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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
ACRES ARE IN ASHES.
TWO DESTRUCTIVE conFLAoaA.
TONS IN CHICAGO.
Creates. Bias. Sine. I'll. x.mor.s,. FIR.
OF ~ls5l-Tlsmss sweep Over 800 Acres
Three Men Killed and Eight Injured
Loss Over ol,soo.ooo.
Work Of Firs.Bura.

VVOtx Oh EIEDS0UXA
To many thousands Of persons In the
mburbs it appeared Wednesday night
rs though all Of Chicago Yves burning
mp. The flames, reflected on the clouds,
we're e . more than fifty miles away,
and recalled to many the terrible fire
Of 1871. The confagration, which
proved to be the most destructive
known in the city in over twenty years,
started in the lumber yards Of the s.
K. Martin Company at Blue Island ave-
nue. and South Lincoln street, and, be-
fore it could be gotten under con-
troll, swept over q district four
blocks wide and nearly q mile
in length. About ten million feet OF
lumber and the plants Of a dozen man.
ufacturing ESTABLISHING ats were de-
stroyed. The estimated loss is over
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
such fury and robbed brave Lieutenant
John McGinn of his life.
More Fiery Ruin.

Moro FIERY Ruin
On Thursday night at about the same
hour and for the second time within
t%wenty-four hours the Blue Island ave.
nue. lumber district was swept by q
maelstrom Of fire, and but for the favor
able direction Of the wind the loss
would have Teen even greater than
that Of the previous night.
Engines were responding to an alarm
of fire on West Van Buren, street
shortly after 8 o'clock when q watch
man for the Mc8ean Cedar Post Com
pany at Ashland avenue and the west
braIch of the river saw flames shoot
ing up between two piles of lumber in
the yards of the John Spry Lumf err
Company. Second and third a'arms
had already been sent in for the West
Size fire. and when the box at the Ash
land venue bridge was pulled BY Nc.
Beams watchman 1t created %consterna-
ton at fire alarm headquarters.
Ten minutes later a second call for
engines came from the lumber dis
trict. and this was soon followed by q
third call.
Special calls were now being turned
in by Chief Swenie for the fire in Van
Buren, street, as the blaze threatered to
sweep q large portion ofthe West Side.
Special calls we're coming in to head
quarters from the lumber district and
the West Side fires at the same time.
In less thauan hour from the time OF the
discovery Of the fire in the undergrad
thirty engine companies and i've hook
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
Sparks from tn. Wires.

A CITIZENS LEAGUE" has been or.
ganized at Muncie, Ind, toenforce the
Sunday observance laws.
PAUL A. KuERBER became insane at
q Eufaula, Ala, revival and insisted on
preaching the sermon himself.
MISS SADIE WooDCocK, q school
teacher, was fatally injured at savan.
nah, Mo-, by a fall from a horse.
The manufacturers of South Bend.
Ind, entertained the State Republican
Editorial Association with drives about
the city.
HATTIE WALTERS, q dime museum
giantess, died at Camden, N. j. She
weighed 500 pounds.
OSCAR MORTON shot and killed HI.
ram Wilson ear Oakdale, KY. The
cause of the shooting was q Whitecap
whipping.
A PORTION of the right Of way Of
the Kansas City. ST. Joseph and Coun-
swallowed up by the Mississippi River.
The Christian Church Ct valparaiso,
Ind, has accepted the resignation OF
the Rev. J.H. y. Smith, and will call
Nx-Gov. lrs ]. Chase to the p~astorata
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
L~eg,.l.t,v. irrigation Committee.

A meeting Of the Legislative Com
mittee Of the South Dakota Irrigation
Association will be held at Huron on
Saturday, August II. The committee
will consider u number Of proposed
changes in the laws OF the state touch-
ing irrigation and the sinking Of arte-
sian wells. The long continued drouth
and the signal failure Of %rainmaking
schemes has put new life into the much
talked OF irrigation for South Dakota,
and 1t is pretty generally believed
that by amending the present laws
and possibly by enacting one or two
others, concerning points that now are
considered obstacles in the way Of
adopting q practical and comparative
~ inexpensive system of Irrigation,
the work Of irrig ation in South Da-
kota will be greatly advanced. The
committee is composed Of men thor
oughly versed in the needs of the farm
ers Of the state and who have given
much attention to the matter Of irri-
cation and artesian wells. Tho COM
mittee is: II. S. S. Monser Of Hitch-
cock, o. s. Basfora and 8. II. Riggs Of
Redield, Capt. II. A. Humphrey Of
Faulkton, and VIM. B. Sterling Of
Huron.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
1901, 900. Three men were killed and
others injured during the prog.

