Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-04-27

wednesday, April 10, 1898.
| John I. Merryman pleaded gull
ty TO bigamy in the Baltimore Grim
lnal court and was sentenced Il
i've years in the penitentiary.
| The Maryland State Teachers
Association decided 20 postpone the
meeting OF the organization until
1894.
The closing of the public schools
OF Prince Georges county for lack
OF funds is causing n great deal OF
/ ii,ePalar discSatent. ss~ sss-
Thoroughbred Tazewell, colored.
was sentenced to the penitentiary
for eighteen years for killing Leah
Wallace, colored, on Deals Island.
Somerset county.
Calculations made ut the Navy
Department on data furnished by
members of the trial board Of the
cruiser Detroit show the vessel to
have made 1897 knots an hour.
During the extraordinary session
of the United States Senate which
closed Saturday last President
Cleveland made more appointments
to office than any of his predeces-
sors.
During the past two or three
weeks large numbers of Cinnamon
have been coming to Savannah from
Havanna through Tampa, some of
them stopping in Savannah and
Others moving on North.
Lucy Larcom, poetess died in
Boston, Monday, aged sixty-seven
years. She began writing while
employed as factory girl in Low
ell, Mass, and was befriended by
John G. Whittier.
Thursday, April 20, 1898.
Charles county has had several
bIrns burned by incendiaries.
The explosion, Tuesday, in the
Buck-lvanhoe tunnel, Colorado,
killed seven men.
Nellie Brown, colored, aged eigh-
ty years, was burned to death in
Unionville, Worcester county.
VIM. Pinkney, colored. was put
on his trial at Marlboro, Md, sep
| arately from Barber, for the mur-
der of Mr.. Bowie.
In Garrett county the tax rate
has been increased to 81 90 and
there is complaint that the levy for
schools is insufficient.
The United States cruiser De-
troit returned to Baltimore yester-
day from her successful trial trip
and was given hearty welcome.
Colonel Charles Murphy, a we'll
known lawyer of Washington, who
disappeared March last, was found
dead in chair in his office.
A class of one hundred and sew
enty-nine members was graduated
from the Baltimore College of Ply
slcians and Surgeons.
Engineers will soon begin to sur.
vey the route of the Traction syn
dicate's proposed electric railway
between Baltimore and Washington.
Gen. r. l.. Z. Beale died sud-
denly at his home, in Westmore-
land county. He served with dis
tinction in the Confederate Army
and was member of Congress after
the war.
James Bartinett thought robber
was in his house in Monongahela
City. Pa, Tuesday night. He fired
a shotgun without speaking and
blew off the head of Mrs. Lettie
Troy, his mother-in- law.
Secretary Carlisle saws he has
81, 10000 free gold how in the
treasury. 1t is denied that any
order has been issued to stop the
redemption in gold of the treasury
notes of 1890.
The justices of the United States
Supreme Court will not attend the
naval review in New York, because
it is said. they are not satisfied with
the position assigned them in the
official programme.
Twenty-Five masked men over
powered the jailor at Morrillton,
Ark, Tuesday night, and carried
off and lynched Flannigan Thorn
ton. colOred, who murdered Con
stable Pate.
Edwin Booth, the tragedian, is
lying at the Players Club, lG
Gramercy Park, suffering from par
alysis. 1t is feared that this, the
second paralytic stroke with which
the famous actor has been stricken.