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Show oo BRUSH ID FEffiE FI ITU CITY The motor pumping engine of the city fire department wns put into use this morning to extinguish a brush and fence fire on Grant avenue, betweeu Seventh and Eighth streets. Owing to the width of the line of flames, nearly three hours of pumping was required before the fire was finally subdued. The property belonged to William Read and was damaged to the probable extent of ?50. The fire department also extinguished extin-guished a grass fire at 2755 Jefferson nvenue this morning. oo London, July 27, 0:22 a. m. Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Otto parschhau, recently given the decoration of Pour le Merlte for bringing bring-ing down his eighth enemy aeroplane, has been killed in an air battle, according ac-cording to a Reuter's Amsterdam despatch des-patch which quotes the Frankfurter Zeitung, |