The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-12

John Tilman, oolored, aged 20 years, re-
siding at No 71O Laurel street, was admitted
TO the Pennsylvania Hospital yesterday, with
his skull fractured by being struck by 90
lored man, whose name is supposed to be
William Atkinson.
The treasurer of the Hebrew charity ball,
Mr.. A. Hart, states that the net proceeds of
the ball amounted to $4954'S0, which, by the
managers, was thus distributed To the So
ciety Of the United Hebrew Charities, $2250
10 the Jewish Hospital Association, $3.50; to
the Jewish Foster Home, $780, to the Hebrew
Education Society, $454'S0.
The committee selected to try the con-
test of Fl. Brinton Coke to the seat of Alex
ander l.. Hodgdon, met yesterday in Select
Council Chamber. Mr.. Thomas A. Barlow
presided.
The answer of the respondent was read,
which denies the allegations of the petition,
and further sets forth that in the First divi-
sion some two hundred fraudulent votes were
taken by the election officers and counted for
the contestant, and that by riot at IL o clock
citizens were driven from the polls, and re-
spondent in consequence thereof lost from
40 or so votes that would have been cast for
him, and requested that the vote after II
o'clock be thrown out, and that the ballot
box of the Seventh division had been in the
hands of a mob, and that the votes it con-
tanned should not be counted.
Messrs George Emo, John w. Baker, and
Henry Mcintyre were examined as witnesses,
and the case was brought to close. The re-
spondent refused to call any witnesses.
The committee selected to try the con-
test of Alexander j. Diamond to the seat of
w. W. Watt, in the State Senate, from the
First district, Hon. James l.. Graham pre-
siding, met last night in parlor @, Centi-
mental Hotel.
Alexander j. Kyle testified that he was the
Return Judge for the Twenty-sixth ward; the
vote was called off by wards, and not by
divisions; the vote of the divisions he took
to the Board of Return Judges, and they
were handed to the President; knew of
nothing wrong until he heard of it in the
afternoon.
NV. b. Stafford testified that he was the
Return Judge of the Third ward; the result
of the vote in the Twenty-sixth ward, as read
off by the President of the Board of Return
Judges, was so different from that certified
from the Prothonotary's Office, that he
took copy of it; the vote of the Third and
Fourth divisions on the return as read by the
President was in the former SO for Diamond
and 345 for Watt, and in the latter SS for
Diamond and 355 for Watt; these votes were
counted in and on the general result Mr..
Watt got his ticket
Mr.. Cassidy then stated that they had
proven that in the Third division Diamond
received 159 votes and Watt 245 votes, and
in the Fourth division Diamond received 1888
votes and Watt 255 but when the returns
reached the Board of Judges they were
altered as testified, making a difference of
400 votes. ...................
Thomas Cloney testified that he was the
Republican Judge for the Second ward. He
then corroborated the preceding witnesses as
to returns for the Third and Fourth divisions
of the Twenty sixth ward; and testified fur
ther, that Kyle told him that the fraudulent
return was made in the Franklin Hose House,
but that he did not do it.