The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
NEWS IN GENERAL.
Serious floods are feared in the Allegh any

Serious floods are feared in the Allegheny
section.
Visitors to the Fourteenth Street Thestre
recently witnessed tragedy Just outside the
doors shortly before the hour for raising the
curtain Two ticket spectators, William
Turnbull and James II. Hyde, became in
yolyed In quarrel, and Hyde shot Turn
bull, killing him almost instantly.
Minnie Palmer has beat her own record at
the Grand Theatre Isington, Eng, playing
"My Sweetheart to $1,000 in one week,
A destructive cyclone passed over the vii
lage of Edgemore, 5, G, Fourteen houses
were blown down, a negro named James
Miller was killed and several pers ms We're
seriously injured, The roof of the Georgia,
Carolina & Northern depot was blown half
mile away, Robinson 4 Bros establish
ment and Dickey's drug store were totally
demolished, Edgemores new church was
also destroyed.
A moonshine raid by General Deputy
Collector Hawkins, with 10 other officers,
occurred at Louisville. Ky. BY night
marching they took the Illicit dstillers by
surprise, and without any resistance cap
tured seven men and five guns, They also
destroyed five stills and 1000 gallons of
beer,
Fire was discovered in No. 2 shaft at the
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Wis The alarm was quickly given to the
force of men in the mine, but in spite Of
their efforts to escape, five of the men at
work b tween the fifth and sixth level in
the same shaft were cut off,
j. f. Weston of Colorado was met in
Salt Lake City, Utah, by two afiable
strangers, who gave him drugged whiskey
and then took him into an omnibus in the
rear of livery stable and made desperate
attempt to rob him of S75 in gold. He
drew a revolver, and fatally shot one of the
thieves.
The new Wanamaker postal card has
reached South Carolina and has produced
perfect storm of abuse. The complaint
comes from every section of the state that
the con tents of the card can't be read owing
to hespreading of the ink. -
Mary Robinson, a colored woman living
in Baltimore, Nd, while toying with gun,
according to her statement, pointed it to-
ward her sister-in-law, Sarah Robinson.
Just at that moment the gun made up Its
mind to go off, d the bullet struck Sarah
in the neck. She died six hours afterwar1.
Mary says she did not know the gun was
loaded.
The Western Union Telegraph company
has invi.el the House committee on post
offices and post roads to visit the company's
hOttluo' teio III A>OW oih GIN hhu cup GA
about the telegraph business. This is the
committee that is considering Postmaster
General Wanamaker's scheme for apostal
telegraph.
Button, Ala, makes the munificent gift
OF 100000 to the Methodist Episcopal
church for the location of the educational
institution known as the University OF the
Southland. Rev, G. l.. Mann, DID, who
has it III charge. says that 81, SOC, 900 will be
expended on the new building, which will
be 300x300 feet and seven stories in height,
with an inner court 200 feet square. Ground
will be broken on April Is, aud work on the
building pushed rapidly.
In the railway committee of the Domin-
ion Parliament, the Detroit River Bridge
bill was passed. The measure authorizes
the Detroit River Bridge Company to con-
struct a bridge similar to that across the
river Tay.
In the case brought up from the circuit
court of Rock county, Wis, the supreme
court decided that the Bible had no place
in the common schools The opinion was
unanimous. The case originated at Edger-
ton, where suit was brought to compel a
school district board to prohibit teachers
from readin: the Bible to scholars.
The grand jury has reported to Chief JUS
tice Bingham an Indictment against Charles
+. Kincard for the murder of ex-Represent-
alive William P. Taulbee.