The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-02-15
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j. @. VANLooN, warden of the county prison
At Wilkesbarre, Pa, Myren w, Britain,
deputy warden, and Casper Oberdorfer, Thomas
W, Haines and Henry Vanscoy, county com
missioners, were arrested for gross negligence
in allowing three prisoners to escape irom
Jail.
WHILE A wedding party was crossing the
river Thesis. near Domrad, Austria, the ice
broke and 35 members of the party were
drowned. The party occupied seven carriages,
md were returning from wedding.
Ell MAIIDIs troops have taken Saukei'
near Kassala, and Ravina, a small seaport
north of Suakin An English gunboat has been
dispatched to shell Ravina. The mudir of Don
COLA has telegraphed to Cairo that the sheiks
between Shendy and Ombukol have promised
to protect caravans and to keep the route to
Khartoum open. This is regarded as good
sign.
The Pope has addressed an encyclical lettel
to the French bishops. His holiness deplores
the moral and intellectual condition of the VA
rious European nations, including France. lie
exorts the bishops to do their utmost to remedy
he evil
GABRIEL WIscoKI, q Pole, claims that he
and nine others Polish emigrants arrived ut
Castle Garden from Hamburg, Oct. 8, and that
person representing himself to be a railroad
agent had promised to forward them to Shen'
doah, but instead sent them to Eispania, Cuba
where they are employed in sugar refinery
Gabriel writes that they are locked up every
night after supper, and are whipped IL they ~
suse to work on Sunday.
THIRTY-rIvE sheep belonging to j. II. Weaver,
a Petersburg, N. Y. farmer, are suffering from
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drophobia. The sheep were all bitten by dog,
some receiving merely scratch across the
nose.
AN armed force attacked the police barracks
at San Juan, Argentine Rep, and the resi-
dence of Deputy Mailer. The governor is re-
ported to have been killed. Several others
were wounded The body of Senator Gomez
was found under bush, he having been MUIR
dered. The troops que led the disturbance,
and all is quiet.
d. W. KNAPP, an old Western Union opera
tor, at San Francisco, CAL, was arrested there
very recently for divulging the contents q
cipher messages.
FIFTEEN thousand striking weavers at Black,
burn, England, marched through the streets
toward the house of certain manufactures,
whose effigy they also carried, with the lnten-
ton of hanging it in front OF his re idence.
The police ord red the crowd to disperse, but
the order was received with jeers. They then
charged the procession, and in the melee
several pers ms were injured. The police telc-
graphed to Manchester for assistance, which
was promptly sent, and order was restored.
The Russian Military Tribunal has sentenced
| Col Prioroff, a commissariat officer, and man
named Anerbach, transport contractor, to
d, portation to Siberia for fraud.
ApvIcEs from ST. Paul de Loanda, capital q
the Portuguese province of Angola, West
| Africa, say that an att ok had been made upon
| the whites by the Muculla natives. during
| the fighting an explosion of gunp WIDER occur
| red, by which forty natives lost their lives.
| The Engli: Ii and Por,ug csc gunboats landed
| marines.
Mrs. MIX of Steamboat Rock, To-, standing
| over the open grave of her husband, remarked
| that they mi sht MS we be buried in one grave,
| grew a it | and shot herself. She is not
| likely to live.
OWING to the depression in trade in the
north of England, the iron masters are reduc'
| ing the wages of their workmen and placing
| the men under 24-hours' notice. The Belfast
ship builders who recently struck have resumed
work.
A REVOLT has broken out in Crete in conse
| auence of the Turkish attack on the privileges
| of the Greek patriarch. The leading Cretans
| declare that they cannot obtain redress, ano
| that they have therefore taken to arms. The
poite HIS sent orders to the authorities al
| SMYRNA and Salonica to dispatch to Crete 500
ioldiers.
CHEENG Woo TsANG, a native OF Loo Chow,
| China, % years of age, appeared at the office
| of the clerk of the district court in Washing
| ton for the purpose of becoming citizen Of
! the United States. His application was refused
| under sec, IA, act of May 6, 1882, which pro-
yides sthat hereafter no state court or court OF
| the United States shall admit Chinese to
citizenship"
SECRETARY FoLGER rendered decision set.
Ting the contest over the classification Of rice
| meal and small rice broken into small particles
| in the process of cleaning. The secretary
holds that these qualities are subject only TO q
duty of 20 per cent. ad valorem, instead o.
2 ~ cents per pound, as is charged upon
| cleane rice. This question is one OF great
| Importance to brewers, as his small rice has
| during the past few years entered quite largely
| into the manufacture Of the best grades o.
| beer.
The Senate passed the bill reported by Mr.
| Platt from the committee on the patents
| amending Sec 1887 of the Revised Statutes
| securing to American inventors the full tern
of II years for their patents in cases where the
! foreign patent expires before that tine.
The secretary of the treasury has written
| circular letter to the heads of the bureaus o
| that department, requesting them to report t.
him their opinions and the result of their ex
e,ience as to the effect of the act "to regulate
and improve the civil service of the United
| States" and the rules of the civil service com
! mission.
The President has determined to pardon
| Major Warren, the defaulting paymaster, whit
has still eight months to serve,
A DELEGATION of Apaches, Chiricahuas AMI
Mescaleros from the San Carlos Indian reserva
ton called upon the commissioner of Indian
affairs. They expressed themselves as mucl
| pleased with the result of their observation a
| The Curlislc and Hampton schools.