Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-03-09
NEWS IN saltf.
Friday, March 8. 1893.

Friday, March 8, 1898.
- Inc vfsginix Stale .asissss fa.s.
is stiIi kept busy driving illegal
dredgers out Of Tangier sound.
The dwelling of George L. Buck
master was burned near Port Re-
public, in Calvert county.
Henry Wintcrburg, of Grants
vile. Garrett county, Nd, was ac-
cidentally killed by tree falling
upon him.
Pope Leo was eighty-three years
old yesterday and received visit
of congratulation from the cardi-
nails.
A valuable barn on the Troup
homestead. three miles west of
Hagerssown, was burned, involving
loss of $5, 900.
Vigilance committees in several
places in Oklahoma Territory have
warned colored people imported
from the South to leave the towns.
Governor Seay has been appealed
to for protection.
The Montana joint legislative as
sembly adjournei sine die yesterday
without electing u United States
Senator to succeed Hon. Wilbur +.
Sanders, republican. The Gorver-
nor, who is u republican, will APP
point a Senator.
Mr.. Cleveland will have the APP
pOintment of three justices of the
Supreme Court of Appeals of the
District of Columbia. The name
of A. Leo Knott, of Baltimore, is
mentioned in connection with one
of the places.
Alexander P. Hetherington was
rejected as "a sutton by Miss Emma
Klans. of Bridgeport. Conn. He
shot at her. The bullet struck a
novel which she was reading at the
time and she was not much hurt.
He shot himself, dying instantly.
Charles ID. Law. general super
intendent of the Fort Wayne Road,
has been indicted in Chicago for
murder in connection with the ac-
cident at the Forty seventh street
crossing of the Fort Wayne Road.
in which four persons were killed
outright and fourteen seriously in
jured.
Saturday, March 4. 1898.
1t is said to be proposed to re-
move the Louisiana Lottery to
Honduras.
Successful experiments near Bal
timore have been made with the
sOlarometer, a new nautical instru-
ment.
Five children were suffocated i'm
IA New York tenement-house.
Crisfield wants the democratic
collector of the port tC be selected
from among it's local business men.
Lucinda Spry, a colored nurse
girl, has been arrested. charged
with poisoning an infant child of
A.. W. Ruark, in Caroline county.
The body of an FISHERMAN was
found on the shore in Charles
county who had been drowned
while trying to get away from some
vessel.
An epidemic of measles prevails
in GAINESVILLE, Tenn, and vicinity.
About thirty students of the South
western Presbyterian University are
down with the disease.
The inhabitants of San Domingo
are excited over the purchase of the
greater part of the island by an
American syndicate and United
States war-ship is TO be sent there.
Virgil Hillyer. of Washington, in
his will ordered his body to be
cremated in Baltimore and the
ashes to be used in fertilizing his
daughters flower-bed or sprinkled
under favOrite orange tree in
Florida,
The grand jury at Columbus,
Ind, has caused service to issue
against one hundred ladies and
gentlemen in that city charged with
playing progressive euchre. Pro-
fessional gamblers are said to be
endeavOring to have them indicted
in revenge for having been sup
pressed.