmaster-G General has concluded
| q convention to establish an exchange Of
postal money orders between the United
States and the colony>of Bermuda and one
for a similar exchange between the
United States and tho colony Of South
| Australia