Show an early morning blaze the store stored of john ballantyne formerly ballantyne brown on two twenty uty second street was wait almost almos t ent entirely fr destroyed by fire yesterday morning the alarm came in from box 13 corner of washington and twenty third streets at 4 and the departments made splendid runs taming turning out in an unusually short time bat but the store and contents appeared to be doomed and the firemen devoted all their time in in preventing the spreading of the fl flao aes considerable merchandise was saved through the good work the building was insured for 1500 and the stock for the origin of the fire Is unknown but mr ballantyne found his safe open and is of the opinion that the tile blaze was the work of a burglar and in cen diary in order to show hia his appreciation of the noble efforts of the chief and bia his men sir mr ballantyne present presented edthe the department with a 10 bill |