The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-05-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DWELLING-HOUSE in Well-street, Calton, Glasgow, was discovered to be on fire on Saturday morning. A man knocked loudly to arouse the inmates, But receiving no answer, he burst open the door. As the interior was burning vigorously, no one could enter, and the firemen were summoned, who soon extinguished the flames. On a search being made, three bodies were found burnt almost beyond recognition. The deceased were Michael Brady, aged 40; his wife. aged 48 ; *and their son John, aged 10. They had been sleeping on straw on the floor near the fire-place.  Two miners were engaged on Saturday in filling the skip at one of the shafts of Dolcoth Mine, Camborne, and found that some of the rocks were too large; and while in the act of applying some dynamite for the purpose of blasting, it exploded, blowing off the left arm, part of the left ear, the left eye, and mangling the breast of Harry Davey, who is the father of ten children. John Moon, whose life is despaired of, also received serious injuries, a hole being blown in his side and his collar-bone broken.  ON Saturday morning the driver of an express train on the North-Western Railway between Dudley and Birmingham saw a number of children walking between the metals. He blew his whistle, but they did not hear, and the buffer of the engine struck a girl named Elizabeth Wilkinson, and hurled her down an embankment. She was subsequently found unconscious and shockingly injured about the head and body. The others had miraculous escapes. A Pal VATS soldier, named O'Connor, of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, was making his escape from Waterford Barracks during Friday night without leave, with a comrade, when he fell from the top of a wall on his head and was killed.  Southwark, not one member of the House of Commons had exerted himself to obtain unity of water supply for public wants or fire prevention, or had taken up any of those measures of administrative improvement so much' demanded in our economy. In one of the least afflicted districts of London 500 preventible deaths, of which nearly 400 were bread. winning adults, were sacrificed annually, involving a loss of from £60,000 to £BO,OOO in wages and a medicine bill of upwards of £14,000 a year. The great measure now absorbing public attention, be'sides being distinctly retrograde in principle, unsound in finance, and unworkable with its novel machinery, left out of sight Ireland's greatest trouble. The mud-hovelled districts of Ireland had always been the most ravaged by epidemic and disease, and also by crimes of violence and passion, murder, and manslaughter, in the proportion of 72 against 32 in the more sanitary districts. Ireland being wetter than England was in still greater need of sanitary relief. If all the rents and taxes were given to the Irish people their wages would still be only half those derivable from high culture on a large scale such as prevailed in Scotland. Amongst practical improvements called for in the metropolis  were wounded fatally. The jury, at the inquest on one of the constables killed on Tuesday night, denounced by name five men as being accessories to the murder. It is expected that they will be indicted as principals; three of them are Germans. Since Tuesday the mob have sacked some stores. It is now stated that in the outbreaks at Chicago and Milwaukee ten persons were killed and 115 wounded, several of the latter mortally. The American newspapers denounce the Anarchists and Socialists, and declare that the land is filled with horror at their dastardly deeds at Chicago and Milwaukee, and that they must be "stamped out." Congress, it is suggested, may take action restricting the immigration of such people. Meanwhile the Socialist leaders, thoroughly frightened, have generally gone into retirement.  KLEPTOMANIA is so much on the increase that a young lady, alarmed at her mother's delay in returning from shopping, was heard to exclaim, "Oh, dear, lam so worried about mamma? Ido hope nothing has caught in her cloak button, and they have arrested her."