Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — HEAVY LOSS AT BISMARCK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HEAVY LOSS AT BISMARCK.

Damage by Monday Night’s Fire Estimated at $730,000.

Tbe total loss in Bismarck, N. D., from Monday night’s fire will be from $600,000 to $750,000, with insurance not to exceed $250,000. The heaviest individual losses are: Joseph Hare 940,000 First National Bank 78,000 Merchants’ Block 25,000 Postofflee Block 20,000 C. H. Phelps 31,000 Northern Pacific Railroad.. 25,000 • A pet monkey belonging to a gentleman in Ottawa, Canada, deliberately committed suicide. Climbing to the top of bis large cage, he secured an old coat which hung on the wall outside. He tore the lining from tbe garment, and, making one end fast at the top of his cage and' placing the other end around his neck, jumped toward the bottom of tbe cage. He was found in straggled to death. Near CiUle Olty, Klondike, men who were trying In trace a cijtl vein found the deposit ever before discovered in that regv *