Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-09-14
IN II WEST

CHICAGO special: Shortly after 4
o'clock the glass roof which covered
the entire office of the Brevoort Hous-,
on Madison Street, fell with q crash.
The clerk was the only person in the
office at the time and he barely escaped
being crushed by falling glass, iron
and woodwork. The guests who were
awakened by the noise rushed to the
Office to find it a mass of crushed glass
and other derbis. There was some.
thing of q panic in the corridors of the
hotel when the noise vas first heard,
but the clerk quickly assured the
guests there was no danger. and their
fears subsidized. Had the accident hap
would have been killed or injured. as
the Brevoort office is filled with guests
and loungers usually until long past
midnight. The accident is supposed
to have been caused by q heavy *
haust pipe falling from the roof to the
skylight.
TACOMA special: Forest fires con-
tinue to rage in the Puget Sound coun-
try and much valuable timber has
been destroyed. Lumbermen thinks
the damage in the state will aggre-
gate several hundred thousand dollars
The SUBMITS of Stampede Mountain
and other foothills of the Cascades
along the Northern Pacific Railway
are ablaze. The railroad has had me
at work with two mountain engines
and hose to protect snow sheds and
other property besides that of the
Stampede tunnel. The fire is raging
near the mining town of Wilkeson and
the st. Paul and Tacoma Lumber
Company has q force of men fighting
it. A dense pail of smoke o%verhangs
the sky and has been gradually thick
ening for three days past. At noo
today the sun appears only as q red
ball of fire.
CHICAGO special: Smoke from the
forest fires is making navigation dam
gerous on all the great lakes, except
Lake Ontario. From Duluth to Buff
falo reports are received of smoke SO
thick that nj cannot see on the lake
for more than n few hundred feet.
Along the south shore of Lake Super
Tor captains cannot discover objects
100 yards away. AT Sault Ste. Marie
all boats are seriously delayed. cap
tains preferring to go slow rather than
taking the chance of fetching up on
lake vessels on account of the smoke
already exceeds $4,000.
ST. PAUL special: A train from Chi
cago on the Wisconsin Central was
saved from q bad wreck near Stevens
ing shirt. The train was approaching
Stevens Point. when signaled by q
flame that quickly went out. On Stop.
ping the train it was found that the
wreckers were at work, but had been
discovered and frightened away by a
man living near, who then tore off his
shirt and lighting it, stopped the
train. There is no clue to the mis-
creant, nor is there any knowledge of
their motives in attempting to wreck
the train. .
SALlNA, Kan, special: The bank at
Tescott. ten miles north of here. was
robbed by masked men. About g:l5
o'clock four masked men entered the
bank and held up the cashier, Shoot
ing several tim es Mt him, and drawing
q knife compelled him to deliver to
them 81. 200. They then backed out of
the front door. Citizens shot at them
with re~volvers, and it is thought one
of the robbers was hit. John Swartz,
a young man, stepped out in the street
with q gun when the robbers turned
on him and shot him through the
groin. ne was seriously anu
may die.
ST.. PAUL special: In the conve
ton of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union the first business was reports of
societies not connected with the
unions. Wonderful growth was re-
ported from many sections. In the af-
ternoon Secretary Doyle of New York
submitted the report of the numerical
strength of the order, in which he
says: "We have added sixty-eight
new societies with q membership of
1868 to the roll of national unions,
making a total Of 763 societies with q
membership of 55.445."
BOISE. Idaho. special: One hundred
Indians from the Fort Hall Reserva-
ton are committing depredations in
Owyhee County. Game Warden John
man and the settlers are alarped. In
the absence of Cow Mcconnell Secre.
tary of State Curtis notified the agent