REDUCED TO ASHES.
SPOKANE FALLS, WASHINGTON TER-
RITORY, VISITED BY FIRE.
TWENTY FIVE BLOCKS AND THE PUBL-
LIC BUILDINGS DESTROYED.
SPOKANE FaLLs, W. T., Aug. 6th,
—~Twenty-five blocks were reduced to
ashes, The estimated loss 13 $14,000,-
OU.
Owing to a lack of water the fre
quickly spread, and was soon beyond
control, and i§ was evident the city was
doomed. The flames spread with fear-
ful rapidity, The firemen were power-
less. Attempts were made to check
the fire by blowing up bulldings in its
path, but it was useless. From the
Pacitic Hotel the fire swept across First
street to the frame buildings in the
next block, and soon reached the heart
of the city, The block of two-story
brick buildings on Riverside avenue
was easily carried away.
From here the fire communicated to
the magnificent Hyde block, a four-
story building, tsking in the whole
square between Mill
streets, on Riverside avenue,
next leaped across Howard street, and
in a few minutes the block between
Howard and Stevens street was a nass
of red hot ashes. The next structure
conflagration
the solid block of
buildings, including
the post-office, between Stevens and
Washington streets. At this point the
fire burned out from lack of material.
From the place of origin the fire bad,
meanwhile, taken auvother
leaping across Sprague street to the
opera house and thence over Riverside
avenue to Brown’s Bank; then both
sides of the avenue were in tlames.
The buildings between Post and Mill
streets were quickly licked up, includ-
ing the Grand Hotel. From here the
waves of a flame poured in the adjoln-
ing square on the right, containing the
Frankfort block, the largest building
in the city. The Frankfort cost $250,
800,
time, but finally disappeared.
The Arlington Hotel was now en-
veloped in flames. Suddenly a man
was seen to jump from the second
story. He arose and started to run
down Howard street, bul was overcome
by the heat and fell. Several people
rushed to his assistance and carried
him to a place of safety. He wasa
pitiable sight, having been literally
roasted
over his body.
pame was Chas,
noon to-day.
Northward was the direction taken
by the fire from the Arlington. 1t
covsumed the block between Howard,
Main, Front and Stevens streets,
burning east as far as the latter
thoroughfare, when a vacant lot
checked further progress in that direc-
tion. Everything In a northerly direc-
tion, including the Northern Pacific
Express office, the Union block and the
Windsor Hotel was soon & mass of
lame,
The river prevented the fire from
doing further damage, and was the
means of saving all the big flouring
and Jumber mills. Three hours
From these the
whirling through
four-story brick
The unfortunate man’s
Davis. He died at
which was saved by means of tearing
down intervening buildings.
the fire spread scarcely anything was
waved, Provisions are scarce, and will
last only a short time.
The business district of Spokane was
in a strip between the North Pacific
Railroad tracks and the Spokane river.
extended about seven squares in length.
It was solidly built up with brick and
stone structures, the cost of which
varied from $25,000 to $125,000. Ten
banking bouses, five botels, the opera
house and many wholesale establish-
ments, doing a business estimated at
half a million dollars each, were situated
within the district described. The
population of the city is about 20,000.
The city possessed an excellent water
works, modelled after the Holly sys-
tem, with a capacity of 9,000,000 gal-
lons gaily. There were no fire engines,
but by the system in use five or six
good sized streams of water could be
concentrated upcn any block in case of
fire. 1he fire department was a vol-
unteer one.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
~—Madison, Ind., was the scene of
two tragedies on the evening of the
5th. William Johnson fired at Miss
Sadie Athey, because she refused to
marry him, but fortunately missed her,
and then, thinking he had killed her,
blew his own brains out, Richard
Sisco was shot ana killed by George
Schlick. The latter wounded several
others and cut the throat of and dan-
gerously wounded Walter Sisco, who
tried to arrest him. At Ensley City,
Alabama, on the evening of the 5th,
Andy Williams went home and, find-
ing William McCutcheon with his wife,
killed them both with a revolver. At
Princeton, Ky., on the evening of the
Sth, John Hutchins shot and fatally
wounded George and Albert Lewis,
brothers. A stray shot by Hutchins
also ratally wounded Frank Dunn. All
the men were farmers, and the shoot«
ing was the result of an old feud. As
the close of a colored barbers’ picnle
at Island Park, near Chicago, on the
5th, Colonel Duncan shot and killed
Ed. Bennett, because he thought he
had insulted Mrs, Duncan. Beunett’s
friends pursued Duncan and riddled
him with bullets, besides eutting and
kicking the prostrate body. Duncan
died during the night.
