Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-06-18

100000 has been counted and q single
silseT dollar IL missing.
The first application ever made by
woman for appointment as railway mail
clerk was received by Postmaster General
Wanamaker yesterday.
A secret conference IF prominent re-
publicans If Ohio, Kentucky. Illinois,
Michigan and Indiana was held at Indian
apolis in opposition 10 the denomination of
President Harrison
John Howard, colored, cook On the
schooner Silver Queen, was knocked from
that vessel near the mouth Of Chesapeake
bay, and Ii supposed 10 have been devoured
BY shark which the crew was attempting
10 capture.
Mrs. Daniel Smith. aged sixty years,
died yesterday at her late home, near
Ashland, Pa, after fast Of nearly eight
weeks. ON April 10 Mrs. Smith lost her
child, 3 daughter of thirty eight years. and.
becoming respondent, she refused 20 par
take Of any food.
BY premature explosion Of u dynamite
blast Thursday on the Roanoke Southern
Railway, between Rocky Mount and Ro-
anoke. two men were instantly killed and
two fatally injured. They were all colored
except boss, who was white, and who is
still alive.
1 Tha T,an If h. fsu
Supreme Court decided that an adopted
child has ali the rights Of property on the
death Of the adopting parents that IL would
have IL il were born 20 such parents in
lawful wedlock. This decision was
brought out bysa woman claiming her
husbands property on the ground that he
left no issue.
Sir William Gordon Cummings name
has been removed from the list Of of officers
in the British army. A meeting Of the
British cabinet has been called to consider
events since the baccarat trial. Radical
members of Parliament intend demanding
/ that the Prince of Wales shall resign his
office as field marshal Of the English army
The venerable Colonel Whitney died at
his home, near Franklin. Grove, H., Thurs.
day evening. Realizing some months ago
that the end must come soon he called to.
gether sil his friends on his last birthday
January %, when he was one hundred
years old, and babe them last farewell
Colonel Whitney was one of tn oldest
members of the Masonic order in the
world, having been initiated into thai
fraternity June 22, 1917.
The special committee appointed to in
vestigate charges of brutality and mis-
management against the officials of the
State Southern Insane Hospital at Anna
Ill, have reported most deplorable state
of affairs. Many inmates have been beat
en-, killed and otherwise maltreated Pa
tients were forced 10 work out in winter SC
scantily clothed that their bodies were
exposed and their feet soaked with water
while in another case patient was thrown
upon heater and held there until badly
burned. Another, with high fever, was
taken from his room and beaten for asking
for water.
MONDAY, June Is.
Thomas III. Heath, tried for killing
Emanuel Tapen, was convicted of man.
Washington, Saturday night, George
Bowie cut Charles Washington to death
with a pocket-knife.
Mr.. Henry Decamp, aged lightweight
years, fell out of u window at No. 754
Dolphin street and was killed
X. II Jones who killed three of his rela-
tives in Edgefeld county. S. c., was found
guilty of manslaughter.
At Bristol, Va, Bob Clark, colored,
charged with criminal assault on respect
able white lady, was taken from jail and
hung in the presence of several thousand
people.
Congressman Mills, ofTexas, is in Wash
ington for the purpose Of directing his can
vass for the speakership of the House.
He pronounces all purported interviews
with him as unauthorized.
Fire destroyed the west Philadelphia
abattoir oftAe Pennsylvania RAILROAD Com
pany. causing loss of nearly half a mil
lion dollars. There were 1000 carcasses
In the refrigerating houses which were
consumed.
The notorious Mexican stage robber,
Geronimo, who has been robbing stages
for five years in Southern Arizona, was
killed by sheriff7s posse in the mountains
near Pantano. His accomplice, Leon, sur
rendered 70 the officers.
Montgomery county (Ohio) republicans,
in convention at Dayton Saturday, elected
a solid delegation of twenty three for Nc
Kinley for Governor. Resolutions to that
effect were carried unanimously as the
undivided sentiment Of the republicans Of
the Miami Valley.
A railroad bridge across the river Moen-
chan, in Switzerland. gave way under the
weight of al excursion train that was
crossing it, and one car and two engines
were plunged into the stream. All he
railroad employees were killed, 60 passen-
gers were drowned and 100 injured
While the Inman Line steamer City of
Richmond was at sea last Tuesday night,
bonnd from New York to Queenstown fire
was discovered among two thousand bales
of cotton in c hold. The passengers
were aroused nd preparations made for