Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-03-12
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From he Baltimore Sun.

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The Schimnsll Preserving Com
pany's works, Philadelphia, were de-
stroyed by fire.
The steamboat City Of Richmond
was burned. with a valuable cargo. at
her pier 10 New York, and several
lives were lost.
A Sedaiia (Mo.) man. who is going
TO be hanged for murder, wants to
cell his body for 1913 to pay his
debts.
Senator German will be presented
handsome silver testimonial in re-
cognition of his service n the Fifty.
first Congress.
Numerous letters have been re-
ceived at the Vatican from the United
States requesting the Pope to reinstate
Rev. DR., Nicely mn, Of New York.
The COW inoculated with Koch's
lymph by the veterinarians Of the
Pennsylvania Hospital il dead, but
she leaves a calf which has been
named "Dr. Koch"
At Radford, on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, James Crump and
a man named Avirett, both colored,
were shot and killed. and Town Ser
gesnt Hsrdwick was slightly wound
ed.
I The Monroe High School at Mon
roe, N. G., a $4,000 structure. was
burned yesterday. Thomas Pember-
ton and Albert Bost, two students,
persisted in the flames.
| Postmaster General Wanamaker, it
is said, intends to MAKE some one
familiar with postal matters the
Fourth Assistant, and does not want
to put any ex.Congressman in the
place.
| SATURDAY, March 7.
| The Australian ballot law has passed
both houses of the West Virginia
Legislature.
1t is expected that the census Of the
British Empire will show a popula
lion Of 2S0000,000
The South Dakota Legislature
killed the Worlds Fair bill for econo.
my's sake. The amount asked for
was $4,000.
/ An English physician who had
been winning enormous sums fell
dead at one of the gaming tables at
Monte Carlo.
at the Boys Home from excessive
cigarette smoking and overhaul.
gence in pastry.
Governor Markham, of California,
yesterday signed the Worlds Fair
bill, appropriating 100000 for Cali
fsrnis's exhibit.
Ernest Forbes, under sentence Of
death at Annapolis for assault on
Miss Phipps, has made confession.
During the absence Of it's parents
the six-yesr-old con Of James A.
Richard. of Page county, Va, was
burned to death Sunday evening last.
i A Bsrks county (Pa) turkey hen
got fast in straw stack, and thirty
three days after its disappearance has
been found alive, having existed
without food or water.
| The estimate is now made that
there will bs a deficit of as much as
S68, 100000 in the national treasury
as the result of the recklessness of the
late business Congress.
| By way of punishment, Baron
Wissman, German imperial commits
siOner in East Africa. killed 200 ma.
tives and seized 10000 head of cattle,
besides quantity Of ivory.
The Steamer Tygert, of the Mary
land and Virginia Company. met
with an accident to her machinery,
and was towed into Coan river by the
revenue cutter Crawford.
The frosty weather in Europe has
been telling heavily on the accident
insurance companies. One company
in London 10 said to have had 229
claims for broken legs within seven
days.
Utica Wspolna. q young Russian
woman, committed suicide. Yesterday
in the ladies' toilet room at Union
Station, Pittsburg, Pa, by hanging
herself with towed which she had
suspended from a gas bracket.
A raid upon the moonshiners of
South Alabama and Northern Florida
has just been completed. Thirty ar.
rests were made and thiriy.niae stills
captured and destroyed. The Yon
brothers. who fought six deputies
with rifles at BonitaY. Fla, December
Is, 1890. wounding two of them, are
among the captured.
Two small colored children were
burned to death In Winchester, Va,
yesterday. Their mother, Matilda
johnson, locked them in the house
after dinner while she went to work.
II is supposed the children began
playing. They were dead before
assistance could reach them.
MONDAY, March 8.
The estate of the late Senator E.
K. Wilson. of Maryland, is estimated
at $4,000.
Two little children of LLOYD Hin
chez. of Roanoke county, Va, were
accidentally burned to death last