—Benjamin Erb, a farmer, of Coits.
ville, Ohio, was instantly killed on the
bth, by the accidental discharge of agun
with which he was about to go squirrel
The weapon was discharged
Erb’s two-year-old son, who wus
bidding Is father I-by. Mrs,
Christina Warfel, of J ville, Ind.
was fata burned on the evening of
the Oth an explesion of coal oil
| with which she was starting a fire, A
freight train on the Western New
York and Pennsylvania Rallroad ran
into a construction train at Eidred,
Pa., on the 6th, and injured three
Italian laborers, one fatally, besides
causing a bad wreck, A freight train
and two locomotives on the Omaba
and Republican Valley branch cf the
Union Pacific Rallway, near Weston,
Neb., went through a bridge which
had been weakened by the heavy rain.
Engineer Mitchell and Yard Master
Conklin were fatally injured, and three
other train men were badly hurt.
—A staging on which were four men
at work on a building on Freemont
street, Boston, fell 70 feet to the
ground on the afternoon of the 6th,
Patrick E. White and Steve Wallace
were killed, and Patrick Connolly and
Michael Wallace severely injured. The
accident was caused by the breaking of
a rope. John Steele and George Kemly,
of Conshohocken, fell from the Penn-
sylvania bridge at Stickler, FPa., early
on the morning of the 6th, and sus-
tained fatal injuries. Phillp Dough.
erty, an engineer, was killed at Dech-
telsville, Derks county, Fa. on the
6th, being caught In belting and drawn
between two massive rollers, Thomas
A. Edison’s new invention, an iron ore
separator, was being tested, Ollie
Martin and Maud Saylors, a betrothed
couple, of Brownsyille, Ind, were
drowned on the evening of the 4th,
river, with a horse and buggy.
| —A despatch from Utica, N. Y.,
{says that hop vines of thal vicinity
| have been seriously injured by the
| blight, and that in many of the late
| varieties the crop will not pay for
| picking.
—A telegram from Geneva, New
| York, says that Professor Brooks ob-
i served bis new comet on the morning
i of the 6th, and found 1t much brighter
| and the tall longer. While observing
i it a brilliant telescopic meteor passed
| directly over the head of the comet,
| leaving a fine trail of sparks, lasting
| several seconds. The comet's position
now 18 right ascension, 0 hours, © min-
utes, 20 seconds, declination south, 6
{ degrees, 4% minutes,
— Harry Moyer on the evening of the
| 5th shot and killed James McCormack,
who entered his tent at Johnstown,
| Penna., and began to abuse him,
| Mover is from Norristown, and Mec-
{ Cormack, who was a tramp, was {rom
Philadelphia. At Harlan Court House,
Kentucky, on the 5th, an old feud be.
tween the Turners and the Sowders
| Howard faction was revived, by several
| of the Howards demanding of young
“Jim?' Turner that he leave the State,
Turner refused, and one of the How-
ards shot him dead.
—A heavy storm of wind, rain, ball
and thunder passed over the northern
section of Rockbridge county, Vir
ginla, on the evening cf the 5th, doing
great damage, The wheat and grass
crops have been almost totally de-
| stroyed by the continuous rains. A
| tornado passed over Kansas City, Mo.
on the morning of the Oth, but did
little damage in the city. It was fol
lowed by a severe electrical storm and
by torrents of rain,
—Two explosions occurred on the
| Tth at Kensington Gardens, Lous,
where the ‘‘Siege of Sebastopol” Is
| beiog produced. While Richard Light.
in
id
-t
! per and John Smith were making rock-
ets or “Hower pots,” to be used in the
( pyrotechnic display, a small explosion
took place, and Lightner was burned
{ about the face, neck and hands A
moment later some chemicals used in
making the rockets exploded, and one
end of the little building, In which the
men worked, was blown out, and John
| Smith was badly, perhaps fatally,
| burned, William Hartley and a man
| named Mahler were sleaping in a barn
at Sterling, Nebraska, on the Tth when
| it was struck by lightning and set on
| fire, Hartley was burned to death and
| Mabler only escaped after being ter-
ribly burned.
