| Show AT HOME AND ABROAD PS pa jau jao 26 the trost alea conflagration that has bae this city in recent years broke oat shortly before 7 0 1 e look this morn jug JOK in the be basement of the bin big grocery tore store of hanscomb Ha brothers 1317 market street property to the value of N or more was destroyed the flames flakes yere were first discovered by john jobs wagner a reserve policeman 1 lefore the engines gines reached the scene echoe tte entire rear portion of tote and dennetta big restaurant second alarm was sent A were w ere ablaze inand in and a low lew moments later a general genera term alarm was wae sent bent in immediately ao jAning hanscomb brothers on the west was waa a flue fine story atory building occupied by blum brothers manufacturers of la ladies clies cloake this ot of flamed the was waa BOOD a 91 vases mass water seemed almost to freeze before it touched the buildings the next building to the west to be eaten up was that occupied by gooras marshal as a restaurant then f ame hat manufactory 0 E wells welle and ot the rear of the wholesale grocery M showell frier 1326 1325 market A orfil treet while the 0 flames were sweeping street the umbrella alt I 1 on OD market of hirsch brothers the IS eg in the world which adjoins caught fire T the as in ahal e restaurants restaurant amiable nature of the immense blike added lot I 1 to the jck of ef light enss and in half an hour the build extending from 1309 to 1316 1315 eight tonea ou market street was waa a mass ol 01 0 atess on the east ot of the hirsch between 1309 1809 and 1301 mr mar malding IDS KetR treet were tile the following tenants nante te alati aDf sterner ball factory A confect tl nary and the big drug diug store etore of jd the upper story or of wh which wae ficat ensi pled led by potter buiter bros as a photo 0 on the north side 0 u cruh 1 01 1 n gallery 1 ar 10 b arcs immediately silver threet stood the now new noved wry tery building of dunlap brothers tito building extended from 1806 to isio 1310 filbert street and was wae toot leet deep the first floors were occupied by collius 1 carriage co the alamea wept swept through this oure and totted it completely the small email buildings on DID silver street w which hl ch run wet west from thirteenth to juniper were all rutted gutted the shop of contractor lavil i s havens caught fire from the rear fear of blum brof and three firemen were was caught by a tailing lolling wall frank piper of engine cc company no 30 was wae the only man seriously injured at a m fire alre was waa disca discovered vered in if the he of john wanamaker Wana maketa s big dry gocha store A stream of water deom one of the water towers was run imp the burning structure but ahe apply ot of water was either too maedl or the be apparatus defective as the did not reach the flames the lower cower contained a handsome clock and chimes at 9 the entire tower lower cc col lapiad the clock falling through to the be first floor door two lines of hose wort were then gotten on the top of the gigantic structure and the flames dames which threatened to destroy philadelphian Phila delphias le most famous store were soon under control the fire bad been confined entirely to market servet front and the loss lose one BUS talked by wanamaker was principally pally la jim the destruction of the clock and chimes and the breaking of all large plate glass glaes windows on market street the root roof was waa ablaze one time and it seemed as a though the entire structure was wag doomed but the hose operated by the employee emp loyes of the big establishment kept the flames in bounds up to this time the flames had bad been confined coo fined to the bl ok ck bounded by filbert street on the north thirteenth on the seat east marset on the south anu juniper on the west the wind was blowing from the west and carried the flames right into the rear of the abe build ings on thirteenth street the first building to catch firs fire was that of jacob miller gents furnishings fit teen other shops and stores on the north thirteenth were gutted flames ate their way almost directly northwest fram the rear of blum brothen brotheren Br othere building gutting the rear of showell fryers big grocery the rear part of nos 7 to 26 25 north juniper used as an law i and private residences was completely burned out wh wb lo ie the fire was at its ito height flames were discovered on the window sashes of the abe big city hall ball the city hall ball fire department ran a line to abe root roof and in a lew few minutes had the structure free from danger the wells walls of hirsch bros factory collapsed soon after 8 the other walls walla left sta ata ding resemble huge ice bergs berge between 8 and 4 a m a fire broke out to lo the five story building occupied by 0 H bunnell wholesale stationer chestnut Obee tuut street the loss lose is shortly before 6 fire started in the big carpet store of john and james dabson chestnut St street rEsIt by oard work the ahmes were confined to the sixth story but the water soaked through to the basement thelon the loss is CHICAGO jan 26 the large train grain elevator of the he W H purcell malting company street and the belt line liine trucks tracks wea wa burned today before the fire department arrived the whole structure was enveloped to ia parnee flame the