The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-08-18
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vented the BOston-DetrOlt game.
Near Corning. n. y. sunday morning. the
wesi-bound Chicago aud ~. LOUIS limited
express crashed into Lehigh Valley loco
motive standing on the track and the ex-
press engine was overturned, crushing To
death John Mercereau, of IIornellsyIllc, the
engineer. Henry Fisher, the Lehigh cngi-
nccr, was hurt about the Il ad and Louis ,.
Denmuth. OF No. 1908 Wabash ayenue,
Chicago, hut internally.
Al Fall River. Mass. sunday night, police
arrested thirty-threc Hebrews, who were
celebrating wedding. They had been warn
cd against dancing on sunday. The entire
party. including the groom and bride, were
forced 10 spend the night In Jail.
An east-bound Erie freight was wrecked
near shohola n. ", early Monday morning
by rocks washed down on the track, and a
west-bound express trdn dashed into the
wreck before N could be tagged. and the en-
gne baggagc-car a car loaded with horses.
the smoker, and day car We're thrown down
an enbarkment eighty feet from the track.
Fireman Alexander Newman, OF the express,
was caught in the wreck and burned 10
death, Engineer John Kinsclla was fatally
scaldcd, and Thomas Decker, passenger,
was mOrtally injured internally. The train
men and mail clerks OF the express and the
crew OF the freight, eight I'm ALL were scri-
ously but not fatally hurt, and twelve run
ming horses, mainly the property OF Fred
crick Gebhari. and including Eole, were
burned. Matt storms, OF California, who
was in the ear was fatally hurt and his horse
scandinavian was killed
League ball games Friday resulted Wash
ington, S; Chicago. 5.-New York, 2; Pitt~
burg, l. Philadelphia, D; Detroit -Bos-
ton, : (; indianapolis, ,.
Base ball Saturday: National League
Chicago 4. Washington Boston 10 Indian
apolis :; Pittsburg 3, New York ?; Phia-
delpha !, DctroitO 0.
The Hon. james G.. Blaine arrived in New
York Friday morning Hi steamer, the
City OF New York, was met ~ quarantine
nv thousand friends on board the Starin,
which steamer he Immediately boarded. ON
behalf OF those present and the entire
country, 80 many different and widely sep
aratcd parts OF which they represented
President Bartlett, Of the New York City
Republican Club, delivered an address Of
welcome, 10 which Mr.. Blaine responded,
and other welcoming addresses followed.
Mr.. Blane-who u described as "A picture OF
ruddy hcalth-was driven TO his hotel, where
other addresses awaited him. In the even
ing he addressed an immense mass-mcetng
OF working men gathered q give him
greeting.
Captain Riley, Of Boston. anchored his tug
aud the big Jogglns raft off College Point
N. Y. Friday evening. The raft had made
the voyage from the Bay OF Fundy. II Is
5o2 feet long, SO feet beam, aud draws % feet
Of water.
J. Il. slade, assistant manager OF the Tiff
fanny Glass Company New York, was found
dead I'm bed Friday morning with his throat
cut with razor Relatives and authorities
were provoked at the casual, leisurcly way
IN which Mr.. John G. Platt friend OF Mr..
slade announced hIs death.
The steamer City OF New York, with the
lion. james G.. Blaine aboard. was sighted
of Fire Island NJ 10 o'clock Friday morn
Ing. She remained al quarantine until s
o'clock a. m, when the steamer sam sloan
reached her and Mr.. Blaine was taken 10 the
city, where carriages were in waiting 10 con
ycy him.to his hotel.
Thursdays league ball games resulted
Washington &; Chicago, New York =;
Pittsburg q. Philadelphia O; Detroit
tten innings). Boston, 4 indianapolis, 1.
While driving mule down an incline In
the Murray shaft at Wilkesbarrc, Pa
Thursday Joseph Richards. aged IL, wa'
struck by live loaded runaway ears with
such force that he WAS hurled against Ga,
mule and his head driven entirely into IN,
mules abdomen. and Il took two men 10 pull
him out. The boys skull Is fractured. and
he will probably die. The mule died almost
instantly.
Visitors To the Exposition I'm Cincinnati
Tuesday evening were startled by a sharl
fash OF lightning and still more by the sud
den cxtnguishing of all the are lights Ia the
building, the electric current having struck
the dynamos and stopped the machinery
which started again as soon as the current
had passed.
League ball games Wednesday resulted
Philadelphia, TO; Chicago, 5.--Ncw York 4
Indianapolis. .-Boston, o; Pittsburg
(cleycn innings).- Rain stopped the Detroit
Washington game.
AZ Gettysburg Wednesday, the monumcn
erected by the Fifth New York Volunteers
Veteran Association, 20 commemorate tn
memory OF General q. X. Warren was un
yelled on LATHE Round Top with appropriate
ceremonies.
family Of four--fiustav Berg, aged iC
his wife, 30 mothcr-in-aw, aud i2-year~ol,
daughter--liylng ON the top floor OF -four
story tenement building IN New York Cit,
died from suffocatIon and burns IN 4 FIRE tina
started early "Wednesday morning. All th
other occupants escaped.
six workncn building a bridge on IA
Pennsylvania Road over the Junata Rlvel
ncnr Napoleon station, Pa. were engage
upon a light trcstlc Tuesday, when a hcav
car Of stone in running a flying switch b
came uncomfortable, left the rails, and lant
cd on the trcsilc, crushing II and the men
The river hffy feet below. Two viii III
from their injuries and the other four al