Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-04-23


ate, has been sold to a wealthy
Chicsgoan for SGT. 900.
In Petersburg. Thursday night,
Miss Annie Hand. aged ninety-twc
years, committed suicide by taking
poison. She had been in very feeble
health, and for sometime past had
also been suffering from iniuriss re.
ceived By Q fall.
William Blaney. who was senten.
ced to be hanged in Baltimore on
June IL, 1891, escaped from the city
Jail last night. BlsneY murdered his
grandmother. Mrs. Sarah Blaney, and
also his aunt, Mrs. Caroline n.
Blaney. He was convicted of the
murder of his aunt and the other case
was nolle pressed.
Newton Nesbit and wife were eat.
ing breakfast at their home, in Le-
claire, Iowa, yesterday, when the
husband made disparsging remark.
Mrs. Nesbit drew a revolver and sent
ball into the back part OF her hus.
bands head, making q fatal wound.
She then shot herself twice. and may
die. Nesbit was q steamboat FIRE.
man.
At Little Narrows, Cape Breton,
yesterday, blacksmith's apprentice
named Logan, being annoyed by some
boys. drew q red.hot iron rod from
the fire, and SEEING one of the boys
named Matheson held the rod again ct
his abdomen until Q hole had been
burned in it. The boys injuries are
fatal. Logan escaped.
The handsome residence of Richard
Doughty, Q wealthy liveryman at
Absence. near Atlantic City, N. J..
caught fire early yesterday morning
from the explosion OF q gasoline
stove and was entirely consumed.
Loss about 5000. The FIRE spread
to the residence Of Parker Tilton,
whose loss amounts to $4,000; both
partially insured. A servant girl
was severely burned and sent to the
Camden Hospital. There was 3d.
600 10 gold in the house. of which
about $6. 800 has been recovered.
MONDAY, April 90.
Admiral Taylor, U. 8. N, retired,
died 10 Washington.
Mary Metzdorff has been put to
work in the shoe department of the
penitentiary.
John Gray, colored, was acquitted
of the murder Of John Smallwood,
colored. in Prince Georges county.
John s. Wetherby, of Baltimore,
was drowned in the Delaware bay
and Capt. Sewell Catlin in the Poto-
mac.
Laurel, Nd, is building a shirt
factory for a Baltimore firm, rent
free, on condition that 500 hands
will be employed.
In accordance with the laws, seven
colored men will be shot to death
today at Okmulgee, the capital of the
Greek Nation, for the murder of two
Creek Indians.
A farmer in Queen Anne's county,
while burning sumac and poison oak
brush recently, had his eyes badly
infamed from the smoke and suffered
very mnch nv IL
Matthew Julian and Antonio Lime
were killed and Angelo Petricio was
wounded in an accident in John T..
Dyers quarry, near Norristown, Pa,
yesterday. The men are Italians.
VIM. Blaney, the convicted muir
derer who escaped from Jail last
Friday and was recaptured on Satur-
day, tells how he got out of prison
and how he spent his time until bis
recapture.
Four Americans and one italian
were drowned in Laurel creek, near
Webster Court House, w. Va, a few
nights ago while attempting to cross
a stream on q foot log. which was
swept away.
Foreman Ed. Reed, Thomas Ken
nedy and Jack Mshoney, miners. were
killed by q premature explosion of
giant powder Friday at the Cameron