Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1878 — Whisky Explodes and Kills a Boy. [ARTICLE]

Whisky Explodes and Kills a Boy.

A most remarkable accident occurred recently in Steubenville, Ohio. A little son of John Dougherty, a saloon-keeper, was playing in his father’s bar-room, when he happened to jostle against a barrel containing two or three gallons of whisky. A frightful explosion followed, the barrel being blown into fragments, killing the boy instantly. The bairel stood beside a window through which the sun shone very warmly,and it is supuosed that the sun’s heat generated an explosive gas. z

The steamer Seine has picked up the lost Atlantic cable of 1866, which she was sent out to look for. Who would have ventured to predict fifteen years ago that after twelve years men could go out to hunt for and infallibly recover a rope no thicker than one’s thumb from the depths of the mid-Atlantic ?