Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1890 — Page 3

SAVED FROM MASSACRE.

New York Bun. Our family, which consisted 0t father. mother, myself, and sister, had been living in Minnesota nearly two years when the 1 ndians initiated that murderous and historic- uprising. I was 16 years old, and my sister Mamie was 12, We were living on a 100-acre farm, six miles from the nearest village and a mile from any neighbor. We had a snug log house, barns, sheds, &c., and had about fifty acres in cultivation. The day before the outbreak •my father had marched away with a .company of recruits for the army, and this same company had taken almost every able bodied man out of our neighborhood. The crops were to be left for the wives and children to har\est, and the idea of trouble never entered any one’s mind. While Indians were more numerous than white peopie, nobody had reason to fear them. They were under tare of -the Government, and, so far as anybody knew, were perfectly satisfied, and entertained friendly feelings toward the settlers. • My father left home the day before the outbreak, and mother went along to see him off. This was the case with several other women in our settlement, They left early in the morning intending to return next day. Sister and I were left entirely alone, but at about 9 o’clock in the forenoon an Indian named Long Walk made his appearance. He had often called at our Jhouse sometimes staying all night. He had a bad sore on his leg, caused by the bite of a dog, and mother had made and given him an ointment which Was fast healing it up. Father had mended his gun tor him, mother had mended his clothes, and Long Walk was indebted to the family for many other kindnesses. He was a man of about forty, very intelligent, and. as near as we could learn, had never been married. I was cutting hay about a quarter of a mile back of the house, and Mamie was spreading it to cure, when the Indian appeared. He had been to the house and found father and mother gone. When he came down to us he queried: “Where father?” “Gone with the soldiers,” I replied. ■•Where mother?” “She has gone to see father off.” He looked anxious and troubled,'and when I asked if he would have something to eat he replied in the negative. He sat down in the shade of a tree and had nothing to say for a while. When I repeated my inquiry, and Mamie offered to cook him some breakfast, he rose up and replied: “Come along to cabin.” When we reached the house he took a long look up and down the road. It was sixteen miles to the railroad station from which the soldiers would depart, and Long Walk seemed to be wondering if he should advise us to set out for that point After a time hl seemed to think it wouldn’t do, and turned and entered the house. Our cabin was a two-roomed affair, with a garret above. There were two win-| dows in each room below, but none, above.j Long Walk examined the windows, and then went out to a pile of lumber in the yard and said: “Get saw, get hammer, get nails, get boards; and fix windows. Make everything good to day.” “But why?” I naturally tasked, “Suppose bad Indians come to-mor-row?” he queried in reply. “But the Indians won't hurt us.” “Don’t know, Indian heap mad. Indian drink heap whisky. Indian may kill white folks.” His manner more than his words made me feel that danger menaced us, and I got the tools he asked for and began HeTireaHured for the windows and I sawed off some pieces of plank. Tnen he asked for an augur, and before the pieces' were nailed up we cut loopholes in ( them, two to each window. We then removed the sashes from the windows and nailed the planks on the inside. Long Walk ex trained the front door, which was the only one, and by his direction I re-enforced it and added a second bar. When this had been done he asked: “How much gun in the house?” We had a ride and a shotgun, together with a revolver which belonged' to a young man who had worked for t.s in the spi ing ar d was then on a farm about ten miles away. I got these I arms together, and Long Walk exam-1 ined them with' great care. We had 1 two pounds of powder, a lot of shot and caps, and three or four bats of lead. He seemed to be satisfied, and then took me outdoors and said: “Bad Indian no come to-day but come to-morrow. Get plenty of water in the honse. Make rain on the roof. If bad Indian come, shoot him.” “But 1 can’t understand,” I said. “Why should we be afraid of the Indians?” ••Indian heap mad—look out!” he replied, and with that he stalked away and would noteven turn his head when I called to him. - I don’t believe I should have realized the full s gniflcance of his warning had not an older head come to my assistance, Mrs. Webster, out*nearest neighbor, who ehusband had also gone to be a soldier, but who had not gone with him to the station, came over at noon to borrow some flour When I told her what had happened she was very much alarmed. She had heard whispered fears of an Indian outbrea'-, and she argued that Long Wplic would not have none as he had if there was not imminent dansor. She had no children, and was only a few minutes in deciding to remain with us until .mother returned. I went to her house and got her double-barreled shotgun ,and nmuni ion. as well as a bundle of clothes ai d when I returned we began •Carrying <ul the -instructons of tl e 'lndian. The spring was only a hun-

