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Show A LEAP FOR LIFE. Man and Wife Jump From A High Window. R AWLINS STILL AT WORK His Last Bill Introduced is to Restore Rsservoir Sites to the Publio Domain Uetectives After Defaulter Taylor-Other Taylor-Other Interesting: Items of News. Toeonto, Ont., Jan. 10. A few miDutes before 7 o'clock this evening a blaze was noticed in Osgood's publishing publish-ing company, next to the establishment which was destroyed last Sunday. In the top Hat was the care taker, named Cavan, and his wife, Elizabeth, who was suflerin? from nervous prostration, the result of Sunday's fire. All means of escape by the stairway were cut off and there was not time to wait for I he fire escape. So a number of blankets and mattresses were held by the people peo-ple below and the frightened occupants of the upper story were told to leap for their lives. The care taker's wife jumped fir6t and fell into amaBS of telegraph wires, rolled over and was caught in a blanket, and last of all the care taker made the desperatu jump and he was also caught. They were taken to St. Michael's hospital. They are all terribly injured, but the doc-ters doc-ters think there is a chanc 3 of their recovery. The flames ate through the block south to Wellington street, burning the establishment of Daunett & com- Eacy. Next the Corticelli silk war"-ouse war"-ouse was censumed. K. H. Gray, white underwear; Bretherton & company, com-pany, manufacturers' agents; RoBBieu& company, wholesale clothing; R. Darling, Darl-ing, wholesale woolens, were next. The flameB then darted acrcss the etree to the south Bide of Wellington and destroyed Harland and Riddle's printing establishment and badly scorched Wylde Grassett'a company drug house. At this time it was feared the whole southern portion cf the city would be destroyed and telegrams were sent to Hamilton. AVhitby and Kingston asking ask-ing for. assistance, but betore thf-y started the request was countermanded as a deluging rain storm set in and prevented pre-vented the flames from spreading. The loss is estimated at $375,000. - AFTER TAYLOR. Chicago, 111., Jan. 10. Five of the shrewdest detectives in the service ol the city were tonight started r-n a trail, giving tha promise of leading to the hiding place, probably in Chicago, of W. W. Taylor, ex-treasurer of South Dakota, who has absconded leaving a shortage in his accounts of $350,000. . RAWLINS STILL AT IT. Washington, D, C, Jan. 10. Delegate Dele-gate Rawlins today introduced another an-other bill.. This one is designed to correct an injustice done western states by holding back flora entry reservoir sites selected years ago by the government. gov-ernment. At the time of selecting it was proposed that the government should proceed to reclaim the arid lands, but later the idea was abandoned, aban-doned, and the law authorizing the selection se-lection of sites was repealed. The repealing re-pealing bill, however, contained a proviso, pro-viso, that the Bites aiready selected should not be transfer! ed to the public domain. Those sites are numerous, and their reservation denou6ly retards pro gress in the arid land states., Rawlins and other western members, will endeavor en-deavor to have this bill included in some appropriation bill. The secretary of the interior has af-fimed af-fimed the decision of the commissioner-general commissioner-general of the land office in the appeal of John Cook from the rejection of bis application for homestead entry in Old Fort Crittenden military reserve. Utah pensions Ann Slater, Slater-ville. Slater-ville. UTAH JUDGES CONFIRMED. Washington, D. C, Jan. 10. The senate todaj in executive session confirmed con-firmed the following nominations: Joseph Charles Thompson, surveyor-general surveyor-general of Wyoming. Humphrey 13. Hamilton, associate justice of the supreme court of New Mexico. Joseph Judd, judge of probate in the county of Sanpete, Utah. L. M. Olson, judga of probate in the county of Carbon, Utah. BODD DECLARED ELECTED. Sackamento, Cal., Jan. 10. Both senate and assembly ibis morning unanimously un-animously adoptjd a current resolution resolu-tion fixing noon tomorrow for the inauguration in-auguration of Governor-Elect Buid. Resolutions were introduced petitioning petition-ing congress for two appropriations of $100 00 each for the Improvement of the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers, in the afternoon Lieutenant-Governor Reddick called the joint assembly to order. The vote by counties for governor gov-ernor was read without objection, Bhowing ;Budd's plurality to be 1200. Budd was then declared elected amid loud cheers. The inauguration ceremonies cere-monies tomorrow will be preceded by a military parade which will bo reviewed by the governor-elect. It is now proposed pro-posed that Lieutenant-Governor-Elect Millard, who i3 still ill at his home in L09 Angeles, shall be sworn in at noon tomorrow by telephone from the assembly assem-bly chamber. At the republican caucus tonight 47 out of 87 members declared for George A. Perkins for United States senator, Tbid does not insure his election, however. |