ACRES OF FLAMES A Tremendous Fire Along New York’s River Front. Five Immense Buildings and Other Property Destroyed, One of the biggest fires known in New Yor: city for many years broke out in the Wileox Land Refinery, at the foot of West Fifty-ninth street at about 4 p, Mu. It destroyed the re- finery, Rossiter's st: elevators, with their covered wharves and connecting buildings and pearly half a mill fon bushels of grain, besides a great quantity of flour, rosin, ale, oil, lard and other com- modities on storage. The loss was estimated to be $4,000,000, partly covered by insurance It was the biggest fire, measured according to the standard of the insurance companies, upon which will fall the whole of the loss, that New York has known of recent vq Far into the night the flames raged with fury, throwing a lurid glare over the whole <ity and for miles into the surrounding coun- A res and two immense grain nrs A spectacle of more appalling grandeur was never witnessed, The eriesof fright of thou sands of animals imprisoned in the pens of the great Union Stock Yards edded to the horror of the scene, The flames started in the Wilcox Lard and | ry brick | Refining Company's massive five factory, at the foot of Fiftv-ninth street Nearly one hundred laborers and a dozen clerks were at work in the factor the time In spite of their utmost o flames gained rapidly, and after ten precious minutes had been wasted the men becar manic stricken and fled from ghe building With a roar like an ex wm the th ms 1 MOA burst up from the cellar and rushed aiong | the oil-soaked floor of the first ste The police had alarm, and the 1 of Reard on every hand. F just as the crowd discov the third. story win help, and the or The firemen pull ny turned in a second on our own ™ yelled th The man made a feint o the ladder, but he was walk, na a laborer empl Within fifteen mim “wed the flames reach [ wale w and shanties between the factory and iver and flashed acros the New ri Central pler at the £ of the street sn as Dock C, It crammed with and ofl awail shipmer and the 5 swept it from end to end with a rush five o'clock the in Rossiter’ ned anxious! § minutes past fi ed up from ti them to a IVE “She's going?’ up the cry: A moment later a red g in the topmost window | sand it was eviden | 2 fire In the tir Spark of flame commu simply became ig timbers here an the wy et » For three hours the keeping the flames fr but when the gr fell and left a m burning ruins nearly as high as the had been. the heat was 50 intense that drain elevat WAS of the New York Central . north, was so heated that it was impossible to keep it from catching fire. The building was 225x705 feet apd 125 feet high While Elevator A was wrapped in flames from end to end, Chief Shay looked anxio at Elevator B, near by, and sadly exclaimed “I've done all I could do, but I'm afraid she'll bave to go tool As the words left his lips a huge blazing brand whirled through the air and fell on the roof near a skylight. Elevator PB blazed, if possible, more rapidly than its companion. Fithin six hours after the fire broke out the building in which it started, a freight pier at the foot of Fifty-pinth stress. and a stialler storage pier, two great slevators, with the contents of all of them, had been absolutely destroyed, involving a loss in money of over $4,000,000, and at least one life was lost, A. The area of the fige Is greater than that of Yuy other fire that Ras cconrred in New York “for mapy years. The space burned over measures 300 feet along the river front from Fifty-ninth street to Sixty-fifth street, a uarter of a mile, Nothing in the course of the fire escaped. Plors, sheds and outhouses » storage house Ny between the larger buildings were burned up | so rapidly that were aston All the buildin, destroyed wore the prop erty of the New York Central Railroad # om oy Chief of them was the huge building, of ple who saw them disap wl. ect high and covering almost a full block land, known as Grain Elevator A. but often referred to as “The Pride of the New York Central.” Each elevator was 125 feet high, 375 feet and about 50 feet wide. They were twelve years old and stored with nearly half a million bushels of grain as dry as powder. The immense surface they presented to the heat induced a degrees of temperature inside of them which made the spontaneous com bus tion of their contents certain, Over five hundred thousand persons, ao cording to the estimates made by veteran police officers, visited the scone of what is now known as the