dred feet from the houne. I got on the roof and water was passed up to me. and I flung it about until the slabs would soak in no more. A bonfire on the roof would scarcely have ignited them. Wa had two tubs and several jugs and jars. These we filled and carried into the bouse. It was four o’clock in the afternoon when we were through. I had then moulded over a hundred bullets for rifle and revolver, and we could think of nothing else to add to our security Wh it pas a ver& unusual thing, we had seen no Indians that day, except Long Walk. This, as much as anything else, satisfied Mrs, Webster that something unusual was oh foot. About five o'clock she determined to go to her cabin to pack up and bring away some small articles; and she returned two hours later in a state of great agitation. She had caught sight of several Indians skulking about, and on the road had met a squaw, who had spoken to her in an insulting manner, and tried to take the bundle from her hand. It was not yet dark when we khut the house up and made ready for the awful tragedy which was to be played’on the morrow. I don’t think Mrs. Webster closed her eyes that night, although nothing occurred to disturb us, and sister and I slept for many hours. It had been daylight for an hour shen we awoke, and we were then aroused by the voice of Mrs. Webster saying: ' ••Children! Children! The Indians are coming!” Whffa-T was dressing _l_._heard_ the yellsand whoops of Indians about the house. There was a gang of about forty of them, and as soon as I looked out through a loophole I saw a great smoke from the direction of Mrs. Webster’s house. Just as I was dressed there came a pounding on the door, and the voice of an Indian called out: “Huh! Somebody in here! Open door, quick!” “What do you want?” asked Mrs. Webster. , “Indian hungry—want food. Indian good friend with Mrs, Bliss.” I was watching the crcwd at the door, and I saw that all were armed. Two or three were crouched ready to spring at the door the instant it was unbarred. ••Go away you can’t come in,” replied Mrs. Webster. “Indian want food.” “We have none for you.” “Indian want whiskey.” - 1 “There is no whiskey in the house." “Then Indian want to talk.” “Well, what do you want?” They had expected to take us by surprise, and the fact that they had not upset their calculations for a time. 1 hey retired a short distance to talk it over, and during this interval we made ready for what was c >ming. Making as little noise as possible, six Indians laid down their guns and picked up a piece of 4 by 4 scantling, which father intended to use as one of the sills for a dairy house over the spring. They were approaching the door with this battering ram when I fired from the left-hand window and Mrs. Webster from the right, both of us using shot I guns. I fired at the men’s legs and ■ she at their heads. I had but one barrel, while she had two. As all six went down I thought at first we had killed them all. Not so. however, though it was plain that all were hit. Two lay on the ground under the scantling, while the others got up to limp away. We had opened the battle, and got in the first knock-down blow. For a moment the Indians were stupefied•„ Then they uttered their war whoop, and the fight was on. I think I should have made a good fight of it without Mrs. Webster, as I had been brought up on the frontier, and had the nerve of a man, but it was -well— that she was-there. - While she was pale-faced and anxious her voice was steady, and. she toak UiLngs-coolly. ' Sister Mtimie was greatly frightened at first, but a'ter a few minutes she over- ' came Tt and asked for ihe rifle, with which she was a tolerably fair shot. The first move of the Indians was to take possession of the log barn, which stood about 200 feet away. There was little or nqthing in it, and if they Area it the distance was top great to endapger the house. They opened fire on the two rear windows, and we kept away from them. Now and then one 'of their bullets came through a loophole, but we were out of range. The Indi ins must have known that father I was gone, and they probably hoped to | scare us with a great noise. They con- ' tinned shooting for half an hour, and theft one of them stepped out from the b irn and waved a white rag and asked for a “talk.” It reply Mrs. Webster fired a charge of buckshot which knocked him over, and we saw his body dragged around the corner of the barn. The Indians now scattered and encircled the house, and dropping down whenever they could find cover they opened a steady fire. By sitting down on the floor we were safe from any bullets which might enter the loopholes? They simply wasted their powder, and after an hour all but four of them started off down the road. Their impatience was too great to permit them to tarry longer. Tnere were hundreds of other settlers who had received no warning and made no preparation, and were waiting, as it were, to be plundered and murdered. The four who remained stood just out of rifleshot to watch the door, and we did not see another Indian until nearly sundown. Then a band of about seventy-flve came along, Some were on. stolen horses, some on foot, and about thirty (if them were into two wagons which they had taken from white men. From the yelling, shouting, and shooting indulged ir. one would have thought our chances very slim. A part of the force occupied the harp so as to command the rear windows, while the refct made a so t of rifle pit to common 4 the front. The two who had been killed

