The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-07-22
NEWS NOTES.
DOMESTIC.

pOWEo ~.
The ADO rug weavors who have been on
strike AZ Philadelphia because their en-
ployers, John Bromley Il Sons, refused to
lay off learner, have returned to work
under protest
Governor Alger has appointed Frank w.
Noble OF Detroit commissioner for Michigan
to the American position in London
Mr., William Reed, while bathing in Flat
creek, near Shelbyville, Tenn, few weeks
hsc, caught a large water moccasin, which
bit him on the thumb. A fow days ago the
hand began to swell, followed by violent
fever. Mr., Reed became delrouS, and
wanted to bite every ono who came near his
bed All the symptoms We're similar to
those in cases of hydrophobia, but he is get
ting we'll
A portable engine on the farm of u. b.
job at Alton Junction, ILL.,, recently bltw up.
Five men we badly wounded, three of them
fatally. The engine was torn to atoms, the
thrashing machine and all the wheat ada
cent burnt up, and three or four horses were
killed.
A report from the West says that an inn
mense cloud of grasshoppers settled down on
a wheat field in the vicinity of Sanborn, on
the Northern Pacific railway, and in very
sEort time cleared fifty acres of every yes
tiage of greenneSs, Several other fields
were partially destroyed.
Inc owners OIL tllb ApuuTtu nlle Vi Sltdui-
ships in New York recently said: 'We have
been trying the experiment on our line of
sending steamers f,om New York to China
by way of the Suez canal, carrying general
cargo, The experiment has been so success
full that we are to establish and extend the
scheme.
One of Pinkerton's men has seriously shot
n man at the Folty-third street crossing in
Chicago. Tho account received shows the
gbnntino In bava haaO almost unprOyOkpl.
The Thomas Tunis Box Manufacturing
Company's cxteAsiys works at Philadelphia
have been totally destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000
Workmen engaged in making excavations
in New York city have uncarthed the skele-
ton of man who, when living, was seven
feet tall. The body was evidently buried
naked many years ago, and was doubled up,
The liabilities of De Rivera Il Co., sugar
,bout $500, 900. Mr. De Rivera, who is in
Montreal, is interested in Vermont marble
and sla' e q 'arrcs.
Tie striking coal miners at Grape Creek,
Ill, are jubilant at having driven off gang
of negroes who went to tax. their places.
At recent meeting of New York dry
goods me- chants an organization was formed
for the purpose of effectng reduction of
west bound freight rates.
Auditor Brown of Iowa has been acquitted
by the state senate sitting as court OF I'M
peachment.
Maxwell, for the murder of Preller, is SEN
tencel TO be executed on the 9th OF August
Fire broke out in the Wagar Lumber
Company'S mill at Fish creek, southeast of
Stanton, Mich, destroying $4,000 worth of
lumber. Insurance, 5000.
The Provident Savings bank of st. Louis
has Suspended payments and made an as.
Segment. Tho presid mt of the Bank of
Commerce has been appointed receiver for
the defunct institution. The officials of the
bank say they will be able to pay in full
Almond Thompson, the cashier, is missing.
Liabilities, $4,000.
Dr. Norwin Green, president of the West
ern Union Telegraph company, has Joined
the board of directors of the forthcoming
American exhibition in London rs vice
president Of the general council.
The Edgar Thompson Steel Works COM
pany of Pittsburg, Pa, have announced that
they will not sign tn, furnace mems scale,
allowing an advance of 20 per cent in wages.
1t is claimed that the anarchists have at
tempted to bride the Chicago jury which is
trying Spies, Fielding and Parsons
consin have been burned, causing loss of
$4,000.
The convicts employed in the mines of the
Dade Coal and Iron company in Georgia are
in state of revolt 1t is said to be proposed
to starve them into submission or to shoot
the ringleaders.