New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-08-08

BADLY rhab' t5hey viii probably die, werere-
moved to yazious hospitals. The house was
q ranshaekle affair hidden IN the middle of
the block, the only entrance to it being Al
narrow alleyWay from the Bowery. In this
cagedin building lived 15O people, Each of
the SIX floors WAS occupied by single.
family, the head of which was a
tailor who made clothing for the cheap
wholesale clothing houses and employed
from fifteen to- twenty men, women and chill
dren. IN addition to his family, IN making
up the clothing They we're all Polish Jews
who worked, ate and slept in the crowded
raoms. While all the occupants of the build.
, lie were buslly at work, flames broke out
| on the lower floor; The fire had, when dis
covered, already gained such Roadway that
it was in full possession of the stairway
and escape by it seemed impossible
Many of the frightened inmates
rushed down through the flames
and escaped to the narrow court
yard with clothes ablaze and hands and
bodies burned. Six of them were so severely
burned thai they may die. There were fire
| escapes on the front and rear of the house.
but before any of the inmates had tried to
escape by them the flames had assembled
through the house and were reaching from
the windows, SO, that descent by the fire.
escapes was impossible. One man, already
half burned to- death, leaped from a fifth
story window and fell mangled mass
of flesh in the Little court yard Others
jumped from the second story windows and
escaped with bruises One poor woman lay
upon her back IN a littlestore in the Bowery
with not only her clothing but her hair burned
off. She was unconscious. and the surgeon
said she would not live to reach the hospital.
Another young girl was delirious with pain
She was not so badly burned as the Others,
but in a mad jump from one of the windows
she had received internal injury, and also cut
| q terrible cash in the side of her head from
| which the blood gushed FORTH
Charles W. Norman, property man of the.
| Peoples theater, which adjoins the burned;
| building, with several of his comrades, ran to.
the roof OF the theater, carrying a small
| ladder. which they stretched over to a win.
| dow of the burning building. A woman with.
| her hair. and clothes already ablaze ap-
| peared al the window, and Norman called to
| her o,oross over on the ladder She cried
/ back, that she could not leave her two chill,
| dren.. Norm an tried to cross over on the
/ ladder; but the flames drove him back and.
| he could not save her Afterwards tina
/ charred bodies of the mother and two chill
dren we're found in the building After the
! fire the fireman found thirteen bodies in the
| building. That of the man who leaped from
1 the fifth story window increased the death
| list to fifteen, while it is feared that the
/ death of some if not all those in the hospi.
tails will make this number greater. Several
| of the bodies were burned so badly that they
fell apart when moved, and the fremen were
obliged to lower them from the windows in
| nets.
| The report of the Missouri river commission
for the year ended June 80 says that no
| money was appropriated for continuing i'm
proyement on this river last year and no
4 progress was made. The commission ask
for $l ,OOO, 900 for general improvements be-
| low Kansas City, and a like sum from the
| mouth of the river to Sioux City. 1T also
asks for $3.50, 200 to continue surveys, ex-
1 amlnations and pay personal expenses Of
1 the commissioners.
1t is doubtful whether Congressman W. T..
1 Scott of Pennsylvania will be able to take an
| active part in the campaign. He is seriously
i'll at the house of his daughter at Long
Branch. He is a man of slight physique, ex-
tremely nervous, the head of great business
enterprises. he aspired, besides, to be the
| chief adjutant of the administration and the
1 executive of the campaign. He has broken
| down.
The lecture delivered by Prof. Goodwin
Smith at Winnipeg on the question of our
trade relations with the United States was
most successful. The audience was unani-
nous for reciprocity.
| For the last ten days the weather has
been bitterly cold in some parts of Inver-
nesshire, Scotland, and there was a fresh fall
/ OF snow on the Grampian range. Snow COM
pletely covered the Glenfeshie hills, and in
the Corries it lay to depth of six inches.
The Thermometer registered AT deg, on the
| grass. The effect on the principal moors in
| Scotland will be disastrous
| Ex-senator James G. Fair was attacked at
| San Francisco by amannamed Eisfelder, who
| drew revolver, and was knocked down by
| blow on the head from the butt of the ex-sen-
l or ro MIC al icfn1 hoI 10
publish ascurrilous article against Mr.. Fair
| IT the latter did not pay him $4,000. The
| difficulty occurred on the steps of the Nevada
/ bank.
| Mr.. Noyes, postmaster at Goodwin, Mimi.
| together with his wife and two other ladies'
went in bathing III the Crow river. Mr.. Noyes
| yentured out over his depth, and before any
| assistance could reach him, was drowned.
/ He was a young man, twenty -seyen years of
age.
| A few months ago William T. Shaw, a
stranger, opened a wholesale liquor house in
Sioux Fall, Oak Lately William Roth of
! Norwich, Conn, arrived, and had Shaw ar
rested on charge of adultery, claiming
that he was living with his (Roth's) wife. It
seems from the best information obtainable
that Roth, who was cashier of the Shetucket
National Bank of Norwich, Conn, was on
Feb. %, 1885, sentenced for four years in
1 the penitentiary for perjury for swearing to
a false statement Of the condition of the
| bank, but was recently pardoned by Presi-
| dent Cleveland. During his imprisoD ment
Shaw won the affections of Roth's wife and
eloped with her, bringing up in Sioux Falls
last spring.
Thepostal authorities are after William
Raines Colby, formerly of Chicago. but now
of San francisco, for the robbing of mail
car in 1874, near Austin, Tex Colby, in
1879, under the name of Raines, was pastor
of a Baptist church at Hearne Junction in
Texas, where he robbed a mail car, for which
crime he was sent to the penitentiary. He
count of a severe illness which he thought
to be fatal. After that he figured as a spir-
itualistic medium in New York. San Francis
CO. Boston and Chicago Shortly after he
was pardoned out of hepenitentiary it was
discovered that he was the man who COM
mitted the robbery near Austin mentioned
above, and it is for this crime the authorities
| want him.
Among the passengers on the steamer
Rotterdam, at New York, was the Rev. J. V.
l Dunc as of Rica co11ntp Mimi who rod