Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — BAD LUCK FOR MONTICELLO. [ARTICLE]

BAD LUCK FOR MONTICELLO.

Ottr Neighboring TUwn "Desolated by a Destrnc- . five Fire.* <v A special dispatch to the Indianapolis Journal, dated Monday, January 7th, says: "A. block of building Wfljj swept away by the flames last night at 1 o’clock, entailing a lotal loss es $24,000. Roberts & I*inson, hardware merchants, lose on stock $6,800: insurance for $3/000.. Henry Jost, dry-goods merchant; loss on stpek, $8,500; insured for $7000; Edgar Gardner, tihw&re and store dealer, loss $700; no insurance. Mrs. C. Dunfee, milliner, loss on building and stock $500; no insurance. William Keefer, building and tailoring goods, loss $3,000; insurad for SI,OOO. Roberts ■& Witz, loss on building $4,000: insured for $2,500. The city will suffer the loss keenly as there are no prospects ot rebuilding soon; The origin of the lire is net known, but is supposed to have been incendiary.” All of the above named losers ate mere or less well known in Rensselaer. Henry Jost, the dry goods merchant, was formerly in business here, as a partner of Mr. Ralph Fendig.