Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-03-17
NEWS IN brief.

Wednesday, March o, 1892.
Typhus fever continues its raya.
ges in New York, several new cases
and two more deaths being report.
ed.
The coroner's jury in the case OF
Engine-man Raab, killed on the
Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad,
came to no conclusion as to the
cause Of the accident, but recon.
mend an examination of the part OF
the road where the accident occur
red.
At Lynchburg, Va, Jailor John
son was overpowered by three GRIM
inals who attempted to escape.
William Robinson and William
Davis, under sentence of death for
murder, were recaptured, but Lem
uel Jackson, convicted of an assault
on an officer, got away.
LEGISLATIVE.
1t is said there will be an effort
in the House to reduce the appro-
priation for the Worlds Fair to
s25, 900 or $4,000.
The Senate and House commit
tees on Chesapeake bay and tribu-
taries heard q spirited discussion by
the friends and opponents of the
oyster-planting bill.
Majority and minority reports
were submitted in the Senate on the
bill to increase the salaries of judges,
the former in its favor and the lat
ter against it.
Senator Hayes's bill appropriate
ing to the payment of the State
debt the direct tax money refunded
by the federal government only a.
waits the signature of the Governor
to make it o law.
The members of both branches OF
the Legislature are in revolt against
the assessment bill in its present
form, and there is scarcely posi-
bility of its passage unless radically
changed.
The bill for the relief of the
bondsmen of ex-Treasurer Archer
was passed by the House. Another
bill will be introduced authorizing
the comptroller and treasurer to
settle the claims of the State against
the holders of bonds which were
hypothecated by Archer.
The Sunday law bills came before
the House Of Delegates as the
speacial order, and after an Animal
ed debate the motion to substitute
Mr.. Fields bill for the unfavorable
report of the committee was de-
feated by vote of So to 26. The
Baltimore delegation voted solidly
in favor of the bill, with the excep-
ton Of Messrs. Carter and Sans.
Friday, March II, 1892.
Congressman Barnes Compton
declines to affirm or deny the ru-
NOR that he proposes declining a
reelection.
Trial was begun in Baltimore of
John Marshall Rye, indicted for
killing John j. Wheeler in Charles
county last August.
The tariff debate which opened
in the House Of Representatives
yesterday did not attract as much
attention as has been attracted by
the opening Of tariff discussions in
previous Congresses.
LEGISLATIVE.
Mr.. Coruthwaite has introduced
o bill providing for divorce a vim
culo when either party is declared
incurably insane.
The Senate passed Senate bill for
free books in the public schools and
House bill to authorize the North
Avenue Hallway 70 construct Its
elevated structure.
The debate on the assessment bill
was begun with great earnestness
in the House of Delegates yester-
day. An amendment was adopted
BY a vote of 81 to Is providing for
the taxation of the tunnels, rail-
ways and bridges of railroad and
other corporations, according to the
actual value and not at the rate at
which other parts Of the property
are taxed.
There was stirring aebate in the
Senate over an order offered by
Senator Pearre requiring the cleo
tons committee to make their r.
mended report in regard TO the
Calvert senatorship by Friday. The