Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

THE WEEK’S FIRE RECORD. A hotel and other property at Buena Vista, Cob, loss $30,000 a fertilizer factory near Baltimore, $50,000; Freton’s woodworks, Philadelphia, $40,000; the Union block, Xenia, Ohio, $75,000; a warehouse in White street, New York, $75,000; the main portion of the Minnesota State Prison, at Stillwater, $50,000; Johnson's fluid-beef factory, MonAreal, $100,000; Baldwin & Aborn's flouring mill, Waupaca, Wis., $16,000; two shops In the Ohio State penitentiary at Columbus, $50,000; a business building at Cincinnati, $16,000; three frame stores at Gilman. 11L, $10,000; the opera house at Marion, Ohio, $15,100; Perkins’ stove foundry, Troy, N. Y., $15,000; seven business houses at Norborne, Mo., $15,000; a saw and grist mill at De Pere, Wis., $12,000; a business block at Wood Haven, L. 1., $60,000; a block of business houses at Arkansas City, Ark., $75,000; the office of the Spectator at Hamilton, Canada, $50,000; Ruhman, Ernst & Co.’s clothing store,Canton,Ohio, $30,000; a woolen mill at Cleveland, Ohio, $20,000; a coal-breaker at Ashley, Pa., $100,000; the Bt. Lawrence sugar refinery, Montreal, $150,060; a hotel and block of stores at Cornwall, Canada, $150,000 ; a tannery at Laporte, Ind., $10,000; Henry Berth’s flouring mills, Lenzburg, 111., $35,000; a hat stock manufactory, Bristol, Ct., $10,000; three tenement houses, at Minneapolis, Minn., $10,000; a bank and a church, St. Johnsbury.Vt., $40;000; Gaudy’s belting manufactory, Baltimore, $25,000; a furniture factory at ConnorsvlUe, Ind., $30,000; office of the Telegraph, Oshkosh, Wis., $10,000; the office of Dun’s Commercial Agency, St. Louis, Mo., $10,000; a business structure at Lockport, N. Y., $10,000; Greenwood’s hardware store, Duluth, Minn., $35,000; eleven business houses at Dalles, Oregon, $120,000; St. Paul’s Episcopal church, Fond du Lao, Wis., $20,000; a stave manufactory at Minneapolis, Minn., $18,000; several small shops at Washington, lowa, $12,000; a building at Peru, Ind., containing a number of menagerie animals, $10,000; three business bouses at Gatesville, Tex., $30,000; several business houses at Hope, Ark>, $60,000; a Mormon academy at Provo, Utah, $30,0U0; three stores at Warsaw, Ind., $20,000; four business houses at Belleville, Ontario, $25,000.

A man named Webb got in a “difficulty” in Jackson county, Ala., with three brothers named Wilburn, and killed two and fatally wounded the third. The clearings of the country fell a little short of $1,000,000,000 last week. The showing, on the basis of the last year’s average, is not bad, but is about $700,000,000 less than the figures of three years ago at this season. The sale by the Oregon Transcontinental company of 60,000 shares of Northern Pacific and preferred stock and 10,000 shares of Oregon Navigation to a syndicate composed of Gould, Sage, Field, and others, caused a sharp advance in the Northern Pacific system shares. Reports of disasters by the storm in England show that the ship Juno foundered In the Mersey, and the crew of twentyfive men perished; the Austrian bark Cvlet was wrecked off Land's End, two persons being drowned; a church at Newcastle-upon-Tyne was unroofed and the spire damaged; atrainwas overturned in Ireland, and a large portion of the Northern Railway embankment was swept away. E. W. M. Mackey, the only Republican Congressman from South Carolina, died at the capital on the 28th ult.. after an illness of only three days. Col. Mackey was a native of South *Carolina and was about 39 years old. He was a man of fine intellectual attainments, and was counted one of the most skillful politicians in his State in either party. Hiß death is the sixth which has taken place in the House since the Forty-eighth Congress was elected a year ago last November. Messrs. Sherman and Pendleton each presented resolutions in the Senate, on the 28th nit., from wool-growers in Ohio praying for the restoration of the former duty on wool. Referred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Judiciary, reported the original bill relating to the enforcement of the law in Utah. He said he did not himself favor that clause of the bill which requires the exclusion of women from suffrage in that Territory. A message was received from the House announcing the death of Congressman Mackey, of South Carolina. The Senate, after the appointing of a committee on its part to attend the funeral, adjourned. In the House, immediately after reading the journal, the death of E. W. M. Mackey, of South Carolina, was announced. The customary resolution was adopted, and the House, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, adjourned.