Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-07-02


George Wick. aged ten years. died at
Beaver Falls, Pa, Tuesday, Of hydropho-
hia, the effects Of bite received "a months
ago. He was taken sick last Saturday and.
suffered untold agony for three days. The
affected thigh turned black and twifehed
violently when the lad was taken sick. and
Immediately after death decomposition set
in.
A report comes from Cherokee county,
North Carolina, Of e terrible cloudburst
there late Wednesday afternoon. Two
Illicit disiillers who happened to be near
nv were instantly killed. A number IL
farms for miles below were inundated and
growing crops suffered loss of several
thousand dollars
julia Adams, fifteen years ofage; Of Red
held, Me-, has taken no food whatever and
only one swallow Of water for twenty DAYS,
and yet is able to sit up and says she does
not feel the need Of food and has no feeling
of faintness. During this time she has not
slept more than two hours in the twenty
| four, and says she does not feel the need of
| sleep. Her disease is Inflammation of the
bowels.
SATURDAY. June q.
Two men were killed and two fatally
injured by the fall offs scaffold at Eliza.
beth, Nj. J.
Six men were killeC by cyclone while
working on a coalbreaker at Natalie, Pa
Isabella Reed, aged 20 years, drowned
herself at mill dam in Cecil county.
A young man named Nat Hairston com.
mitted suicide in Pittsylvania county, Va,
by drowning.
A Philadelphia syndicate has purchased,
for $500, 600, five thousand acres Of land in
Prince George county, Va.
The Farmers Alliance Of Anne Arundel
are making demands for representation on
the tickets Of each political party.
Ex-Congressman Gibson, of Maryland,
is hopeful in regard to his chances for the
clerkship of the next House of Representa-
tives
Steven Stakenberg, Of Carthagena, Ohio,
a student at the Normal College. Marion,
Ind, died suddenly Thursday evening
while playing football He stopped to
pick up the ball. fell and expired instantly.
The cause of death is unknown.
The resolutions as reported by the COM
mittee of the North Dakota Farmers Al
lance are revised. emitting woman suf-
frage, free text books, the Ocaia platform
and the mortgage resolutions, but demand
ing government ownership of railroads and
silver coinage on an equality with gold
Christian ]. Zeitinger, postmaster at Della,
Frederick county, Md, who wrote to Miss
Florence F. Keith, at Plainfield, N. J., re.
questing her photograph, was presented by
the United States grand jury on the charge
of opening the letter from which he oh
tanned Miss Keiths name and address.
James Ferguson. the famous steeple
climber, was killed at Albany, N. Y,
Thursday while painting one Of the towers
of the penitentiary. ae was at work forty
five feet from the ground, when his tackle
broke and he was dashed to death. He
was about fifty years old, and had a ma
tional reputation.
MONDAY, June 80
Fire destroyed a stable and dwelling
on Dulany's turnpike, Baltimore county.
In Kanawha county, w. Va, Taffy
Reveal struck James Byrd with stone
and killed him
Owing TO threatened scarcity of the
vintage in France, the price If champagne
will be higher this autumn.
Charles II. Ogle, No 339 South Calhoun
street, Baltimore, fell 30 feet down Belt
Railroad shaft, but was not seriously in
jured.
Mr.. VIM. F. Clackway, Of Chesteriown,
Nd, has COW that gave birth TO three
calves last week. Each of them weighs
twenty pounds.
The South Side Mills of the Diamond
State Iron Company a; Wilmington, Del,
were burned yesterday. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000.
The bodies OF nineteen United States
sailors, who were drowned in the great
storm at Samoa, were buried at Mare
Island, Cal, Saturday, with imposing
ceremonies
A prize of 800, with a gold medal, is
offered by the United States Naval Institute
for the best essay on any subject pertaining
TO the naval profession.
The coffee warehouse of z. Leyering &
Co., Chase's wharf, Baltimore, was destroy
ed by fire, the total damage TO stock, ma
chinery and building being estimated a.
over 100000.
Republican leaders and politicians fear
that Postmaster General Wanamaker's con.
nection with the Keystone Bank ia going
to iDjure the republican party in Penpsy-
lvania
Cardinal Gibbons refuted yesterday the
statements recently made to the Pope that
spiritual wants of foreign Catholics are
neglected by the hierarchy Of the United
States