Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-05-06
NEWS OF THE DAY


near Uvalde, Texas, were approached
by party of horsemen named O'Briens
and Fields and fred upon. The two
sons we're instantly killed, and the old
man fatally wounded. The murder grew
ont of misunderstanding regarding O
land claim.
The property of the Rockaway
Beach Improvement Company, includ
ing the Rockaway Beach Hotel, was
sold Monday for $40, 700, subject to
several heavy mortgages.
Nine business houses were de.
stroyed by fire at Shelbyville, Tenn,
Monday. The loss is 500, 900.
The Government has been notified
from Winnipeg that all trains for Man
itoba are delayed ON account of the
spring floods. Two hundred carloads
of freight and immigrants are already
detained near the boundary.
An attempt Oh the lives of Cyrus
w. Field and VIM. II. Vanderbilt was
discovered Saturday by the explosion OF
an internal machine in q leather mail
pouch on an elevated railway train in
New York City. The two packages in
the mail bag were marked in German
hand, "Cyfus w. Field, esq.,, corner
Twenty first street and Lexington ave-,
City," and "Wm. II. Vanderbilt, esq.,,
459 Fifth avenue, City," The packages
contained half pound of powder each
with matches fixed to ignite when an
attempt was made to open the boxes.
An internal machine was thrown
into the vestibule of the house of Mr..
John A. Davenport, No. 319 East
Nineteenth Street, New York, late
Saturday night, where it exploded
without doing any damage. 1t was
probably intended for Superintendent
Walling. who lives at No. Gil. Post
master Pearson sent portions of the
machine intended for Mr.. Vanderbilt to
Professor Doremus, who found that
they contained sulphuiic acid and
chlorate of potash.
DIR. Doremus, of New York, who
examined the internal machines lately
found in that city, discovered at orce
that the liquid contained in the glass
bulb and designed to fire the gun cotton
was sulphuric acid. This made the
workings of the internal machine clear
at once. On top of the gun cotton in
the TASKS was some powered chlorate oi
potash mixed with fine sugar, flour, o,
pulverized gun powder. A drop of the
acid falling into this mixture would pro.
duce immediate combustion and fire the
gun cotton. The glass bulb of the in,
fernal machine with its slender mech
penetrating the cork of the flask would
retain the acid with which it was flied
AS soon as the bulb was broken, how.
ever, the acid was free TO run down into
the flask and the explosion would fol
low.
-Bradstreet's reports los failures in
the United States last week, an increase
of 10 over those of the preceding week,
and LEES than the week of last year.
The jury in the case of Dwight
Kidder, Who is charged with the mnr.
der of his brother, Charles d. Kidder,
in Springfield, Mass, in June last. after
being out all night, brought in, Friday
morning, a verdict of manslaughter,
whereupon the prisoner was sentenced
to twenty years IN the State prison.
Two resolutions, practically endors.
ing Gov. Crittenden's action in the Jesse
James affair, were introduced in the lower
House of the Missouri Legislature-one
by a Democrat and the other by Re.
publican. Both were ruled out by order
OF the Speaker, and an appeal from the
decision of the Chair was taken. The
Democrats voted solid, so in number,
to sustain the Chair, while the Repub.
licans and Greenbackers, 40 in number.
voted against the Chair.
The Anti-Chinese Convention in
San Francisco Oh Friday night adopted
a plan of action, which includes O
scheme to divide the Pacific coast into
districts, which shall be notified to
remove the Chinese within n specified
time. Falling such action, the district
IS to be proclaimed dangerous, and
peaceably disposed citizens to be warned
to abandon it aud il the Chinese are
still harbored i'll the district, the League
is to remove them by force, using a
little force as may be necessary, until
the country is rid of them. The Con.
venfion then elected an executive com.
mittee and adjourned sine die.
Three negroes were hanged for arson
Friday at Greenville, s. G.
The amalgamation of the com.
nanies of the Great Western and Grand
Trunk Railroads of Canada has been
agreed upon.
"A party OF about sixty masked men
appeared ut the jail in Minneapolis
Mimi, demanded the surrender to them
OF Frank McManus, the tramp who az.
saulted the four-year-old child Nins
Spear, and lynched Kim.
During the course OF the Malley
trial Thursday DIR. Prudden testified
that the body of Jennie Cramer showed
no signs of death by drowning. Prof
Chittenden said he had discovered
arsenic in the girls stomach.
"A dispatch from Tombstone, Ariz.
says The reported capture of Galley.
vile and the killing of thirty persons il
incorrect. Only one man has been killed
three miles from the town.
There is plan on foot for using the
hydraulic power of Niagara Falls as 6
means of generating electricity to il.
animate several of the large Eastern
cities, including New York.
-Genelai Forsy tn, with a portion Of
EiS regiment, the Fourth cavalry, struck
the hostile ApscheH in southwestern
Arizona, aud, after four hours of FIGHT.
ing, dislodged them.
On Thursday night special freigh,
train on the Boston, Concord and Mon.
treal Railroad parted on the grade nea,
Warren Summit. The rear portion 81
fifteen cars ran back into q way freigh,