The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-04-19
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

At Rome, N. Y, Virgil jackson, the muir
derer OF Norton Metcalf. was convicted and
sentenced to be hanged June1.
Vice-President Van Horn of the Canadian
Pacific railway, denies q report from San
Francisco, referring to the alliance between
the Canadian Pacific and the Spreckles sugar
refinery.
Ex-County Treasurer ]. s. Simon, con-
victed Of embezzling $4,000 of the county
funds, was sentenced to six years In the
penitentiary and fined s47,97I and costs at
Greenville, Ohio
The Railway Age says that while the rail-
road bushes of the country last year reached
the unprecedented record of l3,OOO miles,
the construction in 2S states for the first
three months of this year was lO96 miles,
against 1910 in 25 states for the same period
last year.
The commissioners Of charities and correc'
tions, who have been investigating charges
against Warden Thomas p. Walsh of the
Tombs prison in New York, have received
and accepted his resignation.
Charles T. McCotter, formerly connected
with the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn rail-
road but of late years connected with the
Mexican Central road has just been appointed
assistant superintendent of the Tampico di-
vision.
The president has reappointed Frederick
r. Cowdert of New York, Franklin Mac
Veagh of Illinois, Alexander c. Haskell of
South Carolina, M. A. Hanna Of Ohio and
James w. Savage of Nebraska as govern
ment directors of the Union Pacific.
Tho New York senate passed the following
resolution: The senate of New York pro-
foundry regrets the serious illness of Hon.
Roscoe Conkling. His honesty of public
career, his loyalty, friendship and nobility
of character have endeared him to the people
of this state and nation, and placed him in
the front rank among the foremost men OF
his time.
The assembly at Albany, N. Y, by party
vote, passed the prohibition liquor consti-
tutional amendment, pursuant to the repub-
lean policy, and it will PASS the senate. The
amendment, under the state constitution,
and, if passed by the legislature of that year,
it goes to the people for ratification.
Meyer Streiffsr, Is years old, was killed
by contact with broken electric light wire
in East Broadway, New York. He was the
chief supp TT of his mother, a widow with
eight children, Of which Mayer was the eld-
est.
An accident occurred on the Florida
Railway g. Navigation Com ranys road, near
Baldwin in which Engineer Bross was killed.
The engine jumped the track from no ap-
parent cause. The fireman was slightly
hurt.
The northbound passenger train on the St
Louis & San Francisco railroad collided with
a carload of lumber left on the main track at
Tuscahoma, l. T. The engine was wrecked
and the coaches thrown over the embank-
ment. Engineer Charles Merritt and Fire
man James Ellis were instantly killed.
A special correspondent of the San Diego
Sun, who was sent to the new gold fields of
Lower California with instructions to report
exactly how they stood, telegraphed from
Real del Castillo that there are great mineral
indications in the region, and that scores Of
clearly defined quartz lodges bearing free
gold, have already been discovered, and that
hundreds of rich specimens are displayed by
the natives