Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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A disastrous wreck occurred on the Pennsylvania Railroad At Newport, Pn.; Thursday morning. A disabled ear* on the east-bound freight track jumped the track just as mail train No. 7 -was at that point. ..The locomotive and tender of the mail train were hurled into the canal* and the postal and freight cars were piled up over the tracks. Eugineer Wilkill and Fireman Haines, of Harrisburg, were instantly killed, and eight or ten postal clerks were injured. Four mnilcars took fire and together with a large amount pf j mail matter were burned up. Passenger I trains are running by wav of the North- ‘ ern, Central and Sunbury and Lewiston divisions/" — The mail and baggage section of the southwestern express on the Pennsylvania Railroad struck a cow near Huntington, Pa., about 2 o’clock Thursday morning and was completely wrecked, Engineer Johnston and the fireman were crushod>to death, and it is reported that two mail clerks were also killed. The wreck caught tire and was consumed. Senator Thoiflas Henry Carter Wednesday issued this call for a meeting of the Republican National Committee on Dee. 10 in Washington: “Headquarters Republican National Committee, New York City.—The Republican National Committee is hereby called to meet at the Arlington Hotel. AVashington, D. C., at 2 p. m., Dee. 10, 1895, to designate a time and place for the meeting of the national convention in 1890, and to transact such other business as may demand consideration. “THOMAS H. CARTER, Chairman. “JOSEPH H. MANLEY, Secretary.” ' The option was-given to Chairman Carter to choose one of two dates, Dec. 3 or TO. At the urgent request of some of the committeemen who live in the extreme AA 7 est, and, to accommodate Joseph H. Manley, chairman of the Executive Committee, Mr. Carter decided on Dee, 10 as the date of the meeting. In either case it would mean an early convention, beginning about June 1, while it would be within the Interpretation - of the sixmonths rule to hold the' convention the Inst week in .May. aa Gen. James „S.~ Clarkson, AVilliam M. Hahn and Joseph 11. Manley desire. " • " .

In a rear-end collision at Hyde Park, eight miles from Boston, on the Providence division of the Consolidated Road, Thursday night, a brakeinan was killed, two passengers fatally injured and nineteoii others seriously hurt. The New London express, on time, running at , a speed of fifty miles an hour on a down grade, came in collision with tlif rear end of ‘the Dedham local passenger train, telescoping a combination and a passenger ear in which were about 100 persons. The rear brakeinan 1 was so badly crushed that he died iii an hour, and two passengers, one a woman, were dug out from the*burning debris and removed to the Massachusetts general hospital in a dying condition.' Among the passengers who were within four feet of death and who escaped from the wreck through car windows were J. Montgomery Sears, the wealthiest man in New England, whose holdings aggregate $70:000,000, and Congressman Elijah' A. Morse, of Canton. The property loss to the railroad company will exceed $50,000" and the accident loss through injuries will without doubt be close on $500,000. Music-Hall in Bnltimure—was packed - to the doors at the closing exercises of j the National W. C. T. U. convention j Wednesday night.’ Hundreds of women ! were unable to get inside. The meeting | was both pathetic and enthusiastic. The womanly character asserted itself in alternate tears and smiles. Handkerchiefs i were waved frantically one moment and 1 the next used to wipe away the tears. The inciting cause was an address by j Frances Willard favoring a resolution ad- ! mitting Catholic and Hebrew women (o. : active co-operation is W. C. T. U. work. , One of the delegates suggested it might ! not be quire consistent for the “Women’s Christian Temperance I’nion” to ask Hebrew's to affiliate. She laid special emphasis on the word “Christian.” Miss Willard with a good deal of feeling said: “They have extended the hand of sympathy to our organization and onr cause. We should invite them to eo-operate. I want to welcome them to us if they want to come.” A dozen or more delegates tried to kill the resolution with amendments. but they were all voted down, and M ss Willard skillfully prevented the convention getting into a religious discussion. Finally the convention enthusiastically adopted the resolution, and Miss Willard said she thanked 'God for this act of the convention, and that she considered it nn honor and a pleasure to extend the hand of fellowship to Catholic and Hebrew women. v