Daily Republican., 1888-10-15

struck on the Head with = HAtohot-
Died ct IOD-OOnduOtOrS ana Brake
man IBdiotsd-Attsmpt to Oommi
Suicide.

struck on tho Head with HAtohot-
DIED ct IOO-UOnduotOfS ana Brake
man Indiotsd-AttsmPt to Oommi
Suicide.
William Hord and Frank Guard, who
went from Philadelphia to Chicago K
take the places Of North Side strikers
got into row on Friday afternoon, dur
ing which one Of their antagonists wal
struck on the head with Ratchet Hord
was cut on the head with a knife, bat moi
seriously injured. Hord and Guard made
their escape after the fight.
A telegram from Camden, Maine, re
ports the death, at Scnrsmust, of Chesley
Heal, aged 109 years. He was a PEN
sioner OF the war of 1912 During the
last IL years Of his life he had never been
out OF the house. His longevity was
partly attributed to the strength OF his
lungs, and 1t is said that his voice could
be easily heard for distance of mile.
The grand jury at Rawlins, Wy omine
Territory, has found twenty-one lndict-
ments against conductors and brakemen
on the Union Pacific Railroad. They ran
from Rawlins to Green River in charge
of freight trains and are accueed of rob
bing the cars Of valuable merchandise in
transit.
Catharine Quinn, 10 years old, at
tempted to commit suicide In New Yorh
on Saturday by throwing herself In front
Of train on the elevated railroad. She
rolled of the track out of danger aud
was arrested on q charge Of "disoTderly
conduct"
Minnie Boyd, aged years, was burned
TO death In Mexico, Missouri, on Thurs
day night, her dress having caught fire
from a CRATE The smoke suffocGted heI
two baby sisters. The father was at work
and the mother away from the house al
the time.
Michael Flaherty, who brutally beat bill
mother, causing her death, was on satur
day sentenced in Jersey City, New Jer-
sey, TO 20 years imprisonment at hard
labor. Judge Knapp remarked that q
verdict of murder In the first degret
would have been satisfactory.
A Manhattan Beach train struck and
killed two unknown men at the Vests
street crossing on Saturday evening
One of them had q card In his pocket
bearing the name OF "Robert Goodman
AZ McKibben street.
A passenger train ran into a number o
freight cars near Beach Creek Station
not far from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
on Friday night Joseph Cassidy, fre.
man, was killed, as was also one un
known man who was stealing q ride OIL
the COW catcher.
II o. Price & Co., convicted of poo
selling in Pittsburg, were, on Saturday
sentenced TO pay fine of $500 and cost
of prosecution, and undergo an imprison
ment Of one day In the county Jail. Tn
firm is now located in New York
The Vandalia railroad freight depot II
East St. Louis was burned on Ssturda,
night, together with Is cars and 800 bale
of cotton. The East st Louis Hotel wa
badly damaged. The total loss is places
at $50, 900.
A party of boys on Saturday found {
soap box in a deserted brickyard II
Chicago. They opened It and foun(
the dead and deeomposed bodies of liv,
babies laid side by side. The police wer
notified.
An explosion of gas occurred on satur
day In the Dorrance shaft, near Wilkes
barre, PennA. Thomas Benyed, Davlt
Reise and Benjamin Maskey were burned
the latter fatally.
Rev. D. O. Olmsted, for Al years
preacher of the Methodist Eplseopt
Church, died at his home in Nant
coke, Pa, on Saturday morning, aged Q
years.
Mung Koon, a Chinese merchant /
, Montreal, was prevented from vlsitln
New York on business last week by th
Chinese exclusion act