Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-08-05
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

TnRrEEN business places at Hastings.
Neh., we're burned, causing i loss Of 500
600
NEAR the pavilion in Lincoln Park,
Chicago. l.. Lex blew out his brains with
4 revolver.
ElGHrREN buildings III Cattaraugus y.
81, were swept away by fire. causing loss
of $4,000.
A VIOLENT squall capsized several plea
| sure aoats in Chicago harbor, and the loss
81 TIVE lives is reported,
A LOSS of $4,000 was incurred at Hall
fax, Pa. by the burning of Potter's ten
merry and five stables.
TwESTl-SIx buildings were DESTROYED
hy fire al Coliax, Washington territory,
involving loss of Sl20,0O.
4 FREIGHT train of six cars was thrown
from the Grand Trunk track at Wrs;
Paris, Me-, causing loss of $4,000
A DAMAGE of $25, 900 was inflicted by
fire and water on the clothing house of u.
II. Bingham X Co., at Springfield, Mass.
Two buildings of the Paquet cotton-
mills at Philadelphia. owned by William
Wood 4 Son. and valued at 100000, have
been burned.
WILLIAM q. DE TURK, of Reading, Pa,
WAS instantly killed by being thrown from
carria9e, and his wife and sister serious
ly injured.
\ rooI-cAR on the Texas Pacific road
jumped the track near the sand-hills. OF
sixty men on board, three were killed and
ten wounded.
Mrs. fREpERIet GASTEI, wife of Henry
Gastel, while walking on the railroad
track near the Menominee viaduct, was in
stantly killed by the ears
THE steam-barge, I. ]. Burroughs. took
fire when fifteen miles north OF Chicago,
and burned TO the waters edge The crew
leaped into the lake and we're rescued hy
tugs.
FLAMES burst forth in a photograph
gallery in Oneonta, \. y, caused hy the
spontaneous combustion of chemicals.
and were only STAYED when damage Of
81 600 had been inflicted
THE central and eastern portions of
! New York State and the New Engiand
States have Just been having some terrific
ana destructive lightning ard wind
storms.
l'HE habitual drunkenness of an only
son drove Thomas J J.Clark, All old and hon
ored citizen Of Geneva. Ill, to kill him
self with poison.
THE deaths are announced BY drowning
off Chicago. of John Beidler, a son of the
well-known lumherman, and L. J. Claw
4 son, ir., member Of the board Of trade.
TIE cotton warehouses OF \. p. Wright
/ x Co. at Thomasville, Ga, with 400
/ bales of cotton and the books of the city
treasurer. were destroyed by IRE.
THE church furniture works Of Haynes
i Spencer ( Co., at Richmond, Ind, Cary
x Roulette's planing-mill, ard Hugo's en-
| CINE governor works were burned to the
ground. the loss being $50 00a
EMF. NELSON. of Chicago, while driving
wagon over the Carpenier street crossing
/ of the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul
Railroad, was run down and killed by a
passenger train.
wolves in Lincoln Park. Chicago, put his
! hgnd inside the bars, when il was seized
and terribly lacerated by o.e of the ami
| mails. The surgeon amputafed a finger,
out further bad results are feared.
AT Cleveland, Ohio, Mr.. H. NJ. Loeb
ary, and Miss Jessie Edwards, engaged to
be married. went for boat ride on the
lske. Two days after the BODY Of the
lady was found floating in the water, indi-
eating that both were drowned.
A FARMER named Wilson. living on the
line Of the Kingston and Pembroke rail
road. in Csnada, while passing through
| and nearly devoured before his fate was
| learned.
FIRE swept away the mills of the Penn