The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-06-06
ALL SORTS.

Isaac OGopueHooA, onO
Wisconsin lumberman who is to oc-
cupy the seat in the United States
Senate vacated by John G. Spoon
err, will be IS years old in June. In
spite of his years he is reported to
be alert and agile. He is OF the
same age as Senator Allison of
Iowa and Senator Cullom of Hi
nois. Senator Morgan of Alabama
and Senator Wayte Of ryland
! each is five years the senior of Ste
phenson, while Senator Pettus of
Alabama, the oldest member in the
upper branch of Congress-, will
round out SO years in July.
Robert Amber Bruce. 10Y years
old, who is said to have been the
oldest Mason in the world, is dead
in Richmond, Va.
Efforts will be made to secure the
presence of President Roosevelt in
Boston during Old Home Week.
Martha johnson, negress, pro,
ably the heaviest woman in the
world, is dead at Louisville. She
! tipped the beam at 81 pounds, was
81 years old, and native of Ken
lucky.
! Corda Krum Nathansen, the eel
ebrated Danish actress, was shot
and MORALLY wounded by her hus-
band Sunday at Hotel Alborg, in
Denmark. The husband then com
mitted suicide. Jealousy was the
cause of the tragedy.
Within the next few days com
mittee of rs comprising the most in
| fuential business men and manu-
facturers of San Francisco will be
created. It will form rallying
point for the conservative element
in the community, which wishes to
see law and order preserved and
business confidence restored.
Richmond has just voted an extra
| SIS 900 in addition to the $4,000
voted at the the March meeting for
the erection of new high school
building. Work will be begun at
once.
In the suit State of Texas against
the Waters Pierce Oil Co., the jury
returned verdict for the State of
81 ,623,9OO penalties, and granted
the States prayer that the COM
pany's permit to do business in Tex
as be cancelled. An appeal will be
taken.
Jesse James, the son of the noto-
rious bandit of that name, received
honors for the best work of the year
in Kansas City school of law when
the graduating exercises of that in
stitution were held last weeR. The
younger James, who was himself
tried for train robbery and acquit-
tod eight years ago, is about 80 and
has been successfully a packing
house employee, cigr stand keeper,
pawnbroker and now a lawyer.
Advices received at Oran, Alge-
ria, from Morocco say that the
troops of the pretender to the throne
surrounded and annihilated the sui
tan's forces at Marchica, that Null
ely Bou Bekir, the sultan's uncle,
and two Kaids were killed and that
800 women were captured
Surely the quaintest of the Whit
suntide customs still surviving in
England is the practice at st. Ives
of throwing dice for Bibles. It
dates from 1875, by the will of
DR.. Robert Wilde. Every year six
boys and six girls, from church and |
ronconformist Sunday schools, cast |
dice for Bibles in the presence of |
the vicar
A sensation has been caused at |
Odessa by the arrest of several Off
cia's and well-known lawyers who
for several years have been engaged |
in a novel conspiracy to defraud the
state of the revenue from estates
whose heirs were missing or I'M
known. The plan of the conspira-
tors, who operated chiefly in Odessa
aid Warsaw, was to obtain possess
sion of such estates by the use of
fraudulent documents or by bring
ing forward false heils. An order
placed with an engraver of Vienna
for duplicate of an official seal led
to the discovery of the frauds The
persons implicated are said to have
derived about s5OO,O from the
swindles.
Ethel Barrymore has secured the
right to play 'sThe Three of Us" in
England and has asked her two
brothers to play the two leading
male roles. Jack at once consented,
and Lionel, who has been painting
IN Paris, also seemed glad to have a
chance at the stage again, so the
three Barrymores will doubtless
storm L,ndon 40 .ong.