The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-22

structive conhagration. At o'clock on the |
evening of Wednesday, the 14th inst, flames |
broke out in the palatial dry-goods store of |
Messrs. Field, Letter & Co., the third largest |
house in the United States and the second |
largest in the retail business, and in a few |
hours the magnificent structure, with its
vast stock Of goods, was reduced to o
mass of ruins. During the progress of the
confagration two fremen were killed and four
badly injured by the falling of ne Of the floors
of the burning structure. The total loss blythe
fire is estimated at about 81 100000. The stock
was valued at nearly 81, $50, 900, considerable
portion of which was saved in dam
aged condition. There was an insurance
on the stock of $950,000. The building
was erected in the spring Of 1879 by the Sing
er Sewing Machine Company, at a cost of
between $750,000 and 100000. The first
story was mostly of iron, but the remainder
was of limestone. 1t had truss roof, the
Orders of iron, overlaid with wood and this
sheathed with tin. The center of the roof con-
tanned skylght and an open court or well,
surrounded by q railing on each floor, extended
down to the main floor. During the progress
Of its erection q scaffolding upon which
number of men were standing at work on the
skyIght gave way, and they were precipitated
through the court, q distance of eighty feet,
to the first floor Three Of them were killed
outright, and a fourth escaped by clinging to q
portion of the scaffolding that remained until
he was rescued. Shortly before Messrs. Field
& Letter took possession Of the building fire
broke out. It was extingulshed after about
$50, 900 damage had been done. The origin of
the last fire will perhaps forever remain mys-
terry. It commenced in the sixth story, near
the roof, and is believed to have been the work
of an lncendiary.
The Coroner's jury, in the case of the Hon.
W. F. Coolbaugh, of Chicago, rendered
verdict of suicide while in state of temporary
insanity. That the dead banker was insane at
the time of committing the deed is undoubtedly
| true. Insanity, it appears, was hereditary In
the family, and brother and sister of the
deceased are now afflicted with the dread
malady, the latter being an inmate of an
asylum The Union National Bank, of which
national bank of the West, and is in sound
condition. The deceased leaves an estate esti-
mated at 81, 900, 900. His life was insured for
| 100000.
| Portions Of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Da-
kota experienced quite an earthquake shock
on the 18th inst. At Omaha and other points
| in Nebraska the shock was quite Sc
| we're, producing quite a panic among the
people. The duration of the shock at Fort
Randall, Yankton Agency, and Springfield, Oak,
| was about one minute, and the direction west
to east. At the Indian agencies the tepes were
overturned, and goods on shelves in traders
stores shaken off. There was great excitement
among whites and Indians. At Yankton the
| glass in many of the windows was broken by
the shock, and many people rushed from their
houses in great fright.
T. B. Keator, formerly of the Western Gun
Works, of Chicago, has turned up in Yoke
hama, Japan. There is no extradition treaty
between the United States and Japan.
| Frank Rande, the desperate who plundered
and murdered near Galesburg, and later at st.
Elmo, Ill.,, has at last been caught. In st.
Louis, Mo-, one day last week, pawnbroker
named Wright sent one of his clerks to notify
policeman that man who was wanted was
negotiating the redemption Of avalise pawned
some time before. Officers White and Heffer-
nan, both heavy, strong men, responded, and
as they entered the shop Wright pointed out
the man. AS they reached for their prisoner
he pulled a pistol from holster. Heffernan
grabbed the pistol hand and White the other
With the agility of an athlete the desperate
made lunge forward, partially freeing HIM
self, and fred. White was shot in the leg, the
ball severing the femoral artery, and the blood
| gushing outin stream. Wright and his clerk
man named Hess, joined eight, both using
revolvers. The clerk, watching his chances, SO
as not to hit the policeman, fired several shots,
one taking effect in the desperados leg.
| Wright had attempted to take care of man
who had come in with the desperate, but he
| took fight on the entrance of the officers, but
not before firing on them once Or twice at
close range. The man who had made such a
plucky fight finally fell, shot through the left
| lung. AS he lay on the floor he looked up
coolly at Heffernan and said ga half minute
more would have cooked your goose" The
prisoner gave his name as Frank Rande, said
he was rs years OF age, and that he came from
the East. When asked where he lived, he told
the officers to 60 to hi he had gotten in his
work, he said, before they could put the rope
around his neck, and that was satisfaction
enough for him.
| The policeman who was shot in st. Louis by
the outlaw Rande, while resisting arrest, has
| since died of his wound.
Field, Letter & Co., of Chicago. have en-
gagged the great Exposition building for their
new store, and in few days viii be ready for
business.
The town Of Utica, Neb., twenty miles west