Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-06-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
From the Baltimore Sun.


Odenton Alliance, in Anne Arundel coun-
ty.
The German Baptists decided against
the proposition 10 change their church
name, and have concluded the meeting at
Hagerstown.
Rhoda Caldwell, colored woman, who
was born in Snow Hill Md, died in New
York at the age, Il Is claimed. Of one hun
dred and six years.
John and Joseph Dusard's steam saw
mill, near Bedford, Ind. was blown up
Wednesday by the explosion Of the boiler,
and six persons were killed.
Arthur U. Sayles, q clerk in the dead
letter bureau Of the Postoftice Department,
suspected of taking money inclocures, was
arrested and confessed his guilt.
Official information has been received
that the Chillian vessel Itata surrendered
10 the American war-ships at Iquique,
Chill, and delivered the five thousand RI
fies taken on board at San Diego, Cali.
fOrnia
The first violent rain-storm Of summer
visited Baltimore yesterday. Roofs We're
blown off houses, cellars were flooded, the
cable cars were stopped temporarily and
the horse cars were also delayed for a
| while.
John Yoh, an inmate of the county hos.
pital at Reading, Pa, twenty-one years of
age, partOok of food for the last time %
days ago, and died yesterday, having
starved TO death. His body was reduced
in weight from ll5 TO 80 pounds. No ap-
peals could induce him TO take food, and
why he entered upon this course of starva-
ton he refused to explain.
SATURDAY, June 8.
The training school of Johns Hopkins
Hospital graduated seventeen nurses.
New York physicians are interested in
the case Of a lad swallowed thermometer.
Claus Spreckels has decided to double
his sugar refinery plant in Philadelphia,
making it the largest in the world.
Governor jackson has pardoned two
penitentiary convicts and two prisoners
sentenced to the House of Correction.
White girls are being substituted for
colored walters in many OF the hotels in
the Valley Of Virginia.
The Maryland children under treatment
at the Pasteur Institute. New Work, to ward
off hydrophobia from cats bite are doing
well and will soon return home.
Thirty prominent students of Harvard
College, members of Alpha Delta Phi
Club, whose rooms had been raided by
police and large seizures of liquor made,
were fined $65 each in Cambridge Mass
court.
AT q recent marriage in Charlottesville,
Va, two carriages containing four children
each, as witnesses Of the ceremony, drove
up to the parsonage where the nuptial rite
was performed. They were the little "rose-
buds" Of the contracting parties-four
apiee.
The dwelling Of Samuel p. Myers, u
prominent farmer of Summit township,
near Myersdale, Pa, was burned at 10
o'clock Thursday night. and two girls,
aged nine and twelve years, respectively,
roasted alive.
A fine Of $5 and costs, amounting to
"a 20, has been imposed upon Charles
Phillips, colored, by Justice Gassaway, of
Annapolis. for trespassing up the property
of Mrs. Pinkney and stealing cherries s.
Charles says he had only eaten seven cher
ries when he was arrested, and at 81 10
apiece he considers the fruit an expensive
luxury.
Mrs. Blanche Young, charged with ad-
ministering poison 10 her husband, J. Nor
ris Young, and causing his death, was dis.
charged from custody at Winchester, Pa,
yesterday. Judge Hemphill, after hearing
the testimony Of the physicians. decided
that there was no sufficient evidence to
hold her.
| hONOAhs juno ..
Twelve persons were killed in Vienna
last week during the lightning and thun.
der-storm there.
President Polk says the Farmers AL.
lance will conduct an active educational
campaign in forty States this summer
Frederick Sitterding had his wife arrest
| ed for cutting his throat because, according
to his statement, he hadn't cooked dinner
properly.
James Bynes, convicted in the Distric,
Criminal Court on the charge of killing
Robt Kicks, was sentenced TO ten years in
the penitentiary.
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, premier
OF the government of Canada, died Satur-
day night at Ottawa, in the seventy-flfth
year Of his age.
Confederate Memorial Day was cele-
brated in Maryland on Saturday. the
monument TO Gen. James r. Herbert
being unveiled in Loudon Park
Captain John Cullen, of the schooner
Little Annie, who had Just arrived M
| Crisfield, his home, from Havre de Grace
| with coal, fell overheard and was drowned.
| Mrs. Duncan, whose husband, r. G.
Duncan, Of Washington, is in prison in
Wales TO answer charge Of murderously
! asssulting her, is dying from the effects Of
her wounds.