Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-06-16


The police of Chicago are inyes.
eating an alleged case Of assault,
robbery and Kidnapping. Charles
NJ. Dustin is paymaster Of the Green
Dredging Company in Chicago.
According to his statement he was
driving on North Branch street in
an open buggy Wednesday after
noon, having III his possession
satchel containing $1,000 Of the
dredging company 8 money, which
he had drawn for the purpose Of
paying the company's employees.
when he was attacked by two stran-
gers. They sprang into the buggy,
oyerpowered him and beat him into
insensibility. When he recovered
consciousness he says he was lying
in a vacant lot near Graccland Gem
etery and his money was gone. Tie
horse and buggy were found yestcr-
day.
Saturday, June nth, 1892.
A largo business il going on in
the shipment Of Maryland straw
berries from Baltimore to Northern
cities by fast trains.
A shipbuilding company has cs-
tablished q yard on Bear creek,
Baltimore county.
Governor Brown proposes TO APP
point oyster inspectors and school
commissioners July Is. under acts
of the last Legislature.
Clement r. Leonard, Of Talbot
county, is spoken Of prominently.
for commander Of the oyster navy.
John Al. Denton, indicted for
embezzlcment while clerk tn the
county commissioners Of Howard
county, was convicted in the Grim
inal Court of Baltimore city, and
sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary, execution Of the sen-
tence being deferred by notice Of an
appeal.
Isaac Glickman sued Robert 4.
Petzold, druggist, for 1000 dam
ages because Of the death Of his
infant daughter, alleged To have
been caused by a mistake in com
pounding a prescription.
In looking over some ancient
records at his home in Montgomery
county Land Commissioners Laird
found a curious entry which AZ
tracted his attention. II announc-
ed that a certain carly Marylander
was authorized to keep on Indian
and to hunt wild cattle
Col. John II. Sothoron, father.
in-law Of Congressman Barnes
Compton, is seriously i'll at his
home in ST. Mary's county. Col
onel Sothoron is nearly ninety
years old.
Monday, June 18th, 1892.
The next annual meeting and
Of United Confederate Vet
Grams will be held July 10 and 20,
1892, at Birmingham, Ala.
Col. l.. i. Polk, president Of the
National Farmer Alliance, died on
Saturday in Washington, ID. G., OF
blood poisoning.
Vice President Morton is reported
as being much disappointed at the
unceremonious way in which he was
dropped by the Minneapolis con-
yention.
Senator John b. Gordon, who
was compelled to leave his post at
Washington on account Of i'll health,
has been spending few days on his
stock farm near Reynolds, Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs. James q. Blaine
arrived at Bar Harbor, Maine, Sat-
urday morning and were driven
directly to Stanwood, their summer
residence.
Charles Waite, an aeronaut, was
seriously hurt at Colchester Beach
by striking the ground in his des-
cent from his balloon, his parachute
having failed to open properly.
Tomorrow will be the 115th an
niyersary Of the adoption Of the
stars and stripes for the national
flag.
Capt. j. w. I4awlor, tho daring
small boat navigator, started on his
latest and riskiest adventure Sum
day night, says the Boston Adyer-
tiser He sailed from Lincoln wharf
at 6 in a canvas boat twelve feet
long over oil for a voyage across the
Atlantic.
The huginegg men among New