Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-07-17

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of Chicago, shot himself accidentally.
1t is believed his wounds are fatal,
A TOLEDO Ohio dispatch SAYS: A fire
broke out at 1oon in the extensive lum-
Der yards of the Mitchell * Rowland
Lumber Company, and tits still burning.
The loss will be heavy.
THE Revere Rubber Company's works.
at Revere, Mass, were burned Loss.
100000 The factory of the Revere
Rubber Company occupied three acres.
All the buildings were burned except
three storehouses. The factory was
running to its full capacity. employing
500 hands. The Loss Is $500, GOO; insured
for 100000. Spontaneous combustion
caused the fire.
4 THE Post Dispatch's ST. Louis. Mo-
special says; "Augusted q Smiths ele-
vator, at Severance, Kas., was burned
Tuesday night, together with several
other buildings There were $4,000
bushels of grain in the elevator. The
loss is 100000: insurance unknown. The
fire was the work Of an incendiary."
THE Pail Mall Gazette says: cit is
rumored that France and Portugal have
concluded a secret treaty against
d.
to make Macco the base of land at
tack upon Canton. Action win be taken
to compel China to recognize gMacco as
Portuguese territory, which has hither-
to been refused.
4 DISPATCH from Cairo says letter
from Khartoum state that Khartoum
was captured during the latter part of
May without difficulty. There was no
massacre. Most of the Europeans turn
ed Mohammedan. Among those who
did not was General Gordon, who is
quite safe and allowed the freedom of
the Mahdi's camp. The Mahti himself
is at Khartoum. The Europeans are
well treated
In the South Boston Iron foundry
yesterday a 120-ton gun had Just been
cast when the mold burst, completely
running the casting. The gun, if per-
fected, would have been twelve-inch
rifle-bore breech-loader, and of the Rod
man pattern. 1t would have been 80
feet 6 inches long. and weighed 100
tons. 1t was feet inches across the
muzzle, and 4 feet inches across the
brcech. 1t would have been worth
$4,000,
NEAR Champaign, Ill, during a storm
on Tuesday night, the barns on the Phin-
ney farm, the William Allen farm, the
John Doherty farm were struck by light
ming and burned John G.. Clark lost
three horses and several others lost fine
cattle and hogs Mrs. Margaret Lowry's
barn, near Philo, burned with twenty
hogs and 400 bushels of corn. In Plato
Center Kane county, Ill.,, the village
store was burned, entailing a loss of
$4,000 with no insurance.
SPONTANEOUS combustion resulted in
a fire which destroyed the Revere, Mass,
Rubber Works, occupying three acres,
Saturday morning, entailing a loss of
$500, 600, Thirteen business buildings
burned at Pemherville, Ohio, causing a
loss of S75, 000 The Silver & Deming
Manufacturing company's buildings
were destroyed at Salem, Ohio, the loss
being estimated at 100000 Half a
dozen stores were consumed at Leech-
burg Pa, the loss on which is $25, 600.
Dougan's planning mill at Brooklyn also
burned, causing loss of $4,000, the
heat bursting the tank on the roof of
Appleton's publishing house, the dam
age to books and machinery reaching
$40, 600.
A Bangor Me, special says almost all
of the north asst Maine is in flames. A
dispatch from Patten says the air is full
Of cinders and ashes. the sun is
obscured and the h0rizon'imited by day,
and night is made grand and terrible by
the distant roar of the great coniiagra-
ton and the glare Of great seas of flame.
One great fire has for three weeks been
sweeping the country between ST. John
and Alegash rivers Another big blaze
between Greenville and the Weat
branch of the Penobccot, has been
burning for ten days. Last Sunday a
third fire started on the Wassattaquolk,
and is sweeping the timber land north
between townships 4 and s. The dam
age can hardly be reckoned. The fires
are fed by the great tracts of timber
blown down by the terrible gales of last
fall, Hundreds of millions of feet of
valuable timber then Frustrated have
dried in the sun and are now at the
mercy of the flames.