Janesville Gazette (Newspaper) - October 10, 1871, Janesville, Wisconsin Sundays GAZETTE PRINTING COMPANY E K 9 One vour delivered in ciry by Carrier months paid In advance by mall In advance 3.00 of year dame rate Hook and every description of Commercial and In the beat manner at Gazette Job The great fire lias been brought under only because baa reached the suburbs of the north side where buildings are more sparsely distributed The thrice rain winch commenced to fall in tuts city about five o'clock p m yesterday reached Chicago about midnight and was of very great assistance in preventing the spread of the devouring element General Sheridan his start officers rendered able assistance aud succeeded in arresting the fire at several points by blowing up buildings The heart sickens while con- the wide-spread devastation and ruin which bas visited the commercial metropolis of the northwest HE JANESVILLE GAZETTE VOLUME 15 Chicago in Ashes THE GREAT ITY OF THE AGE JANESVILLE WISCONSIN TUESDAY OCTOBER 10 1871 The Great gration NUMBER 184 Hundreds of Millions of lars worth of Property Destroyed WORK FOB THE SUFFERING An Impromptu meeting of prominent citizens at the rooms of Common cil is being held this morning for the pose ot organizing immediate effort to cure assistance Every house and ba- kery iu the city should commence ately to prepare bread and other ions and some depot provided where they can be received Let overy nue of benevolent effort be urged into prompt activity Christian men and women philanthropists we peal to yon Cease other effort and let each of us devote a portion of our sub- stance to tho relief of our suffering follow men The South the North and a portion of the West Di- visions in Ruins All the Newspaper Offices Hotels Banks Public Buildings Great Business Blocks swept away The Conflagration Still in Progress The Great Fury of the Fire Details AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE Advices received from Chicago last evening justify the opinion that there are ono hundred thousand persona ia the that desolated city without home or shelter Very many of those people ha ye lost their all in the fire and are now In a state of destitution and want The vast stores of supplies which Chicago arc all destroyed Great suffering is inevitable but the people of this try from Maine to must lend a helping hand to our men whose homes and resources have boon stricken with this fierce blast of swift destruction The losses of Chicago immediate and remote are greater than we can appreciate her afflicted people suffer for the want of bread We trust H's Honor the Mayor will a public meeting to-day to consider what our to the people of Chicago is in this hour of great affliction Let us have a this morning Two cnr londs of provisions were con- iu last night and are now on thu to relief of Chicago No Man Can Serve Two Masters Under tho cover of thu divine precept Which is at thu head of this article the Times of yesterday made a perse nal sault on Mr Graham tho republican for of the assembly from this city We shall not defend Mr ham from fro a source He needs no defence The deep interest lie has always in the material of our city the readiness with lie has ever 1 to calls for personal effort or means to aid ift promoting any en- o increase our business the ability and person U influence which ho is known to whereby he can secure for us in all that lation can do in our are too well known by our people to reader any ders which may of any avail io prevent But if this kind of warfare order and we infer that ic is who arc those men who are Graham of to principle Are they not supporters of Mr Doolittle the most inconstant politician iu America The man who lias the entire round of political parties in one of thorn only so as his connection with it bo improved to his tago First a a er next returned to i ho democracy the humble confession his apostacy from the democratic party was thu greatest ot his political life Tn a brief period of lime ho again abandoned democ atic and united tlu republican party un- der circumstances winch have always been regarded by tho democratic leaders in this as so of they now refuse to aid in tor him tho full vote of the party move was to join the Johnson bread-and-butter party and now for the third time he is regularly installed in the democratic party aud has been sclectcl as its er in this slate for the present campaign With such a leader no one is surprised the campaign on the part of the de- lacks the Times in its issue of Saturday last admits as follows That the present gubernatorial campaign is fraught with less of vigor than it was supposed would be the case we ad- mit We admit that much of the ment has didd out aud will probably not bo again revived during the canvass What interest can thu be expected to havo in man for office who defends his periodical new tures by substantially that he only has consistent