The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-14

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most instantly.
All the speeches made at the annual meet,
ing of the American Copyright league indi-
Gated conviction on the part of the leaders
of the movement that Congress will pass an
international copyright law this eason,
Chief of Police Hubbard of Chicago has
learned through detectives that the Anar-
chists have been holding secret meetings
and preparing for big demonstration of the
reds on November II, the day when the
Anarchist murderers were hanged Thou
sands of revolutionary circulars have been
sent out. Chief Hubbard SAYS no parade
with red flags and no disorder will be per-
mitted,
Twelve barges worth $4,000, and coal
worth S40,0 900 more, were lost in the Ohio
river during fog on the 18th. Other tows
had narrow escapes.
The bread combine at Buffalo n. Y, has
been broken by Smith, Fake e. Co., the
largest baking firm in town. When 'Old
Hutch made his corner on wheat, the
Buffalo bakers association raised the price
of bread, and refused to lower it. Some
small bakers who cut the rates were driven
out Of business, and the bosses threatened
to boycott anybody patronizing any baker
who cut the high prices. Domestic bread is
now sold by the Vienna people for six cents
a lodl, anu ltIllld ltI tlSlJ CcllS. Inc
other bakers are highly incensed because
they cannot fight this firm.
The trustees of the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity at Baltimore, have been Informed by
the mayor that he had been instructed by
Mrs. Caroline Donovan of Baltimore, widow
of a New York merchant to present to the
university check for 800 900, Mrs. Don
ovan expresses preference that it be IL ed
to found q chair of English literature,
though ifthe trustees see fit to make other
use of the money, they may act according
to their best judgment
The brakes on a cable train at Kansas
City, Mo, refused to work as the train was
descending hill. At the foot the runaway
train collided with another train on the
loop. Both trains were wrecked and one
gripman was seriously, perhaps fatally, in
jured. -Four p ssengers were slightly in.
jured.
Mrs. Celia Brown and her grandson, aged
8, have been murdered near Selma n. c.
There is no clew to the murderer.
James D. Leary of New York, builder of
the famous Joggin's raft, intends to con-
struct another As soon as the snow will
permit he will send rs men and some 80
teams in the woods and get out 10000 sticks
One-half OF these will go into the proposed
raft. The raft will be 100 feet longer than the
and width of IS feet-l0 feet greater than
the other one. 1t will be As feet deep, and
will draw about % or 26 feet of water. 1t
will consist of from - 600 to 2S 600 sticks
and will weigh II 900 tons. 1t is intended to
have six masts, rugged with fore and aft sails
The greatest Improvements over the former
raft will be in the steam steering gear and
steam capstan for the handling of anchors
and chains with which it is intende to equip
this lpyiatbon Mr. I II will ha
built entirely of piling and spars, and will
have about 900 feet of hard wood for a
core. The intention is to have the raft ready
for launching in May.
The Standard Oil company has purchased
the Globe refinery of pittsburg Pa, the
Freedom (Pa,) refinery and the Craig pipe
line to the Washington pa oil fields The
Globe refinery is one of the largest in the
country, and, being independent has al
ways been big thorn in the side of the
Standard The deal is said to involve sew
eral million dollars.
As the employees of Janeway e. Co.'S wall
paper factory were leaving the building, at
New Brunswick, N. j., they fond banging
to the beams in the storeroom by rope
about his neck, William Britton, a 16-year
old boy, who was employed in the factory.
Britton had some time in the afternoon gone
Behind pile of paper, and, after tying the
rope around his neck, had got on a chair,
and then kicked it from under him. His
neck was broken, an be was already dead
when found. No explanation is given for
the boys act. He had been acting strangely
Of late, but no cause for suicide was known.
The boy was an invetcratc reader of dime
novels.
The much mutilated body of man has
been discovered near st. Paul MINI.
John w. Jones, a clerk in the ticket office
of the Missouri Pacific railway at St. Louis
has disappeared, and his accounts are about
$4,000 short.