Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 1, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 May 1894 — Page 2

L She 3?ifer County IJrraorrat jj. McC. STOOPS. Editor tod Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. The state supreme court has decfded that prohibition is in force in South Carolina. Gkn. Andre Aveijso Caceres has been again elected president of Peru den. Caceres was president from 1SS6 to 1890. Comptroller Eckles issued a call, ion the 8th, for a statement of the condition qf national banks at the close of business on the 8th. The democratic congressional convention of the Sixteenth (IH.) district, i on the 10th, nominated Finis Downing j for congress, to succeed John J. Me- j Donald. Robert F. Knekrb, the American . charged with winning races by fraud- J ulent practices, was committed for j trial in Berlin on the 9th. No bail was allowed him. t v The continued melting of snow in the mountains and the heavy rains | have again raised the waters of the Batiscan river ill the province of Quebec to the danger point. Two deserters from Christopher Columbus Jones' detachment of the Com- j monweal army who were admitted to l the hospital in Philadelphia, were found, on the 8th, to be suffering from smallpox. The police of St. Petersburg have recently made wholesale captures of nihilists, 100 being arrested in one batch. Some of the nihilists confessed that they had accomplices in London and Paris. Robert F. Brattan, the democratic representative in congress from the first Maryland district, died at his home in Princess Anne, Md., on the 10th, after a lingering illness. lie was 40 j’ears of age. Each of twenty-three members of the Galvin army arrested near Pittsburgh, "Pa., for trespassing on the trains of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, were, on the 9tli, given twenty days in the county jail. Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith, British secretary of state for home affairs, was njarried in St. George's church, Hanover square, London, at nopH on the 10th, to Miss Margot Tennant, daughter of Sir Charles Tennant, of Glasgow. Secretary of State Palmer called the New York constitutional convention to order at Albany shortly after 11 a. m. on the 8th, and administered the oath of office to the delegates. Joseph 11. Choate was chosen president of the convention. At a dinner to literary men and oth- ° ers in London, on the night of the 7th, by^the Guild Hall library committee, Chairman Badeley toasted the American ambassador and thanked him for ^ his endeavors to obtain pictures for the Guild Hall gallery. “Gen.” Randall and his staff of Commonwealers were released from jail at La Porte, Ind., on the 9th, because the authorities could find no charge upon which to convict them. Randall says he will sue the mayor for 810,000 damages. , On the 10th tho Hungarian house of magnates rejected the civil marriage bill by a majority of 21. This action of the upper house has created great excitement and engendered widespread and hostile feeling. It is expected the ministry will resign.

ill Alinbii Aau i n n-tivf, upcr* ators, representing1 “200 mines—river and railroad—were present at the meeting of coal operators of Western Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 10th. The railroad interests were in favor of and the river interests opposed to compromising with the strikers., £' Between 3,000 and 3,000 workmen in the various departments of the Pullman ear works at Pullman, 111., went on strike on the morning of the 11th. Their action took Mr. Pullman and his executive managers by surprise, as it was understood that the men were satisfied with the results of the recent conference. T. H. Ling, a Chicago astronomer, announced, on the 7th, that, while scanning the heavens on the night of the 6tli, he discovered a brand new comet about half a degree below Zeba Hydra. The latter is described by the astronomer as a bright particular star south of the quadrilateral figure marking the Serpent’s head. A terrible earthquake took place in Venezuela on April 28. The cities of Merida, LaGunillas, Chiguara and Sah Juan, situated in the northwest of the republic in the region of the Andes, are reported as having been totally destroyed, and many villages were wiped out. It is thought that 10,000 persons perished in the eruption. The monument erected by the women of America to the memory of Mary Washington, the mother -of the first president of the United States, was dedicated at Fredericksburg, Va., on the 10th, with^ interesting ceremonies and in the presence of a vast assemblage. President Cleveland was among the invited guests, and made a very neat address. The 8,000 employes of the Pullman Palace Car Co. at Pullman, 111., held a mass meeting, on the evening of the 9th, to decide whether they would go on strike to enforce their demand for a restoration of the. 1893 wage schedule or remain at work. It was resolved not to strike. The officers of the Pullman company claim that it is impossible to restore the wages of last <sf year in' the present condition of business.

