The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-01
NEWS IN GENERAL.

thht numerous sailors, SURVIVORS OF tho pu-
moa Disaster are in San Francisco desti-
tute, not having received their pay, Is oill-
oially declared to be false. Every man TO
whom the government was In debt has been
pal in full, and II Is shown that the few
malcontents who are trying TO create SYM
pathy are deserters,
William 0Brien has donated to tho fund
for q national memorial TO John Mande-
willie, who died in tho Tullamore Jail, the
3l00 which no obtained from the Cork con-
stitution last July for libsl.
Late news from Ounalaska by the
steamer Bertha confirms the recent reports
of the loss of three whaling schooners-
James A. Hamilton Otter and Annie No
trace of them have been seen in the Arctic,
and 1t is generally believed they are lost,
The vessels carried about sixty officers and
men.
A final decree has been rendered by Judge
Blodgett, in the Federal court in the long.
pending litigation between tho Bell and
Cushman telephone companies. The Bell
company brought two suits against tho
Cushman company for infringement OF
patent. The decree in both suits Is agaRst
the Cushman company. A fine OF 81 Is as
sessed against IT. and It Is ordered to turn
over all of its telephones TO the Bell COM
pany.
Edward f. Shemo, an insane colored man,
confined In Jail with white prisoner at
Asbury Park, n j., became violent and
was heavily ironed. At noon the follow ng
day he rushed upon the white prisoner,
Randolph, and frightfully beat him over the
head with his heavy menacles, The white
man would have been killed had not officers
overpowered the maniac.
The death is announced of Frank Thimm
the well-known foreign bookseller Of Brook
aud ~, H.. 4 al Nv. xvng
himself both an author and photographer.
1t is understood that he has left in manu-
script n continuation of his ''Shakespeariana
from 1864 to 1871, and also large materials
for photography of Goethe. Mr.. Thimm
died in the 10th year of his age.
News comes from Geneva that the govern
m MT by order of the bundesrath, has ex-
PEELED n large number of nihilists, French
anarchists and German socialists. The per-
regular papers.
George Lewis negro, living near Belden,
Tex, was lynched for poisoning the well or
William Shaw.
The report to the effect that Mrs. Heron
was under sentence Of death in Corea for
preaching Christianity was without founda-
ton.
The project of forming syndicate OF
paper manufacturers in London has been
abandoned.
New York is growing very enthusiastic
over the proposed exposition there in 1879,
The creditors of Lewis Bros & Co., the ex-
tensive commission merchants, will urge a
speedy settlement of the firms affairs, that
the business may be resumed as speedily as
possible. The firm hopes to pay 100 cents on
| the dollar.
A son of Marshall II. Twitchell, United
| States consul ut Kingston, Ont, has been
arrested on the charge of being the masked
burglar who entered the residence of Mrs.
Martin there recently. He is a mere boy
and up to the present time bore good
character. He is said to be insane.
The trial of the strikers arrested at Bres-
lau, Germany has result d in the conviction
of 80 of the prisoners. Henkel, the ring
leader, was sentenced to sven years penal
servitude, and TO be deprived of his civil
| rights for seven years Nine of the strikers
were sentenced to terms of imprisonment
ranging from IS months to fveyears at hard
labor, and % were sentenced to imprison-
ment from year to four years without hard
| labor.
In the coming general elections for mem
berS of the chamber of deputies Henri
Rorhefort will contest the seat for Belleville,
Persian suburb.
"A IepDi lTOUl hay u Slut5o Uildt tueTe Has
been battle in which Hippolyte was driven
from his position.
A mortgage given by the Chicago Mil
waukee 4 st. Paul railroad company to the
United States Trust company of New York
has been filed for record in the office of the
circuit court at Galena, Ill. The amount OF
track covered by the mortgage is 1862 miles
and the amount of money represented is
S150, 1000, 900.
At the meeting of the Union Railway ant
Transit company and the Terminal Railway
company of st. L1us, the stockholders Of
the two companies voted for consolidation
and the new company will be known as the
St. Louis Terminal Railway association.
Another attempt has been made to wrecl
train on the Wheeling and Elm Grove
railroad which was returning from Wheel
ing Park with the cars crowded with pic
nickers. A rail was placed on the track in al
open field, and short distance away a maj
was found driving a spike between the end
Of two rails. He was captured amid som
excitement, and Is now in Jail. He is sus
pected of being the man who made two at
tempts at train wrecking on the night of tn
Fourth of July.
Mr.. George w. Childs has received iron
Col. Fred d. Grant, United States ministe
to Austria, communication enclosing
contribution Of sl42 subscribed by the pee
pie of Carlsbad for the sufferers at Johns
town, subscription of $40 from Colone
Grant and one OF like amount from hi
mother, Mrs. U. S. Grant
Joseph Albert Kelley of Brooklyn, N. Y
has been appointed a cadet at the Militar
academy, West Point from the fourth cor
gress district of New York.
, The Florida Manufacturing company ha
been recently incorporated at Albany, N. Y
with capital of s 80, 900, for the manufat
ture of cotton seed oil and other by-product
of cotton seed also mmorcial fertilizer
and cotton yarn and its products
FIR Delles, Catholic and a member of tt
) Protestant party, has been elected membe
of the German Reichstag for Metz, to tax
the place of Herr Antoine, who relinquishe
his seat and returned to France.
The suspension of Lewis Brothers & &c
commission merchants of New York al
Philadelphia Is announced. The liabiliti
: are estimated as 81 200, 900 and the assets
: S., 600 GOO. The embarrassment created gre
: surprise in business circles.
y The civil tribunal of Paris has decide
! that the Panama Canal company cann
compel the holders Of lottery bonds to pa
+ the outstanding installments but that Il
holders of such bonds are still liable to
4 called upon to make pro-rata payments
J., the extent of a gu rter of the nominal vail
a of the bonds. Where installments have be,
q paid in advance the company must refur
the money.
v The department of fisheries of Canada
!, advised that mackerel are schooling {
: Prince Edward Island, but they have n
:, yet been taken in any quantities.
o The Turkish cabinet council has decid
d not to send squadron to Crete, nor to ia
s active measures for the repression of the !
1t volt in that country, pending an endeavor
arrange terms with the malcontents.
= Deputy Sheriff Warren Moore was 81
1T and killed at Walloce, N. NJ, by Jose
IS Chacha. The latter was a smallpox after
ant, and was ordered to leave the TOW
rs whereupon he fired three shots in crowd