Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-05-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Friday, May 5, 1898.
From as Baltimore Sam.

William Burneston was shot and
killed by his brother near Bengies,
Baltimore county.
The public schools of Howard
county will be closed May Is for
lack of funds.
Il. j. Waring, a colored lawyer,
says colored voters will break away
from the republican party in Mary
land if encouraged to do SO by dem
ocrats.
William Baker cut bis throat with
pocket-knife in a fit of despOn-
dency in Prince Georges county
and is in a critical condition.
It is reported the President told
Representative Kilgore, of Texas,
he would call an extra session of
Congress between September l and
Is.
A colored man has been arrested
in Montgomery county, charged
with attempting to wreck an ex-
press train on the Baltimore and
Ohio for revenge.
The United States minister at
COnstantinople has notified the
State Department of the settlement
of the incident growing out of the
burning of an American college for
women at Marsovan, against which
protest was sent to the Turkish
authorities by the United States
government.
Saturday, May 6, 1898.
There was an interesting exhibit
ton this week at Charlotte Hall of
the st. Mary's Industrial School
for Colored Youth.
Secretary of State Edward w.
LeCompte, of Maryland, died at
his residence in Cambridge, aged
sixty-two years.
During a thunderstorm last
night a large barn of John Burt
was struck by lightning and des-
troyed near Westminster, Carroll
county.
A writ of habeas corpus was sued
out in behalf of Robert l.. Wharton
and Severn Nelson, colored, of Som
erset county, Nd, convicted of
violating the Virginia oyster law.
Gov. Knute Nelson, of Mime
sofa, has invited Governor Brown
to name commissioners to an inter
state conference to consider relief
from coal combinations. &
Carlyle w. Harris's counsel an
nounce that they will make no fur
Their effort to prevent his execution,
which is set for next week in Sing
Sing prison. Mrs. Harris visited
her SOL yesterday.
Members of the Irregular" dem
ocratic organization of Maryland in
Washington affirm their beliel that
Thomas NJ. Hunt, of Howard coun-
ty, Nd, will be appointed commits
sioner of internal revenue at Balti-
more The friends of George W.
Covington, of Maryland, speak
hopefully of his chances of getting
the place.
Monday, May 8, 1898.
During the past week the treas
ury situation improved considera-
bly,. The gold reserve fund is now
about 500, 900, 900.
A convention of States attorneys
has been called to meet in Balti-
more in June.
Governor Brown and ex-Goyern-
ors Lloyd and Jackson were present
at the funeral of Secretary of State
Edward W. LeCompte in Cam
bridge.
Mr.. j. Henry Stickney, who died
in Baltimore last Wednesday, gives
half q million dollars in various
requests to charitable, religious and
other institutions.
A tornado in Texas lifted a rail-
road train excepting the locomotive
from the track and threw the cars
into ravine. One man was killed
and several hurt.
A little daughter of Noah Brown,
Cranberry Valley, Carroll county,
was pierced to the heart and killed
by the peedle of an old spinning
wheel with which she was PLAYING.
During the two months of the
present administration q saving of
Of, 1000 per month has been made in
the running expenses of the censrs