Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-09-07
NEWS I'M BRIEF.

| Wednesday, August 80, 1893.
Since January l last, 145 nation
al banks have suspended.
The great Columbian bell passed
through Baltimore yesterday on its
way to the Worlds Fair.
Texas fever has occurred in Cecil
county among cattle but precautions
have been taken against its spread.
A revenue cutter will cruise in
Baltimore harbor to enforce the law
requiring sail vessels to show prop
er lights at night.
Workmen are clearing the ground
in Washington on which the new
church for st. Matthew's Catholic
congregation is to be erected.
The President has sent to the
Senate the nominations of William
Ryan and Hamilton Sheppard to
be collectors of internal revenue
for the Virginia districts.
The ways and means committee
of the u. S. House will proceed at
once with the preparation of a gem
eral tariff bill. A revision of the
vote cast Monday in the House on
the Wilson bill repeating the silver
purchasing clause Of the Sherman
law shows that the measure was
passed by a vote of 800 to 100.
THE STORM.
The hurricane of Monday night
caused greater damage to life and
property in its path from Florida
to New York than any similar storm
in years. The effects of the storm
in Baltimore and vicinity were Sc
we're. A large number of vessels
in the harbor were wrecked or dam
aged. The wind played havoc with
the small vessels in Canton Hollow.
Incoming bay steamers brought re-
ports of rough experiences and of
various casualties. The steamer
John 4. Tygert sank at Trappe
Landing, Talbot county.-Some
considerable damage was done along
the shores of the Chesapeake bay
and the rivers of Maryland empty
ing into it. The waters of Chinco-
league bay was driven by south
erly wind up into Sinepuxent bay !;
the low ground of Ocean City was
submerged and the railroad bridge
was damaged. The gale caused an
unusually high tide in the Potomac
river and some damage was done in
the southern counties.-At Savan-
nah, Ga, twenty-seven lives are re-
ported lost and forty or fifty per-
sons are missing. The damage to
property in the city was very great.
"A special to the Augusta Chroni-
Gle from Port Royal, s. g., brings
the startling information that fully
one hundred lives have been lost at
Port Royal, Beaufort and neighbor-
ing points by drowning during the
storm.-Telegraph communication
has not yet been restored with Char
lesion, S. C. Trainmen and pas
sengers arriving in Richmond say
that great damage was done by the
storm, and that it was reported that
25 lives were lost.
Thursday, August 81, 1898.
The ways and means committee
of the House will endeavor to re-
port tariff bill by December 1.
The populists of Charles county
have nominated ticket and adopt
ed a platform of principles.
Governor Brown had under con-
sideration number of applications
for pardon, but granted none.-
The Garrett republicans elected
delegates to the State and Judiciary
convention OF the party.
Calvert county democrats elected
delegates to the State convention
and postponed nomination of a tick
ct till a future meeting.
Great damage was done to the
small craft and fishing fleet of Girls
field and the Somerset islands by
the storm of Monday night.
Baron Won Saurwa Jeltsh, the
first ambassador Germany has sent
to the Unitsd States, was presented
to Secretary Gresham.
Howard republicans nominated a
full county ticket, including COM
missioners, in order to test the con-
stitutionality of the law extending
the term of the present incumbents.
Beginning Monday next, Septem-
Der 4, and closing September 90,
the ways and means committee of
the House of Representatives viii
accord hearings to persons interest
ed in the preparation of tariff bill.
President Cleveland sent Repre-
sentative Wilson. of West Virginia.
q telegram from Buzzard's Bay con-