The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-01-19
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOM

DOMESTIC.
A passenger train on the Union Pacific
was telesooped by freight train, killing two
persons and wounding several others.
Hon. James s. Rollins, an ex,represen-
tatiye to Congress from Missouri, died at Co.
mmbia, Mo-, Jan, 0,
Secretary Fairchild is said to have pre-
pared measure for the reduction Of the
surplus. II I.F4C ...i ft.ar.
Tho Committee en- Fisheries favors tho
appointment Of n fish commission In accord
ance with Senator Dawes bill.
William II. DeForest New York whole
sale silk dealer, has assigned, giving prefer
ences for more than $4,000
Miners and railroaders are to unite for.
tunes and be assisted by Knights OF Labor;
arbitration of the difficulty has been pro-
posed.
After stormy meeting, stockholders of
the New York Elevated railroad vote to issue
$4,000, 900 bonds
Secretary and Misses Rayard give din
ner to the president and Mrs. Cleveland.
The Delcampo steamship line of San Fran
cisco ceases operation @
Two hundred and fifty operatives in
Clark's thread works struck recently against
an alleged tyrannical superintendent, Her
w WIZ was rbipUSub itOIi
England. They demand that not only shall
he be removed. but that John Spillane, the
old foreman, be reinstated.
Master Workman Powderly is slowly
improving and steadily gaining strength.
He denies the report that he intends going
to Florida
Hon. Oscar B. IIord, ex-attorney- general
and the only surviving member of the old
firm of Baker, Hendricks, Hord & Hendricks,
L.1~ ~. ,1.r.sr Ia
office. His recovery is doubtful. The vice.
president, it will be remembered, died sudden
ly. So, also, did Maj A. w. Hendricks on
ly last Thanksgiving day, and now Mr.. Hord
Is threatened with sudden death. Gov.
Baker, the head of the firm also died sudden
ly several years ago, though he had been i'll
for several days.
The president has nominated George Os-
good Prince, now vice consul-general at st.
Petersburg, to be nsul-general at st. Pc
tersburg.
The secretary OF the treasury has desig-
mated the First National Bank of Marlboro,
Mass, nnd the Home National Bank of Hol-
yoke, Mass, to be repositories of public
moneys.
The wool men are to meet at Washington
to unite upon tariff declaration.
Judge Ingraham has ordered the sale of
the celebrated Jume estate; the suit was de-
cded in favor of the plaintiffs.
A part of the So, 600 of the Grand Trunk
railway bonds recently stolen from the vault
of the First National tank at Albany have
been traced to New York. Five of the bonds
were received from the Boylston Bank of
Boston.
Commander IIeary of the lroquois reports
that the American colonsts in Sinaloa, Mex,
are contented, with good prospects of sue
cess.
Gen. Bragg of Wisconsin has been nomi-
mated as minister to Mexico.
Senator Ingalls, sustained a heavy loss in
che burning of his residence at Atchison,
Kan.
Secretary Bayard recommends an APP
preparation of 500, 600 for the proper repre-
sentation of the United States at the Paris
Exposition next year.
The terrific snow storm from the Rocky
mountains to Michigan is worst ever known
for the railroads, the wind blowing GO miles,
and the temperature way below zero.
A bill has been introduced in the Virginia
legislature to pension disabled confederate
soldiers and the widows of those who were
killed.
A San Francisco dispatch states that the
smallpox epidemic still increases. From 6
to ~ new cases are reported daily, and it is
believed the cases among the Chinese are
concealed from the authorities. Thirty-six
deaths have occurred since Jan. l.
Liquor license fees brought 81, 1S6, $50 into
the New York City treasury last year, and
Mayor Hewitt estimates that 100000 will b:
added to that sum from the same wicked
source this year.
The syndicate which last summer took
100000 st. Louis, Arkansas g. Texa
first mortgage bonds, issued by the company
to build the different branch lines dispose
of the balance of the bonds to syndicate OIL
bankers in Berlin.
An accident occurred on the Baltimor,
Il Ohio railroad, about so miles west of Mar
tinsburg, w. Va. William Smith, the engin
Ger, went down with an entire freight train
the bridge having given way. The car
were all piled on top of each other. Georg
Creuque, a brakeman, is reported as among
the killed.
Sixty carloads of flour from Mnneapoli
via the new $500" route over the Canadian
Pacific railroad, which was destined for New
York and Philadelphia, via the Rome
Watertown & Ogdensburg and the New
York, Ontario & Western railroads, arrived
at Ogdensburg few Gays since
"Well, what of it?' said Robert 7. lin
coin, when he was shown dispatch from
Washington which stated that the rebe
flags were boxed by his order. "What if th'
old rags were boxed upF'