Connecticut western news., 1895-12-26

thJ of Record.
 The little gieam of time between tive 'eternities that marks the year 1895 is not made memorable at home by any signal event or act. The "weak piping time of peace" has continued in ou, own land, there have been compara. lively few conflicts between capital and labor, the devouring element has been gratifyingly inactive, and although the lnancial problem has increased in gray. ,ty there is reason to hope for a solution turing the coming year. Although death has no reason to complain of his harvest, the result was due to what may oe termed natural causes to great ex- ,ent, atmospheric disturbances and dis ,,sters by sea and land having been fewer md of less magnitude than usual. The following record will be found useful Tor reference:
 FIRE RECORD. 8. Fire caused ses6 900 damage at tho resi-
 dence of Hon. P. P. Mast, Springfield, O. buildings destroyed at Coneyville. Kan.
 loss, s106, 900
 6. The Toronto Globe building and others
 burned during 8 blisxard loss over q, 900.
 GOO: several fremen killed. g. Godey's -four min and elevator burned at
 Scottsville. N. Y.: loss. sls6O0o. 10. The Osgoodby building and several large
 business houses burned in Toronto; loss,
 N,U@000. la A sl0O oO0 blaze at Barnesville, O. IS. Fire damaged the Stadt theater Milwau-
 kee, to the extent of slN,0O. ls. Texas Cotton palace burned at Waco. FEBRUARY. L The Phoenix glass works burned at Monaco,
 Pa; loss sa000. 5. A sloooO fire in the business district of
 Leipsic. o.
 Munson Bros foundry burned at Utica: loss,
 $ll0,UO.
 :. Denison hotel. in Indianapolis, damaged by
 fire to the extent of sl65, oo0: death. Q. The Cnion depot and hotel burned at St.
 Joseph, Mo. loss, s2G5. 900. 10. The Syndicate block burned in Rockford.
 Ills loss, Sb,00o.
 The State Printing House burned at Harris
 burg.
 Il. A store and factory burned at Rockford. Ills. loss, sl0o00 -..... .. 6 injured. A Silk mill burned at Paterson, N. J.; loss,
 $SONO0O
 ls. Q business places burned at Hamilton. N. F.: loss, sa0000 2. Several cottages and boarding houses
 burned at Hot Springs, Ark.
 MARCH. l. Reno hotel burned at Norfolk. Neb, !: loss.
 $65 0Q0 2 A saO0o fire at Bethalto, Ills. The business portion of the town of Nache, a N. D., burned: loss, $A, 900. 8 A sl. 2oO. 0O0 fire in Toronto, the third great confssration in months; dozen large business houses, hotel and church de- stroyed.
 & Electric power house burned at Edgewater, Ills. loss, fl50,0 900.
 sl50000 loss by fire at Salina, Kan. l2 Tivoh hall and other properties burned in Brooklyn: loss s2sS, 900. IS, large buildings burned in Kansas City loss, $500, ,0OO. l7. Rodgers & Co.'S elevator and warehouse
 burned in St. Louis: loss 500, 900. ls- Business block burned at Perry, O. T.
 loss, s60. .0OO. l9. l2 buildings burned in Burlington, Vt.
 loss s25O. 900. D. A sl0O.0OO fire at Peoria, Ills. q. $500, 0O0 worth of cotton burned in the yards
 of the International Cotton press, New Or Warehouse and elevator burned at Sioux
 City. la; loss. s4OO.00O. 2a. ? hotels, a church and bank burned at De
 catur. Mich.
 Reeds packing plant in Kansas City burned
 loss, Sl.0O0.0O0. P. 20 business. houses and other property
 burned in Milwaukee. loss, q. 000 GOO. D. &5 buildings burned at St. Augustine. Fla 56 buildings burned at Canaseraga, N. Y.
 loss, sl85, 900.
 6. The American Starch works burned at Go
 lumbus, Ind. loss, s5O0.0Oo. 8, A slo0oO fire in the railroad works al i2 Warehouse burned at Benicia, Cal. loss
 sl500pn l4. Press brlck works burned at Glen Carbon Ills. loss. nearly $50. .o0O. At Piattsburg. Mo, the courthouse and al
 the buildings on one side of the pubh, 2l. Fire in the School of Arts at Chalons-sur
 Marne, France, destroyed exhibition mod
 els and machines valued at Loo 900 francs S. The Mcdonald tobacco factory burned 1T
 Montreal: loss, $5e0 900: several fatalities
 25 persons injured. g. Stfauss & Sons' tannery and other proper ty in East Buffalo destroyed by fire: loss s25o,0O0.
 l2. Fire at Port Huron. Mioh., destroyed
 grain elevator and -four mill: loss, 0s0OO At Pratt City, Ala, the city hall, hotel ant
 church and 90 dwellings were destroyed b.
 fire.
 le. 70 business places and 100 dwellings sie
 stroyed in St. Albans. Vt: loss, s150.O0O. a. At Angelica, N. Y., stores, opera hous
 and other property burned; loss, sl0o, 900. B. S6 business houses and dwellings burned a
 Pattonsburg Mo; loss. slO0.ooO.
 JUNE
 6. Carriage plant burned at Jackson, Mich. loss. $E5,000.
 2elevators destroyed at Appleton. Wis. loss
 sl5o,0OQ.
 8. At Cloquet, Minn., 5O,ooo,oOo feet of choic
 lumber burned; loss, sl50,000. - g. Dewing 6 Sons lumber yard and factory
 with adjoining buildings destroyed by fir
 at Kalamazoo, Mich. loss, s200,0O. The Leonard silk mill at Florence, Mass, de
 stroyed by fire: loss, nearly $lsosoOo. TO- Cameron, ". Va, almost wholly destroye
 by fire; a relief train from Wheelin
 wrecked and men killed. t5. At Bridgeport, O., hre destroyed a whole
 sale drug Store, hotel, banks and severa
 retail establishments: loss, sl0O,00O. l6. An incendiary fire destroyed church.
 newspaper offices and several stores: loss
 FPS. 900.
 Jacobs Third Avenue theater burned in Ne,
 York.
 D. Power house and cars of the street railwa in Seattle burned, loss. <a0,0O0. '. San Francisco swept by the largest fl known there in over 30 years. JULY. 6. Lumber plant burned at Scotia, Cal; los s25O, ,OOO. business places burned in Oswego, N. ' loss, sl5O,00O. s. Steamer Cibola burned at Lewiston. N. ' loss, about s250, 900. r. ? firemen killed and 12 injured at a fire Cincinnati: property loss, s25000o- l. ssOO, 900 loss by burning of an oil mill Chicago. |. Ironton ,o.) waterworks destroyed by fir loss, Sl00. 900. ? Fire destroyed a business block at Linn O.: loss, $l00,000. B. Sprague, tho seat of Lincoln county, d vastated by fire; loss. nearly sloO,oOO. l. Berlin, Md. almost wiped out by fire; los SOO.0 { steamers burned at Cincinnati: loss, SIS 0QO. | Il The James Kilsman 6 Co.'S stampil works at Newark, N. J., destroyed by nr loss, s5oO, 900. | Fire destroyed property valued at s250,0O Lockport, Ills. i2- factories. l4 dwellings and other prope