Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-05-09

A baby camel was torn In Druid Hill
Park, but did not live.
Census returns show the population
OF London TO be 4.536.034.
The departure of American troops
from Pekin TO Manila has begun.
A large silk mill at Hagerssown was
burned-loss $75. 900; partly insured.
The residence of Capt. Thomas Grit
nth was burned in Montgomery county
Reybold Herbert, aged Is years, was
dragged to death by pillow horses in Kent
county.
Charlottesville, Va, was lighted We'd
nesday night by electric lights for the
first time.
At Annapolis Richard Bias, colored,
was convicted of manslaughter for kill
ing boy.
Warden John F. weyler, of the peni-
Tertiary, was reelected for his fourteeth
term.
samuel j. Miller, aged 7s years, was
burned to death while fighting noun
tain fres in Allegany.
Six hundred persons ere said to have
been arrested as q result of Nihilist plots
in Poland.
DIR. Irving G. Rose, one of the best
known neurologists in the country, Is
dead, aged 81 years.
An effort Is being made in Baltimore
| to form a combination of all the straw
hat factories Of the country.
Mr.. Charles p. Brewer, 1891 West Bal
timore street, nearly 70 years old, has
recently cut three new teeth.
Every liquor saloon in Logan Court.
house, w. ". is closed mp and the sa-
loonists locked up for refusing to pay
fines.
At Kenova, w. Va, Miss Lulu b. Ak
ers became respondent over a quarrel
with her lover and committed suicide by
drowning.
For the first time in the history of
Richmond, Va, girls selling newspapers
appeared on- the streets of that city ON
Tuesday. They did lively business.
Governor Smith has reprieyed Mat.
thew Cheers, colored, to May 81. The
prisoner was to have been hanged Fri
day at Centreville for murder.
At Fairmont, w. Va, Russell Harlem,
aged 10 years, committed suicide by
shooting himself in Catawba Cemetery,
on his mothers grave.
The consultations being effected by
j. Pierpont Morgan lead to the infer
ence in Washington that the next Con-
gress will pass the Ship Subsidy bill.
w. K. Vanderbilt is credited in Wall
street with having bought control of the
Union Pacific Roilroad by purchases of
shares in the open market.
According TO a Census Bureau bullet
in the center of population of the Unit
ed States June last was six miles south
east of Columbus, Indiana.
William Sheets, aged 90 years, and his
sister, Mary Sheets, aged II years, were
killed at Mantz's crossing, in Frederick
county, by the engine of railroad train.
Cardinal Gibbons hade good by to the
congregation of the Cathedral and asked
its members to pray that his voyage to
Rome and return may be made in safety.
Fire Saturday last destroyed the plant
Of the A. B. Friedman Manufacturing
Company, Chicago, makers of butterine,
IN the stock yards. The loss will be
$500
Two masked men entered the resi-
denee OF Mrs. Ruth Ayers, at Spring
held, Mich, where she lived alone, bound
and gagged her and obtained about
5000 in gold.
Mr.. Jeremiah Collins died in Mont
gomery county April 80 at the home of
his nephew, John Collins. near Potomac,
of pneumonia. He was nearly 50 years
OF age, and up to the time of his last ILL
ness frequently took 1O-mile walks.
Mrs. Katherine Haines, who died May
at Sayre, Penna-, was $50 years old
and saw three centuries. She was born
| in Cork. Ireland, on Good Friday, 1896.
and came to this country so years ago.
Rev. Snowden Scott died in Grant
county, West Virginia, Wednesday, aged
20 years. He is said to have married
| more couples than any minister in the
Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.
The head of man was found on the
Gunpowder bridge of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad.
having evidently been cut from the body
by train, the body falling overheard.
David Porter Rosenmiller, formerly
Mayor of Lancaster. Penna.. died of te-
Janus, the result Of q cancer. He was ex-
ecutive officer of the Essex, the sloop OF
war which blew mp the Confederate ram
Arkansas.
The Circuit Court of Anne Arundel
county imposed a fine Of so and costs
on Nathaniel r. Hatch for assaulting his
wife and q fine of 81 and costs for cali
ing States Attorney Randall liar dur
ing the trial.
Mr.. Alvah T. Merritt, q we'll known
truck farmer at Patapsco Neck, took to
Baltimore recently GOO punches of aspar-
agus, which he sold for IS cents bunch.
making altogether $210 for the load.
The Ansi-saloon League of Richmond.
Va, has entered upon war against Sun
day liquor selling. The Sabbath tip
piers are TO be summoned before court
and made to tell where they obtained
their drinks on Sunday.
At the Holy Saviour Catholic Church,
Wilkesbarre Pa Sunday last The ausfrs