Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Georgia militia may disband be- cause the Legislature refuses an appro- priation for an encampment.
 The Mediterranean moth has appeared in the flour mills of California, causing loss of thousands of dollars.
 The lawyers who secured Mrs. Florence Blythe-Hinckley an inheritance of $4, 0O0,- 900, will divide $1 ,000, 900.
 White Caps are driving the negroes from plantations owned by Hebrews in Amite. Lincoln and Franklin counties, La. -Dr. Philo R. Hoy, one of the best known physicians of Wisconsin, died suddenly at Racine, yesterday, aged 76 years. John F. Calligan, miner in the Jack son mine at Loanaconing, Md, was killed yesterday by a fall of breast coal Frank kerner committed suicide in the Berks county, Pa, jail by hanging him self. He was serving 12-year sentence for the murder of his wife. It cost William E. Russell nothing to be reelected to the Governorship of Massa- chusetts, according to his affidavit. The strike in the Maring- Hart window glass house at Muncie, Ind- whereby 300 employees were affected, has been adjusted, and the men have returned to work. A $10, 1000 fire occurred in the stable of A. l.. Tiplin at Newark, N. J., yesterday. The live stock was all saved, but the building and contents were destroyed. -"Dr." Hale, a quack doctor from Phila- delphia, was sentenced to Is months i'm prisonment in London for obtaining money from patients under false pretenses While Jacob Stout and Jonathan Roland were helping to erect a boiler at | the Diamond steel werks, Reading, Pa, it fell Stnnt lillal nd fatally injured.
 By fall of roof coal in Lackawanna colliery, at Olyphant, Pa, David Davis l was instantly killed and, ,'John Williams | received injuries which may prove fatal. l Both were miners.
 At Biddeford, Me, Michael Hocter, aged l 16, was fatally shot by younger sister, l who playfully pointed a rifle that she | thought was not loaded at his head and | pulled the trigger.
 -Volney E. Cushing, of Bangor, Me, l Prohibition candidate for Governor oi Maine ill 1888, left Clarks tavern in Bos ton last Tuesday, since which time he has | not been seen.
 l Francois, the Anarchist, charged with | the explosion in the Cafe Very, Paris, was taken from London to Paris under close | guard his eXtradition having been granted | OS thA4 A4hASoAAoIl AlelSISIAopS.
 The appeal of Mrs. Deacon against tn,
 jurisdiction. of the court at Grasse to try
 her on the charge preferred against her by
 her husband, came up at AiX, and wa.
 postponed until Feb 1.
 Hon. Samuel Osborne, jr., of Edgar town, Mass, owner of the bark Mar, Frazier, seized by the Portuguese in 1SSi
 while coasting off the Azores, is il | Washington to bring the matter befor
 the Secretary of State.
 Hon. Rutherford B. Hayes was re-electe
 president of the National Prison Associa
 tion and Rev. John L. Milligan of Ale gheny, Pa, was chosen secretary, a
 Baltimore, Md.
 -Seventy-four convicts in the Penitenti
 ary at Chester Ill, refused to do some extr
 work yesterday, and 1t became necessar , to place them in solitary confinement.
 Joseph c. Willard and Frank McWi
 Hams, both young men, are under arres
 on the charge of flooding St. Paul, Minn
 with bogus checks. Willard has made
 partial confession.
 Near Brenham, Tex, 16 persons wer
 hurt, one fatally, in Tuesdays cyclon, | Near Denison, Tex, a cattleman name
 Wismer was killed by stroke of ligh
 ming.
 Serious allegations of fraud are mao
 against the Powerville Felt Roofing com
 pany, limited, and it's officers in a bill at
 taching creditors filed in Chicago, l
 Frank P. Judson and the Bankers N
 tional Bank.
 George Bagley, the United States E. 3 press company's faithless messenger, l
 advice of his attorney, pleaded guilty
 Davenport, Ia., to the theft of SlOO, ,0O
 which he retained in his possession on
 24 hours before his arrest. Sentence W;
 reserved, but it is thought he will 1
 imprisoned for a term not to exceed ii | years.