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National Republican., 1886-12-03
Working for Improyements,

The land owners and residents of the eastern
part ofthe District held meeting last We'd
ncsday night at Masonic Hall, Anacostia
Hon. s, M. Golden was made temporary chair
man, II. A. Linger, vice president: DIR. w. Lee
White, secretary, and George +. Pyles, treas
urer. A committee was appointed to draft Il
The object of The proposed organization is the
improvement of the eastern part of the Dis
trct, and TO secure from Congress and the
commissioners such action as will secure 10
public expenditures An adjourned meeting
will be held next Wednesday, the Sth, at
O'plopk
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DInmonds nnd wntobes,
Lieut. GreeiY,n Post.

For bargains in diamonds aud watches go to
Jacobs Brothers, 1929 Pennsylvania aVenue
they carry the largest and best variety.
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Tho InnnneAe Trnntv

FINE Beaver satin lined Overcoats such o.
"your tailor" win ask you $50 for, at Barnum''
RpAlY. Mndn for SEQ.
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BEBKHLBY, apure rye whIBky, tho best on the
marke tnsthe price, "a per gailan, S1 a quart,
and 80 cents pint, rs cents q sample bottle
IhArH U1 street. northWeaee
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DIED.

ELLIS, On Dec, !. 1886, ut 1870 p. m. AIT II
n short but painful illness, GEORGE i. ELLIS,
In the 78d year Of HIS age. ...,.
Funeral from his late residence, 1879 tbth
street northwest, Washington ID. c., Oh saiur-
day, Dec. 4, nt 10 o'clock.
National Republican., 1886-12-03

with cough or cold procure DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup at once. Its use may save you from
spVpTp Sickness
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The Noyember Take

BEST made Clothing in Washington for men
and boys. Elseman Bros ,7th and T.
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Grain and Provisions.
Following is the range OF prices In the Ohicagt
market, furnished by d, X. Plain 4 Co., 81. Cloud
Building, corner Of Ninth and streets.
Washington stock Exchange.

The following list Of tho mort active stocks dealt
In on the Washington Btock Exchange Ia furnished
by Messrs. Bell Co., bankers. no. 1887 Peunsyl.
| aNla
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TRAVEIERs' GuTDH
.HEsAPEAKE AND OHIO ROUTE

CHEsAPEARE AND OHIO ROUTE.
(Newport News and Mississippi Valley Com
pany)
Union Depot, 9Th and b ste.
11O0 A. M.-For Newport News, Old Point
Comfort, and Norfolk Daily exeept
sunday, Arrive in Norfolk att Z. NJ,
800 A. M.-FOr all Stations on Chesapeake
and ohio and points west. Sieeper
from Clifton Forge. Daily except Sun.
day.
$50 p. M-Fast Western Express. Daily.
Solid Train with Pullman sleepers fo
Louisville. Pullman Service 10 Gin.
einnati, 80. Louis Memphis, and New
Orleans w"
Apply at Chesapeak, and Ohio Railway
OnCe, 6l3Pa. ave, and Baltimore and Potomac
station. -, FRANK TRIHG,
General Northeastern Passenger Agent.
n. w. FULLRR,
G General Passenger Agent.
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DoN'T take 1t IF a dealer offers you bottle
of Salvation Oil without labels or wrappers,
insist upon getting perfect, ulbroecn package.
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Expensive stove Fixing.

DEsEnvEDLY popular. We mean DIR. Bulrs
Cough syrup, for II never failsto cure a cough.
Only % nnnla.
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RuIldipp Per,nita.

CnNcHnLA Beaver sartout overcoSts at
Barnum's
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Mnnriarn Linenaes.

BEST made Clothing in Washington for men
and boys. Eiseman Bros, 7lh and L.
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What ME-. Jordan Must Not Do.

BEST made Clothing IN Washington for men
and boys. Eiseman Bros, 7th and Il,
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Tho Trnmns, nHnoale.n

BEST made Clothing in Washington for men
and boys. Elseman Bros, 9Th and +.
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Lighting of Lamps.

USE st. Jacobs Oil. and prove that an ounce
of prevention Is worth pound Of cure.
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Appointments and Promotions.

ASK your grocer for Blnine-best laundry
blung. Elegant present with each package.
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AND OHIO RAILROAD

Schedule In effect SUNDAY, nov. 7. 1896.
until further notice
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Too Small a Co IlaterRl.

