Democratic messenger., 1881-10-08
NEWS OF THE DAY

ton filed by the government in the Star
Route cases, and it is claimed that the
accused can only be proceeded against
by indictment, course now barred by
the statute of limitations.
The writer of the letter said to
threaten the assassination of Senator
Conkling is found to be Henry j. Row.
ley, of Utica. He admits the expression
of hope that somebody would shoot
Mr.. Conkling if he attempts to enter
the State Convention.
The body of a young women named
Nellie Wright was found in the Erie
Canal at Albion, N. Y, last Sunday.
A letter in her pocket caused q young
farmer of the neighborhood to be sus-
pected of her murder and he has been
arrested.
"A coroner's jury at London, Ont,
in the case of five persons killed last
Thursday on the Great Western Rail-
way have found verdict of manslaugh-
ter against Conductor John Maxwell,
who has fled, and Engineer Richard
Wolmsley, one of the dead.
The Chiricahua Indians in Arizona
have attacked a party of soldiers en-
gagged in repairing telegraph lines, and
killed two of them.
Medals in memory of President
Garfield are to be struck at the Phila-
delphia Mint.
Captain Clifford, of the lost whaler
Daniel Webster, arrived at San Francis
co from the Arctic Sea, confirms the re
ports previously published that the na-
tives had seen a wrecked ship to the
eastward of Point Barrow and four
white men among the Esquimaux.
The reported threats against the
life of ex-senator Conkling are believed
in Utica to be the work of practical
joker or lunatic.
The widow of President Lincoln is
in a sad state of mind over the murder
of President Garfield and fears that her
son, the Secretary of War, will be as
sassiuated.
The vicinity of Wautoma, Wis,
was struck by a tornado last Thursday.
Minnie Quinn, a young servant in
the family of James Malley, in New
Haven, testified that James Malley, Jr.,
was at home on the evening on which
it is supposed Jennie Cramer's death
occurred.
The official autopsy upon the body
of General Garfield shows that the fatal
hemorrhage came from q rent in the
splenic artery.
-Copious rains in Minnesota Lave
caused floods in most of the rivers and
serious damage to property.
The debt statement of the { tied
States issued October 1st, shows t de-
crease of the public debt during the
month of September to be SIT, ,4S3. s. Sc;
cash in the Treasury, $3.50, 6S9, ,547. .32;
gold certificates, S5, 248, ,920; silver GER
tjficates, $64, las, 910; certificates of de-
posit outstanding, IS, ,315, 200; refunding
certificates. 1886. $50; legal tenders out
standing, $346, ,6S1 ,016; fractional cur
rency outstanding, S7,09S, ,506.02.
The subscriptions for the Michigan
sufferers have reached S85, ,0965.
"A break in the Erie Canal was dis
covered on Saturday near Utica, which
will probably close navigation for sew
eral days.
"A Washington rumor has it that ex-
Governor Dingley, elected to succes
Mr.. Frye, of Maine, in the House of
Representatives, will decline in favor of
Mr.. Blaine, who, back again in his old
field, will endeavor to get his old place
of Speaker.
"A terrible cyclone swept through
the Cottonwood Valley, Topeka, Kan. =,
on Friday. Houses, barns and build
ings were torn to pieces. Trees were
uprooted or twisted off, and so far as
heard from twelve persons were killed,
with several missing. The force of the
wind was SO great as to throw flat cars
off the track and to break down a large
number of telegraph poles. The coun-
try swept by the cyclone was about
thirty miles long and from one to four
wide.
"A special from Centralla, Kan, says
sd. e. Wales's house was blown down
on Wednesday, and himself, wife, and
four children were buried in the ruins.
One child was killed and another fatally
injured"
"A dispatch from Victoria, British
Columbia, says The steamboat Eliza
beth j. Irving took fire at Fort Hope,
on the Frazer River, Thursday after
noon, and was totally destroyed. She
had on board eighty passengers, the
mails and a full cargo of freight. All
of the white passengers, it is thought,
were saved, but a number of Indians are
supposed to have been lost"
"A dispatch from Tucson, Ari., gives
the following special from San Carlos
An officer of Gen. Carr's command re-
ports that when they returned to Cibicu
they found that the Indians had ex-
humed the bodies of Captain Hentig
and the soldiers killed there. The dead
had been buried in canvas tents, which
the Indians carried off. Captain Hen
tigs head had been mashed with stones;
his body was mutilated one hand and
foot was gone. The command buried
the bodies and fred salute over the
graves.
Several hundred oyster-shuckers in
Seaford, Del, one of the largest oyster
packing places in the country, have
struck. By this the entire town is
thrown out of work. Every packer is
under bonds of $50 not to pay any more
than 124 cents for each nine pints of
oysters, and it is now thought there
will be no packing. house open this year.
The Mahoning Coal and Coke Com
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