The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-15
NEWS IN GENERAL.

The dynamite cruiser Vcsuyius was given
her final official test at Philadelphia, and it
was pronounced very successful. The test
was for horse power only. The contract
calls for 32O,lhorsc power, and the trial cx-
eceded this by 500 or more.
Memorial services held the nth inst,
at Oakland cemetery. Richmond, Va, where
1900 confederate soldiers are buried, were
attended by thousands of people.
n, Stern, of the firm OF Stern & Son,
clothiers, ON Broadway, New York, was
Killed at Linden, n. j., while attempting to
board fast train that made no stop there.
senator ingalls, has introduced bill fixing
81 month as the minimum pension TO I've
pail for disability to survivors of the late
war.
Senator and Mrs. Stanford gave dinner
to the pages of the Senate. There were Is
OF them, and II was a great day for the
boys.
4. l.. Godkin, editor of the New York
Evening Post, has been again arrested, on
the complaint of Civil Justice Peter Mitchell,
who charges that an article in his paper OH
April 2s was criminal libel upon him.
The only special invitations sent ont by
the committee TO be present at the unwilling
OF the Lee statue at Richmond, Va, are
those to Gems. q. W. Smith. Beaurcgard,
and Joseph Il. Johnston; Mrs. Jefferson
Davis, Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, and the near
relatives of Gen. Lees family. These three
generals were especially invited because
they were Gen. Lees predecessors as com.
manders of the army OF northern Virginia.
Ellsworth Hughes, son of the traffic mana.
ger OF the Denver Il Rio Grand railway, and
nephew Of United States Senator Ingalls,,
was drowned at South Bend, Ind, while out
rowing with two companions. lie was Is
years old.
The ship Equator, Capt. Crosby, A days
from Bnenos Ayres, has Just arrived ut
North Sydney. She fell in, on March 81,
with the schooner Sarah Godfrey, Capt
Hogan, of Dorchester, n. b., from Rio
Grande do Sui for Barbados, dismasted
aud in helpless condition. Capt. Crosby
took Hogan and crew on board.
Six companies of infantry have left the
military post at San Antonio, Tex. for
Michigan posts to which they have been or
dered. Ten companies from various posts
will take their places.
The Simpson dry dock at the United
States navy yard, Brooklyn, was opened in
the presence of several hundred visitors
from New York, Washington, Baltimore and
Philadelphia. The United States monitor
Puritan was docked Immediately and the
pumps started. The whole affair passed off
quickly and without mishap.
A heavy wind storm which passed over
City of Mexico, blew down five arches of the
aqueduct, and the city is without drinking
water.
Senator Farwell of Illinois is suffering from
influenza in Chicago.
Oscar j. Kaufman, a soldier who deserted
from st. Francis Barracks in Florida, was
caught at Baltimore and tried by general
~ ;al n,
IS sentenced to dismissal from the service
and confined to four years imprisonment il
Fort I.eaycnworth, Kansas.
The Sheriff of Denver, oil, notified the pro-
prietors of every gam bling house in the city
TO close their doors and to appear before JUS
ticc Morris for trial. The proprictors ma, G
no resistance, but quietly told the men who
were playing to leash in" and then rolled
up their cash, turned out the lights, and
locked the doors; and for the fl st time in
many years there was not gambling house
open or card turned in the city Of Denver.
The propretors appeared before the Justice,
waived examination, and were bound over
in $500 bail each.
John McCurdy. a laborer with a large
family, living in Lebanon, Pa, has a
daughter. aged II. named Title, whom he
accused of disobeying him. lie purchased \
chain nine feet long, which he attached to a
staple in the floor and fastened to her wrist
She was then kept in her room without any
attention till her condition and surroundings
were such that the neighbors were comp He'd
to report her case to the authorities. The
father gave bail to answer at the June SEES.
sions Of court.
The cards are out for the marriage of Miss
Margaret Blaine, eldest daughter of Score
tary Blaine, to Mr.. Walter Damrosch. The
ceremony is to take place at Washington on
May II.
The two warning factions of Chinatown,
Los Angeles, Cal, came together recently
and the result was riot. One Gilman was
Killed, one seriously wounded, and white
bystander shot in the leg. Fully 40 shots
were fired from the windows and by the
Chinese on the streets. The police soon
quelled the riot and arrested 100 Cinnamon
who carried revolvers. The Wong Chez
Society has announced that every promi
nent member of the All Nov will be killed.
Knight, Bruce & Daniel brokers', doing
business in City of Mexico and in New
to ask the United States government to ex.
tradite Charles Henderson, now in New
York, who is accused of robbery.
Henry Kunalt, burglar, was killed at st.
Louis, Mo. Henry Statkamp, carpenter,
saw two men hanging around a shop on
Lindell avenue early in the evening, and de.
ciled to watch them. As the hours went by
and they did not leave, Staltkamp went into
the house, loaded his shotgun and stationed
himself in building in another corner Of
the yard. Soon after 1.20 o'clock he saw
two figures rise from the shadow of the fence
and move cautiously toward the shop
Staltkamp waited until the men had tried
the door and window, then he called out to
them to stop. The men ran, and Kunalt
was shot dead.
James Mel!en, aged As years, was arrested
in Delaware county, Pa. charged with arson
in setting fire to the stable Of Mr. George
w. ChiIds at the latter's country residence.
Detectives have been searching for Melen
since the night of the fire. lie was com.
mtted for hearing at Media. Mr.. Childs
expressed the opinion that Mellen was the
guilty man. 1t seems that his act was
prompted by desire to be revenged upon
Mr.. Childs's coachman, because he refused to
loan him money. He was formerly in the
employ Of Mr.. Childs as a waiter, but was
discharged because he was quarrclsomc.
Rev. Louis Martin, an ex-Catholic priest,
has disappeared from Montreal, Que. He
went to Montreal from Wisconsin two wears
ago, after being unfrocked for getting mar
ried. He delivered several sermons there
under the auspices of the Protestant clergy,
in which he roundly abused the Catholic
Church. He had had Ii I'd time of it fiuan-
cially, but lately, and concurrcntly with
visits OF nuns to his residence. his circum-
stances have been easier This and the fact
that he had written and cancelled an anti
Catholic work previous to his disappearance,
create the impression that he has gone back
to the church.
The outlook for the Province own, Mass,
salt fishing fleet is reported exceedingly poor
Ia, i.
the Grand bank fleet will number % sail, and
four schooners will so to Bay st. Lawrence
,odfshing
THE QUEENS INDiSPOSITION.