Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-30
TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR
THIS afternoons Dispatches.
Associated Press Reports.
Buffers Chances.

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BUTLER 113 AND wAsHBURN SO, AND YET THE
BOSTON ADVERTISER ISN'T SCARED.
Boston, August 30.-A summary of the re-
suits in the ward elections for delegates 10 the
state convention thus far, including Boston,
shows the election OF 1l3 Butler to 50 Wash
burn delegates. The DAILY Advertiser says that
republican caucusses were held last night in the
larger cities and towns where the Butler men
have control of the local organizations, and
where there was a reasonable prospect OF elect
ing Butler delegates. The intention obviously
was TO show the strength at the beginning. in
hope of getting recruits among the WAGERING
elsewhere who may be waiting TO see which
side was the strongest. In Boston IL was the in
tention to carry every ward except two or three
at the most, and they made estimates accord
ingly. Large as the caucuSses were the anti
Butler republicans were weakened as was well
SHOWN tney WOULD be by the absence OF large
number from town, many more than enough to
change the result in several wards. That the
opposition was able to elect delegates in four of
the fifteen wards is, under the circumstances,
the best thatcould be expected"
THE JOURNAL DITTO.
BOSTON, August 30.-The Journal remarks
$50 far as this city Is concerned the result does
not come up to Buffers anticlpations The au-
thorities on the beat side had given out that
they were perfectly sure of carrying all but
three wards, while they hoped TO make q clean
sweep OF the city delegation. To this end they
laid their plans some time ago, and laid them
skilfully, and prosecuted them without the
least regard to expense or fairness"
Boston, August So.-of the ninety delegates
from this city to the republican state conven-
ton, Butler has 81. The IS delegates from Lo
well and Lynn are all for Butler. He has also
two-thirds of the Newburyport delegation.
Railroad Slaughter I'm Michigan.
HORRIBLE DEATHS OF SOME OF THE VICTIMS.
DETROIT, MICH, Aug. 30.-The following is
list Of the killed and Injured by the accident
to the night express on the Detroit and Mil
waukee railroad :-Killed-Elleka He'd a SWe-
dish woman, who was thrown against a fence
with such force that her back was broken. Her
daughters Thilda and Salina and her son To-
hann. Elizabeth Kachmarick and an infant
child were impaled by splinters, which pinned
them together and fastened them to a sleeping
coach. lnjured-Orrin Burleigh, of Ellsworth.
Me-, was badly hurt by debris while Jumping
from the front end of a sleeping car, but not
fatally. Thos. n. McDermott Canadian, hal
his leg broken. Mrs. a. L. Mears OF Lowell,
Mich, was terribly lscersted about the arms
and breast. OF the wounded only six are Sc
riously injured, and none fatally. The coro-
ner's inquest has begun, and will probably close
to-morrow.
NEGLECT OF THE BRAKEMAN
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, August 3O-From
the testimony before the coroner's Jury il ap-
pears that the accident on the Detroit and Mil
waukee railroad, near Muer, was due TO the
neglect of the brakeman sent by the conductor
of the passenger train TO flag the second train,
but failed to go far enough from the train TO
show the signal.