Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-12-02
NEWS OF THE DAY
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at Kansas City, Mo-. and through his
counsel pleaded not guilty to indictments
or murder and bank robbery.
The remains of DR.. Ehrhart late
practitioner of medicine at Allegheny
City, Pa, were cremated at Washing
ton, Pa.
The report that Chile had made an
exhorbitant demand on the United States
of Colombia is authoritatively denied
AN accident to train ON the Lehigh
and Hudson Railroad, near Warwick,
Orange County, \. Y, resulted in the
engineer and fireman being scalded to
death.
The official vote of the State of Con-
necticut for Governor is rs follows: Wal
Ter, Dem. 59,014; Buckley, Rep. a, S53;
Rogers, Pro, 1,034; Tanner, e.. 697 {;
scattering, SO. Walters majority is
1891. Sumner, Dem, for Lieutenant
Governor, has 2, 455 majority. Northrop.
Dem, for Secretary of State, has 10 52,i
majority. Sloat, Rep, for Comptroller.
has 7S2 majority. and Goodrich, Dem.
for Treasurer, has, ga majority. The
pluralities IN the vote for Congressman
are as 6oifows Eaton, Dem, 693 Nit
chef. Dem, 1.795: Wait, Rep, 1865,
slllu OC.N llbtis iJCth., L. tto.
The works of the Standard Oil Com
pany at Greenpoint We're destroyed by
fire ON Sunday afternoon and tank boat
was blown up. Several men jumped into
Newtown Creek to escape a shower Of
scalding oil, and two of them were
drowned.
The newly-elected Sheriff of vii
mington, Del, Mr.. Martin, held his
first whipping ut New Castle recently
Three men received ten lashes each for
larceny, and two forty lashes each for
highway robbery.
The steamer Wisconsin, which ar
rived at Milwaukee, Wis, picked up
three men ON n piece of wreckage in
about the middle of the lake. The men
belonged to the crew of the schooner
Collingwood, bound from st. Helena,
Mich, for Chicago, which was lost with
the rest of the crew.
President Arthur has removed Chas.
f. Henry, Marshal Of the District Of
Columbia ID. b. Anger, Postmaster at
Washington NJ. NJ Baker, his assist
ant NJ ID. Helm, foreman Of the Con-
greSSionat Record, and George L.
Spencer, government director Union Pa
eitic Railroad, for improper conduct III
relation to the Star Route trials.
At Belleview, Pa, Il man named For
sythe placed a pound of dynamite Ill the
oven to thaw out. The house was de-
stroyed and nearly all the family persisted
A desperate named Smith, who it is
charged has killed five men and is the
husband of many wives. has been cap
tTed at Waco, Texas.
Bills providing for a large reduction
of internal taxation are before Congress,
and others will be introduced soon after
the opening Of the session.
By the telescoping of tender and
Pullman palace car on the Intercolonial
Railroad, New Brunswick, three men
were killed and others injured.
The Congressional committee In
vestigating the Mississippi River i'm
provements are opposed to the costly ex-
periments now being tried between
Cairo and New Orleans.
A New York City milk dealer tried to
ruin rivals business by putting vine
gar in the milk he had left for his Gus
toners and is now languishing in Jail.
in the PENNSYLVANIA coal region
bitter feeling exists toward the men who
are accused of having conspired to bring
about the recent disastrous panic i'll the
petroleunlmarket.
in New York City the ninety-ninth
anniversary of Evacuation Day was celc-
brated by exercises on the Battery and
military parade, IN which the Fifth Uni
ted States Artillery, the Old Guard and
several visiting militiamen took part
The contest over the Congressional
election in the Twentieth district of New
York State has been decided in favor of
Edward Wemple, Democrat, defeating
George West, the present member.
Wages of slate quarymen in New
York and Vermont are to be cut down
twelve and a half per cent.
AT Providence, Pa, a woman while
trying to obtain some money from q
burning house persisted in the flames.
Two domestic servants were burned TO
death in boarding house at Indianapo
lis, Ind.
The President in his forthcoming
message, a Washington reporter says,
will recommend a large reduction of the
internal revenue tax and revision of the
tariff
-Melius, the brakeman on the Chicago
express train at the time of the Spuyten
Duyvn disaster, was acquitted of man
slaughter in the Court of Oyer and Ter
miner, of New York City, notwithstanding
Judge Davis's charge, which was against
the prisoner.
In the Trades Congress at Cleveland,
Ohio, resolution was adopted urging
the members of the respective unions to
refrain from purchasing il the future all
cotton goods bearing the trade mark of Il
Massachusetts firm which had largely re
dueed the wages of its operatives.
The Postal authorities are still unable
to locate the systematic robbcrics Of i'm
portant mails III the West, which have
been periOdicalin occurrence since Deem
Der last.
The statistical division of the Agri-
cultural Department estimates the follow
ing as the yield Of 1882 Corn, !, 635,
900, 900 bushels; wheat, 410, 600, 600
. bushels oats, 470. 000,0 bushels bar
ley, $4,000, 600 bushels; rye, 20.0nO, 600
bushels buclswheat, I2,G90,000 bushels
Three young men charged with at
tempting to extort money from Walter
Malley, of New Haven. were discharged
in the Court of Special Sessions of New
York City, the evidence not demanding
their being held.
Thomas J. De Jarnette, who killed
his sister in a disreputable den at Dan