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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-17
AMONG THE HORSES.
Programme and Entries for
Stakes of the Rochester
Meeting.
Study Of the Character and
Capabilities Of Mans Best
Friend.
Mike Dryer, Spectator on
Speed--PointerS as to
Breeding.
Ancient Horses and Horse
men--Notes Of Paddock
and Track.

Monday. Aug. 81, is the opening day
of the Rochester, Mimi, fair, and the
race meeting begins Tuesday, Sept. l.
For the latterS7. 900 in stakes and purses
is offered, and it gives promise Of being
one of the most successful meetings Of
the year. Following are the programme
and entries for the stake events:
Tuesday. Sept. 1-Two-year-old trotters
(stake race closed. thirteen entries. purse
S425; three-year-old trotters sake race
closed nine entries, purse $50; rs class
trOtterS. purse 500
"Wednesday. sept. 2-Three- year-old PAGERS,
association adds. purse SiJJ: 2:49 class rot
tiers purse $500; 2:24 class PAGERS, purse SUI
Thursday. Sept 2-2:21 class trOtters. purse
$500; 2:55 class PAGERS, purse $685. 2;35 class
Friday. Sept. Four-year-old trotters
stake closed, ten entreS), purse 500; 2;lS
class racers, purse SSOo; PA class trotters.
purse $50.
ENTERED IN STAKE RACES.
TwO-yeaT-Old stake raee-Ruby Wilkes by
Empire Wilkes, entered by ParSOn Bros,
Dodge Center: Monitor by Madison smith,
Gates x Dugau. EvOla: Beth B by Fayette
King + L. Barnard, Chaltield; Enghshman
by Madison Smith. ". Il. Pearson. ROch-
ester: Maud Wright by SilIs Wright, SlmOnds
Il Clough Rochester; Cole by Sllas
Wright G. D. Cole, Lake Benton'
LaVlEa by " OOQ1OTQ likes U. ". cIIcl-
wood. ST. Paul; ShekeI by Filbert. John l..
La Du, Rochester; Ed Weaver b. De Leon e.1r.
r. NJ Dodd. Mortified; Gold Coin by Silas
Wright. j. A Wagner. Rochester; Star Mon
arck by Madison Smith. F. NJ. Millet, Hamil-
ton: DEBORAH Chief by DEBORAH, Smith 4
Russell, La eros. e.
Three-year.old stake race-Dr; Mayo by
Hamdalah, T. r. Hymes. Rochester; Tess
Templar by Silas Wright c. II. Roberts,
Rochester; Kas.on by Woodford Wilkes. }.
B. Gray Hampton, To-; E by Empire
Wilkes, Z. J. Moran, Faribault; Kandiota by
" oodford Wilkes, q. ". Sherwood, St. Paul;
KING Princeps by Count Princeps, Baldwin
Park stock Farm, Lake City: Helen L by Sill
vernail. c. D. Cole, Lake Benton; Amanda
by Madison Smith F. ". Miller Hamilton.
-Four ear-old stake race-General Grant
by Star Jr J. A. Wardell, Tracy; King Gains
by King Of the West W. j. NOchreiner, Roch-
ester; Corn Planter by Hamdallan. W. II.
Pearson, Rochester; A L I by Hamdallah, j:
E. Kicker, Rochester; Juno by Woodtord
Wilkes. a. L. Emmert. Sibley, 10; Juliet
Wilkes by WoodfOrd Wilkes. G. ". Sher-
wood. st. Paul; Sanborn by Dixie, 5; san
born, Chicago; Paragon by Hamdallah, L. W.
BOaIdman, Rochester.
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CONTRACT WORK-PAVING AND SEW
- ERING EAST SIXTH STREET-Ofice
of the Board of Public Works, City of st.
Paul. Mimi, Aug. &, 1S9l.-Sealed bids will
be received by the Board of Public Works
in and for the corporation of the City of st.
Paul, Minnesota, at their office in said city,
until u m on the 18th day of August A. D.
1891. for paving with cedar blocks, curbing
with granite and constructing a sewer on
East Sixth street, from Rosabel street to~the
southwesterly end of the Sixth street bridge
$50 called) in said city, including the
necessary sewer connections to the
property lines, according TO plans and
Specifications on file in the Office Of
said Board. A bond with at least TWO (2) sure
ties, i'll a sum of at least twenty (2O per cent,
or a certified check on bark of st. Paul in a
sum of at least ten Q0) per cent of the gross
amount bid. must accompany each bid. SAID
check shall be made payable to the Clerk of
said Board.
The said Board reserves the right to reject
any and all bids.
r. L. GORMAN, President.
Official: j. II. KERKER,
Clerk Board of Public Works.
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Tins for To-Day.

