Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-02-20
NEWS or TIE DAY.


 -T%e R RHcnester Paper rompany has is | lusi circular to it's creditors stating th 1t it is uu ble to meet it's obligation, as they become due. -Ghe Biz Four road has imported 2l men from Chicago to replace the striking Switchmeu at Springfield, O., and will pat them to work. Big Four detectives Dixon and JetTries Were badly beaten by strikers esterday.
 -Hhe episcopal jubilee of Pope Leo XII. was cOmmemOratVd generally yes t"rdHy throughout the United States with unusual pomp ami ceremony. -BehJ. Bazclle, a St Louis man, claims to have invented process of steel manu- facturing that far cclipscs the discovery of BreSrmer, and will also reduce the cost of steel rails oue-half.
 -GrorSe E. Spencer eX-Unitcd States senator from Alabama, died uneXpcct edly ol paralysis at 10 o'clock last night ali his .'ooms ill Washington.
 The Russian-American Natiou:i League Has adopted a long resolution deuouncIns the proposed cNtradition treaty between the United States and Russia as being in total contradiction to the spirit Of the .'On~titution of the United States. Primary school No. 3j, in New York ;ity, a new building, which had not yet been occupied, was damaged to the eX- tent of $30, ,OOO by fire yesterday after noon. The origin of the fire is unknown Baron Bleichroeder, the richest banker in Berlin and one of the richest men in Germany, died yesterday. The fortune left by him is estimated at l0J GOO, O0J marks. He was one of Prince Bisnurck's nearest business fr:rndS.
 Mrs {IruVpr ('lpNpluOl has n span of fine horses, which she will keep for her own use while i'll Washington. A young white man served a term in the Jackson, Miss, penitentiary, Satur day, of one day for arson. The prison garments were put on him and he pat in his time whtewashing
 The Missouri, Kansas and "cxls rail way will put on cannon ball train be- tween Galveston, Texas and Chicago on Feb. 2G. It will shorten the time between these cities by several hours. Ten Russian Poles, students in the University of Berlin, and two women have been arrested by the Berlin police | at the instance of tine Russian gov,rn- ment.
 John N. Nceb, State Senator of Penn sylvanla from the Forty second district, died at his home in Allegheny of drupsy. | He was> one of the oriIinators of the l Pttsbury Press Club and for two years | it's president.
 -Yesterday at her home near Caring ! ton, O., Mrs. Jane Hilton fell in fit into l the fireplace and Was slowly burned to | death in the presence of her children. | An official of the Chicago & North l western railway has stated that the com | paDy intends to elevate all it's tracks within the city limits in the near future. | The miners at the CruickshaDk Coal | mine, at Maccan, Cumberland county l Nova Scotia, struck for an advance in
 pay.
 | Prof. A. F. Voltmer died ill Chicago
 Saturday, of cancer. He was 50 years o
 age, and for a time filled the chair o
 Languages at Harvard.
 ! Joe Donoghue has issued challenge
 to Johnson to skate him tivc-mile race
 at Newburg on Feb. % or as soon there. | after as 0 course can be found.
 The Texas Legislature adopted 8 joint
 resolution to take ten days recess from
 February 2S to enable member to attend
 the Cleveland inaugural ceremonies.
 The Lighthouse Board gives notice that
 on or about February 18th the fifth order
 fixed white light at Dam Point light
 station, St. Johns river, Florida, will ba
 discontinued.
 John F. Reilly, clork employed in
 branch of the postofIlce in New Yorl
 has been arrested on charge of stealth!
 money from the mails. He was caugh
 with marked coin in his pocket. MT. w. w. Phelps, the United State
 Minister to Germany, who is now return
 ing to Berlin, from North Africa wher
 he has recently been sojourning for tn
 benefit of his health, left Tunis ol
 Thursday for Sicily.
 Win. H. Melville of the State Geologi
 cal Department, dropped dead on tn
 street in Austin, Tex, Saturday, o
 heart disease. He was brother of Lieu
 tenant Melville the Arctic explorer, an,
 was well known in Washington. The striking cotton spinners in Lanca
 shire have agreed to accept a two and one
 half per cent. reduction in their wages. The date of the launch of the battle
 ship Indiana at Philadelphia has beel
 changed from the 25th to the 27th instant