firemen were badly handicapped by the be scarcity of fire plugs and the intense cold the elevator was recently rebuilt two wo former structures having been heavily damaged aged by fire vice president estimated the loss lose at almost covered by los insurance urance ALTOONA pa jan 26 at I 1 u molook lost last night a sledding party of forty persons from tyrone drove into a quarry at pemberton six miles below that place placa bled horses sod and pleasure seekers were precipitated fifty feet to he bottom of he precipice where they lay jay in a great mass twenty persons were badly injured As soon as an the news reached tyrone a special train was wae fitted out and all doctors is in town conveyed to the place the party was mostly made up of boys and girls with arms and legs broken and blood streaming from their wounds they lay in the drifts of snow the mercury stood 8 degrees blow zero adding to the horror of ef the batas catas cat SAN BAN drego DIEGO cal jan 27 A deal has baa joe been bee a closed in this thia city which though surrounded rounded lar with the greatest grea teat secrecy ha has become known sufficiently to reveal that it Is ia of the greatest grea teat importance to san ban diego fore shadowing foreshadowing the construction of or a railway from salt gait lake prean presumably mably by the vanderbilt inte reata to afford so ao outlet for the union pacific As aa several men are connected with the deal the belief la in expressed that trane bacille steamship connection to la contemplated by the railroad promoters promoter but this to la nothing more than opposition the man who planned the deal was waa C A griscom jr of now new york fork he to la prominently connected with a trans trana atlantic steamship line ilse but in what capacity to la not known here hear rived about ton ten days day ago age and was waa met by edward B bambo of ban pran fran cisco they made a number of ef mysterious trips while staying at the brewster Bre water hogeland hotel Hot eland and gave out that they were looking for orange orchards oro harda one hundred and thirty serse acre of land were W r purchased for the nominal pricie of mr GrI scorn Is ia said to be acting as a agent for a now new york turk syn dlease in the matter he wired to now new york immediately med lately after the deal was waa closed and then arranged with the hotel proprietor for the entertainment of fifteen of hla his associates who he said laid would arrive in the city between february 11 and 15 he volunteered no further information UNIONTOWN pa jan ex in the smock mines of hurst co last night killed two binom and injured seven three of whom bom will ale the doad dead are peter houser and charles tery injured andrew Hons michael fornace Hora Hor aoe nace john augustine michael ronnie john micheli hell john gillis gillia and william gillis and son BOD augustine Augu atine ronnie kehnle and michell can not recover all the injured men were blasting coal large plows undermined by dynamite released relea aed a pocket of gas gaa and the explosion was waa caused by the open lampa SOUTH NORWALK coun cohn jan JAB 27 five men were killed this afternoon by a freight train near east norwalk fi tation it is ia supposed that while walking upon the he tracks track they topped stopped from in front of an express train rain directly in front of a fr freight elight boxen BOISE idao jan demo orata crate refused to support state senator heitfeld HeIt fold me populist nominee no milnee for united states senator today ballot Heitt heitfeld eld 26 25 dubois 27 nelson 16 15 dubois got one democratic vote naw jan 27 Abraham 1 I aikus today appeared la in the court of general session with power of attorney for herbert B seeley beeley theodore rho odore bloh and james jamea H phipps indicted yeater day on a charge of conspiring to procure indecent exposure on the part of little egypt sod and minnie baywood Ban Rqn wood who figured at a recent olona dinner at and pleaded not guilty guilly he took the he privilege of withdrawing abe plea sod and furnished ball of for each defendant idaho jan 28 henry herttell Helt HeIt tell was waa today elected united states senator to succeed dubols dubois the ballot stood heinfelt Hei 89 duboef 30 80 T F ft nelson 1 got 18 democratic votes land and I 1 republican dubols dubois got 4 democratic votes votee heinfelt Hei Heit is a farmer he represents the nl x perce county state in the senate his age to ie about 40 hit hi education to ie apparently only of a rudimentary character LONDON jan 17 A dispatch to the dally daily telegraph reis graph irom from port Lule jelan i of Maurit mauritius luo published today fur dishes par ticul cul re of the wreck brei k of the british indian troopship troop ship ehla warren Ha hastings which was wrecked off the island of reunion on thursday jan uary fth the ship it app appear earp ran ashor eat at a m it was pitch dark and torrents of rain were falling failing she bad on board soldiers and crew to the number of 1281 1231 men in addition to a number of women and children the families of we the married men ot of the military fort when the ship struck the men were ordered to retire from the upper deck to which they hau had flocked booked at the first alarm and fall all in below this they did promptly I 1 the most perfect discipline prevailing