Disastrous Fire In Iowa

Dks Moixks. Ia., Auï. 5. - Kire early Sunday moniiiiir destroyed one-half the business portion and forty re.sidences of What Cheer, Ia. Tho flro originated at W. 1!. hrtaatcoTtffa meat market and is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. BVonl Hroadway three blocks north on both sidas of Barnes street evcry tiiinii was swept away, inchidin? the opera-faouso, Crescent supply store, the Harlem and Parrot block, the buildings occupied by J. H. Leathers and T. G. Funk. general merchants. ;uiil manyother inisinesa houses. At least fortv ï-esidences wore burned. The total loss is esttmated at (100,000.