Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-08-06
NEWS IN BRIEF,
From ne Baltimore Sun.
WEDN EsDAN, July ..

WEDNESDAY, July -.
An OIL tank of the Baltimore
Consolidated Company was set on
fire by lightning causing $4,000
damage.
Governor James +. Campbell. of
Ohio, IN an interview predicts his
reelection as Governor over Major
William Mckinley. the republican
candidate.
Nh Samuel Sands. Of The Amer
can Farmer. died. III the SD year
Of his sge, at the home o; his SCH.
MIR. William b. Sands, at Lake
Roland.
AT the coming Grand Army
reunion IL Detroit sa effort VIII BE
made to proven; any furtheI recon-
mendations for new pension legis-
lation by the next Congress.
The wife Of Capt. j. II Bradshaw,
prominent citizen Of Paris. KY,
drowned herself IN one foot Of water
IL Stone creeG yesterday morning.
She tied a stone IN her apron 10
hold herself down. Domestic tIou-
bles are supposed 70 be the cause.
The people are greatly. alarmed
ever the terrible mortality among
cattle III Lawrence county, Illinois.
Last week 100 cattle died within
a range Of six miles south Of Sum
ner. In fifteen minutes after the
disease seizes the cattle they are
dead.
The large and costly stables and
covered training track OF LEROY
Payne, hveryman of Chicago, at
his horse farm at Chebanese, H..
were destroyed by FIRE on Sunday
night, together with the contents.
The 100 horses were rescued. The
loss was heavy, collection Of paint
ings on sporting subjects in the
Office being alone valued q, $40, 900.
The vicinity of Elm Greek, Neb.
was visited Monday evening by one
OF the most destructive rain and
hail-storms of the season. Hail
stones an inch and a-half in diam
eter fell, leveling small grain TO the
ground Garden vegetables are
completely ruined. while corn is
riddled and cannot recover. Scarce
ly one-half of the small grain has
been harvested.
A small boiler used in the repair
shops of the Hill City Oil Mill NJ
Vicksburg, Miss, exploded yester-
day, fatally iniuring Engineer AL
bert Spies and Fireman Albert
Fisher. The boiler, weighing 2, 600
pounds. few into the air and fell
into the house of Marx Lowenberg,
500 feet away, going through the
roof, floor and ceiling, and landed
on his breakfast table, but no one
was hurt, the family having left
the table when they heard the re-
port caused by the explosion.
THURSDAY. July 20.
Joshua Mullinsaux died near
Powhatan, aged one hundred and
two years.
The death-rate from cholera at
Mecca Is 40 per day at that place
and 80 daily at Dieddah. =
A severe storm passed over Cecil
county, flooding fields and washing
away bridges and fences.
A. J. Drexel will erect a 80 600
house as wedding gift to his son.
vino is to be married TO Miss Mary
5. lrlck. of Burlington county. y.
J.
The funeral of the victims of the
railroad disaster at st. Mande.
France, was attended by $4,000
persons and twenty-four hearses
were in line.
The fire at the Baltimore United
OIL Company's works which started
from lightning on Tuesday, is still
burning. The loss or oil alone IS
estimated at 1892 900.
Lee Hughes, convicted OF wife
murder at Houston. Tex, escapen
from jail there and is still &c large.
He cur through the bars sad then
dug ont the wall.