Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-06-03
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

meeting house was being raised at Mas
tsrsonville, Lancaster County, Pa, it
Suddenly fell, killing four men and in
juring others.
-Advfces from Wichita, Kanses, state
that Major Randall was on his way 70
that place with Captain Payne and
twenty others, who were captured while
trespassing on the Indian reservation.
Lieutenant Danenhow er, Professor
Eewcomb, Jack Cole and Long Sing,
arrived in New York, on Sunday, on the
Celtic and were warmly welcomed.
Professor Newcomb went to Massachu-
sets in the afternoon, Jack Cole and
the Chinaman were taken to the Naval
Hospital, while Lieutenant Danenhower
went with his parents to the Fifth
Avenue Hotel.
The steamer Friary, twelve days
from Newport, England, bound to New
York, with a cargo of iron and tin, put
in at st. Johns. n. F., on Saturday, for
rApalrs. On Thursday, when 300 miles
east of Cape Spear, during a dense fog,
she struck an iceberg, carrying away
her bowsprit and figure head and smash
ing in ten or twelve feet of her bows,
above the water line. Part of the ice
berg under water penetrated the steam
er's bottom, NAL ing large opening
forward of the water-tight bulk-head.
Postmaster General Howe mas
visited the West for the purpose of has
tenipg arrangements for the proposed
fast train between New York and San
Francisco. 1t is proposed to reduce
the mail time on the route twenty-six
hours.
Senator Cameron, of Pennsy lvania,
in talking over the political situation
in that State declared that there should
be no compromise or fusion with the
Independents, but that the regular Re-
publicans should exert all their strength
against that ticket as well as against the
Democratic ticket.
When the steamship British King
arrived in Philadelphia Monday it was
reported that an English steerage pas
senger, evidently demented, had jumped
overheard on the fourth day of the
voyage and was lost. Patrick Foy, of
County Sligo, Ireland, who was also a
steerage passenger, reported 10 British
Consul Clipperton that he heard the
man say as he leaped into the sea: "I'm
the man who killed Lord Cavendisb. y
Foy is positive in his statement as to the
suicides words and says he was stand
ing close TO him when he uttered
them.
The principal part OF the town OF
Tombstone, Ari., has been burned.
An atteApt was made in Phlladel-
phia Friday<S blackmail the Liberian
Consul by threatening him with death.
The crop reports from the North
west continue TO be most favorable. In
the Southwest the outlook is even more
encouraging.
In the Superior Criminal Court at
Boston, Mass, James Fitzgerald, alias
"The Kid" charged with having de-
frauded Charles Francis Adams, was
found guilty on the first three counts of
the Indictment. The case goes to the
Supreme Court upon an exception.
Retail butchers believe that TIE
present high price of beef will continue
till August.
The Independent Republican con-
vention of Pennsylvania, which met at
Philadelphia, nominated the following
ticket: For Governor, John Stewart
for Lieutenant Governor, Levi Bird
Duff for Secretary of Internal Affairs,
George w. Merrick ; for Congressman
at-Large, William G. McAlichaei for
Judge of the Supreme Court, George
Junkin. The platform declares attach
ment to the principles of the Republic
can party; deplores the evidence that
the calamity of Garfeld's assassination
has been followed by the overthrow of
the reforms his election signifed; de-.
nounces the spoils system, "boss" rule
and machine" control; demands the
reformation of the Civil Service by law,
and declares i'll favor of reforms in the
party rules.
Six men lost their lives by an ex-
plosion ocSas IN the Kohlnoor collierv
at Shenaizah, Pa.
-Lastest advices from the wreck of
the steamer Manitoulin which was burnt
near Killarney, Ontario, places the num-
Der of persons lost at twenty to twenty
five. The purser did not have time to
gister all on board, consequently the
names of many who were lost are not re-
corded, and probably the names of all
will never be known.
The American Baptist Missionary
Society celebrated its fiftieth anniver-
sary Wednesday.
-Advices from Mexico state that the
hostile Apaches are fleeing thence to
NST Mexico. The Mexicans are fast
killing them of, in order to secure the
$500 offered by their government for the
scalp of each hostile Indian.
Among the witnesses called for the
defense in the MalleY. Douglass trial, at
New Haven, was young woman who
testified that it was she who exclaimed.
!" My God, I'm paralyzed T. at Savin
Rock, on the Friday night before Jennie
Cramer's bod, was found.
The National Committee of the
greenback labor party at st. Louis, Mo-,
adopted an address TO the American
People. The platform of principles is
opposition to telegraph and railroad
monopolies and tine substitution of
greenbacks for national bank currency.
The Brooklyn Sunday School Union
paraded on Wednesday So coo Ftrong.
The New York City and Northern
Railroad Company has gone into a re
ceivers hands, at the suit of the New
York Loan and Improvement Company,
which obtained judgment against it for
over 800, 600 of borrowed money.
"A Yonkers, n. Y, saloon keeper was
f..rnI c,trilfr 81 potltp1, l,oo,