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Show Incendiarism. An attempt was made on Saturday night to burn the lumber house of Mr. Stephen Thompson in the Tenth Ward. Mr. Thompson was out of town on business, and his wife was visiting some friends by the name of McGee. On.returuiug homo, with these friends about 10 o'clock, Mr. McGee snielled something burniug, and on looking, discovered a pile of rags saturated with kerosene, on .fire, and tho window broken, through which they had been placed inside, t was evident the fire had been started star-ted but a very short time before their arrival, and if they had been but a few minutes later, the house would likely have been burned to the ground. Sunday morning it was found that the lumber outside and inside tho window had also been saturated satu-rated with kerosene. Strong evi ience points to the perpetrator of the deed. |