Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-01-02
THE FIRE RECORD
Is Lengthened by Accounts of Burn
ings In Different Sections of
the Country.
Buffalo, N. Y, Has Its Largest Coop
ering Establishment Burned for
the Second Time.
Hopkinsville, KY, Catches 1t for
$4,000, While Huron, Dak.,
Narrowly Escapes.
Further Particulars of the COnflagra'
tiOn at Pierre-Murder, Sui
cides and Lynching.
More Trouble in the Hooking Valley
The Roberts County Mail
ObstructOrs.
Other Interesting News Items.
The Pierre Fire

fIERRE Lee. OU.-E lfo DEOKe 0uI 46St ulR0t
at IL o'clock in R. D. Jones' grocery store, on
Pierre street. It is supposed that il caught
from Goals falling from the stove, and when
discovered was too far advanced to be checked.
1t spread rapidly both ways, and in two hours
Jones' store and stock was entirely
consumed, as was Richardson & Hollembaek's
drug store; j. Naerup's two story s'one build
ing; r. w. Osvanaugh's store building, not
occupied; J. 81. Drew's store building; A. E.
Gregory's building, occupied by Blackburn Il
Brand as chop house; the capital saloon; P. P.
Johnston's wholesale liquor store; Sam Good
wins billiard hall: T. B. Andrews fruit store;
Carl Sohuster's meat market; the stebbins
house; Tenney & Perer's saloen, and G B.
Meruz's boot and shoe shop. Here the fire was
checked on its course to the river, while at the
other end the brick hardware store of
CHECKER Il Mcclure served az stay and all the
wooden buildings on Dakota avenue were saved
by superhuman efforts. The total loss is about
$4,000, with about $4,000 insurance. The
mercury was down to twenty-five degrees below
zero at the time of the fire and many had fin
gers and ears frosted. Nearly all the business
men will open up again. The buildings will
not be replaced until sp1'ng, when substantial
brick blocks will be erected on The burned eec-
tioD. All stocks of goods were damaged more
or less by moving out, for fear of fire. This is the
second big blaze for Pierre in the last year and
the city council will now take steps to organize
an efficient fire company.
An Iowa Lynchfne.
OrruMwA, Ia, Deo. 30.-Near the town of
Blakesburg, this county, fifteen miles west of
here, Pleasant Anderson was hung by eight
masked men. In November. 1882, near Blakes-
burg, Chris McAllister was murdered at hia
residence. few months thereafter Pleasant
Anderson was arrested for the murder and
finally, one year ago, at Oskaloosa, Iowa, at bis
trial, lasting two weeks, there was strong array
of circumstantial evidence against him, but he
vailed at Blakesburg that he was guilty; bad
feeling has prevailed and last night he was
seized at the house of his father in law and
taken in sled to q school house where kind
of mock trial was had before a jury of eight
men and by them he was sentenced to bs hung,
Nearly hundred persons had gathered at the
school house, among whom he seemed
to have no defender, and at about
IL 80 last night they took him to the
scene of the murder of McAllister and put him
to the limb of q cottonwood tree. He protested
his innocence to the last. The body was left
hanging for over two hours and finally taken
down by order of a magistrate who went to the
scene, and the coroner was sent for. From the
temper of the crowd it was evident they would
brook no interference.