Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-12-23
NEWS OF THE DAY
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In collision ON the Pittsburg. Gin
cinnati and st. Louis Railroad. three men
were killed and several We're seriously
hurt.
Lieutenant Colonel George w. Scho-
field, of the Sixth Cavalry, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
head at Fort Apache, A. L.
"A man giving his name as George
Coleman obtained So, 100 from bank at
Dallas, Tex, on draft which was sub
sequently discovered to be forgery.
The stranger escaped with the money.
Mr.. James r. Keene testified before
the New York State Senate Committee
on Corners that the only dangerous cor
ner he ever knew of was the existing one
caused by the anthracite coal companies.
He also denounced the existing freight
rates.
The brewers in New y5rk, Brook
Ign and New Jersey ha, resolved to in
crease the wholesale price of beer after
January /.
An explosion occurred in the powder
Latin * Rand, Passaic County,
j. Three Shen were killed.
A suit is about to be commenced in
volving the title to the land upon which
a considerable portion of the city of Lit
lie Rock, Ark, Is situated.
Frank Carabine and Henry Miller
were scalded to death by the giving way
of the crown sheet of locomotive No. 81,
at Cumberland, Md.
john Schpengler, of Baltimore, shot
his wife dead and then committed sui
eide by shooting himself.
Ed. E. Rice, the author of ''Evan-
geline, filed petition in Boston to go
into insolvency.
"A powder house at Waterbury,
Conn, blew up, injuring one man.
The late hurricane about ST. Johns,
n. f., occasioned the loss Of eight men
who had gone to the rescue of a vessel.
Congressman Godlove S. Ortiz, Of
Indiana, died late ON Saturday night at
Lafayette. His illness was blood poison
ing, superinduced by cancer.
Owing to the uncertainty as owhat
may be the result of the tobacco tax agi-
tation, there is prospect of great sui
fering among the poorer classes en-
ployed in that industry in Virginia.
Two boilers exploded in tool fac
tory at Canton, ILL.,, killing eight men
and wounding others.
The proposed Worlds Cotton Cen
teniial is taking active shape in New Or
leans.
Two engines and twelve freight cars
were wrecked in a collision on the Hud-
son River Railroad.
A gang of robbers in st. Louis is
initiating Jesse James.
-Uniontown, Pa, is excited over the
return of a man after eighteen years
absence, TO claim letters of administration
ON the estate of daughter he had never
seen, and after such letters had been
granted to another party on alleged false
afiidavits.
AT Philadelphia the Grand Jury
found six true bills against each of the
parties arrested for robbing graves in the
Lebanon Cemetery. One of them sub
sequentiy made n confession. Two medi-
col students and two negroes were
arrested at midnight in a Richmond
(Na.) cemetery. Three of the party
were held on a charge of grave robbery
Another sad case of infelicity has been
made public in Buffalo. Mrs. Martha J.
Collins, a sane woman, has been released
from lunatic asylum in which she was
incarcerated at the hands of her husband
III October last.
At meeting of the stockholders of
the Keely Motor Company, in Philadel-
phia, very reassuring reports were read,
and the announcement of the patenting
of the discovery was read.
The false work of a bridge. $50 feet
long, ct Canaan, four miles west of the
PecoS River, on the Mexican Pacific
Railway, with 200 workmen upon it,
fell distance of seventy-five feet on
Wednesday Seven of the men we're
killed outright and twelve others were
seriously injured.
The Marquis of Lerne has forwarded
rs present to Queen Victoria four car
loads of fine sheep.
-Specialadvices s.om ST. Johns, n. F.,
reported several wrecks in that section,
resulting from recent hurricane.
Road agents in Colorado and New
Mexico are reported as having committed
three murders recently.
"A drunken father in Jersey City
struck his wife, who falling upon the bed
killed their six weeks old child.
Grave robheries are becoming fire.
quent in the vicinity of Montreal.
Three mmderers in Alabama, Louisi-
ana and Dakota paid the penalty of
their crimes on the gallows on Friday.
An entire family at Sedalia, Me-.
were poisoned by drinking whisky.
child of two years dying from its effects.
A number of children were drowned
in the Schuylkill River, by the breaking
OF the ice, on which they were skating.
The steamer Gamma, supposed to
have been lost with all ON board from
the washing ashore of portion of her
deck load, arrived at st. Johns, n. F.,
after very stormy voyage.
The Manhattan Beach Railroad sta
ton at Bay Ridge, n. Y, was completely
destroyed by fire on Thursday. A num-
Der OF cars andHngines were also burned.
causing total loss of 100000.
"A well dressed stranger entered
lewelry store in Cleveland, Ohio, and
coolly walking behind the counter carried
off, unobserved, diamonds and other
gems valued in all at 5000
William Pende rgrast pleaded guilty
when charged with passing counterfeit
money at Buffalo. and was sent to the
Penltentlary for oDe year. The coin
was good and now the poor fellow is to
be pardoned for the outrage committed
on him.
WASHINGTON ,rorr-c