Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Bloody skirmishes are reported be- tween the British and the Chins in India. The National Association of Local Preachers will meet in Washington, next year.
 The number of would-be French exhib- it's at the Worlds Fair is largely in ex- cess of the allotted space.
 Six miners died at Port Royal, Pa., from drinking beer in which 8 copperhead snake had been drowned.
 Four of the Saratov (Russia) cholera rioters have been sentenced to death and several others exiled to Siberia. Professor D. w. Reeves director of the Providence (R. l. Cadet Band, has been offered the leadership of Gilmore's Band. The famous Lick Springs of Indiana have been sold to 8 syndicate of New York and Chicago capitalists for $250, 900.
 James Donaldson, aged S5, married, was killed at Jockey Hill, N. Y., by the premature explosion of blast in & stone quarry.
 President Harrison has appointed An drew J. Sibley, of Vermont, an Alternate Commissioner of the Worlds Columbian Exposition.
 Some army officers are grumbling be- cause, as they allege, Gen. Schofield favors his own relatives in the matter of appointments.
 Clifford Calverly, an iron worker of Toronto, Ont, broke the record by walk ing over the Niagara gorge in six minutes and eight seconds. The Republican convention of the Six teenth Congressional District, White Plains, N. Y nominated Hon. Bradford Rhodes for Congress- Authorities of the Western Penitenti- ary at Allegheny City, Pa., deny that Berkmann, MT. Tricks assailant, was
 shot while trying to escape. Rev. George Herbert Kinsolving, rector
 of the Church of the Epiphany, Philadel- phia, has been consecrated Assistant
 Bishop of the diocese of Texas. Louis Marx of the firm of Marx Broth | CTS, Pittsburg. Pa., dealer in notions and general peddler supplies. shot himself yesterday, dying almost instantly. Fourth class postmasters have just been appointed in New York State as | follows: L. T. Murdock at Venice Gen.
 Ire, and O. S. Griffin at West Day. l -Theodosius Setkin, the leader of one of the factions which terrorized the Thirty
 second Judicial District of Kansas, of
 which he was the judge, has resigned. | A Dill Tn equity has been nled In Phlla- delphia against the Order of Tonti, 8 seven-year benefit order, asking that
 receiver be appointed to wind up it's l affairs.
 | A Missouri Pacific train was held up
 within few miles of Coffeyville, where J the Daltons were shot, and Ben and Will { liam Dalton, the surviving brothers, are ! suspected.
 ! It is said that Senator Daniell of Vir- | ginia will be asked to deliver the Colum- bian oration at Chicago on Oct. 21, in l place of Congressman w. c. P. Breckin- ridge, who declined.
 It has been decided that Archbish op
 Vaughan and Mgr. Stonor will be ap-
 pointed Cardinals. The Pope has aband-
 oned the idea of making Cardinal of
 Archbishop Walsh. John J. Murphy attempted to kill En-
 sign Charles w. Walker of the Salvation
 Army, at Springfield, Mass, because
 Walker interfered with his eloping with
 Mary Root, an army lass.
 The death is announced of Lothaire
 Butcher, the German publicist and admin
 istrator, born at Naustettin in 1877.
 During the year preceding the Franco
 Prussian war; he was attached to Bis | marcks personal suite, and accompa nied
 the Chancellor to Frankfort, where peace l was concluded.