Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-02-25
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

nuTfiSDuIR, GodtuIuhy uiBul, over
powered Mr.. Ulrich and his wife and
with drawn pistols compelled them to
tell where their money was concealed.
They took $1,000.
"A story comes from Buenos Ayres
by way of London to the effect that
Peruvians under Colonel Mas have muir
dered 300 foreigners, including the
French Consul, AZ Pisco.
In the Virginian Senate the reso-
luton in the nature of rehuke to Gen
eral Malone for his continued absence
from sessions of the United States Sen
ate was, without debate, indefinitely
postponed.
The campaign of the Virginia au-
thorities against the oyster pirates las
closed with the capture of seven vessels
and slxty-one men.
The Mississippi has overlooked its
banks in Arkansas and Tennessee and
caused incaiculable damage in some of
the large cotton growing counties. The
flood extends fifteen miles inland from
either bank. Reports from the Ohio
valley show that there is some danger
of general flood throughout that region.
The Anti Monopoly League will
begin q crusade against the rent-raising
landlords in Chicago on May 1.
On Friday an explosion occurred in
the pyrotechnic works of Prof. Jack
son, in Chester, Pa. The building was
badly shattered and took fire, and was
then totally consumed. The building
was the old homestead of Admiral Por-
ter A number of colored families lived
in the old mansion. While the firemen
were playing on the flames and a large
crowd surrounded them, an explosion
occurred, scattering destruction far and
wide. An entire wing of the building
was blown into the air. Men $50 yards
away, who thought they were Watching
The fire from ali entirely safe distance,
were struck and killed. Others were
dashed against trees and houses with
fatal violence. Others again were torn
limb from limb. Twenty lives were lost
and over fifty persons seriously injured.
At Chester, Pa the coroner's jury
is investigating the fireworks factory ex-
plosion. One theory is that a quantity
of Greek fire had been in the house since
the war, the old Porter mansion having
been used as Greek-fire factory.
John G. Allison, convicted of the
murder of his father, was hanged at In
diana. Pa, Friday.
The Treasury returns of our export
trade in breadstuffs for the first month
of the new year as compared with those
Of the corresponding period in 1881
show large falling off The exact fig
ures are for 1882, 81 1915, 992, as against
81 1, 500, 400 in 1881. In 1881 our total
exports in this line, within the desig-
mated period, were S16S, 500. $50, where
as this year they are only 1924, 072, 907,
or more than forty million dollars less.
There is much restitution among
The farms of Southern Illinois, on ac-
count of the scarcity of crops.
Rewards aegregating $4,000 have
been offered by Philadelphia citizens to
prevent fraud at the coming election.
The boiler in the car works at Car
tersyille, Ga, exloded Friday killing
instantly four negroes and ininring a
number of others, two of whom have
since died. Superintendent Lucas, of
the Lucas sleeping cara, and the engi-
neer. named Wood, were also injured,
the latter. it is thought. fatally.
The fire in Haverhill, Mass, on
Friday night started in the business
portion If the town and spread with
great rapidity, the buildings being
mostly of wood and igniting very
quickly. The small FIRE department Of
the town was of little account, and help
cane from Lawrence, Newburyport,
Lowell and other towns adjacent.
The fire could be seen from Boston. It
swept over the business portion Of the
town and the loss is very heavy. Haver-
hill is 80 miles northeast from Boston,
on the Boston and Maine Railroad, and
on the Merrimac River at the head of
navigation, Is miles from the ocean and
Is miles below Lowell. It's population
is about 10000. It il the seat of extern
sive manufactures of boots and shoes,
hats, caps, bricks and flannel. Over
eighty shoe firms, three banks and large
number of other business houses in the
lower part of Washington stree. are in
ashes, and the principal business thor
oughfare is blocked its entire length
10y heaps Of smoking debris. Twelve
handsome residences shared the fate of
the large business houses OF the town.
To the immense destruction of property
is added loss Of life. Joseph St Ger
main was killed during the fire by
falling wall. Two thousand people ara
ont of employment, and large number
of families are homeless.
A bill offered in the New York Leg
islature on the subject of oleomarga-
rine, requires that receptacles used for
holding these limitations of butter and
cheese shall be labelled 'oleomargarine
butter" and ''lard cheese" il large Ro-
man letters, and that hotels, restau
rants and boarding houses where the sc
articles are eaten shall have ut least
four conspicuous notices of the fact
posted ON the walls of their dining
rooms. The penalty is fine of 800,
half going to the informer and half to
the poor of the county.
An explosion Of two boilers at jew
ellis Touring mill in Brooklyn caused
the death Of one person and serious in
juries to several others.
The Pennsylvania Military Acad-
envy at Chester, Pa, was burned down
Thursday; loss 5000, 900.
Mrs. Scoville, the sister of the as
sassin Guiteau, has written letter to
Mas. Garfield, in which she piteously