Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES, Miss Louisa M. Alcott, the famous author of “Little Women” and other stories, died at her home in Boston Highlands on the 6th inst., aged 56 years. It will be remembered that her father, A. Bronson Alcott, expired on the 4th, and as the was born on the anniversary of his birthday, it is deemed singular that she should have followed him so soon to lhe grave. Duden A Co,’s lace factory, at Wiltiamsbridge, a part of New York City, was burned. Loss, *IOO,OOO. A Springfield (Mass.) te'egram gives the following particulars of a lire horror in that city: Six of the employes of the Eveninq Union met a horrible death by the burning of the office of that newspaper, most of them jumping from the fifth story and being crushed into a shapeless mass below. Six others were badly injured. The fire was first discovered in the mailing room, and clouds of smoke were pouring out of the lower story windows before the fifty soula on the upper flour were aware of their danger. The flames shot up an old elevator in the rear, cutting off escape by the stairway, and most of the employes who escaped found their way to the ground by way of the roof in the rear. The fire department responded promptly. A ladder waa put to the fourth story, and the Bight of rescue so near seemed to madden the suffering group at the two windows, who dropped in succession to the sidewalk below. Six fell in this way, some of them forced off and some madly leaping, and the crowd groaned and turned their faces away as they whirled through the air. Following are the the dead: Henry L Goulding, foreman of the Union composing-room; Miss G. Thompson, proof reader; Mrs. Frederick E. Farley, editorial department; Mr. Lamzon, of Quebec; W, E. Hovey, of Boston; Mr. Brown, a compositor. The injured : Thomas Donahue, compositor; Timothy Dunn, compositor; Joseph W. Witty, compositor; G. F. Ensworth, compositor ; Thomas Donahue, compositor, fatally.