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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-10-25

Judge-Have you ever seen the
prisoner at tho barP Witness Never.
your honor; but I've seen him when
strongly suspected he had been at II.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-10-25

How does your girl treat you.
JohnP" asked tho mother. She
doesn't treat mo at all. mother; am
obliged TO treat her every time"
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-10-25

Country Grocer (severely) - ANY
thing YOU want TO buy this morningf
Customer (who has been munching
crackers aud cutting off cheese for the
last five minutes. severely -"They Is.
yes; want one dozen close pins; how
much'll they be-"
Grocer-"Four cents"
Customer Qaying down nickel and
reaching for another crackerl--"Take
il out o. that; that's good money, amt
itY' Takes change and goes Quit.
Old Man by the Stove - "Bill likes
your crackers m cheese pretty we'll,
don't he. Mr.. LetliveT'
Grocer" IS long 5 he buys some
thing it's all right. l didn't think he
was goin' 10 buy nothin'."
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-10-25

We ofYer One Hundred Dollars Reward Tor
any csse OF Catairh that can not be cured BY
taking Halls Catarrh Cue.
j. CHENEY 4 CO, Props, Toledo, y.
We, the undersigned, have known II. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe him
perfectly honorable I'm All business transactions,
and financially able 10 carry out any obliga-
slons made by their firm.
West& Truax, WsolesaleDrugglsts,T Toledo, Ohio
Walding, Kinran ~ Marvin, Wholesale Drug.
gists. Toledo. Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure ~ taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces OF the system. Price, zoe. per bottle.
Sold by all Druggists.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-10-25

When you break promise you
weaken the thread by which you hold
your friends confidence.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-10-25

Eternity lie. between to-day and io-mor
row.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-10-25

The postage stamp sticks TO It's business
and says nothing. Gums the word.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-03

MRS. WILMERDING, the Secretary's married
daughter (wrist broken by jumping from a
second-story window and badly bruised).
MISS ALICE WILMERDING, granddaughter of
the Secretary (bruised by jumping from the
window with her mother).
A Thrilling Tragedy.
The story Of the fearful calamity is a thrill
ing one and few unfortunates have suffered
deaths more tragical than those which have
wiped out of existence the brightest features
Of Secretary Tracy's home circle. Mrs. Tracy
endeavored to escape the raging element
by getting out Of her bedroom window, and in
an endeavor to decrease the distance between
that point and the ground hooked on to the
window sill with the delicate and disease-weak-
ened fingers. She fell forty feet into an area
way before anything could be done to
catch her. Death relieved her, al
though she did not apparently suffer much,
within an hour and half of the time of her
fall. Had she delayed her movements couple
of minutes ladders and mattresses and other
means of safe escape would have been at hand.
Miss Mary Tracy was awakened from her
sleep, so the butler says, by his knocking at
her door. She succeeded in reaching the hall
way near the door of the bed room occupied
not little disfgured, she was found by Chief
Paris, who carried her corpse to the street
through sheet Of fame and deadly vapor.
OF the French maids death no one knows
anything, except that she was found in her
room horribly burned and utterly beyond
recognition.
Quick Work Of the Flames.
How the fire originated and when it started
were questions that could not readily be
answered this morning. There was no appear
ance OF fire Visible on the exterior when Letter
Carrier Donovan passed the house shortly before
o'clock this morning, but when few minutes
later he was again in its vicinity the entire
front of the building was enveioped in flames.
An alarm reached engine house No. / at Z
o'clock and following itspeedilywas the sounding
of second and then general alarm. The
flames in the mean time spread with incon-
ceivable rapidity, taking possession of the en-
tire interior and filling the surrounding atmos-
phere with dense clouds Of the blackest smoke.
All Escape Cut on.
About z O'Clock the footman in the house, so
he says, had got his clothes on and was unlock
ing the silver closet to get out the spoons for
breakfast. He had no suspicion Of fire, but
was starting in at his usual work. He slept in
the basement and had had no occasion to go
ON the floor above. The cook, who had
Just got out of bed, started to go up to
the second floor. At the head of the
stairs she turned back crying that the house
was on fire. She and the footman then tried
to rush through the smoke and fame to awake
the family. But they could get no further
than the head OF the basement stairs. The fire
had started on the first floor, cutting the SER
ants quarters in the basement OF from the
sleeping rooms above. AL means Of escape,
except by the upstairs windows, was cut Oh,
and the heat Of the flames bursting into their
rooms was the first thing to warn the family Of
their danger.
The footman and cook ruahsd back ont Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-03

