Fires And Other Accidents

Fire supposed to have originated from natural gas destroyed three fine residences in Pittsburg, Friday.
The British steamer Vortigern has been wrecked n the China Sea with a loss of twenty-one lives.
Jacob Woodard, at Newark, Ohio, fell over a pile of bricks into the mud, and, being unable to rise, was smothered to death.
Two grain elevators, containing over bushels of wheat, were destroyed by fire at New Rockford, D. T.
An explosion of boilers in the Central Iron and Steel company's rolling mili, at Brazil, Ind. , Monday, wrecked the building. One man was buried under a mass of hot brick and burned to death, another died of his wounds, and a dozen others were more or less injured.
A Wabash passenger train ran into a freight near West Lebanon, Ind., Monday morning. Two persons were hurt, Mrs. L. M. Petit, of Fort Wayne, and Mail Agent K. Helm.
The schedules of the insolvent commission firm of D. De Castro & Co., of New York, show liabilities of $1,281,304, and actual assets of $1,096,758.
A company with $1,000,000 capital has been licensed to establish an aquarium and fish market in Chicago.
The annual report of the Reading Railroad company shows that in 1886 the company received an average of $1.53 per ton for coal at the mine', and in 1887 $1.84, while in 1886 the cost lo mine was 165, and in 1887 $1.57.
Railroad managers and steel rail manufacturers are at a deadlock on prices. The former refuse to pay more than $30 per ton for rails, and tho latter hold the pnce up to $33 and $35, and have shut down all their mills.
A reduction of 4 cents per hundred-weight on provisions, and 2 cents on flour to Liverpool from Chicago went into effect Wednesday.
At Milwaukee Monday, W. P. McLaren was appointed receiver of the Grant Carriage company. The liabilities are estimated at $90,000; assets, between $60,000 and $70,000, including outstanding accounts amounting to $30,000.