Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-02-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Feeding stock took a further tumble yesterday to P 3-4, the lowest point yet reached.
 Barney Erlch, prominent dry goods merchant of Elmira, N. Y., died We'd nesday nigth.
 State Senator Hagen's funeral took place in New York yesterday, and was largely attended.
 The cable tower of the Western Union Telegraph company, Communipaw, N. J., was burned out last night.
 The worst fire for years visited Ne- braslL City yesterday. Total loss will exceed $G0, 900. We'll insured Fire yesterday in Livingtone Brothers clothing store, at Claremont, N. H., caused d loss of SEQ, 900; Insured.
 Thomas Fox, 60 years old, of 10, Green wich Street, New York, was burned to death yesterday while intoxicated. The Delaware & Hudson directors have declared the regular quarterly dividend of 1 3-4 per cent, payable out of the earnings of 1891.
 -Thr bill to wipe out the insurance sys- tenn of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany Was read third time and passed ir tine luuiOna House yesterday Col. w. B. Hayes has been found guilty of perjury in the second trial brought by the New York City District Attorney. The jury out forty minutes. -PrcSi lent Parsons of the New York $ NHw El@lund railroad has rendered his
 re is;..;1. ion ns president of the road which l hI~ jr,.n accepted to take effect March If. ---i r, i.'lniu Osborne, contractor and bui .i.:n New Haven, Conn.,, has volun- ,arj y ..,si.nrL. His liabilities are placed | II Hhnut : II, COG. The value of assets is | uncertain.
 | Mrs. Mlry Marshall de Mitiiewicz, the l wife of Count Eugene de Mithiewicz, is | dead nt Washington, after a long illness. She was the granddaughter of Chief Jus ktice John Marshall.
 Tine report from Paris that in the new | French Canadian treaty of Commerce ] Canada engages to subsdizr a direct line { of French packet boats, is belle we'd at | Ottawa to be incorrect. l Robert. J. Chapman, Chairman of the l Chapman Decorative Company, limited. committed suicide ste:I y iI the com l pany's store in Philadelphia by shooting | himself in the head.
 The national banks of Denver are hoard
 ing gold. Over $2, 900, ,O0O i'll gold is held
 in the vaults in reserve. The bankers | admit that they have larger reserves than
 they usually keep, but they deny any | effort to hoard it.
 l Edward s. Hoar, elder brother of Sena-
 tor Hoar and Judge Rockwood Hoar, the
 former Attorner General, is dead in
 Washington of pulmonary discased, 1T
 his 10th year. He well known ir | legal and scientific circles.
 While John Haley and Daniel Lcary
 were drinking together at the house oi
 the latter in Philadelphia, and old quar-
 rel was renewed between them, and iu
 the fight that followed Haley stabbed
 Leary to death. Haley was arrested. The public schools of Oconee H., have | closed, also revival services at the NJ. E. | Church on account of the prevalence of a
 malignant type of diphtherin, six deaths | having occurred within the last few | days.
 | The Chief of the Police of Niagara | Falls, Ont. has been instructed by the ! police magistrate to arrest or order ou | of the ncighborhood the Corbctt Mitchell
 party. Hotel Proprietor Bampleld will
 decline to permit articles to be signed ol
 his premises.
 The condition of Archbishop K Kenricks
 of St. Louis, is slightly improved. Yes
 teriay he sat up for a short time anC
 partooll of light repast. Archbishop
 Ryan, of Philadelphia, and Bishop Hen
 nessey, of Wichita Kan, are visiting tn
 aged prelate.
 The Special Term of the Suprem
 Court, which opens next Monday, will b
 held at Jamaica, L. l., instead of at Lon!
 Island City, owing to the presence of ty
 phus fever in the county jail, which is i
 the court house building, and the preva
 fence of smallpox in Long Island City.