Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-10-06
Work of the Flames.

Work of the Flames.
! Macks extensive saw mill, blind factory and
large quantity of lumber were burned at Gin
clnnati, on the Sd inst. Loss $4,000. The
blaze emanated from cigar stumps carelesslv
thrown into some shavlngs by two boys.
The OFall0n flour mill at st. Louis, was
damaged by fire on the 3D. inst, causing a loss
of $50, 900 on building and stock.
A fire at Roodhouse, ILL.,, on the I'd mst de-
shoyed 100000 worth of property.
The engine house of the Vigiiant Fire COM
pany, together with the steamer and all the
company's property at Augusta, Ca, on the
night of the LIST inst. Loss, $4,000; no in
surance; incend1ary.
The steamship Isaac Bell, when nearly ready
to sail from Norfolk, Va, for New York. on the
I'd inst, took fire and burned to the waters
edge. The vessel had on board $50 bales of
cotton, besides other merchandise. The Isaac
Bell was built in 1863 and cost about 1920, OOO
Property belonging to the Merchants Trans
portation company, West, Clark & Case, whole
sale grocers. and Grant Sons. coal dealers, to
the value of 1000 was destroyed by fire at
Trenton, N. j., on the LIST inst.
Several stores in Schuylersville, N. Y, were
destroyed by fire on the 30th ult
Oglesby d Morses paper mill at Middleton,
o., was damaged to the extent of $4,000 by
fire on the 30th ult.
o. P. Chaney's grain elevator at Winchester,
o., was destroyed by fire on the 10Th ult. Loss
about S15, 900.
A destructive fire occurred at Fort Dodge. Ia.
on the night of the 9th. The dry goods store
of Hull & julius, the boot and shoe store of
Crosby d Co., the hardware store of Prussia's.
and the First National bank, were burned, be-
SIDES smaller buildings. Loss, $100,000; in
Surance, S55, 900.
A fire broke out on the 9th, among large
number of barges on the Neva above the bridges
at st. Petersburg. The barges, which were
laden with hay, broke loose and forty enormous
flaming heaps foated down the stream, endan-
gering all the shipping in the river. The police
guided the burning masses clear of vessels and
there was no further destruction of shipping
Tragical.
Andrew Finley was murdered by his nephew
Edward Jones, aged 81 years, near Salem, ILL.,,
on the "a inst. The unfortunate man received
the contents of shot gun in his left breast
In a saloon fight at Masillon, Ohio, on the
night of the I'd INST, John Mair. proprietor of
the bagnio had his throat cut with razor.
causing death in fifteen minutes.
At Jersey City, N. j., on the I'd inst, Mrs
Mary Doyle, temporarily insane from malarial
fever, threw her two months Old babe out of
third story window, and it was instantly killed.
At Sacramento, Cal, on the LIST inst, Mrs.
Geo. Hamilton sent a note asking an interview
with her husband, from whom she had been
separated He called on her, and during the
conversation she shot him dead. Cause, ieaI-
ousy. Last winter she shot and severely
wounded young girl who had excited her
jealousy.
In Frederick township, Orange county, Ind,
farmer named Nathan Lambdin was stabbed
in the neck by Edward Cromwell, an employee
who then ran hastily to a river near by and
drowned himself. It is supposed Cromwell was
rendered delirious by fever to which he was
subject. Lambdin will recover.
A man named W. H. Fairchild was arrested
at Chicago, on the LIST inst, for the murder of
an old man named Richard French in Kansas
In 1878. The crime WAS divulged to the chief
of police of Toledo, O., by the prattling of
Fairchild's seven-year- child
At Yakima City, W. T., on the 30th, in
scrlmmaSe, Dlnk Splawn was killed, John
Splawn shot through both legs, and David Car
rol shot through the lungs.
A negro employed on the st. Johns and Lake
Eustice railroad, Florida, killed white boss.
He was carried to Fort Mason; but, at night,
band of men overpowered the guard, took the
negro out and lynched him.
Robbers assassinated the wife of the Russian
consul at Van, city in Turkish Armenia, on
the 10Th ult.
P. Griffin was shot and killed at AbbevilIe
Court House, S. c., on the 28th ult., by Chas.
McClung; both white. They quarrelled while
playing billiards, and Griffin drew knife when
McClung shot him in the head and breast.
worthless cur known as ''Shang the boot
black" met highly respectable young man,
named John Summons, both colored, in front of
the Arlington house billiard hall, Hot Springs,
Ark, on the 28th ult., and had a few words
with him, wherein the lie passed, when Shang
drew his revolver, leveled it at Summons and
fired, the ball striking HMM the head, infiicting
fatal wound.
Near Plattsburg, Mo-, a lady named VIM,
returning nome ON horseback from visit
to friends, was seized by negro who over
came her struggles and violated her person.
party of neighbors Immediately started in pur-
suit of the tiend, overlook and hanged him on
the spot. The ravisher proved to be a mulatto,
a married man, and laborer on Winn's farm
Louis Bowry, a lad residing at Fort Wayne,
Ind, hurled a stone at a seven-year-old COM
panion, named Henry Gerke, inficting injuries
from which he died on the 26th.
German laborer at G. and N W. railroad
construction camp near Florence, Mich, was
brutally murdered in his bed On the night of
the oath, by fellow workman named Burke.
The murderer was captured and jailed