great North River fire be tween the hours of four o'clock in the after moon and ten o'clock at night, A DEADLY MELEE, Four Men Killed in a Fight Between Guards and Boomers, A dispaich from Fort Smith, Ark., says: i he E i 2 ; 8 ki ; ; ¢ : i i £ i fi i { it ; | i : the | ne | LATER NEWS, By the will of Willis J, Syms, a wealthy Now York wholesale gun dealer, 8850,000 was left to Roosevelt Hospital to build and endow an operating theatre Tere were two cases of sunstroke in Pittsburg, Penn, Thermometor registered 82 dogroes. Taree children of Nathan Powell of Miners’ Mills, Penn., died of typhoid fever within a few hours of cach other, Tre 114th anniversary of the battle of | Lexington, Mass, was celebrated. About | two hundred persons partook of an old fush- | foned breakfast served in Massachusetts Hall, | Byrvester Guune, the murderer of Gertie | Downey, has bean hanged in the jail yard at Vincennes, Ind. ABRAM W., Mansiary, a loading citizen and office holder of IL Va., formerly one of the ric burg County, W. shest men in his | section, blew out his brains with a shotgun in the presence of his wife Tar lumber raft | boat, was sunk at the head of Otter Island, Towa, and five of the sixteen persons on board steamboat Everett, = {| were drowned, Five Mormon missionaries who had formed | a colony in Dale County, Als., to go to Utah, ware severely whipped by indignant citizens and driven from the county MALACHI ALLEN, a one-armed colored man, | and James Mills half Indian and half colored, Allen was Potters were hanged at Fort Smith, Ark convicted of murdering Shadrack Bilas Love in Mills killed John reservaiion, Chickasaw Windom, | the Foarusn Harrison are daga, N. ¥ the Patent Office Mitchell, Dakota, Moneysat Mitchel! of Jacksonville, Oreg Moneys at Drowsey, Oreg den, of Olympia, } ceiver of Pul ton Territ Alabsraa, to States for Ronen appointed Lond 4] Joseph Mex Tre annus Ty. emy of Scien FouRsy { Wisconsin bot) msdderablo fire menor « and Buckabes did Toms about 81.000 000 destroyed East D lumbering town and damage to Mario \ ving at house at Detroit Denn's Hotel, a cheap lodging Mich . caused the threo wen and serious Mus. 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H a hired man injury to a fourth Lucas, her two daughters and were attempting (0 ford a swol len creek two miles below Carthage, Mo when the carried a wagon rushing water thom down stream, drowning the horses whol Tox Street odd bloody riot, in which upwand of fifty party the and trouble between Minneapolis allway Company ita 600 and striking omployes culminated in a peo | song, including thirty policemon, were more | or less injured, two fatally J he rioters wore clubbed into submission Sin Jurniax Pavscerors, the new British Minister to the United States, has arrived in Washington Dr. Hasivrox (loneral Marine Hospital Services, says there will be another Florida this season, and that lonoes of it already at Tampa Surgeon of the general yellow fever scourge in there are evi Jacksonville and Wir the application of the Civil Servis rales to the railway mall service there will be a total of 27 90 offices of the Governmen: under these rules, the list including the do partimental, customs, postal and railway mail wrvice OrxEnat, Doviaxoen was warned that ie must leave Belgium of his own accord or the Government would expel him. He do- cided to go to London ARTY of Soudanese attacked and doe f somo Egyptians who were building a fort at Port Halal, Egypt. The BE vplians lost tony killed and wounded, Loup Bromrow will sucesed Lord London derry ns Viceroy of Ireland, THE FATTEST WOMAN DEAD, death of |. ndition in! A BOGUS KING, How a Californian Governs One of the Aleutian Islands, A Washington special says: A very pretty little story, which promises to develop an in- teresting, trial, comes to Washington from Alaska, It is to the effoct that about three yoars ago a man named McoPherson sailed from San Francisco, and eventually landed on one of the Aleutian Islands, off the const of Alaska, Mr, MoPherson's entire outfit consisted of a suit of clothes, an American flag, together with a paper purporting to have bom signed by Attorney-General Garland, appointing him United States Commissioner, As soon as he landed on the [dand he raised the Ameri can flag with a great deal of ceremony, took command of 600 natives and compelled them to nddress him as King McPherson. Each season he exacted heavy tribute Things went along very fow months ago, when reports states that hoe had some diffioulty with threwof