Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-06-06
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n FIRE al ~ ui9
goods houses entai!ed a loss of about
800, 600, with insurance of two thirds
OF the amount.
AUGUST MEYERS dry goods house, at
Independence, Iowa, burned on Sunday.
Loss $4i 600, insurance $31 600.
A PORTION of circular saw, w. ich
burst at River Junctio., Mich, Saturday,
leoped away the upper portion OF John
Hetler's head, his brains falling to the
ground.
CHARLES TwITCHELL, Chancey Cas-
well and Morris Caswell were drowned
in Beaver river, at Cogan, Lewis county,
N. Y, by the capsizing of a raft.
GEwIHSCH & Sons, an old leather
firm of Vienna, Austria, have failed for
1000. 600 iiorins. Five other firms have
suspended in consequence of this fail
ure.
A FIRE in the lumber yard of Mr..
Mines, of Aberdeen, Scotland, is most
alarming. 1t is an open yard covering
three acres, and is filled with huge
stacks of sawed American timber, and
it is believed that it will continue to
burn for several days.
A FREIGHT tlain on the Parker s.
Karns City Railroad went through a
tr,stle near Harms City, Pa, and was
badly wrecked Two men, named
Thompson and Cook, were fatally in
Jured.
EX-JUDGE WELCOME r. BEEBEE. one
Of the oldest and best known admiralty
lawyers i'll New York, was killed Friday
at Plainfield, N. j ., by a locomotive
while stepping from the track to the
depot pl&tforM.
THE CINCINNATI Lead Pipe & Sheet
Iron company's works, 2t and % East
Ninth street, burned. Loss on stock
$4,000; insured The building, belong
ing to the Jason Evans e;tate, was dam
aged 100000 insured. Mrs LeeCh
rooming in the fourth story, was fatally
burned. VIM, +. Cook was also severe
ly burned.
CLOSING arguments wtro made be-
fore the Ohio Supreme Court Wednes
day on the question testing the validity
Of the Scott liquor law. The Supreme
body having withia year become
Democratic, the liquor sellers instituted
case, presumably under the impress
sion that it would reverse the decision
OF the republican body which preceded
it. The argument, are alleged TO have
been able ones, but decision will not
be reached before June 10.
A New YORK dispatch says the death
of Miss Crowley is reported. She is the
daughter of ex-Congressman Dick
Crowley. A year ago it was announced
that she was engaged to Allan Arthur,
the son of the president. TIE match
was broken Off IL is said that the pres
ident interfered and insisted that the
boy should not be sound by it as hr had
not finished hi. education The girl, it
is said, died of broken heart, and that
the affair caused quarrel between Ar
thur and Crowley. The gossip of Wash
ington is full of stories indicating the
bitterness of feeling c4used,in the Crow
ley family by The affair.
TuE Northwestern PaperMiil at
Rockton. w. T. Rasdall, of Beloit,
lessee, burned to the ground, cntailing
loss of about $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The tire was discovered a few minutes
before 4 o'clock in the rotary boiler
room, and soon communicated ts the
whole building, most of which was of
stone The mill was recently rebuilt at
large expense, and was IN good work
ing condiuou. 1t was figursd in the
assets of the Rock River Paper Com
pany. who hold Judgment of $50, 600
against the Northwestern Company.
but as .he property was in the hands of
Receiver and there are othereNtensive
prior claims against it. the Rock River
Company 5 loss cannot be well calculat-
ed. Mr. Randall loses $4,000 on stock,
and is uninsured. 1t is very doubtful
if the mill is to b. rebuilt.
A NEW YORK special says that one of
the worst railroad wrecks ever known
on the Ce,tral railroad occurred at 2
o'clock Wednesday night at Murray,
on the single track branch between
Rochester and Niagara Falls. Two
! trains. an sastern-bound freight and
| accommodation and a western-hound
| freight. met on the same track while at
| full speed, and in an instant fifty three
| loaded freight cars were derailed. and
the two engines were shapeless mass of
battered iron and steel with twenty
cars piled upon them. The damage will
/ be over $500, 900 The engineer and
train-hands almost by miracle escaped
with their lives by jumping. although
one engineer, Charley A. keeler, had
! three ribs broken.
4 TERRIBLE accident is reported near
I.egonier, Pa, ten miles south of the
! PENNSYLVANIA railroad. 4 scaffolding
at Knapp's tunnel gave way killing four
men and terribly injuring eleven otkers.
The covering was limestone and the
roof was timbered over a. the work pro-
gressed. II was thought TO be secure
but the rocky sides ard covering split
and came down with such force as to
crush in the heavy tinbers and piecipi-
tate the huge mass of earth on the un-
fortunate men below. The scene is de-
scribed as heartrendipg as one after an
other the mangled bodies were broug.t
out and laid on the bank. Six were kill
ed outright and two have since died j.
Five others were seriously injured. The
men killed were all foreigners with one
exception. Their names could not be
learned as the tunnel was 20 miles from
any railroad.
In Paris, France, on the End, at the
puslic races, aromautic speculatorwhc
had brought thither captive balloon