Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-01-01
NEWs IN HRirf.
From The Baltimore Sun.
SATURDAY, December q.

more secured the consent of Secretary
Window yesterday to their use Of the
old United States courthouse al .
temporary meeting hall ia place Of
their temple which was burned on
Christmas day
There wac . heavy snowfall in
Maryland.
Every government vault in the
country 10 said TO be filled with silver
to its utmost capacity.
The United States Senate was not
in session yesterday. having adjourned
from Wednesday until today, with
the understanding that q further ad.
journment until Monday will be de-
elared by the Vics-President.
There were about fifty members
present when the House was called
TO order yesterday. o. motion of
Ar. Mckinley, the House adjourned
until Tuesday next.
MONDAY, December 20.
Big Foot and his band Of hostile
Indians have been captured BY the
ninth cavalry on Porcupins creek
without conflict. ALI other Indians
in the Bad Lands have decided 20
come in, and it 10 believed the trouble
10 ended.
Clerk Jewett. Of the New Hamp-
shire House of Representatives, in his
answer to the bills entered by the
democrats. asks q decree of the court
to determine HE duty 40 to the max.
ing up Of the list of mem bsrs elect.
The discovery Of tin ore in Texas
has created excitement. It 10 found
in worka ole quantities on the Colorado
river, IN LlAno county, 100 miles
northwest of San Aplonio. New dis.
coveries are made daily. Sixty de.
posits have been located.
A baru and ten head of cattle and
two horses on the farm of the Misses
Rsmsburg. near Jsffei soma, Frederick
county, we're burned.
Senator Edmunds Processes 70 think
tAsrs is q popular demand Tor the
proposed gsg-law 10 the Senate.
NJ. A. Dsuphin, for twenty years
president of the Louisiana Lottery
Company, died yesterday at New
Orleans.
1t 10 said that the snow.slorm in
West Virginia has not been equsled
within Fifty years.
TUESDAY, December 80.
1t 10 stated at Constantinopls that
an epidemic of black smallpox pre-.
wales in the Trans Caspian terrific.
ries.
Judges Fowler and Burke decided
yesterday that the bond of Stevenson
Archer, which was given on February
2, 1886. is liable for embezzlements of
the sx-State treasurer up to Novsm.
bar Is, 1889, when a new bond was
given.
Mayor Davidson protested Mt the
annual dinner at Bayview against the
counties sending their destitute to
Baltimore.
Mr.. Luke Herman. q boarder at the
Carrollton Hotel, fell over the bAlus-
trade from the fifth to the frat floor
aud was killed.
Special and Official dispatches re.
port that while Big Foot's band of
hostile Indians. who surrendered to
the United States troops on Sunday,
were being disarmed at the place Of
surrender on. Porcupine creek, in the
Bad Lands of Dakota, q bloody con.
flict took place. In which Capt. Geo.
d. Wallace, of the seventh United
States cavalry, FIVE soldiers and more
than fifty Indians were killed. Capt.
Wallace was Q native of South Caro-
lima.
Judge Alvey declines to pass upon
the Lloyd Lowndes claim in advance
Of the decision of the Court of Ap.
psals in the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal cases.
The papers of the lost vessel Mary
Ellen washed ashore on an island in
Chesapeake bay.
The course of Senator Aldrich in
pressing the "cloture" resolution is
said to be due to desire to head off
silver Legislation. i
In the United States Senate. yes.
terday, Hon. George L. Shroup, one
of the newly elected Senators from
Idaho, was sworn in.
An outbreak of csrebro-spinal
meningitis among horses aud mules
10 reported in Anne Arundel.