Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1887 — THE WIDE WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THE WIDE WORLD.

A Catalogue of the Week’s Important Occurrences Concisely Summarized., Intelligence by Electric Wire from Every Quarter of the Civilized World. • THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. EXPLOSION AND PANIC. The Kirby House, at Milwaukee, Wrecked by the Bursting of the Kitchen Boiler— One Dead and Many Hurt. For several blocks around the Kirby House, says a Milwaukee special, a dull detonation was heard Monday morning, followed by a shock, as though a great volume of compressed air had been suddenly liberated. People in the immediate vicinity of tho hotel heard the rumbling of falling walls, the crash of glass in a hundred windows shivered into a thousand splinters, the frenzied shrieks of women in pain or terror, and saw a huge metal object rise high in the air through the very center of the building, and then fall upon the tarred roof with a bang. It was an explosion which wrecked the rear part of the hotel between the wings and the main building f*om the basement to the top floor, burying wholly or partly a dozen of the din-ing-room and kitchen girls and several of the male employes of the hotel, killing one woman outright and injuring twenty other persons, two seriously and perhaps fatally. The water boiler in the kitchen, which caused the explosion; shot upward like a bullet from a gun, crashing through three intervening floors and the roof as though the partitions were tissue paper, and rose some thirty or forty feet above the building.

| WANTED GRINNELL BLOWN UP. Paul Wolff Expresses the Desire and Lands in a Police .Station. Anarchy, vengeance, and assassination of Mr. Grinnell are said to have been publicly advocated by Paul Wolff, and on this accusation charges of disorderly conduct and threats to kill were preferred against him at the Twenty-second Street Station Monday night, says a Chicago special Last Friday night Officer Gorman, of the Twenty-second Street Station, went into John Schaefer’s saloon at Twenty-sixth and Hanover streets, and found a group of fifteen or twenty men listening approvingly to a rabid speech in which the utterances of Most after the execution were reiterated, and the blowing-up of Mr. Grinnell was especially recommended. The remarks were particularly inflammatory. The speaker was Wolff, and the officer was told that his auditors were in the habit of assembling at that place and boldly espousing the causa of anarchy. The officer reported the matter to Lieutenant Arch, and it was decided to arrest Wolff, who appeared to be the moving spirit of the group. The prisoner is of German birth, and is said to speak Sevan languages.

I SEIZED BY ARMED MEN. Two American Vessels, a Steamer and a Schooner, Boarded by Nicaraguan Soli diers—Asked Their Authority, They I Meaningly Tap Their Rifles and Refuse Further Explanation. New Orleans special: Captain Brown, of the steamer Harlan, from Bluefields, which arrived here to-day, gives to the press the following letter, which is the only information so far received on the subject: Schooner Merida, Nov. 20. To Captain Brown, Steamship Harlan, Escondo River: Dear Sib— This morning an armed force, wearing the uniform of Nicaragua, boarded the steamer William 8. Moore and the schooner Merida, both owned wholly by American citizens, and having licenses from the Mosquito Government to carry on the business they ore engaged in, and took forcible possession, which they now hold. I have abandoned everything to them. When asked for their authority they showed me their rifles. Please have this published as soon as you arrive, so that the United States Government can hear of the outrage, and oblige. Yours truly, W. P. Allen, Owner es Schooner Merida. CALLED WHILE IN THE DANCE. A Hall in Texas Blown Down, Killing Five Persons and Maiming a Score. A Minneola (Texas) dispatch states that & heavy wind-storm blew down a hall in that place during the progress of a dance held by colored people. Five persons were killed and about twenty injured. About seventy persons were in the hall when it collapsed. Six of the injured have arms or legs broken. The killed are: Thomas Hardeman, Jack Wilson, Reuben Garrett, Fannie Benson, and Rose Benson.

President Grevy Retires. A cable dispatch from Paris says: “Its, Grevy on Bunday formally informed M. Hoarier of his resolution to resign the Presidency, and said that he would send a message to the Senate and Chamber of Deputies on next Thursday. M. Bouvier proceeded at once to the residence of M. Floquet to announce the resignation of the President” Telegraphic Briefs.' Thbee children of Mr. and Mrs. C. O White, of Morrison, 111., were drowned in Bock Creek. They were playing with their sleds upon the ice, when the youngest one broke through, and the others perished in trying to rescue him. The sculling-race between Beach and Hanlan on the Nepean River, in Australia, was won by the former by two boat-lengths. W. J. Bubke, who defrauded Galveston County, Texas, out of $36,000 while serving m County Treasurer, has been tried and acquitted on the ground that he was not responsible for his acts at the time when the ofteose was committed