$l,i0l,000. Three men were killed and
eight others injured during the prog
ross Of the fire. Chef Swenie was
obliged to call u fifty engines and
both fre-boats, the largest force ever
employed at 9 fire in any city in the
world. The wind, which at times was
almost q hurricane, scattered the blaz-
ing embers in all directions and added
greatly to the difficulty of fighting tho
flames. 1t was only by the greatest
efforts that the flames were prevented
from crossing the river ard extending
into the residence district.
According to q Chicago dispatch the
300 acres lying between Hoyne avenue
on the west, Ashland avenue on the
east, Blue Jsla-d avenue on the north
are a desolation, q desert of ashes al d
sp ce resounded with the hum OF In
du:try. Whirring m chinery filled the
air with its noises, some 3,OOJmen were
at work, vast piles of lumber covered
the ground and at the docks lay
many den vessels. Now q
few smoldering heaps of char.
coal are all th-t remain of
the millions of feet of lumber. Broken
and twisted cogwheels and shaftirg in
closed by crumbled brick walls mark
the site, of the big mills and manufac-
tories, and the ships are gone. OF the
long trains of railroad cars that stood
on the tracks in this great area. only
the wheels and axles remain. Every
thing combustible rerished in the
flames that swept with q bosom of de-
struction this busy spot.
Seldom has property been SO ccm-
pletely annihilated. Acres of the
burnt district are emit ely bare, except
Tor the deep carpet of hot ashes that
covers them. The largest lumber piles
were reduced to small hummocks of
blazing charcoal, on which the worn
out iremen threw streams of water all
day Thursday. In one OF the canals
lay the freboat Geyse or, almost awreck.
Every pane of glass in her upper
works was b ,oken and the wood at her
sides was scorched and blacked by the
flames that beat over the vessel with
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
RECRUITING OFFICE. U. s. A.

Further investigation reveals the
fact that q soldier in the uniform Of
the United States army stands at at
tention in the doorway, his white
gloved hands held in military fash.
ion at his sides, but holding neither
gun nor sword. He is a soldier of the
peace, the office orderly who stands
there, not to guard the premises, but
to say, "This way, boys" to the
would-be recruits who are looking for
the enlistment office. Then a dia-
lOgue something after this fashion
takes place;
Il want to jine the army"
"Up-stairs, turn to the right, for
ward-march."
sThink I'LL pass?:"
sReckon you will. Can't talk on
duty. Go up and slist.'"
Then the candidate for military
honors goes upstairs, dreading the Or
deol at every step, and finds himself
In o large room, where the recruiting
officer sits at a table attended by a
Sergeant and an Orderly in the i'm
posing uniform which the candidate
for enlistment hopes to don.
Il want to slist,'" he says, an.
preaching the table.
The Captain looks up
"Take off your hat"
The hat is sheepishly removed.
what is your age?"
"Twenty years old"
@Are your people willing?"
"They are, sir"
Married."
mo, sir" (This may or may not
be true.)
sEver been in jail?"
At this the candidate looks sur
prised and hurt, and answers in the
negative quite forcibly enough to be
convincing.
Then the sergeant takes the man
in hand, looks down his throat, ex-
amtnes his teeth, weighs him, takes
his height and finds out his reason
for wanting to enlist.
II he tips the beam at regulation
weight, not less than 120 nor more
than 100, and measures not less than
five feet four inches, he comes up to
the requirements of an able-bodied
soldier, and is sent into another room
to disrobe. Then he is again weighed
and measured and put through a
course of physical exercise that
brings out any disability that may
exist in bold relief. II he is gym
nastically correct, can bend his body
like a contortionist, expand and CON
tract his chest without getting
breathless, prove that every toe and
finger is capable Of active service,
and that his back is timber enough to
enable him to stoop either way, he is
accepted and registered and taken to
the Captains Office to be sworn in.
But first he must answer q personal
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
South Dakota Brasfs.