CURRENT TOPICS TEE NEWS IK BRIER FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Is the senate, oa the ?th. Mr. Alten offered a resolution (which went over) in relation to the alleged police assault upon and the arrest and imprisonment of Mr. Coxcy and his.two subordinates, “while peaceably entering the capitol grounds in a quiet and orderly manner,” on the 1st. The remainder of the day was passed In executive session in consideration of the Chinese treaty...!. ..In the house nearly the whole day was spent in discussing a bill reported from the committee on public buildings and grounds for the purcnase of a site for the government printing office. The New York and New Jersey bridge bill was passed under a suspension of the rules. - In the senate, on the 8th, Mr. Hoar, in speaking against the tariff bill, said that "most of the men who were to vote for it would, when they did so. violate their oaths to support the constitution as they understood it ” This led to a heated colloquy with Mr. Gray (dem., Del). Mr. Quay delivered the sixth installment of his speech against the tariff bill.. In the house the committee on public buildings and grounds was instructed to report a bill providing for the erection of a printing office on ground already belonging to the government. The naval appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whole and made the unfinished business on the calendar. In the senate, on the 9th. Mr. Allen (Neb.) spoke in support of his resolution for an investigation of the police assault on Coxey, and was answered by Mr. Sherman, who regretted that such a matter should be forced upon the attention of the senate to the obstruction of important and needed legislation. At the expiration of the morning hour the tariff bill was taken up .....In the house, after several private and unimportant bills had been disposed, of, the naval appropriation bill was taken up. In the senate, on the 10th. the Allen-Coxey resolution occupied the morning hour, at the close of which the resolution went to the calendar. The tariff bill was then taken up and considered until 5:15, when, oil receipt of a message from the house announcing the death of Representative Ilrattan. the senate adjourned. .In the house, after the passage of a few uniuiDortant private bills, the death of Representative Brattan. of Maryland, was announced and the house, at 12:30 p. m . adjourned. * In the senate, on the 11th. the whole of the session, with the exception of the morning hour, was spent on the tariff bill, the net result of the day’s work being a progress of four lines. Mr. Mills. In fulfillment of his pledge, voted (generally alone) against every amendment offered.In the house the vigorous arraignment of the republican administration of the navy yards by Mr. Cummings (N. Y.). and a sarcastic rejoinder qf Mr. Reed were the principal features of the debate on the naval appropriation bill, which occupied all of the day session. A night session for the consideration of private pension bills was held.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Ox the 7th C. A- Chamberlin, known as the ‘‘Plunger.” was sentenced to the penitentiary for two years and was fined 850 by Judge Phillips in the federal court at Kansas City, Mo., on the charge of perjury in the pension case of Lueey Kay, colored, now in the penitentiary. There was not a coke plant in the Connellsville (Pa.) coke region in full operation on the 8th. Tire only works making an attempt to run were the Valley, Southwest Nos. 3 and 4, Morewood, Hill Farm and Rainey, and they were doing very little. Wm. Kennedy, on the 7th, made good his pledge to Gov. Matthews of Indiana, who, ten .days before, issued him a parole that he might attend the funeral of a brother at Cincinnati. The convict returned to the Jeffersonville prison and re-entered upon his life sentence. Kennedy will in all probability be pardoned soon. Col, Joseph Moore died at his home in Indianapolis, on the evening of the 7th, from rheumatism of the heart. He was in charge of the force that built the pontoon bridges during Sherman’s march to the sea.: - William D. Lohmax, the defaulting cashier of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) excise department, was sentenced, on the 7th, to seven years and four months’ imprisonment in Sifig Sing. Mr. and Mrs. John Ciianleb (Amelie Rives), of Richmond, Va., are making preparations to start, about June 1, for an extended trip through the ffbly Land. The Garfield buggy works at Columbus, O., were burned on the 8th. Loss on building and contents, 819,000; fully covered by insurance. Tiik first grand lodge of the auxiliary degree of honor of the Aneient Order of United Workmen of Indiana was instituted in Terre Haute Ind., on the Sth. The degree is composed of mothers, wives, dsters, and daughters