Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-12-09
NEWS OF THE DAY
aKNRRAL TTFaIa.

rank Frayne was tried and ac-
Quilted on charge of manslaughter for
shooting Miss Anna Won Behren at Gin
clnnati, during the performance of Isl
Slocum" on Thursday night.
One man was killed and four injured
IN railway collision near Falmouth, Ky.
The schooner II. Folger was lost on
Salmon Point Reef, Lake Erie. on
Thursday night. The captain and his
crew of eight men were drowned.
Three pilots were blown out to sea
In an open boat from Port Eads Wednes-
day and have not since been heard of.
An express train from New York for
Boston struck wagon Mt crossing in
Thompsonyille, Conn, causing the death
of two boys.
The new penal law went into force
on Sunday. The bootblacks and news
boys were driven off the street. Al
butcher shops, milk stores ani bakeries
were closed. The street cars ran, but all
carriages were Dir en- off and the streets ap-
peared deserted. All the saloons and
gardens were open and did thriving
business during the day and night. A
large number of arrests were made by
the police but the magistrates discharged
the parties as fast as arrested.
On Lake Michigan, the steam-barge
X. G. Peters was towing the Sch. Lucky
when suddenly the Peters caught fire
and before aid could be rendered. sank.
stem first, with Captain Olsen, Mate Lar
sen and eleven others who composed her
crew.
Rear Admiral Robert III. Wyman,
died Saturday morning at Washington.
Surgeon General Wales reports that his
death was caused by apoplexy. He was
born in New Hampshire and appointed
midshipman from that State March II,
1887.
The total Appropriation to pay
claims against the Garfield estate was
S57, 500, of which amount $50, 800 was
specially appropriated for physicians and
medical attendance, rs follOws:-Dr. ID.
W. Bliss, So, 800; DIR. ID. Hayes Agnew,
5000; Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, 5000;
Dr. Robert Reyburn, $1,000; DIR. Silas
A. Boynton, 81 900; DIR. Susan \. Edison,
$4,000. Total, S27, 800.
A letter of General Grant to Scna-
tor J. d. Cameron asserting his convic-
ton Of the entire innocence Of General
Fitz John Porter is made public.
Tho Second Auditors annual report
says twenty-one years arrearages are due
the Soldiers Homo on account OF money
forfeited by deserters.
Mr.. Norton, Chief of the Financial
Division of the Third Assistant Post
master General, has been dismissed on
the recommendation of Government
counsel In the Star route case.
The late Thurlow Weed, in his will,
makes his daughter Harriet his principal
legatee. The estate is estimated at from
81, 10000 to 81, 100000
The Dominion Court of Appeal at
Toronto, Ont, decided that William A.
Hall, charged with forgery in his duties
as chief clerk in the Comptroller's office
tIewark, n. j., should be extradited
Stephen w. Dorsey addresses a card
to the public explaining his connection
with the star route service, and denying
the charges made against him.
The long litigation growing out of
the collision in 1868 between the steam
ship North Star and the Ella Marley is
ended, and William ii. Vanderbilt and
others are ordered to pay the plaintiffs
S23, 504.22,
AT Cincinnati the Coroner's jury in
the case of the young woman who was
fatally shot by Frank |. Frayne rendered
verdict of accidental death.
John Dewey, on trial in New York
City for libel, refused to make known the
name of the head officer of the Irish
Revolutionary Brotherhood, and was in
formed that if lie did not change his
mind by Monday it would most likely be
the duty of the Court to commit him for
contempt.
Eleven additional members of the
crew of the lost steamer Cedar Grove
were rescued. While they were about
being transferred from schooner, which
picked them up, to a steamer, the latter
collided with the schooner, which filled,
and had to be abandoned. The captain
of the Cedar Grove and six others are
still missing.
The British steamer Cedar Grove
was lost near Nova Scotia. The captain,
his wife, a lady passenger and a portion
of the crew are missing.
Joseph Thomas was convicted at
Mayersville, Miss, of the murder of
Charles Murphy and sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life.
Three robbers broke into the house
of Mrs. Converse, near Waterbury, Conn,
on Tuesday night, assaulted and tied the
lady and her brother and stole what
valuables they found.
The Comptroller of the Currency, in
his annual report, shows the bad effect
of large surplus revenue on the circu-
lating medium.
An attempt to launch the United
States monitor Puritan, at Chester. Pa,
failed.
"A war between oystermen and clam
gatherers is being wagcd along the banks
of the Shrewsbury River, \. J.
The Alabama Legislature voted in
favor of Senator John I. Morgan for
United States Senator to succeed him.
self.
The official figures of Nebraska show
that Dawes's rep majority for Gov
ernor over Morton is IA, $50. The average
Republican vote for State officers is
Al, 1870; Democratic, 20, SAT; Anti Mon
opoly, 17,1S7.
An infant was found dead and par
TALLY eaten by rats near Spottsville, Ky.
The disputed election in the First
Congressional district of Virginia was
decided by the Board Of Canvassers