Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-05-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.
From the Baltimore Sam.
WEDNESDAY. May l3.

WEDNESDAY, May ID.
Large quantities of dead bluefsh,
killed by fish traps, are floating in
the bay.
Five horses were killed by light
ming on a farm of DR.. r. C. Mack
all, in Cecil county, Monday night.
DIR. Teackle, State vaccine agent,
reports that Maryland has been
entirely free from smallpox since
1882.
1t is believed that Justice Brad
ley viii give President Harrison the
opportunity to appoint his Success
or.
Eight more soldiers were arrested
by the military authorities at Walla
Walla, WASH, last night for COM
plicity in the lynching of Hunt.
This makes sixteen in custody.
The Cars eldest son, who is
travelling through Japan, was at
tackled by a native of that country
with a sword and severely wounded.
The Japanese is supposed to be a
fanatic.
Asbury Green, the colored man
who was sentenced to q years
imprisonment for felonious assault
on Mrs. Tolson, of Kent Island,
was taken out of Jail by a mob in
Centreyille and hanged to peach
tree.
l.. +. Burgess shot and fatally
wounded Sam G.. w. Atwood at
Pleasant Valley church, two miles
south of Attawla, Ala, Monday.
The shooting occurred in the church
while committee of church men,
bers was endeayoring to settle a
dispute between the two men.
A section of Northern Michigan
larger than the State of Rhode
Island has been burned over, and
many villages have been destroyed.
1t is feared some lives have been
lost. Railroad trains have been
abandoned. In Pennsylvania the
fires are doing great damage to
the lumber and farming interests.
The residence, stable and out
buildings of Mrs. Joseph III. Bur-
leigh, widow of ex-congressman
Burleigh, at South Berwick, N. H.,
were burned yesterday. The occu-
pants escaped in their sleeping
clothes, leaving everything behind.
The loss is estimated at $50, 900.
The fire is supposed to be of in
cendiary origin.
Ex-President Cleveland was the
guest and speaker at the opening of
the new and elegant clubhouse of
Cleveland Democracy of Bnffalo,
N. Y, last night. Later he held a
reception and attended a ball and
banquet. In the afternoon he held
a reception at the Mayors Office, at
which nearly two thousand republic
cans and democrats paid their re-
spects.
Johnnie Renner, the six-year-old
son ola Kiowa county, Kan, farmer
and his eight-year old sister were
playing at "burying" on Monday.
The girl had piled up the earth
about the boy until it reached his
chin, and he was tightly imbedded
when sow came along with her
brood and savagely attacked the
girl who ran away. The sow then
turned on the boy who was unable
to move, and sank her teeth in his
face and skull several times. The
screams of the child brought assist
ance, but when the boy was taken
from the ground he was dead.
THURSDAY, May IA.
The steamship America arrived
in Baltimore yesterday from Bremen
with 1896 immigrants.
Fire in the old "Sailors' Ex-
change" building, in Cherry street,
New York, caused a loss of from
$75, ZOO to 500, 900.
The citizens of Centreville, it is
stated, took no active part in the
recent lynching of the colored man
Asbury Green.
Senator VIM. L. Chandler, of
New Hampshire, visited Shedun,
Va, and expressed himself as
delighted at the bright industrial
outlook in the South.
Congressman Grain, of Texas.
who favors Mr.. Mills for the speak
ership, takes no stock in the report
that Senator German is managing
Mr.. Crisp's campaign.
+. Davis, while drunk at Char
lotteville, Va, climbed mp a tree
and went to sleep on a limb. The
limb broke and he fell, breaking
his skull and dislocating his hip.
Three men were scalded and
drowned and three others were
horribly burned Monday night by
the collapsing of a boiler fiue on
the st. Louis and Mississippi Valley
Transportation Company's steamer
My Choice. 25 miles above Cairo,
ILL.,, on the Mississippi river.