Saratoga-Entries same as Saturday. Post
poned on account of rain.
Hawthorne, ChIcago-Pearl Jennings and
Dr. Iceman, Argenta and Marie X King Mac
and Powers, Marmosa and POmfret, Addie
and Invercauld.
Guttenburg-Mar and Petulamt colt, Ran
cecas and Whitenose. RinfaX and Autocrat.
Banquet and KenwoOd, Brussels and Jay @
L, BallstOn and Doodle.
Garfield, Chicago-Bob McCart and Bill
Nye, Jed and Hindoo Lass. Take Notice and
Lakeview, Guido and DonatellO. Cevert0n
and ]. Richeneu. Arundel and Osborne.
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CORRECTION OF ASSESSMENT FOR
- SEWER ON ST. ANTHONY AVENUE,
FROM DALE STREET TO FISK STREET
Office of the Board of Public Works, City
of st. Paul, Mimi, Aug. Is, 1s01.-To W. G.
Jones' ". Ii. Geiselman and all other persons
interested: The Board Of Public Works in
and for the corporation of the City of St.
Paul, Minnesota, will meet at their office in
said city at 2 P. M. on the oath day OF Au-
gust, 1891. to correct the assessment of ben
efts costs and expenses arising from the
construction of sewer on st. Anthony ave-
hue, from Dale street to Fisk street, in
said city, as to ownership, description of and
amount, as the case may be, on the following
described property, to wit: Lot 3, block !,
Edwin Deans second addition to St Paul, so
as to conform to the facts and rights of the
case as intended.
All persons interested are hereby notified
to be present at said time and place of max
ing said correction. and will be heard.
r. L. GORMAN. President.
Official: J. T. KERKER,
Clerk Board of Public Works.
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TO-DAY'S ENTRIES.
Horses Scheduled to Start at
Three Tracks.

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-The entries for
to-morrow's races at Gutenberg are:
First race, half-mile, MISUNDERSTANDING,
Elsinore colt, us; Yeracity gelding, Bonnie
Harold FLY. Lillian N. Rotherhill FLY, rs;
Archie Collins, Petulant colt, Mart, 10S; Sc
lab, Maxim FLY, Natalie s, Doneaster Lass
FLY, EXcelenZa FLY. 105.
Second race, six and half furl0ngs, selling
-Rancocas, ~; Neptune, 100; White Nose,
106; Mohican, 105; Extra, Climax, 90; W IL,
95; Hannibal, %; May D, 81; Zenobia, 90;
Belle d, Vital Spark. 70.
Third race, five furlongs, handicap-Rin-
fax. 120; Autocrat, rs; Meriden, 1l2; Sails
bury, 10: Mohican, Ecstacy, les; Dixie, 106;
Houston, Zenobla, 102; Pedestrian, "a; Laugh
ing Water %; Tom Hayes, 90.
Fourth race, mile and sixteenth, handi-
cap-Banquet lis; Autocrat 10; Longford,
109; Kenwood, Rambler los; King Hazen,
102; Folsom. 80; ElytOn, 90; Kimberly, o.
Fifth race, mile, selling-TOrchlight 116;
Blackthorn, 112; Brussels, 104; Jay GU FL,
lG2; Romance, ~; Austral, 81; Cascade, "a
Craft rs; Theodosius %.
Sixth race nile, selling-The Forum. 100;
MacAulsy. 105; Rallston, 104; Bonnie King
"a: Quibbler, 90; Adelina, 81; Doodle, 50;
Carmelite, 50; Maid of Blarny, 101.
GARFIELD PARK, CHICAGO.
First race, maidens, six furlongs- Ida Bees
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Trotting and Pacing.

