The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

Fire losses: Burbank's fine ieWelry
store and Ave other business houses at Sara
mac, Mich, loss $4,000; the jackson saw
mill, New Orleans. loss $4,000: wooden mill
nj West Chelmsford, Mass, loss 500, 900; six
stores and many other structures ut Orange.
willie. s. C., loss s45, OoO wooden mill nj Sea-
forth, Ont. loss $4,000; the coopor-shop of
the Dupont Powder company, Wilmington,
DEL, loss $4,000: Touring mill ut Lodi,
Ohio, loss $4,000; Chism's store, Ma
riana, Ark, loss $4,000; Quick's
furniture factory, Burlington, Iowa, loss
$4,000; the Dakota house block, jamestown,
Dakota, loss 100000: Lambert Bishops
wire-fence mandatory, Joliet, H.. loss
SET, 900; the Rye Ieach hotel at williams
Bridge. N. Y, loss $4,000; four stores ut
Oxford, Ala. loss $4,000; several business
houses at Tiptonvillc, Tenn, loss $4,000;
hotel and fourteen stores at Whitesboro,
Tex, loss $4,000: twenty-five buildings
at Howard City, Mich, loss $4,000: Il
block of business structures at Breckenridge.
MIMI, loss $4,000: Il portion Of the Seipp
block, on Van Buren, street, Chicago, loss
s5o,oO0; the 4Etna fiour-mills. Akron. Ohio,
loss $4,000; the upholstering shops of the
Missouri. Kansas and Texas railroad. at Sc
dalia, Mo-. loss $4,000: several stores Mt
Tower City, Dakota. loss $4,000; a cotton
mill At Thorndike, Mass, loss $4,000; the
business part of the village of Middlebury,
Vt: the courthouse and records at Brook
haven, Miss: nine business houses
at Jacksonville, Oregon, loss $4,000;
fun str Mt Anc1
$4,000: an extensive Touring mill near
Newcomers town, Ohio, loss $4,000; Peoples
Hardware Store, Bismarck. Dakota loss Sl0,-
900: two steamboats, ut st. Louis, Mo-, loss
$4,000: hotel and railway depot at Bon
vile, Arizona, loss S3e,eo Il furniture store
al Joliet, ILL.,, loss $4,000: Judge Wcbstcr's
residence at hay City, Mich, loss $4,000;
building on Monroe street, Chicago, occupied
by Bradner. Smith & Co., paper dealers, the
National Printing Co.. and shobcr s. Carque-
vile, cngravers, loss $5O0,Oo0.
Commercial failures: G. A. Constant
Co., retail dry-goods, Chicago, liabilities,
S1o5, 600; Jeffords, Bailey & Co. lounge man.
ufacturers, jamestown. N. Y, liabilities slO0-
900; +. J. Conklin & Co., tobacco, Bingham
York city, liabilities $4,000; Ullman Lamb,
plantation supplies, Natchez. Miss, liabilities
$4,000; Eager, Bartlett g. Co., wooden goods,
Boston, liabilities $4,000; Gillies & Bro. teas
and spices, New York, liabilities $4,000;
Delos Pratt, furniture, Toledo, liabilities
| $4,000: A. NJ. Church, jeweler. Chicago,
liabilities $4,000; ]. A. Anderson, clothing,
Atlanta, Ca, liabilities $4,000: John ID.
Leslie, grain, Elkhart, Ind, liabilities $50. 900;
Thomas s. Renard, notions, Cincinnati,
liabilities $4,000: REFS Bros. l. Co., fancy
groceries, Cincinnati, liabilities $780,
600; Isaac Res. wholesale cigars,
Cincinnati, liabilities S300,000 c. w. Saw
age Sons, general merchants, Miles City,
Montana, liabilities Sl0o,oo0; Jacob Jocoles,
| fancy goods, Nashville, Tenn, liabilities Sa0,-
600; Fl. L. Dueming. hardware. Shclbyyille,
Ill.,, liabilities $4,000: j. +. Mussclwhtc, no.
| tions, Peoria, H.. liabilities $50, 900; Lam
| drum Butler, dry goods, Augusta, Ca,
liabilities s3s, 900: ellison Donaldson, hard
| ware Minneapolis. MIMI, liabilities $4,000;
A. J. Defossez, operate manager, New Or
| leans, liabilities $4,000.
Recent deaths: Napoleon Joseph
| Perche, Archbishop OF the Roman Catholic
Diocese of New Orleans Hon. John Proctor,
one Of the wealthiest citizens OF New Hamp-
shire; John NJ. Scully, of New York, a lead
| ing Irish Nationalist: Joseph Iongworth, a
prominent citizen of Cincinnati: George W.
| Lane, President of the New York Chamber of
Commerce; Joseph d. Murphy, a welLknown
| theatrical manager of Philadelphia; Rev.
Francis Hawlcy, the aged father of Senator
Hawley, Of Connecticut.
A local train On the Grand Trunk
road collided with Il freight train when two
miles outside of Toronto, Twenty seven
| employees Of the bolt works were killed or
fatally injured. aud like number received
| serious wounds. George Barber, conductor
of the freight train, has been arrested for
running without orders.
At Winnipeg last week the thermom-
eter registered As degrees below zero.
No work having been done within
the prescribed time, the Mexican government,
has forfeited the concession made to Gen
Grant for Il submarine cable connecting the
two republics.
Jan. 3, 1, 5, and 6 were four Of the
coolest days experienced in the Northwest
In many years, tho thermometer ranging
from z 10 40 degrees below zero.
The failures last week were 3l9 in
the United States and twenty-nne in Canada
| Il number greater than ever before reportec
| within II similar reriod.