Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-04-24

Monday last, selling IN New York
at 5Ol cents.
u. S. pension of 3 per month
has been granted to Richard Med
ley, ST. Inigo's.
Miss Nellie Russell, who has been
visiting friends in Washington, has
returned to Leonardtown.
Miss Nellie Plowden, OF Bushwood,
spent Saturday and Sunday last with
Miss Agnes Ching, Leonardtown.
Miss Maude Jarboe Of Mechanics
vile, who has been quite sick, is
out again and able to return 10
school.
We regret to hear Of the sickness
of Mrs. Zach X. Morgan, Of Mechan-
icsville, and wish her speedy re-
covery. -
A torrid wave swept over several
States on the 2lst. instant. At Con-
cordia, Kansas, the mercury regis
tered 1Ol.
The School Commissioners were
In session Tuesday last and audited
Teachers Reports for the quarter
ended April 18th.
The Republican County Conven-
ton met in Ieonardtown Monday
last and sent Mudd delegates TO
Chesapeake Beach.
Up TO Monday night forty-five
thousand visitors had arrived in
Dallas, Texas, to attend the C0nfed-
crate reunion in that city.
There will be Services at Poplar
Hill church, Sunday next, April %,
at l0.30, q. m. at st. Thomas, on
the Island, at 800, p. m.
We are in receipt of a story emit
tied "A Bond of Friendship. We
will examine it and IL accepted it
will appear in a future issue.
Her many friends will be pleased
10 hear that Mrs, Thomas Lynch, OF
Leonardtown is fast recovering
from her recent attack Of sickness.
The contract for the brick work
on the proposed new bank building
in Leonardtown has been awarded to
w. L. Furniss, of Princess Anne,
Md.
All the Republican Conventions
held in the Fifth District instructed
for Mr.. Mudd. In Howard two
conventions were held and both in
structed for Mudd.
The River and Harbor bill passed
the u. S. Senate Monday. Ii con-
tains among other Maryland items
an appropriation of 1900 for Brit
tons Bay and Patuxent river.
Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Min
nesota are experiencing intense
heat, while snow storms are sweep
ing the Dakotas and several other
Western States.- San, April %.
Monday, May B, proximo, is cor
pOratiOn election day in Leonard
town. Elect a working Board of
Aldermen, who will take pride in
improving and identifying the town.
On our first page we print some
OF the Local Laws passed ut the re-
cent session of the Legislature.
Among them are the Road Law, the
LeOnardtown Road Tax Law; the
Bond Law; the Orphans Court Law.
Read theml
Andrew Herbert, confined in the
county Jail ON a charge of burning
barn, was Tuesday last given a
hearing before jury de iHnaticO ia-
qHireRdo, adjudged of unsound mind
and Judge Crane passed an order
committing him to the Maryland
Hospital.
Monday last The Board of Trus-
tees of st. Mary's Female Seminary
met at that Institution and after a
conference with Mr.. Corbett, of
Washington, their architect, deter
mined 10 have plans and specifica-
tons prepared and as soon az posi-
BILE to advertise for bids for the
building of the proposed annex.
T. Spencer Crane son of Judge
]. Parran Crane, of this county, has
been selected as one of the tworep-
resentatives of st. Johns College,
Annapolis, in the intercollegiate ora
torical contest at Washington Col
lege. Chestertown. April p. instant.
This selection is high compliment.
May our countys representative
winl
Because Of an accident 20 her ma
chinery the steamer Potomac did not
reach Leonardtown until 8 O'Clock
Sunday night. We are informed
that while coming down the Bay, a
bolt blew out Of the boiler and the
escaping steam painfully scalded
the legs Of one firemen and Of one d
the engineers. The damage was
soon repaired and the steamer LEFT