The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-21
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

| a CANNON exploded at Plymouth o.,
en- the 9TH inst, killing two young
| men.
PROFESSOR BENJAMIN PIERCE, the cele-
brated mathematician and professor al
Harvard college, is dead.
JOHN P. I. VOORHEES,, aged 45, living
at Greggs town, fell from q ladder on the
9TH inst. and broke his neck.
GENERAL STEWART, of Virginia, post
master of the national house of represen-
tatives, is dead.
A FIRE in the servants department of
the St. Charles hotel, at New Orleans,
damaged the building to the extent of
$4,000.
The Chase and Faulker mills at Lowell,
Mass, have been destroyed by fire. Sew
eral hundred people are out of employ
ment.
TIE Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
lion river at La Sale. ILL.,, has been de-
stroyed by fire.
A GRAvEL-TRAIN ran into drove of
cows near Stillman Valley, ILL.,, on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul railway,
ditching ten cars and killing several men,
including John Ryan, section man.
FRENCH & WARDS wooden mill at West
Stoughton, Miss, burned on the 9th. Loss
S30, 600; probably covered by insurance.
Over 300 employees are thrown out of
work. Several Of them injured.
OwING to the 10 per cent. reduction in
wages in the mills of A & w. Sprague,
manufacturing company, of Providence,
the Natick operatives struck and the mills
are shut down.
GREAT numbers of large white butter
flies have made their appearance in Lack
awana, Pa, to the alarm of the farmers
The mass is so dense in places that it pre-
sents the appearance of a snow-storm.
Two children of Edmund Arkland, a
machinist Of Clinton, o., got hold of
bread and butter spread with strychnine
poison for mice, and ate it. Both died
One was a year old, the other 3 years.
The writing paper mill at Elkhart,
Ind, owned by J. r. Beardsley. John
Cook. and Mrs. B. l.. Davenport, has
been destroyed by fire on the 7th inst
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
RUSSIAN cotton manufacturers are soon
to meet at Moscow to discuss the threaten
ed crisis in their industry. The wages
of operatives have been reduced until
great misery prevails among the working
hended.
A DISPATCH from La Crosse reports six
cases of epizootic in that city, showing that
the disease does not spread westward tax
ing cities in range, but breaks ont here
and there where last expected. Similar
reports come from other towns in the in
terror.
CHARLES ScHESck, aged 20 years, son of
Wm Schenck, of Sandusky, O., went out
hunting, on the 4th inst, with a double
barreled shot gun. He fired one ba rrel, ,
and was in the act of blowing the smoke
out of the gun, when the other barrel was
accidentally y discharged, and the whole top
Of his head, from mouth up was blown
off.
TIE Inter Oceu,1's Gibson, Ill.,, special
SAYS, Il terrible accident occurred here
while workmen were renewing the props
from the arch of tile kiln at Spaulding
& rggIes', the tile factory arch gave
way and the immense weight of brick and
mortar fell upon and buried the six men
at work inside. When help came and
they were taken out all were badly used
up 1t is thought that Thos. Nelson will
not live. Fred. Hummell died half an
hour after being taken out. -Four others
were seriously but not fatally hurt.
The Triba.ae's La Crosse Wis, special
says: A singular and fatal accident oc-
Cured there on the 9th inst, Joseph Ma
Der, farmer, living four miles from La
Crosse. while returning home in company
with his wife was fatally burned and his
wife terribly injured by fire. He was un-
der the influence Of liquor and having
carelessly thrown a lighted match in the
hay in the wagon, the hay ignited and
their clothing Immediately caught fire,
with the result above stated. The wagon
was entirely consumed.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at Pitts
burg on the l1h inst, on the Pennsylvania
railroad. Wallis accommodation, which
left here at 1l:31, collided with the special
train from Greenburg, at the Goth street,
where the riots occurred a few years ago.
Both trains were filled with passengers,
especially Wallis, which contained several
marching clubs which participated in the
democratic demonstration here tonight.
The Ne,rs places the number at twelve
killed and between thirty and forty wound
! ed, most of whom were SO badly scalded.
Some were SO badly scalded that their flesh
peeled off their bones. Dead bodies are
moved in every direction and it is impos-
sible to learn how many are killed.
Among the killed are Dr. Elliott Bri,iton,
of Pennsylvania, E. d. Butler and sister,
| JAS Bard. Lizzie Bard, Jones Lawrence