Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. Professob Charles Siedhobf and hia wife, Matilda, aged 91 and 92, tiring of their struggle with destitution, committed suicide at Union Hill, N. J., by taking cyanide of potassium. Ths President and Mrs. Cleveland celebrated the first anniversary of their wedding by going a-fishing on Saranac lake on the 2d of Jnne. They will spend several days at A'biny on their return to Washington, the guests of Governor HilL William O’Brien refused to attend a big labor demonstration gotten up in his honor in New York Saturday. He was dissatisfied with the resolutions the meeting proposed to adopt, and he flatly declined to appear on the same platform with Dr. McGlynn and John McMackin. Eight men were instantly killed and one badly injured by a premature explosion of dynamite at the Cambria Iron Company’s stone quarries in Birmingham, Pa. Two of tbe victims were Italians. All the others were Americans. Only one man of the entire nine at work survived. Preparations had been made for a big blast, six kegs of powder having been used in filling the holes. The fuse was attached and lighted, and a partial explosion took place. Thinking that the powder had all been burned the mon went to work boring, refilling and tamping the holes to get ready for another blast Suddenly, and without warning, a thunderous boom was heard, and was immediately followed by the fall of a great mass of rock. Death and consternation were the results. Headless and dismembered dead, horribly mangled and dying, lay scattered about on top and beneath the rocks in the quarry.