The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29
NEWS IN GENERAL.


A telegram received at Topeka, Kan, from
Dover, lndau Territory, states that the
Rev. 5. H. Griffin, colored has been shot
by Samuel Moore. No further particulars
are given, Griffin was well known at To-
peka, He went TO Oklahoma about six
months ago, and there secured claim. He
organized quite large colony of colored
people IN Topeka, all Of whom he located
near Dover. He was popular leader
among the coored people, and took prom
inent part IN politics,
The Montreal post of the Grand Army
formerly Installed its officers at a recent
meeting OF the order. United States Consul
General Knapp delivered an address, urging
the members to remember that the United
states aud Canada were neighbors. lie also
urged the members TO make the post nm in-
strnment for maintaining and fostering good
feeling between the two countries.
A mare belonging TO William Barnes, near
Emwood Mo-, foaled trio of colts recent
y, The triplets are doing nicely. IL is be.
lieved TO be the only case on record,
One hundred members of the New York
and Brooklyn Coal Exchange recently took u
three days excursion through the coal re-
gions of Reading, Pa.
II. J. Cunningham, who travels as sew.
Ing machine agent IN the county was visit
ing house of ill-fame at Rocky Mount, Va,
In company with Others, and when ordered
to leave by Octavia Hodges, 20-year-old
inmate of the house, he refused. The girl
fired upon and instantly killed him. Gun.
on a spree for several days. He leaves
wife and five children. The woman was
arrested.
The biggest landslide ever known on the
east branch of the Baltimore Il Ohio Rail-
road occurred near Confluence, Pa. The
track was carried away and the roadbed
covered for quarter OF mile.
Miss Jennie Fox, aged IS, daughter OF
Squire Joe Fox of johnson township, H.,
received cheek for $i,000,000 left her by
the death OF an uncle at Galveston, Texas.
This is Clark county's first millionaire.
Susan Benedict, sixteen-year old girl,
died at Lancaster, Pa from fatal dose of
iaudanum taken because her mother re-
fused to let her go out nights.
Henry Winkelbleck, lumber dea'er and
sawmill operator of Logansport, Ind, is be-
lieyed to be in Canada, having perpetrated
extensive torgcries. About $4,000 of the
fraudulent paper have already come to light.
EX-Attorney-Ge Baldwin holds $4,000,
b. S. Murdoch $1,000, the National Bank
$4,000, and more of 1T Is out. Winkelbleck's
family is left destitute.
Mr.. Pillsbury Is about to build at X ansas
Why sttli VI liOul W tuOst
recently sold by him to the English syn
dictate. Mr.. Pillsbury,wit other Minneapolis
capitalists, have already built one grain
elevator here with capacity of 1000, 900
bushels, and have completed arrangements
for the construction of a l0o0-barrel mill.
During quarrel over some work, Felix
Spi,znale threw large clinker at John Bogel
fellow workman in the Newark, n. j.,
Steel Works. 1t struck Bogel on the head
f,nn Ii l-,,u II E,,..
| Spitznale escaped.
| Giuseppe Carusi. alias Count Mohtercole
| pleaded guilty before Judge Thayer at Phila
| delphia to libel The defendant on April II
issued circulars which contained defamatory
statements regarding his wife, Virginia
! Knox Carusi of Pittsburgh. The Count was
sentenced to six months imprisonment.
| The bondsmen of ex-State Treasurer Nol-
and of Missouri will make good the deficit in
| his accounts.
! The warm weather has raised the water in
| the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers,
| Cal, and the leeves are in great danger
| Several bad breaks have occurred, flooding
| 1000 acres of gram The water is four inches
| higher than ever before.
| Mrs. Wilhelmina Fielder, who has been
missing from her home in Newark, n. j..
was found dead in swamp on the poor farm
at Milburn. She was II years old, and was
| slightly demented. 1t Is thought that she
| died of exposure and lack of food. Her
children made every effort to find her
A freight wreck at Elizabeth Furnace,
| three miles east of Altoona, Pa, resulted in
| demolishing seventeen ears, an engine, and
killing many head of cattle.
! The incoming limited train from Chicago
to Kansas City on the Chicago and Alton
| road WIS run into by freight train eight
| m nf Kansas (,jtv A s1pannr an Il
a dining car were ditchcd, but none of the
occupants was seriously and but three slight
ly hurt.
John Whalen, a resident of Auburn
y. y, was found hanging By the neck N q
COW shed. 1t was a case of suicide caused
| by diseased mind, superinduced by pro-
longed i'll health.
Lieut.-Gen. Middleton. who looted furs OF
half breeds during the Northwest rebellion,
denies that he has any intention of resigning
the command Of the Canadian militia.
Detectives have returned from fruitle's
trip to Mexico in search of the man who
drove DR.. Cronin to his death. Chief OF
Police Marsh, in an interview. said that he
knew positively that the man was in Mexico,
and that he had received warning and made
good his escape through the carelessness of
some of DR.. Cronin's friends.
John Wright, blacksmith, committed
suicide by throwing himself in front of the
Atlantic express on the New York Centra
road, at TarrytOwn, N. Y. The engine
threw him high in the air, and he was dead
when picked up.
Gov. Campbell has granted reprcve tc
Charles Blythe, the Cincinnati murderer, who
was to have been hanged in the peniten,
tiary, until June 90, when there will proba
bly, be double hanging, as that Is the day
| fixed for the execution of Otto Leuth, thu
boy who assaulted and murdered little Mag
gle Thompson in Cleveland.
During recent thunder storm that passed
over Marlboro county, S. c.. a stroke O.
lightning did unusual execution. AS soor
as it began raining a number of negroes who
were working in a field took refuge under
shed at the foot of a hickory tree. The tree
was struck, and the lightning, passing dowr
through the shed, killed SIN ut Patterson anG
John Brown, knocked two other men sense
less. and stunned several mules.