Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-12-17


Nicholas Brewer died at Annapo.
lie.
The tax basis Of Calvert county
is increased BY the reassessment.
A packing-hou at Finchville,
Dorchester county, vas burned.
The barn OF w. Irving Walker.
in Queen Anne's county, was burn
ed.
The cost of the election in Cecil
county this year was double that of
last year.
In Garrett county Christian Soel.
ders was killed By the fragment of
fiywheel.
Trinity Episcopal church at
Pfeiffer's Corner, Howard county,
was burned.
1t is reported that the Tennally-
town electric road will be extended
to Rockville.
The chapel OF Trinity church. in
Howard county, which was burned,
will be rebuilt.
The town of Rockville sold $40.
900 of 4 per cent. water bonds to n
New York firm.
The election and road expenses
will increase the levy in Anne
Arundel county.
Samuel s. Ford, Lewis Putzel
and David E. Dick resigned from
the General Assembly.
The new assessment will increase
the tax basis Of Frederick city
about a million dollars.
The scaffold for the execution of
James Smith, next Friday, has been
erected at Upper Marlboro.
Two men were committed to Jail
in Hartford county upon suspicion
Of being horse thieves.
The Governor appointed John W.
Garrett commissioner to the irriga-
ton congress in Arizona.
Work on the Maryland and Co.
lumbar Electric Road, near Wash
ington, has been resumed.
In Allegany, Thomas Naughton,
with team of four horses went
down with wrecked bridge.
Charles Peddicord, aged fifteen,
died in Howard county from the ef-
fects of fall from his horse.
In Prince Georges county Thorn
as Bruce, colored, died at the age
OF one hundred and two years.
Howard Palmer, a Frederick
county farmer, died from injuries
received in a Runaway accident.
A. j. Creighton, a Hooper's Is
land boy, cut of three of his toes
to prevent his being sent to school.
In Annapolis the Anne Arundel
election contests involving an IN
teresting question were before the
court.
General Wilmer telegraphed to
Governor Lowndes his approval of
the appointment Of Mr.. Merrick to
the bench.
George Mills, who accidentally
shot himself while cunning last
Monday in Caroline county, died
from his wound.
In the Circuit Court for Hartford
county Judge Walters adjudged
William Bowling guilty of murder
in the second degree.
The mayor and council of An
napolls will consider the subject Of
presenting silver service to the
new gunboat Annapolis.
The trustees of the poor of Wash.
ingtOn county have determined to
provide Christian burial for those
who die at the almshouse.
Judge George G. Merrick quail.
fled in the Superior Court of Balti.
more as one of the judg es Of the
seventh judicial circuit.
Many of the foreign residents of
Baltimore are sending small sums
of money and other Christmas gifts
to their relatives in Europe.
In Somerset county, Judge Eli
sha Ward, of the Orphans Court,
charged with melting a burning,
was released on his own recogni-
zance.
In Frederick there is o contest for
payment for nursery stock sent to
Maryland without the certificate of
health required by recent act Of
Assembly.
Dir. John W. Belt, clerk of the
Circuit Court for Prince George
county, diedin Washington. Judges
Briscoe and Merfick have appointed
James B. Belt to succeed him.
A number of leading republican
politicians of Maryland have re-
turned from a visit to President
elect Mckinley, whom they urged
to select Mr. James A. Gary as one
of his cabinet.