Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-10-15
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.


IluDsoN, Mass, had S20,o00 fire ON
the 9TH inst
A CANNON exploded at Plymouth o.,
on the 7th inst, killing two young
men,
PRorEssoR BENJAMIN PIERCE, the cclc-
bratcd mathematician and professor nj
Harvard college, is dead,
,IonN =. n. VOORHEES,, aged 10, living
at Greggs town, fell from Il ladder on the
9TH inst. and broke his neck.
GENERAL STEWART of Virginia, post
master of the national house of reprcsen-
tatives, il dead.
A FIRE in the servants department Of
the st. Charles hotel, at New Orleans,
damaged the building 10 the extent Of
100000.
JAcon BALL, the geologist and natural
ist, died recently in his tent in Willie
berger county, Texas, where he had gone
ON scientific expedition.
Tnn Chase and Faulker mills al lsHell,
Mass, have been destroyed by fire. Sey-
eral hundred people are ont of employ
ment
| FRrNcu 4 WARDS wooden mil'a Mt West
Stoughton, Miss, burned on the 9Th Loss
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 4 w. Spraguc,
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 il 80 dense in places that il pre-
acnts the appearance Of snow-storm.
Two children Of Edmund Arklaud, Il
machinist Of Clinton, O., got hold of
bread and butter spread with strychnine
poison for mice, and ate il. Both died.
One was year old, the other ; wears.
TlIr writing-pape mill 1T Elkhari,
Ind, owned Ivy j. K. Reardslcy, John
Cook. and Mrs Il. l.. Davenport, has
been destroyed hy lire on the .th inst.
lops, $3S0o0; insurance, $4,000,
RUSSIAN cotton manufacturers are soon
"a meet at Moscow 10 discuss the threaten
ed crisis in their industry. The wages
ot operatives have been reduced until
great misery prevails among the working
people, and serious outbreaks are appre-
headed.
A pISrArCu from La Crosse reports six
eases of cpizooiie in that citv, showing that
the disease does not spread westward tax
ing cities in range. but breaks out here
and there where last expected. Similar
reports come from other towns in the in
terror.
ions RonERrs, who was bitten On the
finger nv one nt his own dogs. near Cross
I al 4 l,...l
Of hydrophoha ON Friday. lie was seized
with commissions ON Wednesday, and died
in great agony lie was 80 wears old
CHARLES SeuENcG, aged ~ years, son Of
VIM, Schcnck, OF Sandusky, O., went out
hun ting, On the 18th inst, with 4 double
mrrclcd shot gun. He fired one ha rrel,
and was il the net Of blowing the smoke
out o. the gun, when the other barrel was
accidentally discharged, and the whole top
of his head, from mouth up was blown
oh
ntRtNG the night Augustus Bernard.
watchmun mt the Michigan Central rail
road shops, went 10 II ealdron in one of the
car houses where water for ear washing
is heated and sat on the edge Of the ket-
! tie while his coffee was getting hot IN the
water During his wait he fell asleep and
into the boiling water Of the caldron.
WM. Sin. II Nieholsvillc, Clcrmont
county a., went Is Cincinnati, on the 18th
inst, and exchanged three thousand five
/ hundred dollars Of four per cent. bonds
for gold. and put il in valise; and ON the
ears on his way heme he found his yalise
exchanged for cue containing three
bricks. Ne clue To the robher.
FIRE in one Of the shafts Of the Chryso.
lite mine, IT leadyille. communicated
with the underground workings, and IN 1
short time the worked.out caves, which
we're supported III heavy timhers, were
filled with flames. The miners were
driven ont in great confusion, some q
them suffering from the poisonous gases.
TuE hitter Gefun'S Gibson, Ill, special