The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-07-04
CASU1L.
What IL Match Did.

Oliver S. Vincent and William II.
Code, clerks in the tax collectors office,
Brooklyn, entered the vault wherein bonds
are kept; Code lighted match to light a
gas jet, an explosion of gas instantly follow
cd and the wall of the vault was blown into
the middle of the Office and the ratings,
furniture, windows and sashes were demol-
ishcd. Vincent was blown across he room
about forty feet, his clothes torn on hair
burned and face and body fearfully lucerat-
ed. Code was buried in the ruins. These
two men are fatally injured
Railway Accident in Wisconsin.
The passenger train on the G. and N.
W. railway, going north, was wrecked about
three miles south of Appleton, Wis, last
week, by loose rail. The engineer, Sam.
Davis, and the fireman. A. L. Kater, were
severely injured. The fireman is expected
to recover Allpassengers escaped without
injury. Had not the engineer applied the
brakes before being thrown from the engine
the whole train might have been thrown
down the embankment.
Important Decision.
A Berlin dispatch states that at the
sitting of the congress GOrtschakoir was
present. 1t was decided in accordance
with the proposal of the British plenipoten-
tiarics to entrust to Austria the task of oc-
cupylng Bosnia and Herzegovina in the in
terest of the peace of Europe. The dura-
tion of occupation would not be final,
and full liberty is left Austria in regard to
the organization of the province.
Sad Death Record.
The campaign Of the Spaniards
against the Cubans, without any battles,
cost the former $4,000 ren, and the island
is vast cemetery. Five steamers are re-
ported on the way from Spain to carry
home troops, Martinez Campos had be-
gun the reduction of the government eX.
penses on the island by giving up one-half
his own salary as captain-general
Cotton Consumed.
A fire was started in cotton COM
press at Montgomery, Ala, by treading on
a parlor match, and the flames spread INTO
the planters warehouse adjoining. Three
thousand bales which the two houses con-
tanned were soon enveloped in the flames.
The insurance on the cotton was $4,000.
Preparing for Peace.
Orders have been issued for reduc-
tion of the force of workmen and expendi-
lures in the navy yard at Portsmouth, Eng
land. 1t Is said that 1t has been determined
to abandon the usual fall maneuvres, in the
interest Of retrenchment.
A Foolish Sailor.
A sailor at New Orleans, the other
day made bet of fifteen cents that he could
dive into the river from yard-arm and
come out all right, but he went down never
to comeup.
Flood in Peru,
Our cousul at Lambay, in Peru, writes
of disastrous storms and foods that have
ruined crops and destroyed dwellings and
railroads over an extensive district.
A Fatal Explosion,
A boiler explosion in the Chesapeak
nail works, in Philadelphia, on the Goth, in
stantly killed the foreman Of the mill and
badly injured three other men.
Costly Blaze.
A large Touring mill at Keata, Iowa.
burned down on the 23d. 1t is supposed tc
have caught fire from spontaneous combus-
tion. Loss $4,000.
| Drowned.
A boat containing eight young mer
capsized by sudden squall in Chester ba-
| ain Tpka Ontario Snpdny ayaninu onf
four were drowned.
Railroad Accident.
James Smith, freight conductor, was
instantly killed on the st. Louis and South
eastern Road by an engine running into his
caboose.
Turkey Objects.
i An extraordinary cabinet council O