and they have been unfaithful It is well known that many of the prominent democrats in tho refuse to take any part iu the campaign Why is this Do they accept Doolittlo as an authorized ex- ponent of democratic principles The Free Press says We aro informed upon credible authority that the cratic candidate for Governor in the course oi his is very in making application privately to republicans imploring them to vote for him and protesting that he is just as good a republican now as ever he was Will some person have the kindness to inform us whether Mr Doolitlle is a Democrat a Democratic Republican a Republican or a We copy tho following from the go Evening Journal extra which came to us by the train last night It is the only printed document issued in Chicago since the fire and gives additional lars regarding the terrible calamity which has befallen CHICAGO October 9 Chicago is burning Up to this hour of writing 1 o'clock p the best part of the city is already in An area of between six and seven miles iu length and nearly a mile in width embracing the great business part of tho cily has been burned over and now lies a mass of dering ruins All the principal hotels all the public buildings all the banks all tho newspaper offices all the places of amusement all the great business edifices marly al railroad depots the water works several churches and thousands of private dences and stores have been The proud noble magnificent Chicago of yesterday is to-day a mere shadow ot what it was aud helpless before the still sweeping flames the fear is that the entire city will be consumed before we shall see the end The entire South Division from son street north to the river almost the en tire North Division from the river to coln Park and several blocks in the West Division are burned It is utterly impossible to estimate the losses They must be in the aggregate amount of hundreds of millions of dollars Amid the confusion and general ment we can only Rive a few details The fire broke out on the corner of De and Twelfth streets at o'clock on evening caused by a cow kicking over lamp in a stable in which a woman was milking An alarm was immediately given but owing to the high wind the building was speedily consumed aud thence tho spread rapidly The firemen could not with all their efforts get the mastery of the flames and the New Pacific in processor erection on Clark aud La Salle streets Tho following prominent business houses are m ashes Field and Co J V Farwell's block and all the magnificent blocks in that locality The Lake Side Publishing Company's new building on Clark street Terrace Row on Michigan Avenue and adjacent residences Farwell Hall burned at abour four o'clock this morning The great breweries on the North Side are gone In fact as stated above the en- tire South and North sides from Harrison street northwardly with a few isolated buildings left standing in some remarkable manner are in hopeless ruins HELP COMING During the telegrams were sent to tit Louis Cleveland Milwaukee and nearer cities for aid and at the tima of ing to press several trains are on the way to the city bringing fire engines and men to assist us in this dire calamity BOARD OP TRADE The board of trade has leased for ent use the northwest corner of ton and Canal streets We call attention to the ciml ing a meeting of the directors of the cago board of tiade to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock at 51 and 53 Canal street COUNCIL The common council and a number of prominent citizens arc holding a meeting this afternoon in the First Congregational Church to make such arrangements as may be possible for the safety of the city The Mayor has issued a proclamation that all fires in stoves iu the city shall be extinguished THE EVENING JOURNAL We are under great obligations to the Interior Priming Company Ib and 18 Canal street for accommodations by which we are enabled to issue this Extra We hope before many days to be able to an- permanent arrangements for issuing The Evening Journal regularly We have saved a portion of our subscription books and hope to be able to resume publication without much delay The Fire Under Control incendiaries Shot and Hung Sheridan in Command of the City One Thousand Mounted Patrol on Guard and the rest of the city is out of danger The Northwestern Elevator and depot are safe Thousands upon thousands are without food clothes or shelter and are flocking into the country Cooked visions of all kinds are greatly needed aud should be forwarded without delay BY THE MAILS Descriptions from Persons Leaving the Doomed City Burning of the Court House and other Public ings Two Thousand Acres of Ruins Seven Wards Comprising all the Wealthiest portion of the City Destroyed Loss estimated at over Five dred Millions of Dollars Destruction of the Shipping The Progress of the Fire Particulars of the Dreadful Calamity Fire in Chicago Further Details