Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1904 — Page 3

fTTE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1904.

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first Pregnant Sief in the Impendin " Far East liar 11 'ill Be Taken h the Tokio Government ToDay. pnvn.T-nED FROM FIRST PAGE.) I m had gone to Viceroy Alrxteff. he did j nt give him a copy of It. but It is under- : tnod that he made known, in a general the Russian position. Russia, while i PMMBS concessions, declined tc yield on the j. four following points: . First, Japan's rifcht to ask for a treaty Mftffeg the sovereignty of Manohinla; seeon, sh.- insisted upon mutual recojrnition of independence of Korea; third, that there baold be no fortification of southern Korea which might brighten Russian communications with Port Arthur and Vladivoatock. a-.u f -iirth. she declined to met Japan's with regard to a neutral zone on L.,t ildM of the Yalu river. CAUSED MI CH EXCITEMENT. Th- W ws of the breaking off of diplomatic .relations between Russia and Japan was RjfM 1 fr a"1 wi(le throughout the cnpt'al hv extra bulletins of the Novoe Vremja aui other papers. Much excitement was created, and this resulted in paIflaClc demonstrations. A the performance of Telinka's heroic operi. "Life for the Cxar;" at the Marie .r the enormous building was packed ft omlHTT to celling and many military ofsin v. ere present. When the peasant ou'anon. who. In the play, comes to save thr 'rar life, san the national ode, "God ff the 'zar from His Enemies." tne emotlöaal RSSSSa character was stilled by the I t ity of the occasion, but when the curt ass rung down the audience burst Into .. i rrous applause. The Dmurat Gazette hails the breaking of relations because it terminates the prest: . - i pssj and declares that the entire pultnn will respond to the imperial call. It i enral opinion of military men Yicrc t'mt Japan will Immediately land trcr Korea, whence will come the first vrs of lighting unless there should be an a rid i tal encounter at sea. - iated Press was Informed at a lit4 hour to-night that the order for the imperii tr;iin to take the Czar to Moscow 1. i l DM! countermanded, and that the date of his Majesty's departure is uncertain. RUSSIA'S NOTIFICATION TO REPKESEX TA T1VES ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 7.r-The Official Messenger publishes the following circular telegram, dated Fob. 6. which has been sent out by th Russian foreign minister to the rrprf Hntatlves of the Russian government abroad: "Acting under instructions from his government, the Japanese minister at the impsrlil court, has presented a note which informs the imperial government of the decision of Japan to break off from further v. otiations and recall her minister and the entire staff at the Japanese legation. ' In consequence of this his Imperial Maj'stv has been pleased to order that the Russian minister at Tokio, with the wh.de staff of the imperial mission, shall leave the capita of Japan without delay. Such an attitude on the part of the Tokio government, which has not even awaited the arrival of the answer of th- Imperial government which was sent off during the last fr-w days, throws the whole responsibility for the consequence which may arise from a rui tore of diplomatic relations between trv- empires, on Japan " DEMANDS OF JAPAN 1 1 'E RE 1 7; R V MO DER A TE LONDON, Feb. S. The Times this mornins asserts that the Japanese demands wen of a moderation that will astonish the world whn they are disclosed. Japan did not even ask Russia to promise to move a single soldier frm Manchuria, or to renounce a sinide risht In Manchuria. The Dailv Graphic, dealing with the same subjec t, asserts that the original draft of the' treaty submitted to Russia was drawn up by Baron Komura in consultation with Baron De Rosen. Will ol e t Mediation. PARIS. Feb. 8. The Figaro this morning publishes a statement that M. Motmio, the Japanese minister, says Japan will not accept an offer of mediation from whatever source it might come. INFORMATION TAKES BERUS BY SURPRISE Count Von Bodow Had Said on Thursday that War W as Iml.ssible War Office View. BERLIN. Feb. 7 The Russian embassy her- has been informed by Count Lamsd"iff. the Russian foreign minister, that the Russian government does not know whether the breaking off of diplomatic negotiations by Japan is preliminary to war or not. Anxiety prevails at the embassy. ' -unt Von Der Outen-Sacken. the Russian ambassador at Berlin, received Count Lams 1. riT's official circular at 2 o'clock this ni- rning. but he did not communicate it to Baron V.u Richthofen. the imperial foreign s i tar, until y o'clock this morning. The Russian ambassador was received by Baron Von Richthofen while he was taking coffee iu his dressing room. in the dftj fount Von Der Ostenw t .ar-'ii "ii rut iiiiK'ieu iiiel presumably told him of a supplement ary dispatch, saving that the Russiau government did nut know whether there would 1 V ar r not. rs at the Russian embassy were assun.l t.v th,- ambassador that the action of Japan was a paint ul surprise, and that the -ml assy had no intelligence on wnicn to has. a prediction as to what the Japanese and Russian governments woulfl now do. The Japanese m mister at Berlin, Inouyc. !ooking as impassive and calm as usual, 'r . ut this afternoon. Visitors at the Japanese lecatkm were told, after the minist, r r. turned, that he was too much occupied to receive them. Th ordinary Sunday quiet at the Foreign 1 not broken, except that a few at i who had been aroused at their homes iy the calling of extra editions of the newspapers. looked in during the aft rSOOn to ee if there was any news. The resident clerks and the doorkeeprs were the pc!y persons on duty there. Baron Von Richthofen tok the original of the Russian dispatch o Count on Buelow. the imperial chancellor, who in t irn . ,k it personally to the Schloss ami handed It to th. Bmperoi DSi his Majesr return from church It is quite likely thai the Emperor, In the rvent of war. v his proposed rrul-e through th. M I terra near in ..rder to hi at home to meet anv possible complications. rojnt Yon Buelow, only so short a tlm 8 m"hr- loW 8evehr"! PJT; sns at the court that war was wholly out or the q 'Aar ' -1 rs to ye taken a dlfferenl view from the r !! ' llfie'L" reg.lrd.ing the pi SSinllltlS U rva- h-.- .. eiiriv lust week a military attache was ordered to fore j in the far East. join the Russian 8HKDBTV IIjUS. TW Democrats of Nobff, Libert ar.d M ral townships met Saturday .inl nominal d th- candidates for treat f those townships. The candidate f.T Noble township is Oscsr Howard; for Moral. Albert Aly-a; for Liberty, Joseph h er HINTER BALTIMORE RYE 1 hm Ancricmn n Whik?y.

