The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-12-27
NEWS IN GENERAL.

Some miscreant threw a dynamite bomb
INTO the cupola of the Litchfield Car and
Machine company's foundry at LIchneld,
Ill. The missile exploded, tearing tho cupola
TO pieces and sefiously injuring two Of the
employees
Susie King, aged TO- of New York, COM
mittcd suicide by taking Trough on Rats
because her affection for 10 year-old boy
was not reeiprocated
White Caps appeared in Augusta, Brock
ers county, Ky, recently and warned 10y
poster the editor of the Augusta Chronicle
70 islve town. The newspaper employees
have armed themselves, and propose to ex.
pose the White Caps and fight them.
Awonan named Gallagher was arrested
at Queenstown when she landed from steam
er umbrla from New York, and was found
to have a number of cartridges concealed in
her dress. Shs was fined e. los and costs.
G. H. Lang, Jr., OF Boston, manager of
tho Wakefield Rattan company, and Mr..
Copperthwait OF the Union Rattan company
OF New York, were before The Senate finance
committee and were given hearing rela
tive 10 the duty on rattan
Horny George was enthusiastically well
coined back TO America by large audience
at the New York Cooper Union. Mr.. George,
in his speech, recounted his experiences in
US ieeeh0 Visit W IalSinnu, where tne slnSle
tx idea, he said, was now coming into
practical politics and making wonderful
rogress.
The chamber of commerce of Manchester,
England, by an overwhelming majority, has
passed n resolution holding that all foreign
goods similar to those produced in England
SHOULD pay the Same proportion of the inn
perial and local taxation which they would
have paid had they been manufactured in
Great Britain
| The officials of the Calumet g. Hecla mine
have pronounced the fire extinguished.
Water is being sprayed down the heated
| shafts to cool them. The mine is filed with
gas, which will have to be pumped out and
| replaced with fresh air Ii will require sew
eral weeks to put the mine in shape for work.
The present lire has been fought successfully,
but the amount of damage underground is
yet uncertain.
Herr Dilthy, the director of the German
Fast Africa company, has returned from
Zanzibar. He denies that the company is
responsible for the rising in East Africa,
which he attributes to the slave dealers. He
regards the assumption of imperial sove-
reignty in East Africa as Gu imperative
necessity.
California will send but one democrat to
the 5lst congress-" said Senator Stanford
few days ago. The senator has fast received
u uisliulCu from Dan FTauClSCO which states
that all of Clunle's chances for q seat have
been Knocked out of sight by recount.
Clune was opposed by Phelps, a republicans,
who is, so the dispatch says, elected beyond
doubt
Mr. Gladstone has gone to Naples A
great crowd had gathered at the railway
station, and the ex-premier was enthusiast
cally cheered when he departed for Dover.
at the latter place thousands cheered him on
his arrival. The trip across the channel was
made in rough sea and foggy weather.
White Caps have sprung up in Canton, o.
A. j. Gale, welknown grocer, has re.
ceived warning through the mail, signed
white Caps, Branch One Hundred" He is
ordered to quit mistreating his wife The
warning has the usual skull and crossbones
in red ink. Other parties in the city, it is
said, have received warning.
The letter sent by Cardinal Gibbons and
the American bishops to the pope with refer
ence to the Washington university announces
that the sum of IS, 100000 has been collected
for the new institution, and that the univer-
sity buildings are now in process of erection.
The cardinal and bishops request the conces-
sion of academic privileges to the university,
and ask the pope's approval of its statutes.
Congressman John Nichols of North
Carolina is the latet candidate announced
for public printer. He is q prominent
Knight of Labor, and, tesides, is practical
printer and bookbinder. He has acted in
the present house with the republicans al
though elected as an independent. He was
an original Harrison man.
About 700 holders of bonds and shares in
The Panama Canal company held a meeting
in Paris and decided to forego for the present
the payment of the coupons and the redemp-
ton Of the shares All present signed the doc
uments binding them to subscribe to any fresh
issue. At another meeting it was resolved
to demand that the necessary measures be
taken Immediately to safeguard the numer-
Gus interests concerned in the canal.
The territorial question was brought up
at the meeting Of the house committee on
territories, and it was unanimously deter
mined to call up the bill of representative
Baker for the admission of South Dakota ON
the 18th OF January. After the Baker bill
is taken up it is prCpoSei to substitute for it
the Omnibus bin. The committee decided to
give a hearing Jan. to all persons interested
in the bills for the admission of Utah.
Sir James Ferguson, parliamentary sec
rotary to the foreign office in the house Of
commons stated that instructions had been
sent to the British coNsul at Zanzibar to
protest in the strongest terms against repe-
titon of the cruel executions which had oc-
Cured in the streets of Zanzibar. He had
also been instructed to invite the other for
elgn ConsuS TO co operate WITH MIN IN warr-
ing the sultan of the disastrous consequences
that are likely to follow his disregard of this
protest.
The secretary of war has awarded to the
Builders iron foundry of Providence, r. l.,
the contract for making tho iron mortar
bodies, for which bids were opened last week,
and for which they were the lowest bidders.
Their bid @as Sl4i5 for each mortar body.
The contract for steel forgings for these NOR
tars was awarded to the Midvae Steel COM
pany of Philadelphia, and no award has
been made for flushing the mortars 1t
seems probable that the work will be done
by the government itself at the new army
gun factory at Troy, N. Y.
TIE steamer st. Pierre, from St. Pierre,
MIG, via Cape Breton ports reports that the
storm of last week was very severe on the
coast of Cape Breton and at St. Pierre. The
brigantine Texada and the schooner Golden,
both bound to Sydney, were totally wrecked
at st. Pierre. Four of the crew OF the st.
John schooner George Lamb, which was
wrecked at ST. Pierre, arrived at Halifax by
the steamer. The captain and niate of the
schooner remained to look after the wreck.