Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-08-18
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

A DAMAGE of $4,000 was inflicted by
fire in the city brewery at st. Joseph, Mo.
SIX negro convicts were killed by land
slide in a railway cut near Lexington, Va.
THE guests of the Parry house, at Beach
Haven, n. j., had to fee from fire in the
night. and reached Camden in bathing
suits. The loss on the building was $780,
600.
THE tobacco warehouse of j. r. Bosnian
& Co., at Athens, Ohio, valued at $25, 900,
was swept away by fire.
YELLOW fever is sweeping off the Off
GERS and men of the De Lesseps Canal
company.
THE mill of the Georgian Bav Lumber
Company, at Waubashene, Ont. was
burned, with heavy loss.
FLAMES inflicted damage of several
thousand dollars on the packing house of
King & Co., at st. Joseph, Mo.
Two southern students at Poughkeepsie,
n. Y, were drowned while trying to row
across the bow Of a steamer.
THE large woolen-mills in Iowa belong
ing to the Amana society, valued at $75,-
600, have been destroyed by fire.
Mrs. H. NJ. HARRIS, of Easton, Pa,
while temporarily deranged, sprang from
the third-story window of a house in
Newport, K. l., and was instantly killed.
A FREIGHT train on the Memphis and
Charleston road ran over three negroes
asleep on the track. killing two of the
number and severely wounding the other.
Miss MINNIE WILLIAMS. of Hastings,
Neb., a graduate of the state university,
finding herself going blind from study,
drowned herself in the creek at Lincoln.
THE British man-of-war Druid struck
heavily on a ledge of rock projecting into
Fortune bay, Newfoundland, tearing off a
portion of her main keel.
WHILE group of twenty white road
laborers were standing beside house in
Hartsville, S. c., a bolt of lightning
killed four and dangerously wounded ten
of them.
THE excursion steamer Flower City,
valued at $40, ,000, was burned at the dock,
at Clayton, n. Y, on the st. Lawrence
river, She was owned by John III. Barry.
of Rochester.
JUDGE JAMES ID. Cole OF the Massachu-
setts supreme bench. committed suicide at
his Office in Pittsfeld, Mass He held the
revolver against his right temple. For
some time he has been in very bad health
The house of negro named Charles
Moody, at Lake Village, n. H., was burn
ed July 4. three children perishing in the
flames. The coroner's Jury found that the
little ones were murdered by their parents
and the house set on fire to conceal their
crime.
AT Jersey City, n. J., Mrs. Eliza Downs
who had just arrived from England, with
her child and her mother. and was wait.
| ing for a train 10 take them to Peoria.
where her husband resides, was Frustrated
by the heat Saturday and died.
A FLOOD at Central City, Col, caused by
the bursting of rain.cloud, did damage
of $500 Ore man was killed. A vol
ume of water five feet high ran through
the streets, and at some points the debris
was piled up twenty-five feet.
TIE residence of DIR. William Bowen of
Scituate, r. l., burned recently. Flames
subsequently appeared in his barn, which
led to the discovery of an Internal ma
chine operated by clock-work. The doctor
had been very active in securing the en-
forcement of the liquor law, and has been
prosecuted therefor.
A TRAIN on the Grand Trunk railway
ran off the track near Prescott, Ont.
John A. Howarth, :he engineer, was
found dead, with his arm around the
whistle rope. William Taylor, the fire.
man, received a dislocation of the shoul-
der. Arthur King and William Macken-
zie, the express messengers, were injured
| internally. S. 2. Hartshorn, of Holton.
Mich, was hurt in the back The cars
were badly splintered.