The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-29
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

Can't. Gardner Of the schooner Valkyrie,
from the Banks reports that ohe sonooner
western part Of the Grand Bank, picked up
Can't. Charles Rogers In the smallboat
Nickelo leon In an exhausted condition.
Capt, Rogers was bound from Boston for
Paris, and had been at sea thirty eight days
An accident occurred at the Readville
(Mass.) gravel pit on the Old Colony rail-
road Mr. Mead, who has charge OF me
pit, was riding on the gravel train with his
men, and, observing that they were stand
inr, told them to sit down or they would be
liable to be thrown off the cars; de had
hardly ceased speaking when sudden move |
mont of the tram threw him out under the
wheels Both his legs were cut on, ana the
lower portion of his body 80 mangled that no
died in a very short time. He leaves
widow and one child and belonged In fitt'-
field, N. H.
A warrant has been issued on complaint OF
Oliver p, Strout against w. Il. Cookson,
charged with stealing a horse in Orneviiie,
Me- A harness was stolen In Atkinson tne
same night, and gig in Sebago the mgnt
following. Cookson has served three years
in state prison.
1t is claimed that Mrs. John Walton or
Saugus Centre Mass, by the discovery OF
flaw in the deed Of an estate d,ting back TO
thickly settled between Tyler and Pranker
streets, Lynn. The property is worth sever
al hundred thousand dollars
Philip and Celina Martineau, brother and
sister, claiming to hail from Boston, were
arrested at Manchester, N H., for the theft
of a valuable diamond ring from a Jewelry
store, while examining a tray full OF rings.
| When arrest the ring was found on the
woman's finger. She said she forgot to take
| it of.
At Middletown, Conn, Henry Tutrell,
driver of a stone cart was thrown under the
| wheels of his cart and almost instantly
killed.
Elzear Michaud, about 25 years old, pried
| the bars of one of the windows in the attic
above the workshop at the house of corree-
ton, New Bedford, dropped TO the roof OF
| the boiler house, mounted the prison wall
dropped to the street a distance Of 10 or 20
feet and escaped. Officers are now search
ing the suburbs for him. He was sentenced
Dec, 15 1885, to three years for larceny, but
on March 10, 1887 he escaped, but was re-
captured the next day. F + this escape
Michaud was given two years additional, and
at the time of the present escape was serving
out that sentence.
1t is reported that the Electric Car COM
pany of North America, Philadelphia cor
poration owning a large number of valuable
patents, relating to street railway propui-
sion, has completed negotiations for a sale
of all its patents applicable to overhead and
underground construction to the Thomson
Houston Electric company of Boston.
A tornado of 80 minutes duration passed
over Winthrop Me-, on the 18th. Corn and
other crops were seriously injured, barrels
of apples were blown from trees in orchards,
and numbers of trees were Frustrated by the
gale.
| ~ &C. ,OrtnI hat named
Melcher was badly bitten by mad dog in
Middleton Mass. Twenty or more unmuz-
zlel dogs have been shot in that town.
Second Officer Taylor of the steamship
Palestine of the Warren line has invented a
new code of night signals by which the name
of vessel can be ascertained, the captain
name, where she sails, &c Heretoso Q only
a steamers line could be signalled 1t Is an
arrangement of colored and white lights by
means of which signals can be readily and
s fons o @de' signa i book, four light.
representing one flag, read from
left to right. The apparatus con
ss.s of square fronted box, with six
teen bulrs-eye glasses, four in NV, bshinc
ing disc, turned by means OF knob undel
the bull s-ayes, the different arrangement Of
y the colored glasses corresponding to tn
flags of the code book. For example, tn
signal, ''What boat is that?' is represented
,, by top row of red lights and second ROY
of three green lights and one white light
which represents signal letters B. d. by re
Q ferriug to the code signal book will be foun'
S the name. &c.
q Benjamin P. Chadwick, agent Of the fish
i commission hos been stirring up the flsl
a dealers in Fall River, Mass, and had 10th
rop Clark, William A. Bassett and j. q
Childs, ii h dealers of New Bedford, arrested
charged with not having their names AM
residences inscribed on lobster cars belong
{ ing TO them, as required by the statute o
the present year.
sad sight was witnessed by late pedes
TRANS who happen d along Hanover street
a Boston, The other morning.. A man and hi
s daughter were both intoxicated, and tn
: former was trying hard to get into a figh
! with another man, who however, though
i that discretion was the better part of val
: The pa r remained upon the street quarre
ing with each other for half an hour afte
; this
l. Boston railroads have issued circular d.
S claring their intention of charging for tn
dete ton of freight cars.
a B. M. Kimball & Son. morocco makers
r Haverhll, Mas, decided to finish Skin
g hereafte by week work, instead of piee
n work The employees held a meeting an
IS voted not to work by the week, and 100 me
q went out waiting for a settlement OF tn
J, question.
u A typhoid fever patient killed his nurs
= in a fit of deirum at Winchester, Mass
W Mrs. Frances jerome, who represents IL
r. Yellow Cross society at Johnstown, Pa
n was assaulted by two rufiians and dragge
r. from her horse while riding through a d
X serted portion of Prospect Hill. Robber
10 was evidently the object of the villains. 81
n was pretty badly abused before managing