Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-04-09

In coal nine A. Apedale, Staff.
ordshire. EGG ten persons Were killed
by an EXPOSES Of ire-damp.
Ernest r. Forbes. colored, 10 years
OF age, convicted Of felonious assault
on Miss Phipps. of Anne Arundel
County, Nd was executed at An.
napolis.
On a trestle on the Norfolk and
Western Road. near Lynchburg, James
Deem was rue over by a freight train
and killed. and Daniel Rice had leg
crushed.
Captain Trenery, of the Johnston
Line steamship Qaeensmore, was fined
S4O3.30 by Collector Marine, of Bal
tImore, yesterday for bringing in
articles not on the ships manifest.
The baccarat scandal has forced the
Postponement of the proposed grant
TOR the Prince of Wales to enable him
to pay his debts. The Prince has
taken to pigeon faucying.
Fourteen inches of snow fell in New
England Thursday night, accompanied
by a destructive gale. Telegraph
wires and poles were Frustrated, and
communicates with New York was
cut off from evrsy Eastern city except
New Haven.
MONDAY, April 6.
Fire caused an estimated damage of
So. 00e at the store and dwelling of
John ]. Faursl. No. 23l North How
ard street, betwdsn Lexington and
Saratoga streets.
The following, signed "Wild Cat
ters," was sent from McMinnville,
Tenn, to Mr.. Blaine: 1.-TWO thousand
Tennessee boys would like te spend
the summer in Rome, in company
with the Kansas cowboys. Can you
furnish transportstien?'
The funeral Of the ten coke strikers
killed in an attack on the Frick Coke
Works at Norwood, Pa, on Tues.
day, tooksplsce at Scattdale, Pa. Sat.
urday. A great crowd was present,
but the anticipated trouble did not
occur.
Paris has new mystery. A man
signing himself "James Smith, New
York" registered at the Hotel Nord,
near the Northern Railroad station,
Wednesday last, and went to his room.
Thursday night he was found dead
upon his bed with his throat cut in a
shocking manner. In his pockets
were ESQ English money. There
were no papers on his person nor
markings on his clothing by which he
could be identified. The police of
Paris are unable to ascertain whether
the case is one of suicide or whether
the stranger was murdered.
TUESDAY, April 7.
Frances Lewis, colored was burned
to death in Washington.
The St. Augustine (Fla.) gas works
were burned. causing loss Of $685..
600.
Col. 81. Kyd Douglas will be ten.
dered the appointment of Judge in
place of Judge Syester, deceased.
There is heavy tide of emigration
from Ireland to the United States, six
steamships last week carrying 1,246
emigrants. mostly ofthe farming class.
The death rate in Chicago last week
was the highest ever known. The
deaths numbered nine hundred and
sixty, Of which FIVE hundred were from
throat and lung deases.
The oystermen and citizens of
Cambridge. Nd, in mass meeting,
protest against giving corporations
and capitalists control of the public
oyster grounds of the State.
Nine persons, seven of whom were
Italians, were burned to death in a
building which took fire at midnight
Sunday in Rochester, Pa. The pecu.
mary loss was about $4,000.
The Albany IN. W Telephone
Exchange was damaged by fire yester-
day. The wires and switchboard are
all destroyed. Loss $4,000. ipsur.
ance $4,000. This is the third loss
from storms and FIRE that the company
has suffered in two months.
The report comes from Rome that
the Pope, believing that the republi.
can form Of government will eventu-
ally prevail in Europe, is seeking.
through the agency of number Of
cardinals, to free the Catholic Church
from Identification with the old dY-
nastic parties.