a although the men were fully conscious of the danger which they were in owing to the fact that the surfboat surf boat boal ouid not be used in lani landing ling the troops two offic tre of the warren hastings hasting were lowered arm the boat to the rocks rock and when it was found that a landing could be effected in that way the disembarkation of the a id ere era was commenced at 4 and completed at a m with the lose of only two wo native servants WANA INGTON jan 28 the weather bureau lepor reports to enow nowa as far ax southern north carolina with a maximum of eight inches in now york fork the reports ot of the weather bureau show that the cold wave reached the south atlantic states lost last night A snowstorm quite unusual in extent and degree tor for the southern stated accompanied compa nied the drop of the tempera ture tore this thin morning reports show a minimum temperature iu in south bouto and north carolina 09 georgia alabama and central and northern florida lower jower by 4 to 8 degrees thao than any previously reported during the last too ten days of january at chattanooga charlotte and atlanta it Is was wait 6 degrees above zero the minimum was 22 at jacksonville it Is in nut not expected that there will be much rise in the thermometer for several days CHICAGO jan 28 the tempera ture tare still bahige close to the zero mark one result of the relief work accomplished by the police has baa been the great decrease deore aee in crime the police and mayor swift believe that by the tha prompt relief afforded the be thousands ot of destitute famili families evs the city cily has haa been saved from broad bread riot among the large to the relief fund to la one ot of 2000 by the astern union telegraph company to date sm am to over in cash and hundreds of tons tone oi 02 coal boal and provisions washington jan 28 the IS banate binate committee on interstate commerce to day cloy heard board arguments upon the bill introduced by senator cullom to mend amend the interstate commerce act so ao BB as to prevent ticket scalping oal ping george M mckenzie Mc Kenzle la in hia big opening argument against the measure said the bill was not in the tb interest of commerce he denied that the ticket broker brokerage axe business was wae founded upon fraud he said there were men to in one as association mild and in another he claimed that brokers were necessary to the weaker lines which could not got get any business under the traffic ag agre nemette meite gull cull m risked asked if the brokers broker sl business did not dot violate the interstate comme commerce ref law in allowing discrimination against a large portion of the publio public and assist the roads to violate the law when they desired Je sired McK EZle replied he be thought though his bli business busi nees prevented discrimination asked aked A ked as to fraudulent tickets be said no frauds had been traced to the be door of the associations replying to a question by cullum cullom he be said the law should first be changed by provid providing log a a amil slon of the go govern verri ment to fix all rates he estimated that bat brokers broketa were doing twenty per cent of the 0 business most mosi ot of which was done by prearrange pre pro arrange ment with the om 0 mpa panier niep pepe pep pe pe e traveled under assumed names but with the consent of the compa companies niep before the ticket brokerage was de do something else must take its place E 0 caldwell chairman of the western passenger association spoke briefly in reply to moke zip al cala well denied many statements made by mckenz e LONDON jan 28 A dispatch from mad madrid rid says lays lieutenant general Aze oarra carra the spanish minister of war will be appointed governor general of cuba cub but wayler will betalu command of the military CHICAGO jan 29 brevet mal major or general john JE smith retired died today aged 80 he won was born at berne berce switzerland 1816 during the civil war he be was colonel of the lead mine regiment illinois Illino ic it father served under napoleon through the russian campaign and at water loo PORTLAND ore jan 29 the T train which left sn san francisco on wednesday due here this morning was held bold up two miles west of reseburg Bj Ri agu early this morning A soon as possible fireman hendrick slipped out of the tb a engine raju to roseburg Bo and gave the alarm armin arming 9 himself he started back to the scene of trouble bupt fields of the southern pacific road who was waa at Bo took a posse cow slating of a dozen armed men and ao an engine to the scene heavy explosions of dynamite or powder were distinctly heard at buee arse burr burg fireman hendrick loke stated that the train was wag first flagged toy by tile the highwaymen the exirena exire aa car was waa looted and burned and the safe eafe alwn opeo open no one was hurt the highwaymen escaped washington ja chief H zen zed of tile the secret service has bae received trie following telegram irom from abent porter chicago joho john A was arre arrestor last night by policemen emen McDO mcdondald Mo Donald DAld and rogers for offering one new coun conn fernett twenty dollar silver certificate and he bad faur in his hie possession he refused to give the police any information whatever he was turned over to the united states this morning |
