Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-06-11

Al Williamsburg. KY, Sidney Lewis,
son Of Judge Wilson Lewis. Of Harlan
county, has been sentenced 20 the peniten-
tiary for life for the murder Of his father In !
February last
The flint glass works In Findlay, Ohio,
were destroyed by fire early yesterday
morning. Loss, eS5, 900; insured for $s5.-
600. One hundred and. fifty men are
thrown out Of employment
While four colored men were tamping
q dynamite blast st the Chattanooga Tenn,
Blast Furnaces Saturday the charge ex-
ploded, killing and horribly mangling
three men and wounded fourth.
John E Lovejoy, the last member of
the noted abolitionist family OF that name,
died Friday last, aged fifty. During the
past fifteen yearys he had been railway
station agent at Center junction, Iowa.
An extensive and disastrous fire broke
out in Santiago de Chilli Saturday. Among
the buildings destroyed by the flames was
the one occupied by the British legation
The British minister and his wife had q
narrow escape from death.
Uunited States Senator Daniel w voor-
hees. Of Indiana, is the sixth or seventh
democratic Senator who has recently ex.
pressed himself as unfavorably TO the
nomination Of Mr.. Cleveland for the presi-
dency, the ex- Presidents position on the
silver question being the ostensible cause
Of opposition.
In the United States District Court at
Springfield, ILL.,, Saturday, the Rev. Jere-
niah Holmes, Of Stonefort, Saline county,
Ill, was tried and convicted of counter
feiting and sentenced 20 three years in the
penitentiary. The Rev. George vancil, of
Duquoin, ILL.,, pleaded guilty 10 the same
charge and was sentenced to one year in
the penitentiary.
TUESDAY, June o.
The Maryland State Temperance AL.
lance has issued an appeal for the holding
OF temperance meetings on July 4.
Congressman Lee, of Virginia, SAYS ex.
Gov. Fitz Lee win not contest for the
United States senatorship with Senator
Daniel.
Moilie Fogle, young white woman,
has been arrested charged with setting fire
to the house of J. A. Collifower, in Fred
erick county.
The towns Of Badia, Calavena and Treg-
nanzo, in Northern Italy. were destroyed
Sunday by an earthquake The inhabi-
tanis were compelled to take TO the fields
for safety.
Al Wickclife, KY, yesterday morning,
Evan E. Shelby was taken from the Jail
and hung by mob. Shelby was charged
with the murder Of Mrs. Sallie Moore in
1887, near Cairo, Ill. He had been sem
fenced to the penitentiary FOR life. but had
been awarded new trial by the Court of
Appeals. Persons in the mob said they
had previously hung Martin Shelby, un-
der indictment as accessory
Prot. s. w. Williston, professor of geol-
ogy and paleontology in the Kansas Uni
versity, has returned from Cove county,
where he has been for two weeks past SO.
curing specimens for the Natural Historic
Museum. Near Monument Rocks, in the
Smoky River Valley, he found the skele-
ton OF pterodactyl, whose skull measures
three feet in length. This specimen ID the
most complete Of any in existence.
President Hippolyte, of Hayti, hearing
that revolution was imminent in Port au
Prince, caused eighty suspected persons to
be put in irons, one of whom was the wife
OF General Sully, arrested in place of her
husband, who made his escape. Subse-
quently Sully and his friends rescued the
prisoners, whereupon the president ordered
fifty persons 70 be shot 70 death, many of
whom were innocent of conspiracy. Scenes
of horror, cansed by the presidents order
to assassinate individuals. are being daily
enacted on the streets OF Port au Prince.
The arguments were continued in the
baccarat trial in London Yesterday. Sir
Edward Clarke, principal counsel for Sir
William Gordon umming. the plaintiff,
followed Sir Charles Russell. who began
his speech for the defendants on Friday.
Sir Edward made sensation by saying
that il would be impossible for the au-
thorities TO strike the name of Sir William
Gordon Cumming from the army list and
leave the Prince Of Wales name thereon.
Sir Edward Clarke was cheered and ap-
plauded when he sat down. Lord Chief
Justice Coleridge restrained the audience
by saying: This is court of justice, not
a theatre"