The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-09-20
NEWS IN GENERAL.

ton Of Bnai Abraham, has been arrested at
Chicago on requistlon from New Orleans,
to answer tho charge of obtaining money
under false pretences. The compliments
are his mother-in-law and his brother in-law,
s. s. Seligman & Brother, of New Orleans.
1t is alleged that the rabbi sold three notes
of $1,000 each, belonging to his mother-in'
law, which had been entrusted to him.
The forest fires, which have been raging at
various points along the shore north and
northeast of Bay City, Mich, are not being
subdued, and it looks as il great damage
would result before they are checked. News
from various points up the line go TO show
that the fires are absolutely beyond control
and that In the pre- sent condition OF things
the gravest results are to be feared. Arenac
County is particularly heavy sufferer.
The oldest trade rewsrare err in this coun.
try was recently sold. 1t is the United
States Economist and Dry Goods Reporter
IF New York City, which was founded in
1876
A Toronto report says that II. ]. Beemer,
manager of the Pontiac Il Pacific Junction
railroad, has succeeded in organizing q COM
pany of capitalists in Paris with capital OF
over $500, 900 to complete the Pontiac and
Pacific line from Pembroke to Sault Ste
Marc, to lease or purchase from ths Cana
dian Pacific railway the North Shore road
from Ottawa to Quelec, and to obtain from
the government running powers over the
lntercolonial railway to st, John.
Pitcher, the embezzling teller of the Union
National bank of Providence, on trial at
Montreal, has been found guilty of bringing
stolen money into Canada. His attorney,
Mr.. Guerin, gave notice that he would ap-
peal. Pitcher heard the verdict seemingly
unmoved.
An immense abattor is about to be
erected on Herr's island in the Allegheny
river at Pittsburg, Pa. 1t is to be patterned
after the improved slaughter houses oil Chica-
go and will be open to all butchers who buy
cattle at the yards on the island, each head TO
be inspected before being slaughtered, The
projectors of the enterprise claim that it will
enable the Pi,tsburg and Allegheny consum-
ers of beef, pork and mutton to know what
kind of meat they are getting, instead of
being compelled, IS at present to accept Chi
cago slaughtered me 1t, of the condition of
which at the time OF Strengthening they know
nothing.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy people
are making arrangements for tho in1ugura-
tion of new st. Louis & Denver route.
Four additional freight trains will be placed
on both the st. Louis, Keokuk q North
western and the Hannibal & ST. Joseph divi-
sions
The steamer Gaelic, from Hong Kong and
Yokohama, at San Francisco, reports that
the Mayor, an old volcano in the Philippine
Island, was in a violent state of eruption in
July, and it is thought over hundred per-
sons were destroyed. Further PARTICULARS OF
the floods in Gifu show that $50 lives are
lost.
The loss by tho Cuban flood was S1,500,000
About 500 deaths occurred.
The national convention of the greenback
party, in session in Cincinnati has adjourned
after deciding not to put national ticket
in the fed and passing resolutions against
fusion with other parties and calling ma
tional convention to meet in that city on the
first Wednesday in September, 1889.
The report from London that the cotton
mills in Lancashire and other counties are to
commence running on short time, with the
object of defeating tho New York cotton
corner, is laughed at in that city. Promi-
nent operators say there is no corner in cot
ton there. The trouble with England is that
there is short supply in that market. The
late crops here have added to The difficulty.
A novel race took place at Ell Paso, Tex,
between horse and bicycle from Silver
CITY, N. NJ, to Denver---50 miles, The
wager was $500 and SO head of cattle side.
Kennedy professional bicycist from Den
yer, Col, rode the bicycle. The horse won
the race, time 3h. 40m. Ths bicycle time
was Al Som. About SIC, 900 changed hands
in Ell Paso.
An accident in the Erie yard at Jersey
City resulted in smashing three locomotives
and killing two men.
Charles Bodendieck, a German anarchist,
has been arrested in Chicago for bomb max"
ing. A quantity of dynamite was found in
his room. He had been prominent in many
revolutionary demonstrations since the Hay
market massacre, and has served year in
the penitentiary for extorting money from
Justice White under threats of death.
Yellow fever has broken out among the
Jacksonville refugees at Hendersonville, N. G.
During family quarrel at Hoboken, N.
j., James Frey was fatally shot by his wife.
In an ante-mortem statement Frey tried to
exonerate his wife, saying the shooting was
accidental, but the police are satisfied that
it was deliberate murder.
Fritz Theen, a farmer living near Hills
boro, ILL.,, has just died from what the doc
tors pronounce genuine Asiat C cholera.
A fire in Washburn Wis, wiped out the
business part of the place, destroying in all
about 80 buildings, and causing a loss of
Sl50,000, with small insurance. The village
has no fire apparatus.
Alexander Goldensea, who shot and killed
Mamie Kelly, l4-year-old school girl, Nov.
10, 1886, has been hanged in the San Fran
cisco county Jail.
The rivers in North Carolina have over
flowed and done great damage. Tho Roa-
noke river had risen several feet over high
water mark, flooding Northampton and
Halifax counties.
The corn and cotton crops in the lowlands
in the vicinity OF the river are destroyed.
Houses are loose and are being tossed about
in the water, and it is feared that many
lives have been lost
Reports from the city of Mexico, say that
the rainfall is incessant, with no signs of
abating Many streets are flooded, and the
merchants have to pump the water out of
their shops. The lakes near the city are
rising steadily.
st. Louis whskey men have raised $780,
900 to fight the whiskey trust.
At the request of Sir John Macdonald, a
number of gentlemen engaged in the for
warding business in Ottawa, Ont, have sub
mitted to the Dominion government, for
Transmission to the imperial authorities,
information as o the manner in which they
have been treated in their business with the
New York canals. Forwarders in other
parts Of the Dominion have also been re-
quested to state their experience. One OF.
tawa forwarder says that the Erie canal
has been closed against his vessels.
The headquarters of the peach growers
bureau Of information and distribution at
Clayton, Del, i, closed for the season. The
organization has been very successful, and
received encouraging co operation from the
growers generally. The season was closed
earlier than was anticipated because of the
destruction of late varieties of peaches by
percentage from the growers profits, but the
season as whole has been profitable and
prices have been satisfactory. The special
peach train on the Delaware railroad has
been withdrawn, the later peaches being
hardly worth shipping.
Chief Justice Dorion has taken the motion
of Pitchers counsel for leave to appe | on
reserved points, ard also motion by Crown
Prosecutor Trenholme that the money stolen
from the Union Bank and produced during
the trial he returned to the bank. Fourteen
years is the maximum sentence that can be
imposed on Pitcher.
A terrific explosion occurred at the mill of
The National Milling company on Merwin
street in Cleveland, o. The mill took Il e,
and was destroyed, entailng loss OF s125,-
600, on which there was an insurance of S15,.
900. There were IS in the mill at the time 81
the explosion, all Of whom were more or less
injured
The steamer La Bourgogne of the French
line which recently arrived in New York from