Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1889-12-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
WEDNESDAY.
From the Baltimore Sun.

For the first time since August %, 1888,
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad common
stock sold at par.
Committees of the Maryland Horticultu-
raj Society and the Florists Club consid-
cred means for reinvigorating the former
society.
The Maryland State School Commission
ers' Association began their annual meet
ing at the State Normal School.
Charles ". Myers; convicted of stealing
specimens of teeth and their good filling,
was sentenced TO the penitentiary for two
and a-half years.
w. w. Christopher, charged with shoot
ing and killing Charles 2. Logue, will be
tried at Towsontown.
John B. Miller was fined at Towsontown
for pointing gun at Mr.. Walter Miller, a
lawyer.
A store with its contents and two dwell
lings ct Fairview, Baltimore county, were
burned.
VIM. Scott Stanford is on trial at Belair,
Nd, for killing bis stepson, Edward Spen-
Ger.
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at Upper Marlboro, charged, on the testi-
mony of one of his brothers, with starting
the incendiary fires near Mulliken's Sta
ton, Prince Georges county. Five men,
bers of his family are also in Jail.
Hog cholera and cow-pox are prevalent
in portions of Caroline county.
Democratic members of the House say
that any attempt to deny Mr.. Compton and
others their seats will be strenuously resis-
ted.
Supervising Architect Windrim favors a
new building for the Baltimore custom
house, to cost over 100000.
Herr Krupp, the great German iron f0un-
der, will, il is said, establish a branch in
this country of his famous mandatory tn
secure himself against the contingencies OF
European war.
The steamship Santiago was burned at
sea, but the crew were rescued.
A fire WHICH started at noon yesterday in
the four-story wooden buildiny Of Mower
& Brother, on Almont street, Lynn, Mass,
developed into a confagration, and des-
troyed property TO the value Of about ten
million dollars.
The loss by the fire at the Hecla Iron
Works, in Williamsburg, N. Y, Monday
night, is about 100000.
A disastrous fire occurred at Leachburg,
Pa, town of 5000 population, causing
damage of 100000.
THURSDAY.
The schooner Lawson, of Crisfield, Nd,
TrIa nj fsxvt he rrcr Ia
Augusta. No lives were lost. The tug
was in the employ Of Capt Lewis, the les
see of the oyster grounds in the Potomac
which raised question between Maryland
and Virginia as 10 the boundary line.
Harry C. Burdette, of Howard county,
was swindled out of q number Of hogs by
a new process.
Mr.. James Macgill, of Pulaski county,
Va, captured live deer after a hard chase
on horseback and at full speed.
Charles d. Coles, aged % years, was &c
cidentally shot while handling gun in
Anne Arundel county, and died at the
City Hospital, Baltimore.
The Maryland School Commissioners
Association completed their session.
James A. Ridout took dose oflauda-
mum and turned on the gas in room at
the Clarendon Hotel, being fo-nd uncon-
scious.
A banquet was rendered the German
delegates to the Maritime Conference at
Washington at the Germania Club, Balti-
more.
Preparations are being made at Annap-
oils for the meeting Of the Maryland Leg
islature.
. New York has secured its five millions
guarantee fund for the worlds fair, and