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


MeIange.
A Washington baker was fined s24 for
selling twelve lightweight iOaves ofbread
Ernest La Core was hanged at Joliet,
III. for the murder Of Nellie Byron, Au-
gust @, 1893
In quarrel i'm Surry county, Va. Alon-
70 Hunnicutfi, colored, inflicted fatal iniu-
ries on bis brother Arthur, the latter dying
in few hours.
Lillian Russell, the comic opera singer,
was uiarried in Hoboken, ". on Sunday
last TO John Chattorton, known on the
stage as Signor Perugini.
More than 100 members of the New Eng
land Tariff Reform League met at the I'm
tied States Hotel in Boston on Friday night
last. a number Of speeches were made
urging the speedy passage Of the Wilson
bill.
Archbishop Satoll: will not be made q
cardinal at the March Consistory, as the
Pope wishes him TO remain In America for
the present.
Miss Anna NJ Smith, daughter OF the
late Admiral Joseph Smith, in her last will
bequeathed 81 900 each 10 a number Of
Catholic charitable institutions in Wash
ingtou, ID. g.
Charles Burns, aged twenty eight years,
Of Stafford Springs, Conn, prisoner in
the county jail at Tolland, Conn, killed
himself Friday night last by puncturing an
I, artery in his wrist.
| There was tremendous crush Saturday
at the White House, the occasion being
Mrs. Cleyeland'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 Flemmiug brothers,
charged with being acces .ory 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
l -. 4. c. l..
as the result of long standing family srou
bles. Bond was shot in the lett temple and
died shortly after. Colt was shot i'm 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 fugitiges.
An exchange gets off the following verse
| When Adam in bliss,
Asked Eve for kiss.
She Tfuckered her lips with q COO,
Gave look 80 estate.
And answered emphatic,
don't care adam, if you do.
The bark Spirit of the Dawn, while on Q
voyage from Rangoon TO Chill, was wrecked
off the Antipodes Island, New Zealand
The officers and crew, with the exception
of the captain and four men, who were
drowned, reached the 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-Turnal
feuds in Kentucky. He confessed killing
John Bailey in Harlan county, Ky, q
crime for which his uncle, William Jen
nings, is now serving o life sentence in 9
Kentucky penitentiary.
Milton ]. Worthley, charged with as
sault and battery and kidnapping Mis-
Louise Dana, was last Friday sentenced Il
Punishment from the State by Judge Bon
ney at Portland, Me. If he ever return:
and is captured, he will be sent to prison
for ten years. Miss Dana is a daughter o
Woodbury. +. Dana, of Westbrook, th'
owner of the Dana mills.
GOOD RESOLUTION.
The farmers in Louisiana parish me