Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-06-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.
From the Bzltimors Sem.
Friday, June Q, 1893.

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There is great complaint in Gar
rett county of the depredations of
sheep-killing dogs.
Thomas Smith was shot and dan
gerously wounded by Amos Scoon
at Ringold's Point, Chester river,
during fracas.
DIR. hurry Vandiver, Of Hartford
county, was appointed collector of
internal revenue, to succeed Mr.. r.
Snowden Hill, republican.
The comptroller of the currency
believes Maryland bankers pay clos
er attention to the banking laws
than those of any other State in the
Union.
During the first three months of
the present administration ended
June 8, there were 6,537 fourth
class postmasters appointed, of
which 1872 were to fill vacancies
and !, 1865 by removals. During the
corresponding period of the Har-
rison administration S,226 were APP
pointed, of whom 5,567 were to fill
places caused by removals.
Saturday, June 10, 1898.
Eli Tucker was sentenced for
manslaughter to pay a fine of 81
822 and imprisonment six months
in the Hartford county Jail.
Captain Rich, of a Philadelphia
schooner, died from blood poison
ing, produced by the bite Of a
mutinous sailor.
Sixty deaths occurred from chol-
era in Mecca, Arabia, one day this
week. In Cette, France, five deaths
of a choleraic nature occurred Thurs
day.
The New Orleans express on the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad was at
tackled by six masked men, near
Columbia, H., on Thursday night,
and the express car robbed of &c.
900.
Postmaster General Bissell be-
lieves it would be a great advantage
il some plan could be devised that
would result in placing practically
the power of selecting fourth-class
postmasters in the hands of the
people Of the various localities.
An encounter occurred at Romeo,
ILL.,, yesterday between 500 strikers
and the workmen on the Chicago
drainage canal. The latter were
armed with rifles, and 2 strikers
were killed, 90 injured and 80 taken
prisoners by the sheriff's posse
guarding the canal.
Monday, June IL, 1898.
IL is understood Mrs. jefferson
Davis and Miss Winnie Davis will
make Richmond their future home.
The cornerstone of a hall for
Catholic societies was laid in Cum
berland with imposing ceremonies.
The insurance placed on Fargo,
n. d., foots up 81 100000. Two
thirds of this was on the burnt dis
trict.
A fire in the livery stable of Saw
age Brothers, Charleston, W. Va,
burned to death thirty-one horses,
most of them finely bred animals.
Alice Burton, who murdered her
husband some time ago in Monroe
county, Tenn, and had confessed,
committed suicide in the Madison
Vile (Tenn.,) Jail, by hanging her.
self with a rope made of her skirts.
Mr.. J. NJ. Burnett, a former en-
ploye of the pension office, has
written a letter to the President
giving a startling exposure of the
manner in which that Office was
conducted uuder the Harrison ad-
ministration.
Mrs. Huddleston, wealthy lady
of Ben Avon. Pa, was arrested
Saturday on charge of murder.
Several days ago the remains of a
babe were found on the premises of
of the Huddlestons, and the daugh-
ter, Miss Kitty, was arrested on a
charge of infanticide. This was
followed by the arrest of her mother.
The intended husband, W. G. Coy
lie, was arrested on a charge of