Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-19

Win tnIee leigtnS between second ana thrd
horses. Time 1:5914. Brambaletta showed the
way for furlOng after the start. then Thora
tcok the track and won as she pleased.
Very Destructive Fires.
CONFEDERATION IN SYRACUSE-LOSS OF LIFE
FEARED AND GREAT LOSS OF PROPERTY.
SYRACUSE, NY, July 19.-The Weiting Opera
Hovse, in the center of this city, one of the best
buildings, containing one of the handsOmest
opera houses in the state took fire this morning
and was destroyed within two hours. 1t has
b9en the most disastrous fire i'm Syracuse within
thirty years. The estimated loss is upwards of
SoOO, ,OOO Fully fifty tenants occupied the block,
all OF whom are losers to considerable amount.
The block was four stories high. covering half
an acre; and was valued at $500. 900. 1t was in
| sured for $S5,O0O The other principal losers
are as follows: RosenblOom Bros, shoe dealers
loss $50 600. insurance 500, 600; G. w. ingalls, &
Co.. shoe dealers, loss S5 600, insurance $40 600:
Emerson Frissile & Co., hardware, loss $4,000.
insurance SAC, 600; Giles Everson, private books.
loss $lO,OOO, no insurance; S. L. Pierce & Co..
crockery, damaged by water and fire, loss
SlOO0O insurance covers loss; Charles Shattuck.
saloon. loss 4OGO insurance So. 600; Charles j.
Powers. drugs, loss $4,000. insurance s13 900;
Il. b. Cr0fut d Co.. seeds and agricultural i'm
plements, loss $4,000, insurance So. 600: Warner
d co. and many other Offices were but slightly
insured. The New York State Banking Com
pany saved its money and papers. Half dozen
persons were more or less seriously injured by
falling walls and debris 1t is feared that one or
two persons perished in the burned buildings.
This is the third time within 25 years that build
lngs on this site have been burned.
GREAT LUMBER FIRE IN MICHIGAN.
EAST SAGINAW. MICH. July ia special
from NeStaDurg. small station on the Chicago.
Saginaw & St Louis railway, says the entire
western portion of the town, depot buildings.
1.250, GOO feet of lumber and about 12, 600. 900
shingles, were burned at late hour yesterday
afternoon. The insurance cannot be learned,
but the loss will reach $4,000. McI.ain &
Sprague of Toledo, lose $50, 600 feet of lumber;
N. G. Pratt, O0O, 600 feet of lumber and 900 600
shingles; j. w. Robinson. shed and LOCO 900
shingles, and John McRae ], ,00O, 600 shingles.
BLOCK BURNED IN IRvINGTON n. Y.
IRvINGTON N. Y. July 19.-At o'clock this
morning fire was discovered in Lord & Burn
hams horticultural building on street. The
| flames spread and the entire block was burned
to B street. The losses and insurances are as
follows: w. S. Warman dwelling and stable
loss 4.500, insurance $4,000: T. w. Cussfield
house and stable, loss $500. fully insured;
James Anderson, house, loss $1,000. insurance
81 600; James Murkey. house, loss s., 500, in
surance 81 500; Mrs. w. j. Mann, house and
| stable, loss $500, insurance 81 800. In the
aforementioned house was located the Irvington
Courier The stock and fixtures were DESTROYED,
loss 81. 600, no insurance. Lord & Burnham's
horticultural greenhouse and factory were also
burned. loss SIC, ,0OO fully insured in the Liver
pool and London and Globe and other compa-
nies. large dome for Jay Gould's greenhouse
was in the latter building and was destroyed
The fire was eXtinguished by 6 am. In Super
visor Cussfelds Office was a safe containing all
the records of the town of Greenburg, which
was probably destroyed.
An Ex-LegislatOr Killed in a Drunken Row.
BENNINGTON, VT, July 19.-Wilam O'Brien,
of Searsburg, Vt. died this morning from the
effects of injuries received in drunken alterca-
t1On last evening near the notorious Duffy's sa-
loon, in HOOsick, n. Y. A fracas occurred which
resulted in OBrien having two ribs broken and
receiving injuries about the head. which resulted
fatally. O'Brien was prominent man in Sears
burgh, and had represented that town in the
Vermont legislature. Recently he became ad-
dicted to drink. So far as is known all the par
ties to the crime We're drunk. No arrests have
been made.