The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-03-21
NEWS IN GENERAL.


wiz Scott and boy named George had q
row with negro named Isaac Woods and
two colored women at Greenville, Miss The
and Scott bad shot gun. He shot Woods
in the leg, but the latter closed In on him
and cut his throat from ear to ear. The boy
George was also frightfully cut
At Norfolk, Va, William Buffalo, colored,
but six years OF age, has BEEN arrested,
charged with the murder Of Riddick Harri.
son, 10 years Of age, also colored.
William Flowers house was burned at
Hollow Rock, Tenn, and Flowers, his
wife and two children persisted.
The famous Dufferin Minis at Salmon
River N. s., the richest in the country, has
been sold at auction for sl4i, 900 to the Archi-
of the death Of Capt. Archib Id, who was
one of the principle owners.
A soldier named Vertjois has been sem
fenced to death In Gran, Algeria, for throw
ing quid Of tobacco into the face of Col
Thierry while Vertjois was being tried by
court martial for an attempt to desert.
A Winnipeg MANI dispatch says that
Tascott the supposed Chicago murderer, has
been captured, and Is now on his way home
in charge Of a detective
T. r. Evans and j. Walsh, miners, at
Scranton, Penn. while trying to detach a
large slab Of roof coal, the mass slipped and
fell upon them. Evans W Is cru he'd to death
Walsh suffered probably fatal injuries. >
Edward Broderick, aged H. and John Tro-
gan, aged "a, were recently taken from Sing
Sing prison to the Auburn Insane asylum
for convicts. Principal Keeper Connaugh-
ing to their having no work.
The - Co.. a rxlo,,o Qohk hot.-
Jem Smith, champion of England, and
Charles Mitchell for f400 have been made.
The men are to meet on tie 23d in a ten.
round glove contest.
At italian Canon, 10 miles from Austin,
New, Samuel Rumble killed his father-in-
law, George Hosking, and his brother-i n-law,
aged Is, by shooting them with a shotgun.
A boy named john King. hearing the shot,
came toward the house. He was met BY Run
die, holding the gun. The latter asked the boy
to shoot him. The boy refused, and Run
die then took the boys horse and rode thre,
miles to the lower ranch entered the kitch-
en- of the house and shot Mrs. Hosking in the
head and then shot himself. TIE shooting
was the result of family quarrel over the
division of property.
Richard Roche has posted a forfeit of s10O
and issued challenge to match Jake
Schafer, the champion billiard player,
a. ainst any man in the world to play from
500 to 900 points for $500 to $1,000 a side and
the championship.
A dispatch from Winnipeg, Man, says
Word has been received here that Lord Ions
dale has arrived at point in the Arctic cir.
Gle known as the Ramparts, which isthe last
! outpost Of the Hud on Bay company He
and his party are well and his lordship is in
fine spirits He will remain there for few
weeks and then pass on north. He does moi
expect to get back to civilization for nearly
a year and a half.
Russia demands the exclusive right tt
navigate rivers flowing into the Caspian sea
and to build railways throughout Persia.
| A silver bell has been p aced in the Charkow
| Cathedral to commemorate the Borki disas
ter. The bell will be tolled for five minutes
every afternoon at o'clock, which was the
time Of the accident.
The photograph is in practical, satisfac
tory use daily in several business and Law
offices in Wall street, New York; work thai
would consume an hour to write out in long
hand being dictated to the machine in five
minutes.
The bark Fannie Skolfeld, from Calcutta
has arrived at New York with scurvy
stricken crew.
Diphthera has again broken out in a most
ma ignant type In Lehigh county, Penn.
Consul vohsen, who REPRESENTED the Ger
man-Africa company at Zanzibar, has beer
returned to Berlin and has published re
port Of the doings at Bagamoyo. He say
that the responsibility for the occurrences
| at that place rests with the German consu
general and not with the East African com
pany.
The North Chicago Rolling Mill company
the Joliet Steel company and the UnioI
Steel company have consolidated. The nam'
| of the new company has not yet been deci
ded upon. The capital will be $50, 600 600
The combined works will probably rank sec
ond only to the establishment of Krupp il
Germany.
The Buffalo and Niagara Falls Drainag
company of Buffalo, n Y, has been incor
porated.. Its capital is S., 900, 900 and its oh
ject to construct ditch, via Tonawanda, t,
the bottom of the Niagara gorge, which will
be used as tail race for water motors
The youngest couple ever married in Yves
Virginia state were recently made man an,
wife at Keyser, Mineral county. Thei
Snow, aged IA. They had been lovers TO
four years, and after frequent entreaties, re
ceived parental consenJ to marry. TIL
bride was attired in short dress.
William H. Davis, well-known Chicag
builder and real estate dealer, has been al
rested, charged with victimizing D. H. Tol
man, president Of the Trust and Saving
bank. The purpose was to hold Davis for a
extensive series of offences, such as selling
each of a number Of p ople the same piece Q
property. The prisoner quickly gave bal
FOR the forgery and disappeared.
Il. P. Butler, agent of the Chatt 4roi raj
road at Ashland, KY, has disappeared. H
left note admitting a shortage of $3O0(
Butler is believed to have lost heavily on til
last presidential election.
The strike at the Wheeling wv. Va) stet
plant, which has been in progress since jar
|, has been settled, the employees signing tn
agreement as individuals. THIS is defea
for the Amalgamated association.
The electric light controversy at Lockport
N Y, has been practically settled by tn
common council taking a two years cor
tract with the gas company for lighting tn
streets at the following figures: For eac
gas lamp, SIS a year; for each incandescer
electric lamp, 2O-candle power, s14 a year, fc
each arc electric light, 2000-cardle powe
$50 a year.
A statement comes from Vicksburg, Miss
that a syndicate, composed of G. P. Hunt nj
ton, Mrs. Hopkins, wife of the late milliol
naire, and Leland Stanford, have bought
million acres of lard in Lower Cal forni,
and are buying more. Their object is said
be to develop that section of country, AMI
part Of the scheme is the building of 13(
miles of abroad, some of which is bein
built.
The committee in New York City on tran
portation for the delegates to the world
Sunday school convention, to be held in Lol
don in July, lave secured the Cunard steam
ship Bo hnia to carry the delegates and the
friends as far as Liverpool The vessel wi
sail from here June 10, ard upon arrival {