The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-11
NEWS IN GENERAL.

husuanu lett the house Tor salety uurinE
terrible wind storm, when large tree fell
on them, Thompson was knocked senseless
with child in his arms but recovered and
crawled into the house, where no swooned,
The neighbors came along the next day and
found them,
Frederick Friederichsen, prosperous
horse dealer from Hamburg, Germany, was
robbed of $1,000 while asleep in Busch's
Hotel Hohoken, N, y. A man who regis
tered as William b. Lewis, and occupied the /
next room TO Friederichsen, is missing, and Is
suspected of being the thief
The Hilton Bridge Construction Co, of
Albany, N. Y, was the lowest in the lump |
bids for the construction of the government |
gun foundry at West Troy. The separate |
bids on the different parts of the work are |
being computed, and the award will not be
made until it is ascertained which are the
lowest.
A freight train on tho Savannah, Florida |
& Western railway collided with handcar
in heavy fog at the junction four miles
south of Savannah, wrecking the train.
Isaac Coleman, fireman, was instantly
killed, and James Perry, conductor, was
fatally scalded and died In few hours.
At Charleston, w. Va. Edward Spriggle,
engineer on the Pioneer Coal Co.'S locomo-
tive put a boy named Washington Off the
train. Washington slipped up behind Sprig-
Rl6, u SllOTU lunt luueT Wltn u pump
handle fractured his skull in three places.
The wounded man Is dying His murderer,
who is only IA years old, was arrested.
The destruction of property by the prairie
fires in South Dakota and Minnesota is very
great AT least five prosperous towns have
been almost obliterate1, while several small
villages aud hundreds of farmhouses have
been swept away. The losses in South
Dakota alone are estimated at 81, 600, COO.
A number of new cases of smallpox are re-
ported at Nanticoke, Pa, and there is con-
siderable alarm among the Is, 900 inhabitants.
The council has been requested to close the
schools and places of amusement. People
who can afford to do so are leaving town.
Two young girls sisters, are under arrest
at Summit, N. j., for arson. They confess
their flendish acts
Some of the residents of Atlantic High
| lands, N. j., new summer resort, are en-
deavoring to keep out the Jews.
| A nephew of Guzman Blanco, ex-president
of Venezuela, who committed forgery to the
amount of S23, 600, has been arrested while
trying to escape to the United States.
A gang of firebugs, who have been fleece
ing insurance companies are under arrest in
Jersey City and Brooklyn.
Allard & Sons of Paris and of S04 Fifth
avenue New York, are accused Of carrying
on smuggling operations on q tremendous
SCALE Their method, it is charged, was to
substitute rich silks and tapestries for the
hair in stuffing the upholstered parts of an
| tique furniture and so escape paying duty.
A portrait of one Of the Vanderbilts was
brought in back of an antique mirror and a
Rembrandt between the panels in a carved
door. As far as is now known the loss to the
| government amounts to about $50, 900 and it
is expected to foot up about $3.50, 900.
Two well-known Chicago horsemen, Barry
Mckinney and Andy Larkins, have been ar
rested at Denver, Col. 1t is allie ed that
Mckinney and Larkins are wanted in Hi
nois for stealing string of valuable race
horses which recently were shipped to Chi
cago from Kentucky. Horsemen in this city
value the string of racers at from $4,000 to
$25, 900.
y Silver has been discovered on the farm of
Peter Kearon, at Fort Dodge Ia The find
was made by well digger at the depth OF
10 feet. The vein is "a inches thick. jew
oilers pronounce the quartz richer than any
ever examined by them.
A divorce has been granted Maggie Nit
chell, the actress, from her husband, Henry
T. Paddock by Chancellor McGili, the de-
cree having just been filed in the chancery
office in New York The evidence in the
case was taken in New Jersey and New
York and the compliments main charge
was adultery on the part of her husband.
Downs & Finch of New York, the heaviest
manufacturers of fancy shirts in the United
States, have failed.
The SQUAT rs on the Des Moines River
lands are vigorously resisting all attempts to
evict them.
A Paris house. with branch in New York
City, has been detected in smuggling on an
extensive scale.
A gang of New York incendaries has
been broken up by the arrest of six Of its
members.
The New York Yacht club has accepted
the challenge of Lord Dunraven for the
America cup.
In the italian chambers of deputies Signor
Crispi, the prime minister, stated that the
death of King John of Abyssinia would en-
able Italy to extend her possessions in that
country. The government however, did not
intend to be drawn on by the enticing pros
pact of an easy occupation, and would not
take action unless it was seen to be to its
clear advantage to enlarge the area occupied
by Italy in Abyssinia.
The Illinois house has passed the senate
Joint resolution directing the penitent airy
commissioner to inquire into the ACCESSIBILITY
of erecting binding Irvine plant in one or
both the state penitentiaries with view tC
use the labor of convlcts in an effort to break
up the binding Irvine trust. A bill was also
passed establishing parole system for pris
oners in the state penitentiaries.
At Frankfort Ind, VIM. Pray shot and
killed his wife. and then placed the muzzle
of a revolver back of his right ear and fired
He is still alive, but can live only short
time. The couple lived unhappily and ha6
separated.
A pipe burst in the electric light work.
at Utica, N. Y. blowing off &
portion Of the boiler house roof. and 81
disarranging things that there will be nj
electric lights in the city for some time
Three persons were slightly hurt.
The Congo state government has just re
ceived report on the exploration of thu
Zomani, an affluent of the Congo A steamer
assembled the river from the falls SOB mile
to within three days journey from Ny
angwe. 1t is a fine stream, 270 yards wide
from IL to IS feet deep, with a current o
three miles an hour, and easy of navigation
The Zomani proves to be q direct route t.
Lake Tanganyika.
All uncertainty in the Pennsylvania cox
region in reference to the threatened reduc
ton in wages has subsidized and everything /
quiet
: The cruiser Atlanta, now at Aspinwall
, has been ordered by telegraph to New York
; Although subject to future emergencies, it j
the present intention to send the yorktown
, to New York on the Goth, so that the lates
efforts at naval construction may be seen a
, the centennial celebration. She has bee
formally accepted from the contractors
subject to the special reservations of none
on account of work yet to be done.
John Gill, who has been making bad srIve
dollars off and on for he last Is years. ha
been arrested for counterfeiting. Lastfall Nes
a York was flooded with spurious coin Of tn
{ most clever manufacture. Gill was arrestet
I, on the charge of leading the gang that lu
: the bad money in circulation. He was re
I manded to await the arrival of secret servic
4 agents who have conclusive evidence agains
e him. Gill has served two terms in Sin
q Sing, and one term in Auburn prison.
Since the suspension of work on tn
Panama Canal over 500 laborers have bee
repatriated from the isthmus. A consula
investigation shows that there are still owe
$4,000 persons on the line of the woi ks VIII
! are in destitute condition. Some death
g from starvation have already been reported
. The British schooner Carrie Dingle ha
:, sunk, after being in collision, off Beach
Head, with the Red Star Line stea ner Moore
l. land Captaiu Nickp1S which sailed frOI