Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — FIRE LOSSES. [ARTICLE]

FIRE LOSSES.

The Big Figures for the Last Six Months. The extraordinary losses by fire in this country during the last six months are beginning to attract attention. The total losses, where the property in each case was valued at SIOO,OOO and upward, amount to $22,903,000, divided as follows: January, $6,787,000; Februarv, $1,535,000; March, $5,444,000; April, $2,857,000; May, sl.810,000; June, $1,705,000; July (to date) $1,955,000—the aggregate representing twofifths of the entire losses by large and small fires for the first six months, which are estimated at $53,900,000, or $3,000,000 in excess of the losses daring the same period of last year. -- ■ ~—

M. Depasse heads a movement in Paris to raise a 2,000,000 franc monument commemorative of the French Revolution. The monument wto be on the ruins of the Tuileriea..—General'Custer’s widow went to see Buffalo Bill’s Wild West at Staten Island the other day, and had a talk with Mr. Cody, and was much pleased with the show. •' Martin Holloway, brother of the most famous man of pills ever known on this pill-shaped world, is to be made a knight by the British Queen.