Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10

$175, 1000 to 100000; insurance $50, 600. Over
800 men are thrown out of employment.
Munger, Maxwell d Co.'S grain elevator at
Duluth, Mimi. was destroyed by fire on the
9th instant. 1t cost $4,000 in 1876 and was
insured for $4,000. 1t contained about 17O,-
900 bushels of grain. Insurance on grain
about 1000; $4,000 on grain owned by
David Bows, and $33, 900 on that owned by
Barnes Il Finney.
The large four story brick building on Beall
street, Buffalo, N Y. formerly used as q tan
merry by Schoellkopf d Co., and lately sold to
the New York Central railroad company at a
cost of $4,000 and the building adjoining at
Sc, 600, burned on the night of the 9Th instant.
Loss about $50, 900; insurance $40, 800.
fire at Petroha, Pa, on the 9th instant,
destroyed five buildings. Loss $4,000.
The wholesale dry goods house of Auerbach,
Finch, Culbertson q Co., at st. Paul, Mimi,
was burned out on the 7th instant. The build
ing cost 100000 three years ago, and was insur-
ed for $4,000. TWAS filled with stock valued
at $850,000 for the spring trade, on which there
an insurance of 1892, 900.
Galbraith's spinning mills at Glasgow, Scot
land, have burned. Loss f50,000. Two lives
were lost
fire, supposed to be lncendiary, broke out
during the storm on the night of the 4th inst,
in the chemical works and pot house of the De
PAW Plate Glass mandatory, at New Albany,
$4,000 and 500, 600; insurance $4,000.
At Barr mills Me-, on the 9Th inst, McKen-
zie's gr1st mill and covered bridge $50 feet
long were burned Loss $4,000
The Cincinnati and Nuskingum Valley railroad
depot at Circleville, o., was struck by lightning
at an early hour ON the 4th inst. The building
and contents were burned to the ground. Loss
$4,000.
Gallaghers furniture store, Odd Fellows
hall and the residence of Mr.. O'Hara, were
burned at Sequin, Texas, on the 4th inst.
Lemkinds brewery, two miles from Daven-
port, Iowa, burned on the 18th inst. Loss S24, >
900; insurance $4,000 1t contained about II :
600 bushels of grain.
A fire in Brinckley, Ark. on the Sd inst,
burned 1. large hotel owned by Gum q Black.
Loss 900; insured. The west end OF the
hotel was occupied as an Office by the Southern
Express company and Memphis and Little Rocl,
Railroad company. All the papers and valua-
bles were destroyed.
Farnham & Comstock's planning mill and the
Domestic sewing machine factory. in New York
city, were destroyed on the I'd. Loss about
3150.000. The engineer of the planning mill,
Karetz E. Decarey, was fatally burned.
The village of Bergen, Genessee county, n.
Y, was laid in ashes on the Cd inst. Every
business place in the village but one. twenty
eight Ill all, was burned to the ground. Nine
families were left houseless, and one young
man. Burt Hall by name, was burned nearly to
death. The fire was incendialy, and suspicion
rests on two prominent citizens. Fourteen
years ago the same village was half burned III
the same manner, and at that time, as now,
both these men held heavy insurance.
A fire in Main street, Walkesbarre, Pa, on the
I'd inst, caused loss of $50, 600.
At Memphis, Tenn, on the LIST inst, Roos q
Graham's wagon factory was destroyed by fire.
Loss about $4,000.