of the Great Disaster The Entire City Doomed after building was the flying ciu ders landing on the roofs which were as dry as tinder owing to tho dry weather instantly took fire Northwardly and northeastwardly the flames took their course lapping up bouse after block after block street alter street all night long The scene of ruin aud devastation is be yond the power of words to describe Never in the history of the world bas such a scene terrible and com- plete destruction bv conflagration been recorded and never has a more frightful scene of panic distress and horror been witnessed among fi helpless sorrowing suffering population It is utterly impossible at the first thought for the mind to take in any con- ception of the fearful ravages of the although the astounding facts stated above are enough to appal thu most heroic The awful truth of the situation be more fully comprehended by a glance at the following very imperfect list of the loss It is however proper to state that tit this writing the confusion in the police and fire departments is so complete as to render it impossible to give anything like a detailed account ot the terrible con- flagration PARTIAL DETAILS OF THE LOSSES The first to be mentioned and possibly most startling of the carnival of flame is the destruction of the City Water Works Cy which calamity the men are rendered helpless to make the least endeavor to arrest the onward march of the devouring clement Should other iires occur in parts of the city not burning they must certainly have their way At about 12 o'clock last night the sueet of flame licked the river in the vicinity ot Jackson street first igniting a small wooden building which the fire to the Armory and soon to the South Side Gas Works the immense with a fearful heard all over the city Then commenced the fearful ravages which in a few hours laid the en- tire South side in ashes north of Harrison The Pose Office nnd Custom House the Chamber of Commerce the Court House arid the rest soon went clown in the of fire aud smoke Iu brief the following prominent buildings have perished with in almost every case their entire the New Jerusalem Church on Adams street and the Catholic Church on plaines street The Journal office tho Tribune the Times the Republican the Post the Mail the Zeitung the Union and many other publications Crosby's Opera House Theater Opera House Theater and Wood's Museum First Second Third Fourth Fifth Un- ion Northwestern Manufacturers Cook County and Illinois National Banks The Second Presbyterian Church St Paul's Universalist Church Trinity copal Church The magnificent depot of tha Chicago Island and Pacific and Lake Shore aud Michigan Southern Railroads OT Van street at the head of La Salle street The Central Union depot and tho Wells street depots of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad The National Elevator corner of Adams aud the river Armour Dole and corner Market and tho river Hiram Wheeler's Elevator on same corner as the the Galena Elevator corner Rush street bridge and river and A of the Illinois Central near the Illinois depot at the basin Tremont House Sherman House Briggs House Metropolitan Palmer Adams Bigelow European Garden City j The following was received by tele- graph from Milwaukee at nine o'clock last evening and was partially circulated by us at that time Oct P everything and you can realize nothing compared with the situation nt The entire side has gone or is now in Hames The depot grounds here are yet safe but the heat from other side of the river is intense and the shipping are be- ginning to burn The Galena division has lost three elevators with over cue million bushels of wheat their depot offices both the Union aud Michigan Southern at about 9 j are burned The south side is do as far south us Van street and this includes every principal hotel iu the For miles outside of the city the ground is covered with vehicles of every description conveying goods and people to places of safety The wind is a tempest and there is no water iu the city thut can be drawn from the river or lake The whole central eastern and north side business portions are consumed and the fire still under headway All the news paper offices are destroyed The city is being abandoned by citizens as fast as pos sible They are stringing by here nn foil in wagons and in any way available The Milwaukee and Janesville firemen have arrived and are hard at work The public and private buildings of waukee are thrown open to the and food and supplies are sent by extra trams raging within three miles of Mil Madison Oct fearful Chicago conflagration appalls everybody here and and in v ew thereof and of the disasters iu this State Governor Fairchild has issued the following to people of Wisconsin Throughout the part of this State fires have been raging in the woods for many days spreading desolation on ery side It is reported that hundreds 01 families