Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-19
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

one OF the principal flour and grain
merchants of New York, died Monday
morning.
NO less than three men who have
been kept long confined in lunatic
asylums by their friends. have been re-
leased by the courts of New York City
as sane.
"A construction train on the Mime
apolis and st. Louis Railroad, with fifty
seven laborers on board, was thrown
from the track near Waseca, MIMI,
turred completely over and went down
an embankment into the water of the
slough below. Thirty-five men were
badly injured, some of them fatally.
The Insane Asylum near Lancaster.
Pa, was totally destroyed by fire Sun
day. The ia inmates were all got out
in safety.
The ironworkers say that when the
present strike ends another is impos-
sible for five years.
Frank Smith, the student who was
shot at Fort Popham, Maine, by Ser
geant Kelly, June 80, died Sunday.
"A disastrous fire occurred in st.
Sauveur, Quebec, Canada, which caused
heavy losses TO that town. No sacrifice
of life is reported.
The Smallpox Hospital at Trenton.
n. J., was robbed of clothing and bed
ding and a recurrence of the epidemic
is feared as a result.
Eight persons died in Matamoras.
Mex, and one in Brownsville, Tex, from
yellow fever on Saturday. twenty-five
new cases are reported in Brownsville.
"A most horrible murder is reported
from Evansville, Ind. A man, his wife
and child were butchered with hatchet
IN order to rob the house.
The Mazatlan Mountain Apaches
have within twelve days murdered forty
five Mexicans in the Ures Valley.
Three ex-employes of the Troy and
Greenfield Railroad we're arrested for
robbing trains.
Ten men were killed by accidents
In the construction of the West Shore
Railroad, on the Hudson, within three
days.
= -Four persons were drowned Mt
Fleshertown, Ont, on Thursday by the
npsetting of boat.
The total destruction of the Hardy
powder mill, Vallejo, CAL, took place
on Friday. Two men were killed.
Some bows at Streate-, ILL.,, ANNOYED
an old man until in his rage he struck
one with astick and killed him instantly.
A convention has been signed be-
tween the representatives of Guatemala
and Mexico, which provides that all
pending questions between them on the
subject Of boundaries shall be arranged
nv arbitration-the President of the
United States to be the arbitrator.
AT Palestine, Texas, Chess Thomas
WAS hanged for killing Houston Nc
Means.
-Four men were severely if not
fatally hurt by the falling of scaffold
IN the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Frederick, Nd.
The crops in Ontario are reported
as extensively damaged by the recent
storms.
The iron mills and furnaces in and
around Pittsburgh are resuming work.
"A premature blast on the West
Shore Railroad, at Cornwall, N. Y,
killed four persons and wounded several
others. The four who were killed were
Southern negroes employed on a con-
tract.
Cora Lent, who left her home at
Peekskill, n. Y. to go off with a mem.
Der OF the 22d Regiment, returned We'd
nesday, accompanied by her brother.
She told her mother that she was forci-
ply detained in New York city by three
men, who gave her up when the chase
got too hot.
The State Convention of Kansas Re-
publicans Endorsed prohibition. woman
suffrage and railroad supervision. Gov
ernor John p. st. John was renominated
to succeed himself.
On Wednesday the Apaches raided
and killed all the inhabitants of the
Rancho Cariso, Sahuaripa district.
Sonoro, Mexico, the women and chill
dren included, and burned the houses.
Reports of The appearance of the
army worm in various sections of the
province of Nova Scotia continue to
reach here. In the western and shore
counties the worms are present in large
numbers.
Suits aggregating 500 were en-
tered at Wheeling, W. Va. by the legal
representatives of sufferers by the
Scioto disaster. There were seven suits.
IN each of which $4,000 is claimed.
Ihere were fifty-seven victims, and it is
Ilkeiy THAI suit will be entered in each
case.
The Massachusetts Prohibition
Convention nominated the following
ticket: For Governor. Charles Almy:
Lieutenant Governor, John Blackmer
Secretary of State Solomon p. Root
treasurer and Receiver General, 7. J.
Lathrop Auditor. Jonathan Buck !:
Attorney General, Samuel M. Fairfield.
The usual prohibition resolutions were
adopted, one of them congratulating
the Prohibitionists of Kansas and Iowa
upon their victory.
The Republican State Convention
OF Indiana nominated the present State
officers, and the platform adopted sup
ports the submission of the pro.
hibition amendment to the people.
and extends sympathy with the Irish in
their Efforts by legislation to break M
landed estates and for home rule in
their local matters.
An intended victim of Judge Ivnch
has sued the members of the mob who
tried to hang him on a tree in Polk
County, Iowa.
-Waterspouts in Ohio are alarming
the people there