Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-07-23


the Peace William Miner AT Saline
City, Ind. Justice Miner had fined
Jackson's son for disturbing the
peace. Jackson endeavcred to have
the fine RENTED. Upon Miners
refusing to DO 80 Jackson shot him
three times. il is believed fatally.
Two hundred pounds of nitro
giycerine. which 3 }. Bigley. a
torpedo man, was taking TO the
Mount Morris oil field in two
horse wagon. exploded near Wash
ington, Pa, blowing Bigley to
atoms, killing the horses and wreck
ing the dwellings Of Lee Minton
and Mark Hughes. Sr.
Lena Schwartz, aged six years,
set her clothing on fire while kind
ling fire with oil in the kitchen of
her home at Erie, Pa. Her baby
sister caught fire. The mother
rushed to the rescue. and soon all
three were enyeloped in fame.
Lena is dead, and the baby is dy-
ing. The mother may recover.
Nearly the entire business por-
ton Of Glasgow, KY, was destroy
ed by fire yesterday. Woods's sad
dlery shop. the Union (Alliance)
newspaper Office. Morris 4 Co, g
dry goods store, Boles Hall. the
postoffice. the Genly House and
other stores and several residences
were burned. The loss will reach
$3.50, 900, and the insurance is about
one-half that amount.
I'm Terrell. Oklahoma, the mem
Der Of the territorial Legislature
who murdered Judge Embree, Of
the Government Square, last fall,
led an attack by several prisoners
to break jail. The noise aroused
Mrs. Hixon, wife of the sheriff,
who, seizing her husbands reyoI-
vers. ran 20 the cage and AZ the
point Of his weapons compelled the
prisoners TO remain in their cells
until a guard answered her cries for
assistance.
MONDAY, July %.
The Southern Land Company
has purchased 900 acres near
Dorsey's Station, fourteen miles
from Baltimore. and expects to
establish a suburban manufGctur-
ing town.
The authorship of the war song,
"Stonewall Jackson's Way" has
been settled by DR.. John W. Pal
mer, who tells when and how he
wroteit. Crowds of people are gath
ering at Lexington for the Jackson
statue unveiling.
While screwing on the cover OF
coffin in which reposed what was
supposed TO be the lifeless form
of an infant child, an undertaken
discovered the child OF John Deruy-
tiers, of II George street, Paterson,
y. j.. 10 be alive. The child was
AIKEN u few days ago.
Democrats in Washington think
the disappointment of the Ohio
famers over the Mckinley tariff
will make many votes for Governor
Campbell, and the democrats are
further encouraged ythe unaIimity
with which the opponents of Gov
ernor Campbell are rallying to his
support.
Col. Ii. clay King. CT Memphis.
Tenn, (who was recently convicted
of murder in the first degree in
killing David III. Poston, and
number of his relatives in Tcnnes-
see, Mississippi. Arkansas and
Texas are about TO bring suit to
recover land in New York city
leased by their ancestors ninety
nine years ago, and which is now
valued at 800. 900. 900.
TUESDAY, July 20.
Mrs. Emma Hechayana. aged
fifty five. was shot and killed by
colored boy in Philadelphia in
difficulty over the price OF goat.
The colored troops of the Mary
land National Guard have been
ordered to encamp at Camp Parole,
near Annapolis. July rs to August
, inclusive.
Frederick b. McGinnIss, colored,
of Baltimore, who was a faithful
servant of Jefferson Davis, has re-
ceiyed a cane which was bequeathed
to him by Mr.. Davis.
Maryland ex-Confederates left
Baltimore Yesterday for Lexington,
Va, where they will take part in
the unwilling of the statue o: Stone
wall Jackson today.
Great excitement exists at Ellen
burg. in the State Of Washington,
over the discovery OF gold in the
Menastash canon, fifty miles from
that place. Fine nuggets and dust
arc fonnd daily. and the gold is of
high grade. Several good silver
lodges have also been discovered in
the canon.
Oneexplanation of Senator Quay 8
desire to retire from the chairman
4 shin of the repuhlican national