Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-05-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
From tie Baltimore Sun.
"WEDNESDAY, April %.

The Cars officers are driving hun.
dreds of Hebrews daily from Russia.
In Roanoke, Va, Nick Flood shot
and killed Charles Ross. Flo cd was
also wounded.
Five girls were killed and fifty
persons wounded by an explosion in a
dynamite factory, near Genoa, Italy.
The estimated loss at the Harris.
vile Lewis county, New York fire
Monday aggregated 100000, with an
insurance Of about one.half.
Fire destroyed the country home
of Mr.. B. N. Baker, at the junction oil
Old Frederick road and Ingleside
avenue. a mile and a-half north OF
Gainesville.
The Chinese government has mott.
fed the United States government
that it 10 unwilling to receive ex.
Senator Henry w. Blair as United
States minister to China.
Captain Bennett. of the schooner
Addie NJ. Anderson, found capsized
schooner in Chesapeake Bay with two
dead men in her rigging, and one
living man, who died while attempts
to rescue him were being made.
At Burlington. N. O., Sunday
morning, while Rev. z. A. Kicks, q
minister of the Christian Church, was
preaching a sermon to his congrees.
ton at that place, he suddenly fell
dead in his pulpit with stroke of
apoplexy.
BY an accident on the Metropolitan
Branch on the B. and o. Railroad
yesterday, few miles from Rockville,
Md, four men were killed and three
injured. No passengers were hurt.
The damage to the campany's proper.
ty is estimated at $4,000.
Sunday evening George Reifstock,
saloon. keeper, of Neptune, Iowa,
engaged in quarrel with F. A. Han.
SON, a prosperous farmer, at a social
gathering on the farm of Stephen
Boren, in Hungerford township. Iowa,
which resulted in Hanson being fatal.
ly shot.
Early yesterday morning, from
some unknown cause, FIRE broke out
in the basement Of the Centre Block,
Franklin, Pa. The local department
was unable to cope with the flames,
and aid sent from Oil City succeeded
in combining the fire to one block.
The total loss was 100000.
The town OF Chilliicothe, ILL.,, is ex
cited over the action of the teacher
in one of the public schools. She
tied the hands Of two little children
to.a stovepipe in the school.room and
lighted lot of paper in the stove
to punish them. The children's ha nds
were severely burned. The teacher
was dismissed.
The match factory of Loeb g. Wolf,
in North Camden, N. j., was destroy
ed BY fire Yesterday morning, together
with much of the contents. The loss
j.; estimated at from $4,000 to $2O..
600. The loss to Mr.. Seeal, .ths
owner Of the building. is placed at
5000.
The forthcoming sncyclical letter of
the Pope will, it 10 said, endeayor to
put Catholicism, doctrinally and in.
tellectually, at the head of the social
movement. The Pope is convinced,
so a Rome ecclesiastic states, that the
democracy of America, imported I'm.
der other forms, will be the mold by
which the future society and politics
of Europe will be fashioned.
Three robbers boldly entered the
Oak Valley Bank, at Valparaiso.
Saunders county, Nebraska, Monday
morning. One of the robbers drew a
revolver, but before he could cover
Cashier Chamberlain the cashier had
secured what cash was in sight and
Q. K. johnson was swapping q revol.
yer at the intrudars. One robber
fired a shot at johnson, grazing his
neck. and oil three robbers ran. Two
escaped in a buggy. but the third was
captured.