Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-02-16
Accidents.

WHILE travelling on a hand car near
Waco, Tex, Major d. w. Washburn and
M. II. Stall, wife, and son were killed.
Mrs. WILLIAM MILLER. of Disco, ILL.,,
soaked her clothing and hair with kero-
sene and applied match. burning her.
self to crisp.
A SPARK from locomotive ignited an
oil tank at Olean, N. Y, and two others
soon caught fire. The loss is estimated at
over 100000.
The fine residence of Rev. DR.. Dulin, in
the suburbs of st. Joseph, Mo-. was swept
away by fire. His library was the most
valuable in that region.
JAMES L. MOONEY, the chief wner o
the American oak tannery burned at Gin
CHM att on Monday, refuses to rebuild un
less the city will furnish better protection
from fire.
HAVING failed TO execute some trans
portation contracts with the government,
James Callagban, prominent citizen of
San Antonio, Tex, shot himself dead.
In Cincinnati, at midnight, the inner
walls of an eight-story hotel being con-
structed on the corner Of Sixth and Vine
streets fell with terrible crash, wreckinp
the whole building.
FIRE in Minneapolis destroyed the fur
niture factory of Mccullough 4 Lee, the
shaving house of Merriam, Barrows K Co.,
the Carter Bank, and Elwell u Co.'S place.
Loss about $4,000; insurance about
SIS 900.
A GANG of FIVE men is kept constantly
at work in the Midlothian coal-bi in Vir-
ginia, and five bodies have been recovered.
| Collins have been sent to the shaft to inter
| the corpses taken out.
PETER GREENwALT, of Bloomington,
H., who amassed a fortune in contracts on
the penitentiary and normal school build
ings, killed himself with revolver on ac-
count of domestic difficulties.
By the splitting of coal-oil on the floor
the house of John Moreland, near Hunt
ington, Ont, took fire, and his wife, step
daughter, and three children were burned
to death, two young men also nearly losing
their lives.
A FIRE which broke out in the flour
mill Of Arnold & Little, at Lockport. y.
Y, extended to the mills of Thornton *
Chester and Gibson 4 Puvser. George +.
Woods, assistant engineer of the fire de-
partment, was killed by ieaping sixty feet
from window The loss is estimated at
$4,000.
FLAMES destroyed the Home Touring
mill at Ell Paso, H., which was valued at
1876. 900; the works of the Natic.,al Horse
Nail company at Vergennes, VT, worth
$25, 900; Bowie's foundry at Manistee,
Mich, and Schools slaughter house at
Louisville, Ky. A damage of 10000 was
inflicted on the Nicely elevator, in Chi
| cago.
The steam saw mill at Frankfort, Mich,
known az the Island mill, belonging to A.
G. Butler, was burned. with about lO0, 1000
feet of lumber belonging to Hall Lin
coin. Loss on mill $4,000, with 5000
insurance. Loss on lumber $l0,0GO, in
sured for half value. The fire was doubt
less the work of an incendiary, as there
ABOUT nine months ago Ann Sullivan
purchased ticket in Kansas City and
started for St. Louis to visit her daughter.
What became OF her and whether she is
dead or alive is not known, but the fact
| that she failed to reach st. Louis is true
beyond question Her daughter in the
meantime has been advertising in, the
| leading papers of the west and doing
everything in her power to find her miss
| ing mother, but to no purpose.
A YOUNG man at Augusta, Me-, suffer-
| ing from slight cold had severe tit of
coughing the other day, when suddenly he
grew black in the face and fell over dead.
| 1t was found that his death was caused by
pdema of the CLOTHS; that is, in his
coughing fit all the air was expelled from
! the lungs, and the lips of the CLOTHS, or
opening at the upper part of the wind
pipe, closed There being no interior
pressure. the CLOTHS could not open, and
respiration was impossible.