Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-07
EASTERN NEWS.
A Disastrous Fire in Denver, Colorado,
Yesterday.
PROPERTY VALUED AT OVER
100000 DESTROYED.
A Large Structure in Chicago Also
Destroyed by Flames.
TIE OWNERS 0? SEIZED AMERICAN
VESSELS HEAVILY FINED.
Randall's Tariff Bill Adversely
Reported on.
MORE POISONING BY PICNIC
ICE CREAM.
TIE OWNERS o! SEIZED AMERICAN
VESSELS heavily FINED.
Randall's Tariff Bill Adversely
Reported on.
MORE POISONING BY PICNIC
ICE CREAM.
ESPECIAL TO THE sEEr1EEt.l
Fire fin Denver

A Destructive Fire I'm Denver.
DENVER, July CAT Ills O'Clock this
morning as the people were going home
from celebrating the National Birthday 3
| fire was discovered in the Academy OF
| Music. and before the fire department
could get to work tine flames were leaping
through the building in half q dozen
places, which, q few minutes later, was one
mass Of flames. The heat was 80 intoler.
| able that the fire department were driven
| from the front of the building, being M
| able 10 stand the intense heat. Il now be-
came evident that the Academy was
doomed, and the fremen devoted them
| selves to saving the Rocky Mountain News
| building, the Goode & MoClintock block,
which were adjoining, and now on nre
| on the outside, The flames spread 80 rap
idly and the heat became so intense that
in less than Is minutes after the discovery
Of the fire the wires OF the Western Union
| Telegraph Company, whose Office is in the
| block directly across the alley from the
Academy. melted in two. and all service
was destroyed. The operators managed to
TO save the wheatstone and other valuable
| instruments, though several OF the relays
we're destroyed. The heat was transmitted
| from the melting wires before ii could be
| detached. The fire was the quickest ever
| witnessed in Denver. A hundred depart
| ments could not have saved the building,
| which was q mass of ruins within an hour
| after the alarm was given. Thu ground
floor was occupied as q business house,
in which several men were sleeping at the
time OF the fire. all Of whom were rescued
4 - $1,000 .na T;pa Enriohk an
| old man, and Q roustabout in q saloon.
John Kinneavy. Enright returned ct II
| o'clock last night in an intoxicated condi.
ton, and was forgotten until il was 80
late that he could not be reused, and he
| persisted in the flames. The cause OF the
| fire at present 10 unknown. As near as
| could be learned the losses are IS follows:
P. T. Hughes, on the Academy Of Music,
S125, 900; insured for $50, 1000. The Rocky
Mountain News, S25, 600; insurance, S35 900.
John Kinneavy. saloon, $4,000. insurance,
81. 900. Solomon's clothing house. $4,000;
insurance, 81, 200. Lazarus, . tailor, SO, 900;
no insurance. The Goode block, 10000;
insurance, SIS, 900. Joseph Meskew, 3d.
900; no insurance. The McClintock block.
%, 500. The smaller losses are estimated
at S., 900.
$4,000 Blaze In Chicago.
CHICAGO, July Cat 4 o'clock this
morning a fire occurred in the f~ve-story
building at Nos. 1872 and 154 South Clark
street, occupied on the first floor as q res
taursnt and IN the four upper floors as q
cheap lodging house, known as the Benton
Hotel. The two upper floors had been oc-
cupied as a storeroom. and only recently
had been fitted up with fine hunks. At
the time the fire was discovered there were
So inmates in the lodging rooms, five OF
whom had q very narrow escape. The loss
on the building and It's contents will not
exceed 500, 600 fully covered by in
surance. Four iremen were seriously in
jured by falling glass. The cause OF the
fire Ia unknown.
Roach & Son Want $4,000.
WASHINGTON. July Ex-senator Mitchell,
of Michigan, to-day submitted and pro.
posed an amendment to the General De-
iciency Appropriation bill TO provide for
the payment to John Roach & Son the
sum Of 500, 270 for wharfage and the care
OF the monitor Roanoke from March II,
1877, to the time of its sale in 1883. in
Guiding towing and pilotage, and to pay
them $38, $40 in full for the cost OF chang
ing thereon the frame of the Puritan.
The Seized Americas Vessels.
HALIFAX, N. g., July Ga telegram
from S~helburne says that the Collector Of
Customs. under instructions from Ottawa,
has imposed a fine OF s400 each on the
seized Portland schooners-C. B. Har-
rington. City Point and George W. Cush-
ing. The fines have not yet been paid.
and the vessels are still In possession of
the customs authorities.
RandaII's Tariff Bill.
WASHINGTON. July 6.-The Ways and
Means Committee ordered an adverse re-
port to be made on the Randall Tariff bill.
Kelly moved to strike out all but the adj
ministrative feature OF the bill. the Hewitt
provisions, but this motion was lost. al
though Mr.. Hewitt voted with the Repub-
licans.
MOrcM Money for Home Rule.
DETROIT, June CDR. O'Reilly, Treas
urer OF the National League, to-day
cabled f3, 900 additional to the trustee Of
the Parliamentary fund in London. This
makes f20. 900 RENTED by the league
within the last ten days.
Secretary Manning's Movements.
New YORK. July 6.-Secretary Manning
and party left New York Yesterday morn
ing for Greystone to visit Samuel ]. Til
den. II is Manning's intention to stay in
and around New York for several days,
and then 10 go to Albany.
The Presidcnt Busy.
WASHINGTON. June 6.-The President
was engaged yesterday and to-day exam
lining private pension bills. He signed q
large number of bills, and will return
several others to Congress this afternoon.
with veto messages
More Poisoning by Ice Cream.
~CoULrERyTLLE. ILL.,. June 6.-Seventy
persons we're poisoned yesterday by eating
nicnic ice cream. Fonr have already died