The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-10-03
FOREIGN NEWS.

The temple of Heaven at Pekin, contain
ing the dragon throne, has boon destroyed
by fire.
A dispatch to the London News from
Athens says that Christians are dragged,
bound hand and foo, through the towns OF
Crete, and that many have escaped into the
country.
The Mexican consul at Antwerp, wao conf
mitted suicide recently, was ruined by losses
at the gaming tables.
An extensive strike of dock laborers has
begun at Rotterdam The strikers demand
an increase OF - per cent, and higher
rate for overtime, The strike began by 900
lighter men stopping work Later the strike
became general The socialists have prom
ised 10 assist the strikers SO far there mas
been no serious disorder.
The Cologne Gazette says: Gen Obrout-
cheif the chief of the general stan OF the
Russian army, submitted to the Car last
summer report urging that second line OF
rails be hid to the western frontier. In
spite of thu opposition OF the minister OF
finance the proposal is being carried out.
Eight million pools of rails and 800 locomo-
tives have been ordered for delivery in May.
This MEASURE completes the strategic net.
work of Russian railways increasing their
capacity to mass troops on tine Gsrman
front er.
Eighteen thousand miners employed at
Sankt Johann, Germany, have addressed
a petition to the authorities of Bonn set
ting forth their grievanceS and asking that
measures be taken for their redress.
The time of the passage Of the lnman line
steamer City of New York, ON the last trip
to Queenstown from New York, was 8 days
hours an % minutes.
Prince Bismarck received on the 23d over
aud al - fttl.f n N
the twent, seventh anniversary of his APP
pointment as President OF the Prussian Cabi-
net. The streets of Friedrichsrhue We're
decked with bunting in honor of the occa-
sion, at night there were Examinations, and
the town was generally en- fete
The laborers at the landslide at Quebec
| heard slight moan under heap Of wreck
age and digging vigorously, soon reached
Joseph Kemp who is ~ years of ag' and
buried los hours Stimulants were ad-
ministered, and hopes are now entertained
that he will recover.
A story has reached London on what ap,
pears to be credible authority that just be-
fore the cars departure for Copenhagen q
chest of dynamite exploded at the Peterhoi
station The station was badly wrecked
and railway sgnalman was killed. 1t is
fully believed that it was intended to have
the explosion take place when the czar
passed through the station on his way to the
tain, but through some miscalculation il
occurred before the time Of his majesty's de
parture.
The Leeds Eng) News says that William
H. Smith, the first lord of the treasury,
anonymously paid for church recently
erected at Portsea, the cost of which was
e22, 900.
The latest advices from the Zambesi an
nounce that the Portuguese have surveyed @
route for a railroad from Quilamane, on the
coast, to the junction Of the Zambesi and
| the Shire rivers and thence up the Shire
the purpose being to connect the sea witt
Lake Nyassa by rail-
| About the middle of next month the frs
| party of engineers and railroad builders vii
leave Brussels for the Congo. to start thu
work of building the Congo railroad.
The Kreuz Zsitung states that tn
Reichstag will be dissolved before the end o.
the year, and that there will be no time fol
the consideration Of the military bill.
By the treaty between Italy and Kint
Menelek of Shoa, the latter engages to.com
municate with other powers only through
Italy.
1t is announced that Queen Victoria will
be unable to go to Dublin in the spring Tn
| Prince of Wales will be asked to open tn
art museum,
John Burns, the Socialist and labor agita
tor, has sent $500 to Rotterdam to aid tn,
strikers.
The grand cross Of Commander of the
| Legion of Honor has been bestowed upol
M. Thomas A. Edison. M. Spuler, minis
ter of foreign affairs, in comforting the dec
Grafton upon Mr.. Edison, said it was givel
in honor Of the services rendered by hin
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the Paris exposition. NJ. Spuller also sait
that America was splendidly represented a
the exposition, and that the presence of hel
exhibits testified to the indissoluble bond
which bind France and America together
Chief Bell, of the Secret Service is advis
ed by Agent Shaw of the st. Louis District
of the arrest at Solomon City, Kan, of A
NJ. Mickinim, a manufacturer of counter
| felt coin, Over 81 900 in counterfeit golt
and silver coin was captured and all tn,
tools for manufacturing them. This spur
Gus coin has been put in circulation i'll tn
West recently, and this arrest will undoubt
eddy cut off the showers source Of supply.
The president has received what is proba
bly, the largest petition ever gotten up in
single county. 1t bears the names of 90
of the 5000 Republican voters and 642 o
the 800 Grand Army. men of Niagara, an
prays for the appointment of James Comp
ton of Middleport to be collector OF the por
of Suspension Bridge.
In few days Secretary Proctor will sen
board Of army officers in company with
committee OF the Indian Rights Association
TO conclude the purchase of the tract of Ian
in North Carolina upon which Geronimo an
his Indians now in Alabama will be plac ID
This tract is in western North Carolina nea
the Tennessee line, from which it is separ
ated by the Great Smoky mountains. 1t
now occupied bya number Of Cherokees, tn
remnant of band which refused to go t
the Indian Territory, and by Quakers.
During the trial Of Mrs Ann NJ Row
land, charged with embezzling $50 fror
DR.. A. w. Hammond while acting as ms
tron Of his sanitarium, she testified in he
own behalf that she had contracted bill
of goods bought for the table because ID
Hammond did not give her money enoug
to pay them and because she believed sh
had ri 3ht to make them. When sic LEI
Washington last July she went to Phils
delphia to get two servants. While Their
she met young friend who was in troubl
and she went with her to Minneapol
where the girls mother lived. Then Mrs
Rowland said she had no money wit
which to return to Washington. and sh
went to work to earn some. While thu
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