have been rendered homeless the devouring element and reduced to ter destitution their entire crops having been consumed their stock has swept away and their larms are hut black ened deserts Unless they receive instant aid from portions ot the visited by this fearful calamity Ihey must The telegraph also the news that a large portion of the cily of Chicago is destroyed by a which is still raging Many thousands ot are there reduced to stripped of their all and are now destitute and Jood Their sufferings will be intense and many may perish provisions are at once sent to them he surrounding country They must be assisted Now in the awful presence of snob people of Wisconsin will not be in giving assistance to af I therefore mend that immediate organized effort be made in every locality to forward pns and money to the sufferers by visitation and lo mayors of cities presidents of villages town supervisors of churches and to the various that they devote Ives immediately lo the work of organiz efforts collecting contributions aud sending forward supplies for and I entreat of all lo give of their ance to help iu such distress Given under my hand at the capitol al Madison this 9th day of October A D 1871 Signed LUCIUS FAIRCHILD Seventy-Five Thousand Destitute People in the Streets The line is so full of railroad business that we can obtain but litile this morning The is all we have been aole to receive but more will be sent in an hour or two Chicago Oct a groat Ore bus been checked and is now und r control some circum- occurs it will be confined to its present limits Special dispatch to the Janesville Gazette Chicago Oct fire is under control All business blocks public buildings and hotels destroyed thousand dwellings also four hundred acres have been burned over Loss immense Lieutenant General Sheridan takes con- trol of cily witk one thousand ed patrol Several incendiaries were hung and shot last night R B Special Despatch to tne Janesville Gazette Milwaukee October conflagration in Chicago is checked and bounded The north side is completely destroyed There were people out of doors all night A man was of selling fire to a house and hung The Milwaukee engines are on their way home There is a call from Ludington for provisions aud clothing for the destitute people THH For some time past the Germans of this city have been contemplating the of a society of Turners here and arrangements have been in progress to in- augurate the organization with n tion to be held at Hall on day evening nest The great which has befallen the citizens of Chicago has determined our German citizens to make their proposed bration contribute to the suffering people of that city Tickets will be for sale where throughout the city at ono dollar each and the whole of the proceeds will be- at the disposal of such committees as may be hereafter formed for the purpose of for- warding relief to the Every person who is solicited aond are not will purchase a ticket to aid this praiseworthy effort The officers of th association Frank Speaker and Fred Sonneborn Secretary have charge of the arrangements Chicago Oct great fire com- on the corner of 12th and ven streets at half past 9 o'clock night occasioned it is said by a cow Kicking over a limp The Ore spread in an easterly and northeasterly tion to Jefferson and Clinton streets and from Clinton to Canal it swept crossing Canal street to river thing went down in its terrible path it reached Van Buren street where il ceased between those streets and burned to the river Everything on river front from Taylor street to Van Buren Street was At 3 o'clock great al elevator caught fire and was consumed Throwing a lurid sheet of fire high Into the beavens the raging element crossed the river about J2 o'clock into the division near Taylor street and witn its tongue licked up as if it were a feast as it advanced whatever came within its reach Still onward it marched through this portion of the doomed city and eastward to Harrison street thence north to the river and lake con- suming all the principal business portion of city Van Jackson Adams Monroe Madison Washington Randolph Lake aad South Water streels and upon Clark Market Franklin Wells La Salle Dearborn State Wabash Avenue and Michigan Avenue All portion of the city was its vast and most and cosily structures full of merchandize and valuable property of every description which made ic the pride of our western went down in the general havoc and ruin Crossing street bridge the fire fiend sped onward laking a northeasterly direction to Lincoln Park full two aad a half miles from this last point involving all that portion of he city east to the lake in total destruction and our latest dis- patches lett consuming scourge ing west toward the North Branch are large rolling furnaces tanneries ies lumber and coal yards The whole of this great covers over two thousand acres of ground of the most portion