Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-06-10
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

night and hanged.
Pensacola, Fla, Marquette, Mich,
and Concord, N. H., are to have new
Government public buildings.
Mrs. Mentzer lost her life and Miss
Montgomery was fatally injured by a
distressing railroad accident that hap
pened near Wilmore, Pa.
Mr.. Blaine viii not accept a NOM
nation for Congressman-at-L Large in
Maine.
Accounts from Pittsburg pa and
other cities state that the striking work.
men continue to conduct themselves in
an orderly manner. AT Milwaukee wis. J
a lot of iron workers who were receiving
more than the average wages made
common cause with the strikers, to The
great annoyance of their employers.
The indications at Pittsburg appear to
warrant the conclusion that the manu-
facturers are wavering.
The board appointed to inquire as
to the number of persons killed and the
value of property recently stolen or de-
stroyed III Arizona by the Indians, has
reported that forty-two persons were
killed and nine wounded, and that the
depredations cause loss in property
of S30,250
-Vennor prophecies a wet and cold
summer.
A cooperative congress of working
men has been held at Oxford, England,
to consider the labor question.
A wind and rain storm in North
Carolina did much damage and killed
two colored girls.
The schooner Industry was lost on
Lake Michigan with all on board.
At Rondout, n. Y, man and also
a child were found suffocated in their
beds.
"A new oil well producing $500
barrels daily is reported from Warren
County, Pa.
AT Lansing, Mich, one of the en-
ployees of circus was attacked by a
lion and severely injured.
Sandy Mathews was hanged at
Memphis, Tenn, and James r. Harvey
at Carrollton, Ga, for murder.
The New York State Legislature
closed its session at noon Friday.
Two men were killed and several
others injured by the explosion of a
boiler at Orange Court House, Va. In
Boston a man was fatally injured by a
similar accident.
The propeller st. Magnus, the first
craft through the Welland Canal, ar
rived in Chicago, and is chartered for
Europe with large cargo of corn on a
through rate. She is $50 feet long and
800 tons burthen. The trip is an ex-
pertinent, on which depends the con-
struction of line of ten similar steam
ers toply between Chicago and Europe.
There were 104 failures in the Uni
ted States during last week, a decrease
of 20 from the preceding week and 90
more than the corresponding week last
year. The Middle States had 30, an in
crease of one New England States Is,
a decrease of Is 4; Southern States II,
a decrease of l; Western States 81,
decrease of / California and the Ter
ritories 10, a decrease of 4. Canada 10,
an increase of 5.
General Fuero, Commander of the
Mexican troops in chihuahua, with 400
Mexican cavalry, surprised and attacked
Juh's band of renegade Apaches on the
morning of the 25th ultimo, near Bosque
de Santiago. Thirty-seven bucks were
killed and ten taken prisoners. The en-
tire camp outfit, including fifty head of
stock, was captured
Owing to the sudden illness of a
juror the Malley- Douglass trial was adj
journed to the 18th inst.
An accident by which thirty passen.
gers were injured, none of them fatally,
occurred on the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy railroad.
The Comptroller's monthly state
ment shows that the funded debt of the
city OF New York on May 81, was over
S97, 100000.
"A member of the Grand Jury of
the County of New York, went out as
an amateur detective the other night,
and the result was the finding of in
dictments against several unlicensed
saloon keepers who were arraigned be-
fore the Court of General Sessions.
1t has been decided by the Gov
ernor of New York, to establish the
State military camp at the plot of
ground about a mile north Ct the vii
lage of Peekskill.
"A compiled statement of the cotton
acreage of the United States shows
material decrease as compared with that
of last year.
In the Malley .nurdar trial at New
Haven a sister of James Malley, Jr.,
and family servant testified that on
the night before the finding of Jennie
Cramer's body James was at home.
The Fusion Greenback State Con-
vention of Maine nominated Gov. Plais-
ted for reelection. The platform favors
the unrestricted coinage of gold and
silver, and declares that the ma
tional bank currency should give
place to greenback currency. The
principles of the party are : Equal
rights, no monopoiies, no banks of
Issue, safe currency, preservation of
the public debt, reform in the civil SER
vice and in the tariff system, no i'm
prisonment for debt, free education. 1t
was also resolved "That we mite
against the Republican party" Gov.
Plaisted accepted the nomination.
Two woodchoppers, Seymour Dey
and Harry Curry, were killed by Indians
in Arizona.
The steamer Earl of Lonsdale,
which arrived at Boston from Havana,
reports that on May 81, fifty miles