of members of the order. Cart. A. J. Hutchinson died at Topeka, Kas., on the 7th, aged 09 years. He was born May 5, 1S25, in Gallipolis, O. He was a soldier in the Mexican war from 1845 to I84S, and lost an arm in battle. He was afterward engaged for thirty years as a steamboat captain on the Mississippi river. Representative John J. O’Neill, of Missouri, was arrested in Washington, early on the morning’of the Sth, for an assault upon Dr. James II. Stone. The congressman put up cash collateral for his appearance in the police court, giving the name of ■*‘Browne.” He failed to show up in court and his deposit was declared forfeited. The jury in the Washington (D. C.) police court, on the Sth, returned a verdict of guilty against Coxey, Browne and Jones of the Commonweal army on charges of violation of laws in respect to trespassing on the capitol grounds. A motion for a new trial was at once entered. A vague but disquieting telegram was received from Hsian-Fu, Sjansi, on the Sth, from which it is gathered that two French missionaries in that district had been seized and bambooed and imprisoned by the Chinese officials. The body of William A. Wolgamott, who murdered his ex-wife in St. Louis, on the 7th, was found in a bed in the same room in which the woman was killed, on the afternoon of the Sth. 4He had returned to the place surreptitiously and committed suicide. On the Sth Gen. Randall marched his Chicago army of Coxeyites into La Porte, Ind., in spite of warning that they were not wanted there, and the “general” and his entire staff were arrested. The house of representatives passed a bill, on the 9th. authorizing the construction of another bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis. The official statement of Chinese registration under the amended Geary law places the figures at I3VM».

The Kingston mills, a cotton spinning- company of Hull, England, failed, on the 9th, with unsecured liabilities estimated at $400,000. Walter Nichols, SO years of age, a steeple jack, in the employ of P. W. Hassett, was precipitated inside a section of smokestack, which was being taken down, a distance of ninety feet from the top of the burned Udell woodenware building in St Louis, on the 8th, and instantly killed. The steamer Normannia, which sailed from New York on the 9th, took $1,900,000 in gold. A fire causing $100,000 damage was started, on the 9th. on the docks between Catharine and Oliver streets, New York, by the explosion of a barrel of coal oil. Ten striking miners were killed and twelve wounded in an attack upon the gendarmes guarding the Theresa miue at Ostrau, Moravia, on the 9th. Two-thirps of the town of Norway, Me., was laid waste by fire, on the 9th, and many of the people who could not find shelter in the two-hotels which were saved or unburned.'dwelling houses, spent the night in tents or shelters made of cloth from the stores, or sheets from beds. The total loss is over $100,000. The bank at Southwest City, Mo., was raided by a gangof robbers in regular Jesse James style on the afternoon of the 10th. They secured all the money on hand—between $3,000 and $4,000. In a battle -with citizens four of the latter were badly wounded, among them United States Marshal S. F. Melton. Abraham Garrison, a millionaire of Pittsburgh, Pa., brother of the fate Commodore Garrison, died, on the 10th, at the age of 90 years. The countess of Clarendon, wife of the fifth earl of Clarendon, died in London, on the 9th. She was the eldest daughter of the earl of Xormanton. At St. Henri, a suburb of Montreal, Can., early on the morning of the 10th, fire destroyed a whole block of dwellings and their contents. Twenty families were rendered homeless. Loss, $52,000; insurance, $15; 030. In the French chamber of deputies on the llth, the bill providing that the execution of criminals shall hereafter be conducted privately instead of in public, as now. passed its second reading by a majority of one. The vote stood 159 to 158. Though the tests of the bullet-proof coat invented by Herr Doive, the Mannheim (Baden) tailor, have been satisfactory as far as they have been pursued, the authorities of the war office entertain doubts of its practical utility in the army. Firebugs applied the torch to the barn of John Dunslan, of Red Jacket, Mich., at la. m. on the llth, and before the fire was gotten under control ten busiuess buildings were destroyed. Several families lost all their household goods. William Weisler, who joined the Coxey army at Hagerstown, Md., was seized with crumps and drowned While bathing in the Potomac at Washington river on the 10th. Sen ho R Am a rale has been appointed president of the Brazilian senate, tc succeed Dr. Prudente de Moraes. recently elected president of the republic. s Dayton. O.. was struck by a tornadc on the 10th. The streets were covered with debris. Trees were blown down, windows smashed, houses wrecked, roofs torn off. and the pottery of E. Houghton was demolished Roy Oberlin was struck by lightning and killed.