Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-23
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About one-fourth of the business portion of
the town of Leipsic. Ohio, burned on the 10Th
inst The losses aggregate $4,000.
Fire in the steel works at Newark, n. J., de-
stroyed property to the value of $50 900 on the
18th inst.
The Opera House at Washington, Kansas,
burned ON the 18th inst, involving a loss of
800, 900.
Neii's paper board mill at Lockport, N. Y,
burned on the 18th inst. Loss $4,000.
Fire in the building of S. W. Silver & Co.,
publishers, London, on the 18th caused loss
of EDS 600.
The Montezuna hotel at Las Vegas N. M.
burned on the 18th inst. Loss 100000
A six-story building, occupied by several
firms, New York, burned on the 18th. Losses
aggregate 800, 200.
Several stores were burned at Fayette, Mo-,
on the 18th. Loss estimated at $4,000.
A fire in the business portion of Conastata.
n. Y, on the 18th, swept away upwards of
$40, 600 worth of property.
Bechnaud's brewery, at Fond usLac, Wis,
burned on the 10th, together with 5000 bush
els of barley and malt, and 1900 barrels of
beer. Loss $50, 900.
Two buildings Of the Johnson Harvesting
Works, at Batavia, n. Y, burned on the 10Th.
Loss $50, 900.
A large wooden mill at Exeter, r. L, burned
on the 10th, involving a loss of $3l, 900.
A yarn mill at West Greenwich, r. l., burned
on the 10Th. Loss $4,000
Four three story brick dwellings, known as
Klaus Block, owned by the Northwestern Life
Insurance Company, at Green Bay, Wis,
burned on the 18th inst The losses aggregate
$4,000.
Eight business houses at Neosho. Mo-,
burned on the 18th. Loss $4,000.
The wholesale fur house of Matheny, Hanie
q Co., st. Paul, Mimi, suffered to the amount
of $40, 900 by a confagration on the 18th inst.
Ten business buildings at Naples, ILL.,, were
destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss $35, 900.
Three large warehouses at New York burned
on the 14th, involving loss of 1876, 000
A storehouse filled with empty barrels at
Chicago burned on the 18th, involving a loss
of $25, 900.
Minor Mention.
Fred Schumacher, carpenter, fell from a
scaffold atsChlcago on the 18th inst, and broke
his neck.
An explosion in the works of Vulcan Dyna-
mite Company, at Allentown, Pa, on the 18th
inst, killed three workmen.
A man named Swinden was run down and
killed by the cars at Chicago on the 18th inst
The treasury officials at New York seized a
lot Of diamonds valued at $4,000 on the 18th,
which an attempt was being made to smuggle
through the mail.
Robert Stoddard, a brakeman, was fatally
injured while coupling cars at Roscoe, ILL.,, on
the Itch inst.
Grin G. Rogers was caught by the shaft of a
corn shelter at Fort Atkinson, Wis, on the 18th
and mangled so that he survived but few
hours.
One man was killed and another seriously in
jured by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge
in Union County, N, c., on the 18th.
Baron Ste Susanna, governor-general of Mo
naco is dead.
The death is announced of Schuyler, the
African explorer.
Jacob Thinnes, a switchman, was run over
and killed by an engine at Muskego Avenue
crossing, Milwaukee, early on the morning of
the 18th. He leaves wife and six children.
Nat Geist, student at Williamstown (Mass. }
college, was instantly killed while coasting at
that place on the afternoon of the 18th inst.
The bob ran into bridge.
brickIayer named Schmeskeb1er, was killed
by the cars at Chicago on the 10Th.
Amos D. Lockwood, prominent cotton
manufacturer of Providence, r. L, died sud-
denly of heart disease on the 18th.
Henry B. Payne was elected by the Ohio
legislature, to represent that state in the
United States senate, on the 18th.
young man at Brighton park, suburb of
Chicago, playfully pointed an 'empty" gun at
his three-year-old brother on the 18th inst,
and shot HIM dead.
Fourteen passengers were seriously injured
by wreck on the Texas Pacific Railroad near
Weatherford, Texas, on the 18th inst.
An unknown man was struck by the cars at
Joliet, ILL.,, on the 18th and instantly killed.
Governor Hoadly, of Ohio, was inaugurated
on the 18th inst.
Strickland Kneass, a well known Philadel-
phia civil engineer. died on the 18th.
A premature explosion of dualne at Kings
ton, Ontario, on the 14th, killed two man.
Henry Brinker, while skating at Chicago, on
the 18th inst, broke through the ice and was