Destructive fire at Chicago. Chicago, December 16.
--A fire broke out this morning in Lincoln Hall, a building at the corner of Lake and Franklin streets, which communicated to a six-story marble building immediately west, and thence to the corner of Lake street. The building was completely gutted.
The heaviest losers are Messrs. Whipple & Co., dry goods, seventy-five thousand dollars; Richardson, agricultural implements, forty thousand dollars; J. Y. Franklin, fifty thousand dollars. The total loss amounted to about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, about one-half of which is insured.