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. In the senate, on the 12th. four hours were spent upon the tariff bill, two items in the chemical schedule being disposed of. The duty on tanic acid or tannin was fixed at sixty cents a pound, and on tartaric acid at 20 per cent, ad valorem.In the house an amendment to the naval appropriation bill was adopted restraining the secretary of the navy from appointing naval cadets who reside outside the district to which they are accredited. Rev. Dr. Talmage's new tabernacle, at the -corner of Clinton and Greene avenues, Brooklyn, was burned at noon of the 12th. The Hotel Regent, adjoining, and several dwellings in the vicinity were also destroyed. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. This is the third time Dr. Talmage has lost his church in Brooklyn by fire. The imports, exclusive of specie at the port of New York for the week ended on the 12th were $9,175,776, of which $1,263,080 were dry goods and $7,911,696 general merchandise. For the corresponding week of last year the imports were $12,310,548, of which $2,100,212 were dry goods and $10,210,337 general merchandise. The statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended the 12th showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $2,178,575; loans, increase, $2,232,100; specie, increase, $368,S00; legal tenders, decrease, $2,434,600; deposits, increase, $431,100; circulation, decrease, $42,700. The statue of Columbus, by the Spanish sculptor, Sunol, was unveiled on the mall in Central park, New York, on the 12th, by Vice-President Stevenson, in the presence of a distinguished company of men, prominent in the diplomatic, political, business and social worlds. * Dr. Wekerle, Hungarian prime minister, arrived at Hanover on the 12th, and had an audience with the emperor, laying before his majesty specific complaint of interference in Hungarian affairs on the part of Austrian .officials. While the British war ship Galatea was firing a salute to the German fleet in the Firth of Forth, on the 12th, one* man was killed and another fatally injured by the premature discharge of one of the ship’s small guns. The imports of specie at the port of New York for the week ended on the 12th were $1,302,521, of which $1,251,803 was gold and $50,718 silver. For the corresponding week last yiar the imports were $39,7681

FROM HOOSIERDOM. Telegraphic News of Interest to Indian! an 3. To Condemii Coot Ml nr a. Indianapolis, IndM May 10.—A circular letter addressed to governors of coal-mining states was received by Gov. Matthews Wednesday. It is signed by P. A. Chase, of St Louis, and is as follows: . “Issue proclamations condemning all mines in your state to public use of the state. Call together your state legislature that they may confirm by bill your acts. . Open tbese mines by proclamation to all miners and assure them satisfactory wages. States have tie right of eminent domain, and always exercise that right when they condemn land for public use. Legal owners of mines can be compensated afterward. Act quickly, or great disasters may come.'* The governor, it is said, will pay no attention to the letter. Can't Assess National Banks. Indianapolis, Ind., May 10.—The supreme court decided Wednesday that the state board of tax commissioners has no jurisdiction in assessing the property of national banks for taxation The ease came from Bush county, where the taxation was resisted by the Rushville national bank. The term of the commission each year is too short, Judge C.ffey said in his opinion, for consideration of all appeals and for this reason the general assembly did not intend to give the commissioners jurisdiction over the national banks. Koy Strikers Fight, Muncie, Ind., May 10.—About ninety small boys employed at the Muncie Mint glass works have struck for a raise of forty cents on their week’s wages of £L60. All quit work, and Wednesday when a part of the factory resumed work with new boys in their places the little strikers caused so much trouble that some of them were arrested. They attacked their successors at the noon hour and a regular pitched battle ensued. There is fear of more serious trouble. _ Discuss Methodist Home Missions. Marion, Ind., May 10.—The annual conference of the Home Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church of northern Indiana began a„ two days’ session here Wednesday morning. Over a hundred delegates from the various cities of the district are present. The work included addresses of«, welcome, appointment of committees and. reports from the various departments of the work, which showed a marked improvement.

