The evening times., 1895-08-09
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TAKEN FROM THE
MORNING TIMES.

Local and Teleeraphic News Briefly
Told to Complete the History
Of Twenty-four Hours
"A mas meeting of coIored Republicans
was held last night at the corner OF and
Second streets southwest.
Charles Myers, sailor OF the schooner
George NJ Adams. 10 In . ward at the
Emergency Hospital In. a serious condition
from being struck by q large block of Ice
yesterday afternoon about 2 O'Clock.
Daniel Scott. colored. 81 less Erie street
southwest. was treated by. Dr.. Furiong
at the Emergency Hospital last evening for
a badly lacerated wound Of the hand re-
ceived. he said, by the premature explosion
Of q stone blast in Georgetownquarry.
Charles F. Smith, an employe at the new
Corcoran art gallery, who resides at No.
$50 street southwest, hadhis hand badly
mashed between two blocks OF stone yester-
day. He was treated at the Emergency
Hospital
Denver, Col. Aug, ga, special to the
Times from Albuquerque. N. NJ, says; No.
passenger train from the West was wrecked
on the Continental divide about 13O miles
from here late yesterday afternoon
The train ran into q washout and twoc COM
bination baggage and express coaches, the
day coach, and a tourist sleeper flew the
track, and were dashed into splinters.
Rev. E. C. Wheeler, the Baptist evangelist,
who had been in California with bis car
Emanuel. was on the platform af the
tourists car when the washout was struck.
He was thrown off and the car fell TN top
of him, crushing out his life. He and bis
wife were on their way to visit relatives at
winona, Mimi.
Hollidaysburg, Pa, Ang. ga R. Whit
pey & Co., of New York city, managers Of
the Portage Iron Works, at Duncansvilie,
this county, have given orders for an imme-
mediate resumption of operations in the
nail mills Of the plant.
Nashville, Tenn, Aug. .S.-Tennessee Coal,
Iron s. Railroad Company officials in this
city announce that the strike among their
operatives at EnsIey mines, Ala, is set
tied and the men have returned to work
at the wages paid before the strike
Philadelphia, Pa, Aug. s.-Rev. Dr.
James Hepburn Hargis, prominent Meth
odjst clergyman, and the presiding elder
of the west district of the Philadelphia Con-
ference, died at his home in Germantown
early this morning.
vinton, Iowa, Aug. s.-s. Il. Watson,
one OF the oldest and most prominent
bankers in Iowa, died to-day.
A telegram was received in the city
Yesterday announcing the death. at Los
Angeles, Cal, Of Will Haight. Of Wash
ington-
Plymouth. N. h, Aug. e.-one Of the
worst collisions which ever occurred on the
White Mountain division OF the Boston
and Maine Railroad took place one mile
south of here at $40 O'Clock this morning
Three men met with instant death, sew
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twelve passengers received a fearful shak-
ing up.
The killed are:
Frank Stevens. of Lakeport, engineer Of
the Cannon-ban.
George Merrill. of Lakeport, fireman Of
the Cannon-bau.
Henry 6. Lines. of woodsville, fireman
of the freight.
Lexington. KY, Aug s-"oh, I killec
the devil with gold brick was the excla-
nation OF W. n Hurst, an inmate of the
Eastern LuBatic Asylum when discovered
by the attendants this morning sitting on
a bed hugging a brick wrapped in pil
low slip.
At his feet was the lifeless body OF
Stephen De Long, another lunatic, with
his head smashed to q pulp. The murder
had been committed some time during
the night Hurst secured a loose brick
from the wall behind his bed.
Philadelphia, Aug s.-The British ship
Prince Oscar from Liverpool, Capt Hem
derson, colllded in mid ocean on July IS.
with an unkn O wu sailing vessel.
Both ships sank in ten minutes. Six nem-
bers of the crew OF the Prince Oscar and all
on beard the unknown vessel were lost.
The survivors, seventeen in number, were
rescued by the ship Dharwar, after having
been confined in an open boat, with neither
food nor water. for three days. They Were
transferred to the British steamship Capac,
from Plsaqua and brought to this port to-
night.
The names of the lost are: William knight,
cook, of South Shields; Oscar Nelson,
seaman. of Christiana; E. Petersen sea-
man, of Denmark; August Carton, deck
boy. of Ostend; I. Relap, of Douglass. Isle Of
Man: ]. Anderson. steward, of Livepssol,
and the entire crew of the un kno wn vessel