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Show A Fire Alarm at the Richards. The old saying, "Where there is smoke there must be fire," was disproved this morning a few minutes before 12 o'clock, when the fire bell pealed an alarm which brought to Peacock's saloon, on Second. South street, the fire brigade in short order. The black steed and hose cart came down the street at a tremendous rate, followed by every piece of apparatus in the department. Although there was no fire, the boys may be complimented on "getting there" in good shape this morning. The alarm was caused by a defective flue in the Richards house, above Peacock's Pea-cock's saloon. Schmeltzer had made a fire in a new cooking range in the saloon, the smoke from which, on account of the defective flue, filled one of the parlors of the house mentioned, and the "girls," fearful of being burned up, telephoned the department that the place was on fire. No damage was done. |