Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1888 — DOINGS OF THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

DOINGS OF THE DAY.

BVENTFIH HAPPENINGS IN EVERY KNOWN HEMISPHERE. An Interesting Summary of the Latest News by Wire—Fires. Accidents, Crimes, Politics, Religion, Commerce and Crops, Sandwiched with Minor Affairs. A REMARKABLE GATHERING. Friends and Relatives of the James Boys Together. The Samuels homestead, a few miles from Kearney, Mo., was recently the scene of a remarkable gathering. Mrs. Caroline C. Quantrell, mother of the celebrated guerrilla chief, called on Mrs. Hamuols, mother of the James boys, and the two old ladies had a hysterical time of it in talking over the past. Frank James and wife were up from Dallas, Tex., to see Mrs. Quantrell, and Mrs. Jesse James, who is living in Kansas City, was present with her son Jesse. Mrs. Quantrell lives in Canal Dover, Ohio, and is 67 years of age. Her son William was born in Canal Dover in 1837 and left for the Missouri border in 1859. She received two letters from him the year after he left home and never heard from him afterwards except through the press. He was well educated and his father was a school-teacher. She recently visited Quantrell’s grave at St, Louis and is collecting material for a biography in which she will attempt to show that he was not altogether bad. The old house is picturesquely located and is surrounded with trees and vines. In one corner of the yard is a mound covered with flowers and sea-shells. A profusion of forget-me-nots fringe it. The two old ladies visited it many times lately. It is the grave of Jesse James. Three men killed. A Serious Collision of Trains on the Baltimore unri Ohio Roa<l. The Cincinnati express out from Washington collided with a freight train near Dickerson, D. C.. killing three trainmen and injuring six othors. A mile west of Dickerson Station the road makes a sharp turn and then goes down a heavy grade in a deep cut, the banks being twenty feet or more above the level of the tracks, and it was in this cut that the collision took place. Several of the trainmen saved themselves by jumping. The two engines camo together with such fearful velocity that they stood locked together on the track and formed a base upon which was piled in confusion a pyramid twenty feet high, consisting of three wrecked freight cars, two express cars, the mail car. and a baggage car. The killed were: Wm. H. Wiley, a postal clerk, of Fairmount. W. Va.: John Casey, postal clerk, of Washington; George ltidenbaugh, brakeman, of Berlin, Md. ____ AROUND THE DIAMOND. League Ball Clubs Contesting for First Place. The official standing of the various ball clubs in the race for the pennant is given below: League. Won. Lost. New York 82 41 Chicago 75 55 Detroit CH> CO Philadelphia 66 60 Boston 67 61 Pittsburg 64 64 Washington 46 83 Indianapolis 46 84 Western. Won.lost.| American. Won. Lost. Des Moines 73 39 St. Louis 89 39 Kansas City.... 74 41 Brooklyn 78 48 St. Paul 72 46 Athletic 78 48 Omaha 67 51 Cincinnati 78 51 Milwaukee 60 63 Baltimore 54 72 Sioux City 27 49 Cleveland 49 74 Chicago 40 73 Louisville 44 85 Davenport 31 74 Kansas City.... 38 81 A BAD WRECK. Three Passengers and Four Trainmen Hurt on the Pennsylvania. The limited express on the Pennsylvania Railroad, while passing Wall’s Station, fourteen miles east of Pittsburg, Pa., dashed into the engine of an accommodation train. No person was seriously hurt, but both engines and the combination smoking car were badly wrecked. Three passengers in the smoking car were painfully bruised and the enginemon of both trains also hurt. The passengers injured are: Theodore Wallace of Chicago, shoulder bruised; Samuel Forbes of Edinburgh, Scotland, ankle sprained; John J. Sackett of New York, scalp cut. A FIRE WITH FATAL RESULTS. A Drunken Farmer Burns Up His Family and Hired Man. Carl Beechster, a farmer living, three miles from Ohiowa. Neb., went home drunk. He lit a lamp and upset it in his drunken wanderings around the house. The building took fire and was burned to the ground. He escaped without injury himself, but his wife, 3-year-old child, and the hired man, who woro asleep at the time, were fatally burned, A Nine Months’ Respite Granted. John J. Cornelison, whose horse-whip-pmg of Judge Richard Reed in the Superior Court at Louisville, Ky„ led to the latter’s suicide, has been respited from imprisonment by Gov, Buckner for the term of nine months. He will then return to jail to serve out his three years’ term. The respite is on account of illness. Trouble In Chicago., A strike occurred among the street-car men of Chicago recently, the trouble originating on the North Side. Low pay and long hours the alleged cause. Hundreds of people were uffeeted thereby. TIIO Yellow Scourge. Up to October 0, at Jacksonville, Fla., there had been 282 deaths from yellow fever and 3,103 cases-