Affects Railroad Men. Indianapolis, Ind., May 10.—An appellate court decision here affirms the lower court in a case which concerns all the employes of the Pennsylvania system. The point in the decisjpn is that the taking of a membership iu and acceptance of benefits of the voluntary relief department of the Pennsylvania company by an employe who is injured operates as a release of any further claim against the company for dam ages for the injury. Mar Quarantine Chicago. Indianapolis, Ind., May 10.—The state board of health claims to have information that smallpox is dangerously prevalent in Chicago and that some action by Indiana is necessary. The board is disposed to quarantine against the city and cites the appropriation of $50,000 at the governor's disposal to enforce the quarantine. The board has presented the case to the governor, but he has not decided on his line of action. A Mother** Confession. Indianapolis, Ind., May 10.—Early last March a dead babe was found at the home of Mrs. William Castor, SOI West Pearl street The mother said that the child had died from natural causes. She has just confessed to having murdered the infant by choking it to death. She gave as a motive for the crime that she did not desire her children to know that the offspring was illegitimate. She has been placed under arrest _ Railroads Want to Compromise. Indianapolis, Ind., May 10.—Representatives of the railroad compan ies who are fighting the new tax law and who have had $1,000,000 in taxes tied up in the courts for the past eighteen months met with the governor and state tax commissioners Wednesday in an effort to compromise theeases. The proposal to compromise came from the, companies. The matter was discussed but no conclusion reached. Life Imprioument. Franklin, Ind., May 10.—The secondtrial of John Parker and Ed McAfee (colored), charged with the murder off Charles Eyster at Indianapolis one year ago, was brought to a close Wednesday evening by the jury finding defendants guilty and sentencing them to the penitentiary for life. On the first trial they were sentenced to hang. Severely Injured in a Runaway. South Bknd, Ind., May 10. By the demolition of her carriage in a runaway Wednesday Mrs. Henry A. Chapin had her right arm fearfully crushed. The coachman was also badly injured. Mr. Chapin and Mrs. Stowell, who, were occupants of the carriage, esca with a severe shaking up, Runnme Fight with Burglars. Vincennes, Ind., May 10.—'The home of Harry H. Bowman at Emison was robbed Tuesday night by burglars, whp escaped down the river in a boat. Bowman and a neighbor followed and *a running fight with shotguns ensued. The thieves were captured at Francisville. _ Congregatioualists Meet. Fort Wavne, Ind., May 10.—Thie ihirty -sixth annual meeting of the general association of Congregational churches and ministers of Indiana is now in session in this city. Makes Eighty-Five Miles an Hour.. Rochester, N. Y.,.May IP.—The new' Lehigh Valley engine IS a 655 on a run from Buffalo to Rochester Tuesday made an average of S5 miles. Engineer Heekman promised to make an average of 00 miles an hour on the return trip to Buffalo, but could make only 44

DUN’S TRADE REVIEW, Serious Effects of the Coal Miners* Strike in the Closing Down of Industrial Works—Foreign Shipments of Gold and the Depletion of the Treasury Reserve the Most Disquieting Signs of the Times. New York, May 12.—It. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade, issued today, says: The strikes begin to have a serious, though. U is assumed, only* a temporary effect. The number of works depending upon supplies of bituminous coal or coke for fuel is large, and quite a considerable proportion of them have already been competed to stop operations. No doubt the proportion is larger in iron and steel manufacture than any other business, but nearly a third in capacity of the iron furnaces at work a month ago appear to have closed. Some railroads at the west are embarrassed. and textile works of some importance must close soon unless the strike ceases. The movement of so-called armies of the unemployed on Washington has caused little excitement. ahd is less important or significant than the outward movement of specie, whichshows shrinking foreign demand f«.r products and further withdrawal of foreign capital. But neither strikes nor foreign distrust long retard the progress of this country. ' The capacity of iron furnaces in blast May 1 was 110.210 tons, a decrease of 16.512 tons durApril:. but the Iron Age has telegraphic reports of Stoppage by other furnaces having a capacity of 25U&2 tons, including some expected to stop this week, which would mean a decrease of about a third in product since April 1. The fact that prices of same grades of pig iron, especially of foundry, show weak4 ness, notwithstanding there has been no increase in stocks unsold, seem to indicate that about as large a proportion of the works using pig iron as material has also been competed to stop, and it is stated that in tne Pittsburgh region many ere close to the ead of their supplies of fuel. Prices of finished products are fully maintained and many kinds have advanced a little, but it is noticed that the demand is not as large as was expected, and while an early termination of the strikes is hoped for. the appointment of cdfnmittees to negotiate regarding