Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-12-10
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

OF Onlo, was elected speaker or the
House and all the other Republican
caucus nominees were given their places.
The remainder of the session was devoted
to the consideration of claims for con-
tested seats. The important business in
the Senate was the introduction by Mr..
Edmunds of q resolution continuing the
old committees, the introduction by Mr..
Sherman of three per cent. refunding
bill, the introduction by Mr.. Beck of q
bill retiring the trade dollar, and bill
by Gen. Logan to place Gen. Grant on
the retired list of the army.
In the U. S. House of Representa-
tives, Mr.. Keifer received 14S woes,
Mr.. Randall 129, and Mr.. Ford s. The
two Readiusters from Virginia and Mr..
Smith of New York voted with the Re-
publicans for Mr.. Keifer.
Gen. Joseph Warren Keifer, the
new Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, was born in Bethel Town
ship, Clark County, Ohio, January 80,
1886. He is farmer, but studied law
and followed it as a profession. He
served in the war, first as Major and
then as Lieutenant Colonel and Col
onel. He was brevetted Brigadier and
Major General, and was wounded four
times. He was q member of the Ohio
Senate in 1868 and 1869, Commander of
the Grand Army of the Republic in Ohio
from 1868 to 1870, and trustee of the
Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans
HON from 1870 to 1878, and has been
thu tee of Antioch College since 1873.
He was a delegate to the Ciuninnati
convention in 1876, and was elected to
the XLVth, XLVIth and XLVIIth
Congress
in Minneapolis Sunday fire and an
explosion destroyed cotton-m mill and
four Touring mills. -Four persons were
killed and several wounded. The loss
is about $56S,000.
1t is believed that the body of the
Earl If Crawford and Balcarres has
been stolen by the thieves who carried
off A. L. Stewart's body. Some think
it was stolen before its supposed burial.
Mr.. Trescot and Mr.. Walker Blaine,
with two secretaries from the State
Department, who left for Lima and
Santiago, take out spe cial instructions
to urge a settlement of the conflicts OF
Chill with Peru in the spirit and upon
the basis of General Hurlbut's con-
versation with Admiral Lynch in Au-
gust.
Mr.. Nimmo, Chief of the Bureau of
Statistics, reports that the total value
of our foreign commerce last year was
81, 675, 024, 31S.
Father Mccarthy the parish priest
& 81 oh 90 H.
night by David McMullen.
Near Leadville recently murderer
was blown up with giant powder in his
cabin by mob.
The Worlds correspondent at AS
pinwall reports that forty officers and
nearly one thousand men employed on
De Lesseps' canal have died of fever
since January.
john Taylor, Brigham Young's sue
cessor has taken another and q wealthy
wife.
1t is reported that the wholesale
lumber firm of Porter, Jones Il Raiguel
of Philadelphia has failed with liabili-
ties stated at 100000.
Mr.. Vanderbilt, it is said, is to be
sued by two railroad contractors, who
claim 81, 100000 damages for breach of
contract.
The Poughkeepsie glass works were
burned ON Thursday night. The loss
is about $4,000.
p. M. Swain, q Boston drug broker,
has been crippled by the Pacific Bank
troubles and has suspended with about
5000, 900. Four other failures are re-
ported in Boston.
The threatening attitude of Mexico
toward Guatemala creates great excite
ment in Central America. All the States,
even Costa Rica, support Guatemala.
The Secretary of the French Legation
in Guatemala has been arrested and the
Minister has written strong letter of
complaint to Paris.
Thousands of dollars have been
stolen annually by ring of clerks in
the Cffices of the Philadelphia Tax Re-
ceiver and Comptroller. The City Coun-
Gil has appointed committee to inves-
tigate the almshouse frauds.
-Four negro murderers were lynched
Thursday, two near Oxford, N. c., and
two near Sheppardstown, Miss.
-Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia. are
about commencing the work Of building
3.000-ton steamer for Mr.. Huntington,
of Pacific Railroad fame She is to be
the pioneer of a feet for service for
freight and passengers on the Pacific
coast.
Secretary Folger has called 800
600, 900 of the extended skies of 1861.
The U. s. Naval Advisory Board
recommend the building of thirty-eight
unarmored cruisers, five steel rams and
five torpedo boats, the whole to cost in
round numbers 500, 100000.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
Captain Brownrigg, captain of
British gunboat, and three men were
killed recently in an unsuccessful at
tempt to capture SLAYER on the west
coast of Africa.
In Ireland the proceedings against
the two Sub-Inspectors of police who
were declared by the coroner's jury to
be guilty of murder have been quashed
by the Court of the Queens Bench.
The steamer Bolivia has been dam
aged by a storm and has put into
Queenstown. One of her engineers was
killed and two firemen were scalded.
The farmers in England and Scot
land aorrviuos nm Tho onifo%so,a Coz