Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-05-25
news IN BRIEF.
Friday, May 10, 1898.
From The BIltiMs0re ISHR.

were hanged at Tunkhannock, Pa,
for the murder Of Jacob Marks.
There were sixteen successful
candidates ont of forty-four appli-
cants for admission as cadets into
the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Edward Hughes was arrested at
his home in Mjnersyille, Pa, yes
terday, charged with the murder
of bis wife.
Mr.. John Campbell White, Jr.,
was thrown from his horse and
killed IN Howard county.
Pinkney, the condemned murderer
in Prince Georges county, makes
some conflicting statements about
the killing of Mr.. Bowie.
The net receipts from the late
Confederate memorial bazaar in
Richmond were $28, AIS, of which
81 ,446 was realized at the Maryland
table.
Saturday, May 20, 1898.
Sunday fishing in New Jersey is
prohibited by law.
The fair grounds at Marlboro
Prince Georges county, are being
rapidly improved with suitable
buildings.
Building is very active in several
OF the new towns of Anne Arundel
county.
During the ten months ended
April 30, 334,s2 immigrants ar
rived at the ports of the United
States.
1t is probable ex-Representative
Frank L. Shaw will be appointed
internal revenue collector for the
Maryland district.
William Il. Walker. a Washing
ton merchant, obtained a verdict
for S2,133 damages against the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
for injuring his business.
At Gauley Bridge, w. Va, Capt.
VIM. Shepherd shot and killed p.
Mitchell. Shepperd also received
a wound which will probably prove
fatal.
Mrs. Laura +. Kemper sues the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for
$50, 900 damages for the death of
her husband on the company's
tracks in Carroll county.
VIM. j. Burke, charged with
numbering his mother a month ago,
was convicted at Rockford, Ill.
The sentence was fixed at impris-
onment for life.
The political campaign has been
opened in Hartford county with all
the present legislative delegates,
including Speaker Vandiyer, and
the Senator in the field for renomi-
nation.
The mother of George HARE, who
died suddenly a few days ago at
Lansing, Mich, has confessed to
having poisoned him to prevent his
growing up to be a thief. Mrs.
HARE, it is believed, is insane. She
has been placed under arrest.
e. S. Rogers, president of the
Northwestern Cordage Company,
one of the largest concerns of st.
Paul, Mimi, committed suicide
yesterday by jumping from the
high bridge in. that city into the
river, 125 feet below.
A jury in Washington gave Mrs.
Fannie Ragland verdict of $751;
900 against Woodward & Lothrop,
proprietors of the Boston Dry
Goods Store, in that city, in her
suit for damages for being searched
by a private detective in the store
on a charge of stealing a napkin
ring.
Monday, May %, 1898.
Walter Sorrell, the colored dem
ocratic politician, is dead.
On June / Admiral Gherardi will
assume charge of the New York
navy yard.
The British bark Lord Temple
ton lost nine men and had seven
injured in hurricane.
Carl F. Bankard, eleven years
old, was thrown from a horse and
killed in Baltimore county.
Seven candidates passed the ne
cessary examination and were adj
mitted Saturday as cadets into the
Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Princess Eulalie called upon the
President at the White House Sat-
urday morning. Yesterday she
went to Mass at st. Matthew's
Church, Washington.
Attorney General Olney received
query from a man in Junction
City, Iowa, who wanted to know If
the government pays a bounty on
twins. Ii it does, he says, he is the
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