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Comparative Strength of the Japanese and Russian Fleets

The following shows the line-up of in far Eastern waters : RUSSIAN

Battleships Tons.

Orel 15.6X Czarevitch 13. 1 10 Retvizan 12.700 Peresviet 12.674 Probieda 12.674 Sebastopol 10,960 Patropaviovsk 10.960 Pollava 10.960 Protected Boatzo 6,750 Diana 6.630 Pa'.lada 6,630 Variag 6.5C0 Askcld 6, 100 Boyann 3.2D0 Novfk 3,200 Armored Gromovoi 12,330 Rossia 12,200 Rurik 10,940 Bay an 7,800 Totai 166,314

Torpedo Boat Destroyers Russian, 12; Japanese, 19. Torpedo Boats Russian, 16; Japanese, 76.

Baltimore Aflame; (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) ern Union company on Gay street. The prospect is that this office will have to be vacated in a few minutes, as the flames are breaking west and east and volumes of sparks and blazing cinders and splinters are flying In every direction. At this hour the fire Is absolutely beyond control and all occupants of buildings In the center of the city are rapidly removing their valuables. The City Hospital, corner of Calvert and PUasar.t streets, is removing to other hospitals as rapidly as possible the twentyfour patients in that institution. Seventeen were brought to this hospital, most of them firemen. They were suffering from burns, scalds and lacerations. Nearly every physician in the city Is In the fire district. So far as known at this hour no one has been killed. Detachments of the Fourth and Fifth regiments nave been called out and are patrolling the streets In the vicinity of the fire, guarding property and keeping order. Fortunately thus far the conflagration has not reached the residence portion of j the city, but fires are breaking out In East Baltimore and the indications are that the residence streets are doomed to be invaded. The Indications are that not a single morning newspaper will be able to get out an issue to-morrow morning, with the possible exception of the Sun, which has an auxiliary plant. There are five morning papers here, three English and two German. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad office building has been destroyed, and so has the Maryland Institute art building. At 11:45 p. m. the temporary customs house, adjoining the postoffice, caught fire. One hundred and fifty policemen from Philadelphia arrived here to assist the Baltimore police and military. The temporary quarters secured by the Associated Press for their operators, after first being burned, has again been destroyed and they were compelled to seek new quarters on a moment's notice. News from this city therefore will be delayed. The fire loss may reach $50,000.000 or more. DETAILS OF PROGRESS OF THE GREAT FIRE BALTIMORE. Md., Feb. 7. The most destructive conflagration in the history of Baltimore occurred here to-day, raging practically unchecked during many hours, destroying scores of the largest business houses in th wholesale district, involving losses which cannot yet be estimated, as the fire was still burning fiercely when night fell. Owing to the wide extent of the calamity it will be to-morrow before an approximate estimate can be made, though it s ccrtain it has already exceeded $25.The Are broke out shortly before 11 o'clock this morning In the wholesale dry rood store of John E. Hurst & Co., on Hopkins place, in the heart of the busi ness district, with a series of loud explo sions which were heard in remote parts of the city, and spread with fearful rapidity In a half-hour there were a dozen big warehouses in the wholesale dry goods and notions district burning fiercely. The entire i ity fire department was called out, but was utterly powerless to check the spread of the flames, which were aioeo dv nign winds, and by noon there were savage fin s in at least thirty big warehouses, and the lonflagTatlon was steadily eating its way into successive blocks east, north, west and SOUth COrL.D NOT BE CHECKED. Building after building fell a prey to the an1 apparentlv there was no check namt ' - to the onward sweep of destruction, 0n Baltimore street the block between J f n,, und Sharp was soon abläse, then : i-reri au r ' came the next block east to Hanover and afjer that the block on the south side to rharles street broke out into ilames. the ( naiis nt--i j Consolidated Gas Companys building and ( ct,nh-s Acme Hall burning fiercely lm, v. .1 . &m tlnr Mnnhllo thre were stores nortn or f 1 V M ' " Baltimore street being similarly consumed. Mullin's Hotel caught and other buildings near It. West of Liberi y street, on the south side of Baltimore, the block was ,l,,med, and the big Baltimore bargain house also caught. Down In Hopkins place, where the conflagration started. Hurst's building and the other wholesale houses on both sides of th street crumbled and fell. The big dry goods houses of Daniel Miller I A Sons and R. M. Burton A Co.. were soon i ;l .inme. and along German, east and west from the Hurst building, there were a dozen buildings burning and scores mor threatened. The spectacle of ruin and destruction :nm any point in these doomed blocks was .mnthlnc annaHlm;. M a As K'-mper's big holeaalc .tore on Baltimore ftreet quickly

