Democratic messenger., 1881-10-29

miles up Tie mOHOnganela hlVef from
Elizabeth, Pa, on Tuesday evening,
which resulted in the instant death of
Patrick Plunkett, miner, and the
severe burning of three others.
Joseph Harvey, owner of Randolph
Mills in Philadelphia, who was declared
by the Coroner's jury to be criminally
responsible for the fire in the mills last
week, by which several lives were i'm
perilled, was held by the Coroner in
$4,000
The New York Produce Exchange
managers are considering plans for q
building to cost 81. 10000
The Mutual Union Telegraph Com
pany accuses the Western Union of en-
deavoring to corrupt its employ Ss.
The New York Board of Trade and
Transportation adopted resolutions urg-
ing the election of legislators who favor
free canals.
A verdict for $1,000 was given in
Brooklyn Wednesday against a boy
who discharged buck shot into young
lady's face.
-Four hundred girls, tobacco strip
pers in Lorillard's factory, Jersey City,
n. j., are on strike because their fore
man was removed and another man sub
stituted whom they did not like.
An eight-ton fy-wheel burst in a
Paterson, N. J., mill Wednesday, and
demolished building.
A hurricane at Mazatlau, Mexico,
on September 30. destroyed 800 houses
and caused the loss of 500 lives in ad-
joining towns.
Several streets in Hannibal, Mo-,
are under water, and the people are
| going about in skiffs. The great levees
along the upper Mississippi are serious
ly endangered by the high waters.
"A remnant of Victoria's band fought
battle with the Mexicans on Septem.
Der 30. The band has several captives
taken in New Mexico
The tot9l receipts of the American
Board of Foreign Missions for the year
were S691, ,245, and the total expenditure
S693, ,304, leaving deficit of 50, ,059.
"A well known chemist of New York
says that the stuff used in the attempt
to destroy the Cunard steamer Bothnia,
was solution of phosphorus in bisul-
phide of carbon. Tt gives off a whltish
vapor and burns more freely on the
application OF water. If a sudden cur
rent of air should strike material satu-
rated with the solution it would burst
into flame Immediately. A very close
guard is now kept ON all the sea-going
steamers.
The United States bonds redeemed,
or which have ceased to bear interest
since March last, amount to nearly
800, ,000,0 900, while the annual interest
charged has been reduced by over
$15, 900, 900.
TWENTY-FIVE patents were issued to
Thos. A. Edison Tuesday, twenty of
them relating to his electric light. So
far Mr.. Edison has been granted two
hundred patents and application for
over one hundred more are awaiting
decision.
"A London news association pub
fishes an account of the operations of
the Fenians in England, alleging that
the London police hold warrants for
the arrest of the ringleaders; that the
Fenlans IN England and Ireland have
been in constant communication with
those in the United States; that Mr..
Parnell and other members of Parlia-
ment have visited Mr. James Stephens in
Paris and that plot exists for numbering
leading members of the Government
and the royal family.
England is deeply gratified, Mr..
Jennings cables from London, with the
honors paid her flag at the Yorktown
celebration.
Mabel Wilberforce, the alleged
American adventures, is ON trial in
London for perjury, and is conducting
her own case.
An Irish tenant farmer was fatally
shot on Saturday, near Ennis.
The steamer Wisconsin, which
sailed from Liverpool for New York on
Saturday, has 400 Mormons on board.
The alleged italian brigand, Espos-
ito, has arrived at Palermo and been
lodged in Jail.
In Tunis the insurgents have at
tackled Mehdia. Fie hting continues all
around Susa.
"A collision between two railway
trains occurred near Thorney Station,
Cambridgeshire, Saturday. Six persons
were injured. Three persons we're
killed and many terribly injured in a
collision at Leicester Saturday.
"A monster indignation meeting was
held by the London Land Leaguers at
Hyde Park on Sunday. There was no
necessity for police interference.
The British Quarterly Review pub
fishes an article assailing the revised
translation of the New Testament.
which, it is said, is far inferior to the
old.
Bad crop reports from British
Columbia. Wheat and barley frozen
not one-fourth saved.
Eleven canal officials are among
the seventy-two patients down with
yellow fever in the Panama Foreign
Hospital Five Frenchmen have re.
Gently died there.
Another storm is raging on the
British coasts. A collier went down
with all hands off Queenstown on We'd
nesday night, and six lives were lost
outside Dundee by the wreck of a
schooner.
The Great Eastern steamship was
put mp at auction on Wednesday and
brought in 100000.
Lord Carlingford, better known as
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