Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-08-03
Saturday, July 20, 1898.

Saturday, July 90, 1893.
Governor Brown is considering
four applications for pardon in
criminal cases.
A call for a convention of negro
democratic clubs to meet in Wash
ington August "a has been issued.
Strawberry growers of Anne
Arundel, Howard and Baltimore
counties have organized to 90 to
law about the return-crate issue.
Comptroller of the Currency
Eckels has issued statement show
ing that los banks have. gone into
his hands since he went into office.
The election of Mr.. Crisp as
Speaker of the next House of Re-
representatives. is conceded.
The register of the United States
has issue circular that an assign
ment of United States bonds by an
executor, trustee, guardian or attor-
ney to himself is not valid in law.
A prisoner in Bohemia has con-
fessed to having committed murder
and robbery in Pennsylvania in
1890, for which crime an innocent
Polander is now serving sentence.
The authorities are investigating.
Monday, July 81, 1898.
Bishop Kahn received while in
Baltimore the papers from Rome
appointing him coadjutor Arch
bishop of st. Louis.
1t is believed that one of the re-
suits of the present financial depres-
sion will be to attract more North
ern and Eastern capital to the
South.
Christian Wagner, a well-to-do
grocer of Washington, took his own
life by swallowing a dose of poison
and afterward shooting himself in
the heard.
United States CONSUL Emmel,
at Smyrna, Asiatic Turkey. notified
the State Department at Washing
ton that colera exists at that port.
A registered mail pouch contain
ing $500 in securities left the
Salt Lake (Utah) postoffice east
bound July 8, and has not since
been heard from. Pestoflice detec-
tives and inspectors are searching
for it.
While the new collector of the
port of New York and the naval
officer are pronounced "anti-snap-
pers" they are commended by Tam
many people as good democrats and
the appointments are conceded to
be good ones.
Alexander Brown was hanged at
Bastrop, Tex, Friday, for wife
murder. He made full confession
on the gallows. Wednesday night
he cut his throat, severing the wind
pipe, which prolonged his life after
the drop, air getting into the lungs.
The regular democrats nominal.
ed their candidates for Senate and
House of Delegates in the Mont
gomery primary Saturday, but the
independents succeeded with the
county commissioners. Mr.. Hat
tersly w. Talbot defeated Mr..
Wootton for the State Senate by
500 votes.
Siam has acceded to the French
ultimatum, the ministry has accept
ed this as satisfactory to France,
the blockade will be ordered off and
the war cloud disappear. Beyond
question the affair brought France
and Great Britain much nearer
hostilities than the public have
realized.
Tuesday. August l, 1898.
The postoffice at Cockeysville,
Baltimore county. was robbed of
s25 in money and stamps.
William Jones, a Baltimore COL
ored infant, was killed by a fall from
a third-story window.
Gen. George W. Morgan, the last
surviving general of the Mexican
war, died in Mount Vernon, Ind,
aged seventy-three years.
Representative Harris, of Kan
sas, populist-democrat, believes the
silver men will have an overwhelm-
ing majority in the next Congress.
A pistol in the hands of Oliver
Danner accidently exploded, wound
ing him slightly and his mother Sc
riously, in Frederick county.
During last week there were 157
deaths from cholera in Naples. Re-
ports from the interior of Russia
show that in some provinces the d.
sease is nearly as bad as last year.
For the first time since the pas
sage of the Sherman law, in 1890,
the Treasury Department did not
purchase during July the monthly
quota of $500, 900 ounces of silver.
The total purchase was 1884, 900
ounces.
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