OCR Text |
Show LATEST NEWS; EYTELEGRAFH LAST fi!GKT. - j lr.rto4 ffrlftlly for Ol- P,LT T.,S5 llzhD Terrible Fire in JerseyCit y $1,000,000 worth of Prop, erty Destroyed. The Hottest Day of the eaon in Chicaijo. Another Great Fire in Illinois. Il-linois. Incendiarism to efi'aiid. &.C., &c, Sec. GENERAL. CHlcago News. Chicago, July 1. Yesterday wns the hottest day of the season. Tlie thermometer at 5 p m. was 93. A bricklayer a' work on the second story of a in-.w building was overcome by the heat, fell to the ground aud was killed A severe thunderstorm in the evening moderated the temperature. The exten-ive distillery of Hoas and Powell at Lyons, 111., was burned yes terday with 2.2U0 barrels of high wines, valued at $120,000. The loss will. reach $170 000. The distillery has been closed several d iys. The fire is supposed to be meendiaiy. Kxtraoidinary heat and continued draught are- reported throughout the entire west. In a great arson c se on trial at Ot tawa, Ills., one Howell, piopneior of a large paper-stainery at Marseilles, Ul , is charged with rociiring the burnn.g ol' his establishment to defraud the in .uiance companies. Fenx. eglcr, a loi uier employee oi Iiovv.-ll has c-n fewed he wa hired by 11 Well to set the factory on tire and detailed the whole plan .roni its concep ion. The Junes' New York dispatch says the ami Chinese lab h meeting in T'.mipki s square last evening was a miserable failure. f ,1 T 4. Osw-go, 1. Three loaded canal boats, with crews of seven men, f.otil Canada for this port, in to i of a tug, were abandoned la.-t night on the lake, in a gale. Anxiety is felt for the safety of the boats and crews. A tug has gone in ,-earch of them. Terrible Fire in Jersey City. -New York, 1. About 12:40 .this moining. a tire broke out in Punse- hee's kindling-wood factory, Jersey city, which spread rapidly, so that at half past one ue rly all the region em braced hi tweeii the river and Kiehth street, and iuciudi g the lumberyards of P.ibie and Meig-, Poble .aid Meiiis. ! Derby, Niow Si Prentiss, Olid others, together with a planing mill, bell fac lory, machine simps, etc., on Green, Washington arid other stnets, were in a sheet ot fl.nne. fhe entire tire de- pan incut of Jersey city turned out, nut the Hie. had got such headway and gained so rapidly on them that a.l their labors com. 1 n it control it. One larre tenement house and sevei al small ones we.e destroyed. The fire is still spreading and it is believed the lo-s will uot lail fir short id' a million dollars. fhe same dis . : . 1 I i . i IIICL :is uilineo ovei dwui tmee years aito. lmmen-e quintilies ' limber have b"en desiroy d, and fears are entertaibed that the shipping may catch fire. San Domingo. Wa-himrton, 30. Toe rejection of the Sun lrouiim;o tiealy does not dis poe of the )iiol"oo. for the rel u-r; of aiuaii:i, The piojeet tor the aonexa tion of D rmimca by joint re-olution does nnt seem to be P'trarded with suf ticient lavor to secure a major ty m j en her hou-e. San Francisco Items. p..iir v ..---is ale cugajej to lo d iuth w!ied for KurtjH!., The thei iho.neier is Si iii the shade. About ninety tli u-ind -beep will DC ki..ed i.ir the hi jr-.H beiuw Santa Cruz; scrre'ry of .a-ture is th -. cau-e. I he C.ii.loniid and Oregon railroad will be opene to Ctiico on the lourth. h-re w h be an excursion wneu the roa is fi lishei Harvest uiiio in the r ttcra:rirjto vdii-.y- |