Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-07-28


Charles Hudson, cook Of the tug
Easily, leaped into the water Of
Cove Point, mouth of Patuxent
river, to escape the explosion Of a
steam pipe and was drowned.
The Barnnm shaft at Pittston, Pa.
operated BY the Pennsylvania Coal
Company, was destroyed by fire
this morning. Loss is estimated at
$75, 000 The origin Of the fire is
unknown, Five hundred men and
boys are thrown out Of employment.
There is ! farmer in Alexandria
county, Va, who has been steadily
hauling brush since the day Of
Cleyeland's nomination, and will
continue to do so, he says, till the
day Of his election, when grand
bonfire win be lit and barbecue
had such as never has been known
in that county.
Official kilograms received at the
Hague from Batavia confirm the
recent accounts Of the awful des-
truction caused on Great SANGER
Island, belonging to Holland, BY a
volcanic eruption on June ~.
These adyices are to the effect that
the whole northwestern portion Of
the island was destroyed and that
2, ZOO Of theinhabitants were killed.
There were no Europeans among
the victims.
Anna S. Fay, aged fifty-two
years, widow Of Gen. j. Augustus
Fay, died in Elizabeth, N. j., yes
terday. She was daughter Of the
late Judge Nelson Wood, Of Nor
ristown, and a lineal descendant Of
Jonathan Dayton, first Speaker Of
the House Of Representatives. She
was a member Of the Daughters Of
the Revolution.
Monday, July rs, 1892.
General Stevenson has gone homo
greatly pleased with his reception
in New York. He is very hopeful
Of carrying Illinois. .
Two barracks containing four
hundred bushels Of unthreshcd
wheat on the farm Of j NJ. Thorn
ton, near Taylor, Hartford county,
were struck by lightning Friday
night and entirely destroyed.
1t is estimated that the loss By
the burning Of the Bollingbrook
stables, Middleburg, Carroll, conn
ty, was 100000.
w. X. Vanderbilt's yacht Alya
was sunk by the steamer II. r.
Dimock in the fog on Nantucket
shoals, Mass. yesterday. Dir, Van
derbilt and al on board the yacht
were saved.
The eruption Of Mount Etna con-
tinues to diminish in violence. The
steam Of lava that was flowing in IN
eastward direction has come to q
stand still
In the double-sculling race on the
Potomac, Saturday, Hanlan and
0'Connor defeated Hosmer and
Ross. In the single sculls, yester-
day, Hanlan beat Ross and O'Con-
nor beat Hosmer.
Such has been the yigor Of the
attack in the Senate on the anti
option bill that MIR. Washburn. who
has il in charge, in order 70 secure
democratic support will have To-
agree 10 amendments that will
totally change the character o. the
bill.
The United States Senate was
again occupied Saturday on the
anti-option bill, and Mf. IIiscock
made d strong speech against II.
The House non-concufred IN the
Senate amendment to the general
deficiency appropriation bill making
an appropriation for the payment
Of the French spoliation claims.
Mr.. Henry Clay Frick, manager
Of the Carnegie Steel Company, was
shot and seriously wounded ii his
private office in plttsburg, Pa.
Saturday afternoon, BY Alexander
Bergman, Russian anarchist. He
pissed d good day yesterday, and it
is thought he viii recover II no
unforeseen complications arise.
Both the German aud Austrian
courts are shocked at the official
sanction by the Russian govern
ment Of plans for the murder 81
Prince Ferdinand, who II d blood
relation of the Gar. The outcome
Of the affair is likely to be an early
recognition Of the Bulgarian ruler
by the triple alliance.