At Chicago Monday afternoon will
begin the largest and most important
trotting and pacing meeting ever held
in the West. 1t is believed that more
than 600 horses will be housed in the
stables. The event of the meeting will
be the match race between Margaret S
(2:l216), who defeated AllertOn at De-
troit last year, and Nancy Hanks.
Nancy has not yet lost race. Both
mares are five-year-Olds and of the high
est order of trOtters, and if they bring
their speed with them some rare trotting
can be looked for. Attempts at rec I'd
breaking will be made by Pussy Cat, a
PAGER. and by MOnbars, a trOtter. The
affair is under the care OF the North
western Breeders association.
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CONTRACT WoRK-GRADING ALLEY,
~ BLOCK II, LEWIS SECOND ADD
TION Office of the Board of Public Works.
City of st. Paul, Mimi, Aug II, 1S91.-Sealed
bids will be received by the Board of Public
Works in and for the corporation of the City
of ST. Paul, Minnesota, at their Office in
said city, until II m. on the oath day of Au
gust AID. 1891, for grading the alley in block
II. Lewis Second addition in said city, ac-
cording to plans and specifications on file
in the Office of said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) suIeties. in a
sum of at least twenty (20) per cent, or a
certified check on a'bank of St Paul in q
sum of at least ten Q0) per cent OF the gross
amount bid must accompany each bid.
Said check shall be made payable to the
Clerk of said Board
The said Board reserves the right to reject
anyand all bids
R. L. GORMAN, President.
Official: j. T. KERKER,
CLERK Board of Public Works.
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RUIN BY CYCLONES.
Missouri, Nebraska, Illinois and
Indiana Affected,

KANSAS CITY. Aug. 15.-This city
was treated to deluge this morning,
such as has rarely been experienced
here. One and a quarter inches of
water fell within fifteen minutes.
The deluge was accompanied by
heavy thunder storm. The telephone
lines were burned out all over the city,
and seven houses were struck and
greatly damaged by lightning. The
house of Ben Williams, at Independ-
ence, was struck and set on fire, being
damaged to the extent of $4,000.
Williams and his wife were rem
dered unconscious for short time,
and barely escaped with their lives.
HAsTINGs. Neb,, Aug, l5.-One of the
worst electrical STORMS known for years
visited this city last night. The Wind
ragged furiously and the raip fell in
sheets for two hours. Hundreds of PEG
pie took refuge IN their cellars in an
ticipation of a cyclone. Fully twenty
cottages in different parts of the city
were wrecked, and immense damage
was done to fruit and crops.
VANDALIA, H.. Ahg. 15.-Yesterday,
during the progress of storm. a neph-
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CONTRACT WoRK-GRADING ALLEY
- IN SOUTH p OF SMITHS SUBDIYIS-
ION OF BLOCK Il. sTINSON'S DIVISION
Office of the Board Of Public Works, City
of St. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 10, 1S91.-sealed bids
will be received by the Board of Public
Works in and for the corporation of the City
of St. Paul, Minnesota, at their Office in said
city, until 12 N. on the 18th day of August,
a. d. 1891, for grading the alley in south half
of Smiths subdivision of block H. Stinsons
division. in said city, according to plans and
specifications on file in the Office of said
Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties, in
sum Of at least twenty COY per cent. or
certified check on bank of St Paul in a
sum OF at least ten (6) per cent of the gross
amount bid. must accompany EACH bid. Said
check shall be made payable to the Clerk of
said Board.
The said Board reserves the right to reject
any and all bids
R. L. GORMAN, President
Official: j. r. KERKER
Clerk Board of Public Works.
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CONTRACT WORK - GRADING Nc
- MENEMY STREET-Otfice of the Board
OF Public Works, City of st. Paul, MINI, Aug
G, 1901 Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Public Works in and for the cor
poration of the City of St. Paul, Minnesota,
at their office in said city, until II m. on the
1Stn day of August, a. D. 1891, for grading
McMenemy street from Case street to the
north city limits, in said city, accord
ing to plans and specifications on file
in the office of said Board. A bond
with at least two (2) sureties in a
sum of at least twenty (20) per cent or
certified check on a bank of st. Paul in a sum
of at least ten Q0) per cent of the gross
amount bid, must accompany each bid. Said
check shall be made payable to the Clerk of
said Board.
The said Board reserves the right to reject
any and all bids.
R. L. GORMAN, President
Official: j. T. KERKER,
Clerk Board of Public Works.
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TIN WARE

