The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-04-03
NEWS IN GENERAL.


demands having been granted
Miss Fanny Davenport was unable to APP
pear at the Academy at Buffalo, N. Y, Dur
ing the performance of La Tosca" she acci.
dentally fell heavily upon the stage, sus-
tanning painful though not serious injuries.
A Bismarck, N. d., special says; Some
one tried to burn mp the town. An In
cendiary started blaze between two empty
buildings, with wind blowing6o miles an
hour. The old Opera House on Third
street. the laundry building belonging TO
George p. Flannery of Minneapolis, and
the Judkins photograph gallery were
burned. The sparks set fire to two small
houses two blocks distant and burned
them up Only the wet roofs from the
recent SHOWS saved hat Of the town.
About the same hour n fire was started in
a lumber yard in the east end Of town,
but was put out in time.
For several weeks Mr.. Ernest Groesbeck.
wealthy New York city banker, has been
prospecting at Augusta, Ga, and has pur-
chased the hill tops and sloping river front
lust opposite Augusta on the South Caro-
lima side Of the Savannah river. Mr..
Groesb ok proposes to erect a palatiai hotel
on the land and make it the most attractive
resort South. The land will be cut up in
lots and developed, and cottages for North,
ern visitors and suburban residents will add
to the charm of the place for city people.
One of group of school children was in
jured in Astoria, N. Y, by being tossed by a
COW.
Dispatches from those counties in Kansas
which were devastated by prairie fires re-
port that the loss to live stock was not very
heavy, but great quantities of farm produce,
such as grain in store, hay, &C., were de-
stroyed. The total loss is estimated at about
$250,000.
The will of the late ]. Young Scammon
of Chicago, has been admitted to probate
Mr.. Scammon left an est te worth ~ O,
I his was not a surprise o those who were
familiar with the financial history of the eead
pioneer. Mr.. Scammon was considered one
of the richest men in Chicago before the
great fire. Much Of his estate went up in
smoke, and what was left was engulfed in
he panic of 1873
Mejor George Chrisman, Jacob WissleI
and Mr.. Prince representing the Farmers
Alliance of the United States have concluded
to establish the Alliance Agricultural Works
at Iron Gate, Allegheny county, Va. The
works will employ from 80 to 500 hands,
and their products will go to every sub
Alliance in the country, representing 4,OOO,'
900 members.
A party of foreigners, who landed at
Pittsburg recently, were found to be por-
ton of the 900 German and Hungarian
miners whom New York employment
agent had hired to go to work at Punxsu-
tawney. When they arrived they found
big str Ike in progress and that the COM
pany's store absorbed all their wages. Some
300 of them quit and scattered all over the
country. They denounced the New York
employment agent who had mlsrepresented
affairs to them in every way. Many are on
their way back to Germany.
The bill giving cities in New jersey power
to tax circuses as much as $500 day license
was beaten in the House of Assembly by a
close vote. TIL news is hailed with glee by
the score of circus owners who are wont to
bring their shows through New Jersey
yearly.
Edward Doolittle, an engineer on the
Alabama Great Southern Railroad, was
killed in collision on that road on Feb. II
A few weeks after his widow, Mrs. Joseph
Doollttle, filled in the probate court letters
of administration Later Mrs. Mary Doc
little of South Carolina, through her attor-
neys, filled notice of a contest of the letters
of administration. Mrs. BIary Doolittle
says she, too is the widow of the dead en-
gineer She says he deserted her aud three
children in South Carolina few years ago,
and she only heard of his whereabouts and
his second marriage when she read of his
death. He has lived IN Birmingham about
three years, and rad an excellent character.
Both women have marriage certificates, and
the case promises to be an interesting one,
from the fact that the dead engineer left
enough property to make fight for its
possession.
The United States Naval Institute, com.
posed of officers of the navy and Others
have offered a prize of 500 with gold
medal for The best essay presented on any
subject pertaining to the naval profession.
The condt ons for the prize essay are that it
must be sent to the naval academy on or be-
fore the first of next January. Each com
petitor must use motto, which should be
enclosed in the envelope with the essay. A
separate envelope containing the notto and
the writer's name should also be sent, to be
opened after the award. The successful
C, competitor will be made life member Of
the institute.
State Comptroller Baughman of Mary
land has discovered a transportation of
the state securities in the hands of State
Treasurer Stevenson Archer, who is lying
critically ill at his home in Belalr, Hartford
county.
The bill abolishing pool rooms in Mary.
land has become law. There were about
six pool rooms in Baltimore alone, and the
owners were making lots of money.
A dispatch from Lima, o., says that the
Standard Oil Company has purchased the
property of the Lima Oil Company, its
strongest competito in the Ohio field. The
consideration is said to be 81, 100000. The
Lima Company owned big blocks of terri
tory in the Ohio field and refineries at Lima
and in New York.
John Fl. Atkinson. lawyer, was killed
at his office, New York, by Felix Palmer
foreman of a gang of safe movers, who were
putting safe into the office. Atkinson had
some words with Palmer, who finally
struck him on the head with a heavy stick
arrested He claims that he acted in self
defense, as Atkinson was about drawing
pistol No weapon was found on Akin
sous p rson.
| Sheriff Flacks resignation has been re-
ceived by the Governor of New York.
Judge Andrews of New York has granted
an injunction restraining William j. Scan
Ian from using the name "Myles Aroon," as
the title of play. John G. Fleming claims
the title, and has brought suit to recover
| $1,000 as damages.
! Six-year-old Nellie Irwin of New York got
her arm caught between the palings of a
wooden fence and broke it in two places try
ing to extrcate it.
Five men were killed and six cen were
frightfully mangled in an explosion in the
annex of a sugar refinery in Chicago. The
building was blown to pieces, and a great
pile of wreckage fell upon the deck of a
steamship which was anchored in the river
near the refinery. The explosion was
caused by carelessness.
THE CITY OF PARIS SINKING,
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