Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-03

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ton for children who want to at
tend.
SHARP competition has arisen
among shipbniIders for the con-
struction OF the Holland submarine
torpedo-boat, for which Congress
has made an appropriation Of s2oo.
600.
The Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road transfer station for west bound
freight will be removed this week
from Locust Point to Brunswick,
in Frederick county.
The question whether the clerk
OF the court for Dorchester county
shall pay one-third or one-half the
fees from oyster scrapers' licenses
into the State treasury viii be set
tied in court.
Forty-one persons were burned
to death and sixteen badly injured
by the explosion Of a lamp at q
Christmas Eve festival at the vii
lage of Silver Lake, Oregon.
Banks, trust companies and 9TH
er financial institutions i'm Balti-
more will probably jim in contest
ing the constitutionality Of the in
come tax law before the United
States Supreme Court.
The shipment to Europe of ten
barrels of oysters from the Kappa
hammock river by Mr.. James Coch-
ran, of Urbanna, Va, has created
o great deal of interest as to the
prospect Of developing that trade.
st. Panls Catholic Church, al
the corner Of v and 18th streets,
Washington, ID. c., was dedicated
recently. Cardinal Gibbons, Arch.
bishop Satolli and other distinguish.
ed prelates participated in the exer.
cises.
James G.. Fair, the California
capitalist and ex-senator of the
United States, died suddenly at the
Lick Hotel in San Francisco, on
Saturday. He was sixty. three years
old. His estate is estimated to be
worth $40, 900, 900.
The old Blaine residence on La.
fayette Square, will be torn down,
and upon its site will be erected q
handsome theatre, in which Mr..
John w. Albaugh. of Baltimore,
is said to be interested.
Gen. 4. q. Walthall, of Mississip.
pi. who resigned his seat i'm the U
). Senate last January on accoun,
of ill-health. is so far recovered
that he expects TO take his seat next
March for the new term for which
he was elected.
The Maryland Society, Sons Of
the American Revolution, will Issue
a circular letter giving an account
Of the part Maryland troops played
in the battle of Long Island. N. Y,
and asking for contributions To
erect monument to their memory
Reports from the orange districts
of Florida indicate that nearly two
millions of unpicked oranges were
frozen on the trees and 800. 0OC
boxes frozen while awaiting ship.
ment. Early vegetables in the
nothern part of the State were
ruined.
The japanese minister looks upon
the selection OF ex-Secretary Of State
Foster by China as an advisor in
peace negotiations with Japan as a
private matter between China and
Mr.. Foster and as not eirecting in
any manner our relations with eth
er country.
1t is announced that Cardinal
Gibbons will not go to Rome at any
time in the near future.
| Five horses are under treatment
at Washington to produce blood Sc
rum for the cure of diphtheria.
A strenuous effort will be made
in the United States Senate to pre-
vent the passage of the bill carrying
with it an appropriation to put the
provisions of the income tax into
effect.
The conservative newspapers of
England sharply criticise Mr. Glad
stones speech to the Armenian as
sociation as likely to disturb the
peace of Europe. The st. James
Gazatte calls him "a grand old mis-
chief-maker.