Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-04-11
Another Fire.

Another Fire.
| CINCINNATI, April "a great fire i
raging now at Hamilton, Ohio. Thre,
fire engines have been sent from here
A message Just received by telephon,
says the fire started at half past ten to
night in city building on tho stree
close to the bridge over Great Miami
1t has already consumed the city build
inRs and severallivery stables, and, un
der high wind, has got beyond control
1t IS now (114 p.m.) passing in the rea
OF the Presbyterian and Baptist churchs,
and the county Jail and postofiice. Th,
greatest CONSERVATION prevails.
LArEg.-The Hamilton FIRE is under
| control.
More ef the Late storm.
McPHEHsos, (Kan.l April o. Ths
storm of Friday night blew down q
s:oreheuss in Delmer township, in thi,
county, in which Wesley Bryant and
family resided. Mrs. Bryant and two
children wera buried in the ruins and
and were dead when taken out.
The New Reform Policy.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-The following
is Frank Hatton's letter to the Cincin.
natl postmaster alluded to in a previous
dispatch: "Your inquiry in regard to
whether executive orders on pages 32i
and 323, postal laws, and regulation 79
include employees of the postofiice. is
answered III the negative. Unless en-
ployment interfere with efficient dis,
charge of their duties in the postotiice
postmasters may, under this limitation
accept offices of aldermen. In regard
to provisions relative to participation
IN political campaigns, so far as they are
applicable to pos.masters and other em-
ployees of this department, desire to
say the fact that citizen is deemed
worthy and competent to fill public
station should not, in my judgment, de-
prive him Of any of his rights as citi-
zen SO long as he does not neglect the
duties entrusted to him. / believe in
the right of every man to use his best
efforts to promote by all proper means
tho success Of all public and political
measures, that will in his judgment be
beneficial to his country. Earnsstnesa
in discharge ofttheir duties as citizens
should not involve offensiveness on
the part Of public servants. On this
subject let me quote from q letter OF
Gen. Arthur in accepting the nomination
rendered him by the cOnven ton at Chi
cago. His language is peculiarly ap-
plicable to the inquiry you make. He
says: II will add that by acoep tance
Of public Office, whether high or low,
one does not in my Judgment escape any
of his responsibilities as a citizen. or
lose or impair any of his rights a. cit
izen, and that he should enjoy absolute
liberty to think and speak and act in
political matters according to his Uwn
will and conscience, provided only that
ho honorably, faithfully and fully dis
charge all his official duties. Within
limit, public officer is free man, so
cially and practically, with a mans du-
ties and responsibilities to answer for.
Very respectfully, FRANK II ALTON.
Fir st Asst p. III. Gen.
AHtl.IsOIy yxnmy Nornswns.
ST. LOUIS, April 10.-The Mormon
Conference now being held at Independ-
ence, Missouri, is making vigorous
war upon pOlygamy, and has unani-
inously adopted a resolution thanking
the President and Congress for passing
the Anti-Polysamy bill.
The saginaw Storm.
DETRoIr, April o. Thursdays cy-
clone dropped in upon the country north
of Saginaw, prostrating telegraph lines,
SO that the news is Just in. The storm
struck in the townships of Williams,
Beaver, Kawkawlin and Eugref, north
and west of Bay city, and did terrible
execution. the greater part of tho loss
being in Kawkawlin. Houses were liter
ally blown to atoms, furniture smashed
and members of tho family more or less
injured. A German named Clnmm had
his house destroyed and was himself
seriously injured; Robert Famsley's
house was unroofed; William Hartley's
house was carried bodily 30 feet and
badly wrecked; J. B. Silvernail's barn
was unroofed; A. Freslin's barn was de-
stroyed, COW killed and a valuable horse
ruined and house unroofed; David
Gamers barn was destroyed and house
unroofed; Il. Nelson's barn was do
stroyed and house unroofed. In Augers
township the loss was lighter, and was
on farms and property Of fishermen.
The loss runs up into thousan ls, and
about twenty injured people are heard
from, but no fatal accidents. The
storm passed through three miles Of
timber and scarcely left tree standing
in space of one mile Wide. Hailstones
fell one and half inches in diameter.
Business ef the week.
New foRx, April S.-The weeks bust
ness was broken by tho observance of
Good Friday and by various exchanges,
but the volume Of transactions has been
fair in the aggregate, although some
what below the general expectation.
Wheat is irregular, with transactions
for the export of nearly Do, 900 bushels,
more than half Of which u clique wheat
shipped ont of the country to strengthen
the position Of long interests.
star Reusc lndicamsnts.
WASHINGTON, April l6.-In tho star
route cases tho motion TO quash wa
oyerruled, and tho indictments stand.
Cyelsne In KaasaA
TOPEKA, April a.-The Commonwealth
has Just received particulars Of dsstruc-
ton caused by = cyclone at Stafford on
Thursday night. Stafford il a village
of n or 50 houses, the county seat oi
Stafford county, and about 100 miles
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