Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-01-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
From the baltimore Sun.

Wednesday, December 80, 1891.
Five men were injured by the
explosion of a gasoline lamp at
Sparrow's Point.
Two men hear Williamsport,
Nd, report having seen a wheel of
fire, which greatly alarmed them
and burnt some trees.
Right Rev. John Loughlin, Cath.
Ollie Bishop of Brooklyn, died yes
terday, aged seventy-four years.
The CHILEAN situation seems un-
changed, but the activity in naval
preparations continues.
There was serious cutting
affray by two brothers at Prince
Frederick, and both were seriously
cut.
Boley & Sons furniture factory,
Savannah, Ga, the Savannah Steam
Laundry and a dozen small build
ings were bnrned last night. The
total loss is 100000.
A beautiful tiara or crown of
diamonds has been made in Balti-
more for Mrs. Frank Brown, wife
of the Governor-elect of MARYLAND.
Four trainmen were killed and
two others injured in a collision
between freight trains on the Han
nibal and st. Joseph Railroad, near
Chillicothe, Mo-, yesterday.
Fire started at No. 152 Main
street, Railway, n. j., yesterday,
and burned to No. 40. The loss
is $50, 900, partially insured.
The jury of inquest has rendered
verdict that the headless corpse
found in the Delaware canal was
Noah Benson, and that he came to
his death at the hands of some un-
known person.
The stable of the Clearfield Hotel,
Tyrone, Pa, was blown up by a
mysterious explosion Yesterday
morning, and with several sur
rounding stables, was soon in flames.
In all six stables, eight head of
horses and other property was des-
st-oyed,
The three-story cotton and hOsi-
cry mill of Samuel West, German
town, Pa, which was filled with
machinery, was destroyed by fire at
midnight last night. The loss is
estimated at 100000, partially
covered by insurance.
The residence of VIM. BOLTON, a
wholesale grocer of Trenton. n.
j., was Quilted by fire at an early
hour yesterday morning. The loss
is about $50, 200. The family fled
in their night robes to save their
lives.
Thursday, December, 81, 1891.
A colored man shot and killed
the cook of the steamship Lord
Bangor at sea and then jumped
overheard and was drowned.
The young man of Hagerstown
who was crazed by cigarette smok-
ing began smoking again and was
thrown into commissions.
Prince Alfred Monte Nuovo.
grandson of the Archduchess Marie
Louise, once the wife of Napoleon
|. died in Vienna yesterday from
the effects of the grip.
Sunday morning about 3 O'Clock
John Sims, Bob's brother, was
taken from Jail at Butler, Ala,
and hanged by dozen men. Sims
protested that he was innocent, and
he had done nothing to deserve such
fate.
1t is thought in New York that
Governor Hill may decline after all
to take his seat in the United States
Senate, now that the New York
Legislature is democratic. This
would leave him free to pursue his
political plans at home.
a fire of supposed incendiary
origin destroyed the business pro.
ton of Plainfield, H., on Tuesday.
Loss, $50, 200; partly insured.
DR.. ". ". Reeves, superinten-
dent of the Texas State Lunatic
asylum at Austin, was shot and al
most instantly killed on Tuesday
by Henry Purnells who had recent
ly been discharged from the insti-