Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
Work of the Flames,

The Milwaukee Leather Company's tannery
at Milwaukee, Wis, was partially destroyed by
fire on the night of the 9th inst Loss esti-
mated at $50 900.
On the morning Of the 9Th inst, fire was dis
covered III the extensive crockeIy AMI fancy
ware establishment of Ovington Bros, Brook
lyn, and in an hour :he store and contents
were completely destroyed. The fire osiginated
Just back of the Office and was occasioned by a
boy dropping a lamp as he was about to kinde
a fire i'll the store. OvingtOn Bros. estimate
their loss at $3.50, 900. In their store besides
bric-a- brac there were number of valuable oil
paintings which could not be saved. The dam
age to property adjoining Ovlngon's buildings
and stocks therein is $50, 900. Insured.
The rolling mills of Morrison, Colnall x
Page, the Pilot Mills Of p Gugerty and Pow
ers & O'Brien's knitting mills at Cohoes, N.
Y, were destroyed by fire on the 5th inst.
Nearly 100000 worth Of property was de-
stroyed.
Peoria, H., experienced an extensive blaze
on the 5th inst. The rear of the Denim block
was destroyed. Loss $4,000.
Other fires on the eth: Danver's Mass
Rolling Mills, LOCO; Richter's cap and fun
store. Davenport, Ia, $50. 900; Ward, Stanton
& Co.'S boat building establishment, Newburg,
II. Y, $4,000: Ander5 -four mill In Carroll
County. Md. $25, 900; Hodson's planning null,
Smith & Delting's furniture factory, Hartzell
& Hartmann's planning mill and several ma
chine shops at South Bend. Ind; $4,000; the
lar ge freight depot of the Norfolk and Weston
Railroad at Zuni Station, Va.
st. Mary's Episcopal School for children at
Knoxville, H., burned TO the ground early on
the morning Of the 18th inst. The scholars,
100 i'll number, had barely time to escape, and
lost all their effects. Two ladies and gentle.
man were seriously injured. The loss fOote
up about 100000.
The Montreal rolling mills we're destroyed by
4l,od
Fires on the 3D. Construction shop of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Baltimore,
$35 600: Hannibal and st. Joe, elevator and
depot at st. Joseph, Nd, $780, 600; Hood,
Bonbright & Co.'S dry goods store, Philadel
phia, $500 elevator at Keokuk, Ia, $llO,'
900.
A spoke factory at Wapakoneta, Ohio, valued
at $50, 200, was burned on the 30th ult. Mar
tindales fiour-m1lls at Burlington, Kansas
were destroyed by fire. Loss $35, 900.
MusseIman & Co. s. gram elevator at Eaton
O.. was reduced to smoking ruins on the 20
inst. Loss $4,000.
A fire at Pine Bluffs, Ark, on the I'd inst,
cut wide swath IN the business section OF the
town. Loss $125,000.
The residence of Geo. B. YanderpOoI, tax
commissioner of New York City, at Chatham
Nj, burned on the I'd. Loss $4,000.
Manistee, Mich, suffered by fire to the ex'
tent of $4,000 on the I'd. About a dozen bust
ness houses were cleaned out.
Breaker No. 10, of the Pennsylvania Goa
Co., was destroyed by fire at Pittsburg, Pa.
on the 1st inst. Loss $150,000.
At an early hour on the morning of the 3ls
ult., flames made their appearance III the
basement of the Friend building at Milwaukee
the largest mercantile block in that city, anC
burned to the roof. The total loss was abou
$4OO,0 600, most OF which was sustained b.
Friend Brothers, although the stocks of Ian
dauer & Co.. and Straw. Ellsworth & Co., suf
fered somewhat.