the Japanese and Russian fleets

JAPANESE Tons. Mikasa 15,200 Asakl 15.000 Hatsuse 15,000 Shikashima 14,850 Yashima 12.323 Fuji 12.320 Chen Yuen 14;8?0 Cruisers Naniwa 5.7?0 Chitose 4,760 Kasa?i 4.760 Takasago 4. 330 Hashidate 4,277 ltoukuskima 4,277 Matsushima 4.277 Yashino 4,150 Takashiho ... 3,700 Toushima 3.420 Niitaka 3.420 Akitsaushina 3,150 Idsumi 3,000 Sutma 2,700 Akashi 2,700 Chiyoda 2,450 Cruisers Yakumo' 9.850 Asama 9,750 Tokiwa 9,750 Iwate 9,750 Idzumo , 9,750 Azuma 9,436 Total 209,507 Enormous Losses succumbed to the flames and the walls fell with a crash that was heard for squares. CENTER OF THE CALDRON. The Hurst building was destroyed, not even a wall ten feet high being left standing. It apparently was the center of the caldron, from whence the flames radiated over the doomed neighborhood. On Hopkins place the Hopkins Savings Bank and the National Exchange Bank were gutted by flames, the few streams of water that firemen were able to turn on them proving entirely Ineffectual to even halt the destruction. Here, across the street, were the ruins of John E. Hurst & Co., and next to It S. Hecht, jr., & Sons were in flames. Adjoining was the large building owned by the William Koch Importing Company, which was also quickly destroyed. Across the street the Stanley St Brown Drug Company building wasquicklyin ruins, while fronting the Baltimore street side of this block were the Roxbury Rye Distilling Company, the building occupied by Silberman & Todes, the house of Allen & Co., which hardly had been completed, while next to it was the establishment of Moses & Co. On the corner was the building oc cupied by the Messrs Sugar & Shear and several other smaller concerns. All of these were swallowed up in flames, and, in fact, the whole block was nothing but a caldron of fire. HOTEL. BECOMES A TORCH. At 1:30 o'clock Mullin's Hotel, a sevenstory structure. Liberty and Baltimore streets, was in flames from garret to cellar, and its great height and narrowness acted as a torch, which, as a sort of flue, converted the doomed building into a huge and dreadful torch. All the guests of the hotel had been ordered out of the building shortly after the fire broke out in John E. Hurst's place. There was no panic or confusion and none was Injured. Though every bit of flre-flghtlng apparatus in the city was called into requisition as the flames continued to spread, the firemen realized that they had a task before them which was too great for them to combat. T. b grams for Are engines were sent to Washington and Philadelphia, and about 1 o'clock six engines arrived from Washington and four from Philadelphia and Joined in the battle with the flames. Engines from stations In Baltimore, Howard, Anne Arundel and Harford counties also arrived as soon as possible, some of the apparatus traveling a distance of thirty miles and more. Water plugs In every section within a radius of half a mile from the Are were in use, and it is roughly estimated that there were 350 hose all playing at one time upon different parts of the conflagration. Owing to the great congestion of Are apparatus the crowds of people and the general confusion, many of the engines from out of town were unable to And a place where they would be of any service. W ith loud roars wall after wall toppled into the streets and Aremen ran for their lives. All kinds of wires had to be cut to clear the way for the Are Aghters. The block bounded by Gorman. Liberty, Sharp and Baltimore streets was early found to be doomed and the Aremen turned their attention to saving the buildings on Baltimnro atreet east of Sharp. The Are was beyond their control and the flames ran from one building to another, in spite of the fact that the Aremen had done their best to check the progress of the names by soaking the structure with" water. RED-HOT CINDERS. Red-hot cinders ignited the roof of the Front-street Theater, and for a time it looked as though that structure would be burned down. The bui'ding is at least a half-mile from th main conAagration, and the fact that the roof caught Are from falling cinders shows to what distance the flt ry rain feli. The blaze, which was on the southwest corner, was extinguished by the llremen assisted by cltirens. For a time considerable alarm was felt at the City Hospital when tht- rain of cinders was at it9 fiercest. The Sisters of Mercy in charge of the institution wen all at their posts, and an effort was made to keep the fact of the conAagration secret from the patients. A few cinders fell on the roof of the hospital, but were extinguished by the physicians of the house staff. Eighteen women, two babies and seven nurses were taken from the Maternity Hospital, on West Lombard street, in police ambulances and given quarters at the City Hospital. A woman who was ill in bed with typhoid was taken to the City Hospital. At 3 o'clock a tremendous explosion of about 150 barrels of whisky, stored in the upper floors of 24 Hanover street, hurled tons of burning matter across the street on to the roofs of the buildings opposite, which the Aremen were drenching with i water in a vain nope 10 maae naiiov. r street the eastern ucunuary line oi ine . a . a m -

