Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-10-19
Saint Maru's Beacon
From the BIltimore sxn.
Wednesday, October II, 1898.


municipal offices in Baltimore at
the November election.
The Tucker bill repeating the
federal election law was passed by
a vote of 2O1 to 100, the populists
voting in the affirmative with the
democrats.
Harrison =. Graves was found
dead from a bullet wound at Spring
Gardens and the police say he was
probably murdered.
George w. Ochs, manager of the
Tradesman, newspaper was yester-
day elected Mayor of Chattanooga,
Tenn, on the democratic ticket,
after one Of the most exciting cam
paigns. The democrats elected
three out of eight aldermen.
The Ballinger and Robert Lee
stage was robbed by two highway
men three miles east of Robert Lee,
Cook county, Tex. After securing
300 the robbers told the driver
to drive fast and remember what
the angel said to Lots wife.
The long contest in the Demo-
cratic Convention of the First Ju-
dicial Circuit was terminated at
Princess Anne by the nomination of
Henry Page for chief and Henry
Lloyd for associate judge.
Colonel O'FeTrall, democratic
candidate for Governor of Virginia,
is not apprehedsive as to the result.
of the coming election in his State,
believing that the democratic defec-
ton to the populists will be fully
offset by the accession of republic
cans, who will not nominate q State
ticket.
In the name of his government
the Chinese minister at Washing
ton has given distinct assurances
that if some of the offensive featur-
es of the Geary law are modified
and the time for registration ex-
tended Chinese residents in the
United States will endeavor to COM
ply with the registration provisions.
General Breckenridge, Inspector
general Of the United States Army,
in report to the Secretary of War,
shows that almost the entire South
ern coast of the country on the
Atlantic seaboard is absolutely un-
protected and at the mercy of a
foreign foe.
The Senate has confirmed the
nominations of Major Wilburn b.
Hall, of Maryland, to be United
States consul at Nice, France,
Reavel Savage, of Maryland, to be
consul at Nantes, France.
Thursday, October IL, 1898.
The prohibitionists of Charles
county have nominated ticket.
The schooner Ada A. Kennedy,
bound from Baltimore to Boston,
was wrecked near New Bedford,
Mass.
Lawyers Cummings and Waring
say the colored men of Baltimore
will not vote solidly for the repub-
lican ticket in November.
Twenty-Five new cases of yellow
fever were reported at Brunswick,
Ca, yesterday. Mayor Lamb tel
egraphed to New York that the
situation is growing worse.
The corpse of an unknown man
was found in the bushes near Iron
Hill, Cecil county, who is supposed
to have been killed with a coupling
pin.
The trial OF the two colored men,
Taylor and Courtney, has begun at
Princess Anne, for the murder of
Captain Frank Cooper, at Deals
Island.
A test case will be made of the
arrest of Greenleaf Taylor, in Tai
bot county, for dredging on license
issued by the clerk of the court in
stead Of by the comptroller in waters
claimed to be debatable.
Willard G. Barton was given a
verdict for 1895 damages against
DR.. James G. Linthicum for alleg-
cd loss and injury caused by col
lision between their carriages.
A flock of Wensleydale sheep from
Great Britain have been brought to
Maryland as an experiment.
peggy Stewart Day." in COM
memoration of the burning of tea
in Annapolis harbor, will be cele-
brated with reception on the 10th.
The Court OF Appeals has allowed
Colonel Ainsworth and the other
prisoners in the theatre manslaugh-
ter case an appeal on the order of
Judge McComas of the Criminal
Court overruling the demurrer to
the indictment.
Senator Voorhees, announced that
he would prefer defeat to compro-
mise on the bill, and asked Mr..
Dubois, who defended the action of
the friends of silver in the Senate,
to name day for vote, which Mr..
Dubois failed to do.
The Senate begun its continuous
session for the consideration of the
bill repeating the silyer-purchasing
clause of the Sherman law and con-