Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-05-08
FIRES.

prison IN Boston, Mass, on saturday
the Sd, caused a loss of $4,000; insur-
ance 5000.
THE Industrial Institute at Sage
Grove, H., was destroyed by fire on the
night of May Sd. Loss, $4,000; no ia
surance.
A FIRE at Silver Cliff, Colorado, on
the Sd, totally consumed the Silver
Cliff Milling Co. S sampling works. Loss,
$4,000; insured.
CoLvINs extensive stables and cottag-
es at Providence, r. l., burned on the
night of May 3rd. Fifty horses perish
ed. Loss $4,000.
AT Bridgeport, Conn, on the 3rd, the
machine shop and pattern rooms ofthe
Pacific Iron Works burned. Loss, So
600; insurance, $4,000.
THE residence of Kenner Brent, near
Ellison, in this county, was burned on
the End inst, with all It's contents, the
family barely escaped with their lives.
Loss, $4,000; net insured.
A MANIToWoC, Wis, dispatch of the
I'd INST. says the large grist.milI owned
by Hon. Charles TiSch, of the town OF
Carlton, Kewaunee county, was totally
destroyed by fire last night. The origin
of the fire is unknown. Loss $4,000
Uninsured.
A La Crosse, Wis, dispatch Of the
End says w. Z. Fitch, general claim
agent of the Chicago and Northwestern
railway, Is in the city to-day, settling
losses from the recent fire at Midway,
caused by sparks from one Of the COM
panys locomotives.
AN incendia1y fire in Milwaukee on
Saturday the Sd damaged the building
at the corner of Huron and East Water
streets owned by John FurlOng. to the
extent of $1,000. butcher Collins &
Smith, wholesale teas, suffer a loss of
about O,000: Russell & Co, job print
CTS, 500; all fully insured.
THE boat-house of the Milwaukee
Mitchell Club, containing two barges
and four or five paper-shells, was des-
troyed by fire Sunday evening the 4th,
together with It's contents. The house
was situated in ravine nor{h of the
dam, and could not be reached by the
steamers. The loss is estimated at
$4,000.
A MONTREAL dispatch of the 1st inst.
says a great fire has been raging at ST.
Jean Baptiste in the northeastern quar-
ter OF this city, which threatsns to des-
troy the whole village, there being no
water. Forty dwellings are SO far des-
troyed. The fire was extiDguished at
10 o'clock after burning over forty two
storied houses, chiefly dwellings,, and
rendering 20 families homeless, with
the loss Of their household goods. To-
tai loss about $4,000; partially insured.
A CINCINNATI dispatch OF May 3rd
says VIM. Sallance and George Rhodes,
who were on hunting and fishing trip.
crawled into the drug-houss of the coal
works at New Haven, near Pomeroy,
Thursday night, to sleep. About 10
o'clock yesterday morning the house
caught fire and was burned to the
ground, the sleeping youngmen being
consumed in the flames; neir bodies
were found this morning, enarred be-
yond recognition.
A CINCINNATI dispatch Of May End
states that the g1eat insurance trial
which has been in propress for seven
days in that city, and in which ex-gov-
ernor Washburn, of Wisconsin, is the
plaintiff and the Western Union Insur-
ance company is the defendant, result
ed, to-day, in verdict for the plaintiff
for the full amount claimed, after ten
minutes deliberation by thejury. This
is the first of eight cases pending here,
and involving the same question of law
and fact. The plaintiff was represented
by Sage and Hinkle, and the defendant
by I. D. Lincoln, John F, Follett and
others-Lincoln and Follett speaking
twelve hours. This litigation grew out
of the fire at Minneapolis one year ago
to-day which resulted in the mill explo-
sion and loss of life.