conflagration. The flames quivered for a few moments under the water, but soon ate into the buildings on the east side. Two truck wagons caught Are and were consumed and an engine was buried by a falling wall, the firemen fleeing for their lives. The whole city was notified of the conflagration by a terrific explosion, which occurred some minutes after 11 o'clock. A sharp, splitting roar went up with reverberating thunder. This was followed by a peculiar whistling noise, like that made by a shrill wind. The churches in the central section of the city were filled with worshipers, many of whom became frightened, and while no panics ensued, hundreds of men and women left their seats and went outside to see what had happened. In a few moments the streets and pavements all over the city were crowded with excited people. DEAFENING CRASH. Another deafening crash occurred, and dense columns of cinders and smoke shot up over the central sec tion of the city, and in a huge brown column moved rapidly toward the northeast. Borne on the strong southeast wind, the column of smoke, blazing cinders, and even pieces of tin roofing, spread over the center of the city and a rain of cinders fell, compelling pedestrians to dodge red-hot pieces of wood. Two more explosions followed, and thousands of people hurried to the scene of the fire. Of all the spectators, comparatively few saw the fire itself. They could not get within half a block of it. Even the policemen guarding the approaches to the tire had to repeatedly shift their positions and dodge falling cinders. Pieces of tin six by eight feet square were lifted into the air by the terrific heat, sailed upward like

