Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-08-08
Correspondence Of the Beacon. ]
Topics II the National Capital.


Uncie Sans Navy Ii proud set Of uaen
and from Secretary Herbert 20 the stoker
are singing columbia, the Gem Of the
Ocean, or the Captain g song in Pinaf5re,
for the Columbia. racing against time from
Southampton, England. to Sandy Hook,
n. Y, has proved herself 10 be the fastest
ship afoat. She left the Needles at 2 p.
N, on July 18th and reached Sandy Hook
$50 p. m, August End, six days twenty
three hours. England has not ship afioat
that can beat the Columbia and in case Of
war she would be formidable commerce
destroyer.
To Secretary Whitney is due the honor
OF creating the navy which Secretary Her
bert is eniarging and perfeciing. The
annual naval maneuvres of the North
Atlantic Squadron will take place in few
days. Ten ships will be engaged, and by
the time the squadron reaches Old Point
it is hoped that the battle ships, Maine and
Texas will join il and participate in the
evolutions.
Secretary Herbert Is now on the Dolphin
inspecting the Naval stations, and after
leaving the Brooklyn Navy yard will 20
TO Newport and Buzzard's Bay.
The work on the much needed light
houses al Smiths Point and Lower Cedar
Point viii be commenced this fall and
pushed To completion. Congress appro-
priated $50 900 for the Smiths Point Light
of which $e5,00O is available this year.
The Lower Cedar Point Light house is 10
cost $75 900 of which $25, 900 only is avail
able
just as the detectives were scattering
posters broadcast offering IA reward for any
Information of the missing Dana a. Daven-
port a eablegram was received from the
Chief of Police in Glasgow, Scotland giving
an accoun; Of the finding of the poor boy
in dying condition on tramway near
that city. How he got that far from home
is mystery. The last seen Of him was
when he left the house of u friend in Balti-
more saying he was going on an excursion
down the bay but would return that night
to his church near Owing's Miles, Balti.
more, county. When found in Scotland
he was taken at once to hospital, but only
lived long enough TO give his name and
place of residence.
The week has been one of tragedies,
commencing with the death of the three
little boys at Riverdale. They were all
under twelve, and one, Harry Blundon, an
only child; Charley Brown was the son of
Brown, the grocer, corner Of Goth ST. and
Penna., Ave, and Hatch their playmate
They had been to buy pigeons and on
their return il is supposed sat down on the
railroad track-out of the way of a train
from Washington-and not seeing the ex-
press from Baltimore. The boys did not
return home at night but no uneasiness was
felt as they visited each other constantly.
Sunday morning a colored man going to
work for Mr.. Bundon found the three lii
tie bodies piled on each other in the ditch
by the tract. They and their pigeons were
dead and their pennies scattered. No one
was to blame. The trains passed each
other at the spot the boys were found.
On Friday the daughter of Gen'l. Flag
Ter shot and instantly killed little colored
boy who was picking a pear from her
fathers garden. Columbia Heights, the
scene of the tragedy is fashionable sub.
urb out fourteenth street, and among the
many handsome residences there are few
finer than the one owned by Gen'l Flagler
Of Of r.f - 4
ed by well kept grounds pleDtifully stocked
with fruit trees What small boy black or
white can resist the temptation offered by
well rIpened pear: Little Ernest Green
could not. 1t was his first outing in the
country, but other boys had been before
him, and the fruit had been so often stolen
that Miss Flagler determined to stop it,
When she saw the boys at the tree she
opened the window and fired point blank
shot at the group that fled at the sound,
but one fell, the bail had gone through the
little lads body. When Miss Flagler real
lied what she had done she had the child
brought in the house and every effort was
made to save him, but the bullet had
pierced the heart. As the police patrol
reached the house Miss Flagler left it by
the back way and drove TO Major Moore's
office, coroner's jury was hastily empan-
neled and a verdict brought in exonerating
Miss Flagler, but this has caused both
Major Moore and DR.. Hammet TO be severe
ly criticised for using undue haste, and the
end is not yet The boy was the son of
the confidential messenger of the Secretary
Of The Treasury, Richard or "Dick" Green,
who is known to every public man in
America, as he has stood guard over the
Secretaries of the Treasury from the time
of Grants second administration. He has
been twice abroad, once with Secretary
Foster and recently with the SON of Secre-
, tary Carlisle. The day after the shooting
of Green, a boy was shot and slightly
wounded while attempting TO rob the fruit
| trees in the yard of the japanese Legation.
The survey for the site oi a new bridge
| across the Eastern Branch, or Anacostia
river, at South Capitol Street has been
made and when completed and opened for
traffic this route will bring Southern Mary
land several miles nearer Washington.
The local press has taken up the subject
of closer and better communication with
the Southern counties of the State, partic-
ularly ST. Msry's county which offers such
salt water attractions Then Baltimore is