The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1895-01-03
FROZEN MIGRANTS HAMPER
THE FiREMEN.
Nearly q Horrible Accident at Car
tleage. Mo.-Chicaso Police to Get q
Turning Ovcr-Enxiish Immi grafton
to America-D Disabled Ocean Liner.
Told In u Few Words.

Fire Thursday night destroyed the
threc-story brick block at the northeast
corner Of Broadway and Fillmore ave
nucs. Ruffa!o. y. Y. The building was
owned by John Kennedy, of BinshaInton,
and occupied by Eckhardt i Co.. Oswald
Thinker and Charles Weis'nan rs stores.
The flames spread over the whole block
aud across Eroadwuy to the threcstory
brick block extending from Fillmore ave
nue. to Gibson street, burning out John III.
Eckhardt, furniture; the Atlantic and Pa
cifc Tea Company's store. Frost's gro
Gerry, Hobart's photograph gallery. Cob
ler's furnishing goods store. kakurs real
estate office and Stnvcrs grocery. The
loss will reach SaU.NN. Owing to the
frozen hyIrantS it was thirty minutes be-
fore the tiremen could turn stream Of
water on the flames.
Friday morning .Jncob Bruffel. driver
on the Carthage, Mo-. horse ear line went
down the hill toward the Frisco depot
with his mules ON II dead run. He had n
carload of passengers who wanted to
catch the Joplin train. which WAS Just
about to pull out He did not FRS
GO freight switching on the house track,
nor did he hear the shouts of warning
from the trainIncn mad half dozen spec
tators, but attempted To cross the track.
A collision was the result. The car was
knocked about twenty feet and totally
wrecked. \ number of the passengers
were injured, but owing to the fact that
the engineer of the freight reversed his
eng inc was killed.
Mayor Hopkins police commission OF
Chicago will pursue the even tenor of it's
way without regard to the "order passed
by the council directing the mayor and ST.
pcrintcndent of police ITO suspend all ac
ton under the power which the mayor
has assumed to rest in the appointment
of the police commissioners until further
rules of the council" The whole work
will be curried forward as If nothing had
happened. President John W. Ella, of the
police commission. looked up the laws and
ordinances covering the whole matter.
and he il satisfied us to the impregnahility
of the position. of the commission. While
he does not contend that the city council
has not the power to regulate the police.
still action in this regard must be taken 10y
ordinance and nor by resolution. The
very powers which the commission is en-
crcising under the direction of the mayor
and superintendent of police nre confer
red by ordinance pissed 10y the city coun-
Gil under the statutes. If these powers
are to hc revoked it must be done Ivy re-
peal of the ordinance comforting them.
The early passage by the lrgislnturc of n
bill establishing the commission as II
State institution is looked for beyond any
question by those interested in municipal
reform.
The emigration returns just issued by
the London Board Of Trade show that
during the eleven months ending Nov.
80. II 'l2 persons left the United King
dom for pieces out of EUROPE as com
pared with .9D.21S in the corresponding,
period of last yea The English unln-
bcrrd !,ill. the Scotch 1860 and III"
Irish II. OM:. the remainder being foreign
crs or persons whose nationality had not
been distinguished. OF the tolnl the
United States received l.,2.H~1. British
North America 2;.SS., Australasia 10.
AL. and South Africa lotto the remain
der going t." other places. During No
Vcmhcr 5000 PERSONS ,,ui"rnt,,I. as
against 112.SiS in November. 1898.
The Anchor Line steamer Anrho-in.
Captain Campbell. from New York. ;.r-
rived ut Glasgow and reported that in
latitude north. lurGit'd. l. west. she
sighted the Hritisl, Steamer SariGil tHp-
tain Couch. Bound from Portland. Me-.
via Halifax. for Livcrpn"l. The S;lraia
H:lti tSl ttF FtitlttT. l!t .Shtit>fia pa SE:fl
hawsrrs to the Snrn;; and tuw.u her for
two days. Severe Wra her WIS then t,.-
.~un,ere,l. hawsers parted and the An
.h"rita Wns o,i;gr,! t" leave the Sarnia
ut point about $50 miles west Of Tory
Island.
At Silver Lake. Lake County. Orc
while Il large party WAS ATTENDING, h"h-
day festivities II lami, exploded and set
were burned Ia death and fifteen Injured
A large crowd had assembled in Chris,
man Hrothcrs' hal, 10 at1cui the festival.
While the mcrrimcut WAS ut its hcSh,
soma one climbed on Il bench, frn,n which
point he expected To get II better view of
what was going on. In doing So his head
struck lamp hanging troia the ceiling.
ovrrturnins it. The oil immediately
caught fire and everything in the rnrn
beiu. dry an. Of III i0tiamtuahlr nature
the room was Surn Il lil:'>s ot iillArs. Seine
one shouted 'ShUt the door anh keep
quiet; il can he pa: out. by THIS t:.Nr
the confusion WAS ST. great that people
began >rranhlins iii Il wild cnicavur +,
reach The door. W.-uen and children
were ,rampcd under foot and rs there
WAS only one ..Ni' ~ tllc hall and ,h, fire
being between the ma rity ~ the crowd
and the door many rushed l.ailon. INT"
the flames. silver Lake Is 4 village, Of
about loo inhabitants. and j; is 100 miles
from !hr nearest telegraph office.
On" of IL" >rvrrrSt billiards. in the
ken nf the weather department ragged on
Thursday over III" entire stretch al com
try between EoStr;' ana Chicago. and
serious results were threatened ~ rail-
road traffic between Chicago and all
points III The East.
The government bond syndicate has
dissolved after disro>ing Of hut 81, per
cent ni the Issue. The urW currency
plan is alleged ~ have caused liquidation
by holders
The body Of stephen Glass. stolen from
the cemetery At Greenwood. Ind. was
found in the dissectn: room of Indiana
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