CONTRACT WORK PAVING EAST
~ FOURTH STREET-Ofiee of the Board
OF Public Works, City Of st, Paul. Mimi, Aug.
Il. 1691.-Sealed bids will be received BY the
Board of Public Works in and for the corpo
ration Of the City Of St. Paul, Minnesota, at
their office in said city, until IL m. on the 9th
day Of August A D. 1901, for paving East
Fourth ktreet from Broadway to the paving
under the st. Paul q Northern Pacific rail-
way, Ia said city, with cedar blocks and curb
with granite, according to plans and specif-
cations on file in the Office Of said Board,
4 bond with at least two (2) sureties, IN a
sum Of at least twenty (2O} per cent, or GER
tilted check on a bank Of St. Paul in a sum
Of at least ten DO per cent of the gross
amount bid, must accompany each bid Said
check shall be made payable to the Clerk OF
said Board.
The said Board reserves the right to reject
any and ali bidE.
Official: J. T. KERKER,
Clerk Board of Public Works,
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MIKE DWYER'S METHOD.
A Shrewd and Bold Spectator on
Races.

So much has been SAID recently about
NJ. F, Dryers big winnings that peo-
pie who do not know his methods may
begin to believe that he is great gam
bier. But Mr.. Dryer is hardly as much
a gambler as he is a shrewd and bold
Spectator, in whom there is nothing of
the fever and excitement of the gam
bling spirit. When he sends his money
into the ring it is after he has carefully
compared the relative merits of the
horses in the race he bets On. His bets
are made without even pretense of eg,
tnbsiasm or feeling, and his motley IS
placed with very much the same conf
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ADVERTISED.
List of Unclaimed Letters Re-
naming in the POstOiaice- st.
PnuuI AuS. II. 1891.

Free delivery of letters by carriers at the
residence of owners may be secured by OBJ
serving the following rules:
First-Direct plainly to the street and num-
Der of the house.
Second-Head letters with the writer's full
address, including street and number, and
request answers to be directed accordingly.
itors in the city, whose special address may
be unknown, should be marked in the left
hand corner transient" This will pre-
vent their being delivered TO persons OF the
same or similar names.
Fourth-Place the postage stamp on the
upper right hand corner and leave space be-
tween the stamp and directions for post
marking without defacing the writing.
Persons calling for letters in this list will
please say they are advertised; otherwise
they will not receive them.
WILLIAM LEE. Postmaster
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ew of State Senator Farmer. of this city,
took shelter under tree with his team,
when bolt of lightning struck the tree,
killing the young man and both horses
instantly
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DIED.

WARREN-In st. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 10, 1891,
atfamily residence No. 422 lglebart street,
George II. Warren, aged sixty-two wears.
Funeral from late residence today at p.
m Friends ale invited.
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FACTS AND FANCIES.

