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Show THE MORNING EXAMINER, 2 unless it crosses to the south side of Mala street, la this event a large j part of the residences of the section would hava to go. , The fire is reported to have started in the basement of the Rochester Dry connected A fuse Goods company. with the electrical motor that runs the elevator blew nut and the next moment the flames were rushing up the elevator well, la a few momenta thereafter, the building was wrapped la I I Flames Destroy $5,000,000 In Business District. b Fire which broke out t 5 n. m. today destroyed the buelnc pur- -lion of nocheu-r-, N. Y.t and cauaed a los of aver 5.0UU,UX). No and the Are van, wind by hard work, got under control. flames. The lire spread to tha Walkover Shoe company just east of the Rochester Dry Goods company, and this building wae entirely gutted. The Are ie under control ta this section. The Are also spread to the rear of the Granite building on Dieteina street. The Cox building which fronts on St. Paul street, oe the corner of Division prt-talle- AaaiMant Chief Frank Jaynea while at work fighting the flamee at 8: IS fell from a ladder and waa aerfoualy injured, a fearful gas'i being rut lu hia head. Injury ie not ticecaaarlly fatal. street, is cm Are sod JAP OGDEN, of the attack oa Port Arthur February 25th, was received this afternoon and is now in the hands of the military censorship committee. The correspondent learns that tho attack developed into an engagement between the Japanese squadron and the Russian squadron and forts, which continued for three hours and resulted in the repulse of the Japanese. I The detailed reports of the sc- - A linn at Port Arthur have been re-- A ceived and coincide in regard to A Ibe havoc created by the horn- - A A A A A A bardment of Port Arthur. It ia A now evident that one ot the tor- A pedo boats, need to convoy the A bulks to the month of the harbor A where It was intended to sink U doomed. SURRENDERS SUBJECT. Details of the Action Before Port Arthur. There have beet several explosions Is this building- the The Are started so early in morning that very few people were on the street, but by six o'clock there were thousands crowding the scene of the disaster. Explosions of dynamite used to check the spread of the flames, were supplemented hy the thneder of falling walls. Mayor Cutler and Commissioner Gilman were on the scene shortly after tha Are was dlacovered. Commissioner Gilman estimated the lora at t o'clock at between Are and aix millions. The huge granite building belonging to Sibley, Lindsay and the upper stories of which were occupied by men. lawhundreds of professional yers, doctors, dentists end business men, was gutted from the basement to the tenth story. The entire tenth floor of the Graolle building was taken up with the offices of theVacnnm OU company, a branch of the Standard Oil company. At 1:40 there was a tremendous explosion la the basement of the Granite bnilding, where the Sibley company conducted a large drug department. There have been several previous explosions lu tba burning buildings. Since A o'clock the trolley current has been cut off and the mesa of been wires In the Are section has crashed to the ground. The Granite bnilding will he e total loss. Across St. Panl street to tha went ia another large dry goods store, Burkg, Fitzsimmons. Pone A Co. The efforts of the Are department are centered on the weit wall of the Granite bnilding to prevent tt falling end spreading the street. Are on the west of 8L Paul the Should the Are once spread to West Side the entire business section would bo at the mercy of the flames. On the corner diametrically opposite of Commerce building, eleven stories the Granite building la the Chamber high. The building occupied by tha Rochester Dry Goode company, Just east of the Granite building, la totally deatroyed and the walla have fallen. At t:lS Asst Chief Frank Jaynea waa Injured by a fall, hia head being cut open. This afternoon the firemen apparently had the fire tinder full control. Insurance men estimate the lose at from four to flvo million ioliara. Tha heavTha iest losaea ara on buildings. Granite building. 9300.000, Insurance 917B.OOO; Buell building. 979.000; Cornwall building, 979,000; Sibley. Lindsay A Curr, loss on building not given, insurance 9300,000; retail stock, 9360,-00- 0. wholesale Insuitnre 9300.000; stock, 91.300,000, insurance 9t.000.000; loss to tenants In the Granite building, 9300.000; loes In stock to Beadle and Sherburne company. 