Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-02-04
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
Mr.. Scoville has issued an address
to the public appealing for money to
enable him to carry the Guiteau case
to the court in banc.
"A young man named Lee, in Butler
County, Pa, wounded two young
women on Friday without motive and
later shot himself to avoid capture by
the women's friends.
A terrible boiler explosion at Fair
field, Me-. in which two persons were
instantly killed and several others IA
tally injured, occurred on Saturday at
the mill of the Kennebec Framing Com
pany.
The Official Gazette of Ottawa, Ont,
says that the Northwest mounted police
is to be increased from 200 to 500 men
by March 1.
"A thirteen year old boy in the Law
renee Mass. Industrial School has con-
fessed having set fire to the building.
Mr.. Scoville on Saturday presented
affidavits upon which he bases his appli-
cation for a new trial for Guiteau. It is
alleged that the jury read a newspaper
article commenting upon the case and
that new evidence has been discovered
tending to establish the insanity of the
prisoner.
"A family near Corinth, Ky, has
been poisoned by arsenic in corn-bread.
Five moro persons at Minnesota,
Mimi, are dangerously ill from trichi-
nosis.
The total amount of bituminous
coal mined in the United States during
the census year, 1880, was AZ 400, $50
tons, of which total 80, $40, 240 tons
were produced in the Appalachian coal
field.
In Lafayette, Ind, dancing bear
has killed its keepers, two Italians. The
bear was killed by man whom it had
attacked. Pieces of clothing belonging
to the two Italians have been found.
AT Rochester, n. Y, $500 men are
on strike on account of orders from the
Amalgamated Workingmen's Union.
Angus Davis, colored, was hanged
at New Orleans for assault.
Major William 81. Broughton, the
champion checker-player of Maine,
died Friday, aged thirty-seven.
Forty thieves entered q Lima
Monastery recently, locked up the nuns
and robbed the chapels.
Eighteen of the Princeton, n. j.,
students indicted for malicious mischief
were fined 800 each. The trial of five
who pleaded not guilty will soon take
place.
AT Detroit man in the opera house
who Kissed when the verdict in the Gui-
teau case was announced was mobbed.
-Guiteau has issued an address to
the American People" appealing for
money to enable him to carry his case
to higher court. The suggestion that
the trial was illegal because it was begun
in one term and run into another is
secuted by the best District lawyers.
Consideration of the creditors offer
of 81, 500, 900 for the Sprague estate has
been fixed by the Supreme Court for
February IL.
The Coroner's jury in the investiga-
ton of the death of Senator Wagner
and others at Spuyten Duyvil, returned
verdict holding Conductor Hanford,
Engineers Stanford and Buchanan, of the
Chicago express train; Engineer Burr,
of the Tarrytown special train; Mr..
John N. Toucey, Superintendent of the
New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad Company, and the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad Com
pany individually responsible for the
| loss of life in the collision. The jury
said that the practice of the promiscuOus
distribution of free railroad passes dur
ing the session of the Legislature was
demoraliZing in its tendency, and an
incentive to unseemly conduct by en-
couragiDg free excursions between the
capital and the metropolis.
Negotiations are now in progress
for a match between Hanlan and Trickett
over the Thames championship course.
AT East Poultney, VT, on Tuesday.
man named Jones. while chopping
timber, was crushed by falling tree
and frozen to death.
-Messrs. G. P. Huntington and JAY
Gould have purchased a controlling in.
tCICob HI tuc Ot. AOttlo duu DAN ffaQ-
cisco Railroad.
"A suit for damages has been begun
against Archbishop Williams and a
priest at Boston for having deprived q
sick child of playthings.
Yale has declined Harvard's chal.
lenge for an intercollegiate athletic
meeting.
Great damage to houses and farms
and large losses of lumber by the Ten.
nessee River flood continue to be re-
ported.
Colonel Mackenzie reports from
Santa Fee, N. NJ, that the Apaches arc
making general war on the Mexicans il
the State of Sonara that there is 6
general effort being made by the Mexi
cans to drive them out. Chief Mana il
reported as not dead.
An appeal is made to the public fol-
the sufferers by the floods in Tennessee
The total Massachusetts, mackere
inspection for 1881 was $50, 1874 barrels.
The Gloucester inspection was 113, 2Oe
barrels.
1T is understood that tho ,,ro;aof 60,