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Show GREAT LOSSES IN CITY OFHALIFAX HALIFAX, N. S., Dec. 6, via SL Johns. The fire was brought under control this afternoon. Richmond is destroyed. Several hundred persons have been killed and tho wounded number thousands. Not a house in the city escaped damage. Pieces of iron and shrapnel have been found three miles from tho water front. oo The price of the principal articles of food, collectively, advanced 31 per cent from August 15. last year, to August 15, this year, says the federal bureau of labor statistics ln Its latest report |