A MOVEMENT IL on foot for the 90.
tablishment Of q sugar beet fsctory at
Aberdeen.
Two JERAuLD COUNTY boys have
taken loaded revolvers and ammunition
and r now said to be ON their way
across the plains looking for Indians.
The Holy Terror Mine at Keystone
70 proving itself worthy OF the name.
u was lately discovered by William
Franklin Of that camp. From . recent
run Of thirty.seven tons Of ore Q clean
up IVES made Of ol,400. Thepay streak
q Increasing In width g. deplh d a.
tained
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
BrleRets.

A 1i-YEAR-oLp girl. Z feet and 3
inches tall, died from consumption al
her home near Fort Wayne, Ind.
The New York constitutional con.
vention decided by a vote of 81 to AZ
to let the present jury system stand.
AT Minneapolis st. Clotilde French
Catholic Church was Quilted by fire.
Loss about $4,000; insurance, $15. 200.
RUSSIAN oil merchants have failed
to como to an agreement with the
Standard Oil Company and q fight is
expected.
CONGRESS will be asked to investi.
gate certain financial transactions by
United States Judge Kicks of Cleve.
land, Ohio.
A JOINT resolution for an amend.
ment to the constitution providing that
eight hours shall constitute q legal
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17

can only by adoption, but they must!
be able to read and write before they
take the oath of allegiance aud be-!
come soldiers. /,
The causes that lead a young man
to enlist and assume the arduous
duties of a private soldier are too nu-
merous to be specified. Young men
who find themselves arrived at ma
turity without any trade or profess
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
CORN GOES SOARING.
ALMOST A PANIC ON THE CHI.
cAoo BOARD OF TRADE.
k.,.s,.s v.,u.. Of III. 1sr.. Leading
Csrssis-Ausust Cora end whsss Sell
Tossther-whsst the Chsapsst Feeding
Product.
com sixty Cont,

V040 0A1ey S00bos
There was almost q panic on the
Chicago Board Of Trade on Tuesday
morning, Is corn and wheat went soar
Ing. At last, Gays . Chicago corre-
spondent, the profe :sional traders have
:come to the conclusion that the farm.
brs know at least q little something re.
.garding the condition of their crops,
and they are climbing over each other
in their eagerness to get in line in the
procession.
When the trading closed Monday
nigh, September corn stood at 53i
cents and May closed at 40 cents. Rain
was predicted for the corn let, and
the traders went hcme feeling that the
worst was over and that there would
soon be q collapse. The feeling disap-
peared in the morning, W. on l. was
found that no rain had fallen, and that
bll appearances pointed to q continu.
Rnce Of tee DIR ught.
No sooner had the trading opened,
therefore, than the corn pit became q
scene rivaling Bedlam. So eager were
the broker. to te in the hunt that
offers ra aging all tho way from 54i to
10 SCAVo iOk S0Pt0hnO0G WCt0 m6u6 III
the anne time. Within five minutes the
price had been pushed to 6U cents, and
btill the demand from the shorts ap.
peared unsatisfied. Hundreds of thou
sands of blu hels we're sold at the top
figure and at the different notches
down To So. So rapid was the Else
that, one b oker said, one Of his Gus.
tomsrs, with only a small line of corn
sold at over so cents, had lost q cool
$4,000 in the first five MINUTES of the
market.
Either corn is too high or wheat is
to- low is the propo sition which is he.
ing laid down in all quarters, and the
course OF the market Monday cor.
vinced the people who EEL that the
cereals are at present IN AN abnormal
relative basis. Actual sales were made
Of No. 3 white corn at a premium of
2 C over No. ) red winter wheat. and
of No. 2 white oats at prices which
represent &c per 100 pounds more than
the going price of No. 2 red winter
wheat. The September options of corn
and wheat sold on the Chicago market
within lac of each other, and the Au.
gust options together with corn max
ing q net gain for the day OF 3tc,
against q narrow 10 for wheat. Satur.
day q Toledo house quoted the two cere.
ais in open market as follows:
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
TWO Mon burned to I,eath.

{ Tho livery barn and entire livery
stock OF G. NJ. Klatzbach at Madison
burned a few mornings ago. James
Darby and Isaac Bytwort, who were
sleeping in the Office, were burned to
death. and thirty head Of horses, bug
gies, carriages, sleighs. harnesses and
robes were entirely consumed. The
total loss on the barn and contents is
placed ut 80, 900. No insurance.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
Corn nelter.. Convention.

Judge G. w. Roberts of Yankton,
president Of the Corn Belt Association
of South Dakota, has fixed the date for
the annual meeting of the club for
August IL. It will be held at Mitchell
in the Commercial Club rooms. A
large representation Of its members
will be present, as questions of vital
importance to the interest of South
Dakota will he discussed.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
CHANGES N STAMPS.

