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Show Bursts and ICxpluulout). Richmondi 5. There was a premature pre-mature explosion of nitro glycerine at Dutch Gap, James river, killing M. 0. Haggerty, government contractor for widening and otherwise improving Dutch Gap; one negro and lilias Hall, who bad charge ol operating the glycerine. Hall's body waa blown into the river aud not recovered. Sullivan, Ills., 6. The boiler in George Kepler's saw mill, three miles southwest of this city, exploded yesterday yes-terday at noon, demolishing the mill and machinery. Jonah Baugber, the bead sawyer, waa blown to atoms, and fragments of bis body were scattered in all directions. |