The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-09-27
NEWS IN GENERAL.

A sailing yacht, having six persons on
board, was swamped in the St. Lawrence
river near Brockville, Ont, during gale,
and five of the six we're drowned.
Five robbers attempted to rob an east
bound passenger train on the Southern
Pacific at HARDWOOD, Tex, and two of them
were shot. Engineer Dan Toomey received
two bullets in the breast, and will probably
die.
The Northern Pacific is having so loco
motives built at the Baldwin locomotive
works, and 500 freight ears constructed at
Detroit.
Serious trouble is threatened by the three
Chinese commissioners brought to Ottawa in
bond in bonded box car. III ey intend to
c>rry the matter to Lord Salisbury himself.
They are evidently very important person
ages and were treated like COM
mon Chinese laborers They clme
from New York, on route for
the west, from England. They were re-
fused first class passage. The customs police
on this side said the law required them to be
treated the same as packages in lond and
they were locked in a box car aud so brought
through. The man who let them out OF the
car incurred fine of $3.50. He took the
risk, however, let them loose, followed IN M
and when they took refuge in the leading
hotel actually slept outside their door all night
being held personally responsible for them
by his superior officers, The law really ap'
pli,s only to Chine o laborers, and the Gus
toms authorities have apologized for the In
dignities offered and hope to escape further
consequences,
There are on'y 100 white and 200 colored
peopls left in Decatur, Ala. The business
houses are all closed, and also the postoffl,e
and express Office. Ten new cases of fever
reported and two deaths. The spread OF
the disease is appalling, considering the
few people left in the city.
Meyer Goldsten. a trusted clerk in tho
employ of Greenbaum & Son, 6 Howard
street. New York, has be n held for trial Mt
the Tombs court cha, ged by the firm with
forging their cheek for SG3T, which he cashed
at the Importers and Traders National
Bank. Col istein confessed that the amount
of his populations by altering checks was
about $4,000. He has signed an agreem mt
Offering to give up a house end some furnl-
ture, valued altogether at $4,000, providing
the firm promis ID him immunity from pun
ishmene. Nevertheless h was held.
The News of Merii an, Miss, has suspend
ed, owing to the yellow fever panic.
]. R. Chesney, manager of the Chicago
branch of the cigar manu- factory OF Heed
Bros of GAINESVILLE has been arrested on
warrant charging him with larceny. 1t
is alleged that the firm has found short
age of about s2S00 in the books Albert
Heed came to Chicago, and, it is said,
found the off Ire closed and Chesney absent.
No trace coull be found of miscellane-
Gus lot Of stock and property valued at
$4,000.
Bach Bros, clothiers of Wabash, Ind,
have failed; liabilities, S33 900; assets, $780,
000 All the creditors are eastern firms.
Calvin Du Binson and wife, who live in a
settlement called Catamount, in Kent coun-
ty, Y. B., went to call on a neighbour leav-
ing their three children in the house. They
were gone but short time when they no.
ticed their house was in flames. They ar
rived too late to save the children, all of
whom persisted.
Tho ty authorities of Chattanooga, Tenn
have forbidden the entrance of Memphis
and Charleston trains into the city and all
trains on that line have been abandoned.
The Alabama Great Southern trains are not
permitted to stop in the city but pass through
with locked cars and connect with the Gin
cinnati Southern five miles beyond the city.
Jennie, the 17-year-old daughter of ex-
Mayor Louis Moberly of Frederick City,
Md, is believed to have eoped with Charles
Catlin, handsome lightning rod agent wno
for month past has been flirting with the
girls of Frederick. Jennie is a blue eyed,
vivacious girl, very popular in her town,
and was the pet of her wealthy father. Cat
lin is about IS. His home is in Hagerstown,
Md. Two weeks ago his wife went to Fred
his behavior toward the young girls. Last
Tuesday he left Frederick ostensbly to sell
lightning-rods in Mddletown. Jennie met
him at Israel creek and they have not been
seen since.
Ada Sinclair, daughter of the superin-
tendent and master mechanic of the ordnance
department at Sandy Hood, has died from
injuries sustained while acting as guide to {
number of city friends, who had gone to SEE
the sights at the Hook The chief point o.
interest was among the crumbling walls Of
the old uncompleted fort, which was erected
during the late war. While on the top OF
the highest wall Miss Sinclair los her balance
and fell, striking on n pie of debris SO feet
below, receiving fatal internal injuries Miss
Sinclair was 81 years of age, and greai
favorite at Sandy Hook.
Advices from Mier, little Mexican town
on the Rio Grande, state that Deputy Sheriff
Sibre of Rio Grande City, while in Mier, met
and deliberately shot Mexican Journalist
named Caterinoe Cara, inflicting morta
wounds. Some time ago Shire killed on,
Abraham Resendez, in the same manner ant
on the same spot.
The brigantne Corinne, before reportec
ashore on Kelp shoal off Flat Mud island
N S., has been beached in Western Cone
where her cargo has been landed in a dam
aged condition. The cargo and materia
will be taken to Yarmouth. The Corinne j
u COtdl NleCh. IHeIe Is 10 Oil wv
vessel. The cargo is insured in Boston.
The raisin crop of California is now esti
mated at from 900, 900 TO 100000 boxe
for this year.
Travel has been resumed over the Mexican
railway. Vera Cruz advices are that tn
town of Tlacotalpan is entirely under water
and that several lives were lost. Many fam
lilies are reported also to be III dire distress
The weather is fine now, and there is gen
,I,e.l ..f 81, III
country. The fire department is pumping
water out of the streets and sewers into tn
canals.
1t now seems probable that the Pennsylvu
MIA and Vanderbilt lines will alter their OF
iginal programme in regard to the propose
advance in dressed beef and live stock TIL
Pennsylvania is now seriously considering
the advisabiity of making its rate 80 /
cents instead of IS cents, to meet tho compe
tition of the Chicago g. Atlantic. The Van
derbilts are opposed to this course, but j
the Pennsylvania insists upon it, they vii
apparently have to follow suit.
Mrs. Matilda Bender walked down til
gangway of the Hamburg steamship Rhaete
with such evident inconvenience at Ne,
York that a custom bouse employe releg tie
her to private room for special ex amina
ton. On her person were found severa
yards of silk, crepe and laces. Six pairs {
French embroidered slippers were in he
hustle. She wore two pairs of new Englis
checked trousers.
Yellow fever refugees are crowding int
Louisville, KY.
Advices from Cuba report prices on suga
as entirely nominal II is said that the in
hated ideas Of holders controlling the fe,
remaining parcels Of stock there hav
brought all negotiations to complete stand
still, and no sales have been consummate
for two or three weeks.
- The bark Monrovia has arrived in Me-
York from Liberia with one white mission
ary, two colored missionaries, and a cargo c
palm oil, palm nuts and palm wood Tn
white missionary, Mr.. Diggs, said that it we
cruel to send negro colonists to Liberia, &
they usually live there in squalor and fifth
or die prematurely Of the foyer. Mr.. Digs
maintains that he saw hardly an America
colonist there who would not have returne
to the United States il he had had the nece
cary money.
Owney Bruen, chief of the notorious Why
gang of young highwaymen in New Yorl
has been sent to the penitentiary for min
years For over three years Bruen and hi
companions have picked pockets, insulte
woman and rnaltraatod MAN livin~ ~ 81,