The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-17
NEWS NOTES,
DOMESTIC

DOMESTIC,
valuable lands on the Fort Dodge ikan,)
military reservation have been seized by
squatters
Train wreckers ditched night express
train in Georgia, killing the fireman and
severely inJuring the engineer,
The election returns from Oregon indicate
but q small plurality, If any for, the republl-
can ticket
The United States steamer Haze is expert
menting on Lake Erie with new torpedo,
which is believed to DO an extraordinary en-
CINE of destruction.
The soldiers who have been guarding the
late President Garfleld's tomb for the past
five years have received orders relieving them
from duty on June 80, A petition signed by
citizens will to forwarded to he Secretary Of
War asking that the guard be retained.
Revenue officers recently arrested sixteen
moonshiners in Cumberland county, Ten
nessee. A posse. hea lei by Deputy Nj rshal
Hull, have captured the licit dstllleries in
the northern portion of the county Five hun
dred gallons of whiskey were run into the
creek at one place,
A gas well, with pressure stronger than
any before developed in this vicinity, has
been struck at Cochrans, Pa, at depth Of
100 feet 1t is wildcat well, and is Jointly
owned by the Philadelphia and Munhan COM
panies.
The New York board of health has closed
the Deborah Nursery and Child's Hospital in
East Broadway in consequence of typhus To-
yer there, thirty children having been attack
ed. The remaining children have been quar-
anlned.
One of the leaders in the Southwestern
strike has been sent to prison for two years
for attempting to wreck train.
A sensational report comes from East st.
Louis to he effect that the police of the city
have united in plot to rob the banks and
leading business houses,
Dispatches from Chicago declare on the au-
thority of one of the local newspapers, that
the city council was bribed with 1927, 900 tc
allow the North Chicago railway to adopt the
cable system.
A passenger train on tho Ottawa, Usage City
aud Council Grove railroad, was recently
ditched and Nh. L. Coppedge, chief engineer
of the road, AMI Mr.. Evans, surveyor, Of
| Burlingame, were killed, and w. l.. Spence
contractor, slightly hurt.
John Kelly has left all his property to hi,
widow.
A petition for James D. Fish's pardon il
ready in New York.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, is afflicted by one of thu
| periodical sinkings Of the earth which char
acterize its history.
The iron and steel workers have rejected
Mr.. Powderly's overtures.
1t is graduation time at the academies al
Annapolis and West Point Secretar q
Manning and Endicott are in attendance, the
former at Annapolis and the latter at Yves
Point
The strike of the Buffalo journeymen bak
ers is ended. The boss bakers are not oblget
to use the union label.
Marshall North has arrested two mel
wanted in Madison, Wis, for counterfeiting
they having changed 50 ercenbacks to $40
and S5's to S20's. Nearly 5000 in greenback
and 500 in gold were found in their posses
sion, also so in counterfeit oney.
The village of Niagara Falls, Ohio has beel
greatly interested in find of gold which la
been hidden, for nobody knows how long, il
an old barn. Carpente, who were hired t
tear it down brought to light tin pail wit
over 800 in shining gold coins in it, TIL
property on which the barn stood had bee
recently purchased by J. 7. Brundage. TIL
carpenters divided the Doodle. The coin o
most recent date was 1861. Mr. Brundag
intends to have the money.