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

A collision between two freight trains on
the Chicago, st. Paul & Kansas City. rail
road occurred at Durango, la. Conductor
Berry of the local train and Fireman John
Hickey of the through train were instantly
killed, Several Others ,wero injured, but
none seriously, An engine and seven load
cd cars were totally wrecked.
u, Tutlolo, an Italian, was instantly
killed, and u, Marchetta, also an Italian
and z, Margapits, young Hungarian, were
badly injured by an explosion of dynamite
cartridges which they were thawing out al
Howard's Junction, Pa,
Editor Geo. w. Childs has completed the
twenty-tiltn anniversary Of his connection
with the Philadelphia Ledger as its proprie
tor, and tn event was duly celebrated.
Thomas Hotchkiss, tougher in Roeb
iing'sr ling mill. at Trenton, n. j., met 6
shocking death He was STOPPING down tc
repair break, when a red hot iron rod from
the rolls ran into his bowels passing out
above his waist. He lived only few
minutes after the accident
Atlanta proposes to erect a monument tc
the memory of jefferson Davis, and wants
to have the body buried there,
Gen, Boulanger has been engaged to lect
ure in the United States, and he will lie
liver the first lecture in New York,
Claus A. Spreckels, Jr., has hustled around
among the sugar brokers and importers Of
lower Wall street for couple of days. His
fathers refinery in Philadelphia is about to
open. 1t is to be run in opposition to the
sugar trust, and young Mr.. Spreckels went
to New York TO buy raw sugar
enough to start it, He secured nearly
1000 tons of India, Manila Brazil and Cen
triiugal sugars. These purchases will not
last long and it is understood that young
Mr.. Spreckies has secured a number OF
cargoes to arrive The purchases, together
with those made for the sugar trust, caused
an advance of one-fourth of cent pound
The stock of raw sugars 1T principal ports in
the United States on Dec. was II ,9Sl tons,
against 81 .5SS last year.
English capital to the extent of 800, 600,
900 is about to be invested in this country in
single enterprise-a project that throws far
Into the background, in the matter OF
comparative importance, every financial
scheme of so-called European "syndicates'
that has been exploited. This
project is intended to embrace
q variety of purposes; One of the chief OBJ
sects will be to provide credit for new Amer
lean railroad projects. 1t will be what is
technically known as 'financering' COM
pany, acting upon principles and along lines
long recognize in the English financiering
world. 1t will be an insurance company;
ITS risks will be railway mortgages It
will be guarantee company; it will indorse
railway credit.
The South Carolina legislature has passed
a resolution favoring New York as the place
for the worlds fair of 1892,
The def lcation of Fursman, the Pontiac
dll.) swindler, has been found to be 500
600.
Saxton & Thompsons large Touring mill
at Lockport, n. Y, has been burned, en-
failing loss of S25ooo0.
The burning of the National steamship
dock in New York resulted in the death of
four persons, the injury of several others
and property loss of 100000
Charles s. Ostrum, cashier and book
keeper of the Pioneer Press Minneapolis
department, is suspected of setting the fire
which burned the Tribune building Nov,
30, in which seven men lost their lives.
Ostrum was charged with having stolen
5000 of the funds Of the Pioneer Press. He
not only admitted his guilt, but helped the
company straighten out the books. The
terrible rumor Immediately got abroad that
he had deliberately set the Tribune build
ing on fire to cover his populations.
{, Z. silcott, the cashier of the sergeant
alarms of the house, has absconded. He is
detaulter to a large amount, and several
congressman will lose considerable by his
dishonesty.
The Rev, W, II, Milburn, the blind chap
lain of the house of Representatives, is ma
tive of Philadelphia and was born in 1922.
He lost the sight of one eye wlen quite
young, and the other soon became practi-
cally useless. He mastered the blind alpha
bet, and at the age of 20 was ordained min
lister. After that he Travelled over 100000
miles, filling appointments to preach in all
the Southern states. Within the last &c
years he has preached in nearly every state
in the Union and in some European coun-
tries.
Director of the Mint Leech says he be-
lieves Secretary WINDOWS proposed silver
measure not only the best plan for the
present utilization of silver, but that it coll
tains itself the solution of the silver problem.
1T will afford, believe" he says, "a ready
market for the surplus silver product OF
the world, the normal effect of
which will be to gradually
and permanently enhance the value of silver
urtil it reaches point so nearly correspond
Ing. with its value in coinage that we can
with safety do away with all temporary
measures and restore the law as it existed
from the foundation of the government to
1873. | believe that the adoption of the
measure recommended would in few years
so enhance the value of silver that an inter-
national agreement looking to the opening
of the minis of the world, or, at least, the
states OF the Latin union and the countries
of this continent, to the free coinage of both
metals at fixed ratio would not only be
possible, but desirable and readily accom-
plished."