fin the morning still lay where they had fallen, and as darkness came on we made ready to receive any one coming after the bodies. It was a starlight night, and about 9 o’clock I caught sight of two warriors creeping up to the spot. I called Mrs. Webster’s attention, and by the time they were up we were ready for them. As they were moving the scantling off the body we fired upon them, and neither one moved a yard after being hit. Now came a full hour during which not a shot was fired or a shout uttered. Then the Indians began firing blazing arrows at the roof, and I have no doubt that twenty or more alighted thereon. That danger had been provided for, however, and when they found they could not burn us out they fell back on another plah. From one of the back windows I saw them carrying a long pole to the front of the house. There were several of these lying near the barn, and it was now plain that they were going to try the power of battering~ramsl I saw one made ready at the back of the house as well.and when I told Mrs. jVebster, she posted Mamie and me at'lhe back windows, while she stood at "the front. The Indians had planned a real attack from the rear, with only a feint at the front. With five men at each pole, they made a rush for both windows at once, while the front of the house was only menaced. Mrs. Webster saw through the plan in time, and came running back just in time to secure a loophole. She and Mamie had the shotguns, while I had the revolver, and the Indians did not get within five feet of the house. Our volley was followed by screams and yells on their part, and those who had not been disabled beat a hasty retreat. From that time until morning we were left undisturbed, but they succeeded in carrying off their dead. We eould not tell then what damage we had donp, but several weeks later, at the trial of the chief conspirators and leaders, it was stated by an Indian that we killed seven and wounded six redskins in our defence. ~— When morning came not an'|lndian was in sight, but before noon we had half a dozen men and women with us who were flee,ng for their lives, and before night we numbered twenty. It was a week before we were relieved, and during that time bands of Indians turned aside at intervals to attack us and were beaten off, with loss on'y to themselves. It was one of the two farmhouse forts inlthat great area of country which made a successful resistance, and but for our success the number of murders would have been added to by at least two dozen.

Wood Like Iron.

Kew Bulletin. . . The jarrah wood is a species of eucalyptus native to Western Australia. 1 he main difficulties in connection with its use in the country are the cost of freight for such heavy timber from Aurtralia. and its intense hardness, which makes it difficult for ordinary English carpenter’s too s to work it. The tree which produces it grows generally to a height of 100 feet, arid sometimes 150 feet. It is found only in Western Austr ilia, extensing over the greater portion of the country, from Moore River to King George’s Sound, forming mainly the fore ts of these tracts. According to'Baron Mt eller, when selected f o n|hil y li c ilit es, cut while the sap is le st active and subsecqut ntly carefully dried, it proves impe.ivious to the boring of insects. Vessels constructed solely ot it have,-after twenty-five years constant service, remained perfectly sound, although not coppered. It has been tried at three placesln the Suez Canal, and after being down seven years the trial samples were taken up in order that a report on their conditions, might be sent to Paris. From certain corresnondenee hatwaen. Kaw and- ■ ?orne' Lond »n vestries it appears tha. jarrah has lately been used by the Chelsea Vestry for paying the King's Road, and by the Lambeth Vestry in the Westminister Bridge Roa l.

