Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-06-01

bia is being very rapidly developed.
William 5. Bridendolph was ac-
cIdentally killed BY his horse throw
ing him under the wheels Of an
electric car in Cumberland.
DIR. William Lee, secretary to the
State lunacy commission is inves-
tigating the condition of the insane
poor in Eastern Shore county aims
houses.
Reports received so far at the
Treasury Department show that
1l,273 Chinese were registered in
forty-nine internal revenue districts
out of sixty-three in the country.
Hon. Charles Foster, ex-Secre-
tary of the United States Treasury,
made an assignment for the benefit
OF his creditors at Fostoria, Ohio,
Yesterday. Several industries at
Festeria in which he was interested
were compelled to assign.
Monday, May 20, 1893.
The number of deaths in Balti-
more last week was 1876.
Many thousands of people yester-
day visited the spot in Hollywood
Cemetery where Hon. jefferson
Dayis's remains are to be buried.
Fire destroyed the sugar refinery
at Curtis Bay, near Baltimore, on
Sunday, causing an estimated dam
age of over a million dollars.
The Secretary Of the Navy has
decided to build two 200 ton gun
boats of the composite type, which
means the hulls of the cruisers will
be sheathed with copper,
The Secretary of the Interior has
made decision repeating the con
struction of a pension law made by
Commissioner Raum which, it is
estimated, will reduce pension pay
ments $40, 200, 900 annually.
Julius Bollensmann, an aged Ger
man, was found shot to death in his
country store near Perryman's,
Hartford county, and colored man
residing nearby has been arrested
on suspicion and taken to Belair
Jail to await investigation.
Charles ii. Grasty, Thomas K.
Worthington and John NJ. Carter,
Jr., respectively, general manager,
managing editor and city editor of
the Evening News, were acquitted
of libeling ex-Sheriff Henry G..
Fledderman.
John Kelley, switchman en-
ployed by the Delaware and Hud-
son Canal Company. at Willsboro',
N. Y, had bandaged his limbs with
cloths saturated with kerosene for
the purpose of curing lameness.
The bandages accidently became
ignited and Kelley was burned to
death.
Tuesday, May 80, 1898.
The sugar refinery, which was
destroyed by fire on Sunday, may
be rebuilt.
There is an extensive building
boom in the towns of Montgomery
county.
The ruling of Secretary Smith in
the pension case of George T. Ben
nett is generally commended, even
by Grand Army men.
Mrs. Esther Evans, aged seventy
two years, 124 East Montgomery
street, was accidentally burnt to
death.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Maxwell informed Repre-
sentative Compton that the filing
of charges against fourth class post
masters was an memorable prelimi-
nary to their removal.
The Confederate Veterans Of New
York will send a delegation to the
Davis ceremonies at Richmond.
The recent benefit of Stuart Rob-
sons company realized $4,000 for
the veterans.
The blooming mill, engine-room
and boiler-house of the Lackawanna
Steel Company's North Mill, at
Scranton, Pa. was destroyed by fire
this morning. Twelve hundred
hands are thrown out of work. Loss
1925, 900.
There are at least ten thousand
homeless and hungry people in East
Carroll, Moorehouse, West Carroll
and Madison parishes, La, and the
suffering and privations they are
undergoing is appalling. With the
exception of few small elevations,
the whole of the northeastern por-
ton of the State is under water.