Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1899 — GREAT STORES BURN. [ARTICLE]

GREAT STORES BURN.

LOSS OF OVER S3jPOO.OOO IN PHILADELPHIA. Entire Block of Business Houses Destroyed —Li ppincott’s Burned Out - Two Big Department Stores Are Reduced to Ruins—Suicide in Midlake. An electric spark in the basement of Partridge & Richardson’s big department store, 15 to 29 North Eighth street, Philadelphia, started a fire that in less than four hours laid in ashes nearly an entire block of business houses and caused an estimated loss of over $3,000,000. The heaviest losers are J. B. Lippincott & Co., book publishers, whose big six-story brick building, containing rare and valuable plates and machinery, was completely gutted, involving a loss estimated by a member of the firm at $2,000,000. The next heaviest loser was Partridge & Richardson. Their loss on building and contents is estimated at SOOO,OOO. Lit Brothers, whose department store adjoins the Lippincott building, estimate their loss at $400,000. In addition to the big houses mentioned numerous smaller stores were either gutted or badly damaged. Chief among these were Bailey’s 5 and 10 cent store, loss SIOO,OOO, and Rosenberg's millinery establishment, loss $30,000. CUTS HIS WIFE WITH AN AX. Then Sets Fire to His House and Perishes in the Flames. At Duluth, Minn., Jacob Schneider attacked his wife, Mary, with a meat ax at their home in an isolated portion of the city, and after cutting her horribly saturated the house with kerosene ana set fire to it. He perished in the flames, but the wife was saved by her daughter. Three other women in the house rap to the rescue of the wife, but Schneider drove them out of the house. Schneider had borne a good reputation, but his home life had not been pleasant. Big Purchase of Zinc Property. The Colonial Zinc Company of New York has purchased from C. E. Mayne of Omaha a forty-acre mineral lease and the Mayne mill, near Galena, Kan., 110 acres of mineral land of the Free Coinage mine and lease, including two mills, the Blue Wing and several large and small zinc and lead mines and first leases on three tracts of rich mineral lands near Carterville, Mo. The consideration was $300,000.

Jumps from Boat in Midlake. Officers of the Flint and Fere Marquette steamer No. 3 reported on their arrival at Milwaukee from Ludington that a passenger nanfed Max Pfenning of Janesville, Wis., committed suicide by jumping overboard while the steamer was in midlake en route to Milwaukee. Pfenning was 60 years old. No cause is known for his act. Promised Big Profits. The doors of the home office of the Investors’ Trust, 1221 Arch street, Philadelphia, doing business exclusively with patrons outside the city and promising large profits on investments, have been closed. Efforts to find the president, secretary and cashier are unavailing. Murder to Insure Freedom At Wilburton, I. T., two masked robbers knocked Postmaster M. A. Cox senseless, robbed the postoffice safe of S3OO, and, while escaping, shot and instantly killed United States Deputy Marshal Henry Prekenbaugh. Many Hunters Are Killed. The deer hunting season recently ended resulted in a total of eleven hunters killed and seven wounded in the Michigan and Lake Superior sections of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Most of them were mistaken forUeer. Husband Dead, Wife Missing. The dead body of John Cremeans, with a bullet hole in the head, was found in a bed in his late home at Glenwood, Ohio. Cremeans was an aged and wealthy citizen. His young wife cannot be. found. Clerk Dropped from Rolls. N. E. Dawson, a clerk in the office of Gen. Miles, has been dropped from its rolls on account of letters he has written to officials of the Government reflecting upon the President. - George K. Davis Is Dead. Col. George U. Davis, most prominently known for his official connection with the World’s Fair as director general, died at his home in Chicago of palpitation of the heart.

A ukL'l ytuuAilONti, Chicago—Cattle, common to prim*-. $3 nil lo $7.25. hogs, shipping grades $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to >4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, hue to ooc: corn. No. 2. oil in 32c, uuis. *o -.- to 23c; rye. No. 2,54 cto 55c; butter, choice creamery, «>c to 27c; eggs, ircsu. 17c to 19c; potatoes, choice. 35c to 45c per bushel. lmliuuapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 lo st>...o: hogs, choice light, $3.00 to >4.23, sheep, comniou to prime, >3.00 to >4.25; wheat. No. 2 red. 65c to 67c; coyi. No. 2 w hite, 32c to 33c; oats. No. 2 white. 25c to 27c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.25 to $6.75: hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.25; wii.ai. No. 2. eli '• . coru. No 2 yellow,' 30c to 32c; oats. No. 2. 23c to 23c; rye. No. 2. 5 e to ,>3c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,69 c to 70c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2 uuxegt 25c to 2ic; rye. No. 2,5 mto 01c. Detroit—Cattle. $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00: sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 57c to 59c Toledo-Wheat. No. mixed. 67c to 68c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 32c to 34c; oats. No 2 mixed. 23r to 24 rye. Xo. 2. .».*c to 57c; clover seed, $4.70 to $4.80. Milwaukee—Wheat. No 2 northern. G4c to 6t»c; corn. No. 3. 32c to 34c; oats, N'o. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 1,54 c to 56c; barley. No 43c to 45c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers,, $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, common to choice, $3,25 to $4.25: she*"- fed >o choice wethers, $3.00 to $4.50; 'ambs. common to extra. $4.50 to $5.“" New York —Catt'e. $3 sto $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No ceil. V2i i*. •> n. >, 39c to 40c; oats. No. 2 white. 30c to 32c; batter, creamery, 23c to 27c; eggs, western. 15c to 21c. X