Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

At Ishpcming, Mich., five men were getting ready to blast an old drill hole at the bottom of a shaft, when the charge went off while they were preparing to fire it, killing all five instantly. The cause of the accident is not known. The men were torn to pieces by the force of the explosion. Macy Warner was banged at Jeffersonville, lud., for the murder of a fellow-convict while serving a life sentence in the South Indiana Prison. -Warner professed religion a short time ago, and met death unmoved. The Methodist University at Mitchell, Dakota, was burned to the ground on Friday morning. There were over forty |inmates when the alarm sounded Those in the upper stories were obliged to jump for their lives. The following is a list of the casualties: Killed, Horton Pitcher, of Northville, Dak.; Giles Parkin, of England Fatally injured: Prof. R. EL Taylor, Ezra-Jones, of Parlcston, Dak.; Hattie Taylor, elocution teacher, of Canton, Dak. Half a dozen others were seriously injured