A Traitor’s Ending.

Buffalo Commercial John Fiske tells the old story of Benedict Arnold’s treason in an article of fascinating interest written for the October Atlantic. What may be new to many readers is Mr. Fiske's statement, that all the familyfyralition goes to shdw that the last years of Benedict Arnold in London were years of bitter remorse and self-reproach. The great name which he had so gallantly won and so wretchedly lost left him no repose by nightor day. The iron frame, which had withstood the fatigue of so many trying battle-fieldsand still more trying marches through the wilderness, broke down at last under the slow torture of lost friend-hip and merited disgrace. In the last sad days in London, in June, 1801, the family tradidion says that Arnold's mind kept reverting to his old friendship with Washington. He had always carefully preserved the American uniform which he wore on the day when he made his escape to the Vulture; and now as, broken in spirit and of life, he felt the last moments coming, he called for this uniform and put it on, and decorated himself with the epaulettes and swordknot which Washington had given him at Saratoga. “Let me die,” said he,, “in this old uniform 'n which I fought my battles 1 May God forgive ma for ever putting on any father.”

Can Be Heard Fifteen Miles.

Chicago Ncwa. The -Jtynbo” bell that is to be hung in the tower of thi , new' Wisconsin Central Depot, at HarH- jn street ipd Fifth avenue, now stanus On a flat car in the yards at Taylor f treat. It bears the insc iption in bas-relief. “I ring for all.” Ils keynote ‘s pitched at baritone “A" be.ow the sia'T, and can bn heard filtueu milei out in U-3 lc.ke When striking the ho ;r.

FARM AND GARDEN.

SCOUR IN CALVES. After remarking that there is ho remedy-go good as prevention for scour in calves? a Western dairyman names four conditions which are very productive of this derangement of the bowels: 1. Feeding milk cold. It will pay to warm the milk until the calf is eight months old. 2. Feeding the milk sour. 3. Not feeding often enough. A calf should be fed at least four times a day; then he does not gorge. 4. Keeping the calf perfectly dry. This last is a most important provision, but it is imperative. Wet bedding will sicken a calf as soon as anything in the world. Keep these conditions always in mind if you want healthy calves.

CARE OF FARM IMPLEMENTS. At this season of the year it is important to keep all tools and machines in order for use, but they should be watched and cared for at other times. Some one pertinently says that no building on the farm pays better than a good tool house. It should be so convenient of access that there need be no excuse for leaving farm implements exposed to the weather when not used. Properly cared for, many implements that now last only a few years ought to be serviceable so long as the farmer lived to need them. Besides, a tool that has not been rusted, warped and cracked by exposure will work as well the second and third years as the first. On many farms tools are so much injured by being left out of doors that after the first season they cost more for repairs than they save in labor.

