Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-11-26
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS

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hundred years old, died Saturday from
burns received by his clothing catching
fire from a spark from his pipe.
The Central National Bank of Boston
suspended for about two hours Saturday
and then resumed without any difficulty.
The Pacific Bank Of Boston has been
turned over to the Government exam
liner. The suspension of the Central
caused great excitement in the street,
as it was feared that other disasters
would follow.
The schooner Monsoon, said to be a
rotten craft, which has been seventeen
days out from Muskegon, Mich, is be-
lieved to have gone down with all on
board-her captain and crew of six.
George Law, o well known citizen
and capitalist, and once a famous
steamship owner, Of New York, died
Friday night.
The Albany Evening Journal has
received returns from all but ten conn
ties of New York New York and Kings
included). showing the following ma
iorities: Carr, 1881; Ira Davenport,
Is, 1913; Russell, 13, 296; Seymour, SOL;
French, 1928, and Maxwell, 81, 791.
Seven Bowdoin students have been
sued for injuries inflicted by hazing up
on freshman.
The Pacific National Bank of Bos-
ton has suspended in consequence of
the failure of n stock broker whom the
bank was supporting, and will probably
be unable to resume.
The New York State canals will be
closed on December.
The bark FL. A. Parr, from Liver
pool for New York, was abandoned on
October 30 and her crew was picked up
by the Carniola.
The Imbecile Asylum near Column
bus, Ohio, was burned Friday, but every
one of the 754 inmates escaped unin-
iured.
Tho full vote of Pennsylvania for
State Treasurer at the late election is
given by the Philadelphia Times as fol-
lows !: Baily, (Rep.) 265, 293; Noble,
(Dem.) 25S, 1897; Wolfe, Qnd. Rep. J
t9, 800; Jackson, (Grbk.) 1896; Will
son, (Proh. } 1872. For President last
year Garfield had 444, 704; Hancock,
4O7, 1913; Weaver, 20, 66S; Dow and scat
tering, 1886.
-Forty-three fishermen and seven
vessels belonging to the Gloucester dis
trict werelost during the fishing season
of 1881.
1t is rumored in Washington that
General Fitzpatrick, the American Min
lister to Chill. is dead, and that if he is
not he will be recalled. 1t is also
rumored that President Calderon, of
Peru, has been arrested by the CHILEAN
Admiral Lynch.
A new comet, the seventh of 1881,
has been discovered by Professor Swift.
Horace Kimball's Woollen Mill, at
Pascoag, r. l., was burned Thursday.
It cost $150,O00.
Thirteen persons persisted in a fire
on board the Glasgow steamer Solwav,
bound from Bristol to Glasgow, on We'd
nesday. A barrel of naphtha burst on
deck and the contents took fire in the
steerage.
There Was run on the Howard
Savings Institution at Newark, N. j..
but the bank paid all depositors who
applied and had surplus at the end of
the day of $3.50, 600.
AT Washington it is reported that
Secretary Lincoln will be succeeded by
General Beale, that Mr.. Emory Storrs
will be the new Attorney General, Gen.
Longstreet Secretary of the NAVY. ex-
Senator Chaffee Secretary of the Inte-
rior, ana Mr.. Chauncey I. Filley Post
master General.
j. Howard .Willes, who attempted
to blackmail Mr.. Jay Gould, waived ex-
animation and was remanded to await
the action of the Grand Jury.
AT ten o'clock Wednesday evening
the body of Miss Ellen Kesner, twenty
years of age, Normal School pupil,
was found in a suburb of Chicago with
the head cut off.
Since the Buffalo Convention the
United States Land League has sent to
the homo executive 1927, 1854. !,
"A sharp earthquake was experienced
Tuesday noon at San Jose. Cal.
M. Maretzek has sued Adelina Patti
for about $40, 900 damages for an alleged
breach of contract to sing in Mexico
in 1861.
Burglars at Youngstown, Ohio, blew
open a safe in the house Of Jesse Bald
win and stole between $50, 900 and S4O,-
600 in gold
DIR. J. l.. Cabell, President of the
National Board of Health, in his annual
report says that yellow fever appeared
in only one locality in the United
States during the summer just ended,
at Key West.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
In Tunis it is said the Sultan is still
tampering with the Arabs. The French
troops in the south are dispensing wan
dering bands Of insurgents, but the
main body of the Arabs has not yet been
attacked.
In Ireland Father McPhine, of At
henry, County Galway, has been arrested
as a suspect. Hunting is being stopped
in Tipperary aud agrarian outrsges are
still rife in Connaught.
"A Nihilist newspaper at st. Peters
burg denounces the murder of Presi-
dent Garfield and says nothing can ex-
cuse resort to force in a free country.
Lieutenant Suhanoff, an alleged Nihilist.
is said to have been secretly executed
by the police.
-Reinforcements are leaving Mar
settles for the seat of war in Tunis, and
3. COO men will be sent IN AICaria All