The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-01-26
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
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E!GhTf nOrSeS Werc burned 70 death In
Meriden, Conn.
SOCIALISTS will hold an international con-
gress In London next August.
FIVE soldiers were killed by a punpowder
explosion at fort Andulmas, New Mexico.
A COMPANY has been started in New York
ior the purpose of refining sugar by cleo
IT is estimated that tho farmers of Illinois
lost $5O,0OO,00o by the drought during the
past year.
THE Cooke Natural Gas Company has boon
organized in Chicago with a capital stock Of
s1,000,0c0.
CHARLES SEEBURG and Peter Yepperson
were refused license in Chicago for shop to
sell the flesh Of horses.
EDWARD NEMEYER, a17-year. old drunken
boy, shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Mary
Benson in indianapolis.
JERSEY CRY butcher quarreled with an.
other man and struck him with a sausage.
breaking three of his ribs.
THERE are four naval vessels at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard which will start ON
long cruises in few days.
HENCEFoR1H Mexican silver will be ac-
cepted at the Treasury in Havana, Cuba, at
eighty cents on the dollar.
The Anarchist Relief COMMITTEES Of Chi
cago has divided $1,000 among the families
OF the dead and imprisoned anarchists.
PITTsBuRG feels proud over poor German
girl OF twelve years, who is said to be grand
daughter of the last King of Wurtemburg.
THE assessed valuation OF New York City's
real estate this year is 81 sos, $40, 133 an in
crease of nearly s52, ,OC0, 900 over last year.
Mrs. MARY A. KELLA, of Camden. N. j..
tainted and fell on her face on the kitchen
range She was 50 badly burned that she
died.
MANUEL LOPEZ, alas Colorado q noted
Arizona horse thief, has just been captured
in the Dragon Mountains, with three COM
panions.
FLOODS in Montenegro have caused a
famine, and 30, coo person are destitute The
Gar has sent sbipload OF corn to the suffer.
ers from Odessa.
EDWARD BURGESS, the yacht designer.
has written to the Burgess Testimonial Fund
Committee thank ng all the contributors to
the purse of SO, ,172.25.
THE National Democratic Committee will
meet in Washington on February 22 to fix
time and place for holding the National
Democratic Convention
b. F. ISHMARN, a wealthy Japanese student
at Gambler Ohio Theological Seminary,
becam, insane and was placed in Jail at that
place to await an inquest.
AN old German woman of East Saginaw.
Mich, has forwarded to the Grown Prince a
package of med cine to help cure his throat,
on which she paid 50 expressage.
THE British army is the only one Of the
acknowledged great powers which Is not in
good shape for fighting, or being made thor
oughly available as fast as possible.
A YOUNG man named Burton, of Atlanta.
"a ha fxvo c.,
women before he was 25 years old, and has
succeeded in marrying five of them
THE bodies of fourteen women have been
dug out OF the snow near Flume, Austria.
Many are still missing, and it Is supposed
| they are still buried beneath the snow
THE Bent County Court House at Les
Animas, Col, was burned, all records being
destroyed The loss is very serious one, but
cannot be computed in dollars and cents
A GANG of Iowa counterfeiters are making
| cast-iron dollars. They are heavily plated
with silver, stand the test of acid, are good
weight, and are detected only by the ring.
JOHN s. STAPLES. who is said to have
been the war substitute of President Lin
coin in a regiment of volunteers raised in the
District of Columbia, died recently in Dover,
N. j.
FULLER, the man who murdered Arch
bishop Seghers in Alaska, last year, has been
found guilty Of manslaughter, and sentenced
to ten years imprisonment and to pay fine
Of 81 900.
LOUISA EVANS, of F1emingburg, Ken
lucky, six years oldewas tried ON writ of
lunacy AMI ordered to the Lexington Insane
Asylum. The case is remarkable because of
the youth OF the patient. She is very violent.
CONGRESS has passed bill creating the
office Of Commissioner of Fisheries with a
salary of 5000. This Office was filled for
years by the late Spencer E. Baird, who did
the work gratuitouslv. The bill requires
that the Commissioner shall have practi-
cal acquaintance with our fish and fisheries
AN Englishman visited the tower of the
Cathedral at Cordova with a gypsy guide
Two shots were heard, and the Engl shmsn
came down with blood on his clothes The
dead boiy of the gypsy was found at the top
of the tower, and the Englishman was ar
rested; but the story that he was attacked by
the guide and shot him in elf-defense was ac-
eepted, and he was released