POINTERS FOR SHEEP KEEPERS. The Secretary of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society—J. S. Woodward, of Lockport—advise® to keep sheep in the orchard to consume the wormy apples t bat drop and also to enrich the soil. He keeps 150 sheep on 30 acres of orchard and feeds gram in the Summer to keep them in a thriving condition. In the Winter he keeps them confined in the burn, not turning them out until warm weather in the Spring. He says there is more money in buying small well lambs in the Fall for feeding during the Winter, as there is more growth for the amount of feed consumed than where large fleshy lambs are kept. Another authority says that most sheep keepers would find themselves bettor off if their flocks were called one-third, and many one-half. It is a mistake to Keep sheep in too great numbers, and those which alto retainedshould be thrifty and productive. Some flockmasters in other States can learn from their brethren in California, pho have been driving many sheep toward the east, because their ranches were overtaxed. Flocks that are too full can be lessened more profitably now, while prices are good, than later. NOTES. Keep the burdocks down. Better not sell the best pigs. Give the fowls plenty of range. Bitter milk comes from bad feed. Destroy the thistle tribe on sight. Use plaster freely in the horse stable. Don’t forget the benefit of mulching, Have you stocked the pond with fish? Hogs require a large amount of drink. For extermination—weeds and insects. • A weak harness often causes accidents. Better thin the fruit than prop the tree. | Good pastures increase milk and but* ter. 'j The Western heg-erop ia sratd totoe short. ——l Using an inferior sire is breeding downward. . Nitrates applied to the soil have little effect in a dry season. The largest amount of ears to the acre makes the best silage. A hay cap made of heavy sheeting needs no water-proof coating. The shortest road to long prices is to have the best articles to sell. An acre of clover is estimated to make about 600 pounds of pork. Do to your animals as yon would be done by if you were an animal. Keep things sweet and clean about the barn and sheds and pig pen. I Give cows a sufficient quantity of salt daily. A full tablespoonful is suf- ( ficient at a salting. i Pomona, Cal., orange growers wil receive an average of about S3OO an acre for their fruit this season. The head must direct the hand, or thers can be no useful and efficient work on the farm or anywhere else. There are said to be at present 1,300 beet , sugar factories in Europe, and they consume 24,000,000 tons of beets eve, y year. ' London purple is generally recommended for spraying fruit trees, but Prof. A. J. Cook thinks that Paris green is less liable to injure the foliage. The more labor saving machinery we have the cheaper ought to be the nefes aries of life, making it the easier fnf e-erybody to get a comfortable living. A cubic foot of hay is estimated to approximately weigh five pounds, or 400 to 500 cubic feet to weigh a But all depends on the density of the mow. ’ There has recently been planted in one of the sections of Australia 20,000 acres of land to raisin grapes, which is capable of raisins. The average wheat crop of the United States for six years has been

283,463,800 bushels winter and 151,953,600 bushels spring, or an aggregate of 435,417,400 bushels. Shippers of farm produce should always send an invoice of each consignment by mail immediately; -after the goods arq shipped. This is a very important matter to both shipper and receiver, and should never be overlooked.

TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

WINE AT WASHINGTON. Mrs. Phinney, president of the NonPartisan Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Ohio, wrote to Mrs. Tilton in relation to the use of wines and liquors by the pissent National Administration, and received the following reply: . ’ ‘ ‘ ••Dear Mrs. Phinney —l think the voters, and the mothers, sisters and wives of voters have a right to ask about the habits and official oustoms of men who are exalted by the suffrages of the people. It is true that wine has been furnished at state dinners by the present administration, and by every other except during the four notable years when Ohio’s noble son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Hayes, gave the world the beautiful picture of pure home courtesy. It is also true that very few offic al homes during this administration furnish wine, and even when it is furnished the example of the Harrisons,’ Wanamakers, Windoms, Millers, Proctors, Hustons, Hepburns, Dorchesters; Forsterß ( i Morgane r and many others, has a restraining influence. Scarcely one of the nien selected by President Harrison as his ad visers ever take wine. Blaine is now a total abstainer. President Harrison does not take wine at any of the receptions, even when only gentlemen are present, and Mrs. Harrison ‘never under any circumstances, anywhere, takes the wine.’ The wife of a leading Senator says: ‘Never since the time of Mrs. Hayes has to little wine been taken at public official receptions in Washington as during the present administration.’ The only inaugural ball without wine was the one given to President Harrison, and the chairman of the inaugural committee told me that he consulted the -President and followed his wishes, and he added, •wines end liquors are absolutely prohibited, either to be sold or given away,’ anywhere about the premises. The stories about wine at the last inaugural ball grew out of the fact that the caterer furnished among the deserts a water-ice flavored with some kind of liquor and called Roman punch. I ha-ve the best authority fOr"aIT that I have written, and I think the people ought to know the facts." BEER AS FOOD. , _ Gla-’gow Reformer. In a recent Parliamentary debate a member of Her Majesty’s government said something about the “nutritive” qualities of beer. That beer has stimulating qualities may be at once admitted, but “nutritive” powers are quite another thing. A barrel of ale analyzed shows as follows: Quarts. Albumen (flesh forming) 1 Malt sugar (unfermented) 2 Gum (of no dietetic value) 3% Alcohol (intoxicatingspirit) "X Water ............... .....130 Total 144 PRESBYTERIANS AROUSE. iThe Rev. Joseph B. Turner and the Rpv. Dr. I. N. Hays, of General Assembly’s Committee on Temperance, has published an appeal for financial aid to carry on the temperance work in Nebraska. The need of help, they say, is exceedingly urgent, owing to the great importance of the issue at stake and the failure of the crops in that State, thus leaving the people without means tp wage_the. tarn.!. France fight From fifty to one hundred thousand dollars is required at once. Contributions may be sent to Hon. J. M. Stewart, Lincoln, Neb. A TREMENDOUS PROTEST. The Immense anti-compensation demon?tiation at Hyde Park, London, was a s ; ght to remember a lifetime. In sp te ot government efforts to prevent it, the parade was an impos.ng sight; 100,000 men and women, a hundred bands and four hundred banners were in it. There were thirteen speaking stations in the park, f. om each of which strong speeches were made. r Station 3 was held by the British! Woman’s Temperance Association and the Worhen’s Council of the United Kingdom Alliance; Miss M. E. Docwra presided, Mrs. Pearson, Miss Phillips, “Mrs. Forster, barri»ter-al law, of Ohio,” as the Chronicle gives it, and Hannah Whitall Smith were among the speakers. A telegram was read from Lady Henry Somerset expressing hearty sympathy. Miss Julia Ames, of our staff, was an honored guest. Sir Wilfred Lawson presided at station 2; Mr. W. S. Caine at No 4; Prof, Stuart at No. 7; Mr. James Row. lands at No. 8: Mr. C. E. Schwann at station 10 (all M. P.’s), and Cardinal' Manning at station 11—Union Signal.

NOTES. z Huron’s large brewery in South Dakota, will, it is said, be converted into a beet sugar factory. The retail liquor traffic is now prohibited in seventy-nine municipalities of the province of Manitoba. The city marshal ot Cartersville, ’Ga., says that prohibition has done Cartersville an incalculable amount ot good. Chicago has one saloon for every forty voters, and a policeman for every two hundred voters. Comptroller, Onahah, of Chicago, says that seventy per cent, pf the license fees of the 5.000 salQons of Chi cage are paid by brewers.

BURNED IN A HOTEL.

