Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-05-10
A FRACTURED SKULL.
Sunday Baseball Party ON the Viz.
gimta Side.
HOW PARTY OF YOUNG MEN AMUSED THEMSELVES
AND ANNOYED A RAILROAD MANTLE RESULTS
SERIOUS TO ONE OF THE PARTY.

HOW PARTY OF YOUNG MEN AMUSED THEMSELVES
| AND ANNOYED A RAILROAD MANTLE RESULTS
SERIOUS TO ONE OF THE PARTY.
Last Sunday morning a party of young men
drove to Four Mile-Ru where they intended they
said, to spend the day playing base ball. They
took with them several musical Instruments q keg
OF beer, and several bottles OF some highly -colored
liquid. Arriving at the Run, they selected pretty
spot near tie railroad track, to which they drove
| their wagon. and the horse was tied near patcn
OF green grass, where he could also spend pleas
ant time. The young men engaged in game Of
base bali, played on the banjo and guitar, and in
| dulged in considerable beer drinking. Toward the
afternoon some OF them began to feeith effects
OF what they had drank, and became boisterous.
Taylor, an employe OF the railroad, who has
charge Of the track and signal at that
! station there Is but single track, which
| passes under the large arch, and should there
ACCIDENT might have occurred Tsyos was sd
that the stone-throwtng might result In some such
accident. Several times he spoke to the young
| finally one OF them succeeded in breaking the
train-signal Taylor again spoke to them, and went
with his ladder to arrange the signal which had
been struck by stone and turned. AS he ascended
the ladder one Of the Washington party picked up
stone, which he was about to throw, when he
was struck and knocked down by a bystander
| Taylor then came down from the signal and had
some warm words with one OF the party named
JOuu bertuS, WIZ was SIruck NY TayIOr anu
| knocked down. In falling his head struck
the car-track and was cut. He re-
turned home on train Monday he went
out driving, and when he returned in the after
noon he was taken ILL., DIR. Taylor was called to
see him, and upon examination found that the
young mans skull was probably fractured He
grew worse from that time, and this morning 1t
was thought that he could not recover He lives
on 9TH street, between l. and streets northwest.
The SERIAL SAVINGS AND BUILDING ASSOCIATION.
The tenth annual meeting and the commencement
OF the new twenty-trst issue OF stock OF the
'Serial' was held last evening at its hail. No. 615
9TH Street northwest. President Robert q. Camp
bell called the meeting TO order. JnO A. Prescott,
secretary and treasurer. submitted his tenth an
nual report, which was received and approved.
The report shows: Receipts during the year,
$1S Sl320; disbursements, S5S, 100 IA, with O6
In the Treasury; total shares advanced during the
ten years 1,O46 amounting to $780, 472; 723 shares
settled S103,29O; total shares now holding ad-
vances 393, amounting to s57,1S2 net assets,
$4S,S12.57; total shares subscribed, 11,120; can.
celled S,761; now on roll, 1853 Officers for the
ensuing year were elected as follows: President,
Robert G. Campbell; vice-president, David G.
Dixon; secretary and treasurer, JnO. A. Prescott;
directors, Jared d. Terrill, j. W. St. Clair, o. S.
Foimin, NJ. p. Callan, VIM. Mayse, George II.
French and Geo. W. Chase.