Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-06-23

Saturday, June 18th, 1893.
The Maryland and Virgins joint /
oyster commission wiIl begin fkeir..
work July -
Henry s. Levy md s. Salabes,
pawnbrokers, were arrested under
an old law on the charge OF xeceir- /
ing . pledge from minor.
Bishop Curtis viii raise 10 the |
priesthood on Tuesday Rey. John !
y Wade, Of Baltimore, and Rev.
Bernard ] Brandford, Of Mount
st. Mary's College.
About loo newsboys and boot
blacks were taken on an excursion
TO COLCHESTER.
Notwithstanding reports 10 the
contrary, il is said there win be no
change in the Office OF the State
reporter Of the Court Of Appeals,
now held by Dir. j. Schaaf Socket.
The name Of Dir. w. Il. BrantIy
has been mentioned in connection
with the place, but majority of
the judges Of the court are said to
be friendly 10 the xetention Of Mr..
Stockett, who has filed the position
for number Of years.
The democratic majority OF the
House committee on reform in the
civil service, in their report on the
violation Of the Law in Baltimore,
sustain the findings Of the civil
service commission. They say that
all or nearly al OF the officials found
BY the commission to have violated
the Law are still in Office and that
none of them have been proceeded
against in the courts. The report
eriticises the attitude of Postmaster
General Wanamaker and declares
| that the case indicates either COM
| plete ignorance OF the civil service
law or q determination that in this
instance the violation should not be
punished.
Monday June Goth, 1892.
Eight houses were destroyed by
fire in Sharptown, on the Nanticoke
river, in Wicomico county.
The first receipt Of Southern
wheat was 6S bushels from Lancas-
ter county Va.
The people of Hartford county
are making stone roads through
committee of citizens.
i 1t it stated that Mr.. Alcaeus
Hooper is the person who gave
100000 to the Woman's College.
| The total number of immigrants
arriving in this country in the
eleven months ended May 81, 1892,
was $40, 200. against 49,, ITO for the
same time last year.
| Mr.. Thomas b. Gorirley. purser
| of the steamer st. Mary's, has pur-
chased the Morton mansion and the
farm contiguous on Holland Point,
on the Patuxent, in Calvert county,
and has put extensive improvements
on the place for family residence,
II is understood that warrants
tAssye ahsa sSSusa It pl hsEbsEe s fS
assistants at a prize-fight in Prince
Georges c0anty on Friday night
last.
Emmons Blaine, second SON of
ex-Secretary of State James G..
Blaine and manager of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad q. Chicago.
died Saturday, in that city. Blood
poisoning, the result of inflamma-
ton of the bowels, was the cause of
death. Mr.. Blaine was thirty-three
years old.
Judge Bright Morgan, of Herman
do, Miss, was shot dead Saturday
morning on the Illinois Central
train, on his way to Memphis, by
Lawyer Henry Foster. Lynching
Is talked Of. Mr.. Morgan was
delegate to the Chicago convention.
Morgan and Foster had quarrclled
over law suit in which they were
opposing lawyers. Two weeks ago
Foster had a difficulty with Morgan 9
son, upon hearing Of which Morgan
gave Foster sound Gaming. They
had not met since until Saturday |
morning. Foster boarded the train |
at Alden and shot Morgan twice |
withoututteringa word. He board-
ed the train for that purpose. Foster
surrendered TO an officer ut the |
next station. MORGAN was en- ronte |