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Show XIi at Fire at Uiiighaui. We received yesterday a statement from yir. C. A. Gould, on the origin of tho fire in Perrin's Restaurant, Bingham Bing-ham Canon, which corresponds with that published in the Herald on Sunday Sun-day morning. He says that a further and closer examination into the matter mat-ter disclosed the fact that Mr. Charles W. Merrill, the young gentleman who was attending the patent at Dr. Monro's baths, and who was so severely burned, finding the alcohol in the lamp insufficient, undertook to pour adtlittonal alcohol into it while the alcohol therein was burning, from a common oil can. As a natural consequence con-sequence the alcohol in the oil can exploded the moment it came into contact with that burning in the lamp, n circumstance which might happen with any person, consequently consequent-ly no fault whatever attaches to TV. Munro's lamp or bath. Dr. Monro also called yesterday and showed us the veritable oil can which exploded, an examination of which should remove any remaining doubt entertained, that tho lire originated by the explosion of his bath lamp. |