Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-16

I roof. The guests made hasty exit
andlit seemed aim ,st certain the hote
; wonld be destroyed, together with
p ihe Weddeli house, which adjoins il
9 on the east. A general call fol
e steamers wes made, and ten engines
were soon at work. One of the first
steamers to arrive was No. |, and
. Captain John Grady and Fireman
/ Michael Hawley aud Charles Ward
, Of the same company carried line
into the burning building. An in
stant later one of the floors fell,
crushing Captain Grady to death
T and seriously injuring Hawley aud
Ward. Grady's body was recovered
and the two other injured men were
sent to the Aospital, where they are
reported to be in critical condition.
After hours of hard work the fir.
men gained mastery of the fire
saved two hotels and confined III,
flames to the Frankfort street huilI
ings. The total loss will aggregate
1926, 900. The insurance is aboui
$l75, 0CJ.
NEWSPAPER OFFICE BURNED.
NORFOLK, Va, Nov, 16. "A fire
broke out 10 the Virginian office at
10 O'clock yesterday morning and
soon burned out the interior of the
building. The stock and material
of the office were destroyed, AS well |
as most of the files. The loss is |
heavy, but at this time it cannot be
estimated.
A RELIC OF SLAVERY DAYS.
CLEVELAND, o.. Nov. 16.-The
Methodist general missionary com
mittee struck the old snag of rela-
tionship between the church north
and the church south Saturday.
to appropriations for south
ern territory appeared in several
quarters, and Bishop Foster made
All impassioned speech in which he
said he had seen the effects of
northern interference with the field7
occupied by the southern church,
which were so terrible that he would
not describe them. The matter is
though the sum of $500
was voted to Alabama missions.
SAM sMALL's LIEUTENANT BEATEN. 9
ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 14.-Sam q
principal lieutenant i'm the g
contest, A. Murphy, C
vas attacked Saturday on the street {
~ City Editor Hawtel and Re i
porter Hastings of the Journal. All
parties used heavy canes, and all
got broken skulls before the police .
the fight to a close. This ,
ncOunter following Blrkeeper Mil b
er's assault on Sam Small gives the 81
lurid tinge. II
DENY THEIR CONNECTION. tC
RACINE, Wis, Nov. 16.-John IL IL
henderson and his brother-in-law,
Solph White, deny emphatically ~ ~
lat they bad anything TO do with n
le train robbery at Western Union 4,
lnction. They were suspected by m
he det actives, who found near the p,
,ene OF the robbery shells which le
tied the gun rented By Henderson. ar
hey insist they were out hunting th
nd never saw Western UEion be
lh"tlOn in their lives. The officers
ere regard their story as true. 1t tn
reported that suspicious charac- sh
r was arrested here, but there is no tn
rsitive Information. nc
EW USE FOR AN ARTEsIAN WELL.
PULLMAN, Wash, Nov. 16.-Rpll-
ans arte-ian water, as a motive
wer, is for the first time being
ilizad. A sausage mill is being on
Grated hy this means. The flow ru
IN the Crawford we'll is raised pc
out two feet from the ground in oe
cinch pipe and then thrown Biz
wn 4 Wordon wheel, three feet in ah
'meter, having cups on the outer so 60
se. The wheel is keyed to shaft ~ ~
at turns the revolving block and sIo M
: choppers and works in an en- tb,
ely satisfactory manner. 20,