— An explosion of naphtha occurred
at East Buffalo, on the afternoon of
the 7th, on the steam yacht Cedar
Ridge, which was about to start on a
pleesure trip down the river. Edith
and Larpey Crocker were burned to
death, Howard Crocker was drowned,
and John Rubenstein, a carpenter, was
burned to death by bis boat house
| taken fire from the yacht. Three other
persons were injured. Two trains on
the Richmond and Allegheny Railroad
collided near Scottsville, Virginia,
on the morning of the 7th. Both en-
gines and about 15 empty coal cars
were smashed, and James D, Daval, a
train man, was killed. T1'wo trains
collided at Washington, Penna,, on
the evening of the Tth. Rev. J. D.
Shanks, of Philadelphia, and a lady
passenger were painfully but not dan-
gerously injured.
~-A heavy rain fell in the country
around Washington during the even-
ing of the 6th. Great damage was
done in Virginia, especially along the
Washington and Ohio Railroad. There
is one bad washont between Falls
Church and Torrisons, Virginia, about
300 feet in extent, and a bridge between
Falls Church and West End was also
damaged. No trains passed these
points on the 7th, and the clerks in the
Executive Department and others who
do business in Washington and live at
the villages along the road were unable
to reach the city except by means of
carriages. All the streams In Virgina
are greatly swollen, and much damage
has been done to crops by overflows,
—J. Frank Collom, a young attorney
of Minneapolis, has confessed to tle
forgery of the name of John T, Blals-
dell, whose attorney he was, to notes
and other paper amounting to $227,000,
«A report comes from Denver, Colo-
rado, that the Rio Grande Western
train, known as the Modoc, was *‘held
up” by train robbers near Crevasse on
the evening of the 6th, They forced
the fireman to attempt to chop through
the door of the express car but, as he
was unable to force the boller iron
door, they gave it up, and went through
the train with drawn revolvers and
collected $900 and twenty watches.
~ Francis Lyshen, 79 years of age,
was run over and killed by cars in the
Stanton mine, at Wilkesbarre, on the
—John Richter and Adolph Whit.
man, butchers, quarrelled at the stock
yard in Chicago, on the 7th, and
Richter plunged his knife into Whit-
man’s heart, killing him instantly.
John McCann, a teamster, was shot
in Chicago, on the 6th, by his stepson,
James Dolan, receiving injuries of
which he died on the Tth,
—A freight wreck on the Nickle.
plate road at South Whitley, Ind., on
the 8th, resulted from the breaking of
couplings and the subsequent collision
of the sections, John Randall and
Thomas Foyle, who were stealing
rides, were killed, Arthur Thomas,
aged 18, fell
drowned in the Aarlem river, at New
York, on the 8th, Frederick Wurtz
was drowned while bathing in the East
river, and Joseph M, Ouilet while
bathing at Bay Ridge. Eugene Dearn
and a friend, whose
ascertained, were drowned in the bay
at San Diego, California, on the 7th, by
the capsizing of their boat. A 32-
pound cannon loaded with ball was
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WILLIE LEE.
His name was Willie Lee, but no one
thought of ealling him Willie except his
sister, Willie was poor and homely.
His hair was what might be called a
blue white, his eyes were pale and with-
ont expression, and he was altogether a
very Nain person. He and ;
Maury had a little house in the outskirts
of the city near the car barns. His close
what led him to think he would become
a car conductor. At any rate, he did
be weeding in her little garden beside
by parties who did not know
vall out of the breech, The missile
passed through several walls and killed
James Cosman.
