The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-04-17
NEWS IN GENERAL.

A railroad accident occurred at Borden
town, N, j., in which Engineer George
Kerr was killed and Fireman Thomas Ber.
ryan of Trenton seriously injured. Engine
3Si was perfect wreck, and Engineer Kerr
was pinned beneath IT, slowing scalding to
death. II was caused by the engine striking
the point of switch that had been improp'
erly locked, Kerr had been employed by
the Pennsylvania road for the past ~ years,
was 80 years of age and leaves widow and
two children.
Commander Floyd Clarkson of the de-
partment of the state of New York, q, A.
r., has issued an order to the veterans OF
the Grand Army TO appoint committees
throughout tho state and solicit subscrlp'
tons upon Grants birthday, April q, toi
the erection OF monument to marx the
grave Of Gen, Grant,
There is a shortage of between 5000 and
$4,000 in the accounts of Samuel #. Carey,
village clerk of Saratoga, N. Y. Carey is
deposed, and an investigation is in progress.
Two cnpines running at q high rate OF
speed, collided on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, William Smith, the engineer of one
of the locomotives, was instantly killed: In
another collision near Ridge avenue station,
in the northern part of the city, between a
coal train and an engine, Richard Seal, the
engineer OF the former, was killed.
Mrs Johns, president of the Kansas
Woman Suffrage Association, denies the re-
ports telegraphed from that state that wom-
en- are ceasing to vote. A feminine vote OF
$1,000 was cast in all the cities, she says,
William Boscawen, proprietor Of chair
factory in Brooklyn, ~ Y, and well known
in business circles, has been missing since
the 5th inst. He Is a prominent G. A. X.
man.
The wholesale produce business of Will
kinson 4 Gaddis, Newark, N. j., has, it is
announced, been sold to an English syndi-
cate for 81 100000.
A water tank crashed through the roof
of the Park Theatre, Philadelphia, flooding
the cellar and otherwise doing much
damage.
At the funeral of highly respected dog
in Philadelphia, the other day, the coffin
was of mahogany, lined with satin and
mounted With silver ornaments. At the
conclusion of the funeral ceremonies the re-
mains were conveyed in hearse to the
C, metcry where they were inferred with
rites becoming the solemn occasion.
Three blood horses belonging to Abram
Carpenter, a dealer in hay and feed, were
burned in his barn at Syracuse, N. Y One
of the horses, Rungalee, had q 2.30 record
and was valued at 5000.
Nineteen prisoners escaped from the
county Jail at Spokane Falls, Wash. While
the jailer was making his rounds he was
seized. bound, and gagged by four of the
prisoners, who liberated the remainder by
unlocking their cells.
Judge Ryland in his charge to the grand
jurors of the Pettis county criminal court at
Sedala, Mo-, instructed them that the
fashionable game of progressive euchre and
church ratiies are gambling and contrary to
law and charged them to take cognizance
of all such things.
At the Warren foundry, Phillipsburg, n.
j., while the men were running of the
molten iron, an immense ladle which had
Just been filed, was upset, causing terrific
explosion. The men We're thrown in every
direction and three of them were frightful-
ly burned, one fatally.
The will of the late David Dows of New
York gives the storage warehouse and
business and 100000 to David Dows, Jr,
and 800, 900 TO each of the other six chill
dren. The residence and various other
property, and $500 0 80 to the widow