Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-10-26


The iron bridge, /, 7IO feet long,
over the Potomac river at Bruins
wick has been completed and there
will be inaugural ceremonies to
celebrate the event October 20.
Mr.. Hill was applauded by spec
tators in the galleries for a declara-
ton that he found nothing in the
constitution of the United States
which says a minority of Senators
can pass bill.
In the Garnett colored school
building a child fell in fit. This
caused an alarm of fire, which pro-
duced a panic, and a number of
children were injured in a mad
rush to get out of the building.
Representative Rusk introduced
in the House of Representatives a
bill authorizing the Secretary of
the Treasury 20 obtain possession
of the entire block in which the
custom-house in Baltimore is locat-
ed and to have prepared plaus for
a public building to cover the entire
area.
Twenty-six persons were killed
and twenty-four injured yesterday
at Battle Greek. Mich, in a colli-
sion on the Chicago and Grand
Trunk Railroad between a Ray
mOnd and Whitcomb Worlds Fair
excursion train returning from
Chicago and the Pacific express
train bound west.
Monday, October %, 1898.
This years registration will not
increase the number of voters in
Anne Arundel county.
Mrs. William d. Beam, formerly
of Baltimore, was burned to death
at Spokane Falls, State of Washing
ton.
Fifteen hundred bales of cotton
in the storeroom of the Providence
Or. H. Warehouse Company was
burned Saturday. The loss is 500,
900.
Leading bankers in New York.
have expressed themselves strongly
against the proposed compromise of
the Sherman repeal bill. They be.
lieve that Mr.. Cleveland will veto
it.
The wife of William Herbert,
colored, of Washington, beat him
with a bed Stat, stabbed him in the
face with a pair of scissors and then
tried to shoot him.
Wesley g. Rippey, the old man
who shot John w. Mackay, in San
Francisco, Cal, February "A, 1898,
was convicted of assault with a
deadly weapon and sentenced to
pay fine of $3.50 or 60 to Jail
Mr.. Bruce, the prohibition can
didate for comptroller of the treasu-
ry, has opened the campaign in
Western Maryland with a speech at
Barton, Allegany county.
Mrs. Augusta Schneider,
wealthy lady and adopted daughter
of Baroness Yungling, late of
Kokomo, Ind, shot and killed
Oscar Walton, one of her tenants,
near Walton, Ind, in quarrel
over the management of farm.
Henry N. Smythe, of Graham,
Tazewell county, Va. the first
appointed by the United
States to Hayti who is not a color
ed man, received his final instruc-
tons at the State Department
and will sail for his post
from New York on Wednesday.
The majority of the democratic
members of the United States
Senate have agreed on II compro-
mise which provides that the repeal
of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman act shall take effect Oct,
/, 1894, and that the bond question
shall be eliminated entirely. This
agreement will permit those Sena-
tors who desire to do so to defend
their action on the ground that
they did as much as they could for
silver or that they did the best they
could for repeal.
Tuesday, October "a, 1898.
The waters of the Eastern Branch
of the Potomac river caused a flood
in Bladensburg.
Mr.. r. Watson jackson, a
brother of Ex-Governor jackson.
died suddenly on his estate in
Dorchester county.
W. ID. Gill, of Baltimore, had IS,