Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-01-16
ANOTHER DEATH ZAP
BURNS.
THE w AY SENATORIAL
ELECTIONS GO IN
COLORADO.
A LIVELY RIOT In LONDON
AT DAVIFT'S MEETING.


Another Hotel Fire.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. Ia fire broke
ous shortly after + o'clock yesterday
morning in the kitchen OF the Planters
House. occupying the block on Fourth
street. between Pine and Chestnut, AID
| extended TO the pantry, store-roon and
| servants quarters. These are all in a
building III the rear Of and detached
from the hotel, which was not injured.
Oue OF the servants was smothered to
death. one was badly burned, and two
! others have broken limbs. Great ex-
element prevailed among the guests
and other occupants OF the hotel, most
of whom left the house, bat returned
again during the day The loss is about
$50. 600
Tne servants Of the hotel acted with
great GOODNESS. going steadily from door
to door waking up the guests, and five
minutes later rapplng again, to be cer
tain that the inmates were aroused.
The guests all hurried out IN the thin
nest Of garments. with vivid thought
| of the Milwaukee holocaust, and
| dashed for the open air in their night
clothes, many with bare feet. There
were about 800 people 10 the hotel.
Lights were seen in the Republican, and
Denocrdt Offices and neigh boring gam.
bling houses. and in these they took re-
fuge till carriages could be procured to
| take them 10 other hotels.
The boiler room is 10 the fourth story
Of the building at the rear OF the hotel.
HOW TIE FIRE STARTED.
The lire started near the stairway
leading TO the servants quarters above,
and cut of the escape Of seventy-hve
| persons sleeping there, and also formed
barrier which cut of escape for those
sleeping in the south half from another
stairway at the north end. They were
forced to climb QUO upon frame s.ruc-
ture anuttins on the alley, and let
themselves down by a pulley rugged
there for hoistins supplies.
One poor fellow was seen TO start
dowp the stairway before the fire
reached the third floor, and au hour
later his crisped corpse was found in
the kitchen, near the foo5 OF the stairs.
Another enlploye who, although an
swering TO the call, seems to have been
too much supplied by the smoke to get
up, for two hours afterwards his dead
body was found on the smoking mat
trass of his bed.
THE FEMALE HELP
All escaped by the stairway at the north
side, save one, who broke her ankle in
h.. rnnr IS bal
The tiremen made a grand fight, pre-
venting the fire from extending beyond
a distance O: twenty feet from the point
of its orr in, but in tina. space it burned
clear through to the roof and destroyed
about ten rooms. The hotel proper did
not suffer TO the extent OF 4 dollar.
The fire, kowever, crossed the alley to
the furniture wareroOus, where the
tiremen had another iiercs but short
tight. The damage to the hotel prop
erty is about SlO, 900, and 20 the auction
firm about $40, 900 - all covered by
insurance.
In the evening the workmen engaged
III clearing up the d=bris found the
charred body OF man amid the broken
;imbers at the foot OF the stairway on
the basement tinor. Il proved to be
Henry Bianey, an employe over 50
years old, who as by served as char.
boy Ia the hotel.
The silver Question.
New YORK, Jan. 1.-THE Times
says OF Senator Hills letter on silver
The recent fall in silver again
brings Us face to face with the absolute
failure of the silver law in accomplish
ing its object. l. was urged in defense
Of il, when it was passed, that it would
steady the price Of silver and cause it
% approach the ratio to gold adopted
in the law. 1t has not done SO. Silver
remains OF uc,uatiug value, and has
finally dropped heavily III the market.
Whether 1t will recover It's former value
or not, its unsteadiness cannot be de-
llied, and it has not been prevented by
law
Is was also urged in defense of the
law that it would influence Other com
;nerci4i nations to follow our eXamu Die
anu open their mlnts to the coinage Of
silver, and to agree upon the ratio OF
silver with gold. Nothing of the sort
mas happened. No nation mas given the
slightest sign Of any lnsenrlon or de-
ei G 20 DO what We have SO grattl cusfy
lone. and There is no Indication If any
possible agreement as to the ratio OF |
silver with gold. We are LETT alone tn
carry on our expensive ex oeriment long |
after it has ceased to be an experiment |
and has proved itself to bs complete |
failure. /
For time the extent Of is mschiev-
Gus effects was c,oaked by the demand |
tor silver certificates with which to nav |
customs dues and with which to make |
remittances in distant portions Of the
country for which no other form OF |
paper currency Could be so readily and
so cheap y obtained but this demand
has been checked, and probab de.
ssrcyed by the issue Of gold certificates,
and silver seems doomed to go from the
mines to the Treasury and remain Their.
Why we should lock ~ Couple OF
iezens Of millions every year in this ob.
stina.e and crazy pursuit Of an i'm
possible end Is question TO which the
country viii before long demand ali