Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-08-20

onment for the murder of Theodore
CLANCY, editor of the Santa Barbara
Press.
-Grevy, large village in the canton
of Grisons, Switzerland, has been
destroyed by fire.
Several Panama Canal officials, in
Guiding MIR. Etienne, sub-director, and
MIR. Barber, have died of fever and
there is dismay in the canal service.
Six superintendent of the isthmus ex-
cavations have died there.
"A fire which occurred at Trafalgar,
Ind, at 3 o'clock on Wednesday morn-
ing, burned out IA business houses,
leaving only three in the town un-
touched. 1t was caused by flying sparks
from an excursion train ON the Frank
lin, Falkland and Martinsville Branch Of
the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, st. Louis
and Chicago railroad, which passed
about 3 o'clock. The total loss will
reach $4,000.
During the last fiscal year there
were 4, 384 pilots examined by the Uni
ted States Marine Hospital Service, of
which number 116 were found to be
color blind
The Canadian Civil-Service Com
missioners condemn the spoils system
and recommend the Government to
adopt competitive examinations.
Two men were killed by lightning
at Grand Valley, Man., on July 80, and
companion on seeing their blackened
corpses became raving maniac.
The house and barn of DIR. ". FL.
Bowen. at Scituate, r. l., were fred by
internal machines on Monday night.
DR.. Bowen has been active in enforcing
the liquor law.
The notorious "long and short
men," who have been operating for
some time upon the stage lines of West
ern Texas, have again made their APP
pearance. They robbed the passengers
and the mail bags of the San Antonio
and Fredericksburg stage at Robbers
Delight, near Fredericksburg, and the
Austin and fredericksburg stage at q
point east of Robbers Delight.
"A waterspout burst at Central City,
Col, on Monday and did great damage.
There was also heavy food at Idaho
Springs.
-Pawnee City, Neb., was swept by
fire on Monday night.
The West has again been visited by
destructive fools, doing immense dam
age. A number of lives were lost.
"A Chinese immigration bill impos-
ing poll-tax of 910 has passed both
houses of the New Zealand Parliament.
Mrs Fl. G. Robinson, of Monroe.
near Bridgeport, Conn.,, was gored to
death by a bull recently.
Fifteen regulators rode into Gray
son, KY, Saturday and attempted to
assume control. The Marshal raised a
posse. killed three of the regulators and
captured four.
The boiler of steam threshing ma
chine on the farm of Henry Young, near
Columbia, ILL.,, exploded Tuesday, kill
ing five persons and seriously injuring
five others.
There were 527 deaths in Chicago
last week, an unprecedentedly large
number, being at the rate of SO. 5 per
LOCO.
FOREIGN ITEMS
"A great Land League Convention
will be held at Newcastle-on-Tyne on
August %. at which Mr.. Parnell will
make statement in regard to The
future action of the Home Rule mem.
bers.
Mr.. Parnell, in letter to the United
ireland, new League paper, advocates
the encouragement of Irish Industries
by the "boy cotting" of English-made
goods. He recommends also that goods
which are not now made in Ireland
should be bought in the United States,
and hints that the Land League organi-
cation will take up this agitation.
The property of the Jews is de-
stroyed by incendiaries in Western Rus
STA, no less than sixteen towns and vii
lagos in which the Jews were the chief
property owners, having been burned
down. At fire at Rorez thirty-nine
persons were killed. Anti-Jewish dis
turbances are also occurring in West
Prussia and Bublitz, Pomerania.
The official organ of the Vatican
was seized by the Italian police for, it
alleges, publishing a faithful report of
the blasphemies uttered at the Papal
Guarantees meeting on Sunday.
"A tube filled VII blasting powder
with fuse attached las been found in
the gas works at Dundee and caused q
" skirmishing scare"
The French Transatlantic Com
pany's steamer Isaac Pereire took fire
at Goletta, Tunis, and had to be sunk
by torpedo.
The report that the Pope intends
to leave Rome is authoritatively denied.
He says he will remain there unless
compelled to leave.
-Advices from Adelaide, South Aus
tralia, say that nearly 10000 people
were present at the Inauguration services
in the Exhibition Building there on
Sunday, July 10. The Austrian band
took part in the ceremonies. A volun-
teer choir of 400 voices was also fea-
ture Of the occasion.
Minister Foster reports from Russia
that the wheat crop in that country will
be so large that some farmers think
they could dispense with harvests for
four years to come.