Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-01-28

man and secretary OF the national
committee.
Associate Justice Joseph p. Brad
ley, Of the Supreme Court of the
United States, died yesterday morn
ing at his home in Washington,
aged seventy-eight years.
AT Nottingham, Eng, q widow
named Castings, who kept 8 milli-
merry shop, murdered her two child
rem by battering their heads with o
coal hammer and then took her
own life.
Over twenty lives were lost by the
burning Of the National Surgical
Institute at Indianapolis on Thurs
day night. The work of clearing
the ruins is not yet complete, and
il 10 probable more bodies will be
found. Most of the victims were
cripples, under treatment in the
institute for their deformities.
William Nunnally, grandson of
DIR. and Mrs. j. Ell. Barrett, the
aged couple who were brutally muir
dered several weeks ago at Creswell,
Ca, has been arrested as an accom-
plice in the crime. He has been
implicated by a statement of Sam
uel Kendall, colored, who has also
been arrested.
Carrie Hoffman, aged eighteen
years, q housemaid at the home of
Prof. j. G.. Anderson, superinten-
dent of the school at Phillipsburg,
Pa, retired on Tuesday evening in
her usual health. Since that time
she has not awakened. She has
been sleeping seventy-two hours,
and all efforts of physicians to
arouse her have been in vain.
Monday, January %, 1892.
A movement for new constitu-
tional convention is said to be i'm
pending in the Legislature.
A petition to the Legislature from
the bondsmen of Archer for relief
will be presented.
Seven skaters broke through the
ice at Annapolis and were with diff
ficulty rescued from drowning.
The funeral services of the late
Associate Justice Bradley, in ac-
cordance with his wishes, were
plain and simple in the extreme.
His remains were taken to Newark,
N. j., for interment.
1t is expected the Presidents
message and the CHILEAN CORES
pondence will be sent to Congress
today, and that unless Chill makes
reparation in few days diplomatic
relations will be broken off.
Representative Stump, of Mary
land, has prepared a stringent bill
against Chinese immigration, which
he will submit to the House COM
mittee on immigration at an early
day.
A special dispatch from Reading,
Pa, says: "Postmaster-G General
Wanamaker has removed Levi s.
Shirk, postmaster at Margantown
this county, and appointed Samuel
Deichley in his place. Recently
charges were preferred against Shirk
that he had adversely criticised
President Harrison"
1t was developed on Saturday
that j. j. Nicholson & Sons had
rehypothecated colleteral securities
left with them by client of ex-Goy.
William Pinkney Whyte. The
court was asked to decree the sale
of the real estate of the late Andrew
j. Nicholson for the benefit of the
creditors of the firm. AS result
of the failure cross-astions were
instituted by the Western National
Bank and William Reisinger l.
Sons.
The south-bound Missouri Pa
cific train was captured twice Satur-
day night, once by a lynching party
that was escorting murderer Robert
Helper from Nevada, Mo-, to
Lamar, Mo-, where they hanged
him, and second time by train
robbers, who robbed the express car
and its inmates. One of the rob-
bers killed s. b. Clemore, colored
policeman, who tried to arrest him
and a companion, ss Fort Scott. on
Geographic order. The two rob-
bers entered box car on a freight
train that was pulling out. Detec-
tiyes followed on passenger train,
and ct Pleasanton overlook them.
Both began firing at the officers,
and in the fusilade one of the rob-
bers was killed and the other seri-
ously wounded. The murdered
man is Charles Myers. His COM
panion is s. G. Francis. The rob-
bers secured only about s75. Both
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