Show AS FIRE brevier williams have a larrow escape from losing platt brewer williams the grocers on washington apenae came bear having a fire yesterday morning when alwy opened their store at an early hour they ft ere almost suffocated by ali smell of coal oil and smoke it vas found that a window on the south side of the building opening from a I 1 rear boim of the had been badly burned and the i reason for the preventing a fire was that the snow water and the rain from the root dripped deisn and drowned the fire there waa a large tin coal oil tank standing at the rear of the building under a fraed and the vessel of an old braad lamp which has been on top of it for some time the old lamp vessel was found under the win don and the fact that the window sill and sash were cloaked with coal oil leads to the belief that the brass trap had been dipped iuta the oil tank filled and carried to to the window one pane of glass was taken out so that the fire readily reach the inside of the building A police officer gives it as his opinion thai this and other farea have been plaited by bos there is tic arcely any probability that men would do this work for there la not incentive tor the deeds |