To tone up the system and stimulate
the appetite, take Angostura Bitters.
DR.. J. &. B, Siegert & Sons, sole manu-
facturers. AT all druggists.
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"KIDD'S GERM ERADICATOR''
Positively Cures All Diseases.

Because it kills alGerms Bacteria, Parasites, Mi
crobes and Animalcule in the system. The air, wa
ervegetables fruit are ull OF these worms, causing
Catarrh Consumption, Diabetes and Brights
Disease Cancers Tumor (never known to iail to
cure Catarrh and syphilis, and all so-called in
durable diseases: retailed in s. So and So Sizes sent
on receipt OF price This is the only genuine arti
Gle Am. Pill and Med. Co., Props, Spencer. 10.
We issue guarantees to Faber & Co., Cor. 9TH
and Wabasha sts. Lyons drug store 227 E. It'll ST.,
ST. Paul, and in Minneapplisb by Wellersdrug store.
corner Sixth and NicolleI avenues.
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Chicago, st. Paul & K. City Ry. trains leave
- union eepot 7:45 a. m. ex. Sunday, 7:3o P
NJ. ar. daily 1870 q. II. daily IL 30 p N. ex. SIM
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iEx. SUM-; Elk Sat-; Daily; Sun. only.
TICKET OFFICES
Chicago, Burlington & Northern Railroad

Leaves for Chicago, st. Louis and down
river points, 1850 a. m; arrives, 1:45 D. N.
daily, except Sunday.
Leaves for Chicago and st. Louis, 7;3o ..
m. !; arrives, 7.S5 a. M, daily.
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Ticket Omces-loJ East Third street. ST:
Paul; Is Nicollet House, Minneapolis, and
Union Depots in St Paul. Minneapolis and
Saltwater Minneapolis. st. Parl and Still
water Trains-Leave st. Paul II: Il, s:35. s9:19.
9:35 and As a. m and 2:05. s2:10. 4:0j. 3:h
6 30, 3D. 9:45 and t1G:25 p. m. Returning.
eaveStillwater 1852, 1880, $40, 9:40and sl0:31
a. M. and +12:0s, 40 4:05 $40, $50. 610and
LBS p. m. (*Daily. Tex. Sun. TEX. Mon.
SUNDAY only.)
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Roberts Arthur Lee
Robson Miss Martha
Robinson G A
Rochester Mr.
Rodgers w K
Rose J D
Ross Miss Mary
Rucks @ A
Ruth Mrs Kate
Rutledge Asa
Ryan John
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ME
| Samson L
/ Saucks E "
Sanburn 5
Schiller Miss Viola
Schmitt Habert
| Schmitt Miss NJ
| Seavers Minnie
Semkler Mrs + j
| Severance Judge NJ j
| Seymour Mrs JennieC
ShoWley Mrs Chas
| Oshea Miss Josie
| Sheean Geo
| Shem Mrs E
| Shimmick Rev VIM
Shlashanfer Miss FL.
ner
SiInington Geo
Smiley Thos
Smith Mrs Annie
Smith E P
Smith Henry A
| Smith ! r
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Schultise Emma
= schumacher b p
Schwalen II
SchWan " j
Schwartz Miss Lizzie
Schyorley Mrs Hannah
Scoot Charles L
Scoot " b
Smith Mrs Kate
Smith NJ
Soil Miss Sarah A
Stenham Miss Annie
} Stenstro Miss Bertha
Stebhansen Miss Erik
ka
shrenmann Jacob il
StoWell VIM A
Stratton Robt
: Suderh Chas
Sulliven Miss Anna E
Sullivan Michael
Sunde Miss Luwill
SvensOn John j
Sconson Miss Mare
Swanson Miss LOttie
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Anderson August
Anderson Miss Annie
Anderson Miss Tilda
Anderson Gust
Anderson John
Antrit Gottfried
Bourke Miss Mollie
Branch Dete
Bremen Mrs Annie
Brennan Mrs Tom
Brisbin y B
Brockoway Miss Lizzie
Bromtletter r E
Brown Chas
Brunell Miss Mary
Bryant John W
Bugner Moritz
Burr Edwin II
Burke Paddy
Burns Tom
BuyZeri Alfons
Byrnes Miss Cora
Cone Miss Mary
Conley Mrs Jennie
CnnlaV Mrs
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postponed the Funeral.

