The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-07-12
NEWS IN GENERAL.
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II Is stated that Germany Is about TO adopt
more stringent measures m regard TO French
citizens in Alsace- Lie, raine
Mr. Parnell denies that any of the letter.
published by the Times In its articles on
"Parnellism and Crime" are authentic.
The London st ndard's correspondent al
marriage Is being arranged between the
czarevitch and one OF Emperor William.
sisters. Prince Bismarck is in favor Of such
match.
A special from FL Paso, Tex, says the
third train from the City Of Mexico since the
flood at Leon arrived on Tuesday. The
washout occurred at intervals for 100 miles
but no bridges were destroyed. The latest
accounts place the number of drowned al
200.
The illumination of Mt. Hood, Or,
"Wednesday evening, proved perfect success
The illumination was seen very distinctly on
the summit, and continued to burn brightly
for space of over l-2 minutes. The sight
was very brilliant one, and was seen for a
radius of 100 miles
Adispatch from Watervalley, Miss, says;
The Tallabusha Fire ass )ciation had made
the usual preparations for their annual
Fourth of July meeting. At l o'clock when
about 400 had taken seats on the grand
stand, the building gave away and fell with
crash, burying in its ruins men, women and
children. Something near so people were
taken out with broken arms and limbs,
bruised bodies and almost every conceivable
wound; but it so happened that nobody was
killed outright.
George w. Hovey Of New Brunswick has
sued Emerson Wight and the Springfield
Union company for $1,000 for the death
Of his son last March. This is the 10th suit
resu ting from the fatalities at the fire Of
March last. and the damage for which tho
suits are brought aggregate 100000.
A resolution has been adopted by the
Abram S. Hewitt of New York. if he will ac-
sept the nomination for tho Office of Presi-
dent.
In a fight in New York restaurant, Hen
~ Hall, a Yale student of New Haven, Ct,
had his nose broken with vinegar bottle by
awaiter named Leslie Ogilby.
Two thousand Italians in New York are alb
solutely destitute, and dependent wholly
upon charity for the continuance of exis-
tence, says Sig. R. Mario. general manager
Of the Italian Society of Emigration.
A high tidal wave struck the steamship
City of Rome on July l, after being out three
lat. 3S deg, 90 min. 1t will take 500 to re-
pair the damage done the steamship by the
wave.
The Maplewood Park association Of the
Minnesota Chautauqua is preparing to bring
suit for $4,000 damages against Rev. 7.
Dewitt Talnage of Brooklyn, who agreed to
assist in opening the assembly on July 5,
1 and 5.
DIR. Leigh McClurg of Xenia, O., died at
bis home a few days ago, aged SO years.
At The beginning of the war he was the
Gret G,xl,t %Lo
and his name occupies that position OF
honor on the rolls.
As a coal train, en- route for Monmouth
junction, N. j., was passing through the
village of Dayton, it was struck by cy-
clone, and Conductor John Dyer of Trenton,
with two of the trainmen, were blown from
the train and fatally hurt.
A package containing $1,000 was sent
few days ago from Bolton to Little Hooking,
w. Va, by Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express.
When the, package arrived it was found that
the end had been cut off and The money ex-
tracted, and the envelope filled with pieces
of paper abodt the size of the bills
John S. Mahoney, retired bookmaker of
New York, bet $50 900 to 10000 with Frank
I. Huntoon Of the Hoffman club on Cleve-
lands reelection. the agreement was drawn
up and placed in the hands of Lucien o.
Appleby of the bookmaking Fl, m of Appleby
& johnson. 1t provides for the putting up
of the cash on Oct. q, Mahoneys forfeit in
case of failure being fixed at S5000 and
Huntoon's at $500.
riot broke out during the recent en-
campment Of the Canadian military, and
1000 soldiers took hand in it. They almost
destroyed hotel near the camp, had several
men severely wounded, and were driven back
to camp only after a strong force Of cavalry
went at them with sabres and horses heels.
r. B. Parish, once wholesale shoe dealer
in Louisville, KY, reputed worth 500, 900,
committed suicide because he could not pay
his board Parish was a native Kentuckian,
and was 65 years old.
The friends of Walt Whitman, the poet,
are beginning to despair of his recovery He
Is now too weak to leave his bed, and his
physical powers are being slowly paraly zed.
his physicians say that if rally does not
come very soon death is inevitable.
Batteries A, B. and NJ, 5th United States
artillery, and company b. 18th infantry, are
In camp on fishers island Long Island
sound, where practice in skirmish drill and
target practice will be INDUCED in. The
batteries now on the island will remain until
August, when batteries of the 4th artillery
will take their turn.
Advices from southern Texas say that ter
rible rains during the past few DAYS have
caused the washing out of the track on the
Southern Pacific road near Orange and
Beaumont, so that travel is completely
blocked on that line. Many miles are now
under water, and in some places the water is
nine feet deep.