The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-04-24
NEWS IN GENERAL.

Application was made IN the county court
at Chicago, ILL.,, April 20, for the appoint
ment of u conseryator for the estate OF Il. ].
Lehman, on the allegation that he Ia q dis
traeted person. The application Is made by
his wife, Henrietta. Mr.. Lehman Is proprie.
| tor OF "rhe Fair,' an immense department
store, and has other interests. lie Is reputed
| to be worth 81, 900, 900. All OF this fortune
has been accumulated since the great iire OF
| 1871, and II l. supposed that the mental and
nervous strain consequent upon his business
| ventures has unsettled his mind. Mr.. I.eh'
man is now In Bloomingdale Asylum, New
| York. whittier he was taken few days ago.
At meeting of the directors of the
| worlds fair In Chicago, ILL.,, the finance com
mitiee reported In favor OF at once taking
steps to Increase the capital stock to Sl0,000,.
600. The report was unanimously adopted
| and the finance COMM tee members were
continued as commi tee to have charge OF
| the matter. The committee Is composed OF
Lyman J. Gage, Otto Young, o. G. Keith,
j, j. z. O'Dell and J. r. Walsh.
At the Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore,
Nd, the keels Of the two 2000-ton U. S.
cruisers are laid, and the bending of the
| frames will begin. Work will be pushed on
them as rapidly as possible. In the ship
| yards along the Patapsco II vessels Of differ
ent classes, costing more than S3,00O,0O0, are
| uoN III toNisC VI SoustiuStious AuS tHs ~
recovering its old-time prosperity In ship
building.
j. ii. Griffith, q young tailor OF 104 Bayard
street, New York City, in attempting to
| Jump across an area way between his room
| and the roof Of an adjoining house where
| some girls were standing with whom he had
struck up Irritation, missed his footing, fell
| G5 feet to the pavement, and was instantly
| killed.
A special from Cstettsburg, KY, reports
| the killing In West Virginia, near Pigeon
| William Baisden, brothers and noted des-
| peradoes. James Brewer, deputy sheriff,
and posse attempted to arrest them and were
| fired upon. A battle ensued, and the despcr-
ADDE'S were killed or mortally wounded and
| captured.
Three corvicts attempted to escape from
stockadc at Palarn, Ark. and two Of them,
| Dan Snead and Tom oxford. both desperate
characters were shot and killed by guards.
The third, Willis Walker. escaped.
The carpenters Of indianapolis, Ind,
| threaten to strike tomorrow unless their de-
mands are acceded to by the contractors.
The housesmiths of New York city recently
| met and decided to demand "a per day in
stead of $3.50. Unless the demand is grained
| by May l a general strike Of the men Is
| probable.
| The sum Of Sis per square foot has been
| paid for land on Fifth avenue, New York.
The clerks and other employees of the
| Unied States Express Company in Chicago,
| IN number about 400, whose wages will be
| reduced on May In accordance with the re-
cent decision Of the company, strenuouosly
object to the cut. They claim that the re-
| ducton is not warranted. and talk about re-
signing in body, believing that the COM
pany cannot ill their places.
Asa r. Waterman, the manager of Jacobs
Lyceum Theatre, Brooklyn, shot and instant
| " killed Peter Doran, in front of the play
house. Waterman was with Doran's wife.
Papers have been served on Fritz" En-
! NETT by his wife, who has taken steps to-
ward securing divorce.
The great New York dry goods firm OIL.
| B. Claffiin Il Co. is to be rcorganized rs a
stock company with capital of Sl0,OO0,000
The shares which are not taken by the pres
ent members of the firm will be offered to
the employees, but none will be sold to the
| public.
Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill.,, has
been closed on account Of an epidemic of ty-
| phoid fever among the students. Though
Rock Island is otherwise free from the dis
ease, about 40 of the students have been on
the sick list. Twenty OF them are not re-
garded az dangerous, but 16 cases have de-
velOped malignant form Of the disease.
Two Of the students have died and two
| others are In critical state. Sewer gas has
been pronounced the cause Of the epidemic,
as those students who do not eat or sleep in
the afflicted building have not been troubled.
Steve Jacobs, colored, arrested on suspicion
of having burned j. G. kelso's barn, was
taken from the Fayetteville, Tenn, jail by a
mob of armed men and hanged.
To the surprise Of citizens of Albany NY,