BEST made Clothing In Washington for men
and BOYS. Eiseman Bros, 9Th and u.
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Work of the Grand Jury.

BEST made Clothing in Washington for me
and boys. EisemRn Bros, 9TH and Il.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-13
Rowdies Create a Church Panic,

READING, Pa, Feb. 3.-The Evangelical
Chapel, near Speaces Church, several miles
from this city, was packed with people
Monday night. A rowdy element on the
outside smashed in the windows with clubs
and then pushed in a long fence rail into
the chapel. 1t upset the pulpit and struck
the preacher just as he had closed his dis
course. Some Of the lights were extin-
guished, and at cry of fire" men, women
and children became panic stricken and
rushed for the door. A platform
that had been erected outside the
chapel by those who could not
get in was upset, and added to the excite
ment OF the terror-stricken people, One
lady was seriously injured and several
were slightly utby broken glass or crushed
in the effort to get out. The riotous ele-
ment on the outside was about renewing
the demonstration when they were charged
upon by the friends of the church The
battle which ensued. was short and sharp,
and the rioters, finding they were beaten
back, turned and fled in the darkness.
Their names are being learned to-day, and
the entire gang will be arrested
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-13
DEMONS WORK.
Deliberate Attempt to Burn Seven
Men Alive.
East st. Louis the Place of the CRIME
Frightful Scene In the Night.

EAST ST.. LOUIS, Feb. 5.-A terrible at
tempt upon human life was perpetrated
last night. Shortly after 10 o'clock fire in
a shanty near the railroad tracks was dis
covered. The glare of light attracted the
attention of all the railroad men who hap
pened to be out. They ran toward the
place, and, as they did SO, they heard
shrieks, groans and cries, telling that
human beings were held there in the fiery
cage, unable to escape. There was
rush to the door, and it was forced in,
when two men staggered out. Other men
were dragged out unconscious. The faces
strips of flesh peeled off, presenting hor-
RID sight. There were seven men taken out
of the building They said they had
sIrolled into the shanty in order to warm
up, and were sitting around the stove
talking, when suddenly the stove seemed
to burst open and the flames went all about
the room enveloping the men before they
could turn toward the door. They,
could only beat about with their hands
and struggle with each other in the endeav-
or to get to the exit. They grappled with
each other and thus impeded their escape,
and it seemed an eternity before they
heard the cries of those who came to the
rescue. They remembered very distinctly
that they smelled coal oil as the flames
burst around them. The strange man
ner in which the fire started can only
be accounted for on the ground
that some wretch poured oil down
the chimney to the stove. Near the back
of the shanty, on the ground. was found
tin can which had evidently contained
coal Oil. The names of the unfortunate
men are Morris McGlynn, James Donohue,
VIM. Gilkie, Pat Boyle, Scott Sanderson,
Joseph McGee, Fred. Erickson. They are
all fearfully burned, but whether or not
any of them are necessarily fatally in
jured can not be known as yet.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-13
POWDER AND DYNAMITE.
Explosion at Two Shafts of the
Croton Aqueduct.
Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds of Forcite
Shows its Explosive Capacity-Geseral
Demolition with Loss of Lie,

New YORK, Feb. 3.-This 10 orning the pow
der-house of Shanly, Sarrell & 20. ex-
ploded at Shaft No. % Of the new aqueduct,
on the Fordham Landing road, shattering
a boarding shanty and severely injuring
two men. Michael McGinnis, who was
in charge of the powder-house, is missing.
The cause of the explosionis unknown. The
shock was felt for a radius Of many miles
in all directions, and the damage to the
surrounding neighborhood was heavy.
The people thought an earthquake
was upon them, and many left their
houses. 1t is stated that one man was
killed outright and another badly injured.
These two were in charge of the magazine.
There was in the shanty two hundred and
fifty pounds Of what is known as "forcite."
The building was blown into fragments, it
being difficult to find piece of it as much
as foot long. Fragments of the stove
were found seven hundred feet away. Three
boarding shanties at some distance away,
in which forty laborers, mostly negroes,
and Italians, were sleeping, were
wrecked, and the occupants uncere-
moniously tumbled out of their beds.
structures saved serious loss of life Only
one person was seriously hurt. McGinnis
has not been seen since, nor has the least
trace of his remains been discovered. 1t is
not believed that he could have been so
utterly annihilated that not even blood
stain could have been discovered, and
it is therefore suspected that he was un-
hurt, and fearing that he would be held
responsible for the calamity, ran away.
Ranging at distances of mile to a
mile and half from the scene of the
explosion are many beautiful and costly
residences, including those of ex-Mayor
Edison and II. B. Claflin. All of them omore
or less severely felt the shock Panes of glass
were broken, crockery was ratified, pictures
were thrown from walls, and in some in
stances persons were thrown from their
beds. The general impression for miles
around was that 1t was an eal thquake. 1t
was felt all over Long Island, and the shock
was much more severe than that of the He'll
Gate explosion.
YONKERR, N. Y, Feb 3.-While two
dynamite cartridges were being thrown out
| at Shaft No 1S11 Of the new Croton aquduct,
this afternoon. they exploded with loud
report and destroyed the small building in
which they were to be used and in which
| only a few moments before a number of
men had been eating their dinners. No one
was injured. About thousand pounds of
| dynamite was stored at the shaft in a
frozen state, but fortunately it did not
| exnlode
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-13
A Great Street Car Strike.

