Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20
Tho Record OF Casualties.

A dispatch from East Tawas, Mich, says
heavy forest fires north and east of that
point are doing great damage.
A telegram from Port Huron Mich, states
that the schooner Cheney Ames has founder
ed in Lake Huron and that oil hands went to
the bottom with her.
Rev. Father 7. z. Richardson Of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, fell fron a window of his room
on the fourth floor of the Lorimer house
and was SO badly injured that he died.
The total loss by the fire in Sar
at 100000 with an insurance of 5000, 900.
Some 1000 men are thrown out of employ,
ment. One man was burned to death.
A destructive fire destroyed the entire bust.
ness portion of Harper, Iowa. except one store
and an implement house. Tn loss is vari
onsly estimated at from SIS, 900 to $25,
BOO. The insurance does not exceed 50, 900.
Parties just arrived from the upper Tenton
country in Montana, report disastrous
! prairie fires in that section. Ranges have
been burned of for an area of~sixty-ive miles
and;the fire has assumed such dimensions as
TO battle all attempts to keep it under eon
troll.
Adviees from Orizaba Mexico state that
rivers and creeks have overfiowed their banks.
Houses have been torn down and several
lives lost. Streams from the City of Mexico
to Vera Cruz are rising. In the state of Hid
algo, rivers are overlooking and causing
great damage, Railroad traffic has been
suspended.
The elegant summer residence of John
Johnston, the well known banker, and all
the farm buildings and crops at Bracken
Brae, his country seat, n few miles southwest
OF Milwaukee, were burned. Loss, $40, 900;
insurance, $1,000. Tn fire was started by
some children playing with matches. Ahigh
wind rendered the attempt to check the flames
futile.
Hank Farris, a weILkn own character at
Greenwood, KY. who runs a saloon ut that
place, shot and instantly killed Thomas
Young, Young went TO Farris' saloon to
get a friend TO go with him to Beaver Greek.
Ferris was drunk when Young came in, and
accused him of taking his customer away
from his house. He would not allow Young
to explain, but shot him down without
proyocation.
The chemical works of the Marshheld Man
ufacturing company, owned byJ. ii. Matthes,
burned at Marshieid, Wis. The FIRE originated
IN a lot of chemicals stored in one corner OF
the building, from what source is unknown.
The retort building and coal house was
saved. About two hundred and fifty cords
$4,000, with a total insurance upon the
whole plant of $500.
At ENiot's circus in Faribault one of the
performers, named Barton, met with a seri-
Gus accident by having his hand cut on glass.
Miss Elliot, who was playing on glass bottles,
hit the bottle hard enough to break il, and
the attendants failed TO clear the platform OF
the broken glars. Barton struck the broken
bottle with his hand in his performance. and
was SO seriously injured that he will be un-
able to do his work for q number of weeks,
If he does not lose his hand.
A young man named John Cummings eom-
mitted suicide 1t Sank Centre, MINI, he
had hired out to work for s.. Beidleman and
was found in Beidleman's barn hanging from
ones Of the ~rafters, dead. No motive can be
assigned other han insanity. He has been
subject TO temporary periods of derange.
ment, and it is thought that he committed
the act during one of these. Several year,
ago he was sent to st, Peter insane asylum
and was afterward sent home as cured, and
has since shown non of the symptoms {
bis malady.