River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-22
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

IT is said that timber to the value Of
81 ,0O0, 900 has been bnrned in the Parry
sound district of Ontario.
THE court house at Fond du Lac, Wis,
valued at $4,000. was destroyed by an in
cendiary fire.
REV. JAMES Triton, the Oldest Catholic
priest in New England, died in East Bos
ton, on the 18th inst.
A STORM at Danville, Va, blew down
the confederate military hospital, iniuring
several colored people.
The planing-mill of Watrous Brothers.
at Bay City, Mich. and large amount of
lumber were burned, causing loss of
$4,000.
A SAFE weighing three tons fell from a
third-story window in lower Broadway,
New York. and several persons barely
escaped being crushed to jelly.
ELI SLATER, a Wisconsin youth who
went to Saratoga with Charles l.. Colby
and family, of Milwaukee, was drowned
in Saratoga lake, or committed suicide.
SOMETHING akin to cholora has APP
pealed among the hogs in the region of
Plano, ILL., One man has lost SO animals
out of 70, and another has but II left out
of So
A FIRE at Austin, Nevada, on the 18th
inst, burned twenty buildings, including
the postoffice and Masonic and Odd-Fel-
lows halls. The loss is estiDated at $780,,
600.
THE piano of the wrecked steemer Col
umbia washed ashore al Frankfort, Mich.
The body of Mss Fitzgerald has been
shipped to Chicago, and that of Robert
Malcolmson has been found.
WHILE the races were in progress on the
fairgrounds at Kansas City, the main hall
was found to be in flames. and all the ex-
hibits were soon reduce ed to ashes. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
THE propeller Skylark, from Benton
Harbor, with cargo of fruit for Chicago,
in passing through the canal between Ben
ion Harbor and St. Joseph, struck log
"a blind pile"-and sunk. No lives were
lost.
EDWARD Z. CHANDLER, one OF the finest
WORK men in the jewelry business, threw
himself in front of train on the Midland
Pacific road, at Palmyra, Neb., and was
instantly killed.
In responding to an alarm Of fire in
Chicago, on the 10Th inst, the hose cart of
engine No. | went into the river at Adams
street, the bridge being swung. The driver
was fished out. and the horse swan about
a half mile up the river and climbed to
the bank.
ELLICR SWAMP, which embraces some
Thousands of acres in the vicinity of STRAIT
ford, Ont, has been on fire for ten days.
The destruction of property has been very
great The farmers residing near the
swamp have suffered the loss of their en-
tire property, buildings, crops, and cattle.
WHILE a train was backing up from
Mount Forest to Glencoe, Mich, falling
tree struck the caboose, sweeping FIVE men
out under the wheels of the engine.
Ernest Weight and William Lynch were
instantly killed Reuben Wright died
soon afterward, and Frank Beverly is not
expected 10 recover.
A SPECIAL committee has raised $40 937
in New York for the Michigan sufferers
to which the stock exchange added 81 200
q. w. Hotchkiss, secretary of the lumber
mems exchange of Chicago, has collected
81, 525 in cash and forwarded carload of
supplies The people of Cleveland have
placed 81 600 in Port Hope. Sand Beach
and Sandusky appear to be focal points of
the region most in need of succor. Sena-
tor Conger urges Governor Jerome to APP
peal TO the people of the United States
tor contributions to the amount of 81 ,OOO,-
O00