The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-15
NEWS IN GENERAL.

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to $50 In ALL Three hundred brakemen an,
pin pullers in sympathy have struck too a
moro extended strike is feared,
The Italian government wishes to take
| part in the blockading of the Zanzibar coas
against the slave traders, and Is negotiating
with that end in view.
| Mrs. Scott of Dawn, C;., driven insane
| by her husband, who h<r .ually came hom
drunk and abused her, beat h i'm TO dealt
while he lay on a bed in drunk en- stupor.
The steamship Oteri, from Truxillo
brought to New Orleans, G pit. H. Gaul anC
, crew of the barkentine Isaac Dodge of New
Castle, Me-, which went ashore on Serranc
reef, on the Mosquito coast, Oct. g. TIT
vessel, valued at S24, 900. is total loss Sh,
was bound from Colon to Ship Island in bal
last.
The Nachrichten declares that the rumo
that the German East African company
will be liquidated is without foundation, anC
| that the Anglo German agreement furnishes
a greater reason why Germany should retair
her territory.
There were about 15l, 900 votes cast il
| New York City for, and 5000 against the con
| stitutional amendment authorizing the gov
| erner to increase the facilities Of the court
of appeals.
Mrs. Sadie Walters, of Chicago, 90 year
| old and rather pretty, was adjudged insane
| in the county court, and will be taken to al
| insane asylum for treatment. Two year
| ago Mrs. Walters suffered from hay fever
| She smoked cubeb cigarettes for relief. Latel
| in her illness she grew passionately fond o
tobacco cigarettes, and in one year sh,
| smoked herself insane. 1t is believed thai
she will not recover her reason.
By the falling of a masons' scaffold in tn,
Weed building at Stamford, CT, four mer
were thrown to the ground. Two were in
stantly killed and two severely injured. Thu
boss mason was under the scaffold but es
capped with slight injury.
1t is stated in London, that in accordanc,
with the decision of the special naval com
mittee, the government will announce an adj
miralty scheme TO hui eight tirst-class men
of-war, score of swift cruisers and many
torpedo vessels.
Anna E. Dickinson, the lecturer ant
actress has begun suit in the New York SUI
preme court against the republican nationN
committee to recover $3.50 for services rem
dered during the campaign. She claims she
was engaged in September to deliver - lee
lures in the west, and was to receive Sl25 fol
each lecture and her expenses. She has re
ceived the $3.50, but claims it was alst
agreed that, in the event of Harrison's cleo
ton, she was to receive $4,000. The com
ellow-committeemen.
In addition to the unhidden letters from tbs
late Emperor Frederick found in Baron Vor
Roggenbach's house, the police discovered
in secret drawer in writing desk two
bundles of kilograms and letters from Fred
erick written when he was crown prince
his wife, Queen Victoria, the prince OF
Wales, Prince Alexander of Battenburg, DR.
Mackenzie, the duke OF Cumberland, Count
Won Seckendroif, Dr.. Windthorst and
others.
The fiutter in the departments at Washing
ton continues, and the clerks confidently ex.
pect a general shake up next year. Several
Democratic clerks have begun already Jc
make preparations for the inevitable, and q
large number of republican ex-clsrks, re-
siding in this city, are making arrangements
to be restored. In some cases their plsce
are said to have been picked out and assigned
to them already.
Macon, Ca, has manufactur'n establish
ments to the number of 105, which include
cotton mills and congresses, brick, box and
broom factories ccttonseed oil and fertilizer
works, knitting mills, railroad car shops, etc.
The capital employed amouns to about 81
100000, the number of hands employed is
3763, and the monthly pay roll foots up a.,
300 The value of manufactured products of
these manufactures for the past year is 81,
S22,S0 and these are soil on the lines OF
roads that reach out into what is known as
Macons territory, and extend into Alabama,
Florida and South Carolina.
Notices have been posted in the extensive
carpet mills of L. S. Higgins & Co, at West
Forty-thirl street and Eleventh avenue,
New y ork, of reduction of the present
working force by one-half from and after
Nov. IL, which means that 60 hands, male
and female, will be thrown out of work, at
least for some time.
A story is in private circulation in Wash,
ington that Lord Sackvil.e has, preparatory
to his departure from this country, addressed
a letter to President Cleveland in regard to
the manner and circumstances of his recall.
which the president will not care to M Ike
public, and which, therefore, remains a
ate from the neighborhood of the British
legation.
Steve Brodie jumped from the bridge in
course Of construction over the Hudson river
at Poughkeepsie n. Y, on a wager of $500
and for COLL medal When he reached the
shore, blood was running from his mouth
and ears, but an examination showed that
be was not seriously injured. He is very
sore and weak from the Shock but will
probably be around all right In few days.
Authority was givel in the army appro-
priation bill for sending officers abroad for
the purpose of obtaining information on
military subjects. Advantage is to be taken
Immediately of this authority, and Lieuts.
Hobbs and Crczier Of the ordnance depart
ment will 60 Lieut.. Hobbs will devote
himself to steel manufacture as carried on
in the principal establishments in various
countries, while Lieut.. Crozier. whose
speciality is gun carriages, will seek to OBJ.
tain tho fullest information which can be
got in regard to that subject.
On the big front steps of Bellevue hospi-
tai, New York. is a bit of railing which the
hand Of George Washington grasped as he
delivered his inaugural address on April 80
1889. The railing was then q part of the
balcony of Federal hall The charity com.
missioners will put this railing where Chaun-
cey M. Depey can hold his hand on it while
he delivers the Grafton at the centennial cell
ebration of Washington's Inauguration next
April 30.
An unknown man jumped into the river
from Prospect park, a few days ago at Mag
ara Falls, and was carried over the falls.
David Waxman of New York, 90 years
old, has been made crazy by the excitement
OF the political campaign. He paraded every
night for the last two weeks before election
day and drank whiskey. He now thinks he
is Benjamin Harrison. He pretends to be
making great preparations for his Inaugural
tion. He is in the insane asylum.
1t has been decided by the Old Colony
steamboat company to make Newport the
landing for all its boats this winter, instead
of Fall River, where the docks are being re-
paired. The arrangement will 60 into effect
Dec. l.
Levi McAllister, night Waterman in the
shoe factory at Norway. Me-, got some OF
his clothing caught in the shafting of the en-.
CINE, which carried him into contact with a
steam pipe that he graspcd with his bare
hands. Before the engine could be stopped
nearly every part of McAllisters clothing
had been stripped off. His hands were badly
scalded, but otherwise he escaped serious in
jury.
Moriarty, who WAS arrested on the arrival
Of the Catalonia, from Boston, for having in
his possession revolver and some ammuni
tion, was sentenced to pay O fine of $50 or to
be imprisoned one month.
1t is reported that Stilson Hutchins, pro-
prietor Of the Washington Post. intends to
revive the National Republican and run il
as republican organ
Thomas Bosworth, Newport, R. L, COL
ored man, who attended the funeral of Har-
rison's grandfather in a pair of white trous-
ers, cast his vote for the grandson in the
same pair Tuesday.
Business in all the factories in the vicinity
Of middletown, Ct, is reported as first class,
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