—The Wisconsin Central passenger
train from Chicago on the morning of
the Sth, was *‘neld up and robbed,”
pass and say to herself: _
“Now, don't he just look fine with
those blue elothes and brass buttons?”
out the sickly
face and made his sleepy ayes dimmer,
To her he handsome and the
form made him handsomer.
partial to uniforms. There was a police
Was
would go out to watch for
Willie's car going by on its last trip the
she
ord, by one man, The robber entered
one of the sleeping cars and relieved
the porter, conductor and one passenger,
of their valuables. The porter tried to
arouse the passengers, but a shot from
the robber quieted him, though he was
not hit. The fellow pulled the bell
rope, and when the train stopped he
jumped off and escaped. While a
camp meeting was in progress at Wil-
low Branch, on the Red river, north of
Bonham, Texas, a party of men rode
up and began firing into the congrega-
tion. A panic foilowed, and some of
the men in the congregation returned
the fire. Fora while a regular battle
ensued, The cause of the attack is not
known. The preacher finished his
sermon strongly guarded.
—{(3, P. Brown, of the embarrassed
firm of Brown, Steese & Clark, of Bos-
ton, and treasurer of the Riverside and
Oswego Mills Company, left Boston on
the evening of the 6th, since which
time nothing has been heard of him,
Sheriff E. CC. Swain, Paulding
county, Ohlo, has been found to be
short in his accounts to the amount of
over $2000. His bondsman asked to
be released, but Swaln resigned, John
W. Hardee, for five years a probate
Judge of Towner county, Dakota, has
disappeared, leaving a large indebled-
ness, and a warrant has been Issued
for his arrest. John I. Gale, lately
clerk In the post office at Plimpton,
Ohio, was arrested at Canton, in thal
of
the gate and she would tell him what
good 57 'y Willie was
The men at the barns did ne
much about Willie,
gatherings in the office s
and sung and danced and
others dad
his name,
Car vas aly HYS OL
his
thelr
the registered mail,
—The finding of the dead bodies of
“Ollie” Jones, his wife and two other
persons, all of whom had been shot in
the back, was reported on the 7th from
Corvallis, a small town in the Bitter
Root valley, in Western Montana. A
young girl who had been shot in the
hip was also found in Big Hole Moun-
tain. Jones had only bees married
ranch,
—A Chicago despatch says that there
have been from 150 to 175 cases of
typhoid fever on Cottage Grove avenue,
between Thirty-ffth and Forty-sixth
streets, that city. The epidemic is al.
tributed to the pollution of the city
water, caused by the recent heavy rains
carrying the sewerage out to the source
of supply in the lake. Thus far the
cases reported have been of a mild type.
— Mail advices from Japan, received
in San Francisco, say that about 100
persons were drowned and 12.000
houses washed away, and about 2500
aged in four of the seven cantons,
which suffered most from the overflow -
ing of the river Chikugo, in Fukuo-
kaken, by the recent heavy rains,
Relief funds have been slarted
various parts of the Empire,
out of the ruins pear the lower end of
Johnstown,
girl, and was found in the middle of
Market street,
~Itich deposits of peiroleum have
beer: discovered in Tabasco, Mexico,
Valuble coal mines have been found iu
the State of Guerrero,
Steve Brodie jumped from & bridge
80 feet in height over the Pawtucket
of the 8th, and, although he struck on
to the shore,
AI ISA 5
able to swim
turf will learn with regret of the death
of J. H.
horse goods house of J. H., Fenton in
Chicago.
~1t is proposed by Mr. P. Lorillard
and a few others to inclose Jerome
Park with glass, light it with electric-
itn, and use it for winter raging at
night. The scheme is believed to be
feasible, and estimates and plans have
been contracted for, It may be made
the Interest of the American Jockey
Club to carry out the project. The ex-
tension of the elevated railroad, the
Harlem turn-out, will carry people to
the grounds from the centre of the city
in thirty minutes,
No one has such a need of varied
knowledge and accomplishments as a
wife and mother, A mother ought to
keep growing mentally-—she is expect.
ed, by her children, to be a perfect en-
eyclopedia to draw from, She who
gives up her reading and interest in liv-
ing questions of the day loses half her
proper self,
A MopeErN INSTANCE. ‘Madam,
are Jou a woman suffragist?"’
“No, sir; I haven't time to be.”
“Aaven't time! Well, if you had
the privilege of voting whom would
you support?’’