the front basement door, as the footman tells
the story, and when they reached the street
crowd was already assembling Mrs. Wilmerd-
ing and her little daughter were standing in
the window on the second story and the people
outside were running about aimlessly. In q
moment Mrs. Wilmerding and the little girl
jumped. Mrs. Wilmerding broke her wrist in
the fall and both were more or less injured,
but it is not though seriously.
The Work of Rescue.
The first attempt at rescue was made by
Officer Cattell. He had just turned in his usual
o'clock call. the call box being within square
Of the Secretary's house, and was walking
toward the house, when he heard the cries of
fire. He ran to the front of the house. A
crowd was already there. He called to them
to run to the engine house, which is but two
squares away, and as some one rushed in that
direction he ran into the house. All the stair
case was ablaze. He ran through the flames
and reached the second story. In the first room
he entered he saw a man lying on the floor and a
woman evidently trying to get him to the window
The room was full of smoke and the officer
was almost overcome. He dragged the man,
who was Secretary Tracy, into an adjoining
room to a window. The officers strength was
rapidly failing and he cried from the window
for a ladder and for help. He lost sight of the
woman who was in the room, but it
was evidently Mrs. Tracy, for it was from the
window of that room that she leaped. The
officer lifted the Secretary's head to the win
dow sill, and at that moment Chief Paris of
the fire department rushed through the flames
and came TO his assistance. Still. in their ex-
hausted condition the two men could not carry
the weight of the Secretary. But by that time
ladders had been put up to the window and
arms were reached up to take the burden
from them.
A Dash Through the Flames.
Then Chief Paris did heroic thing. The
room in which he and the exhausted officer
stood was all on fire, and the only escape that
seemed possible for them was through the win
dow from which the Secretary was taken. The
staircase was ablaze. The chief saw the
form Of woman lying on the floor
in the hall at the head of the stairs.
1t was Miss Mary Tracy. The chief
ran to her and stopped to pick her up. As he
took hold Of her arms the skin came off in his
hands. She was then dead, but he picked the
body up in his arms and ran down the burning
staircase and out at the front door. The fire
department was then ON the scene and plying
great streams of water on the burning building,
but already the terrible work of the flames
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-03
The Other Apartments.
ALARMING THE HOUSEHOLD.
The Buffers Succinct Story of the
Terrible Tragedy.

James Welch, Secretary Tracy's butler, told
all he knows about the fire to STAR reporter.
He said: II sleep in the basement and this
morning i got up about $50. There was no
smell of fire and no appearance of anything
wrong. At about z o'clock / started TO clean
my dining room, when there was a ring at the
bell, and when / answered it a colored man
said, Your house is on fire. At once rushed
upstairs to arouse the family, and although the
smoke was very thick succeeded in knock
ing at every door and from each one in the
rooms secured response. Then started to
go down stairs and nearly choked with the
smoke. 1 fell three times, but finally got TO
the front door. / went around 10 the rear Of
the house and tried to get a ladder 80 as to
reach the Secretary and Mrs Tracys bed room
Mrs. Tracy was then at the window and while
the few Of us who were there
appealed to her to keep still for
one minute more she climbed out on
the sill and lowered herself until she hung by
her hands on the narrow stone projection.
Everybody who saw her yelled to her to hold
on for a moment and we looked around for
something on which to catch her so as to break
the fall, which had to come. Mrs. Tracy may
have heard our cries, but it is not certain that
she did. The cook, who was on the roof was
screaming SO that we could not hear anything
distinctly. How long did Mrs. Tracy hang
there? Not more than a few seconds. She
told me afterward that she slipped. She fell
into the areaway, almost touching me in her
swift descent q was on the ground leveD and ,
struck on her left side. No sound, save a
little incoherent murmur came from her lips
picked her up and carried her into Mr. Rheems
house. 1t was the most awful occurrence in
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-03

