Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-07-21


tents. DR.. Goff, passenger, was
killed, and another passenger dan
gerously wounded.
The buildings occupied by
Sprague G Hathaway, portrait
artists, ON Davis Square, West
Somerville, Mass, were burned, last
night, Nth their contents. Loss
800, 600; insurance partial.
Reports from the CGur d'Alene
district of Idaho continue to be
conflicting. It il now reported
that the imposition of q hospital
tax upon the men by the company
caused the strike. Loud explosions
were heard ut Missoula, Montana,
bnt wires are cut and the cause has
not been learned.
The situation at Homestead il
practically unchanged and the quiet
Of the town il undisturbed. Strict
military discipline 10 preserved by
the militia. The locked-out men
continue to declare they will offer
no violence to non-union men, whom
they are constantly expecting, but
they seem determined to urge them
not to accept employment. There
Is still talk of a contemplated arrest
OF the leaders of the workmen.
Monday July 18th, 1892.
Ills thought an adjournment Of
Congress can be reached early next
week.
Columbus Stewart, colored, has
been arrested in Annapolis, charged
with assault in st. Michael's Talbot
comfy, two years ago.
-Four youths, sons of Christopher
G. Ball, were drowned Saturday
while bathing in q tributary of
Manokin river, Somerset county
Md.
The West Superior (Wis.) Iron
and Steel Mills were shut down
Saturday, and all men supposed to
be connected with the Amalgamat-
ed Association were discharged.
A driver of the United States
Express Company went off with a
package of $5, 900 belonging to the
national bank in Heyre de Grace
entrusted to him to deliver.
The volcanic manifestations at
Mount Etna continue with unabat.
ed vigor. The immense columns
of smoke and ashes which are
lowering over the burning mount
have grown so dense as TO cover
everything in the vicinity with q
mantle of darkness and the craters
are now invisible.
The selection of Land Commits.
sioner Carter as chairman of the
republican national committee was
not unexpected in Washington, but
it is difficult to understand how the
President reconciles the selection Of
federal officeholder for this place
with his loud professions of devo'
ton to civil service reform.
Tho Inint nnpmittees of the
on the oyster boundary question
visieted the Potomac river and POGO.
moke sound, and arrived at Norfolk
yesterday. Senator Hayes present
ed the Maryland side of the question
and Senator Blackstone spoke for
Virginia. A subcommittee was
appointed to lay down the proposed
lines and make report to day.
Isaac Gould, colored man giving
his age as thirty years and a coach
man by occupation, at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, was married in Elmira, N, Y,
Saturday morning to q white girl
named Louisa Kicker, residence
Germany, aged twenty-one years.
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. NJ. III. Boss, a colored
minister, Gould celebrated his
wedding by getting drunk.
In the United States Senate,
Saturday, resolution was passed
for an investigation into the work
ing of the immigration and naturali-
zation laws. The general deficiency
bill, the last of the great approprat-
ion bills ENACTED upon by the Senate,
was taken up by that body.
The House spent another day on
the civil Sunday appropriation bill,
the pending amendment being the
proposition giving the Worlds Fair
50, 900, 900 in souvenir coins and