The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1908-10-15
WORLD NEWS OF
TIE WEEK.
Covering Minor Happenings from
all Over tho Globe.
DOMESTIC.

Controller Murray announced a
Washington that more frequent ex
| am nations would be made Of bank
suspected Of a tendency toward VIC
lations of the banking laws.
It was said at Newport, r. l., tina
there was little hope of saving thu
United Safes cruiser Yankee, which
is ashore in Buzzard's Bay.
The International tuberculosis
Congress at Washington closed
New York being given prizes in thu
awards.
Joseph S. Harris, former Presiden
OF the Reading. and w. A. Lathrop
President of the Lehigh Valley Goa
and Navigation Company, testified IL
the Governments suit against the
Coal Trust that they had never heard
of a com bination to fix coal prices
and regulate the output.
Theodore r. Shear. a New York
lawyer. inherited $1o,OOo.OO0 from
an uncle in California.
General Louis Fitzgerald. seventy
years old, died of angina pectoris at
Eagles's Rest. his home near Car
rison on the Hudson. N. Y.
In the Supreme Court. New York
City, Mrs. Flora Avery. of Spearfish,
s. D., met her daughter. Myrtle Bar
Der. fifteen years old. who was kid
mapped more than thirteen years
ago.
The three-day celebration of the
dedication of Hartford's 100000
stone bridge began with big parade
and historical pageant.
John H. Marble. special attorney
OF the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, submitted brief to the COM
mission at Washin gton. charging
that the Trunk Line Association of
Railroads was guilty of discrimina
ton against Independent sugar re-
flners.
John r. Mcintyre, counsel for the
Hams brothers. accused of the muir
der of Annis, served notice that he
would challenge the present Queens
County Grand Jury.
The enrolment of students at
Harvard University included nearly
five thousand.
Dr. Cortlandt Meyers issued an
edict against the wearing of hats by
women in the BAPTIST Temple.
Brooklyn.
Seizures by customs inspectors in
- ~
conspiracy among the Italian i'm
porters.
State Senator Wilcox. of New
York. who opposed the anti-race
track bills, was defeated tor renom-.
nation.
FOREIGN.
Benjamin H. Ridgeley, Uaited
States Consul General to Mexico City,
died suddenly of heart disease.
A. Holland Forbes and Augustus
Post, plotting the American balloon
Conqueror in the international race,
started at Berlin, fell four thousand
feet when the gas bag burst, they
were uninjured.
Popular clamor for war continues
in Servia, and it is reported that
volunteers are being enrolled. The
Ministry has resigned.
Montenegro has broken away from
Austrian control.
Later reports showed that the ty
phoon which ragged at Manila did
considerable damage elsewhere in
the PHILIPPINES, the artillery tar-
racks at Stotsenburg were destroyed
and the post there was damaged to
the extent of $4,000.
Turkey decided to mae a protest
to the Powers against the indepen-
dence of Bulgaria and the annexa-
ton by Austria Hungary of Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
The Emperor of ria-Hungary
assumed sovereignty over Bosnia and
following Bulgaria s
of independence of Tur-
will consider these violations of the
Berlin treaty.
Turkey suspects that Austta and
Germany are backing Bulga ria 8
declaration of independence in the
hope of EN- barassing the ministry in
its plans for constitutional govern
ment.
POLITICAL.