A Large Number of Those Now In Use
Arc to BE Reduced.
Important changes in the demonina-
tions of postage stamps are contem.
plated by the Postottce Department.
The principal ones are in the news.
paper and periodical series, but the
regular series is also to be altered. OF
the after, the ones, twos, threes, tours,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
Maintaining Quarantine.

French journals are criticising the
attitude Of United States delegates
to the sanitary convention at Paris
The Americans have opposed every
measure tending to make quarantine
less rigid. Their object is to make
the regulations so close that quaran-
tine measures can be used to restrict
immigration. =
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
Attached bx ~l,roditora.

j. N. Browns interest in the real
estate firm of Brown g. Richards Co.
at Huron, together with several thous-
and acres Of South Dakota land, was
attached by creditors. Brown is O
banker in New York City, and the
firm does a large real estate business
at Huron and recently opened an Office
in Emmetsburg, Iowa.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
Praying for Rain.

The preachers of Sioux Falls have
decided to pray for rain. The Minis
ters intend to request Mayor Williams
to ask the business men OF the city to
close their places Of business on one
day and allow those who wish to devote
their time to praying for rain. This
is the first time meetings to pray for
rain have been held in Sioux Falls.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
LAWS OF ARMY LIFE.
HOW UNCLE SAM GETS HIS SOL.
DER BOYS.
Recruiting omces in All Largo Cities
Who're tho Would-be Soldier May Enlist
NO Man with Impaired Constitution
Need Apply-RiEorous Tests
Must No Physic.lly SOUND.

MUST 10 Phystcnly found.
1t happens occasionally that peo-
pie see in their wanderings about a
large city q flag flying from the win
dow OF a building, and are curious to
know what mission of peace or war
1T represents. A close inspection of
some letters on the building in the
vicinity of the flag explains its pres
encc. The letters form this sign:
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
U DAKOTA NEWS.
weather ana crops-rhe Legislative Irr,-
cation Committee.

Weather q Cfopa-Tho Legislative Irri.
cation Committee.
Director Glenn of the United States
Weather Bureau at Huron gives the
following summary Of crop conditions
In South Dakota, based upon reports
from fifty counties:
The weather during the week "a
excessively warm, with hot winds and
little or no rain and was very Injurious
to all growing crops. Wheat and oats
ripened very rapidly aud some loss IL
field and cutting. The berry Is good
quality, but the yield is generally
light. Harvesting of wheat, barley
and oats is about completed over the
east southern, far advanced over the
east central and becoming general over
the east northern section OF the state.
Reports indicate there are some fields
too badly injured to be worth harvest
ing.
Grass, fax and millet have suffered
severely and the prospects are that
these crops will be very light. Over
most Of the state hay il scarce and the
quality only fair. Pototoes have suf-
fered, and unless copious rains occur
soon the crop will be very light.
Corn has suffered severely except
over the east northern and western
sections. Over most of the state it is
in tassel and Skiing, but stunted, and
the ears are not setting. The flower
was greatly injured by drouth and heat
over the east central and east southern
sections, so that it is doubtful If with
ample rain now much grain will form.
Reports indicate that In the west and
east northern sections corn would make
o fair crop with immediate and copious
rains and no curly frost, but elsewhere
it is mostly injured beyond redemp-
ton but for fodder, except in a few
localities, and many farmers are al
ready cutting 1t for fodder.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
Rainmakers Give Tn

The rainmakers employed by the
commissioners Of Yankton County
have ceased operations. For ten days
they have been steadily generating
gas from their rainmaking chemicals
with but poor success. The rain that
they claim has resulted from their eff
forts has been about q quarter to half
An inch.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
another Paymept to pepoeItor..

Ah0thef Payment 70 Oep0oIt0f0.
Receiver Thompson Of the Chamber
lain National Bank, which closed its
doors some months ago, 10 making o
payment Of 30 per cent to depositors,
making q total Of 80 per cent. already
paid,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17

sion, and who crave change and adj
venture, take the army as the most
desirable career open to them. 1t
takes only half an hour to take the
oath, get into a uniform and become
a full-fledged soldier.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
Killed Children and Himself.

r B. Qvaum, q Norwegian farmer
living near Butler, crazed over crop
prospects,, cut the threats of his two
children, 6 and 8, and threw the bodies
in . we'll. He then cut his own throat
and jumped in after them.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17
Mitchell seminary Burned.

