Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1888 — FRESH FROM THE WIRES. [ARTICLE]

FRESH FROM THE WIRES.

Events of Interest and Importance in Every Quarter of the Habitable Globe. News Relating to Politics, Religion, Commerce, Industry, Labor, and Other Topics. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT. Seven Persons Perish by the Explosion of a Car-load of Dynamite. A car-load of dynamtie and one of giant powder blew up a train of freight-cars at Locust Gap, Pa., causing the loss of seven lives and injuring about twenty-five persons, three of whom will die. Twenty-one houses were demolished and glass was shattered for miles around. The scene presented an appalling sight, the debris of the freight-cars and the houses, together with here and there little heaps of ashes and charred remains of the dead, disclosing a frightful picture. So great was the upward force of the exploding dynamite that the wheels and axles of the cars were thrown a distance of two hundred yards, and one axle fell through the roof of one of the houses on the lower street on the hill above. Traces of the debris may be found a quarter of a milo away. One of the train men was blown several rods, but was not badly inj ured. Loss, $75,000.

TWO-POUND HAILSTONES. Many People Killed and Injured by Their Fall in India. Dispatches from India announce that Delhi and Morada bad had been visited by disastrous hail-storms, about 150 persons having been killed. The hailstones were flat and oval in shape and some of them weighed as much as two pounds. At Racebati, In Bengal, twenty persons were killed, 200 soverfely injured and 2,000 houses were destroyed by hailstones. Base-Dall Record. The national game has been fairly launched for the present season. Popular interest has by no means abated, and every indication points to a most successful season. The following table shows the standing on Monday of the ciubs of the four leagues in which Western readers are interested: League. Won. Lost. American. Won. Lost. Chicago 11 .12 4 Bostonll 2 St. Louis 9 4 New York 8 4 [Brooklyn 11 6 Detroit 7 ti|Athletie.B 7 Pittsburg 5 8 Baltimore..... 7 8 Philadelphia.. 5 8 Cleveland. .... 5 lo Washington... 2 lOiLoute vi11e..... 5 11 Indianapolis.. 2 21|Kansas City... 3 10 Western. Won. Lost. Interstate. Won. Lost. Des Moines.... 5 0 Dubuque 4 0 Omaha... 4 1 Crawfordsville. 4 1 St. Louis 4 1 [Bloomington... 2 1 Chicago. 2 3;Peoria3 3 Kansas City... 2. 3 Danville 2 3 Milwaukee 2 3 Bockford 1 2 St. Paul 1 4'bavenport..... 2 4 Minneapolis... 0 s|Decaturo 4

Flashes from the Cable. Mr. Pendleton, tbe United States Minister to Berlin, has fully recovered. The league branches of Limerick, Ireland, have condemned tbe papal rescript A wax figure of Gea. Boulauger in a shop■window in Berlin attracts constant attention from crowds. Victories Sardou, the dramatist, in an interview said he thought the French Republic would soon be broken up. Rerorts are that Russia has three corps of soldiers upon her western frontier. Opinion in London is that Russia intends showing an aggressive eastern policy. Condensed Dispatches. William McCue, on trial at Wilkesbarre, Pa., for the murder of Thomas Brennan, has been found guilty of murder in the second degree. Norman McDonald, of Cape Breton, the last known survivor of Che battle of Waterloo, in which he fought under Wellington, has just died at the age of 110. He emigrated to Nova Scotia in 1833. An express package containing $41,000 in currency, shipped by the American Exchange Bank of New York to the Treasury in Washington, was found to have been strangely converted into brown paper by the time it reached its destination. John Dean was murdered at Helena, M. T., in 1879. His slayer has remained undiscovered. Mrs. M. A. Eckert, an old resident, died recently, and before her demise confessed to her uorse how the crime was committed.