Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Flames swept away three warehouses in Fast street. New York, causing a loss of $230*000, the chief sufferers being L. Water- . frury & Co., rope manufacturers. Other fires are reported as follows: Proctor & Gamble’s soap and candle works, Cincinnati, loss $250,000; a business block at h rankfort, Ind., loss $75,000; the Centennial elevator, Monticelio, 111., loss JsK.OOO; the lake View hotel, Evansburg, Pa., loss $15,000; three business houses at Natchitoches, La., loss $75,000; the Clinton paper m 11. Steubenville, Ohio, loss $50,000; several stores at Bay City, Mich., loss $22,000; the County jail at Columbus, Ohio, loss $15,000; S. Davis & Son's extensive cigar factory, Montreal, Canada, loss $140,0J0; Powell's music store, Phelpston, Out., loss $50,000; two grocery stores at Paducah, Ky., loss $10,000; Kennon & Hill’s store, Selma. Ala., loss $33,000; Lemon's general store, Lucas. Ohio, loss $40,000; George Jess' fine residence,. Waupun, Wis., loss $16,000 Mrs. Hauer’s barns and forty-five fine dairy cows, near Elgin, HI., loss $10,000; the ccopor and boiler shops in the State prison yards at Stillwater, Minn., loss $100,006; the Opera-house block at MeadvlUe, Pa., loss ■ $500,060; Smith, Winston & Co.’s coffin factory, New York city, loss $200,000; a portion of D. B. Fisk & Co.’s millinery store, Chicago, io3S $30,000; tine business houses at Pittsburg, Kan., loss $21,000; a sawmill at Butler, Ky., loss $13,000; several stores and shops at Maysville, Ind., loss $20,000; a cotton warehouse at Jonesboro, Ga., loss $35,000: a hotel at Ashtabula, Ohio, loss $20,000; Moder’s brewery, Onalaska, Wis., loss $20,000; three business houses at Blunt. Dak., loss $15,000; St. Vincent Orphan asylum, Toledo. Ohio, loss $12,000; Edwards' opera-house, Selnm, Ala., loss $15,000; Schwier's grist-mill. Batesville, Ind., loss $15,000; the Wyiowdale mills,- Ipswich, Mass., loss $50,000; the main office of the Telephone Company, Boston. Mass., loss $49,000; Ludster's farm machinery warehouse, and other property, Beloit, Wis., IOS3 $12,000; four business houses at Treqton, Ga., loss $15,000; two shops in the penitentiary grounds at Nashville, Tenn., loss $15,000; the Southern Central railroad repair shops at Auburn, N. Y., loss $25,000; Knowles’ woolen mills, Newcastle, Del., loss $30,006; Hiisch & Griswold’s confectionery store, Peoria, 111., loss $15,000; a business block at Monticelio, Ind., loss $21,000; the Tivoli theater, Pueblo, Colo., loss $15,000; Asmuth & Co.’s elevator,Milwaukee, Wis., loss $20,000; Backus & Haj-cS, hominymill, Indianapolis.-loss $18,000; l?annon Bros., tile factory, Joliet ; 111., loss $15,000; Stindis’ flouring-mill. New Martinsville. W. Va., loss $18,000; Swartz & Co.’s tannery, Elmira, N. Y., loss $26,000: John Zeller’s residence, Brazil, Ind., loss $10,000; a Baptist church at Janesville, Wis., loss $40,000; several stores atr Tunnel Hill, Ga., loss $15,000; ten stores and several residences at Naples 111., loss $35,000-; the Episcopal church at Middleport, N. Y., loss $30,000; the Baptist church at Port Norris, N. J., loss $25,100; Clubertsou & Blair’s store-house, Chicago, loss $20,000; a Baptist church at Janesville, Wis., loss $40,000: the business portion of Seligman, Mo., loss $30,000; the University building at Galesville. Wis., loss $25,000; the female college building at Columbus, Ga., loss $60,000: about a dozen business houses at Baird, Tex., loss $80,000; Herzicr Bros.’ flouring mill at Akron, 0., loss $00,000; a brewery at Pittaton,.Pa., loss $30,000; a hotel at Sheffield, Pa., loss $15,000. Ten thousand blocks of ice are to be used in constructing the palace for the carnival at Montreal next month. The Governor General has accoptod an invitation to be the guest of tho city. Seventy-fire trotting horses are entered lor the races on the ice. - • : - s ... ■ . - ----- The inauguration of George Hoadly as Governor of Ohio was a quiet affair, only three political clubs being In attendance. The inaugural address recommends tho establishment of a Board of Pardons and a graded license system. Mr. Anthony, having declined the honor of the Presidency pro tem. of the Senate, Mr. Edmunds was elected and sworn in Dec. U s Mr. Vest presented a petition from Si. Louis pork-packers, asking for retaliatory du’les. A resolution was passed that the Secretary of the Treasury report the amounts of gold coin or bullion deposited in exchange for silver certificates, and whether there lias been any refusal to receive gold for silver certificates. Mr. Ilill spoke at length on his postal telegraph bill. In the House of Representatives, two bills to repeal the civil-service act were introduced. Mr. lielford offered a measure to reduce freight rates on tho Union and Central Pacific roads 50 per cent, from the tariff of last year. Mr. El wood introduced a bill for a bank currency secured by gold and silver, and Mr. Dunham one for a Department of Commerce. Bills were also handed in to authorize bridges at St. Paul and Council Bluffs, to abolish postage on newspapers, to retire the trade dollar, to permit Confederate officers to serve in the army, and tor a delegate in the House from Indian Territory.