Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-17
NEOrtuary.

ray Drector Joseph =. Eldr1dge, on the re-
tired list of the United States navy, died at his
residence in Brooklyn on the 18th inst.
Charles George Neall. Earl OF Gainsborough,
is dead.
Steuben Butler, aged 90, the oldest citizen
of Wilkesbarre, Pa, died on the 18th inst.
| Eber Elliot Aldrich, superintendent of
| the Troy and Boston Railroad, died at Troy n
| Y, on the 18th inst.
| Elk. Congressman Origen S. Seymour. form
! erly chief justice of the Connecticut supreme
court died at Litchfeld that state, on the 18th
inst.
! Captain John Hanna, prominent citizen
of Indianapolis, dropped dead from heart dis
ease at Wyandotte, Mich.
John Hill Burton. the Scottish historian
and biographer, is dead.
| Gen. Maxine Jarez. Nicaraguan minister to
| the United States, died at his residence il
| Washington, d. c.. on the 18th inst.
Mrs. Fillmore, relict of ex-President Willard
Fillmore, died at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th
| inst, of paralysis.
Hon. o. H. Browning, who died at Quincy
ILL.,, on the 10th inst, filled the unexpred term
| of Stephen A. Douglas in the senate and was
secretary of the interior in President Johnson's
cabinet. He was born in Kentucky in 1906.
| Col. l.. j. Stephens, prominent light of
central Missouri, died at Bonneville, that state,
on the 18th inst
| J. K Ish wholesale druggist of Omaha,
one of the earliest settlers, is dead.
Harvey James, assistant superintendent of
government buildings of Cincinnati, died on
the 9th inst.
Elder James White, founder of the Seventh
Day Adventists, died at Battle Creek, Mich,
on the 9th inst, of malarial fever.
Work of the Flames.
The Georgian Bay Lumber Company's mill at
Waubashene, Ont, burned on the 14th inst.
Loss heavy.
The Atlantic Flour Mills, of ST. Louis, were
struck by lightning on the night of the 18th
| inst, and an explosion followed entirely de-
| stroying the fine structure. The fire commune
Gated to and consumed the Future City oil
works and q rosin and turpentine warehouse
The loss foots up in the neighborhood of $780,
600. Several employees of the flour mill were
badly burned.
The Parry House, Beach Haven, n. J., has
burned. The guests lost all their property
Loss on building, $50, 900.
st. Pauls Episcopal church. the finest sacred
edifce in Erie Pa, caught fire on the 18th
inst. from lamp in the hands of the janitor.
The damage to the building is estimated at
100000, while the loss on organ and furniture
amounts to $4,000 more. The building was
insured for So, 600, but the organ, ETC., were not
covered.
Fire destroyed fourteen business houses in
the village of Trafalgar, Johnson county, Ind,
on the 10th inst. The totalloss will reach $780,
600 with only small proportion of insurance.
The tobacco warehouse of Bosnian & Co., at
inst. Loss S25,0
The City Brewery, st. Joseph, Mo-, burned
on the 10th. Loss $14, 900.
Nine ice houses belonging to J. P. Smith were
destroyed by fire at Pullman, ILL.,, on the 10th.
Loss $4,000.
Grevy, village in Canton Gusons, Switzer-
land, has been wiped out by fire.
Fire destroyed almost the whole of the bust
ness part of Pawnee, Neb., on the 9Th inst.
Twenty-four business houses, two banks and a
printing Office were burned.
The Laughlin nail mills, at Martins Ferry,
W. Va, burned on the 9th inst. Loss, 500. O00
fully insured.
The Mclean wooden mills, GAINESVILLE, Wis,
were destroyed by fire ON the 9th inst. Loss,
$50 900; insured for $4,000.
The excursion steamer Flower City, valued at
$4,000, was burned at the DOCK at Clay
ton, N. Y, on the st. Lawrence River, on the
9th inst. She was owned by John Fl. Barry, of
Rochester
A training stable on race-course near Lex
ington, KY, was burned at daylight on the 9th
inst Out of sixteen horses preparing for the
fall meeting, Bowen's Carrie Hanson and
Eagles gray colt Knox were burned to death,
and the others were greatly injured by dashing
mady around the course.
The large wire and nail mills at East Tam
ton, Mass, operated by the Old Colony Iron
Company were totally destroyed by fire on the
7th inst. Loss estimated between $3.50, 600 and
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