Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-11-30

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West and who 10 himself man Of
large wealth, favors the proposed
tax on incomes, IS also does Mr..
Josiah Quincy, Of Massachusetts,,
until recently First Assistant Secre-
tary Of State.
Saturday, November Is, 1898.
The official election returns show
that the majority for the constitu-
tional amendment was 1888.
Senior Diaz, Spanish consul at.
Baltimore, committed suicide BY
dropping from a fourth-story
window 10 the street.
A child with two heads, four
arms, three legs and four feet was
still-born to Mrs. Marianne Kreft,
of 1909 Shakespeare street.
The fourteen year-old son of j.
L. Swift, Of Hartford county, lefs
home in August without his parents
knowledge to 60 10 the Worlds
Fair and has not since been heard
from.
Prominent officers Of the United
States Army are in favor OF the
purchase Of the big Krupp gun that
was on exhibition at the Worlds
Fair as part of the armament for
the defense of the harbor at New
York.
A number of democratic leaders
including Chairman Harrity, of the
national committee, Don NJ. Dick
inson, of Michigan, Josiah Quincy,
of Massachusetts,, b. L. Cable, of
Illinois, and others. had conferences
with President Cleveland at the
White House, with view of having
a systematic campaign made in 1894.
Monday, November 90, 1898.
1t is said to be the intention of
the ways and means committee of
the House of Representatives to tax
incomes, but the rates have not
been fixed.
From official sources in the PEN
sion Bureau it is learned that great
pension frauds have been perpetrat-
ed in Buffalo, n. Y, whereby $50,
900 have already been wrongfully
paid to applicants.
The Brazilian government has
offered Capt. Edward l.. Zalinski,
of the United States Army, the in
ventor of the dynamite protector,
sl5, 900 for one months service to
instruct the men on board the Bra
LILLIAN man-of-war Ell Cid in hand
ling the gun.
1t is authoritatively stated that
President Cleveland will not sign
any silver bill passed by the Fifty
third Congress. The President is
opposed to the United States con-
tinuing the coinage of silver when
other powers with which this coun-
try has close and constant financial
relations have practically discon-
tlnued the use of the white metal.
Wednesday, November q. 1898.
1t is likely the State naval militia
will be disbanded.
The Anne Arundel county COM
missioners organized and elected
officers,
The republicans of Charles county
hove engaged Judge ID. r. Magrud-
er and Mr.. Randall to present their
case to the Governor.
The trial of George l.. Austin
for murder has been set for Tuesday,
the 2Sth instant. Gov VIM. Pink
ney Whyte will defend the prisoner.
Hon. Jeremiah NJ. Rusk, Score
tary of Agriculture in President
Harrison's cabinet, died Yesterday
at his home in Wiroquia, Wis. lie
was sixty-three years old.
Monday morning next the ways
and means committee of the House
of Representatives will meet, at
which time the tariff bill, upon
which the majority members of the
committee have been working. will
be laid before the full committee.
Frederick Gustaveson, charged
with assault on a .year-old
child, was hanged BY mob to the
stairs of Justices court, in OF
tumwa, Iowa, yesterday. The
child's mother supplied the rope
and called on the crowd to hang
the prisoner.
The talk in Washington now is
that the coming session of Congress
may be prolonged until late next
summer and probably into the early
autumn. but there is ground for
hope that so far ut least as the
House of Representative is con-
cerned, all business in which the
general public is interested may be-
transacted BY May next.
Thursday, November %, 1898.
The internal revenue tax on whis-
ky yielded the government in the
fiscal year of 1892 the sum of S94,-
720, 260.55.
The Maryland Society of Coloni-
nj Wars celebrated the two hundred