Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1898 — Fire in Chicago. [ARTICLE]

Fire in Chicago.

Chicago, April 4. —The six-story business block known as the Central Union building, Madison and Market streets, and owned principally by Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States supreme court, was partially destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon. The fire loss was confined to the sixth floor, but the entire builring was more or less injured by water. The total loss to building and stock is estimated at SIOO,OOO. There is ample insurance.