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Show UQUORSTILf BLAMED FOR FIRE I Arrest and Seizure of Rum-making Rum-making Supplies Follows Conflagration j ,' A too hot fire undT the boiler of a j still is alleged to have caused a fire 1 nhlch began at 8:16 o'clock last night and partially destroyed, a hoiii' at 1026 Twenty-fourth street, owned hy j tho estate of Tr. C. P. Osgood, and occupied ly James Miles. The house :i Is of frame construction and consists kii (j!, of two and one-half stories. According to Fir Chief fJeorge Graves, nn oerheated still ignlt'-d the Inner lining of the wall In a room on i, j the second floor where the still was ! : ' V installed The lire spread up the wall f .r ' to the attic before it was discovered : and Ignited the Interior before it could 151,1' be located from the outside. Wfi Four si renins were used by the fire- ! men to ntr.il the fire and prevent II communicating to adjoining buildings j'l able part ( the roof were burned by jj , n the fire. Damage to the house is Bfltl- 'j f ;i, mated at Jiooo which is covered by jjj", insurance. ( After an Investigation pf the fire. ( the police dismantled the 40-gallon jj ;J ! still and removed It to the police sta ll confiscated five sacks of sugar, about ;j ' six gallons of distilled Mouor and ap- , ' j1 proximately .'( gallons of mash and ! , ! arrested a man wltb gwve his name os jjl j John Henry on a charge of having liquor in his possession. I,'; ' The distilling Installation was very complete, said Captain Robert Burk, who conducted the Investigation. The brick-lined boiler was located on the : . eond floor: to the outlet of the con- jj.'i denser was ion meted 25 or 30 feet of garden hose which conducted tno vapor through the wall to the bath j room, where it was cooled and talo-n I off. The mash which was kept Intev- ! I eral large barrels was stored in I he II I 1 attic. |