Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1894-10-04

toms at New York that bags for
grain made Of burlap are exempt
from duty on importation or reim-
portation.
The managers of the new State
hospital for the insane to be built
in Maryland viii visit POUCH keep
sic, \. Y, to inspect the cottage
or separate building plan Of erecting
asylums.
Thos. G.. Kane, an educated COL
ored school teacher Of Hartford
county, has been arrested charged
with robbing Hoffman's store in
Havre de Grace. The goods were
recovered.
A tornado swept over q narrow
path for two hundred miles through
Northeastern Iowa and Southwest
Minnesota on Friday night, destroy
ing many buildings and killing and
wounding many persons. The
number of dead is reported at fifty
three.
Mr.. VIM. G. Owens was formally
declared the democratic nominee
for Congress in the Ashland district
OF Kentucky, now represented by
Col. w. G. p. Breckenridge, Col
onel Breckinridge sent a letter to
the district committee asserting
that Mr.. 0wens's plurality was OBJ
tanned by fraud, but declining TO
make formal contest because the
divisions in the party that would
ensue would cause the election OF q
republican.
Wednesday, September &c, 1894.
Frank James, the noted highway
man, is acting as doorkeeper for a
theatre in st. Louis, Mo.
Congressman Rayner and Candi-
date Miles made speeches at o large
democratic meeting in Cambridge,
Dorchester county.
Secretary Herbert formerly &C.
cepted the tripie-screw cruiser Col
umbia, which has been in commits
sion since last spring.
The Worlds Fair Columbian
commission is involved in an impor-
tant suit with the Anheuser Busch
Brewing Company on the question
of awards.
Governor O'Ferrall emphatically
denies published statement that
ne sanctioned the change of the
postoffice name of Appomattox
Court House to Surrender" He
is indignant at the change of name.
County Treasurer Scott, of Gray
son county. Texas, was knocked
senseless in his office at Sherman,
Texas, by an unknown man and
the safe robbed. Scott is still un-
conscious. The robber escaped
with $1,000.
Minister Zeballos, of the Argen-
tine Republic, says that the free
wool schedule of the Senate tariff
bill has made heavy advances in
prices in the Argentine market,
showing that the American WOOL
raisers have lost nothing.
W. A. Croffut, of Washington,
ID. g., has a suit of clothes which
ne says he purchased from q Massa-
chusetts firm for s1.10 and which
he proposes exhibiting in the West
Virginia campaign. to show how
little American manufacturers need
protection.
News has been received in San
francisco from Tahiti that Count
Festetitch, the Austrian nobleman,
who married j. b. Haggin's daugh-
ter, died recently in one of the Pom
plyn group of islands, in the South
sea, where he and the Countess
have been living with the natives.
The highest part of the village of
Anacostia is more elevated than the
dome of the Capitol. Wells there
have to be sunk to a very great
depth before water is reached. In
digging a well on jefferson street
Yesterday the diggers found about
so feet below the surface of the
earth lot of sea shells and sharks
teeth, which will be turned over to
the National Museum.
Thursday, September %, 1894.
A colored prisoner escaped from
the officers of the law in Talbot
county, who fired nine shots at the
fugitive without being able to stop
him.
The court sustains the constitu-
tionality of the Cecil county treas
urer law of 1894, and the appointee
under it, Mr.. John Banks, is
authorized to take possession.
Mrs. Nancy Sharon was run
over and killed by a train in Wash
ington county while she was on her
way to look after her SON who had
been badly injured in freight
wreck.
Judge j. III. Combs was assassi-
mated at his home, in Hazard, KY,
Sunday. He was shot from O corn
patch on the opposite side of the
street from his residence. I'm
known persons shot at him twice
last May.