The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-10-25
NEWS IN GENERAL.

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knights OF Labor at Philadelphia expelled
Thomas b. Barry, former member OF the
board,
John Teemer and William O'Connor met
IN corridor OF the Ashland house in New
York and signed articles for race on the
Potomac at Washington, Nov. 25 for $1,000
n side and the championship.
The entire family Of obel Olson. residing
near Ellsworth, Wis, were poisoned One
child Is dead and the others are dangerously
ILL., Foul play is suspected.
Mayor Boldenwreck and his committee of
Lake View citizens waited upon President
Yerkes at Chicago, and asked that the COM
pany carry out the settlement as generally
understood, by giving the old men full EN-.
| ployment instead OF three-fitths time. Mr..
Herkes emphatically refused One of the
new men, John Smith, alias John Bull had
his jaw broken by a mob. He had just been
discharged for incompetency.
| II is understood that the Sioux Indians
rejected the proposition of the president re-
garding the opening Of the Sioux reserva'
tion.
The stockholders OF the East Tennessee,
| Virginia a. Georgia railroad have voted to
issue $4,000, 600 in bonds, to be known as the
East Tennessee & Virginia railway improve
ment and equipment bonds.
II is stated that the president has promised
to visit New York City before the election,
and make an address on the political issues
Of the day.
Alta meeting of leading Denverites it was
decided to hold an encampment Of United
States and Canadian troops in Denver, COL,
next spring. Subscriptions will be at once
started and the arrangements perfected.
The members of the Presbyterian synod
called at the white house in a body recently
and paid their respects to the pres ident. He
made short speech Of welcome, and shook
each one by the hand.
William Council, a prominent business
man of Scranton, Pa, has been appointed
ly the Lehigh Valley railroad company to
make all arrangements towards an AMIGA
BILE settlement with persons representing rel
atives and friends OF those killed and injured
in the Mud Run disaster.
The American Gas Light association at
Toronto, Ont, elected the following officers
President, A. B. Slater of Providence, RI;
vlce-presidents. E. Mcmillan of Ohio and
J. 7. Harrison of Connecticut; secretary and
treasurer, c. j. R. Humphreys Of Massachu.
SETS
The National bank at Ravenswood, Jack
son county, West Va, wss raided by burg
lars hut time lock was able to resist their
assaults The gang was composed of two
men and two boys under the management of
n New York crook, whose name is given as
Irish jack alias Hicks. They took $500
which was in tin box. A boy who was
captured confessed. He would not give his
name, but said the others outside of "Irish
Jack" were called "Slimmy" and Indiana
| Shirt"
The president of the Georgetown unver
sity has rece we'd information from Florence
Italy, that Rev. John Hagen, the eminen'
German Jesuit astI onomer and mathemati-
clan, member of the Royal Mathematical
society Of Berlin, has been appointed to the
chair of astronomy and dictatorship of the
observatory in the Georgetown university.
The president has approved the general
deficiency bill.
The Mexican government has published
Its grant of the contract to McMurdy for the
construction of the Transcontinental Te-
huantepec railroad. The Mexican minister
OF public works says that no moro subsidies
will be granted TO railroads.
An unknown Italian, who was picking up
coal in the railroad cut at New Haven, Ct,
stepped aside to avoid one train, and was
struck by one going in the opposite direction
and instantly killed,
The president has approved the bill to re-
tire Gen. Alfred Pleasanton, with the rank
Of ma or.
Warrants for the arrest of nine we'll
known residents of st. Cunegonde, suburb
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in most brutal manner young and pre-
possessing French Canadian girl named Per-
raht, who, it is alleged, died from the effects
| Of her treatment The doctor who issued
the burial certificate will be arrested.
During the past year there were 24S acct
dents to trains upon which postal clerks wers
employed. -Four clerks were killed and los
injured The service is now in operation
upon 143, 731 miles of railroad, beside 5972
miles of steamboat routes. Only one error
was made to every 3,07 pieces handled, out
| of an aggregate Of nearly 7,0000 600
pieces.
At Telluride, Col, while Charles and VIII
liam Weller, miners, were digging their way
home through the snow from La Junta
Basin, snowslide carried them down the
side of the mountain for 500 feet and buried
them under 20 feet of snow and rocks.
William maraged, with the aid of pocket
knife, to dig himself out, and, though
wounded, made his way to town. A rescu-
| ing party started out, and after two hours
hard work found the body of Charles under
meath several hundred tons of snow and
rocks crushed to shapeless mass.
The business failures occurring throughout
the country during the past seven days, as
| reported to r. G. Dunn & Co, and E. Rus
sell g. Co., of the merchantle agency num-
Der for the United States 202, and for Cana
da %, or total of 224. as compared with
2.7 last week. and gil the week previous to
| the last. For the correspo lding week of
last year the figures were POI. made up of
l12 in,the United States and 80 in the Domin-
| ion of Canada.
The corner stone of new armory on Park
avenue in New York, to be used by he Sth
regiment, was laid by Grand Master of
Masons Frank R. Lawrence. The veterans
and active members of the regiment paraded
on the occasion in full uniform, and in addi-
ton to large number of military dignita-
ries, Gov. Hill and Mayor Hewitt graced the
proceedings with their presence. The new
armory is to cost $500, 900.
BoTH in this country and in Great Britain
the name of the great Irish leader Parnell is
pronounced by many as though accented on
the last syllable. The Pau MAJ Gazetts
instructs its readers to put the accent on the
| first syllable. Parnell.
TREATING WITH THE SIOUX.