wages for the coming year brings attention to the fact that existing conditions do not favor any advance in prices, or in cost of production. In minor metals, no industrial change of importance appears. The textile manufactures are not improving in position or prospects, for while orders do not increase, uncertainties in regard to labor grow more serious. The working force shows much unwillingness to accept for another season the wages which were temporarily adopted W order to have works reopened after last summer's suspension. The apathy of buyers in cotton is reflected in further decline of priut cloths, although some qualities of goods have advanced slightly. Sal£a_of wool again drop considerably below those of the same week last year. Though orders for woolens are far below the probable requiremejrts for the next season, few manufacturers are hold enough to make up goods in advance of the demand, while clothiers are very cautious. The dre'ss goods department has much the best of the business: though it3 production is consideraly smaller than usual. The speculation in grain has again broken records with the lowest price ever made for wheat, although,, western receipts area little smaller than a year ago, while exports are also smaller by more than a quarter. The prevailing belief is mat the yield will, as in other years, far exceed government indications, which are again pointing to a short crop. Corn has changed in price but little and pork products have been fairly steady, with oil and ’coffee unchanged, but cotton is weaker in tone, although receipts from plantations are a little smaller than a year ag(j. It is a striking evidence of the general want of confide ice that there is so little speculation while money is abundant almost beyond precedent. Nothing has occurred to strengthen railroad stocks, for the earnings of railroads continue about as much behind last year’s as they were in April or March. Rates are cut in a most destructive fashion, in spite of all the talk about ironclad agreements, and the prospect of foreclosure for some great railroads in default tends to dishearten holders. The average price of sixty active railroad stocks is, nevertheless, only 22 cents lower for the week, while the audacity of speculators in sugar has so far diminished that the trust stocks average 13 cents lower. Large exports of gold, whieh are so far expected to reach $6,030,000 this week, have checked hopefulness in the stock market, and the decl ine of the treasury gold reserve below $411,000,000 suggests the possibility that continued exports of the precious metal may cause not a little trouble before the season is over. But at present the banks are only gratified, as the accumulation of money from the interior has not ceased, while the demand for commercial loans does not yet enlarge. One large failure about doubled the aggregate of liabilities for firms falling in the week ending May 3. which would otherwise have been quite small, but were f2.922.79l. The number and the general average of liabilities are still encouragingly shrinking. For four weeks of April> the liabilities reported were f8.S26.8fi2. of which $3,687,220 were of manufacturing and f4.677.699 of trading concerns. The failures this week have been 206 ip the United States, against 257 last year, and 42 in Canada, against 23 last year, with none of especial importance, althougn four bank failures are included.

DISASTROUS EFFECT Of tho Bituminous Miners’ Strike on tho Coal Trade of Philadelphia— The Small Arrivals of Coal Nearly All Taken by the Railroad Companies—Pea Coal Proves Valuable. PHiLADELPHi.v^Mdy 12.—The strike of the soft coal mmfcrsis having- a temporarily disastrous effect on the coaling trade of Philadelphia, in which the coal shipments form a most important item. So great is the scarcity of bituminous coal that the •Greenwich Point piers of the Pennsylvania, which are exclusively devoted to this trade, have had to suspend operations entirely, what little coal there is in transit having been taken by the railroad company for use in its locomotives. The same state of affairs prevails at the Port Richmond piers of thp Reading railroad, and all the coal destined for the pier of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad has been sei£$d by that company. The result of this embargo on soft coal is that one of the largest fleets of idle vessels ever seen on the Delaware river now floats at anchor awaiting the termination of the strike. Orders for coal have been coming in freely from New England points and the West Indies, but they can not be filled. One effect of the strike has been that the river tugs which ordinarily use soft coal have taken to burning pea coal and find it a very good substitute. \V rk of Fire Buga. Red Jacki:t, Mich.. May 12.—-Fire bugs set fire tq the barn of John Bunslan at 1 a. m., and ten business buildings were destroyed. The principal losses were: John Dunslan, dealer in organs and sewing machines, loss, $8,000; insurance, $4,000; also all his household effects. W. A. Isaacson, brick block, loss, *8 000; insurance, $3,500. Steven Aquilch, building, loss, $l,500;oinsured. Murdge fc Argalis, furniture, loss, $3,000; no insurance. Jacob Aqnilcli, loss on building. $4,000. Mrs. Annie Olson, two frame buildings, loss, $5,000

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