by side and on these Mr.. and Mrs. Tracy slept
last night The brass is tarnished and
everything around is black and soaked
with water. The room is huge
cinder. Pictures are charred and smoke
stained; mirrors cracked; silver-backed hair
brushes and the hundred and one little toilet
accessories are ruined completely. The French
clock on the mantel was silent its pendulum
having ceased TO swing at $40. Dirt and dirty
water had ruined everything that was not i'm
pervious to heat and continuous moisture.
A Dead Pet.
In the adjoining bath room Was Miss Tracy's
pet poodle, with his usually snow-white wood
oegrimed. tie was dead A fireman found
him near the window of the Secretary's room
and believing him to be still alive had put him
near the bathroom window in order that he
might have a chance TO revive. The dog had
probably followed his mistress from her room
on the hoor above and, like her, had given
way to the suffocating smoke.
Between the Secretary's room and the spare
room in front is closet full of the most ex-
pensive feminine attire-Mrs. Tracy's gar
ments. These are uninjurei not even the
smell Of fire being upon them, but on the floor
and scattered around on two or three chairs
were many articles of clothing, most of them
almost unrecognizable.
Mrs. Wilmerdiug's Room.
The two front rooms on the second floor were
occupied by Mrs. wilmerding and her daugh
ter. Miss Alice. These apartments are wrecks.
From the windows, which face on street
these two ladies dropped TO the grass below.
Miss Tracy's Apartment
On the third floor, in the central 'front.' was
the room occupied last night by Miss Tracy.
Ihis was ruin of the most thorough descrip-
hon-charred in every corner. the ceiling gone,
the doors burned out Cinders, ankle deep,
covered the floor, ana what the flames had
spared was destroyed by water.
Adjoining this room on the east was the
apartment which was to be Miss Tracy's per-
manent room aud there was scattered. all
around evidence of preparation On a couple
OF chairs were artists materials paints, brushes
and the other etcetera OF decorative art On
one side of the room was a wooden bedstead-
the only one in the house-and on its head
board the skilful fingers of the pretty girl, now
dead, had shaped festoons OF poppies and
morningglories pendant from true-lovers'
knots. The fire had been more kind here than
elsewhere, and there was still to be traced the
floral forms-now a dirty white on the smoked
ground. The brushes and palette were Just
where they had been dropped by the artist.
The Other Apartments.
The servants rooms in the rear were filed
with the debris from the fallen roof and what
ever may have been in them is done for
From the first floor to the upper story the
toll OF travel is precarious. The steps. still in
place, are by no means secure, and the police,
hremen and reporters, whose duties called them
up stairs, had to move carefully to avoid acci-
dent The balustrades were gone and the
framework of the stairways was covered up
with fragments of burned Nnlber and an
immense amount of fallap ,las,ar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-03
GREAr BARGAINS In FINE GooDs.
TEN PER CENT OFF FOR CASH.

OUR STOCK OF FINE DRESS MATERIALS IS
STILL VERY LARGE, ALTHOUGH WE HAVE
BEEN MAKING GREAT MANY SALES AT RE-
DUCED RATES FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS,
AND THOSE WHO WANT GOOD MATERIALS
WILL FIND 1T TO THEIR INTEREST TO CALL
AND LOOK THROUGH OUR STOCK BEFORE THE
ASSORTMENT Is BROKEN.
TEN PER CENT OFF Is QUITE AN ITEM IN
THE PURCHASE OF NICE DRESS, AND IF WE
WERE NOT OyERSTOCKED WE WOULD NOT
MAKE THE SACRIFICE
We HAVE A FEW FINE BLACK CLOAKs THAT
MUST BE SOLD THIS SEASON, AND WE ARE
OFFERING THEM AT LESS THAN HALF WE
PAID FOR THEM. AND 1HE DISCOUNT OFF BE-
SIDES.
YOU CAN NOW BUY OF Us THE CHEAPEST
BLACK SILK YOU HAVE EVER BEEN OFFERED
N GRoS GRAINS AND FABLES OF THE BEST
BRANDS KNOWN, AND MAKE A CLEAN SAVING
OF Ten CENTS On THE DOLLAR, AND MANY
OF OUR FANCY GOODS IN EVENING MATERIALS
We ARE SELLING AT ABOUT HALF PRICE AND
TAKE THE DISCOUNT OFF BESIDES, AS WE
ARE DETERMINED TO CLOSE THEM OUT THIS
yELyETS AND VELVET ROBES IN GREAT
VARIETY. IN FACT. ANY GOOD JUDGE CAN
FIND MANY EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS DUR
ING THIS SALE
REMEMBER THAT THIS DISCOUNT OF TEN
PER CENT OFF FOR CASH APPLIES TO EVERY
ITEM IN OUR STOCK THAT AMOUNTS To TEN
CENTS. WHETHER WE SELL THEM AT A PROFIT
oR Loss, AND OCCASIONALLY GOOD JUDGE
OF GOODS MAY FIND HaNY EXPENSIVE ARTI-
Giles AT A VERY LOI PRICE
We WISH TO CA/r YOUR PARTICULAR At
TENTION TO OF LARGE STOCK OF MOURN
ING GOODS. ASw CLAIM To KEEP ONE OF
TIE BEST ASSIGNMENTS OF BLACK GOODS TO
BE FOUND IN THIS MARKET, COMPRISING
LUPiN'S HITCHCOCK'S AND OTHER CELE-
BRATED BLACK GOODS, ALL OF WHICH WE
WILL TAKE ILEAsURE IN SHOWING AND YOU
WILL NOT BE PRESSED TO BUY WHAT YOU DO
BOT LIKE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-03
THE IDAHO TEST OATH,
The US. Supreme Court Decides that
1T Is Constitutional.

