Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-09-02
NEWS OF THE DAY
oFNrRAL ITEMS.

the United States.
"A man delivered himself to the
police at Brockville, Ont, on Monday.
saying that he, with two Others, muir
mered three men in the Grosvenor
Hotel, London, England, about five
years ago.
An excursion train near Toledo,
Ohio. was boarded on Sunday by men
with drawn revolvers, who robbed and
maltreated the passengers.
instructions have been issued for
the transfer to the Mint at Philadelphia
for recoinage OF the uncurrent sub
sidiary silver held in the various deposit
tories. There are about $500, 900 of
these coins, including 3, 5 and 20 cent
silver pieces.
BY q boiler explosion in Green
County, Ohio, two men were instantly
killed and another fatally injured.
According to the official report the
number Of cases al yellow fever at
Brownsville, Texas, has increased some
what during the past week.
The wife of a lawyer at Leland, ILL.,,
shot her husband and then herself. In
both cases death ensued at once. The
motive is unknown.
A terrible disaster Is reported from
Texas. The town of Ben Ficklin has
been washed away by freshet, with a
reported loss of forty lives. Most OF the
victims were Mexicans.
Gov. Cameron ON Friday refused to
commute the sentence Of Mary Booth,
colored, aged II years, who is to be
hanged on Nov. IL, for poisoning Mrs.
Gray and Travis Jones of S1rry County,
Va, in the early part of april, by put
ting arsenic in their coffee.
Two OF the desperadoes who robbed
stage in Arizona and murdered the ex-
press messenger and another man, were
lynched at Globe.
I'm Florida two colored prisoners,
charged with murder, were shot ana
killed by a mob.
The Florida Land and Improvement
Company's Canal has just been COM
pleted TO Lake Kickpochee, large lake,
within three miles OF Lake Okeechobee,
and an immense body of water is pour
ing down the Caloosahatchee River,
amid great rejoicings. The completion
OF this work will bring into cultivation
the finest sugar lands of Florida.
The Missouri Republican State Gen.
trail Committee has decided to hold no
State Convention this fall.
"A number Of horses received shocks
Of electricity on Nassau street, N. Y,
while walking over the buried con-
ductors Of the Edison electric light
wires.
The Texas fever has attacked the
cattle at several slaughter houses ct
Auburn, n. Y, and ali beef is sold
under certificates of the Board Of
Health.
The balloon Columbus" which
assembled at the Bavarian festival in New
York, descended in Duchess County,
about twelve miles above Paughkeepsie.
The aeronauts were landed in a quag-
mire.
The roof Of the Erie Railway EIe-
vaior, at Buffalo, n. Y, was blown off
Thursday hight 10y an explosion, the
cause Of which is unknown. The
building took fire. and burned to
the ground. The engineer, John
Bonnar, John Kemp and Henry Lee
gre supposed to have been burned.
Timothy Driscoll had his skull crushed
and his right leg broken. The loss is
over $3.50, goo, and the building is in
sured.
Wednesday afternoon engine No.
762 ran into freight train loaded with
cattle, hogs and sheen, at Monmouth
Junction on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The engineer, A. Brown, of the light
engine, was probably fatally injured.
Hundreds of hogs were liberated by the
collision and are running at large.
An accident occurred on board the
United States steamer Tallapoosa Just
after she left New York harbor on We'd
nesday. The men were at xercise
lowering the life boai, when the forward
tackle got away from the men tending
ii and tho bow of the boat went by the
run into the water, throwing the men
from their seats and three of them
overheard. Henry Kratz, acting quar-
termaster, was probably stunned and
did not rise to the surface; August
Ohlmsen, boatswains mate, was rescued
with one arm disabled, and Oscar Yves
terholm, seaman, with broken ribs.
Every 6ffort was made during the rest
of the night to find Kra'z, but without
avail. Julian G. Baker, gunner's mate,
who saved the lie of Ohlmsen, was
thanked on the quarter deck and sub
stantially rewarded by Secretary Chand-
or.
Captain Webb won the swimming
match against Thomas Riley at Hull,
Mass, on Wednesday.
On Wednesday Benjamin Harris,
colored, living near Visalia, CAL, shot
and mortally wounded his wife. He
killed his stepdaughter, aged fourteen,
and severely wounded another step
daughter, aged ten, with an AK. He
made his escape, with thirty men in hot
pursuit.
On q post-mortem examination of
two cattle which had died of the plague
at Sennett, n. Y, the spleen was found
enlarged and very dark, the kidneys
congested. the third stomach solidly
compacted with food, and other agera-
waited symptoms.
FOREIGN THINE.
Only six dead Arabs were found on
the battle field at Ramses.
The Sultan of Turkey has accepted
the military convention with Great
Britain. A Ccnstantinople correspond
emit explains his personal and diplomatic
relations and his interest in the Egyptian
question.
The cotton croD in Eovpt is suffer-