Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-02-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.
senator Hill IS in Elmira.

senator Hill Is In Elm1Ea.
Chicago had &C, 900 fire yesterday.
o. 8. Senator Teller is in New York.
Queen Victoria is said to be slightly i'll.
Melting snow is causing floods in
Spain.
The U. s. s. Kearsarge has arrived at
Jamaica.
Secretary Elkins has gone to West
Virginia.
Twelve burglaries occurred in Brooklyn
in one night.
Eleven contract laborers are detained
at Baltimore.
]. ]. Cheeseman has been elected Presi-
dent of Liberia.
Juan Flores. a Mexican, was killed in
a duel at Laredo, Tex.
Secretary Tracy has returned to Wash
ington from New York.
G. A. Fyffe, the historian of modern
Europe, is dead at London.
William Bishop has secured divorce
from his wife at New York.
Ashton Oxenden, formerly Bishop of
Montreal, is dead at Biarritz.
A terrific storm is raging on the vir-
ginia and North Carolina coast
The trial of Alice Mitchell for murder
is progressing at Memphis, Tenn.
Mrs. French Sheldon, the female ex-
plorer of Africa, is in New York.
Two Cinnamon were burned to death
in San Francisco match factory.
Rev. j. NJ. Ladd has been arrested ct
st. Louis on a charge of blackmail.
The annual dog show has opened at
Madison Square Garden, New York.
Nicaragua has granted the Louisiana
Lottery company perpetual charter.
The West Virginia League of Republi-
can Clubs is in session at Parkersburg.
Twenty-Five contract laborers were sent
back to Europe from New York yesterday
Cardinal Mermillod, Bishop of Lau-
same and Geneva, Switzerland, is dead.
Hon. B. K. Bruce has retired from the
Mississippi Republican State Committee
Burton G. Webster, accused of murder
ing G. E. Goodwin, jr., is on trial New
York.
1t is said that ex-United States Attor-
ney-General Garland wants to go to tho
Senate.
The Gear has appointed Prince Galitzin
to restore order in the Government of
Tobolsk.
Bendoff, the famous English pugilist,
is at Vancouver, B. c., on his way to San
Francisco.
The will of the late D. D. Withers, the
horseman, disposes of property valued
at 81, 900, 900.
The Goth. encampment of the Pennsyl-
vania G. A. R. convened at PittsburR
this morning.
John Schrenker, a section hand, was
struck and killed by Central train near
Utica, N. Y.
The King of Italy will visit England in
July and will review a powerful British
fleet at Spithead.
The case of NJ. 3. Curtis, on trial for
murder in San Francisco, will go to tho
jury this afternoon.
The Right Hon. Sir Henry Cotton, late
Lord Justice of Appeal, is dead in Lon
don, aged 70 years.
At Stockholm, L. l., Mrs. Strait was
burned to death. She accidentally set
fire to her clothing.
Brazil Morris, colored, is on trial in
Brooklyn, N. Y, for the murder of Pat
rick Kelly three years ago.
The contest over the will or the late
actor, w. E. Florence did not occur, az
was expected, in New York yesterday.
Edward NJ. Field of the wrecked brok-
erage firm of Field, Lindley, Weichers &
Co., is on trial in New York for forgery.
The President has nominated W. B.
Gilbert, of Oregon, to be United States
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Judicial Dis
trict.
Angelo Ronga has been sentenced to
seventeen years. imprisonment at New
York for indecent assault upon his IA
year-old daughter.
David NJ. King, aged As years, at one
time a well-known newspaper writer,
died yesterday at Chambers Street Hos
pital, New York, of phthisis.