The funeral of Charles Stahl, which was
advertised to take place in Milwaukee the
other day, has been indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. Stahl was an inmate of the Soldiers
Home and his wife received telegram
from the governor of the home informing
her that her husband had died. Death
notices were inserted in the papers and
meetings of two lodges and union to
which Mr.. Stahl belonged were called to
make arrangements for attending his fun
eral. The relatives had all preparations
made for the funeral, even to buying their
mourning clothes. M -. -
When AN undertaken with coffin drove
out to the Soldiers Home to secure the body,
to his surprise he found Charles Stahl in the
best OF health, and the latter was no less
surprised to learn of his death from the
undertaken. AS result of an investiga-
tien it was found that mistake had in
some way been made in the names, Fred.
erick Stahl being the name of the dead
man instead of Charles. Mr.. Stahl accom-
panied the undertaken back to the city and
walked into the presence of his mourners,
and the house of mourning was suddenly
turned into one Of joy. = Philadelphia
Ledger ~. sstS - tFi- s-5 Il Es-lO
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Points ON Penper.

Pepper in its natural state, that is, in the
kernel, is the fruit of a plant of creeping or
climbing habit and of branching growth.
1t attains Il height of some thirty feet. Its
leaves are snort stemmed, uniform and
pointed. On the immense East Indian pep
per plantations the young cuttings are set
out in long rows and trained on poles. In
this particular it bears a striking resem-
blance to hop field. The plant bears fruit
in its first year, but not to any great ex-
tent. 1t is most prolific from it's fourth to
its twentieth year, during which period
the annual yield of single plant is from
nine to eleven pounds on the average
The harvest season commences as soon
as the uniform little green berries begin to
turn red. They are then plucked and
spread out on great platters to dry in the
SUMS warm rays, or by means of a slow
fire. This treatment causes the outer shell
to shrivel and turn black. White pepper
is gathered from the same plant as the
black pepper, the distinction being that the
former is ground from ripe berries, from
which the outer black shell has first been
removed. Because of this thorough ma
turity of the berry and the absence of the
outer shell it is much milder than the
black. ~
The strongest species of black pepper is
known as the "Piper officinarum." Its
fruit, the berry, is long. having reddish
gray exterior and very dark interior.
Another, not belonging to the pepper fam
lily proper, but coming under the night
shades (Solanum), is the Spanish pepper
(Capsicus longum), whose cleaning red
fruit is too familiar to require detailed
Exchange.
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The novel sight of burning charcoal
wagon being pursued by a fire engine Gre
ated considerable excitement on State
street, Chicago, the other evening. Short
>ly after dusk a charcoal peddler, alighting
from his wagon, went into a store to serve
a customer. During his absence some mis-
chievous small boys thrust a wad of burn
ing paper in the bottom of his wagon, and
in few minutes the big load of charcoal
was in glow The fire started the horse,
and IL ran south on State street at furious
rate of speed. Some one gave the alarmsto
Engine company No. 21, and when the fire
men turned the corner of Taylor street the
blazing wagon was two blocks away, with
a crowd of about 100 persons in pursuit
The driver of the engine lashed his horses
into gallop and an exciting chase com
menced. To add to the excitement "A truck
and chemical which followed the engine
brought up in the rear and afforded the
many spectators as much amusement and
excitement as the chariot races at the cir
Gus. After chase of several blocks the
engine company succeeded in heading off
the runaway horse, and the flames were
soon extinguished by stream from the
chemical engine.-Exchange