The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-04-30
EARLY MORNING NEWS.


dispatch announcing that Lord Dun
raven was dissatisfied with the terms
proposed by the New York yachting
committee for the America cup con
test, said that there was no excuse for
such expression Lord Dunravcn' s nc
ceptance of the Volunteer prccluded
any withdrawal now on that. score.
/ The terms submitted him were simply
Alternatives to his own exceedingly
| dogmatiCal requests. His plan for
| triangular or square courses was not al
/ lowed, for with such n course II was
impossible for the Volunteer or any
| other yacht to give usual time allow.
ances. Such necessitated windward
work. If the cablegram was true |
looked as If Lord Dunraven was going
| TO crawl out
Designer Burgess said II looked az
If Lord Dunravcn was trying TO back
out. His request for square course at
such an early date was unsoemy, as
such was usually decided on only a few
days before the race. Such demand
could not be complied with, rs II is
only windward work that showed q
boats true capabilities, and America
was determined to find out what the
| Nalkyf1e really could DO.
Killed by n Railroad Train.
George Schultz, aged 8 years, was &c.
cidentally killed yesterday evening
about ten minutes OF O o'clock on the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad bridge
over Gwynn's Falls. The boy was
walking on the bridge between the
outer rail and the edge, and seeing the
train approaching, crouchcd down, but
the step of one of the cars struck him,
and he was hurled from the bridge to
the falls below, n distance of sixty feet.
The train stopped, and the trainmcn
picked him up and carried him TO
Frederick Road Station, where he was
examined by DR.. j. j. Mulin, who
found that his nose and frontal bone
was broken, and that the right side Of
the head was crushed in, with the brain
protruding. The boy died about forty
minutes after the accident, and was
taken to his home, No. 2 Stinson street,
in patrol wagon.
A Muscular Preacher.
Drury X. Burchette of Lawrence
County, Ky, has been appointed by
President Harrison United States Mar.
shall of Kentucky. As his chief deputy
Mr.. Burchette has chosen the Rev. G..
j. Howes, formerly of Paintsville, but
for some years pastor of Methodist
church In Louisville. Mr.. Howes has
resigned the charge of his church and
qualified rs United States deputy mar
shall. His chief duty will be to assist in
the capture of moOnshiners in Eastern
Kentucky, difficult and dangerous
pursuit.
A ConstabIe's Pistol.
About o'clock last evening Philip
Clark, constable of Cumberland, while
arresting n man by the name of j. Frank
Cramcr, a stranger In this city, shot
him in the thigh, making very ugly
wound that may prove fatal. Mr..
! Clark had the man under arrest In the
yard of Mr.. Mullan, in South Cumbcr-
land. Clark, IL Is said, had Cramer ar.
rested on the charge of insulting some
ladies. Clark claims Cramer was ut
tempting to escape and that he fred foI
the purpose of soaring him, but with nc
intention of hurting him. There were
five shots fired, only one of which took
effect.
Killed ut q Railroad Crossing.
Nicholas Clink, aged so years an old
r,',, o,,a,. Isos,arJo, af,or,no,, ", ~
berland and instantly killed by yarf
engine No. 1877 of the Baltimore ant
Ohio Railroad in that CITY near William
street crossing. Mr.. Clink was yer,
poor. and had made his home for SOM
time on an old canal boat in the basin
He was walking along the tracks pick
ing up coal when the engine struck
him and passed over his body, mang
ling IL in a terrible manner. tearing iii,
scalp almost completely from his head
Fired at the Engineer.
ASA passenger train from Washing
ton was passing Jessups Cut yesterday
morning about S:15, young looking
tramp and negro boy, about 10 year
of age, jumped on the tender of thu
engine TO take ride to Baltimore. Tht
engineer put them off forty or fifty
yards from the station. The white MAJ
ran up to the tank, and, pulling out {
revolver, fired at the engineer. TIL,
train was stopped and considerable ex
citement was caused among the passen
gers. Some of them jumped off tn
train, going up TO the tank to look a
the man, who started toward the woods
across some adjoining fields.
A Revenue Cutter Afre.
The engine-room of the United State
revenue cutter Guthrie, Captain Rober
Barstow. was burned out last nigh
while lying at her wharf, foot of Com
merce street, baltimore. The fire wa
discovered by John Morrison, who wa
on watch lie Immediately awoke NJ