“I'he same man I have supported for
the last ten years,”
“And who is that?”
‘My husband. ’’
hi
dead, OO! 1s
¢ i, Al i
4 3
“
4 1%
i A158
beside him ok
brushed the damp bair back from his
forehead
“No, he ig not de ad, said ap Mitbeman,
P liceman, happened for
so where he was needed
here. We will carry
They picked him
who
once tu ’
overcome with
fainted had not
“Toddic” been there to assure her that
was all right, “only hurt a
cottage. Ws
Mary
bit.”
The next day the voung lady whom
Willie had saved came down in her car-
riage to see how he was, She swept in
through Mary's little kitchen like a
queen, and Rachel, who was sitting on
the step of the back door, looked at her
in amazement; at the long sealskin cloak
and the diamonds in her ears. “My
ain’t she grand?” she said to herself. “I
wonder if Willie knew her before? I
wonder if he would have jumped right
in front of two great big horses and a
car if I had been in her place?” Jealous
little Rachel! Of course he would have
done it just the same had the person
been the lowest of the lowly.
Day after Helen Carpenter came
to inquire after ‘the brave fellow,” as
she called him, and when he began to
got better she brought him flowers and
ot house fruit os all sorts of things
that he could not eat, and would not
have dared to had ho wanted them. She
brought him books, and read to
him by the hour stuff that he did not
heay. He did not care for books, but
he liked to look at her as she sat by his
bedside reading. He liked to hear the
tone of her voice and smell the perfume
of the violets she al wore, and after
a while her daily t was what he
lived for and looked forward so When
t grew warmer he began
the window in an easy chais ar
sent from her own hosue, and she would |
come and sit on a stool at his feet and
| talk with him sbout herself and her
| daily life until she made him her abject
i slave and he loved her with a love that
| only such people have who have never
i loved before.
| She was the light of his life and be
| forgot that he was poor and homely, a
{ thing he had never forgotten before,
| that she was as high above him as the
| heavens are above the earth. When
he held her little jeweled hand in his
{ as she sometimes allowed him to dq, he
| would have been willing to have Ried
| for her a thousand times over.
| Rachel was entirely forgotten. She
| would eome in sometimes to see him,
{ but he would always be sleepy or watoh-
{ing for Helen and would not talk to
| her, One day Mary sw her eyes filled
with tears, and she put her arm around
“Don't ery, Rachel; he will se
{ the light by and by,” said, and
Rachel broke down and sobbed, *‘1
used to think cared for
, but he
i don't now,
her
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144 Hd
One day Mary said to him, “Willie,
don't thin) you rest
but he neve
si ]
! man had take:
tendent sed
Rachel just
her, Willie
Another
superin-
at lib rty to go
able. The
r Wille
sed ham
inst year over
snr tin
hi
whan ho
in a hurry {
will Mary had promi
f wdship begun
terminate In a
Wis
1
MOK any time WH
woliseman, too, Was
5 ret
Lint the
vl been scan
Ts dire
is bride
i KDew
ppened, and
sil about it that even
ved Willie, of course,
had treated Rachel
- ) be al
aght inal
and placed then on
wire ViOiets
HOTA) Te 1
ANODE
res nd him of her
of evening Rachel her
it paused a moment at
bie p, and as
his eyes were ( losed she concluded that
sat down on the low stool
face was partially turned
i Pe ned his eves
was, She
Aas ner
vor thought
she sat be-
he noted
, her white
i AR
in her place,”
“Wenld she ever
minke me love her and
ly told me she was going
Yes, I suppose she
them ’
Rachel was thinking over her life, and
| by some strange, unexplainable mes
meric sympathy Willie's mind went
back over the past too. What a friend
| she had always been to him and Mary,
and how bravely she had fought her
own battle of life thus far. “She is a
| noble little woman,” he said to himself,
| “and I wish I was worthy of her.” Then
; the clock struck and Rachel started up.
| She drew a half sighing breath, punsed
{ # moment, then stooped over him and
{ lightly touched her lips with his. Be-
fore he was aware what he was doing he
nad passed his arm around her neck and
pressed her head to his breast. “Do you
then love me, little Rachel?”