The Catholic Seminary at Mitchell
was burned to the ground. It is
thought the building, which was IN
finished, was set on fire. Tho loss is
$4,000; insurance, 81, 800.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-17

Ct. u
N TX 90
A Kansas City firm reports having
sold No. 3 hard winter at 500 at the
Mississippi, with q corresponding grade
Of corn at Sic. II all grain is to get
down to a feeding basis the extra 4
pounds in q wheat bushel will cut no
inconsiderable figure. Corn, cats, and
wheat are all now selling on the
market at prices which represent
about $l8 q ton. To sell on exactly
this basis the respective quotations
would stand 5l.:c, 2e.sc, and $40 re.
spectively. Wheat to-day is consider.
ably cheaper per ton than the coarse
grains. just where the disparity
between the corn and wheat prices lie
is, Of course, where the difference Of
opinion comes in. There are any
amount Of people who still in
sist that q good rain would break
the back of the corr market, who think
that the weather noted is not essenti-
ally different from a year ago, and who
look for q good average crop in face of
past reports. Those who assume that
serious corn damage has been done and
that the crop will be short all around
9 scarcely give a logical reason why
wheat should be going at the lowest
prices ever known. Any general use
Of wheat to make up for corn shortage
will introduce an element which will
upset all previous calculations as to de-
'mand and supply. Wheat feeding has
passed out of the experimental stages
in many sections. A corn famine and
consequent consumption of lower
grades of wheat might temporarily
take the United States out of the list
of wheat exporting countries.
Little Old Corn ON Hand.
The poor crops of the la st two years
have reduced the amount of old corn
on hand, until there remains but little
on the market. The advance in corn
has led many board members to sell
wheat and to invest in May corn, an
almost unprecedented proceeding. The
following tables show the prices Of
grain now compared with those of q
year ago. The closing prices of ca b
wheat and corn on Monday in New
York, Chicago, and st Louis were:
- Wheat. Corn.
new $50
a. Sni f.SHi eshe $40
-o1. Aouln.. 1870 It0
Price of wheat, corn, and oats per
ton:
Who's. sos 70 III Is
Corn....................... - 06 IS 90
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-10

Carntr!.lg. Mass. March . tSpeciau-The spring
sch.,,ul. Of games FOR the Harvard baseball team
has lust been announced rs follows: April -. Will
iams at WIliams;own. April H. Massachusetts In
sfitute Of Technology. ~ Cambridge. Alrh a.
Dartmouth at Cambridge. April - Amherst at
Cambridge: April %. Dartmouth. AZ Cambridge,
Auru q, Holy Cross NJ Worcester May >. VIII
inns nj Cambridge. May .. Princeton. AT Prince
ton. May :. University II fennsylyana, ~ fniIa-
delphl1. Nav 49, BROWN. at Cambridge. May -.
TRINITY AZ Cambridge. May H. Brown. at PrpV-
Irnrc: Nav % Univ"raiiy Of Michigan. nt cam
hrt.ly.. Nav 49, Princeton. AZ Princeton, June =.
G,-,rretown At Cambridge. or game WIN Prince
ton In case Of tie. june ;. University OF Yer
,~",, q, Cambridge; June . Brown. at Proyi-
d"nc@; June p Yale. at Cambridge; June o. Yale AZ
New Haven. June 30. Yale. at Ne"-fork IN case
Of a tie.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-10
CLOSING PRICES OF SAN FRANCISCO STOCKS.


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YOU will soon know You possess Such
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bile and becomes sluggish; OF Is con.
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catarrh of the passages OF the bile; OF
what we know as ordinary liver COM
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nation, is our scourge, not only Is Siea.
pain the consequence, but all the llsht
gocs out of life and everything looks
dark and gloomy and threatening anu
we are very apt to look on the wrong
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effcacious remedy is the CarlSoao
Sprudel water, or if you can not co"'
veniently take the water use me ?ea .b.
inc Carlsbad Sprudel Salt (wbich Is :nH
solid evaporation of the watersl mn n,r.
will not only restore you to cohllois
but make YOU stronger all round anu
of clearer, brighter and happier hllhS :.
Look for the signature of the E!sher
Mendelson Co., New York, Sole AGENTS
on the hottie. None other is geh'l,n...
Price of the genuine Carlsbad 0"
81 ono ner bottle; large size Sl.oV.