Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-09
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Mlcnael j.. Kelly, the great DdSe Dali play.
er, died at the Emergency Hospital in Bos-
| ton last evening from pneumonia He came
to the city with a theatrical company. in
which he did a speciality part, and suffered
a relapse of a malady which FRUSTRATED him
some time ago. He was born in Troy. n. Y.
December 81, 1867, and lived In Washington
during the war. There he played ball with
the keystone Club. Afterward lived at
| Paterson, n. j., where. in 1873, he Joined .
| club, also the Keystones, where Arson sign
| ed him for the Chicagos. He got his great
est prominence with the Chicagos, which
| won the championship in 80, 81 and 80. In
| 1885 he was bought by the Boston club for
| $4,000 and 5000 more, which went to him
| as salary. In 1889 he was captain OF the
Bostons when the pennant race was so close
| between New York and Boston that with
| Boston playing in Pittsburg and New York
| in Cleveland it only REQUIRED one Of the
| leaders to lose to settle the championship.
Boston lost In 1880 he was captain and
manager of the Boston Brotherhood team,
| and in 81 he organized the Cincinnatis in
| the American Association, finishing the sea-
son with Boston, staying there through 1892.
The next year he played a while with New
York, and in 1894 he became manager of the
| Allentown club, afterward the Yonkers club
| Of the Eastern League.
Supreme Chancellor Walter B. Richie OF
Lima, Ohio Is attending the meeting of the
supreme tribunal of the knights of Pythias.
at Cincinnati. The following officers of the
Supreme Lodge are present: VIM. ID. Ken
nedy OF Chicago, recorder; X. l.. &. White OF
Nashville, supreme keeper of records and
| seals; Thomas @. Sample, Allegheny City.
supreme master of exchequer; Albert Stein
hart Greenville, Ala, supreme prelate;
John c. Burns Of Mansfield. Ohio, chairman
of finance committee; Thomas ID. Mears,
Wilmington, n. G.. of the same committee
The German question has not been consider
ed, and only questions Of lodge practices
are before the tribunal
The second days session Of the Methodist
missionary conference was held yesterday
afternoon at the Hanson Place Methodist
Epicopal Church, Brooklyn, Bishop New
man presiding. Bishop Z. c. Andrews Of
New York moved that two and one-half per
cent be taken from the home and devoted to
the foreign missions An appropriation Of
ffty-flve per cent for home and forty five
per cent for foreign missions was finally
decided upon.
The Waif-Saving Association of the Unit
ed States is in session at Pittsburg. Yester-
day afternoons meeting was given to or
ganization and preliminary work, and yes
terday evening a public meeting was held,
at which Gen. Russell A. Alger presided.
DIR. T. Dewitt Talmage, pastor of the
Brooklyn Tabernacle, which was recently
for the third time destroyed by fire, has
written letter to the elders Of the church
rendering his resignation.
A tr lley car on the West End electric
street railway of Pittsburg last night jump
ed the track going down the steep grade on
Steuben street and went over a thirty-foot
Allegheny and Frederick Croft of Elliotts-
borough, were badly bruised. and the motor
man, Joseph Mannion. was pinned beneath
the car, suffering badly sprained shoulder.
and. II is thought, internal injuries. Lucille
Taylor, a ten-year-old girl. who was walk
ing up Steuben street, was thrown over the
embankment and is badly hurt
The board appointed by the Secretary OF
War to inquire into the mental condition Of
Lieut.. Blanton c. WEIGH of the fifteenth In
fantry, who last summer slapped the face
of Col. Crofton, commanding the fifteenth
regiment, convened at Chicago yesterday.
The meeting of the Bakers Association
held Wednesday, in New York. to consider
the proposition to reduce the price of bread
from cents a loaf to cents was a very
mysterious affair. 1t was held in great
secrecy, and there was a strong disposition
shown to keep its doings altogether quiet
1t was, however. learned afterward that no
definite agreement, one way or the other,
had been reached
DIR. Chalmers, ex-principal Of the London
Presbyterian College, is dead. DIR. Chalmers
made tour Of America in 1888 to raise
funds for the Free Church.
The impeachment proceedings filed by Dis
trtct Attorney Butler against Mayor John
Fitzpatrick of New Orleans for malfeasancs
and misfeasance in office, which were post
poned on October 81, were called up yester-
day.
John Traynor, marshal Of Athens county;
KY, shot and killed Isaac Davidson last
night. He also seriously cut Lee Sharp. .
nor Is a Breckenridge man and Davidson
and Sharp are Owens men. They fell GUS
over the election. and while Sharp and Tray.
nor We're fighting Traynor shot Davidson
when he tried to separate them.
Lee Lawrence, a negro, who assaulted .
Mrs. Polk, in Jasper county. Ga, few
weeks ago, was carried to Montecello yes
terday and lynched. He was tried at tbs
September term of court and sentenced 70
be hanged November 30 The neighbors OF
the injured woman were not satisfied, how
ever and taking the negro from the officers
carried him to the outskirts Of the town
and hanged him, Kidding his body with bull
let's.
Gov Hogg yesterday. at Waco, Tex. de-
Iiyered an address to thousands who came
to witness the opening OF the Texas cotton
palace. Fully $1,000 strangers were In the
city, and the management anticipates suo-
cess In this the first year of the exposition
One fatal and four probably fatal acci-
dents occurred at Lowell, Mass. yester.
day. John Houston's skull was badly
fractured by a runaway horse. John Cal.
lahan was MORALLY injured by burst.
ing cylinder. Roger Kane was feacfully
crushed in a belt at the Massachusetts
Mills w. f. ballard was badly injured IN
a similar accident in the bleachery mills
apd Antona Vichikacoka died from injuries
received by a cylinder in White Bros. q
Companys tannery.