The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-25

ed horse, seals, Alpine goat, ostrich,
pelicsns. two Abyssinian lions, two
Bengal tigers. one Asiatic yak, one
Gland, one llama, leopards, serpents,
apes, gorrillas. camels, one elephant,
happy family" and other minor ami
mals amounting to one hundred speci-
mems.
William F. Grote & Co., insured for
$4,000 These two buildings cost
about $4,000, but their chief loss was
on the immense stock Of stock of ivory.
Their SAFE fell through to the cellar and
is now in the debris. They claim that
they could have saved many thousand
dollars worth OF stock had the fire.
men permitted them, but as it ia they
were compelled to leave large lots OF
billiard balls, etc to burn.
No sooner had the Nineteenth stree!
and the great fire on Fourteenth street
been brought under control than the
tiremen were called in another direc-
ton. AT an early hour this forenoon
fire broke out in the first floor Of
FIVE stosy. building, No. lat Duane
street, owned by Charles Knox The
damage to the building is about s., 1000,
upon which there is an insurance Of
$4,000 in the Knickerbocker Com
pany. The first floor was occupied by
L. SeferliDg dealer in cloths, cassi-
meres, &c. TIE damage to the stock
is about $4,000 insured for $4,000, as
follows: Reliance, $45O0; London.
$250G London, Liverpool and Globe,
$500G Queens, 5000; Adriatic, $25OG
Phoenix, $1,000; Mechanics & Traders,
$2500.
The aggregate loss by the fire is
about $l,000,000. The first building
in the rear to be visited by the fire was
that occupied by Minor. Stesrns Il Co.,
carriage makers, and situated on Thir-
teerth street, and running from Nos.
lis to l2l. The rear part OF the
building was completely burned, to-
gether with about $4,000 worth Of
stock. &c. Curley's carriage manufac-
tory, in Thirteenth street, was also
slightly burned. c. c. Reed & Co,
dealers in fringes. occupied the fourth
floor, had their stock and fixtures to-
tally destroyed. Jackson & Co, Heal
ers in fringes, occupied the third floor,
had stock destroyed. c. Kemwortb,
manufacturer OF pianos, occupied
portion OF the second floor. and loses
all bis stock.
1t is rumored Barnum had only $3.50
600 insurance on his animals and that
the two elephants saved will cover
half that amount. Mr.. Bsrnum's in
surance on the building and its con-
tents is nearly $4,000 Mr.. S Hurt
also gives these general figures in his
report for November. Fire Marshal
McSpedon called attention TO the un-
safe condition Of Barnum's museum and
the danger Of the surrounding property.
Christmas Dinners.
Inmates of the public institutions
will be presented with special good din
uers in honor of Christmas. The
Children's Aid Society, Howard Mis-
sion and other homes for children have
provided Tor little ones in way which
will make them give special welcome
to the festival. A well known Broad
way merchant is to give dinner to
several hundred boot blacks aud news
boys.
Plot Frustrated.
At the police station to-day they are
fully convinced that an attempt would
have been made at midnight last night
to attack John E. Simmons, the muir
derer OF Nicholas w. Duryea, and
lynch him, had not the precaution been
taken OF removing him from the Park
Hospital to Bellevue. He is now in
strong room and guarded by two officers
1t is considered that in case OF Simmons
escaping conviction an attempt will be
made bv Duryea's friends friends to
avenge the murderer.
Discharged.
Tnos. Farrill, keeper in Wards
Island Lunatic Asylum, who was held
on two indictments for homicide OF
patients under his charge, was suffered
to 20 to-day on his own recognizance,
the witness against him having died.
The Stokes Trial.
The Stokes trial was again re-
sumed to-day, when the exsmina-
ton of J ohm 7. Redmo ond was continued.
His testimony, as also that Of Thomas
Hart, did not vary from that given at
the last trial. Miss Grace Hall, who
discovered the pistol thrown in the
parlor by Stokes, ssid she found it on
the sofa about 5 or 6 o'clock, after the
shooting. Frank Crockett, Hotel Clerk,
heard two shots fired; saw some person
with a white overcoat coming rapidly
down stairs. Three men started after
him and brought him back. He was
taken to Fisk' g room who identified him,
saving That lie Stokes, the man who
shot me" Peter Coughter. fireman at
the Grand Central Hotel; Hollis l..
Powers, Proprietor Of the Hotel; Cap
tain Byrne and Coroner Young testi-
fed, their evidence being nearly the
same az given at former trial. The
Court adjourned till Thursday.
Another Fire.
At five o'clock this morning fire
broke out at y and "a Centre street,
Clsxton block, and spread to No. u
Centre street, occupied BY W. wilkins.
LIQUOR store, which was badly damaged
by water as we'll as fire. The third
aoor Of the Clsxton building, in which
the fire was first discovered. was oc-
cupied by Dunn, Barlow & Co.. mer-
camille agency and printers, while the
fourth, fifth and sixth floors were oc-
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