New YORK, Feb. 4.-The men on the
Broadway, Fourth, Sixth and Seventh av-
enue struck to-day because Of the refusal
Of the company to operate the road ac-
cording to the recently adopted time
schedule. Six hundred drivers and conduc-
tors and 200 stablemen and hitchers en-
ployed by the Broadway and Seventh ave-
nue. Railroad Company quit work at
midnight. The difficulty on the Fourth
avenue road was adjusted late in the after
noon. The company agreed to fixed sched-
ule Of trips which will constitute days
work, and the pay for which shall be 81
per day. Stablemen, hostlers and switchers
are to work twelve and half hours,
with two hours for meals. Old
employees will receive Sl2 per week,
and new men Sl1.50 per week the first six
months. The cars began running soon
after io'clock During the afternoon the
Broadway and Seventh-avenue line ac-
ceded to the demands of its men for 1926
per day for twelve hours for drivers and
conductors, and $l225 per week instead of
$l1.50 for hostlers and stablemen. The
cars began running about 80 p. IN. These
terms begin February Is.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-13
THROUGH THE ICE.
An Unfortunate Affair Near Graham, Ten
nessee-Three Persons Drowned.

An Unfortunate Affair Near Graham, Ten
nessee-Three Persons Drowned.
NUNNELLEY, TENN, Feb. THE news
reached this place to-day at noon that Mrs.
Slater wife of Fred Slater, was drowned in
Millcreek near Graham Station. Mr.
Slater, who is employed by the Warner Iron
Company to run the pump which conveys
water to the Nunnelley Mines, had taken his
family, wife and two little children, and
gone out on the ice. He had his wife
and two children on small Sled and
was carrying them up the pond on the ice
and the colored girl was walking ci6se oe-
hind the. sled. They had assembled the
pond about three-quarters of mile, and
finding the ice rapidly melting they de-
cided to return home, but this conclusion
was reached too late. Just as the sled
stopped the ice gave way and the unfortu-
nate family went under. The colored girl,
seeing the ice sinking, rushed for the
Sled and she too was carried be-
meath the ice. Mr.. Slater, after many
unsuccessful attempts to rescue
the wife and children from the water,
which is about ten feet deep, cried for help
and was heard by two gentlemen, who
reached him just in time to save him and
the Oldest child, about two years Of age.
The wife, colored girl and baby, eight
months old, were drowned. The baby was
found a S hort time afterward, and DR..
Thompson was called in, but reached the
baby too late to restore life. The other
two bodies were found this evening.
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Fr qhtful Runaway.

BosToN, Feb. About seven o'clock
this evening Joseph Aronson and his niece,
while driving, turned from Beacon street
into fremont. The sleigh runners scraped
the car tracks and made noise which
frightened the horse, the cutter was over
turned and Aronson and neice thrown
into the street. The horse
ran up the sidewalk through
dense crowd of people who were gathered
at the door Of fremont Temple, another
crowd in front of Horticultural Hall, and
stream of people turning into Bromfield
cert in Music Hall, scattering them right
and left. Many people were thrown into
the street, while others narrowly escaped
by jumping into doorways. About fifteen
people were injured, and a large number
tainted
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-13
A DESPERATE AFFAIR.
a Pittsburgh Convict Who Nearly Killed
Three of His Keepers.