999.000, insurance 9260.000; loss to stock of Rochester Dry Goods company, 9160.000, insurance 9136.0001 A them, A was UTAH, .KAT tiiuaT MOKNIMi, lost, being sunk by the Russian shells. A A A A A A A Washington, Feb. 29. The Japanese government has agreed to surrender a Japanese subject to the United States under extradition proceedings. Bamuero Adachi, n Japanese living at Honolulu, was charged there with perjury, committed in connection with the trial of cases involving alleged Importation of Japanese women for Immoral purposes. He fled to Japan. The state department baa Just been informed that the Japanese government has granted its request for the men's extradition and has surrendered him to an agent for Hawaii, who will sail with him for Honolulu from- - Yoke hams on the Siberia today. RUSSIAN COMMENT. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA M. Petersburg. Feb. 24. The- - Rna On Relatione Between That Government and United States. this morning publishes Ihe following from Port Arthur, under date of Feb. St. Petersburg, Feb. 26. The Kovoe 25: Yrcraya this morning publishes a long X. Y, Feb. it.1 The Rocheater, "On the night of Feb. !4 the Japhn-e- e leading article regarding the relatione of worst conflagration in the lilntory attempted to blockade the exit exlating between the United States from Port. Arthur bay in order to en- and Russia. In considering the unHorheMcr broke out ahortly before 5 close our fleet conorntratej within. Unthe friendly manifest alio ns against o'clock thia morning in the baaemeut der convoy of torpedo boats and translatter in the United States the Kovoe of the Rocheater Dry Hood, comtiany'a ports the enemy advanced four freight- Vremye argues, distinction must be atora at 1611 Main atiwet. The Are. acto the made between the people and the govers, In ballast at full speed cording to the night watchman in the gateway whra It waa iatended to alnk ernment and it attributes the agitation ntore, Thomaa Con non. waa dlacovered the latter veeaels; but ibe manoeuvre in the press to n campaign engineered none after it atarted. but it spread was Immediately otiserved on the batwith auch rapidity that by the time by the Jews who, it has been said, even tleship Retvixan, which was standing talk of building n battleship for the an alarm waa turned it, the entire In the bay before the entrance. Tha Mikado. The paper Insists, however, front of the store wae a mane of flames. Hat vixen at once opened fire end, aftthat the traditional friendship for RusThe Are department responded prompter It, the I lotteries on the peak and sia occupiua A firm position in the Amly. Aeaiaiant Chief Jaynea realised at those on the promontory took part. As erican mind and heart and that the once the dangerous nature of the Are a result the ships with which it was people cannot really prefer the Japanand turned in a general alarm. By designed to blockade the port were de- ese to the Russians who never hare this time the flamee had spread to tha stroyed and their mission rendered un- harmed them. The Kovoe Vremya, on building occupied by tha dry goods successful. According to a wholly unfirm of Beadle and Sherburne com-lthe other band, contends that without on supported report, one Japanese torpedo reason the Washington tha Chief Utile 'arrived government boat was eunk. scene promptly after tha general alarm has been unfriendly to Russia and com"The cannonade before I wee Bounded. He real'sed that tha began pares the moet brilliant feat of the oclock In tho morning and continued state department the telegraphic ratflames were beyond control of tha lo7 until oclock. From 9 a. ra.. however, ification of the Chinese open port cal department, end appeals for more there were merely single discharges. treaty to Are apparatus wars sent to tha chiefs marriages telegraphic The Japanese fleet, at long distance, which. It says, sometimes are practiced of the Buffalo and Syracuse departanswered our tire ineffectively. This in America. ments. Nearly flva hours later four evidently waa dona merely to cover the el camera arrived from Hyracuae. But it la idle, the article goea on, to retreat of their torpedo flotilla. Within an hour aftw being discovnow of sending U. 8. consuls to talk "The enemys squadron, consisting Manchuria. Unsatisfied with his sucered the Are bad spread to the big of 19 large vessels and 17 torpedo Dost Granite building, occupied by the Arm cess, Secretary of State Hay undertook of Sibley, Lyadaey and Curr. and by destroyers, which appeared yesterday to secure the neutralization, the inviolabout 9 oclock In tho morning, hundreds of business and professional of the