Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1894-03-08

he tariff. though satisfactory progress had
been made In shaping the details Of the
measure.
ia accordance with the decision Of Judge
Cox, Commissioner Lochren has notified
Judge Long OF The Michigan Supreme
Court. that his pension viii be reduced 10
80 rnonsh unless within thirty days he
establishes, By additional evidence, his
night 2, his present pension of s7s month.
Saturday. March 3. fsa4.
About one-haif the peach trees in Talbot
county have been dug up.
Garfield Chase, colored, is charged with
stealing $50 from Senator Hattersly w.
Talbot.
Gen. Jubal A. Early, the famous Confed-
crate officer, died last night at lis home in
Lynchburg, Va, in the seventy-eighih year
Of his age
The assessment bill passed the Maryland
Senate yesterday by vote Of ID yeas to
nays, Senators Baker and Parran, repubIi-
cans. voting in the affirmative.
Governor o'Ferrall sent message 10
the Virginia Legislature In regard TO the
oyster troubles in Tangier sound. On his
recommendation committee of two Sena-
tors and three Delegates were appointed To
investigate the case and report upon the
demands of the State Of Maryland.
The killing of Moore Bakers wife and
child BY William Thompson and Henry
Pierscn, colored. at Franklin Park, N. j.,
"Wednesday night. has aroused much feel
ing in the neighboghood against coiored
men. Mr.. Baker, who killed the men who
butchered his wife and child, is Frustrated
by the excitement and bis wounds.
The House OF Representatives was In
session yesterday, and adjourned until to-
day. Consideration of the pension bill
was begun, and during the discussion per.
sonal friends had 10 bold Messrs. Meredith,
of Virgins; and Funk, Of Illinois, TO keep
them from fighting.
Monday, March 8, 1894
a whale was seen going out Of the Chesa-
peake capes to the ocean.
Mr.. David Powell, aged eighty years,
committed suicide by hanging himself
near Roop's Mill. Carroll county.
An explosion occurred in the barrel
works of the Moosic Powder Works, near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, ON Saturday. Only one
man was killed.
So far as can be ascertained, the Senate
sub committee in charge Of the tariff has
changed materially the Wilson bill by
placing coal, wood and iron on the dutiable
list
James Montgomery Baily, the "Danbury
News Man" originator of American domes-
tic humor, died yesterday at his home, in
Danbury, Conn.
A cOlOred woman in Washington who
did not desire To be disturbed by some yisi.
tors stated that she had the small pox, and
in short while the report reached the
health office, and resulted in an investiga.
ton.
One of the New York Senators is quot
ed as saying that ten democratic United
States Senator'S have signed an agreement
to oppose the Wilson bill so long as any
one of the ten is dissatisfied with its proyis-
iot.
The suit of Miss Madaline v. Pollard
against Representative w. c. p. Breckin-
ridge, of Kentucky, for $4,000 for breach
of promise to marry is fixed for trial in
Circuit Court No. Thursday next
Len Tye was skinned alive by farmers |
in Harlan county, KY, for kidnapping |
young girl and secreting her in the woods |
He confessed that he had taken several |
other girls and kept them in the woods
until they died.
w. Z. Ratcliffe, of Kosciusko, Miss po- |
pulist in the Mississippi Legislature, shot |
and killed s. A. Jackson, democratic |
member of the same body, Saturday. |
Samuel jackson, a bystander, was also |
killed at the same time and another man |
dangerously wounded.
The annual distribution of seeds by the |
Department of Agricultural in response to
personal applications has been discontinued |
for the present season and hereafter distri- |
button will be made at the direction of the |
Congressman who still have certain quaint
ties to their account
Tuesday, March 9, 1894.
Talbot county farmers are getting rid of
peach trees.
Mr.. Sylvester Roe, of Cecil county, was
81 badly gored by his bull thatitis believed
he will die.
Two granaries, containing fodder and
peach-baskets, were destroyed by fire at
Greensboro.
Gen. Jubal A. Early was buried at
Lynchburg with imposing civic and mill
tary honors.
The Virginia Legislature passed bill
for reciprocity between the States Of Mary
land and Virginia as to the pursuit Of
oyster marauders.
An undertaken in Carlisle charged an ad.
mission tee Of five cents for each person
who wanted TO see the body of Salyards,
who was hanged for murder.
Judge Samuel B. Hoyt, who during the
war was commissioner of the Confederate