PITTSBURGH, Feb. A serious affray oc-
Cured in the Riverside Penitentiary this
morning, in which deputies McKain,
Greaves and Edwards were injured, the
two former dangerously. A prisoner
named James Clark, who is serving a
sentence of seven years for burglary, had
been ordered to the dungeon for an in
fraction of the rules. McKain and Greaves
repaired to his cell to escort him to the
dungeon. He promised to go quietly but
In an unguarded moment he turned upon
them with huge knife which he had Sc
creted in his coat. He first made desper-
ate lunge at McKain, and plunged the
knife into his neck, and then stabbed him
in the right temple. Turning from Nc
Kahn he thrust the bloody weapon into
Greaves' right shoulder blade twice. Dep
uty Edwards, hearing the noise. cine to
the aid of McKain and Greaves, but before
be. could render them assistance Clark
felled him to the ground with a terrific
blow, and, jumping on him, beat and
kicked him in a frightful manner. By this
time the guard had been alarmed, and
Clark was overpowered ard placed In the
dungeon. The injured men were removed
to the hospital. An examination Of their
injuries showed McKain to have been per-
haps mortally wounded Greaves and Ed
wards are seriously hurt. but will recover.
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GETTING RID OF CHINESE.
4 Mob in Oregon Attempting to Clear
Out "a Town.

\ MOD IN oregon attempting TO clear
Out Town.
PORTLAND, OREGON, Feb. To-day, as if
~ programme laid out, the Chinese are be-
ng driven our of Seattle. 1t is understood
that the Knights of Labor are at the head of
the movement The Chinese are marched
70 the steamer Queen of the Pacific, lying
at the wharf, and the rioters pay steerags
passage to San Francisco for each China
man put aboard. The steamer plies regu-
Iarly between San Francisco and Puget
Sound At this hour (2p n.y. about ono
hundred have been put aboard. The
Mayor of Seattle and other prominent
citizens have telegraphed to Vancouver
Barracks asking General Gibbon, COM
manding the Department Of Columbia, for
troops. General Gibbon has telegraphed
the War Department. ChiefJustice Green,
Of Washington Territory, has telegraphed
Attorney General Garland, urging him to
use his influence to have troops ordered to
Seattle. About 5 p. m. the militia marched
down to Chinatown and took possession.
1t was thoroughly deserted, except by
a few merchants who had been
allowed to remain temporarily. At
8 p. m. a writ of habeas corpus
was issued charging that the Cinnamon
were illegally restrained of their liberty OH
board of the steamer. The writ was made
retUrnable at 10 o'clock this evening In
the meantime the steamer was enjoined
from sailing. The situation at this hour
(9p. n.y. is uncertain. A dismal rain is
falling, and the mob has largely dispersed.
The Cinnamon who are not on board the
steamer are huddled together on the ocean
dock. Two companies of militia are
patrolling the streets. The Oregon
Improvement Company also has
eighty men guarding its docks
and warehouses. The authorities are de-
termined that no Chinaman shall leave un-
willingly. Every effort will be made to
avoid bloodshed, but the most determina-
tion is expressed on this point. The troops
at Port Townsend and Vancouver are ready
to move, and are only awaiting orders from
Washington. Much surprise is expressed
that the movement was arranged SO quietly.
The city is full of strangers, and it is hard
to tell whence they came. It'll believed that
the plans were made in Tacoma, as many
prominent agitators from that place, as
we'll as reporters of both Tacoma papers
arrived here yesterday. Mayor Weisbach,
of Tacoma, is also here, and it is freely as
serted that he is engineering the movement.
The report that the Knights Of Labor head
ed the mob to expel the Chinese seems to
have no foundation. While members Of
that organization were in the mob, there is
no evidence whatever that the Knights as
an organization were connected with the
measure.
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Aged Lady Murdered and Burned.

