Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — PHILADELPHIA FIRE. [ARTICLE]

PHILADELPHIA FIRE.

FOUR HUNDRED THOUSANDS GO UP IN SMOKE. Concrete May Be Called by Cleveland —Some Astounding Revelations in the Cuban Revolution Ominous News for Spain. Fire inWhe Quaker City. A Philadelphia fire, which did damage amounting to between $350,000 and $400,000, started Monday morning in the five-story building occupied by Brown & Bailey as a paper-box manufactory, and before the Humes had been got under control the big gastfxture establishment ot Buck adjoining and a dozen dwellings which surrounded the two factories were laid in ashes. The fire originated on the first floor of the building occupied by Brown & Bailey, at 412 Franklin street, at 8:30 o’clock, but it was nearly 9 o’clock before an engine had responded to the alarm. The delay proved disastrous, as the iuflammaWe matter in the box factory was a mass of principal losers are Brown & Bailey and Buck & Co. The former’s’loss will reach . $150,000, with an insurance of $100,000; - Buck & Co.’s loss is between SIOO,OOO and $125,000, with an insurance of between $75,000 and SSO,OOO. Yeager & Bro., coal dealers, place their loss at about $20,000, while the loss on the burned dwellings will reach in the neighborhood of $50,000. Several firemen were injured, but none fatally. Campos Gives It Up. A Havana dispatch says; Campos has resigned the Captain Generalship of Cuba. —It is generally believed t*hat he strongly urges the home Government to grant the Island of Cuba self-government. As an outcome of his recent telegrams to Madrid the Ministers of War; Staje, Foreign Colonies, etc., have been holding long conferences, and although they could not make public the subject of their deliberations they have admitted that they will have some astounding revelations to make soon. Gen. Campos, while besieged in Bayamo, had such fears for his life that iir'order to disguise himself he had his long goatee shaved clean, hence his objection to showing himself in public. Mayari is said to have fallen into the hands of insurgents, and the Provisional Government of the Cuban republic Is reported to have been established there. Santo Espiritu and Trinidad, in Las Villas, are said to be in possession of the rebel forces. All telegrams from Madrid clearly show that not only the Government over there, but also the people, are greatly alarmed by the developmeuts in Cuba, and that Gen. Campos’ report to the Cortes must be unsatisfactory. • —— Talk of an Extra Session. Talk of an extra session of Congress is again heard upon the streets of Washington. Politicians who have heretofore contended .strenuously against tbe .idea are now beginning to admit that the President may issue a call if the withdrawal of gold from the treasury continues. Without the aid of the Belmont-Morgan-Bothschild syndicate the onslaughts upon the reserve will, it is claimed, compel the President either to issue bonds or call Congress in extraordinary session. The vacancy upon the bench of the Supreme Court, which meets in October, is urged as another reason for ap extra session of the Senate, as with the exception of Marshall no justice ever assumed his seat upon the bench until confirmed. Marshall Field’s Men Are Put Out. At Denver, Colo., Marshall Field tried to get possession of the dry goods store of A. Z. Solomon. The assignee representing local creditors and the First National Bank on a mortgage resisted the constable in the morning when the store was crowded. The police were summoned to guard the place. Every suspieous-look-ing customer was ordered to get out forthwith. Finally the store closed and a sign announced they were taking stock. Gully Re-elected. Mr. William C. Gully, member of Parliament for Carlisle, was re-elected Speaker of the House of Commons without opposition.