Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1894-01-25


Ernest La Core was hanged al Joliet
Ill. for the murder Of Nellie Byron, Au.
gust 6, 1893.
In a quarrel in Surry county, Va, Alon-
70 Hunnieutti. colured, inflicted fatal inju-
riss on his brother Arthur, the latter dying
in few hours.
Lillian Russell, the comic opera singer,
was married in Hoboken, " j., on Sunday
last 10 John Chstterton, known on the
stage as Signor Perugini.
More than log members of the New Eng.
land Tariff Reform League met at the Tn
tied States Hotel in Boston on Friday nis.bt
last. A number of speeches were made
urging the speedy passage Of the Wilson
bill.
Archbishop Satolli will not be mad. a
cardinal at the March Consistory, as The
Pope wishes him 10 remain in America for
the present
Miss Anna NJ. Smith, daughter OF the
late Admiral Joseph Smith, in her last will
bequeathed $1,000 each to a number Of
Catholic charitable institutions in Wash
ington, ID. q.
Charles Burns, aged twenty eight years,
Of Stafford Springs, Conn, a prisoner in
the county Jail at Tolland, Conn, killed
himself Friday night last by puncturing an
artery in his wrist.
There was tremendous crush Saturday
at the White House, the occasion being
Mrs. Cleveland's reception to ladies, dur.
ing which il is estimated she must have
shaken hands with over 5000 persons.
GOOD REASON.
Though Father Adam had his faults
That were both great and many,
He held no converse through his hat,
Because he hadn't any.
The fight with the Flemming brothers.
charged with being acces DRY TO the MUIR
der Of the Mellin family, took place near
Weston, w. Va. Tie sheriff of Mercer
county and one of the Flemmings were
killed and the other Flemming desperately
wounded.
Milton Bond and Charles Colt, brothers
in law, fought in Sullivan, Ill, Saturday
as the result OF long standing family trou
bles. Bond was shot in the LETT temple and
died shortly after. Colt was shot in the
abdomen. His wound may prove fatal.
Seven convicts escaped from the Pratt
mines at Birmingham, Ala, Thursday
night by blowing open the iron gates With
dynamite. John Patton, guard, was
blown up and seriously injured Deputy
Sheriff Frank Dexter was killed in an ef-
fort TO recapture the fugitives.
An exchange gets off the following verse:
When Adam in bliss,
Asked Eve for kiss,
She puckered her lips with COO;
Gave lnok 50 estate.
And answered emphatic,
don't care adam, If you do.
The bark Spirit of the Dawn, while on a
voyage from Rangoon TO Chill, was wrecked
of the Antipodes Island, New Zealand
The officers and crew, with the exception
of the captain and four men, who were
drowned, reached tue island safely There
they remained for eighty days until res
cued.
Wilson Howard was hanged in the jail
yard at Lebanon, Mo, Saturday, for the
murder of deaf mute named McMichael.
Howard took part in the Howard-Turner
feuds in Kentucky. He confessed killing
John Bailey in Harlan county, KY, 4
crime for which bis uncle, William Jen-
nings, is now serving a life sentence in q
Kentucky penitentiary.
Milton J. Worthley, charged with as.
sault and battery and kidnapping Miss
Louise Dana. was last Friday sentenced t)
Punishment from the State by Judge Bon
ney at Portland, Me. If he ever returns
and is captured, he will be sent to prison
for ten years. Miss Dana is daughter Of
Woodbury. X. Dana, Of Westbrook, the
owner of the Dana mills.
GOOD RESOLUTION.
The farmers in Louisiana parish met
and with great unanimity resolved "that
each and every member Of the order here.
by obligates himself to use the most rigid
economy until we get out of debt, and
thereby be financially independent Of any
man or set of men," This seems to be the
very best possible way out of the woods.
HE GOT A WARM WELCOME.
They shrieked for their boy,
Their pride and their joy,
Did the man and his sorrowing wife;
They thought he was lost
Or had given up the ghost
At the point of some murderer's knife.
And Johnnie? Why, he
Turned up after tea,
And ives whaled in an inch ofhis life
he FIRED THE FIRST GUN.
There died Friday in the little town Of
Union Springs, in the southern part of Al.
abama, a man who figured in one of the
most interesting events recorded in Uni
ted States history, Col. John l.. Branch.
Il was he who gave the order 10 fire the
first gun of the late war 1T Fort Sumter,
where he was stationed at the time Col
Branch did gallant service in the war and
ssterward settled down at Union Springs
and conducted an extensive plantation.
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