puper kites, and when they reached a point beyond the zone of the most intense heat fell clattering to the streets. The firemen who were obliged to stick to their dangerous posts dodged into doorways for shelter from the rain of hot missiles. Crash after crash could be heard within the burning district, but even the firemen could not tell from what building they proceeded. In the seething furnace of flame all sense of the direction of location of buildings was lost. Walls and flooring fell in thunderous roars that echoed for blocks away. Hundreds of merchants and business men with offices in the threatened district were notified by watchmen and police. Nearly all took steps to have their books run to a place of safety. Hundreds of men and boys were engaged to move the books. The Adams Express Company sent a hurry call for its men and wagons to come to the office at once. The books, desks and files were all placed into wagons for removal to places of sa fety. BURNED BUILDINGS. Among the buildings consumed are the following: Roxbury Rye Distilling Company; Allen & Sons, leathers; Sugar & Shear, clothing; D. Stein & Co., umbrella manufactures; M. Friedman & Son. Crockin, & Co.. dry goods; Schwarz Toy Company. Mullins Hotel, Burgunder Bros., clothing; Maas & Kemper, manufacturers of confectioners' tools; Be wis, Lowery & Co., dry goods; Dry Goods Exchange; S. Neubergcr & Bro., dry goods; A. Sauber, clothing and sponging establishment; A. C. Meyer & Co.. druggist?; Carrollton Chemical Company; YVm. T. Dixon & Bros., wholesale paper; Burger & Co., wholesale clothing; Blanke & Saloin. Thos. Burke & Co.. liquors; James A. Gary & Son. (cotton mills) office; Charles Burger & Co., wholesale clothing; American Cigar Company; Cook Sanderson, local agent of Bluett. Peabody & Co.; John Hurst & Co., dry goods; S. Hecht, jr. & Co., carpets; Daniel Miller & Sons, dry goods; Disrtra Curran & Co., boots and shoes; Molan's restaurant; C. Y. Davidson, gas-titting establishment; F. Bchleunei A Co., cloth dealers; upp nneim'r, jvosuianu A Co., wholesale Jewelers; W. Catzen & Co., clothing; A. Frederlicht & Co., woolen goods; C. J. Stewart & Sons, hardware; O'Connell & Bannon, restaurant; building occupied by the National Exchange Bank and the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association; Hopkins Savings Bank; building occupied by Thornton, Rogers & Co.. printers: Carr, Owens At Heineman and Blank,-s samon; Arnbach Brothers, clothing manufacturers; Conrad Zeal's Son, trunk manufacturers; building occupied by Silberman & Todes, dry goods; Thalheimcr Brothers, dry goods, and the Florence W. McCarthy Company; Fusselbaugh-Blake Company, wall paper; Bäsch & Garner, window shades; R. Jandorf Ar Co., boots and shoes; James Robertson Manufacturing Company, metals; Peter Hose Ac Sons, harness and saddlery; B. Koan, notions; M. Pratzfelder, boots and shoes; John Murphy Company, publishers; Baltimore News Company, book sellers; The Cushing Company, book sellers; J. S. MacDonald & Co., Jewelers; The Goodyear Rubber Company; Likes, BerwanRer & Co.. clothiers; The Welsh Brothers Company, jewelers; The Consolidated Gas Company (office building); Ochm's Acme Hall, clothiers; The W. J. C. Dulany Company; Huyler's, confectionery; William Knabe Piano Company; Samuel Hunt's Sons, leather goods; The James R. Armlger Company, jewelers; The De Brau Hat Company; Kranz Smith Piano Company; F. W. McAllister & Co., opticians; Bryant & Stratton Business College; R. Lertz & Sons, pianos; Imwold & Co., furniture; Granger & Co., tobacconists. TEMPORARY OFFICES TO BE EST 4BLISHED CHICAGO, Feb. 7. J. C. Barclay, assistant general manager of the Western I'nion Telegraph Company, with headquarters in New York, who is in Chicago to-night, said in an interview: "The Western Union telegraph office in Baltimore is situated at the corner of Calvert and Fayette streets. In one of the most modern buildings. We Have recently fitted up a complete modern office at a very heavy expense. The office Is connected through an underground system with the out-of-town wires. "Early In the afternoon, when it was feared the fire would reach the building occupied by us. a large force of men with the necessary material were sent to Baltimore to re-establish our main office. Communication will be maintained through our branch offices and railroad offices outside of the fire district, pending the restoration of the main office." The Postal telegraph office was located within half a block of the Western Union, in a sixteen-story building and the loss in telegraph facilities will be practically the same as that of the Western Union Telegraph Company. HARRISON VOICES C HILAGO S SYMPATHY CHICAGO, Feb. 7. The following message w.is sent to Mayor Robert M. McLane. of Baltimore, by Mayor Carter H. Harrison to-night: "Details of the great calamity which has visited your city have just been received by me. To us a conflagration of this kind is brought home with all the more emphasis because of our own experiences In dealing with awful catastrophes. We have not forgotten the fire of 1871. and the accompanying loss of life and property. The news of your misfortune comes to us at a time when Chicago is still mourning for its recent theater disaster. "Chicago extends to you its sympathy most deeply, for it remembers well what such a disaster means. Chicago assures you of its desire to furnish all the material aid possible." Ma vor Harrison sent a similar message to Governor arfield, of Maryland. PERSONAL INTEREST WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. President Roosevelt took a personal interest in the reports of the progress of the fire in Baltimore which were sent to him from various sources. During the evening, through his secretary, he directed Maj. Richard Sylvester, the chief of police, to render all the assistance he could from his office to the stricken city. The Washington police bureau has had a corps of detectives in Baltimore during the afternoon, and to-night, following the President's direction. Major Sylvester dispatched Captain Pearson and a detail of thirty policemen for duty to assist in preserving order. Four engines also were sent. SIXTEEN ADDITIONAL ENGINES ARE SENT NEW YORK. Feb. 8 Soon after 2 o'clock this (Monday) morning Fire Chief Croker

