Democratic messenger., 1881-03-12
NEWS OF THE DAY
oENRRAL ITEMS.

nations for Cabinet offices
Secretary of State-James G. Blaine,
of Maine.
Secretary of the Treasury-William
Window, of Minnesota.
Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh,
of Pennsylvania.
Postmaster General - Thomas l..
James, of New York.
Secretary of the Interior-Samuel J.
Kirkwood, of Iowa.
Secretary of War-Robert T. Lincoln,
of lllino
Secretary of the Navy-Wllliam FL.
Hunt, of Louisiana.
The Insane Asylum at Danville
Pa, was burned on Saturday, but most
fortunately not single life was lost.
All the patients, over three hundred in
number, were attending prayers in the
chapel at the time the fire broke out
and We're easily removed. The building
cost about 5000, 600
The O'Leary belt was won by Pan
cbot vino made 541 miles laps and 165
yards. Khrone the second in the match
made 523 miles. About 81, 900 was
received over the expenses to be divided
among TIE walkists.
The train on the Baltimore and Po-
tomac Railroad, on which ex-President
Hayes and his family and friends left
Washington Saturday afternoon, met in
collisioa 4 few miles from Baltimore a
train consisting of two engines and sew
en- empty passenger cars going south.
Two men, j. Wyman Young, of Shame
kin. Pa, and John Oliver, the baggage
master, were killed, and twenty persons,
eleven passengers and nine train men,
were injured, some of them, it is thought,
fatally. The engines and several of the
cars were wrecked. The chair in which
ex-President Hayes was sitting was
thrown several feet forward, but neither
he nor Mrs. Hayes was injured.
An explosion took place at the
Rock Mountain Coal and Iron Company's
mine at Amy, Wy, on Thursday
evening. Fifty Chinese and number
of white men were in the mine, of whom
twenty Chinese have been brought up
dead aud fifteen Chinese and two whites
severely injured.
The Italian Lark Ajace, Captain
Morici, went to pieces on Rockaway
Shoals in the gale Thursday night. She
had crew of fifteen men, of whom one
cane ashore alive on fragment of the
wreck. The carpenter and three of the
crew killed themselves in their despair,
and the captain and the rest were
drowned. Much damage to small craft
on the Jersey coast was done during the
gale.
The Sprague divorce case will prob.
ably be Tried in April.
William Bailey of the Boston
Lancers, was killed on the railroad at
Centralia, ILL.,. by an accident.
On Thursday, the last day of his
term in office, President Hayes vetoed
the Funding bill which passed the Sen
ate and the House.
-Vennor's latest forecast of weather
for March is as follows: There will be
rapid moderation on the 4th or 9TH TO
warmth, but the temperature will again
fall on Sunday night or Monday, and
a week of extremely cold and stormy
weather will likely ensue, with some
hours of heavy snowfall. The 18th
and 18th days, and possibly the 10Th,
come within another downward curve of
the weather line, as do also the oath
and 25th.
Generals Hancock aud Sheridan were
enthusiastically received in Washington
on their late visit
A frightful accident occurred on the
Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, on
Tuesday, near Lingo, Mo. A passenger
train ran off the switch. The relief
tram was sent for and, at Brookfield, it
went through bridge. A large num-
Der of employees were on board, of
whom five were killed and sixteen were
injured, some dangerously.
On Tuesday the Capitol building
of the State of Minnesota was burned
at ST. Paul, and the fire is believed to
be the work of an ipcendiary. Most of
the papers of the State and Courts were
saved.
The report of the United States
Treasurer shows the total debt of the
United States less cash in the Treasury
to be 81, $40, 956, 412.77. On March 1st,
1878, it was 2,042 ,037, 129. 0S, showing
decrease in the debt during the four
years as above of sos, S24, 730. 81. and
for the annual interest charge Sl7,557,'
708.
FOREIGN.
Three persons fell into the sea from
a balloon which assembled from Nice on
Sunday and were lost
Nine vessels and 100 lives were lost
off the Aberdeenshire coast, Scotland,
in the recent storm.
Tho loss of life by the earthquake
which was experienced recently on the
island of Ischia is appalling. One hun
dred and two bodies have been found ut
Casamicciola up to the present and
many others are under the ruins of the
buildings. In the village district of
Lacca alone thirteen houses were de-
stroyed and five persons killed.
If the Conservative members of the
Cortes refuse to attend in supply, that
body will be dissolved.
The Porte has sent troops to Uskup
to menace the Albanians, who are al
legged to have grown insolent.
The body of General Colley, killed
in Africa, has been found. In the en-
gagement with the Beers the English
had 600 men, the Beers 1000.
-General Roberts, who takes COM
mand of the British troops III South
Africa, has been made Baronet for his
services in the Afghan war. General
Sir Donald Stewart was also made
Baronet for similar services. The Brit
ish losses in the battle Mt SpitZkop are