They say loye is eloquent by whom-
ever spoken, and Willie was certainly
eloquent. The love that wasshut up in
his wn all turned and told itself seem-
ingly without his aid to Rachel, and
when Mary came in she found them sit-
ting hand in hand, a new sweet light in
their faces.
When the June roses blossom there
will be a double wedding in the little
cottage and ‘“Teddie” and Willie will
both be happy: Willie has gone back
to his oar. He says he likes the road
and likes the work, and blesses the day
that good fortune came to him thro
misfortune. — Katherine Hartman in
Dansville Advertise
every one of
Take a few Laets, parsnips and car
rots, cut away the others, leaving a
space around each, and allow them to
remain for seed.
~The veleran tralver and driver,
isaac Woodruff, has left Point Breeze
track and gone to live with a friend on
a stock farm at Kent county,
Md,, pbout a from Balti-
FASHION NOTES.
What are $:¢ facts and probabilities
in regard to these very plain and
scanty dresses? It is not that the ex-
aggeration of style willsoon lead to very
different fashions.
Twenty years after erinoline became
pronounced very straight dresses were
worn. Bo to-day after the exaggerated
“Yournure” a return is made to scanty
costumes, Some ptill cling to two
double springs and a small cushi
there are others who will have
and dress themselves closely
parasols, :
Fashion truly resembles
captain who persues his terrible
without care for the vietims
about him. In the same manner fashion
pursues y without regard for the
nda that # suddenly stops, What
of wll
§ »
Lil
3
who
stries
3
become of these tourngres
, these springs of which so u
made and which fashion suddenly
discards without athonght? Never mind,
it is not our business to say
things that have disappeared
wil oor
Was
adien to
but t
4
Let
new
¢ the coming of the new
us prais the grace of our
costumes their straight skis
round of a style somew
girange
then
with
) y charming
draperies oidered
black lace are the most appreved trix
Ther
ementeries made
guipure
ming for these new forms
Ike
falling
knots of velvet ribbon,
n was used for strings. We
ised a sketeh of the jacket ¢ Jondi-
ruiere” which 1s very bi
Very i ¥ one is In grass
embral fered with black
sleeves are of “faille’
fashionable
green Ciosi
braid,
and the collar
1 There are other models entire
cloth
vered with braid others areelaborate-
d and still others are sim-
Whatever may be the
rm is always the same,
v sleeves
velve
Ivy of with sleeves completely
™§
he fo
ng fronts and
and very high.
We have also seen
very full
a costume of Nile
bloe Bengaline simply trimmed with a
scarf of lace . this Passes around the bot-
tom of the waist and ends in two long
pieces finished with passementeric Lac
scarfs that are gracefully ealled Marie
Antoinette are the mostelegant mantles
f the th ¥ are arrange a n
many different ways as fancy or caprice
may dictate. Sometimes as the scarf of
“Mongieur le Maire” such as we have
first described, falling in two long ends,
which relieves the plainness of a round
skirt. Sometimes it is as a scarf neglig
ently thrown over the waist which ad-
mirably solves the problem of every
summer, of weéaring something about
the waist without the trouble of a heavy
outside garment. The scarf “Mari
Antoinette” is as light as a feather, a
pin is sufficient to hold it in its place
and one cannot be embarrassed with it.
Another ingenious use of the scarf is a
covering for the head. For theatres,
balls, promenades in the parks or by
the sea-shore, one can no more think of
the padded hood or even those of
simple Surah, they are too warm. The
“Marie Antoinette” soarf simply gather-
ed under a bow, has the great advantage
of covering the head, shouldersand even
the chest, it is large enomgh to be drawn
over the eves and so make a sure, ele-
gant and convenient cover for the
prettiest heads. All who see these
scarfs immediately accord to them their
favor and declare them to be a neces.
gity to complete a summer wardrobe.
0 SERVO,
~ Alarge grain of truth, wrapped wu
in nonsense, writes a Paris correspond-
ent of the Chicago Herald, was the
reply of a Chioago girl, while here, toa
Boston tr asking of her a fashion
letter: ress,” she wrote, “why it all
nds on the way you i"
u d' esprit went the of
the French press, and although it was
Americanism untranslatable,