Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-29


a. G.. Spalding & Bro, sporting goods,
Chicago lost $50 COZ by fire on the 26Ch.
CHARLES a. Hill & Co.'S Touring mill, at
Manchester, N. H., burned on the 25th. Loss
$25 0C0.
| The Milwaukee Il Northern car shops al
Fort Howard. Wig. were destroyed by fire on
the night OF the 23d. Nothing but the books
were saved. Loss. $25,0O0
The works of the southern Barb wire Com
pany, at ST. Louis. burned on the 22d. Loss
$4,000
The cooper shops Of Hutchinson & Co., al
Peoria. H., burned on the ED. LosH 1915. GOO
| The Jersey Central Railroad depot at Easton
Pa. was destroyed by fire on the 22d.
Thibaudeaus saw mills at Bustrode, Quebec
burned on the 22d. Loss $4,000.
| Pawtuckst. R. l., WIS visited by copfagra-
| ton on the 21st. which destroyed the co i ano
| lumber yard of J. T. Cottrell, together with
considerable other property. Loss 100000
| Gantz, Joues & Co., dealers in chemicals an6
drugs in New York City, had $70,0O0 fire, or
| the Goth.
| Campbell's hotel block of stores at Aruprior
Ont, is in runs through fire on the Goth
Loss $60,0G0.
Two hundred houses, nearly the entire village
of Carthage. N. Y, were swept away by fire OF
| the Goth. The losses are placed at 81 600, 600
| The German theater and seveutv-sixs shops
at Moscow Russia, burned on the 2Otn, lnvolv
ing loss of 100000 roubes.
| The Grand Hotel at Lauter Drummer, Ger
many, burned on the Goth. Loss 81, 900, 600.
| Minor Mention.
Two children of William Palcoas! were suf.
| located in a fire which DESTROYED their home
near Portland, Me-, on the night of the oath.
The fremont Brewery, Boston. was seized
| by revenue officers on the Oath, and Neil and
Harry Kenney, the proprietors, arrested fol
| alleged revenue frauds.
Thieves took $1,000 in two-cent stamps and
500 in currency from the post-office at Cen
| tralis, ILL.,, on the night of the 23d.
The boiler la the saw mill of Scratch q Co.,
| at Atoka, 10 the southern part of Indian Terri
| tory, exploded on the 23d, killing Joseph Rat
| cliffe, of Clayton, ILL.,. Frank Choate aud J. B.
| Oliver and seriously damaging the mill.
passenger train from Montreal collided
with cattle train at Clare Station, on the
Odd, killing Alex. Stewart, an engineer, and
badly 1njurlng fireman and several passengers.
A large number of cattle we're also killed.
Loss over 500, 000.
Chas. Kimball butcher, fell asleep while
driving into Cleve and, early ON the morning of
the Esd, and his team ran before coal train.
Klmball and his horses we're killed and the
wreck OF the wagon der lied four coal cars.
The Prussian Bundesrath hes decided not to
admit the claims of the Duke of Cumberland
to the Brunswick succession.
A municipal officer at Marseilles, decamped
on the 23d, with IL, 600 francs intended for dis
tribution among the cholera sufferers.
Chas. Rice and James Scctt laborers, were
killed at Louisville KY, on the 3d. one by the
caving of a sand bank and the other by falling
through hatchway.
Miss Laura Hsymer, while crossing railroad
bridge with frleDds at Galveston, on the 22d,
stepped aside to let team pass and fell into
the water. Geo. Kohl jumped in to rescue her,
and both were drowned
Id New York city, Minnie Cummings. the
actress, obtained verdict of $25, 900 against q
police officer and dressmaker for arrest and
false Imprisonment.
The boiler of thresher exploded on a farm
at BeItramie. Mimi, On the Goth, killing Thos.
Evander, John Smith, John Lingwood, Chris.
Swanson, John Johnson and boy named VIM.
Pierce. An unknown man was badly scaded.
Charles J. Downie in Jail at Chicago for the
murder of his brother William early in Sep
TENDER, hanged himself in h1s cell on the goth.