The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-05-06
NEWS NOTES.
Domestic.

mo sister OF W aShlngton ANDREWS, wen
known resident OF West Gloucester Mass,
while passing through his pasture, found his
body suspended from n tree, 1t is believed
that business troubles was the cause OF the
suicide, He was about 80 years old,
The fund for the sufferers at lee, Mass,
has reached SS0Ol Tho committee hope for
at least $40, 900, as that amount win not more
than set upin housekeeping again so families
who lost all they had Secretary Whitney
sent $3.50 today from Washington. Yelling
ton Smith has gone to Boston to see the gov
ernor and council in regard 10 having the
State release some Of the own bonds held
by it, or reducing tho interest from q to 4
per cent,
Collector Anderson has removed from
the office of weighcr and guager at tho Gus
tom house, Portland, Me Major ii. A. Shorey,
editor of the Bridgeton Nc'CS, u leading Re
publican paper and appointed in his place
a. j.. FarnSworth, young man who has Tor
some years been very active ASA Democratic
politician and is also we'll known ms n bust
ness man. He belongs TO the Anderson wing
of tho Democratic party, huthis appointment
will give general satisfaction to tho purity at
large
The addition TO tho bank block at koeno,
N H., has been occupied by the new post.
office. 1t has So lock boxes and 1lS call
loxeS.
Burglars entered the railroad Office at Chcs-
ter Vt, drilled two holes in tho Safo and
made an unsuccessful attempt to blow it
open,
The ship Manuel Ilagua hasorrivcd in New
York and landed seven American sailors,
who on April J, it is claimed, became nut
tinous and refused 10 work. The mon are
locked up,
A mysterious disease has broken out at
Rowlcsburg, w. Va, aud physicians are
powerless TO save the lives of any at
tackled. Tho victims are first seized with II
severe pain in the head, and are corpscs with
in twelve hours. After death tue bodies be-
come spotted.
All tho planning mills in Milwaukee have
shut down because of tho demands OF their
employees.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has COM
pletetl its New York connection.
Franklin ]. Wilmer, SO years old, farmer
of AnnIlc, Penn, reported to be worth
$50, 600, has committed suicide by hanging.
He made a ropc out of a sheet, and tying one
end around tho bed-post aud tho other
around Lis neck, succeeded i'll strangling him
self.
The leading pipe foun,lrics at st. Louis,
Cincinnati and Louisville are to erect man.
moth pipe and foundry works at Chatta'
nooga, Tenn.
Everett Henrys, fireman on Providence
& Worcester locomotive, fell from his engine
near Providence r. l., recently, and received
severe scalp wounds.
The Musicians Mutual Protective Union OF
New York has filed a bill of complaint
against the North German Lloyd Steamship
Company asking that the authorities prevent
that company from landing forty musicians,
now on the way to this country to fill an en-
gagement. The complaint declares that the
musicians are being imported under contract
in direct violation of the law.
The freight handlers of the Burlington
road i'll Chicago have stopped work because
of refusal to make their day eight hours
In a number of instances the demand was
complied with.
Baltimore has been visited with n dsas-
trous fire which destroyed property on West
Baltimore street valued at S6OO0OO.
Now that the Philadelphia, Wilmington e
Baltimore road has been paralelcd by the
baltimore & Ohiocompany, the Pennsylvania
has reduced its passenger tariff between New
York, Washington and intermediate cities.
San Francisco has been visited by serious
fire, the loss of which is estimated at $780,
300.
The Woodbum Sarven Wheel Company in
Indianapolis, Ind, have shut down their
works rather than grant the advance in
wages asked by their 800 employees
III eight-hour movement has caused strikes
of more or less degree in most of the larger
cities, but in none except Chicago has it as
sumed anything like overSradowing promin-
ence. No violence is reported from any
Point, and the drift of opinion is that the agi-
tation will end in compromise
The unwilling of monument to the late
Senator Hill at Atlanta on Saturday afforded
another opportunity for Mr.. Davis tore ccive
u popular ovation.
| The yacht Atlantic has been successfully
launched at New York
| The New York state forestry commission
has commenced a suit in the supreme court
against Huru & Elodgkins, proprietors of the
| Adirondacks Northern railroad, for trespass
in cutting over 1900 acres of state forest lands
| In Franklin county.
The national debt was reduced $40, 965, ISL
during the month Of April
The Milwaukee brewing companies have
resolved no make a united stand against tho
2000 striking brewers.
The provincial schooners Annie Robertson
and Festine Lenta arc rciittiny at Gloucester
Mass, for mackerelng on our coast. The
Canadian authorities repeatedly order Ameri
can fishermen from their ports, but provin-
cial fishermen lay in our ports unmolested
buy bait, fit for fishing and sell their fish.