administration and the In sight of Port Arthur until ability of Chinn. Diplomatists, lexicomen. entity withdraw to and and Flames also spread to tlie buildings then began noon, graphers and publicists being in doubt In the rear of tha Grenitx block. Tha disappeared from the horizon in the as to what all this meant Secretary extreme cold mada Are flghtiig The cruize rx Norik, Aikold morning. Hey kindly announced that he did not and Bayan pnt to sea and after tne In- care and hazardous, as tha ladders to have hie proposal defined In unconsiderable cross fire, returned ,wern coated witk Ice. detail. The article concludes: The harmed." The only accident reported waa the American government has taken n poInjury of Assistant Chief Frank A. with the forsition which le29. London. The waa Feb. struck on tba brad Japanese Jayiea. who wttbt Russia and we relations mer good gation today gave out the following are convinced that the conduct of the by a flying noule. The toes ( estimated at between four and flva mildispatch from Toklo, dated Feo. 29: United 8tates gunboat, Vicksburg In lion dollars, most of which fell on the "Early in the morning of Feb. 24, to protect and receive drown, refusing four old veeaels, escorted by some torSibley. Lindsay sad Curr company, tba Russians will not meet with wlt ing entrance ran were Beadle and Sherburne company, the the Into boats, pedo sympathy in America, nor will the Amof Port Arthur for the Rochester Dry Goods company, and tha purpose of ericans sympathise with the naval demot mouth Walkover Shoe company. Tha Iom to the harbor. Tha onstration blocking the at the mouth of the Tain IB tha busiaeaa o res in the Granite object of sinking these vessels waa atthe telegraph brought which of river, tained and the officers and crewe rebuilding cannot be estimated at this a report yesterday. turned safely. writing. Chief Little believed the flamee "Although there Is no report regardJAPANESE VESSELS REPAIRING. could he kept under control, as there ing our fleet direct from Admiral Togo was no wind. The firemen used dynano doubt can be entertained as to its St. Petersburg, Feb., 26. The mite early, but the nee of explosives safety."- Viedomoet! says n telegram was eooa abaadoned. Guie-burANOTHER ACCOUNT OF PORT AR- haa been received from Baron .. A portion of the Klelry building oc(who has n contract for supplying THUR AFFAIR. cupied by the Beadle and Sberbaraa coal to the Russian navy, but whose company, also fell, carrying with It a New York, Feb. 21 Arrivals from present address is not stated), asserts mass of bunting timbers, brlrh and Port Arthur report that before the that twelve armored Japanese ships plaster. Trolley wires broke and Tuesday attack the Russians received are now in dock undergoing repairs eight firemen bad narrow escapaa from Injury; The Are area was guardtimely warning from three torpedo for the Injuries Inflicted upon them In SENATE AND HOUSE. beat destroyers, which mat the Japan- their battles with tho Russians. ed by large details of police awn. ese fleet three miles outside, says a START AND SPREAD OF FLAMES. AppseprtetioM Sill is Still life re Lat- Herald dispatch from Chefoo. CABLE CUT. The Japanese fleet .approached to ter Body. wlthta eight miles of the eatrance and New York, Feb. 26. The CommerA grant Rocheater, N. T Feb. Feb. 30. When tha senremmeneed the attack. Are started la the heart of tha butl-ace- a ateWashington. cial Cable company senda out the folcomtba Mr. from met Scott, The retaliate were the forts, lowing notice: district of this city early today, mil tee ontoday a followedfirst tathe publlle presented buildings, by Fetropavlovsk. the and is still raging fiercely. The weath"We are advised that tha Hong report on the condition of tha old gov- North, tha Pallida and the Askold. er la Ideal fur lighting Ire, aa there is ernment Kong-Amocable Is interrupted. office, saying that tha printing The engagement lasted until nearly scarcely any wind blowing. Had tfaera rendition of tha walls wsa such that daylight, when the Japanese retired. keen eves a moderately high wind the CZAR GIVES ENSIGNIA. waa a menace to tha Itveo of hunEvidently they attempted to destroy firemen say nothing could have pre- It sad dreds of employes government areenaL the vented a repetition of the Baltimore 8t. Petersburg. Feb. 26. The diarecommending that tha building be The forts had five guns silenced. SrsL mond Insignia of the order of 8L The presentation of the torn down. to The seritowa was tho damage Aa It la, the firemen are battling unwhich the esar has congave rise to n debate In which