Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-12

ate attempt TO burn up the East Cambria. re
lumber district, setting fires in two wards,
which were speedily exiting shed
\ FIRE in f. F. Kings seven-story bricI
building, 400 and 4l3 Atlantic avenue
Boston, occupied by number Of firms
caused damage of about $4,000; par.
/ TALLY insured.
LIZZIE DEvISE. while performing the
catapult act in circus at Wilkesbarre
/ Pa, fell upon the netting, and is now suf-
iering from conclusion of the spine. Her
recovery is doubtful
! JOHN II. FINK, retired -four merchant
/ of New York, hanged himself TO the brake
of Hudson River freight car. Peter
Smith leaped off the bridge at St. Louis,
/ but was rescued.
FIRE destroyed the Douglas Machine
| Works at Warren, Ohio. Loss, 100000:
Insurance $500; wooden mills, loss, 81 600;
! insurance 5000 also the warehouse and
/ buildings, making total loss of $4,000.
] WIN. GREGORY. a relative of Judge
I Gregory, of Indiana, slipped from the
/ platform of car at Dodge City, Kansas.
and fell on the rail. His right leg was
terriably mangled. He died while it was
being amputated.
/ THE missing fishing boat from Mount
| Clemens Mich, was found Oft Crosse
/ Point. in Lake St, Clair, containing the
corpse of Morey Axtell As To the fate
of his three comrades nothing has been
| learned.
JOHN w. MINTURN, one of the famous
shippers of New York, killed himself
with a revolver in his private office. As
ha had t,r, Il
relations, the deed is attributed to tenn
porary insanity.
The mandatory of liquid dies and
iapans owned by Perrin, Payson & Co.,
IS and 70 Little Twelfth street, New York,
burned; loss $4,000. Dominick Richard
son, an employe, to whose inexperience
the fire was due, was probably fatally
burned.
A THUNDER storm passed over Sterling,
H.. Saturday evening. Lightning struck
the large barn of II. Flock, a few miles
south of here, setting it on fire and burn
ing it to the ground, and with it three
horses, seven cows, a large number of
hogs and all his hay, grain and farm inn
plements.
FIRE destroyed the Canada Southern
freight shed at St. Thomas, Ont, the loss
being s75, 900; lumber and coal yard at
Stapleton, l.. l., valued at $4,000, and
nine buildings at Cairo, West Va, worth
$4,000. David Reese and h il son were
burned to death by the collapse of build
ing at New Providence, Pa.
WHILE Mr. Bunk Magee, of Cobb
county, Ga, was burning brush on an old
stump, terrific explosion occurred. 1t
was caused by an old bombshell concealed
IN the stump, probably one of the relies of
the war. No one was hurt by the explo-
sion, but Mr.. Magee was badly burned by
the hot Goals which were thrown all over
him by the bursting shell
AN extensive conhagration broke out in
the great tannery works of Alderman
Mooney, about four miles from Montreal,
Canada. The fire spread with lightning
rapidity, and soon destroyed the whole
building, which covered about ten acres of
ground MONEYS loss is about $4,000,
and is partly covered by insurance, Two
hundred and fifty men are thrown out Of
employment.
NEWS has been received from Texas. by
Samuel Pinkerton, af Waupaca, Wis,
giving particulars of the death by drown
ing of his son William, who was in the
stock business in the south. 1t appears
he was crossing a river with some horses
when he met his fate. The young man
was a recent graduate from the Mon
mouth, H., college
JoHN \. LATTEY, a prominent stock
dealer, residing near Sperry Station, Iowa,
was killed by being thrown from his bug
Ky by his team running away. He had
gone to Mediapolis on business, and start
ed for his home about shutdown, About s
o o'clock his team ran into the town OF Sper-
ry without the buggy or their owner.
Search was made and, the lifeless body of
Mr.. Lately was found by the roadside
about half mile from town.