Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-03-16

ing herself in front Of an express
train.
Fifteen fine race horses of Col.
W. NJ. Ewing were burned Wednes-
day night at Franklin, Tenn. Loss
$50, 900; no insurance. Among
them was Rowena, dam of the great
Dallas, 2.084, valued ut s5. 900.
Saturday, March IL, 1893.
Much sickness and several deaths
have occurred in New York from
exposure at the Inauguration.
Chicago bankers have offered
Secretary Carlisle to exchange 3d.
900, 900 of gold for a like amount
of small treasury notes.
Frederick city proposes to raise
revenue by taxing the poles of tele-
graph and telephone companies.
Recently prospectors for gold in
Montgomery county have not found
cause for great encouragement.
In Kanawha county, W. Va,
Charles Payne, twelve years of age,
fatally shot himself through the
head. Whether it was suicide or
accident 10 not known.
The democratic senator ial caucus
committee finds difficulty in assign
ing the chairmanships Of the vari-
Gus Senate committees.
The water rose higher at Port
Deposit last night than at any time
during the present ice gorge, and
there were fears that the whole
iowa would be submerged.
Annie May Little, aged eighteen
years, and Joseph Pryor, aged eleven
years, were found unconscious and
badly wounded about the head in
mysterious manner at No. 1902
Lennon street.
Counsel of Howard j. Schneider,
sentenced to be hanged for the
murder of his wife. have applied to
the supreme bench for a wit of
habeas corpus.
Mrs. j. ID. Kisler, of Omaha,
started the kitchen fire by the aid
of kerosene, which exploded, severe
ly burning herself, her husband and
three children, besides destroying
the house and all its contents.
Gov. Peter Turney, of Tennessee.
who has been critically i'll, Was bet
ter yesterday. When informed that
rumor of his death had been cir
culated he said: 81 knew it was a
lie as soon as | heard it,"
1t is believed the reason the
President withdrew the Hawaiian
treat from the Senate was to have
the agreement revised so as to make
it more agreeable to the people of
the United States and the provis-
ional government of Hawaii.
A fresh feud has broken out
among the Chinese societies in San
Francisco. Two who refused to
iOim in circumventing the exclusion
law were shot. The Chinese threa-
ten the lives of white people who
interfere with them.
Ex-senator Ingalls,, of Kansas.
says that he is glad to see President
Cleveland exercise some sense in
regard to the Hawaiian affair by
withdrawing the treaty, and hopes
the President will keep it in his
trousers pocket. The Hawaiian
treaty, the ex-senator says, was a
great blunder.
Fire ragged uncontrolled in Boston
yesterday afternoon from 4 to 7
o'clock, destroyed about "a, 500, 900
worth OF property. Several persons
lost their lives and about thirty
were injured. The entire square
bounded by Essex, Lincoln. Tufts
and Kingston streets was burned
over and several buildings in the
adjoining square were destroyed.
Monday, March Is, 1898.
South Dakota farmers are plant
ing corn.
Laurel, Prince Georges county,
was lighted by electricity Saturday
night.
A fatal disease has broken out
among sheep in the Deer Creek
region OF Hartford county.
Jackson Cooper, a farmer in Gar
rett county, committed suicide by
hanging.
A payroll showing the ranks of
1928 Revolutionary soldiers will be
exhibited at the Easter week mon
ument bazaar.
Bessie Woodward, a school girl,
died in Washington from an illness
brought on by jumping rope over
two hundred times.
Four persons lost their lives in
the great fire in Boston, Friday
night. which destroyed "a, 800, 900
worth of property.
A Baltimore firm will make an
exhibit of pottery at the Worlds
Fair, and a Baltimore firm will put
up the cabinet for the display.
The United States has, as a re-
suit Of experiments, smokeless
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