Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-11-28
The East.

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The city Of Boston has been visited by a
terrible c~On1agration, second In extent only
TO that Of the great Chicago fire Of one year
ago. The fire first began, at 7:30 on the
evening Of the 9th, in the rear Of q large FIVE
story granite building on Summer street,
corner Of Kingston. a high wind prevailed
at the time, and the flames spread rapidly,
despite the great cxerLionS made By fircmcn
and citizens, and an area Of about half q
mile square In the solid business portion of
the city was laid waste IN the space Of about
twelve hours. The principal streets tray-
erscd by the conflagration were summer,
Chaunccy, Franklin, Pearl, Devorshire, Milk,
Congress, State, Commercial, and Wash.
iugton. Each of these streets represent.
ed u special department Of Wholesale bust.
ness. Summer, Chauncey and Franklin were
almost exclusively devoted TO dry goods and
contained scores Of the largest establish
ments in the city. Pearl street was the great
est boot and shoe market in the world.
There were no buildings on the street not
occupied by merchants IN this special line Of
trade, except a restaurant for boot and shoe
dealers, aud a newspaper Office devoted to
the interests OF the boot and shoe trade. On
Congress street were clustered all the deal.
crs in wool. Deyonshire and Milk streets
were devoted TO a miscellaneous Wholesale
business, principally Of the great manuiac-
tories Of Lowell, Lawrence, etc. CONNER.
cial street was solidly built with granite
warehouses for the sale Of grain, ship
chandlcry, fFh and other articles. state
street was the Wall street OF Boston, and
contained It's banks, Insurance offices
and great shipping and commission Offices.
Washington street was occupied by whole
sale and retail business, aud in this thor
"ughiare were located some of the most ele-
giant stores in the city. IN addition to these,
the offices Of The Transcript, Jy,tTo}, Gnbc
and HoNij were on this street. The Irno-
oHer and iUai were on or near State street, in
the burnt district, The td.ertiser, being To-
! Gated on Court street, out Of the line of the
IRE, escaped. A fresh outbreaE occurred on
the morning Of the llth, caused by
gas explosions In the ruins Of the
buildings first destroyed, one explosion
followed another IN rapid succession, Sew
eral soldiers and trcmen were Frustrated,
I anu ctNtIul EtNElCll blJhIths ih' hhSlAh
cent block on the corner of Washington and
Summer street Was consumed Dy this second
fire. At 3 a, IN. on tie llth it was thought
the fire was under good control, and no fur
ther destruction was apprehendod. The
losses by this great fire were estimated at
over 800, DOC, 600.
The horse disease was generally prevail
In New Haven, Conn, on the 9th. Tn,
disease was rapidly disappearing in Phlla-
delphia, and most Of the street cars had re-
stunned their regular trips.
The trial of Woodruff, Claim, and Blood,
for libcling Mr. Luther G. Challis, was in
progress In New York City on the 9th, with
the drift OF the evidence strongly against the
defendants.
The funeral of General Meade took place
in Philadelphia on the llth. Early in the
morning the remains were removed to st.
Marks Church, where religious services
commenced at 1880. On their conclusion
the body was placed On n guu-carriagc aud
horne to a steamer in waiting to convey the
remains OF the distinguished soldier to
Laurel Hill Cemetery. The procession occu-
pied one hour In passing u given point. Presi-
ach'"'"ht was III e'''"ei' Nui''s' p"' 'en''"l'
Sherman, Sheridan, and other officers were
In full uniform,
\ Mrs, Bisphotsbcrgcr and Simon Strait,
her brother.in.la", were recently arrested in
New York, and held for examination on o
charge OF lncarceratiuE the husband of Mrs,
Bisch0tlshcrger, who is wealthy, in The Tr"n-
ton Insane Asylum, during the past six
months, IN order to obtain possession OF the
property, The superintendent OF the Asy-
Ium and other parties are implicated,
A recent Philadelphia dispatch says the
testimony so far elected in the invo tigation
into the charges OF corruption and bribery
In tlc city Council, shows an amount OF
~yenaltty ~riyalinc that exposed in New York
last year,
A Boston dispatch OF the 18TH says it was
probable there would be no more serious
damage to life or property. At points where
persons were known to nave been buried the
ruins were being cooled with water, prepar.
ntory to digging out the corpscs Of the vie.
tins, Three men were buried in the rims Of
4 falling vail on Washington street, leaving
their heads visible. A few Of the crowd at
tempted to rescue them, but were unsuccas
ful, and in a few minutes the remaining
portion Of the wall fell and buried them ont
OF sight, Ten thousand working Urls are
said TO be throWa uut OF employment by the
fire, aud their needs were urgent. The city
authorities had granted to the dry goods
merchants the privilege Of using the Com.
mon as . repository for such of their prop
crty as iR saved, and to erect Shautlc6 and