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Show A STRUCTURE AULAZB. lie (HI Warehouse of I'lillllpi A, Cunningham, Cun-ningham, I'litlailrlphla, Ilc ttrcijrd by Hrr. rincMCH INJURED at CXPLOO-INC. CXPLOO-INC. OIL. reieral i'ennnt llnrlnl I'mler railing VTalli. The Lois lillmalcd tt (1,00,000. HTitfrsrhl.tieNxws 1 a dill' mo nun. An lt Warehouse lsliiseil ' mnl Person. Injure1. l'icii adumima, Beit. 51. Bhortly sfler - o'clock Mil afternoon lire lmle out In the oil warthouso of l'hllll A Cunningham, IM North Drlaaare avenue. Tho llimra aoon trained headway, anil several alarms were turned In. 1 lis fire awert through tho Inflammable stock of tlio building, i ii J tho structure was ablaio fnmi ri I-tar I-tar to roof twenty mlnutt-a after tho ManiM (IM brolo mt. Devi llo tlio utmost ut-most i irorta of thoflrvineu, the Harms retail wcsttu Water street, and lo the rag waft house of Jeeaup c. Moore, a I Jolnllir tho liutnlnic oil storo on the north. In a (Jiort tlinei the wnrihousea at 157, 1.11 auttl.il Watir street were ai lae. I'lilllp an I Cliatlia I'ortcr of 1 ngluc Coniny .No. 20. wiru Injured ty tho vxpluJIOi: oil, while tlghtlrg tiro In Ihu nil store, ami Frank ljourer of Truck II mi hurt by a fall from a lad-ilir. lad-ilir. Whllo the flru was at Iti height, tho walla of Jesauii A. Moore'i ware-Louie ware-Louie Ml In, burying several firemen. The hurlril men were gotten out aa quickly aa imIIi!o, and, at far at known, nono are killed. At I o'clock the firemen succeeded In getting the (Iro praitltally unslcr romrol. Tho lota la roughly eetlmalfd at JWUO.OOO. Ni ii spatter Morals. Lately aa Amuricau Journal camo out wiLhanannouDceiaent that by special favor of Dirlno Irortde not, or as4bly aume other jtowcr. u leondon itai.r oivl tho Journal In question had been able to SMiuru tho exclusive right lo publish a sweet and Jtdey scandal Tho luiprte-sloa luiprte-sloa was. tlwrtforr. Uiat no other i-iper tn the Union had boea able to lay Lefure Its rcidtrs the lenullon. Out the rs-sdsr looked through one pa tr alter another of tho aamo date, an 1 one after another ba 1 thus imeexcloslte story. Now, this may bo Journallttla nterprlte, Imt to the common mind It saiors ftarrallvcr Irlnz At least tho common mtn 1 canuot draw the nlco dls-Unittout dls-Unittout In the minds of interirlslnj Jonrualutlo ublisbtrs, and Mill bo liable lia-ble to put no ritlfi in what thla iter, spa-psr spa-psr or auyother newspatrsa)t. TTila Is ouo bad fsislare of swerving from the ll&e ot strict truth lu journalism. The puhllo mind already classes newiiiasrs as liars aud pabllcaUous not tolside-pendetl tolside-pendetl on fer faiti It la rank Injustice, Injus-tice, lor there are ittlluundredsnf newspapers news-papers that aim absolutely to tsll the truth. Tbey are deotltod tometlmts, but then il Is not their hull If they haro taken proper precaution to itrify tlti-ir statemeuta Tlio standing oC nowspspera at truth tellers uught to bo the lilglmt, au I tt ought to be the prlds of every Journal to report the world s doingi exactly as they oixur There aro big stories eoougU and sensations onouji for Iho reiwrtir who Lvcpe strictly In the line of tho uo-tuil, uo-tuil, without Irt itepplug over that line, TbeUinpt.tlou lo print, at news, a good story, whether It Is true orr.ut, its uuo that ought tobs resisted febio-lotely. febio-lotely. Iliery time a journal printa a IU it weakens Its own Infloence. Nut only that, but Ittbrous Its moral poncr, so far as It lissany.cn thotldoof ljluj and weakens the honor and honesty of community. 'Diere Is a inMli r evil that It worse than all the ei il done to Iho writer and publisher ot a lie. livery tlmo a man dcoilici another Lo placet a vrll between be-tween himself and tho omstde worl L If the world caonot sou through that veil except dimly, Juit as dimly can tbo man himself tee through It- In proportion at we shut out othcrt from tho real linlhlnoiirselvis, lu just that proportion propor-tion we ihnt nut bunches trout kiIcc tho real truth In others. Ileum It ts that n ibody Is to easily hnmbngged ru thu 1- rstu w ho habitually trli to humbug hum-bug others. |