his subjects, and, fearing that thers might be a mutiny, he determined to dispose of all those who did not bow to his authority, He arrested three recaloitrant Aleuts, tried them by court mardi and sentencosd them to be hanged. He carried out the sentence. Somehow or other, a veport of MePherson's rule reached the Treasury Department, anda special agent was sent to his island to investi. gate the matter The agent recently Becretary Windom reported the facts to umnstantislly as they are given above, « said that a revenue cutter will be sent land for the pur- we of arresting MoVherson it is the in. } tention of the auth Wrancisco and try him f A WIFE MURDERER'S END, John H, Swift Hanged at Hartford His Sister's Unavailing Efforts, Hart- John H. Swift has been hanged at : murder of his wife, The rd, Conn... for th ion was a very quiet one, and the od quietly The dead n was committed on July 7. whe t his wife, who had refused to lve wind account of his habits ‘ » attention has been attracted to by the g anit fight made for 1887, disses WONDERFUL A Bullet Extracted Froma W Suicides Brain, wr adh Xo A RECOVER i mld-e - CS ————- NEWSY GLEANINGS, A svoan famine is possible, Fraxce has 17% war vessels EXGLAXD has 7000 lou Cor indieations are all fav The = BOSTON money Aro BaLrs Cla Cm NATH Prainie vines have boon rag I mis ot has been agar t lenders are busy Ory L000 wooden cars are in as RE has a § owes this count xopul AGO is rapidly becoming a club city. Louisville, Ky. g in Dakota, in Los Angeles, RAL GAS has reac Ir is unlawful to key al Tene is activity Yard the Brooklyn Navy Ix Paris there is one people MAPLE SUGAR juality Five Kansas towns have Mayors tieide to every 370 abundant and of good is a elected worsen as Born Etna and Vesuvius are in an eruptive Tae Austrian be nearly a failure Oven 1000 letters ary House every day The European exodus isn whent crop is said to received at the White t only larger but {| emrlior than usual CALIYORNIA roofing slate is said to be the fAnest in the world Tur Mayor of Denver, Col. cowhided a | man the other day Prascitia Davis (colored), 105 years old, | is dead af Baltimore Rion veins of copper have been found in Southern California Garvesrox, Texas, is ov entennial celebrati A coroxy of old sol township in Oklaho ta THERE are 20,000 members of the Mormon Church in this country JAPAX lends the world in the number of houses destroyed by fire Srnec wheat is backward both in the United Kingdom and in France Tux highest aa in New Guinea is to be named after William E. Gladstone. Fisn pirates on the 8t. Lawrence are giv. Ing the Canadian authorities trouble, Bosrox is said to be the greatest market in the United State for the sale of lottery tick. "a, ing to have a semi Wyn is about to start a A NUMBER of towns in Vermont are prepas- ing to choose their postmasters by popular vote Ture Rothschilds have secured control of more than half the trade in Russian petro PAREWRLL banquets to retiring American ministers and consuls are rky F all over Europe, OwinG to the scarcity of water the area wtton eniture in Egypt this of season is much smoothly until a | SRRGEANT JASPER, Ships of England roll ay anchor, stately ships from o'er the sea, lode at anchor in the sunshine, two by two tnd three by three, “rom Fort Moultrie came an answer to the summons they had sent; “No surrender; we await you for the battle woll content.” Old Fort Moultrie, dark and gloomy, with its ramparts long and low, Over which the patriot banner flapped do- flance to the foe, Admiral Bir Peter Barker looked toward the fort and laughed; { “We can break down their defenses with the weakest of our craft. What care I for wooden breastworks of pal ad metto, or of pine? Bid the ships prepare for action; let the Iristol lead the line! And from noonday until battle sought the sky; From the land and from the of sunset smoke waler groans and curses ross on high: While in Charleston, stricken Charleston, quesnly town beside the sen, For their loved ones, their defenders, wives and mothers bent the knee, "Mid the fiercest of the « onflict, crash of shot and shriek of shell, | Suddenly the flagstasy parted and Fort Moult rie’s banner fell. | Who will raise the In the fallen banner? trenches there it lies And the man who ventures thither for his daring surely dies Bergeant Jasper, child of glory, whom the | world will not for wel, Caught the rmmnmer of his canne nl, Sprang upon the parapet; Raised the soiled and raged | tunult and the strife With as careful a thing « Lashod manner, ‘mid