OCR Text |
Show Verdict In Times Disaster. Ijo Angele. The coroner's Jury in the Time disaster of October 1, after an adjournment of several weeks, held Its concluding session Tuesday and returned tho following verdict: "The Times building was destroyed and a groat number of the employes killed by an explosion, followed by fire, said explosive being caused by high explosives, placed there by a party or parties unknown to this Jury." Many Deaths From Plague. Washington. The plague la continuing contin-uing Its ravages la China as shown by the mall advices reaching the state department from American consular officers. It Is estimated that 20,000 people have succumbed In the Harbin consulate district since the outbreak of the epidemic. In Harbin and Its suburb, Furblatln, 6.014, Including fifty Europeans, died up to February Febru-ary 11. |