Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-09
BUSINESS BLOCKS COLLAPSE

certificates gives them PrOvisiona
oues signed by the court"
BUSINESS BLOCKS COLA PSE.
AKRON, o., Nov. 9.-Two Howard
street business blocks collapsed Sat
urday afternoon, and it is feared
several persons are buried in the
ruins. One of the blocks was four
story brick building, with a stone
front, occupied by Herrick & Sons.
crOckery dealers. The other was IL
brick, three stories high, and was
occupied by the bakery and confec-
tiouery of :. B. Laferty. About
twenty people were in the dining
room i'm the rear of the bakery
when the omin0us cracking began.
They rushed out at the back door
and all escaped. a number OF
clerks and some customers in both
stores were painfully cut and bruised
by the flying debris while making
their es cape, bat only Francis Miner
aud Walter Stanly are thought TO
be fatally burt. HerricS and Lafferty
both say all their clerks got out, bul
an eye witness says he saw two or
three persons on the sidewalk in !
front Of Herrick's store when the !
cash came, and that they must bt
buried there. The debris Is piled VI |
Dn the sidewalk ten feet deep, and |
he fire department is removing il |
rs rapidly as possible. The wall be- !
ween the blocks has been gradually
undermined in the last few years by
water from an OverflOwed sewer.
)ne block was pronounced unsafe
ago, and Herrick says yes
erday be called the attention of the
'wner to the loose and crumtlin
rick in the cellar wall.
1t is asserted nobody was turied
n the ruins, as at first suppos' d.
INDICTING NEWSPAPERS.
PORTLAND, Nov. 9.-Tbe United
tates grand jury in session last
brought in indictments
gainst two newspapers, the Town
ak of Astoria, and the Sunday
lercury of Portland. The former
charged with sending lottery
latter through the mails, in
lat it placed in the mails
sues of certain dates in which it {
lblished list of cash prizes I
to $500, which it pro-
osed to give to those " no secured
lbscribers to that paper, contrary
the provisions of section 1884 OF
he Revised Statutes, as amended
act of congress.
The Mercury is indicted on two
'unts for sending obscene matter
trough the mails. The articles
pom which the charges are based |
in issues of the paper
nder dates of December %, 1890,
nd February 81, 1891,
Indictments have also been found
,ainst Emma Spaulding of Eugene
+ sending an obscene letter tu
airy Pogue, also of Eugene, on
eoruary 25 last, and also against
fired Alpin OF Champ leg for mail /
& vile and obscene letters and
'stal cards to Miss Lilly McAllister.
KILLED INSTANTLY.
PORTLAND, Or, Nov. &C. NJ.
ennis, employed at the Portsmouth \
ills. fell distance of one hundred
et today aud was Instantly killed.
REED DIsCHARGED.
EUGENE, Or, Nov. 9.-In the
'se OF Fred Reed, the timber land
the five indictments stand
Ig against him were dismissed ON I
smurrer. Judge Pipes held that /!
lie parties who made the complaint /
ere guilty of "A criminal act in con-
acting with Reed To secure land :
r speculative purposes, and all ap- :
Jared to have eonsplred to defraud
le government. He held that the
'mplaining witness knew that he
al to committe a crime TO fulfill
Is promise, hence an indictment for
'taining money under false
'omises could not stand. Reed was