of Chicago and involves a of and many persons timate still higher loss of life must have been considerable and among the number it is feared that David A of Sherman House was one of the tims losing his life as supposed in his forts to save the guests of his house The accounts of refugees are beyond de- 5 dollars for a of water but was unable to obtain it The Chicago of Sunday is to-day a mere shadow The flames hare now Milwaukee October 9 p Delmonico proprietor of the New York restaurant arrived on the afternoon train from Chicago and is stopping at the Newhall House He was IN THE SHERMAN it took fire His description of the terrific yet gorgeous scene is The great sparks fill from the heavens like flakes of a snow storm when they fall so thick as to blind the sight and they DRIFTED IN THE STREETS as snow when it fulls to a great in a gale ol They did not dream of danger however till the flames had almost reached them then the house was WRAPPED IX FLAME while they turned to escape The heat was so intense and the blaze so unutterably fierce that when it smole the great Court House with walls ol solid rock of iron it seemed to EXPLODE A ROCKET It did not seem so much to burn as to burst and crumble to nothing when thu flames touched it ALL STOOD AGHAST and they were dumb with ror and despair Ordinary fires arc BCT compared to this indescribable riot and fury of the flames Mr D is a cool nun aud an old tireman but says that be was well nigh crazed by the events of this and morning of terror FIGHTING FOIt NINETY MILES Governor Gleason of da now slopping at the Newhall arrived in Chicago Sunday via Pittsburg Ft Wayne Chicago railroad f he train that road fought the fire for ninety miles approaching Chicago Fences bridges woodpiles the aud swamps were everywhere on fire Arriving al Chicago Governor and family were driven ONE HOTEL TO ANOTHER three times and finally took to the train lor Milwaukee morning arriving here as lo it cily of refuge Two thirds of the shipping in the harbor is destroyed or in All the Chicago road cilices are burned All the Chicago Telegraph offices are and are received from the railroad round houses machine shops ia the suburbs of the city The loss of life is very great but no de- tails are given The losses ol property are incalculable The insurance companies will be totally unable lo pay policies For miles of the cily ground is with Vehicles of every description carrying goods and people to places of safely The is terrific and no water is in cily excepting that which can be drawn from river or lake From Milwaukee News Chicago 9 P great calamity befallen Chicago has not ONE OF THE FALSE REPORTS The Fort Wayne and Chicago depot was not burned as That road has lost but few cars and are now their trains for Sixteenth street The indefatigable W C its cago agent was at the depot on the arrival of the Milwaukee train to direct all gers eastward over his train THE PRISONERS The report that the prisoners were ed up in the county jail was fortunately not true I conversed with one of them who said they were all taken out and that he managed to escape I lost no time in attempting his re arrest THE MILWAUKEE STEAM ENGINES were set to work on the west suie of the river on their arrival just north of the Northwestern depot and have ed all that mortals can do To them largely due the fact that the fire has noi as yet crossed the Branch THE The Times and Tribune offices are ly destroyed CLEARED BT THE Wabash and Michigan avenues State and Dearborn streets are clean from th river southward to Harrison street The of the city is almost complete THE The five o'clock train for Milwaukee is wilh passengers and fugitives au sorrowful and dejected and most of then 10 Ait the aud commons on the northern with men women and children in with such remnants of household goods as they managed to escape with no rooi to-night and many by far too many little or no clothing Humanity weeps at llu spectacle SEMI-WEEKLY GAZETTE Published Tuesday per Tear In advance The Weekly Gazette Il the Weekly published la Southern Wisconsin Per Tear In Six months ui advance 1.00 Address PRINTING CO Wisconsin Oconto County Burned and between Sixty and Seventy Lives Lost On aud the tlie Prairie du has the It will bo remembered that in the of 1803 Judge made a of speeches in this State in or if tlie lican candidates for officers and strictures on tlie dcm y more so iu fact than those of any speaker who the State We him one of his in counly year and his charges against the re- markable for their severity On tin after- ioon when to de- livered the funeral of a prominent limner n i Stone took place the procession passing near iho spot where the speech was made As it approached the udge for a few minutes ceased his re- marks and the crowd stood stient until ihu procession had passed lie then con- by saying that it was a solemn to see a mournful funeral procession md that it