Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1887 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Coneise Record of the Week. EASTERN. An arch in a furnace in the Edgar Thompson Steel Works at Braddocks, Pa., c >llap ed, burying a number of men in the red-hot debris. Five men were fatally burned, their flesh being literally cooked. Fire at Lebanon, N. H., destroyed over S3A),(MO worth of property, with an insurance of SIIO,OCO. A horrible accident occurred near McKpesport, Pa., which resulted in the burning to death of Airs. Cook and her two little children, and in the total destruction of the house. She was using petroleum oil to kindle a fire, when the contents of the can were ignited, and an explosion followed. The woman rushed out of the house with her clothing in fl lines, and perished in the yard. The house took fire and was consumed, and two little chi dren who were in it perished in the flames. A third child only escaped a similar fate by following her mother out of the house. The steamer Empire State was destroyed by fire at Bristol, R. L, with a loss of 9100,000. The West Side haymarket and adjacent buildings in New York City were burned. The k>s< is estimated at $165,000. An effort has been started at Boston to secure the pardon of F. J. Moses, ex-Gov-ernor of South Carolina, who is in the penitentiary there for forgery. His health is said to be broken down.