Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-12
NEWS OF THE DAY
aFNKRAL ITFNIs,

In Illinois train was wrecked, one man
killed and two injured.
The steamer Gold Dust exploded
her boilers, near Hickman, KY, killing
seventeen persons and won nding forty
seven. The boat burned to the waters
edge after the disaster. A number of
those injured cannot live.
"A mutiny on the ship Northern
Light, from New York to Yokohama,
which put into New London harbor, re
suited in the stabbing of the first mate
four times by one of the crew.
"A trapeze performing aronaut was
drowned on Saturday by the descent of
his balloon into the Ohio River.
Rear Admiral David McDougal,
United States Navy, died at San Fran
cisco.
A serious fire occurred in Gardiner,
Me-, on Monday evening. The loss is
heavy and much suffering will arise
from the disaster. Two lives are sup
posed to be lost. About twenty acres
were burned over. All the manu-
factories on the lower dam were swept
away, and between three hundred and
four hundred men are thrown out of
employment. Some sixty dwelling
houses were destroyed. The local de-
partment was unable to take care of the
fire, and engines were sent from neigh
boring towns.
OF the last weeks mortality in New
York City, numbering 939 persons, 81
were killed by the heat.
One person was killed and four in
iured by lightning near Montpelier, Vt.
One convict killed another for tale.
bearing in the penitentiary at Waupun,
Wis.
Ten firemen were injured, four fatal
ly, during fire in Pittsburg, Pa.
Two men were burned to death at
Sunrise City, MINI.
"A church building fell at Steuben-
vile. Ohio, but fortunately before any
of the congregation had reached it for
worship.
-Four executions took place on Fri
day-one at Chatham, Va; one at Fer
nandina, Fla; one at Jacksonville, Fla,
and one at West PORT, Miss. The
crime for which each suffered death was
murder.
-Artemas Hale, who was the Oldest
living ex-Congressman, diedin his nine
ty-ninth year at Bridgewater, Mass on
Thursday night.
Two West Point cadets tonight
pitched battle in q twenty-four foot
ring, with seconds, referee, etc. The
result is one principal is in hospital and
all the other interested parties in the
guardhouse.
A sudden food in the Ohio Valley,
between Rendale and Corning, caused
damage of over 100000.
The claims against HiIger', the
abscondIng bankrupt of Philadelphia,
now aggregate over s3s0,000.
"A train of seventeen cars, heavily
loaded with coal, was thrown from the
track while descending a steep grade on
the Cranberry road near Pitteburg. Six
miners were killed and thirteen badly
INJURED.
-Barnum's elephant Emperor got
into furious mood in Troy, refused
to follow his companion beasts, ran
through the streets in rage and injured
a number of persons.
The regular State Republican Con-
vention of Georgia adjourned after
recommending General L. J. Gartrell
for Governor and nominating a State
ticket. The boilers convention Endorsed
the nomination of General Gartrell.
The Prohibitionists of Ohio nomi-
mated State ticket. Resolutions were
adopted declaring that the manufacture
and sale of liquor is q crime demanding
total prohibition; denonncing as wrong
any license or taxation, and de-
clarIng that the policy taxation
is perversion of the principles of our
government. The resolutions also re-
peat and reaffirm the principles of the
party-namely prohibition of gambling
In every form, prohibition OF all specu-
lation, prohibition of class legislation,
prison contract labor and Star route
swindles.
A destructive thunder storm
passed over Milwaukee on Thursday.
One man was killed, and the damage
done by lighting and floods is over
100000.
Rear Admiral John G. Beaumont,
United States Navy, is dead.
The Indiana Democratic State Con
vention nominated State ticket (no
Governor). The platform renews the
party pledge of fidelity to the teachings
OF Jefferson; arraigns the Republican
party for alleged usurpation and misrule;
demands that the Federal taxes be re-
duced to the lowest point consistent
with the wants of the government under
an honest and economical administra-
ton Of its affairs demands reform in
the civil service; demands protection to
citizens, native and adopted, at home
and abroad; demands a revision of
"the present unjust tariff
The Republican State Convention
of Iowa nominated State ticket (no
Governor). The resolutions reaffirm
the Republican platform of 1880, COM
mend Congress for its action in the
matter of the contested seats before it,
characterize the administration of Presi-
dent Arthur as "worthy of all respect
and commendation," favor the creation
OF Department of Industry, ask prompt
measures to protect Western cattle from
contagious diseases, favor an equitable
revision of the tariff, favor legislation to
control interstate commerce and pool
ing arrangements between parallel and
competing railroad lines, and advocate
renewed efforts looking to the practical
and judicious improvement of natural
WATERWAYS.