Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-10

ANincendiarJ fire destroyed 45 build
ings at Rathdrum. Idaho, Sunday. The
loss is $50, 900, and twenty families are
destitute.
IT is sersi-officially stated ia Paris
! that Admiral Courbet made his promis-
Ell descent upon the city OF Ke-Lung
Tuesday.
A SON Of O'Donovan Rossa's, who is
i'll Paris boasts that he has brought with
him $4,000 francs with which to buy
| dynamite to be sent to England.
| A HOLLAND, Mich, dispatch rays the
flour mill of Welsh, Deroe & Co., at this
place was damaged by fire to the
amount of $4,000.
NEAR Denver, Tuesday night, an ex-
press and passenger train dashed into
each other, thirty passengers being
injured, none fatally. A locomotive
and a slesping-car were demolished.
Two sleeping cara and fifteen freight
cars were destroyed by fire after the
| collision between passenger train and
freight train, on the Chicago and Al
ton railroad, near Paducah junction.
Several persons were more or less in
iureS The loss to the railroad company
is estimated at $50, 600.
Two trains met in collision Monday
afternoon near Pennington, w. Va,
the result being two men killed, three
or four fatally, and others severely
wounded. Six freight cars and mail
car were demolished. All the pa5Sen-
gers escaped uninjured.
A MONTREAL dispatch of the 30th
says there were % houses burned at
Lachine last right Loss about $35, 600;
partly insured. Some so families were
turned out of their homes. This is the
second disastrous confiagaration that
has visited Lachine within 4 short
period.
A LARGE barn on the Erdenheim stock
farm of Commodore Kittson, near Phil
adelphia, burned. A large supply of
farm produce was burned, and thor
oughbrei mare-Ailene, valued at ST.
500-perished. Lsss, $50, 600; in ured.
FIRE broke out in a coal pile in the
basement of the Hamilton Manufactur-
ing Company's store house in Lowell,
Mass, whish contained half a million
dollars worth of private goods. The
firemen were several hours in extinguish-
ing the flames. Several firemen were
badly injured.
The Glen House as Mount Washing
ton N. H., burned on Thursday. 1t
was one of the largest hotels i'll the
mountain region. A high wind prevail
ed, and caused the flames to spread
rapidly. All the furniture and fixtures
of the house were destroyed. The loss
is over 1925, 600 The insurance is only
500 000 1t will be rebuilt Immediately.
COMPLAINING of pains in her arms,
Mrs. Seeley, of SARDINIA, N. Y, applied
for relief to physician, who, after ex
amining her, found developed sores and
applied poutices the result being the
extraction of forty-six needle! or por-
tions of nee Iles from the afflicted mem
bers. The woman has no knowledge of
how they wero introduced into her sys-
tenn.
A GASOLINE lamp exploded in Oranges
saw mill at Canton, N. Y, on Thursday,
setting the mill on fire. The flames
spread very rapidly, and before the en-
gine5 could arrive had made such head
way that it was impossible TO save the
mill. AT one time it seemed as if none
of the buildings on the island could be
saved. But the firemen succeeded in
c"nfning tho fire to the mill which was
totally destroyed. The mill employed
about fifty men, who will be thrown out
of employment. The loss is about $780,,
UO0: no insurance