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that every sick one mav let Liquozone itself prove what it can do. Kills Inside Germs The greatest value of Liquozone lies in the fact that it kills germs in the body with- ' out killing th? tissues, too. Ana no man knows another way to do it. Any drug that kills germs is a poison, and it cannot be taken internally. Medicine is almost helpless in any germ disease, as every physician knows. Liquozone will do for sick humanity more than all the drugs in the world combin:d. It does what no skill can accomplish without it. It cures diseases which medicine never cured. Acts Like Oxygen Liquozone is the result of a process which, for more than 20 years, has been the constant subject of scientific and chemical research, its virtues are derived solely from gas, made in large part from the best oxygen producers. By a process requiring immense apparatus and 14 days' time, these sent seven f re engines, with full crews, to Baltimore, over the Bultimore & Ohio Railroad. At 1 o'clock Philadelphia sent five engines, with full crews, in addition to the six engines and crews, 150 policemen and extra firemen sent earlier In the night. Baltimore has been cut off from the outside world by telegraph since midnight. Panic in BnniinK C'hnrch. LOGON. Ia., Feb. 7. Fire in the First Christian Church, which broke out just after service began to-day, created a panic. The flames communicated to the bell tower which fell in a few moments after the congregation had gone out. None of the membsrs was hurt, but several had narrow escapes. The house was entirely lost. LIST OF THE FAMOUS FIRES OF HISTORY In the Chicago fire of Oct. 9, 1871, the territory burned over amounted to 2,100 acres, and the property loss to $190,000,000. Buildings were destroyed to the number of 17,450; 300 lives are known to have been lost, and 98,000 persons were made homeless. The Boston fire of Nov. 9-11, 1872, destroyed 800 business houses and residences, and involved a property loss of $80,000,000. The loss of life was small. In September of 1666, 436 acres of the hssjrl ol London w-is Asstroyed by fin . Tbs loss of life was tremendous, as the houses of old London were of very flimsy construction. Eighty-nine churches were burned, including old St. Peter's cathedral, and nearly all the churches in "The City." except St. Giles's; and 13,200 dwellings and shops. Moscow, the Russian capital, has been burned twice. In 1570 a lire, which started in a baker's shop, made 2o0,?J0 persons homeless. In 1M2 the city authorities, on direct command from the Czar, set Are to the city because of the French occupation under Napoleon. The people evacuated the city before the entrance of the French, and it was thoroughly mined. The prisoners in the jails were liberated on their promise to remain and Are the city after the French had entered. They did their work well, and Moscow was laid in ashes, driving out the French, who then began their terrible retreat, through the Russian winter, to the French frontier. ) Constantinople has suffered from many conflagrations. In 1831 18,300 houses were destroyed, with great loss of life. Cairo, the ejipit.Ml of Egypt, was almost destroyed by tire in 1824. Great fires are common in the crowded cities of the Orient. Only a few years ago fire at Yeddo. Japan, made 150,000 persons homeless, and hundreds lost their lives. Canton, Peking and Shanghai, 'llina' have een devastated many times. In 142 Hamburg, the commercial metrop oils of northern Germany, suffered a loss by fire of $35,000,000. This was in the warehouse district. Seven years before the Hamburg fire over 600 warehouses in Ne w York were blotted out, the loss being in the neighborhood of 130,000,000. San Francisco was practically destroyed in 1851, 2,500 houses being swept away. It left nearly the entire population homeless, but s more substantial class of buildings was erected and the fire was an ultimate benefit to the city. In 1876 fire did damage amounting to $12,500.000 in the flourishing city of St. Johns, N. F., and in 1889 both Seattle and Spokane, Wash., suffered the destruction of their respective business districts, the loss in each rase being upward of $15,000,000. Among the more recent disasters of this kind was the great Jacksonville fire of three years ago, wherein scores of lives were lost and two-thirds of the Florida metropolis was destroyed. Of the theater fires there are the Paris Charity Bazar fire of May, 1SU7; the great ienna Theater fire in 1KM. in which HO lives w n losl : the Oporto The ater nre, in iv, m wnicn v lives were lost, and, last and most horrible of all, the Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago, on Dec. 31 last, with its total of 5S3 deaths. In this connection it may be mentioned that between 1751 and 1KS5 fire destroyed, so far as recorded, 732 theaters, and claimed therein 6,573 victims. From the beginning of the nineteenth century to May, 1S97, 536 theaters were destroyed and nearly 5,000 persons were killed or wounded. In the thirteen years from 187 to 1Ü89 not less than 1.600 persons were killed in the six terrible theater disasters of Brooklyn, Nice, Vienna. Paris. Exeter and Oporto. In these tires nearly all the victims were dead within ten minutes after the smoke and flames from the stage reached the auditorium and galleries. This also was true of the Iroquois fire. MOVEMENTS OP STEAMERS WW YORK' Feh 7 Arrived: Anehoria from Glasgow and Moville; Brandenburgh. irom DI einen yuii. ä.m lAinumr, from Havre; New York, from Southampton and Cherbourg; Umbria. from Liverpool and Queenstown. Sailed: Norge. for Christiania and Copenhagen; Minnehaha, for London (and later anchored below on account of fog): Finland, for Antwerp NAPLES, Feb. 7. Arrived: Aurania, from New York, for i- n a and nume: Komanlc, from Alexandria, for Boston, via Gibraltar and Pcnta dt- Gada. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 7. Sailed: Noord land, from Liverpool, for Philadelphia; Ivernia. from Liverpool, for New lork. SOUTHAMPTON. Feb. 7. Arrived: Phil adelphia. from New York, via Plymouth and Cherbourg. PRAWLE POINT Feb. 7.-Passed: Statendam. from Rotterdam and Boulogne, for New York. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 7. Arrived: Ultonia, from Boston, via Queenstown. LIZARD. Feb. 7. Passed: Zeeland, from New York, for Antwerp. GLASGOW, Feb. 7. Sailed: Furncssia, for New York, via Moville.

