The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-09-12
NEWS IN GENERAL.

cohuy' his VIE Ia charged WITH the deed.
The will o. Henry Shaw Of botanical gar
den fame gives the bulk Of the property to
tho city OF st. Louis,
In the United States circuit court at st
Louis Mo-, Judge Thayer rendered decis,
ion to the effect thas the lunterfeiting OF
the union label usei on cigars cannot be pre-.
vented or punished The rul will affect
the cigarmakers organization in the United
States and Canada it is claimed, very seri-
ously, as IL practically decides that their
label is of no value whatever.
No, colliery of The Delaware and Hud-
son Railroad company at Olyphant, Pa, is
ON fire and it is believed that 20 acres of the
inside workings are in flames. On account
or smoke u is almost impossible for the work
mon TO make any Roadway in flooding the
mines. Three hundred men are thrown out
OF work by the fire,
Bark Don Jacinto is rep )rted wrecked off
HatteraS April Z.
Mrs Henrietta Cook has been pardoned
from n 1n the kan;as penitentiary, after serving
10 years of a life sentence on the charge of
poisoning her husband, The case is interest
ing from the fact that the board of pardons
believe the woman is Innocent
Frederick L, Richards cook, and w.
kuhne a sailor, on the schooner William
Rice of Rockland, Mass, came before the
United States marshal in New York, and
The men said that they shipped at Rockland,
and came to Hoboken, where they got load
of coal to go back with. When they were
well oft shore, the captain, Charles Jameson,
treated them so brutality that they were
forced to seize a dory and row for their
lives to the shore. The libel was granted,
and United States officers sent to take
charge of the schooner, which lay off College
Point L. |.
Graylight is the largest horse on the turf
She is nearly II hands high.
Mr.. Stuart Robson and his company have
listened to the reading Of Steele Mackaye's
new play, IAN Arrant Knave," in which
MIR. Robson is to star this year in connection
with his cid success, 1.-THE Henrietta" This
be great success is a very pretentious
piece of work, written as a mach to the old
time comedies of Shakespeares time The
scenes are laid in the 18th century, and
nearly every part in the piece is said to be
very strong. 1t will be seen in Boston later
in the season.
A confidence man in New York has sue
ceeded In getting some money out of Herr
mann, the magician, for some worthless
stock
dispatch says that % negro rioters have
been killed at Greenwood, Miss. The cot
ton planters report that out Of 1000 hands
only 60 are at work.
The new North German Lloyd steamship
Kaiser Wilhelm II, has made her first voy-
age to New York and it was practically a
trial trip. She il to be run on the company's
Australian line. She is 400 feet long 81
feet beam and 81 feet deep, measures 5000
gross, and has 1000 horse power
Fire in lumber yard at Winona, Mimi,
destroyed q, 0OG 0l0 feet of lumber, I 600, 900
shingles, threo-story brick warehouse and
other property. Loss 1914, 900.
A Delaware Lpckawana and Western
train struck carriage at a crossing at Brick
Shurch, n: j. The carriage contained Mr..
Willis of Newark, her baby, and clerk for
Newark coal dealer, to whom the horse
and carriage belonged Mrs Willis and
Marshall were seriously hurt. The baby
was carried on the engine for a distance of
about fifty feet Ii was wrapped in heavy
woolen shaw, and escaped injury. Witnesses
say that the engines bell was not ringing
The gaten1an, according TO custom, went off
duty at about o'clock.
The New York Memorial Arch fund has
now reached $50, 09922, and it is hoped that
the total 800, 900 will be subscribed in time
for work on the arch to be begun in the
spring.
George A. Treadwell of New York says
he purchased the Phoenix mine in Arizona
Territory for J. NJ. Seymour of Orange
county in 1879 with the understanding that
which should be realized from the property
he alleges that the defendant sold the mine
for 81, 10000 and did not give him penny.
The thermometer has fallen 30 degrees at
st. Paul, Mimi, and the mercury stood at
AZ degrees, Quite cold snap has been ex-
perienced all over the northwest culminat-
ing IN severe frost at Cheyenne. The fact
that migratory birds are rapid y leaving
southwark is considered to augur an early
winter.
Robert Anon Of Syracuse N. Y, an ap-
prentice boy on the United States steamer
New Hampshire, died at Newport Hospital
of typhoid fever. This is the fourth death
from the disease among the apprentices.
The court house at Carthage, N. c., has
been burned, and all the records were totally
destroyed.
A boiler of the North Mine, at the Ports
mouth coal Mines exploded with tremend-
Gus noise and force. The boiler was run all
night Charles Morgan, q fireman, who was
in the pit under the boiler was scalded to
death. The work of the mine will be de-
iayed four or five weeks.
The visitors in the American Museum of
Natural History, Central park New York,
on Labor Day, numbered more than 5000.
Horace H. Stratton, member of deer
hunting party in the wids of Sullivan coun-
ty, N Y, was accidentally shot by Henry
Fountain, one of his companions. Fountain
was carrying his gun on his shoulder, with
the barrel pointing down and backward
when suddenly the weapon was discharged
the contents striking Stratton in the groin,
from which ath resulted in an hour 1t is
thought that the gun was discharged by O
twig catching the hammer.
An Ontario and Western night despatch
freight train struck an extra West Shore
freight train on a cross over at Danton, near
Weehawken, N. Y. Eight cars were broken
up among them two cars of merchandise.
The accident was caused by the heavy fog.
One brakeman was slightly hurt.
Bob Younger, the Missouri outlaw, is
sinking rapidly. He is liable to die at any
time from heart failure, though he may lin
ger along for while.
John McClelland of Jacksonville, KY, was
bitten by mosquito; shortly after he was
seized by convulsions. His right side is
paralyzed and he is not expected to live.
Justice Mayham in the supreme court at
Albany, N. Y, handed down decision an.
nulling and revoking the charter of the
Broadway railroad company of Brooklyn.
all the corporate privileges and franchises
granted to it by the act of the Legislature
April 49, 1860. Justice May ham perpetually
bars the company from exercising any of its
corporate lights, and enjoins and restricts it
from constructing any railroad under or ty
NHIue VI any VI tle pIoFlSious VI lHe dCI.
The company failed to lay tracks OF main.
tain railroad as agreed to.
The Brooke Iron company at Birdsporo,
Pa, has advanced the wages Of the puddlers
from 1926 to 50 80 per ton. Nearly 300
hanls are affected. 1t is estimated here that
1000 puddlers in the Schuylkil valley have
had their wages increased, the advance also
affecting 5000 men employed in other de-
partments.
George Herbich, who shot at his wife
twice in Brooklyn, N. Y, without hitting
her, and then shot himself in the head has
died of his injuries. He was visited by hi,
wife before his death, and refused to shake
hands with her. He sal if he had a pisto
then he would shoot her. The pair quarrelet
frequently, bu5 the quarrel which led 20 the
shooting was about their daughter. He had
said that she should not 90 to a picnic, anC
his wife allowed her to go.
Suicide Over Niagara.
A BROOKLYN woman committed suicide al
Niagara Falls in the most sensational man