Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08
The Fire Record


on toe 9Th inst, by fire.
Cunningham Il Co. = spoke factory at Fostoria,
O., burned on the 9Th inst. Loss 1875, O00
A fire at Elyria. o., on the 4th inst, Destroy
ed several factories, lumber yard and three
railway cars. Loss 100000.
Hartley q Bros tannery at Pittsburg, Pa,
together with a large amount of tan bark was
consumed by fire on the Sd inst. Loss $780,
900.
While the court was in session at Guthrie
Center, Ia, on the Sd inst, the court house
took fire and was destroyed. All the records
were saved. Loss $4,000 insurance $15, 900.
Jorden's grocery store at Waco, Texas, van
ished III smoke on the LIST inst, causing loss
of S40,0 600.
At South Ashbury, Mass, on the LIST inst,
Whitneys chair factory was destroyed by fire.
Loss $780, 900.
A number of stores, the American express
office, the Western Union telegraph office, Odd
Fellows Hall and the Waterville Bank burned
at Waterville, Me-, on the 1st inst, entailing a
loss Of $4,000.
Five business stores, newspaper office and
| several small shops in Athens, Texas, burned
on the night Of the 9th ult. Loss $500
Ruyster's & Sons tannery and several adj
joining building were swept away by fire, at
Greenbush, N. Y, on the lst inst. Loss $50, 900,
The dry goods establishment of E. Malley, at
New Haven, Conn.,, burned on the 28th ult.
Loss 100000.
A warehouse containing between two and
three thousand bales of cotton was swept away
by fire at Atlanta, Ga, on the 28th ult. Loss
$48, 900.
fire at Jackson, Tenn, on the night of the
9th ult., DESTROYED Robinsons furniture store,
Gorham Il Co.'s crockery house and the Odd
Fellows Hall. Loss 100000.
| The Miami Soap and Oil Company's works at
| Cincinnati, o., were consumed by fire on the
9th ult. Loss 100000. Insurance nearly
$50, 600.
building on the corner of Seventeenth
Street and Washington Avenue, st. Louis, Mo-,
was destroyed by fire on the 9th ult. Loss On
| building and stocks of the various occupants,
$85, O0G
The market-house and town hall, the princi-
palsbulding in East ST. Louis, burned on the
18th ut, causing loss of $4,000.
TraEical TaIes.
| At Corsicana, Texas, Thomas Bradley, killed
school teacher named Mrs. Laura Hall, stab
bling her four times. Bradley had been the
| lady's sutton before her marriage.
Perry White died on the I'd inst, at Windfall,
| Ind, from knife wound inflicted the night
| before by Geo. Doles. The men had had q
quarrel at church, and Doles had followed
White to his home where an alteration fol-
lowed in which the knife was used. Doles has
not been arrested.
! A Swede named James Johnson, foreman of
lumber yard at Grand Rapids. Mich, was IA
tally shot, on the I'd inst, by Valentine Kohier,
because he refused to treat. The murdered
man leaves family.
Charles Fry. in Jail on charge of arson, at
Georgetown, O., murderously assaulted J. B.
Helbling, Jr., son of the sheriff. in the jail,
when the latter shot the prisoner dead.
| Charles B. Gillem, aged IT, shot his mother
dead at Bakers Corner, four miles from Anna
da, Mich, on the 28th ult. Mrs. g., who is an
invalid, quaTreled With her son. who became SO
enraged that he killed her. When arrested he
said he had committed the deed, and now he
would have peace in the house.
G. I. Lansing of Eureka, Col, murdered his
wife, on the I'd inst
Sheriff j. Hopkins of Barry County, No.,
was assassinated at Verona, in that state, on
the I'd inst, by an unknown person. who fred
from behind barn.
! DR.. Williford, of Memphis, Tenn, was
awakened by his wife on the night of the 28th
ult, who stated she heard someone attempting
to open the back door. The doctor arose and
| Examination showed that he had mortally
wounded young colored nurse, who slept in
the house, but had gone out in the yard. The
bullet passed entirely through the body of the
unfortunate girl.
Indians in the San Francisco mountains mas
sacred the wife of Thomas Mathison, his two
daughters and two Mormon men. Mathison,
| who is a Mormon, escaped and reached Denver.
DR.. J. w. Muckols was shot and killed at
Springfield, Tenn, on the 28th ult,, by 0. B.
HOPKINS, or NASHVILLE, his DrOIner-ln-laW.
Cause, domestic troubles.
Poke Wells and Bill Norris, the desperadoes
captured at Randolph, Wis, on the 25th ult.,
attempted to escape from the officers while on
board train en- route for Fremont County,
Ia, under charge of Sheriff Chandler. The
officers opened fire on the prisoners, Wells re-
ceiving six and Norris five balls.
Chicken thieves shot and killed William
Thomas, who surprised them at work on his
premises at Highland, Ind, on the 9th ult
| Three men are under arrest.