Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1888 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

Five railroad laborers were fatally injured by the premature explosion of a blast at Labadie, Mo. A Neenah, Wis., special says that on the upper Wolf river, near Embarrass, an entire family named Lathrop, comprising father, mother and three children, were drowned in the flood. They lived in a small shanty near the bank of tho stream, and though they had been warned to leave their dangerous abode, they neglected to do so, and the floods swept tho building and occupants down the stream. Fire destroyed tho Findlay, Ohio, windowglass factory. Loss $35/00; fully insured. The Standard Od Company’s plant at Fort Wayne, Ind., has been destroyed by fire. Loss about $12,003. ,At Cincinnati, Ohio, the Betts Street Furniture Company’s factory was burned, causing a loss of $6J,000; fully insured. The stave works of J. T. Jackson, at Mentor, Ind., were destroyed by fire, with a loss of from $15,003 to $20,030, and uo insurance. The Consolidated Tank Lino Company’s building, near Cincinnati, Ohio, has been destroyed by fire. Tho loss of $30,000 is partially insured. 1 hree bodies have been taken from the ruins of the Bethel Homo at St Louis, which was destroyed by lira Four other persons were badly hurt The loss is SIO,OOO. Eight horse thievei were caught by an armed posse thirty miles from Purcell, I T., after a running fight, and strung up without confession or prayers. Some of the posse were killed.