ous. One shell struck amid tba ander extrema difficulties, aa maay wat- report Messrs. Hear, Gallinger, Prott and Al- chorage of Junks, blowing many to ferred upon Gen. Kuropatkln, waa acer malna are froxea up. lison participated. companied by an autograph letter from stoma At 7 o'clock Chief Little and ComTho Newaky works and tko engine his majesty, referring In complimenmissioner of Public Safely Gilman teltary terms to Gen. Kuropatkln's works were etrark three tlmea HOUSE egraphed to Buffalo and Syracuse for readiness to accept the difSeveral shells fell Just short of tho assistance. tTasImlaumTErriTIonBvSF ficult poet of military commander ia At 10:10 the. Syracuse Are fighters I ng today, the attention of the house arsenal, striking tha mud wall sur- chief in Manchuria. It. but doing no damaga Arrived, having been delayed on ac- was directed toward the Orient by the rounding Several guards were killed by buntcount of the severe cold which la de- chaplain, who said la Ms prayer that ahella Civilians took refuge la Sues, Feb. 26. The Russian squadlaying traffic on all the railroads In this "disputes between nations of the earth ing new part of Port Arthur. the ron from Jibutil is reported to be anbe settled by the pcucvtul methods may pert of the state. Five thouMUd men are working day chored In the Gulf of Sues, 25 miles The chief of the fire department at of arbitration. and night, strengthening the defence south of Sues. A torpedo boat destroy: 45 said he believed Ibe fire could bo The house went Inin committee of of the garrison, which Ie 30,000 strong er which bed already entered the caept wlibin the main street block ex- ihe whole end rreumed consideration and provisioned. nal, bound north, haa Bailed south again tending from St. Paul to North streets ot the navy appropriation Mil. Three merchant steamers are still to rejoin the squadron. at Port Arthur. Paris, Feb. 26. The French foreign ISSUES MANIFESTO. office categorically denies the report published In a London paper that KoSt. Petersburg. Feb. 29. A stirring rea become the ally of Japan, manifesto to the army waa issued by nnderhaving the Japanese-Koreatreaty. the czar today la the form of a m se- France la required to become xier to General Kuropaikln, ee fol- the active thereby ally of Russia. The offlows: icials say the situation doea not war"Although, os head of the military rant auch n conclusion and add that administration since 1808, you have the ner treaty doea not make the worked with energy end assiduity to in the position slightest of reorganise and perfect the army, your France. change done. work la not yet The hour baa come when I must summon yon to PORTUGAL PREPARING, load my valiant army, to defend the honor and sovereignty of Russia and Chicago. Feb. 26. M. Leitao. of Lisher eovereign right in the Far East. bon. Portugal, an agent of his governKnowing your brilliant gifts and iha ment. ta in eminent preparations for battle, I am to Macao. Chicago. He la on hie way China, (he Portuguese port glad to entrust to you the reepcnslble on the southern coast, and will sail command of my Manchurian army from San Francisco. M. Leitao said: against tho Japanese, on your leaviug My government is not alarmed by your work as minister. events in the Fsr East, but we wish "May Ood help yon in your difficult to be prepared ftir contingencies, ns task, which you with auch may arise, ami I am golag out to have assumed. In tsklng leave of you they make a report upon the .rendition of and thanking yon for your six years' the colony for defense. Portugal Is work for the guud of my dear army. I confer oa you the Order of St. Alex-- j simply doing what England U doing at Hong Kong and France In Ton quin iuder-XevsIn brilliants. Wishing Is. putting things In order so that success to you. and trusting to you ta that If trouble ia widespread in China we transmit to my brave army my may be prepared." greeting and my blessing. May God keep you unharmed. few York. Feb. 29 Dispatches from '.NICHOLAS.