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Show BURNED UP ALIVE: Three Inmates of the Montana Insane Asylum Perish in the Flames Yesterday. Two Hundred Peigans on a Foraging Expedition in Southern Montana. A Four-Story Chicago Shell Collapses, hut Fortunately No Lives Are Lost. A Montana Asylum Horror. Helena, September 30. A special from Warm Springs says: One of the buildings of the insane asylum burned yesterday, and three inmates perished in the flames. It is not known how the fire originated. Piegans on a Thieving Trip. , Omaha, September 30 Information has been received at military headquarters that 200 of the Piegan Indians have left their reservation in the far Northwest, and are now on a thieving expedition in southern Montana, about twenty miles from Fort Smith. A Chicago Four-Story Collapses. . ; Chicago, September 30. The four-story brick building in the rear of 196 and 198 South Clark street, collapsed at 2:30 o'clock' this morning. The basement was used as a working part of a bakery, and several employes em-ployes engaged there had a narrow escape. The loss is estimated at $50,000. The supports sup-ports throughout the entire building were wooden, and it was ascertained that the collapse col-lapse was caused by dry rot in the timber. It had given no evidence of its weakness until its collapse. J A Tenement Block in Blazes. Minneapolis, Minn., September 30. A fire late last night destroyed one-third of the tenement block on Court Place, Fifteenth street, and a portion of Neill's tenement row, on the opposite Bide of the street. Seven families were rendered homeless. Loss, $50,C0D; partially insured. A Well-merited Hanging. Columbus, Ohio, September 29. Patrick Hartnett, the Cincinnati wife-murderer, was hung at the Ohio penitentiary this morning.-The morning.-The drop fell at 25 minutes after 1, and he was pronounced dead half a minute later. The fall resulted in almost total decapitation, decapita-tion, the head hanging to the body by only a small strip of skin at the back of the neck. Tha scene was a most sickening one, and it was with great difficulty that the executioners execution-ers summoned courage to take the body down. Hartnett killed his wife in January, 1884, at Mount Auburn, a suburb of Cincinnati. Cincin-nati. Early on the morning of the deed, when she arose, he ordered her back to bed, and charged her with unfaithfulness, which she denied. He secured an axe, made his wife get on her kness and say her prayers and kiss the floor, when he struck her two fatal blows with the axe, one crushing her skull, in view of her five children. The officers offi-cers found Hartnett danoing a jig and playing play-ing a jews harp around the body. A Big Trunk Factory Destroyed. Cincinnati, September 30. The six-story brick building at Race and Commerce streets, used as a trunk and box factory by Mendel & Rosenberger, burned this morning. morn-ing. Loss, $45,CD0. One hundred and twenty employes will be thrown out of work. |