Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-08-20

DulI0lng. IN saturday night the
whole central tower fell and carried
o large portion of the roof and mas
sive front of the building with it.
The college was to have been opened
in the new building October /.
THURSDAY, August 13.
Louis Ward, Williamsburg, n.
Y, drowned himself after finishing
q waltz on an excursion boat.
A five-year-old child fell seventy
feet from q New York tenement
and escaped with slight injuries.
The republican State committee
of Virginia determined to make no
nominations for the Legislature this
fall.
The house at Appomattox, Va,
in which General Lee surrendered
to General Grant has been sold for
$1,000 to representatives OF the
Grand Army Of the Republic.
The Atlantic Transport steam
ship Maryland made the voyage
from Swansea, Wales, to Baltimore
in 10 days, 10 hours and Is min
utes, the fastest time on record.
The Federation OF Labor recon-
mended that oil work performed for
Maryland at the Worlds Fair be
done under the eight-hour system
by citizens of the country.
Captain Healy, of the revenue
steamer Bear, reports from Port
Clarence, Alaska, rumor that the
crews Of two vessels had been mas
sacred by natives in the Arctic, east
OF Point Barrow.
The prisoner Rye, charged with
killing Mr.. Wheeler, in Port To-
bacco, has been brought to Jail in
Baltimore as security against fur
Their attempt at lynching in Charles
county.
A brief, fierce thunderstorm fell
upon Baltimore and vicinity short
ly before noon. A half inch of wa
ter fell within an hour, and the
lightning killed a man in Towson
and shocked another severely.
General Seth favors the CONVEX
sion of the Maryland State fishery
force into o battalion of naval re-
serves az q means of attaining the
highest state of discipline and eff
cheney and removing it from polit-
ical influences.
Mrs. Mary Durand, seventy-five
years old, q sister of the French
General Durand, and reputed to
own an estate in France worth S.
600, 900, died Monday from starva-
ton at home in Egg Harbor City,
n. j.
Ex-senator b. X. Bruce, in an
interview at Washington, opposed
the project for the colonization of
the colored people of the Southern
States in Liberia. He says the col
ored people are making amazing
progress where they are.
The order of the Russian gov
eminent forbidding the expectation
from the country Of rye and rye
meal of every kind and bread has
created q great sensation in Berlin,
where the price of rye was advanced
almost to that of wheat. Much
suffering among the people is ex-
pected in Germany.
Senator Call, of Florida, who is
still in Washington, shows no ap-
prehension as to his confirmation
BY the Senate. He thinks the pros
poets of electing q democratic Pres
iden in 1892 are encouraging, but
that the silver question cannot be
kept down.
James Russell Lowell, the poet,
essayist and diplomat, died yester-
day at Cambridge, Mass, aged sew
enty-twO years. DR.. Henry p.
Welcott, Mr.. Lowell's physician,
stated that Mr.. Lowell's death re-
suited from tumor on the liver.
Thirteen persons were killed and
thirty injured yesterday afternoon
at Cold Spring Harbor, on Long
Island. A barge with an excursion
from Brooklyn was about to return
when q heavy squall struck it and
the upper deck fell upon the people
below.
A woman named Schneider, who
was a prisoner in the Vienna Jail
awaiting trial, with her husband,
on q charge of numbering and rob-
bling n servant girl, threw herself
from the window of her cell, which
was on the third floor of the prison,
to the ground below and received
fatal injuries.
FRIDAY, August Il.
Mrs. George Myers died of lock-
jaw, near Hsgerstown, from q nail
run into her foot.
A large tariff reform picnic was
held at Liberty, in Frederick coun-
ty, to open the democratic campaign
in Maryland.
The Maryland State Farmers
Alliance adjourned after re-electing
Mr.. Hugh Mitchell. rs president and
filing other officers.
Mahone's policy Of making no
legislative nominations in Virginia