r Peopla Parish in th* Piers?* ■ ■ atfcV<*ca*e. M. Y, - The Leland Hotel at Syracuse,. N. Y M burned eariy in the morning on the 16th, It is believed twenty-five persons perished in the flames or lost their lives by jumping. One woman t was being lowered from • window by a rope. Whenshe had reached a point opposite the third Story the flames burned the rope into. The woman fell to the pavement, her brains being dashed out and her body flattened into a shapeless mass. Many people crazed with fright lost their lives by jumping from the windows. One man says he saw six peo. pie jump from one side of the building within a space of four minutes. The building, however, was amply provided with fire escapes and ropes, which were the means of saving many lives. One woman was discovered with a nursing babe in her arms crouched in a stairway, where she had been overcome by smoke. She did not regain consciousßess for many hours after oeing rescued. Cora Tanner, the actress, was among the injured. Most of those killed were in the fourth and fifth stories. The crowds surrounding the burning build, ing were simply overpowering. The scenes and incidents connected with the rescue of inmates were heartrending in the ex* treme. At 1:12 a. m. a man and woman were seen locked in each other’s arms, in a Window on the fifth floor, at the norths eist comer of the building. Below them was a perfect sea of flame. No possibility of escape except by the windows was open A) thorn, and that seemed inevitable death. No assistance could reach them. The woman seemed to be anxious to jump, but her husband was earnestly entreating her to desist. The crowd below waited with bated breath. The woman made' one last effort to jump, was re strained by her husband, and the cry of the crowd signaled theawful end that must have befallen them as they fell backward into the room into a mass, of flames. At a window on the fourth floor, almost directly under this a woman appeared at the window. She was surrounded on all sides from the interior of the room by fierce flames. She seemed irresolute as to whether to jump to the pavement or to face the fiery foe that was fast enercacfaing on her liberty and life. She stepped upon the sill,of the window and placed her hands above her head. People in the street below shuddered and turned their faces to shut out the horrible sight that must meet their gaze should the woman jump to the ground. The woman did not jump, but seemed to be withheld either by fear or a feeling that escape would come from some otter source. She stepped down from the sill into the room, but remained at the window but an instant, when the whole room became enveloped in flames, and the woman sank back from view. ’► The frightful shrieks of the guests and crackle of the flames could be beard for blocks away. The building burned so rapidly that most of the people on the upper floors were obliged to use the fire escape or jump for their lives. One woman appeared at the window in a room on the north side of the building with a baby in her arms. Her pitiful cries for help were heard until the flames gathered around her. The firemen tried in vain to raise a ladder on this side of the building. The woman was told to throw out the rope or jump from the window. She threw out the rope, and as she was climbing out of the window the flames enveloped her, and she fell back into the building and perished. Seven or eight men and children jumped from the upper stories on to a shed in the rear of the building. At one time seven persons were struggling together on the shed, which had already caught fire from the flying sparks. The victims were half naked. Several of them were seen to tear off their undergarment* that had —caught fire.---- One — woman’ lay on the ground where she nadfallen tearing the hair from her head. Her hair had caught fire and it was with difficulty that the flames were quenchedShe. together with the others who had umped from the rear windows, was picked up and carried on a stretcher to a saloon in the neighborhood. In this saloon'severil persons lay on the pool-tables in all positions. One of the women was Annie Schwartz, a laundry girl employed in the hotel. She was rescued from the rear of he fourth floor by a colored man who had a'ready saved several others of the help. The doors of Gray Bros., shoe manufacturers, across the street, were smashed in and several persons carried thereon stretchers. The police office was turned into a hospital and the patrol wagons into ambulances. ■ One of the most frightful incidents of the fire was the terrlbls death of a woman who jumped from the fifth story of the building. Several policemen stood on the sidewalk holding nets ready to catch the guests as they jumped. Two persons, a man and a woman, jumped into one of the nets almost at the same moment apd escaped with broken limbs. The next te jump was a woman who appeared in a window on the fifth story in her night clothes. She leaped out of the window and, missing the net, was dashed to pieces on the stone sidewalk. She was picked up and removed to the morgue. The building will be a total loss. Tt was built two years ago at a-cost of IGO,OOO. It is six sterlet high, and contained 4<X) rooms. Il ls impossible "to learn how many guests were in the hotel at the time the fire broke out. The total loss will not fall short of half a million dollars. The building is partly covered by insurance, but it is impossible to Garn how much insurance was carried on ;be hotel furniture, i-»what the private % n <J 'ndividual losses will be. At the i Mary Grabowisky to John Levinduo'oki at Iron Mountain, Mich, on the 15th, one Dombrowsky started trouble by making a sneering remark about the bride. Tem Kpsobosky resented it, and n the fight that followed Tom was killed. If the sneering remark had any reference to Miss Grabowisky's name wa want to assert that In that respect Mr. jDombroaky has little to brag about