-- ' (Signed) Lisbon to the Vossische Zrttnng state, cables the Herald's Berlin corresponSTOPS A LINER. dent, that, in carrying out the alliance 26. A Feb. Aden, Arabia. Russian between Great Britain and Portugal, j torpedo boat destroyer stopped and tb latter country is now out ! boarded the British India steamer to Its army new rifles andserving the repreMombassa in the Red sea, February sentative of n German dm la at pres22nd. The destroyer fired a gun which ent at Lisboa lnstru-t'n- g artillery ofMombassa the secbut a ficers In the handling of the recently Lisa Mario Drofneh, who will play Portia In "The Merchant of Venice ond shot causeddisregarded, to liner the stop. field artillery. with Mr. Charles B. Harford at the Grand Open House on March 3rd. made A Russian officer hoarded the Mom- purchased Coast defence are being overhauled her debut on the stage as Jenny Xortheote la Gilbert's "Sweethearts." bassa and examined her papers, after In Ilebon. Falay and Boon after she Joined Steele Mackaye't Ingot, which "Money Mad" company, playing the could serve ns naval stations. ingenue role of Gurtha Graham. Later on sho made a decided hit a Marla which she was allowed to proceed. Telegrams from Amsterdam assert th w tun in "The Van Without n Ni,ht" and RECEIVES TELEGRAM. that everything Ie ready for the mobOlar..e,2.h The latter play was produced and enjoyed a run at Country" Niblo's fie G St. 2C. Feb. m. A Petersburg. p. ilisation of the Dutch army. All leave den. New Turk. 8b wae the Sarah Sykes la the past of "KosedaleJ long official telegram giving details Ie refused to eftcern n. dlf-fle- BUfDlMCOLOBADO J. C. Craig, President of Citisene Alli- ltwf. plicated in the assaults have been obtained," said Mr. Craig. When asked for reasons for the failure to convict, he said he believed it due to the sympathy of the police, who are recruited from the ranks of labor, and must return to their old vocations when they lose their positions, at change of administration. In conclusion he said bin association favored giving tbe courts the almost latitude in suppressing riots and giving the courts tbe same freedom in passing upon questions of antagonism to labor. "We had a member of congress who had the courage of his convictions la regard to the right and wrong and he resigned when he thought he waa In the wrong. We are not against labor but are eternally organisations, against lawlessness. John Galloway, of Dayton, Ohio, repn resenting tbe employ ds,tuld of experiencei in hie city and the strike there. I am n machinist" said Mr. Galloway, "and an actual worker and I want to My that all of the working men are not In favor of thia ance, Make Sensational Charges. Washington, Feb. 26. "Colorado can Rurally be called Bleeding Colorado owing to what has taken place there In the last ten years," said J. C. Craig, president of the Citizens' Alliance of Denver, in an address today before the house Judiciary committee in opposition to the conspiracy bilL Mr. Craig was the first speaker at today's hearing. He devoted his time to a discussion of labor troubles of the slate. Ho recounted the various clashes between the unions and the mine operators, which, he declared, were attended hy violence and abuses on the part of miners of auch a nature that the newspapers of the stale were unable to publish the assaults. He told of many Uvea being lost through plots which, he said, had been proved conclusive against the unions; union men, he said, had rolled kegs of dynamite into shaft houses where men were working; cables were extended from elevators to MIL" loaded revolvers placed where they would explode into deposits of dynaBUFFALO MURDER. mo red .and' mite when the elevator was many other auch plots caused deaths Buffalo, Feb. 26. Henry L. Schwartx, n mine workers. The among Citisene Alliance was formed to take of Baker and Schwarts, attorneys, was action against such assaults and the association grew to n membership of 14.000. Injunctions were then obtained and, "then and only then," said Mr. Craig, "were we able to proceed with operating mines without daily tear of mine horrors, brought about by diabolical scheming against lives of men who worked against the wishes of the union." Mr. Craig spoke also of injunctions obtained by the unions against the alliance, which he said were not opposed by the alliance, aa it had not wished to violate any laws After tba settlement of tbe strike by mutual agreement nil of tbe Injunctions were dissolved. "No convictions of any persona ftn- non-unio- non-unio- shot and probably fatally hi private offic'in"tiVnrt building, today by H a the dry goods firm of Gardner. Knowles, eftcr M TEIEGIAP1 BRIEFS ' Cherbourg. Feb. 20. A ,Croo tarhment of troops is befog for service in 0r. Indo-Chtn- New York. Feb. 2.- -a pri, patch states that the custom hu Pernambucro, Brasil, had aged 9300.000 by lira. All uwv were burned. J Baltimore. Md., Fch. Warden, aged 102 yean, supposed tohl the outset expounder of Method!.. V. the world, is dead In the BshiEnS county alms house, he w.,TT England, and was licensed 1624. He traveled .foot more county and even into vnola. 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