Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — JULY FIRES COST $11,426,000. [ARTICLE]

JULY FIRES COST $11,426,000.

Total Loaaea In the United ttateaand Can-da. Figure I Up. The New York Journal of Commerce announces that the fire loss of the United States and Canada for the month of July, as compiled from its daily records, aggregates $11,426,000. The paper's aggregate of losses for the first seven months of 1807, 1888 and 1890 are. respectively, greater destructiveness than SIO,OOO