Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1884 — GENERAL [ARTICLE]

GENERAL

The business quarter of Port Perry, Ontario, was swept away by fire, the loss being over $150,000... .The establishment of the Silver and Deming Manufacturing Company at Salem, Ohio, was entirely destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $100,000; the insurance is $40,500. About 150 men are thrown out of employment by the fire. Rkcrxt deaths: The wife of Hear Admiral Amman, at Washington; at Indianapolis, Bev. J. D. Jones, Presbyterian, who during the war was Chaplain of the One Hundred and Seventeenth New York Regiment Infantry; at Saratoga, N. Y., James P. Dennison, proprietor of the Arlington Hotel. The destruction by fire of the Newark (Ohio) Machine Company’s works entailed a loss of about $500,000, with $200,000 insurance. .. .The propeller Philadelphia finished a trip from Chicago to Buffalo and return in six days, beating the record of the H. J. Jewett.