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that it connot kill. The reason is that germ.3 are vegetables: and Liquozone, which like oxygen is life i to an animal, is deadly to vegetal matter. It is carried by the blood to every cell of every tissue, and no touch of impurity, no germ of disease can exist where L quozone goes. Germ Diseases These are the known germ diseases that medicine can do for these troubles is to help Nature overcome the germs, and such results are indirect and uncertain. Liquozone kills the germs, wherever they are, and the results are inevitab e. By destroying the cause of the trouble, it invariably ends the disease and forever. Asthma. Abscesses Anemia. Bronchitis. Blood Poison. Brijrht's Disease. Bowel Trouble. Cough Colds. Consumption. Hay Fever Influenza. Kidney Diseases, la Grippe. Iucorrha. Liver Troubles. Malaria Neuraljria. Many Heart Troublea. Piles Pneumonia. Pleurisy Quinsy. Rheumatism. Skin Diseases. Scrofula Syphillis. Stomach Troubles. Colic Croup. Constipation. Catarrh Cancer. I ysentry Diarrhea. Dandruff Dropsy. GREAT BILLOWS Of FIRE, 200 FELT HIGH, ROLLED WITH TIDAL-WAVE FURY Baltimore's Great Fire Described by a Member of the Sun Staff. APPALLING DESTRUCTION Stately Buildings Literally Annihilated by the Irresistible Fierv Whirlwind. WASHINGTON. Feb. 8.-The entire staff of the Baltimore Sun was transferred to Washington at 11 o'clock last night and that paper issued this morning, by the use of the plant of the Evening Star. Estimates of the area burned made by the Sun staff places it at between twenty-three and twenty-four blocks, all of which is the business section of the city. In addition to the list of buildings burned carried in the early Associated Press reports, the following buildings are reported destroyed: Continental Trust Company, Equitable, Calbert, Bank of Baltimore, International Trust Company, Carrolton Hotel, Junker's Hotel, St. Paul s Hotel (dynamited), Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, Maryland Trust Company, Alexander frown Banking Company. A member of the staff of the Baltimore Sun. who camo over with the force from that paper, said the fury of the fire was beyond description. "You cannot imagine it; you cannot imagine it." he kept repeating. The scenes of gigantice destruction he had witnessed seemed to have impressed themselves upon his memory to the obliteration of every other idea. '"I have seen big fires, in New York and Chicago," he said, "when block after block would fall before the sweep of the flames, but nothing that approached in terrible fury the catastrophe that fell upon Baltimore to-day. The flames swept down the streets with the onward rush and fury of a tidal wave. Great billows of fire two hundred feet in height would fill the space between the buildings, and, sweeping from side to side, would blot out of existence a skyscraper as though it were a box of matches. The Cnlon Trust building and the Atlantic Trust building shared this fate. One moment they stood in the stately beauty of stone and marble; a moment later and they were not. The flames would dash against their sides, beat in the massive walls, leap from wdndows and roof, and then would come the collapse The I'nion Trust building, one of the handsomest in the country, seemed to my mind to vanish almost as soon as I looked. WHIRLING BURNING EMBERS. "The city was a mass of whirling, burning embers. In the Sun office, where we sat at work at our desk, the copy paper would burn as we wrote. In the streets the em bers fell in sheets and rose and fell again. as the swift wind carried them along. Ev erywhere were drawn and anguished faces, and the mark of desolation." The circulation manager of the Sun said that when he left Baltimore at 10:40 p. m., the fire was still more than a block from the Sun building but the sparks which filled the air were so flce work had to be abandoned within the Sun building. The burned district of Baltimore Is the he m of the business section, including the en tire wholesale trade and a great part of the retail trade. In the fire district were all the Important business and office build ings, all the newspaper offices, two hotels, the central building of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the city hall, the rourthouse, the postoffice building, the Weslarn Union and Postal telegraph offices, the Bell telephone building. police headquarters, Holliday-street Theater and several important banks. Baltimore street was the main business street of Baltimore and the dividing line between the wholesale and retail secti' being lined with establishments of both descriptions. For three or four blocks south of Baltimore street and from Howard street on the west to South street on the -ast, the flames swept everything lfore them. North of Baltimore and running east and west, parallel with It comes Fayette street, and then Lexington street. West of Charles street, these two streets are d-voted to retall business and t ast of Charles mainly to office buildings. CARROLLTON HOTEL Bl'RNED. In the burned portion south of Baltimore street was the famous old Carrollton Hotel, the building of the Baltimore Evening News, the fourteen-story Continental Trust building, the Guardian Trust building, the Mercantile Trust building, the Alex, Brown A Sons Bank, the National Exchange Bank, the wholesale establishment of which exPostmaster General Gary was the head; Hurst & Co.'s wholesale house, the Hopkins Place Bank. Daniel Mill r & Son's house, R. M. Sutton & Co., Diggs. Cut; m ft Co., and smaller wholesale establishments. Among the retail establishments on the south side of Baltimore street were Oihmes's Acme Hall, a large department store; Welsch & Brothers, one of the oldest jewelry companies In the city; The Armiger Jewelry Company: the Schwan Toy Company, the largest establishment of this kind in the city ; Burk s saloon, which occupied one of the landmarks of Baltimore, a frame building of unknown antiquity; Hecht Brothers' department store and the building of the Baltimore American at tht southwest corner of Baltimore and South streets. Just across South street fr m the Ameri can building was the building of the Baltimore 8un. On the north ssfs of Baltimore, from west to ea.-t. were Mullins s Hotel, the Jewelry houses or J. S. McDonald A Co. and S. S. Kirk Sons & Co.. the Baltimore A Ohio building, the offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Hopkins's chinaware and crockery establishment, the Meth-

