Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

breakwater at the foot of Thirty fifth
street, Chicago. One sailor was
drowned, and his body was subsequent
ly washed ashore. Several other wrecks
are rumored along the shore, with con-
siderable loss of life. Another vessel,
name unknown, has drifted away to-
wards South Chicago, and at last ac-
counts was in imminent danger. The
lifeboats have been manned, and are do
ing all IN their power to save the i'm
perilled crew.
Governor Foster of Ohio has APP
pointed April q as arbor day and has
requested the citizens Of the State on
that DAY to plant trees and groves ON
whatever plot of gro, they may own.
The large paper mill of J. Howard
Lewis, in Neither Providence, four miles
from Chester, Pa. was burned on
Sunday night. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
An order has been issued for The
arrest of General Clinton b. Fisk. who
is charged with swindling in mining
transactions. Bail has been fixed at
$751;
John Enright horsewhipped Harry
Patterson IN Oceanic, n. j., Saturday,
for slandering his intended wife. A suit
tor assault and two for SANDER are the
results.
Mrs. Scoville filed petition ia the
county court setting forth that both she
and Charles j. Guiteau are residents of
Chicago that said Guiteau has become
insane; that he has property valued at
several thousand dollars in copyrights
OF books and has q daily revenue from
the sale of photographs, and that by
reason of his insanity he is wholly
incompetent to have charge of such
property. She also alleges that
he Is about to sell his body, pos
session to be taken in the event of his
execution. She therefore prays that
the court Immediately appoint con-
servator CT the estate and person of said
Guiteau. Mrs. Scoville's attorney is
William S. Johnson, formerly an asso-
ciate of Hon. Emory A. Storrs. aud is
one OF the most adroit lawyers in cases
of insanity. The question of Guiteau S
insanity will now be tried in Chicago.
The dam across the Rock River at
GAINESVILLE, Wis, was swept away by
the water, and in consequence the
wheels of eleven mills and factories are
stopped. The dam was $50 feet long.
Mrs. Ryan, the mother of Johanna
Ryan, who was burned at the fire in
the Potter building, New York. is said
to be dying of starvation. She is 105
years old.
The Chicago Times, which has had
a special correspondent in Missouri to
investigate the particulars of the Jesse
James shooting, publisheda letter Mon
day morning containing interviews with
q number Of Missourians who knew
James, and who all persist in the belief
that II was not Jesse James who was
killed.
Two additional bodies of persons
who were on board The ill-fated steamer
Golden City were recovered from the
Mississippi River. in the vicinity of the
wreck, one of them beng that of Mrs.
w. IL. Stowe, whose husband and two
children were also lost through the dis
aster.
The Maine Democratic State Com
mittee held a meeting in Augusta. and
dec ded to hold the State nominating
convention in Lewiston, on Tuesday,
June ~.
The revenue of the Dominion of
Canada for the last nine months
amounted to S24. 479, 500, and the ex-
penditure to SIT, 999, 567.
A boats crew OF six men was
drowned Saturday during n storm in
the harhor of Victoria, B. C.
Three sisters, all over fifty years Of
age, died suddenly within ten minutes
OF each other, in the same room.
Saturday night, in Philadelphia.
A quantity Of goats meat labelled
"spring lamb and bob veal has been
seized in Brooklyn butcher shops.
Six lives were lost Friday by the ex-
plosion Of boiler on the steamer Bella
Mac, ten miles from La Crosse. Wis.
on the Mississippi River.
The band Of swindlers who com
PEELED Mr.. Charles Francis Adams TO
aign checks in Boston have been operat-
ing, it is said, for year past. under the
protection of the city detectives.
Kansas, Iowa, Michigan, and other
parts of the west, were the prey of
fierce storms Of wind and rain on
Thursday night. Tidings of men and
women killed and towns wrecked come
from many sources. In Kansas six per
sons are spoken of as killed or fatally
injured by the hurricane, and few of the
inhabitants Of one little town wholly
escaped injury, most Of them being now
homeless. Three persons were killed
also in Michigan, and many were in.
iured
The Oregon Democratic State Con
vention adopted a resolution denouncinp
the veto Of the Chinese bill, declaring
the vete to be a public misfortune.
A mob OF sixty men captured the
steamer Sally Freeze at Raymond Civ
". Va, Thursday night, went to Win.
field, took negro named Joseph Smith
out Of Jail, ard hanged him to a tree
He had assaulted woman, and had ac-
knowledged bis guilt.
European steamers are Offering TO
take wheat TO Liverpool as ballast free
OF charge, and in some cases to paw five
cents per 100 lbs. for the privilege of
taking it.
The Newark, n. j., bricklayers
secured an advance of wages without a
strike, and the carpenters have com