MARTINS FERRY, O., Feb. 5.-Miss Betsy
Job, an eccentric lady eighty years of age,
lived near Mount Pleasant, jefferson
County, almost all her life. She lived
alone, and had no immediate neighbors,
and always expressed herself as feeling Sc
cure in her isolation. Her house was dis
covered to be on fire yesterday morning
but too late to save it, When the fire had
burned itself out, the remains of the old
lady were found burned to crisp. 1t is
supposed that the house was burned by
some one who had murdered and robbed
the old lady, as she always kept large
amounts of money about the place. An il,-
vestigation is being made.
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Woman F0unt Murdered.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. Mrs, F, Lippert was
fou d last night by her husband at Mill
stadt, Centreville, seven miles south Of
Belleville, ILL.,, in an unconscious condition.
An examination of her body showed
that she had been struck on the
temple with a rock, and had sustained a
fracture of the skull which resulted in her
death at 3 O'Clock this morning The per-
son wyo threw the stone is unknown, a. is
also the cause of the assault.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-13
Removal of Police Comm ssioners

COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 3,-Governor Foraker
to-day removed the three Police Commits
sioners of Cincinnati on charges made
against them, thus virtually abolishing the
Board. The Mayor is expected, as custo-
dian of the peace, to take charge of the
police force until new Commissioners are
elected in the spring, or until the head of
the department is defined by new legisla-
ton. Mr.. Refs, one of the Commissioners,
says that they will not recognize the action
of the Governor, claiming that he has no
jurisdiction in the matter and will remain
until the proper authorities-the courts
have decided the matter.
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The Hoistinu of the German Flau.

SAN FRANcIsco. Feb. Captain Hensons
who arrived at Legiep, one of the islands
of the Marshall Group, yesterday relates.
the circumstances of the seizure of Legiep
by Germany last September. He states
that the German Vice Consul captain
and thirty armed men landed from Ger
man warship, and raised the German
flag. against the protest of Mr.. c. H.. In
gals, an American, who is one Of the three
Caucasians engaged in business on the
island. The party, after being on tho
island about forty-five minutes, took tho
flag down and returned to the warship,
which proceeded to other islands in the
group, and repeated similar demonstrs
tions on each of them.
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A Pullman Car Explodes.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.--A curious accident
happened to-day to "ulman palace
sleeping-car. The car, which is heated by
steam, was standing on th' track and was
being heated prior to being sent out. The
water in the pipes had oxen during the
night, and when the fires were started this
the ap Iaratus exploded with q
loud report, blowing out the entire end of
the car. Some of the debris struck houses
near by and damaged them materially.
The damage to the car is estimated at 500
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-13
A Murderer for Money Hanued.

DENVER, Col, Feb, 5.-Si Minioh, one
of the three men who murdered Samuel
Baldwin, near Leadville, on October IS.
1884, for sl,1O0, was hanged in Leadville
this afternoon. Up to yesterday evening
Minich expected Governor Eaton to com.
mute his sentence to life Imprisonment.
He ascended the scaffold with a cigar in
his mouth, smile on his face, and was
launched into eternity denying his guilt to
the last
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-13
The Oriu n of the Conscience Fund.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-There was laid be-
fore the Senate to-day letter from the Sec"
retary of the Treasury in reply to a recent
resolution of the Senate relating to the
conscience fund. The conscience fund.-"
the Secretary says, had its origin in the
popular belief that the donations of money
received from persons unknown were be-
cause of money wrongfully withheld from
the Government The first item to the
credit of the fund was made in lA2, and
the fund now amounts to $220,0W.
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EVANSVILLE, ND, Feb. IA distressing
accident occurred on the farm of W. F.
Grady, situated on the Spotsville road,
four miles from Henderson, KY, in which
Harvey Grady, aged eleven years, was in
stantly killed The boy started from home
on an errand, and in opening large gate
on the road the screws were drawn out OF
the post, which is considerably decayed,
the gate fell on the boys head in such
way as to break his neck, causing instant
death
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-13
Child Friuhtened Into Insanity.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb 3-In the County
Court, to-day, the ten-yearold daughter of
sane, and taken to the asylum, at JAG SON.
vile. The girls insanity is the second case
resulting from the late Wabash shop strike.
Saunders refused to quit work, and was as
saulted by the strikers in the presence of
his family. The acts of violence which en-
sued so excited the little daughter. Ida. as
to throw her into convulsions and ultimate
insanity
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BURNED IN THEIR BEDS.
An Entire Family in Iowa Cremated in the
Ruins of Their House.

McGREGoR, a., Feb. 5.-Albert Cooley.
farmer residing three miles from here,
with his entire family, consisting of his
wife, two boys and one little girl, were all
burned to death in their house last night.
Nothing definite is known of the horrible
affair, except that the children had been
sick and the parents had been up with
them during the night. About morning
Cooley took some Goals from the stove,
placed them in shed adjoining the house
and then retired. The shed took fire and
finally burned the house and family. The
house was one-story log, With an attic.