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Any physician or h zone will be gladly si not yet using Liquoren-, a teat. od ist Book Concern Knabe's piano warer Hunt s leather store, m and various other retail establishment.-. On the streets running north from Bal timore and as far as Ia xmtton, w. r Equitable building, the Calberl bull the telephone exchange, the Herald I ing. the I'nion National Bank and i tures of a similar character. Between Fayette and Lexington 0 and St. Paul and Calvert. -t"d the coiirthoiiM Jibt ist of it wa postoflire hullding and east of that tnV hall and then the Holliday-street Thea The Western I'nion orh - were !-. .it the basement of the Equitable buildii T. I in at the corner of Calvert and Faett- streets; the Postal telegraph in the bis -n nt ..f Continental building, corner of Calvert and Baltimore streets, .ir.u pom headquarter in the City Hall. STRAWBERRIES MAY BE CHEAP. At Leant Hint In the Prospect in the Enntern Marke. New York Commercial Adv.rtiser. According to information which is beginning to come to receivers, the prospect for a liberal yield of strawberries the coming season Is particularly good. Last year was notably bad, probably the worst in some localities in a long time, and many growers closed the season discouraged and decided they wouldn't undertake to grow them again. Reflection convince. 1 them, however, that where their fit bis w re ;i!rady plauted it would be folly to opto..; them c.nsequcntly acreage will be substantially the s:ime as It was last year. In some localities) it will be larger because others will grow them for the rtrst time. The first berries to arrive In this mark- t from Florida came around Christmas time and they have been coming reguiarly ever since. In uumerous instances the arri 's are in bad condition, or m r had h n the started and are scarcely worth recei when they get here. But good berries always coqamand gooo prices in this market. According to estimates made by lai handlers, about 12.tO0,0UU boxes are re. . i . d in this city in a year It Is imiONsih! t . stimate accurately because they at. t up in different form and different sises. but the receipts heie are probably not far from that figure. The loss on berries is v ry large, which accounts i'cr some of the millions of boxes, and consumption during the season is also very large. Formerly it was not unusual for seventy-five to 10U cars a day to come t w York. 5. at sh the Californias introduced the piaii of sending cars to all shipping points. New York receipts have decreased an 1 now they rarely go over fifty cars a day. The largest r. -c( IptS in any one day last season were seventy cars. Prices in New York vary. At present the range is wide, running front 2 cents for ordinary grades up to $1, or even better in instances, for the best brsndy wines. M supplies increase and the season tnnorthward prices will drop, and later from 5 to 10 cents a box will be considered a good figure. Growers sometimes contract their entire crops at a certain price. Wie u they do that they are fortunate, since fluctuations are frequently so great and pen s are so low that the grower would get practicallv nothing. The price at the Meld, i xceptiiig in special cases, is said to raime around l1- and 2 cents a box. PossiMy 3 cents is obtainable in some cases. All the Southern States are producing ries now. Georgia. Virginia, th ('and Tennessee, Delaware, Maryland and r Northern States, including New ork riy . i . w Jersev. both of which ship large q tities annually to this market. Mueti pends upon the season regarding qu; Plenty of sunshine and dry weather prt lariie. well formed and highly flav rries; dark and rainy weather the rev i Miss Nellie Holmes, treasurer of the Young Woman's Temperance Association of Buffalo, N.V., strongly advises all suffering women to rely, as she (fid, upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 44 Dear Mrs, IInkiiam : Your medicine is indeed an ideal woman's medicine, and by far the best I know to restore lost health and strength. I Buffered misery for several years, beingtroubled with menorrhagia. My back ached, I had bearing-down pain and frequent headaches. I would often wake from restful sleep, and in such pain that I suffered for hour before I could gx to sleep again. I dreaded the long night as much as the weary days. I consulted two different physicians, hoping to get relief but finding that their medicine did not seem to cure mc. I tried your Vegetable Compound on the recommendation of a friend from the East who was visiting me. 44 1 am glad that I followed her advice, for every ache and pain is gone, and not only this, but nry genera! health is much improved I have a fine appetite and have gained in fieah. My earnest advice to suffering women is to put aside all other nn deines and to take Lvdia E. IMnkham's Vegetable Compound." Miaa Neixib Holmes, 540 No. Division St., Buffalo, N. Y . $SOO0 forfait forty! oft tf0

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