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Show TELEGRAPHIC BIU BLAZER, DeaLructiou ot Properly by Fire. Lapeer, Mich., 13, Hemingway's Rflb and blind lactory burned to day. Losa $15,000; uninsured. Ten thousand thous-and dollars worth of lumber wad alao burned. Springfield, Masa., 14. Jeasup 4, Lalliu's Woronoco paper mill, vVeat-tield. vVeat-tield. with $1,500 worth of maDulac-tured maDulac-tured paper in the etorehouee, wsa burned by an incendiary Saturday night. Loaa. $75,000; insurance, $40,000. Nashville, 14, There was a destructive de-structive tire at Clarksville laut night. The best judges estimate the losa at $500,000. The burnt district covers fifteen acres, Gracy warehouse covered cov-ered over an acre itself. Fifty-seven houses were destroyed, including the best buildings in the oity. The insurance insur-ance is estimated at $50,000. The fire in regarded as the work of an incendiary, with which the blacks geemed to sympathize, refusing to aid in suppressing the flames. Police man PuillipB, yeBterday afternxm, shot and killed a negro named Sent, while resisting him Tviih stones. This aroused a feeling among the blacks, who threatened to mob Phillips, Phil-lips, who was placed in j.ul for aafety. It ia auppoBed the fire was the result of the recent lyuching of a negro lor an attempt to rape a white girl, at Heat's death. Fifty special policemen are patrolliDg the streets of Olarks ville to-night. Nine hundred hogs-neads hogs-neads of tobacco were destroyed ly the fire and ruin. The list embraced ali kinds of business houses aud a number of residences. Nt-w York, 15. The dwelling of Hfcber P, Biahop, at IrviDgton, on the Hudson, burned to-day. The contents of elegant furniture and paintings were estimated to be worth $200,000, one famous work of art alone being valued at $30,000. The total extent of the lo?s is not yet knnwn. The Fordbam building, occupied hy Fordhaoii leather merchant, and H. C. Evans, general dealer, burned this morning. Total loss, $45,000 to 50,000; iueured in English offices. During the fire an explosion in Evans' store instantly killed Edward Fredericks, member of the Union Prelection company. |