The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-07-25
NEWS IN GENERAL.


States hotel at Dayton, o., to capture gang
of counterfeters. officer Donnelly was
wounded twice in the head, but not fatally,
An escaping counterfeiter was shot IN the
side, but the extent OF his injury Is not
known, Two carpet sacks OF counterfeit $40
bills have been found, and the search Is not
ended. Tho hotel belongs TO Nelson briggs
an aged and noted oounterfeiter.
The Columbus river at Columbus Tex, is
81 feet high and still rising, The lowlands
are inundated and crops entirely destroyed.
The damage TO cotton crops in the county is
estimated at $500 900, People have He'd TO
the mountains for security from the Hoods.
1t has been raining there for three weeks.
further rise of one foot will cut of railroad
communication.
Twenty women visited the gambling house
Of John Lewis at Evanston, Wy. T., and
gave Lewis a thrashing with whips as pun
ishment for his habitual beating Of his wife,
Some OF Lewis friends undertook TO rescue
him from the women, and tho male friends
of the latter also took hand In the affair,
In the shooting which followed two men
were severely wounded.
Woodruff, one of the supposed Cronin
murderers, has made another confession,
The English government has accepted ten
ders for the construction of seventeen vessels
on the Clyde, Tyne and Mersey.
Arsenic was placed in the food of the four
children Of Joseph Huater, a planter living
near Star City, Ark, and three OF them
have died. Tho criminal and his motives
are unknown.
Paris papers consider that the King Of
Hollands address to the States General, In
which he asked that $4,000 troops be kept
armed to defend Dutch neutrality. is
grave event, indicating expected German
action.
1t is reported that the Manitoba and
Nor Invest Canadian wheat or p is a failure
Members of the Toronto board of trade have
received information that the total yield
will be little less than half last years crop,
and the disaster is so widespread that there
are thousands of acres which will not be cut
at all. The damage is the direct result OF
drouth.
The Egyptian government has notified the
French government that the latters refusal
to accept the conversion scheme will cost
Egypt nearly e20O, 000
The state officers of Indiana have succeed
ed in negotiating the sale of the S. 600, 900 OF
bonds issued for tho purpose OF refundlng
the school fund loan The discovery has
been made, however that the state will lose
instead of gaining $4,000 annually by the
transaction owing to peculiar provision OF
the act authorizing the refunding OF the loan.
The Atlas line steamship Ailsa which
recently sailed from New York for Haytien
ports, carries one Of the largest consignments
of firearms and ammunition that has been
sent to Hayti since the trouble between hip
polyte and Legilime first began. The Ailsa
is floating armory. She carries round
million cartridges and thousand rifles. The
latter are of the latest improved Remington
STYLE With them Minister Preston says
Legitime can easily put an end to the trouble
between him and the rebels of the north.
The government has accepted proposal
by Mr.. John Morley that al increased al
lcwance to the prince of Wales, enabling
him to provide marriage portions for his
children be substituted for the proposed
| special grants.
The famous Corliss engine, the largest ever
| constructed, and the one used to drive the
machinery in the great hall at the centen-
NAL of 1876, is now in the shops of the Pull
man Car Co. at Kensington, near Chicago,
Ill. 1t is generally supposed that the empe-
ror of Brazil bought the engine and removed
| it to his own country, but the bargain was
not consummated This tireess giant works
in an upright position, is 40 feet high, Of
| 400 horse power, and has two 40-inch cylin-
ders and l0-foot stroke.
Officials of the Chicago &c Alton road as
sert that there is no truth in the rumor that
negotiations are in progress for the sale OF
that property to the Chicago & Northwest
ern and the Missouri Pacific. They declare
that the road is not for SALE
The papers in the Burke extradition mat
ter have been received at the department OF
Justice at Ottawa from Winnipeg. A lapse
Of time being provided for by law, an order
| for extradition cannot issue until the 10th
| inst, and in the meantime the minister OF
| Justice will have an opportunity of consider
ing the merits of the case.
At council of 10 chiefs of the Chippewa
tribe on Bad River Reservation, Black Bird,
Red Cloud and other leaders stated their
numerous grievances to Capt. Leahy, United
States Indian agent. They want Sl25 oo0
ment owes them. They will send a delega-
ton to Washington to press their claims
tits officially announced that the queen
will confer dukedom upon the earl of Fife,
who is to marry Princess Louise of Wales.
COL Gray of the state accounting depart
ment, who had charge of all the state books
at Johnstown, Pa, has completed his report
of the money expended Col. Gray has
vouchers for every cent of the money that
went through the hands of the state author:
tiles during the time that they had charge OF
affairs at Johnstown. The grand tota
shown by Col. Gray's cash book Is S24o. 935.-
|
Every cent is accounted for, and the account
is backed by sworn vouchers.
At Charleston, s. G., Dr. Mellow, the
SLAYER of Captain Dawson, has been expelled
from the South Carolina Medical society
The Allan Steamship company intends t.
increase the number of its passenger anc
freight vessels, and to effect various i'm
provements in its present fleet. The CON-
pany has been released from its contracts
with the English and Canadian governments
Anita and Miriam Boggs, maiden sisters
living near Point Pleasant, Va, committee
suicide by taking arsenic. They left letter
signed jointly, saying that there was nothing
in life for old maids, and that they were
tired of it, They were in fair circumstance
but had no relatives living.
The Paris newspapers most inimical t.
Gen, Boulanger condemn the lndlctmen
against him as weak, wordy and Ineffective
The only serious charge is that of embezze
ment, which the general. declares is easil.
REPUTABLE.
The porte will send several battalons Q
troops to the Island of Crete in consequence
of threatened rising of the people there.
The Dominion government has been not
fed that r. c. Gibbs lumberman, of Mani.
tee Mich, intends this season to test the Il
gality of Canada's action in imposing eS
port duty on Canadian sawed logs. TIL
duty was levied by the Dominion govern
ment for the prevention OF the depletion
Canadian forests The Gibbs firm inten
bringing 3s,0O0O0O feet of Georgian Ba
logs to Bay City for saving. They COZ
tend that through treaty between til
United States and Canada, signed in 1856
they will not have to pay the duty of s. pc
thousand feet.
The italian government has withdrawn i
vessels from participation in the blockade {
East African ports near Zanzibar.