Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-08-27
NEWS m BRIEF.
WEDxEsDAY. August 10.

From als Baltimore Sun.
WEDSEsDAY, August 10.
In Dorchester county the repub-
hcans nominated a mixed ticket.
At Arlington, Va, DIR. j. A. Ba-
ker, convicted of the murder of his
wife, was sentenced to be hung No
vember %.
Frederick Edenbrecht, miller,
was accidentally killed by log fall
ling on him and crushing him in
Frederick county.
Putnam 4 Co.'s six-story brick
mattress factory, Boston, was burn
ed yesterday, causing a loss of
5000, 900.
A barrack and 125 tons of hay
belonging to the Mccullough Iron
Company, at Northeast, Cecil coun-
ty, were destroyed by fire.
In Wicomico county the indepen-
dent democrats and republicans
reached a basis for fusion ticket
to be nominated hereafter.
The tax rate for the several coun-
ties of Maryland have been fixed
for 1891, showing CARROTS rate to
be the highest and Carroll's the
lowest.
A cloud-burst near Botzen, Aus
tria, flooded the lowlands, convert
ing the mountain streams into a
torrent, which swept through the
village of Kollman, CARRYING away
men and cattle and destroying half
the houses. Many persons were
drowned.
David Gardiner, of Eden, Mani
toba, was taking shells out of an
old rifle when one of them explod-
ed. The bullet passed through the
ceiling, the floor above and the bed
and stairs, and through the body of
a child four years old asleep in bed,
and finally passed out through the
roof. The child was killed.
Fire in Jacksonville, Fla, yes-
terday morning destroyed fifty-five
buildings, including Knight crock
cry house, the Hubbard block, in
which was located the Western I'm
ion Telegraph office and half a doz-
en- other large concerns. The loss
is estimated at S85O,0OO. The in
surance is light.
A terrible collision occurred to-
day at a point between Ostrowo and
Loswitz, in Prussian Poland. Two
passenger trains collided while GO
ing at full speed. The trains were
terribly wrecked and ten persons
were killed and many injured.
Goals from the locomotive set fire
to the wreck, and some of the in
jured burned to death while men
were striving to rescue them.
THURSDAY, August 20.
During a heavy storm, Tuesday
evening, Boards Church, near
Chewsville, Washington county, was
demolished by the wind.
The reported discovery of signs
of natural gas at Parsonsburg, Wi
comicO county, Nd, is causing q
sensation in that locality.
A railroad collision of the b. and
o. near Mount Glare junction killed
Brakeman A. @. Brant and injured
Conductor c. W. Ruby and Brake
man G. g. Thompson.
The tributes of the English press
to the memory of the late James
Russell Lowell continues to appear
on all sides, and are conspicuous
for their sympathetic utterances.
At Nordenhamm, Grand Duchy
of Oldbenburg, Germany, a scat
fold with a large number of work.
men upon it fell, killing ten of the
men and seriously injuring forty
others.
The Virginia Farmers Alliance
passed resolution in favor of the
payment of State taxes in money,
and expressing an appreciation Of
the Importance of the settlement of
the debt.
Two insane women named Anna
Gerosowski and Catherine Schmidt.
hanged themselves with pieces Of
bed-clothing within twenty minutes
of each other yesterday in the coun-
ty Jail at Buffalo, n. Y.
Turkish brigands abducted an
Italian railroad inspector who was
at work about seventy miles from
Balonica, Turkey. 1t is supposed
they are holding him a prisoner
pending the payment of q heavy
ransom.
Three children of John Armi-
tage, of Etowah county, Ala, were
drowned yesterday. Willie. aged
nine, while bathing ventured be-
yond his depth. The sisters. aged
ten and fifteen, hearing his cries
went to his rescue.
The monument at BENNINGTON
VT, commemorative of the battle
of August Is, Ivy, which DESTROY
ed Burgoyne's expedition intended
to Cut off New En0lapd &c., n.