reminded all of the in ir- ahty of life Ho referred to tbc leath of his son which had taken place tti the army while in the of his in humbly aiding t suppress the re- bellion and on that point closed as Mv friends the Democracy that ire now trying to rise into power in this state and that in so are o you for suffrage are the ones In u for death They fanned the embers of rebellion lie passionate leaders thereof aid and c This was Judge charge the Democracy and we ask the Judge whether not he has changed his opinion since that time If he has is very ar that he should become the leader of the that he avowed were the murderers son Audit is very that of Wisconsin should support onco charged them t man who ni tlllls Oshkosh Threatened struction with De- Towns in Danger been by letters dispatches or indeed can not be tor its business portion is substantially stricken from ence Its inhabitants are to the ence It country inhabitant thousands as THE WRATH TO COME and every road leading from it is jammed bv teams and vehicles of every description and adjoining fields and by ways CROWDED AND SWARMING wilb men women and children on foot As the train from reached Rose Hill seven and a half miles from cago THE HEAVENS BECAME with the dense clouds which over haucs city a id suburbs People crowd the roads on font Men were carrying and bedding and lender Aud women leading lillle children aud of- len carrying in arms THE HORSES Men leading and driving horses to livery and private men of wealth poured out by dozens of cattle were also roads in some places for miles A mile further on took us to the woods just north of the branch of Chicago river This WOODS WAS FILLED with fugitives and wagon loads of ture piled up in every di- rection of dollars of properly was wilhout owners or present A VIEW OF THE CALAMITY As the train crossed the river the full calamity of fire became apparent To the eastward the fl imes were rolling and surging at three miles north ot the centre of the city aud seemingly ing to the lake shore It wis plain to be seen thai no human agency could stop this conflagration A little further southward the fire had reached westward from North Clark lo north branch ol river aud was burning lumber yards docks coal yards t nil vessels for half a mile southward Coal for a whole cily full WAS GLOWING IN RED HOT and gradually into ashes The flames were within a few rods of the round house and rapidly approaching BRIDGES DESTROYED The Halsted street and several other were and new In- diana Avenue bridge was aboul to ignite THE NORTHWESTERN DEPOT Up to this lime the Northwestern depot has escaped but its likely as vessels and about the stream BAT Oct o'clock p wab burned last night together with GO or TO poodle But one remains in the lage Tlie wind is blowing n perfect tornado At the mouth of the river extensive on Ore Two Oct arc raging interior Il ia blowing hird from the south The lake shore arc in no danger as long the wind continues that quarter i received daily of farmers being out and lull complclely definite The wells and cisterns are ail aud from many away arc carrying water from the lake to water their stock MILWAUKEE Oct who left kosh 4 o'clock this Monday morning and reached hero to-day informs us that the flames oil tnc marches south ot that city were running when ho the depot and covered au area two or three miles in length between luc railroad and the river and tho wind was blowing a gale Tue Saturday two miles tbU Bide of and had reached half 10 a quarter of u mile of The city was a ot excitement and the people were turning out to the of tho The re- port of Ihc of the way elation at ia without The at Burnett Junction telegraphs that he la dill in with aud that the depot not Fond du Lac October great are spreading All day yesterday people were fight ing two miles and of cny In the towns of Eldorado and friendship punch damage has been done It is leared it will reach the great marches News from Calumet creates much residences arc destroyed llay on the marshes has been destroyed by hundreds of ions There IB a report that Mills in the of have been destroyed Thin was a village having over two hundred people two mills aud stores Up to noon had scaped was tue village of St Cloud People have been out fighting tne are for two days An immense lire is burning between bt auu the lown of in county in the lown ol Forest in this county damage has been the tire is still unchecked There is it wuile the wind Is blowing hard At seven this evening a rain set in wruch will do much to relieve the of all Neenah Wis Oct A large Ore be ween Ap and Menasha about two miles from nha has destroyed a great deal of timber and About live hundred acres have been ed over The Herald j We have taken tho pains i speech recently delivered at uie Democratic candidate for Governor We learn from it that Mr is a pure distinguished patriot and a brave Champion ot the Constitution and also