Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-05
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

joining buildings, were destroyed by
fire. The flames spread with great
rapidity, and the resources of the Fire
Department were taxed to their utmost.
The loss will reach 100000.
Some of the Canadian journals are
INDUCING in growl against the London
Times for criticising so severely as it
did the action of the Dominion Parlia-
ment in pointing out to Gladstone the
propriety of granting home rule to Ire
land.
Miss Fanny Parnell's remains have
been embalmed and will be sent to Ire
land by the Land League.
Mrs. Ogden, a wealthy and CHART
able lady of Philadelphia, was burned
to death by the explosion of kerosene
lamp.
Fraudulent shares of the Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Pacific road have been
issued to the amount of $500, 000-the
dishonest secretary who made the issue
is dead.
Seven large buildings were de-
stroyed by fire in New Orleans, on
Sunday, causing loss of $685., 0CO.
In a letter on the subject Gen.
Grant urges the payment of the Japan
ese indemnity, as a matter of justice to
Japan.
In Tennessee five negroes were
struck by lightning on Sunday, one of
them fatally.
"A negro was lynched at Ironton,
Mo-, for assaulting a white lady sixty
years Of sge.
Two men were killed and another
severely injured by an excursion train
on the track of the Buffalo and South
western Railroad. near jamestown, NY.
Governor Sherman, of Iowa, issued
proclamation declaring the result of
the election on the adoption of the Pro-
hibition amendment to be 155, 1876 votes
for adoption and 125, 677 against, being
majority for adoption of 1859. BE
commends all persons to take notice
and govern themselves accordingly.
An italian mother locked her two
children in her room in a Roosevelt
street tenement house, New York City,
and on her return one was dead and the
other was fatally burned. 1t died soon
afterward. The firemen confined the
flames to one room. The house is
crowded with italian families.
There is an increase in the number
OF cases of supposed yellow fever at
Matamoros, Mexico.
While abusing his wife and her
parents lawyer at Hampstead, Texas,
was shot and dangerously wounded by
his mother-in-law.
The New York post Office gave the
department a net revenue of 80, 1884,
049.67 in the fiscal year that closed on
the Both of June last. Its money order
business reached the aggregate of $685.
057, 953. 10.
Cashier J. N. Craft, of the Frank
lin pa Exchange Bank, who was
looked upon as a most exemplary
young man. has been found out as de-
faulter in the sum of $4,000.
The failures for last week in the
United States were 122; in Canada, s.
The wife of Philadelphia politician
committed suicide by shooting herself
while in bed.
About seventy women and girls
employed in a shoe factory at Essex.
Mass, struck for higher wages.
Isaac Turner, colored. was executed
at Lexington, KY, for the murder of
one of his race.
General r. Ingalls,, who arrived at
st. Louis from the Indian Territory,
says last week he found himself at CHM
AKRON, NM, where the whole populace
was in arms fighting the cow boys. Men
and women were using revolvers against
the enemy and four men were shot dead
In short time.
The Missouri Democratic State
Convention on Thursday adopted plat
form demanding civil service reform,
tariff reform and protection for Ameri-
can citizens at home and abroad. A
railroad Commissioner and Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction were
nominated.
"A mail stage and its occupants were
robbed by two masked men near Shreve-
port, La.
Two freight trains collided near
McGregor, Iowa. Three men were
killed and several injured.
Extensive forest fires are raging in
Michigan.
Mr.. Albert Curry was nominated
for Governor of Delaware by the Re-
publican State Convention at Dover.
Arrangements have been made by
the Mormons for testing the con-
stitutionality of the Edmunds act in the
Supreme Court of the United States.
-Teamsters, after fighting Indians,
who were on the warpath, in New
Mexico, captured one of them, scalped
him and then roasted him alive.
-Seventy-five cans of impure milk of
the worst kind were found by the in
spectors of New York city and were
thrown into the river.
in the Chicago Bridewell one prs
oner, considered a harmless imbecile,
killed fellow prisoner with a wooden
leg which he first stole from his victim.
Mrs. Ann Karl, young wife, was
burned, fatally it is feared, by trying to
kindle fire with kerosene oil, in her
home in Williamsburg, n. Y.
Through an explosion on the river
steamboat Fanchon at New Orleans one
man was killed and several injured.
The explosion of boiler Of float
ing engine on the Brooklyn river front
set fire to over thousand bales of cot
ton, which was almost entirely destroyed
before the flames could he extin1nished