the 1 and tender as * aunon rammer, proudly sought his post again: While shower of From that staff and around him flew the in of Jasper floated till Till the ga My good frien Till these Eng! And the man who served so well When the flagstaff mapped and fell, In the gh wis dave of ve EL Died a Sergeant, thine » fon KE welifudson \N ADVENTURE IN MEXICO. BY FRANK 0H. CONVERSE 1ollars + 8 mont! fre the driver WES In collusion with the wents, or ““handitti.” It led me t Ww Pac as they ¢ alled the w hie h urney from Orvieto was this latter fac it. In part o make my je huca—then the temporary terminus of the railway-—on horseback, though a desire of this most romantic part of the beautiful country had some influence upon my decision. I was then the paymaster for this division, and was conve ying the amount of which I told you to the general super intendent at the to see something terminus, with instr tions to get it there as soon as possible 8 strike having been threate: the Mexican laborers ion a tough little horse breed, with small strapped and hidden from ioned cloak it i while traveling Well, if you have ever been in Mexico, you can readily understand how delight | ful a horseback journey must be at the pleasantest time of the year through some of the most charming scenery in the | world, { The rond wound through fertile valleys | and between lofty mountain ridges, past { coffee and sugar plantations and beautiful | haciendas belonging to the wealthier | residents. Here and there were pictur. esque villages nestled at the base of the | lofty hills, while far away against the clear blue sky were the twin peaks of Popocatepet] and Iztaccihuatl, covered with perpetual snow, Nothing of special interest happened till the third day, when I reached the lit- tle hantlet of Tampasca, some thirty miles from Pachuca, my destination. My horse was beginning to flag a bit, and, desirous of giving him a rest, I resolved to lay by for the rest of the day, if 1 could find per accommodations, and finish my rmey upon the morrow. But a wretched pulqueria, or drinking house of the lowest order, was the only sopping place I sould Ay the Ol omen brigandish Jooki vaequeros and cabal leros lounging about the entrance de- vided mo that this at least was no safe for an American with twelve thou. sand dollars in gold in his ed among And 80, mounted of the mustang my money in a to the saddle by an old fash fancy wear 1 set out : Valise Yirw my Was to pardon,” he said, “but I see you are an American and a stranger as well, Else” | ==lowering his voice—*'you would hard- { ly be seeking ‘refreshments for man and | beast’ in this hole, where the brigand | | Manuel Sperros makes his headquarters | whenever he happens this way.” | Now, I had heard of this Manuel since coming to Mexico, and as you may be as- (sured, had no desire to meet him, par- | | ticularly with such a sum of money in my possession, And, as briefly as possible, 1 explained the situation, giving my new nequaintance, who introduced himself as John Gordon, to understand that I was taking an equestrian trip through this particular section simply from a freak of my own, “You will come said at once, home with me,” he “My hacienda is small, but | I can at least make vou comfortable, and la countryman of my own is a perfect godsend.” Overruling my protestations, which 1 confess were rather faint, Gordon, with gentle insistence, led the way; and as we rode slowly through the outskirts of the village, he told me by snatches something of his personal history, which I found ex tremely interesting, though of course far too long to give in anything like detail It is suffic story to ient for the purposes of this hy say that after a decidedly check tered existence he had drifted to Mexico, where he wooed and won a Spanish Indy of impoverished family, small estate in the suburbs of Tampasca. which owning a he had inherited at her death By Mr. Gordon had concladed what he had to 54 con ning himself had reached his hon building, pictels time wi wdobe bu » small embowered in tl} foliage of a 1 half-breed fter na 1h to jos 1 had n red af. And faith in ia : highwayman of his repiy la stump py before “Well,” he said slowly, “I suppose 1 have seen him in disguise hanging about the pulqueria in town-—in fact, 1 am per f : is a a heavy beard He my size and build, with and mustache and rather sharp black He speaks both Spanish English fluently, and I be lieve prides himself on never having shed human blood during a rather remarkable in which he has set the Mexican authorities completely at defiance, de spite the price they have put on his head There is a story,” Gordon went on after a momentary hesitation, ‘‘that old Pepita, the gipsy, has told Manuel Le will neither dic by the hangman's rope nor in the ordinary way.’ “How then!” 1 naturally asked. “By his own hand,” was the answer, in a rather subdued tone. “But what have 1 to do with Manuel or he with me!” he contived, in & livelier manner, and turned the conversation to matters more immediately concerned with Mexico and her interosts—-n topidmpon which he seemed remarkably well informed. Now, genorally speaking, a cup of cof fee before retiring is apt to make me un. usually wakeful fectly sure man about CYes, Career. opposite. 1 had hardly drunk it and made a pillow of the valise containing the gold, when an unusual drowsiness, which I attributed in part to my day's journey, began to creep over me, and in five minutes I was asleep. Some time during the night I woke with a vague fancy that a hand had been inserted under my But the effect of the | one proffered me before retiring was quite | | Buddenly the sound of hoof beats com] {ing up in the rear caused me to turn {my head. A heavily bearded man, mounted on g powerful black horse, rode rapidly up, and, almost before | could | collect my thoughts, lugged a heavy | pistol from his holster and leveled it at my head, at the same time gruffly bid- ding me dismount in excellent Bpanigh. My only reply was to snatch my own pistol from an inside pocket. Cock- ing the right hand barre! with my thumb, {I aimed full at the robber's head and pulled the trigger, but only the explo- sion of the cap followed. I then tried the left hand barrel with a similar result, and maddened or made desperate by the | failure of the weapon, I hurled it fiercely at the head of the bandit, whom I naturally presumed to be the Manuel Bperros I had been told sbout. At the same time I spurred my horse forward with some vague ides of riding him down or grappling with him hardly knew which! His pistol flashed and the ball whizzed past my ear, yet 1 shall always think that he aimed thus purposely, with a view of intimidating me rather than of taking my life. But 1 urged my horse forward, and | in another instant was upon him. I remember clutching flercely at his throat as he threw the muzzle of his other holster pistol upward. Then came a second explosion, and with a robber fell backward shot through hi eld n the saddle, from his heart by his own ¢ ry hand his weapon has g Deen in way accidentally disch Horrified 4 ele Uageay., | unabic beyond sprang to t to realize for the Nan was really dead, ras as long a8 no had been ne Was open traced dire . the od 4 repu- than ) my where the wmewhat of was 1 Ce — WISE WORDS. The man who was born ti bu unhappy The less a man feels greater he what his is be right for a thinks, but it may he prudent, say 3't alwavs One would suppose that there are some women who are happy only when they are miserable, A pretty girl may be so fully occupied with being beautiful as not to have time to be agreeable A real truth can only be known by the strict sensing of it, therefore information is always doubtful, The real sense of knowledge is to learn something, instead of imitating the knowledge of others, In the lexicon of youth, which fate re- serves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as-fail! The reason there are so many followers in the world is because they have been trained to be obedient. Aristocratic people are those who will not associate with the people they are de- pendent upon for support. The real is always imitated, for that reason a man may even look and sound as if he was really cultured. For drunkenness, drink cold water; {for health, rise early: to be happy, be honest; to please all, mind your own | business, A man should be careful never to tell | tales of himself to his own disadvantage. | People may be amused, and laugh at the | time, but they will be remembered, and | brought up against him upon some subwe- | quent occasion. A Natural Soap Mine. pillow, where I had | Rineed my pistol before falling asleep. | sing myself sufficiently to investigate, 11 the suming that | been dreaming, lapsed into what I know must have been a dragged slumber-—if the expression is allowable. «In the morning, baving heartily thanked Gordon for his kindness, 1 remounted my horse, after carefully securing the valise in its place, in its place, With, Jee i
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