that he is a man He devotes a largo of his to an elaborate apology for his political apostacy which may be summed up as lie really never deserted the Republican patty He only st lirm as a rock for the ion and was deserted by the parly lie was right the great party was wrong Tlie people f sin aro not half such Tools us ilr seems to imagine in they can both road and and it is afi to that they will rebuke such monstrous impudence in November The Beloit Free Press says A very wretched condition of cy it is to which Mr appears to be reduced We are informed upon ble authority thai tlie democratic for governor in the course ol his is very industrious in making application privately to republicans im- them to for him and ing thai he is as a republican now as he ever was He docs not to concede that unless lie cun to seduce and debauch as many as five thousand republicans into voting him his case is utterly hopeless the and tilter with which he is begging and ching vidual republicans to vote for him The winch Mr Doolitlle is making of nu king of himself is a pitiable not to say a one The thr Gr Great Fi s it i J K l 0 of the World 011 references 1 w I bo to s in pi seems everything in on a little up STATE POLITICS Expressions ol Editorial Opinion Monroe Sentinel Doolittle is dead but like the old woman who so persistently said scissors he will hold up his hand when the waves of voters around him shall next month forever close his political mouth which till then will character for an Madison Journal says of Washburn's speech at Oshkosh We lish to-day the first part of General burn's speech at Oshkosh in reply to ex- Senator Doolittle It is marked by vigor and clearness Its is excellent aud its logic convincing Mr was clearly worsted His opponent is in nest and judging from these stunning blows delivered the of the Democratic candidate will bo thoroughly exposed In this campaign General burn evidently knew what he when he challenged Judge Doolittle He full the strength of a good soldier in a just cause aad knew the weakness of bis adversary's position of the same General Washburn was introduced by Mayor Jones and in an a ha if demolished the imaginary of evils erected by Mr D under which the ry was laboring He made many happy hits nnd was repeatedly by an enthusiastic audience His was and pleasure lo a was a d to his The general is that the proved an over match for his com- in every respect except a melodious voico The whole affair was a cess for the republicans who have been themselves on the result hall hour was occupied by Mr in a valu attempt to reply to the statements of his opponent We room to say at present that the mo bird can soar high but bis those of Icarus are of wax eland the sun of truth Con- en houses de- c m umed this cily in the 6 lull h tire occurred oa the ot September LOGO covering acres DO mauy public valued ai 5th 01 streets 120 passages and courts were destroyed ing houseless of tile ition New tuber h about acres of the most part of cily burnt over destroying US li and property to the amount of A Michigan Tragedy From tho Benton Palladium Last Saturday the i the dead body of a irirl was d in the near Brown Graham's sawmill in this village aud near her was a some one of the steamers running here Justice G W Coles nn be- ing informed of the case summoned a jury and proceeded to inquest upon the body w ich for that was taken to a room over the shop near by Drs Bell Winans and were culled to examine the body which proved to be that of a girl about eighteen years old and whose parents reside this village The of the no clear evidence that i's received fatal in- jury before death though the Iv discolored and her breast near the shoulder was considerably cut Bnt these wounds it was thought were by prop Her wheels striking the body ufier death by drowning had ensued On ining her her and other witnesses it the gld had been from homo the last Saturday previous We understand from one of the that on tho examination of the u able evidence was found thai the girl fi chastity had been violated before she was drowned From a source we deem reliable we hear it stated that late on the Saturday she was last seen two intoxicated young men got into altercation in a saloon near n dork where a steamer was lying that sailed Iho following Sunday night and the quarrel was in regard to worn in that one ot men was heard to sav yon yu threw her ard One repor s i at language her II and like where was hen em- p left here on n cer ai i night ir Chicago rot u mini Sunday morning From these fuels the inference is drawn thai she was for some time very that she had her virtue ami that subsequently she hud been T ho verdict of the jury was that Iho body was that of Mary and that came to her death by drowning cause being A minister told hid neighbor Unit he spoke for two nnd halt he Sunday previous t-r were not u was a- as a bui it done your heart to sue how urea me was I
