Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-26
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

blindfolded and their Threats cut from
ear to ear. No cause is known for the
deed.
"A suddn rise in the Rio Grande
River Monday night carried away part
of the Great Northern Railway and
part of the Mexican national bridges.
This will prevent rail communication
with Mexico for several days, though
che damage is not detrimental to traffic.
Near Globe, Arizona, stage was
attacked by robbers, who killed the ex-
press messenger and secured more than
$1,000.
The long strike of the miners has
ended in the defeat of the men. Work
was resumed in many of the mines. In
the Cumberland region the Knights OF
Labor were strong enough to deter the
men from going to work until they had
voted the strike at an end.
The striking freight handlers of
Jersey City, n. j., have abandoned the
Union, and In a set of very humble
resolutions appeal to the railway COM
pany to take them back.
i'm Green County, Pa, hunt after
moonshiners" by United States Off
GERS resulted in the capture of an illicit
distillery.
A collision involving the destruction
of considerable property occurred on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Bristol,
Pa, where one freight train attempted
to pass another on a single track.
"A fire occurred in Quebec which
consumed 100000 worth of property,
the greater part of the loss falling upon
Mr.. f. W. Ray, city Councillor of
that place.
The steamer Kaaterskill, when near
Caldwell, on the Hudson, snapped
in twain her twenty-ton walking beam,
which broke into the cylinder, causing
an escape of steam that severely scalded
many passengers and hayed alive one
of them.
"A passenger train striking wagon
caused the death of two men in Penn
sylvania.
AT Chambersburg, Pa, a colored
man, disliking the attentions of dark
skinned youth TO his daughter, cracked
the lovers skull with baseball bat
"A fire broke out at Derry Depot,
N. H., Saturday evening which for some
time threatened the destruction of the
entire village. Twenty buildings are de-
stroyed. The fire originated in a stable.
The loss may reach $40, 900.
Mr.. Edwin Booth is recreating in
Switzerland.
BY collision near Cairo, ILL.,, on
Sunday, three drivers in Coup's circus
were killed and about twenty others
were injured.
Jesse Vaudeville was shot and ia
tslly wounded by Philip Citing, near
Port Jervis, n. Y, while picking an
apple from the ground in the latters
orchard.
An elderly woman, almost entirely
nude, was found dead in the meadows,
near Newark, Sunday. The case is in
volved in mystery.
-Thirty-two new cases and three
deaths from yellow fever at Brownsville,
Tex, are reported.
The Apache Indians in Sonora,
Mexico, are massacreing and torturing
the settlers in the Sahuahupa Valley.
A force OF cavalry are pursuing them,
and their commander threatens to show
no quarter if he overtakes them.
The eight-story brick building on
the southeast corner of Tenth avenue
and Fifty-seventh street, New York, oc-
cupied as a piano mandatory by the
firm of Hartman, Bowling Il Peck, was
completely destroyed by fire at o'clock
Saturday morning, and a moderate es-
innate places the total loss at a quarter
of million dollars.
The Cree Indians in Canada are be-
coming discontinued on account of the
introduction Of railroads in their reser-
walton.
Bob Young and Charlie Griffin, the
murderers Of Mr.. Cam, were taken from
jail by mob and hanged to tree on
Wednesday at Lafayette, Ala.
"A missionary priest and four Indians
were drowned in a Canadian lake during
storm, after days fishing.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, died at
Atlanta on Wednesday.
The boiler attached to threshing
machine exploded at Mount Oreb We'd
nesday night while the engineer was at
supper. Miss Carrie Racine of Cincin-
natl, who was standing near by, was in
stantly killed, and four children were
wounded, two of them fatally.
AT o'clock Wednesday morning
two freight trains on the New York and
New England Railroad came in collision
near Hampton, Conn. Both engines
were thrown down an embankment fifty
feet hight and thirteen freight cars were
derailed. None of the train hands were
hurt The accident was the result of
an error of the train dispatcher.
"A dispatch from Washington says !:
-"Acting Secretary of State Davis has
learned from Mr.. Lowell that McSweeny
and Slattery, two of the suspects who
have been for some time imprisoned in
Ireland, have been released"
The Astor Mine, owned by the Con
solidated Coal Company and situated at
Pompey Smash, near Homecoming, Nd.
and which has been smoulderin2 for
some time, burst forth a tremendous
~olaze Thursday morning, shooting
flame fully fifty feet into the air. The fire
originated from the spruce slope of the
same company, which has been worked
ont and has been burning since 1872.
There is said to be great danger of the
fire communicating to the Vale farm
estate, with thousands of tons Of under
lying coal.
The Jesuits of Quebec are now
making claim for the restoration of
their property confiscated by Henry ~.