The Supreme Court of the United States to-
day rendered an opinion affirming the consti-
tutionality of the EdmundsTucker Idaho test
oath, intended to prevent Mormons from
voting. The case came up on an application
for a writ of habeas corpus made by Samuel d.
Davis, who is in Jail in Idaho, having been sem
fenced for unlawfully taking the prescribed
test oath when he was member of the Nor
mon church.
The court denies the application for a writ of
habeas corpus. holding that polygamy is a
crime, and that the constitutional provision
guaranteeing freedom of religion is not in
tended to prevent punishment of any person
who, in the name of religion. commits crime
in the eyes Of the law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-03

Fire in the residence of Secretary Of the Navy
Tracy at 1884 street this morning took away
the lives OF three human beings-two of them
members of the Secretarys family-and COM
pletely destroyed the building and its
contents. The destruction could hardly have
been more complete. In addition to the
death record of this blaze there
were three other persons seriously injured.
The Dead.
The dead are:
Mrs. TRACY, wife of the Secretary Ckilled by
falling from Window.
Miss MARY TRACY, daughter of the Secretary
(suffocated by smoke).
JOSEPHINE MoRELL, the French maid (burned
to death).
The Injured.
The injured ones are:
SECRETARY TRACY (rendered unconscious by
smOke(.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-03
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See certificate OF Prof. Tonry Of the Baltimore Med
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-03

The SHIPPING LEAGUE.-The fourth annual
convention of the American shipping and in
dustrial league will assemble in this city We'd
nesday and continue in session until Fri
day. Letters from the governors of states
and mayors Of cities have been received by the
secretary, appointing delegates and expressing
their sympathetic cooperation in this economic
work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-03
FOREMAN BOSS ACCOUNT.
The Work of Rescue-The First Scenes
at the Fire.

Charles Boss who is the foreman of No. 1
engine which was the first to reach the scene
of the fire, said to a STAR reporter: 81 was
awakened by yell of 'Firer looked at my
watch; it was four minutes to z. Jumped out
of bed and turned the engine out When We
reached the house mass of flames was
pouring out of the first or parlor floor. turned
in the alarm and immediately afterwards gen.
eral alarm. Two women, who 1 afterward.
found were Mrs. Wilmerding and her daughter,
were at the second-story window front and
were
Screaming for Help.
'I yelled to them not to jump, but almost in
stantly one of them jumped, falling on the park
ing. We ran up a ladder which was short aud
were preparing to put the other extension on
when the other woman jumped. She struck
on the ladder and bounded of, also falling on
the parking. We fought our way in the front
door and up the stairs, which we're
One Sheet Of Flames.
We found Secretary Tracy and his Younger
daughter in an unconscious condition. We
brought the young lady out the front way. She
was still breathing slightly, although she was
very far gone. Other men took the Secretary
out the back way. 8
mo flames were coming from the basement
floor, and as far as I can judge at present the
fire originated on the first floor"
A POLICEMAN'S STORY.
The First Man to Reach the Secretary
Room.
Policeman Cattell was the first person .
reach the Secretary's room.
vania avenue and 18th street and then walked
along 18th street in the direction of the Secre-
tary's house. Just after crossing ii street he.
heard considerable noise and heard some one
call ''Firei"
Running to the corner he saw the flames
Pouring From the Windows.
He went to the front door, but it being
locked he turned and went TO the basement
door. Finding that door unlocked he entered
the house and made his way to the stairway,
and after some dificulty he managed TO press
through the smoke and flames to the upper
floors. In the smoke-flled rooms the ofhcer
felt about TO see If he could find any one and
finally he entered the second-story back room,
Stumbling Over . Body.
On the hoor was something that impeded hi.
progress. Shopping 10 zee what il was he dis-'
covered it was the body Of . person that after,
ward proved 10 be Secretary Tracy. The ofaose
tried in vain 10 haul the Secretary over TO the
window and was still endeavoring 10 do -
when Chief Paris arrived.