The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-10-17
NEWS IN GENERAL.

nuoiu Il, brown uhs HnlNhed tne electri-
| cal machine Tor the execu ion OF condemned
criminals at Sing Sing prison.
The CatSkils are White tn snow.
Simon Walker Of CheSterfe county, Vir-
| gina, the n gro boy condemned TO DO ha e.
d on the last Of this mo, tn for an assault
upon W tie girl, has besn respited Tor
thirty days
Laborels gging sewer in one OF the
| principal streets Of TieonderoSa N Y,
| nave un art ed the tombstone and coffin OF
Lord George Au9usus Howe, who was
He'd in ieading his forces against the
French m battle at Tic nderoga July x,
lIoS The skull of he body was intact but
the rest Of he bones were dist inted and
cons derally decayei. The oak eofiin was
IN fair state OF pres rvation. The emains
VIII DO reinterred in the village CT metery.
The Davis Land Company Of ia kson,
Mis-, has perfect, Plans for the is,uance OF
stock. The object 4 tue c mpanv rs to s Il
| abaut 5000 acres Of lard ownei by jeff son
Davis, on WAT t. river, Arkans S I, is
and is said to be very valu BILE, there being
an Stimats already ma % Of the value OF
timbe per acre III, figures being plac as
nigh as $50 OJo L is predicted the will
| soon raise the 500 600 nee ssary TO luy the
land fl m the ex-president Of the con-
iederacy.
| A New York lineman, Erdman, met his
dea b at the top Of a telegraph pole by COM
| ing n contact with wire. He fell to TIE
ground with his hand charred, and lay there
dead and mangled h III an hour,
| For some time past passengers upon tho
boats of the Savanna Ste ,mship company
nave been robbed Of sa chefs and other port.
able property lett In slater, ons just before
sail ny. ward Palmer negro W liter on
the Stonington line teamer Connecticut
l - hnnv< 4 l..l1 -.
| n charge OF taking the goods. Palmer
had over hundred pawn tickle in his pos
session, and at his lod ring in New York was
found property belonging to DR.. Morton Of
Savannah, Ga,
! The Boston steamer Herman Winter ran
into and sunk the lighter Manhattan near
b docs island. Fifteen men on the light
e,caped safely. the captain of the Herman
Winter saws that the pilot OF the Ii ghter dis
regarded his 'tgnals and attempted to cross
! his bows. He was between two long lows
and unable to avoid striking the Ii liter.
The Rev. F, Duckworth, pastor Of the
Methodist church at Union Grove, Wis, has
| been sued by DR.. Clarke of Oh cago H sold
the ctor horse for 1925, and alleged that
the ht rse was sound and only eight years
| cid. On the strength of this Dr. Clarke
bought the horse and sent after it When
the animal arrived at Cnca 20 it was lame
and showed symptoms of being plug" A
veterinary surgeon discovered that the horse
| was Ia years old, his Zee h had been fl ed
and he wts very lame and gave as his
| opinion that the amin / had been dosed Mr..
| Duckworth, however, a serts that the horse
| had l'een driven too last, and had been left
out in the cold.
John Schnesler, Jersey City, N j., left
his house on recent evening to shoot cat.
| He placed the stock of his gun against q
| fanCp and LET hia
The gun was accidentally discharged, and
Semester was shot in the arm. He died.
The training school for nurses, an insitu-
ton of the ms Hopkins hospital at Balti-
mo e, Md, has be n formally open d. 1t
be ,ins with Is students, who have complied
with the necessary requirements which IN
sist of physician cert flea OF good health
and a clergymans certificate testifying to
their good character. They have also passed
an easy examination in elementary arith-
| M Tic and dictation. They will be req hired
to wear uniform of ale bue bingham,
with ap on and Ii en- collars and cuffs The
students, who will be C m ortably lodged in
a finely equ pped building and boarded, will
" Give in addition s. a month during the first
IT and s12 during the second year. The
lrse exten is over two years.
Horace Weaver of Trenton N. j., a rail
nd C nductor, was struck and instantly
led by an en- line on the New York d.
ion Of the Pennsylvania iail Dad near
cstowv
Ous of tae biggest mining deals yet made
st. Louis, involving 81, GOO 900 cash, has
st been cl std by Judge U. F. Cleary.
re pr perty is in Mexico and includes all
the mines on the Vegonia vein, and a
lsaJ 200 acre OR MT ntaining numerous
gold, silver, and COZ per lodges of untold
riches. The buyers are New York and Lon
don M n.
AT meeting of the New York board of
electrical control, Mayor Grant decl red
that he would at once take steps to compel
the electric light companies to properly
| insulate th ir wires so as to make dsath or
injury bv contact wi them impossible, an |
if the companies failed TO immediately lake
such act he would order the wires cut,
even if the city had to go without electric
lights until the wires could be put under
ground
The cornerstone of what is to be known as
''the Pulitzs building corner OF Frankfort
street and Park row, New York, has been
laid.
United States marshal was murdered
in Tennessee Tor enforcing the revenue law.
Every building but one in the village of
Norwood, Ohio, has be des royed by fire
Electric wires are keeping New Workers
on the jump.
A woman jumped from the bri ige into
the Mississippi river at st. L III Mo-, but
her clothe, acted as a parachute and she
was uni rjured.
A Dung colored man of Baltimore, Nd,
was refused admittance to two medical uni
versities n account OF his color.
/ 1t has been disc lveret: that the bottoms Of
the monitors in the Brooklyn navy yard are
rottirg away.
The rapid spread of forest fires in Mime
sofa is alarming residents along the Mani
toba road.
A negro ravi;h was lynched at Her.
nando, Miss.
The internati nal congress will go south.
The City Of New York s hoated off
Romer shoal after being stuck three days.
Edison says that putting wires in subways
will not make them SAFE
Horatinn N. Waldo and wife Of Arcade,
N. Y, have celebrated their Goth wedding
anniversary. Mr.. Waldo is 81 years old, was
an ardent aboli ioni,t, and his house was a
station in the famous "un foreground rail-
way" He has never used liquors. tobacco,
nor patent medicines.
Mrs Mary A. Barnett, agel 80, and Daniel
Muir by, aged g., painter, was suffocated
BY gas in a hotel in New York ci Y. The
womans husband lett her three years ago
for unfaithfulness. She had be N intima g
with Murphy, and on the night of their
aths the uple were on a drunken de-
bauch at the hotel
A great deal Of excitement was caused in
New York by Q fornless Texan steer which
trampled nu nber OF people under foot.
Forty-fve shots were fired at the animal by
p, licemen, to say nothing Of fusilade di
rectel at him by other green ma ksmen,
who shot from windows along his route,