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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-13
warning TO Algerian Anti-semites,

PARIS. December l2.-The Project OF
Algiers has suspended the Mayor Of Al
giers for a month, on account OF speech
made by the Mayor. who IS a rabid anti
Semitic. attacking the government Tho
Minister OF the Interior has increased tho
suspension TO three months.
This Is intended as "a warning 20 tho
Algerian anti-Semites, whose recent ViO-
lence and threats have been causing a
panic among the Jews in Algiers. which
has demorallZed business.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-13

Richmond, Va, December L, 1898.
Quotations: Wheat-LOngberry g. TO
Tic: mixed. GO 70 nc; shortoerry, % TO
Tic. No. 2 red. Tic. Corn-New white. q
TO $50: Virginia white, bag lots, old. Zoe.
No. ? white, lOc.; No 3 white, 81 to SSc;
No, 2 mixed. 80 1-2 to SIC; No. 3 mixed.
sec. Oats-No. > mixed 32c.; No. mixed.
81 to 81 lie; winter-seed 80 TO Doc Rye
G0c
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-13
Fire I'm Scott Comfy.

GATE CITY. VA, December l2-(Spe-
cial)-S. G.. Wininger's barn, six miles
south Of here. was burned this morning
together with 500 bushels OF corn. TWO
fine horses, and 500-pouud hog. There
vas no insurance. and no cause Is known
for the fire.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-13
RICHMOND LIVESTOCK MARKET.

Richmond. Va. December y, 1898.
Receipts. Cattle. 1859 head; sheep and
lambs. $50 head; hogs, LOCO head.
Sales: Cattle. 1000 head; sheep and
lambs. $50 head; hogs. 900 head.
Prices: Cattle-Best. 4A 10 4aic gross;
medium TO good. 81. TO &c. gross; common
10 fair 10 &C. gross Bulls. 2ie TO 3hc.
gross. sheep and lambs 10 4l2c. gross.
Hogs. 80 to $50 gross
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-13
RICHMOND TOBACCO MARKET.

Richmond, Va, December u. 1873.
IVrarners hogsheads; filters, 8 hogs
heads; leaf dark. 4 hogsheads; smokers.
"A bogsheads Total number OF hogs
heads sold during the day, 2.
Merchants and Planters, Shockoe,
ctnnewaII Allegheny, and Old Dominion
x'orehouses report to-day: Receipts, l6
bogsheads; deliveries. 40 hogsheads.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-13
smnu Fire In Ashland.

ASHLAND, VA, December R.-(Spe-
cial.)-A small fire occurred this evening
at 730 o'clock. In the residence OF Mr..
Il. NJ. Fox The damage was about 80,
fully covered by insurance. The IRE
company were early on hand and did
quick and effective work.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-13
MEXICO AND
CALIFORNIA

.rrrTAT, PULLMAN NESTlBULED
l,tlN,S 81 sleeping, Dining, and Com
i' library Observation Cars
I.-.-. lime will be given 70 an the lead
..s .u3 other places OF historic and
fh ...le interest in Mexico, including
r.\DERFtL TAMplCO DIVISION
.. MEXICAN CENTRAL RAILWAY.
,r-i-N ~ THE CITY OF MENlCO.
~ TRIP OVER THE ME\ICO.
Mt..~tVACA AND PACIFIC SCENIC
NAY. and O. -FOUR DAYS TRIP
h. TUE VERA CRUZ RAILWAY.
r..-n. Pasadena, Los Angeles. San
.t.rl. san Francisco, san haiacl.
rraz Monterey, san lose. Ctc.p in
>''.....4 VIII Doe visited.
r..u-n tickets may he used flon
..... ou ANY REGULAR GRAIN
turist. or with any one Of TEN
--r- UNDER SPECIAL rs 'ORT.
CHOICE OF THREE DIFFER
-.S To CALIFORNIA. MENICO.
.-r california. FLORIDA. JAMAI-
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. JAPAN.
-Nt AND 4 TOUR THROUGH
.>.rrrNuENT RAILROAD AND
.t.-EIp TICKETS To ALL POINTS.
..r circular. mentioning the trip de-
RAYMOND 4 WHTTCOMB.
,o.- chestnut street. Mutual Life In
.rrnucc building, Philadelphia.
a. TlNSa3t
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-13
Our Prices

Our grocery prices wouldn't
be remarkable if il weren't for
the groceries themselves. A
trial order from you will make
you one Of our regular custom
ers.
r- Cauhorrics. 10c. quart.
California Iruncs. DC. pound.
Pam. Nuts Joe. pound.
-...r onions. &c. pound.
r-.. Queen Olives, SOC. quart.
H..r IuckWheat. 13c package.
..- ..-IHyer Raisins Zoe. pound,
~.. Mixed Candy, 10c. pound.
.... ..rs Maple syrup. 2jc. can.
.... Waters 3lC. box.
-.l Fruit cake. Sl.4O each.
-...H package Grits. 15c. package.
Zinc. Malaga Grapes 25c. pound.
-..- It-s. l5c. pound
.r.-l Nlcaro0ns. &c. pound
Chris rrs Tree Candles l5c. box.
.rr Nuts. 2IC. package.
rr Asparagus Tips. 25c. can.
Silver Irunes ljo. pound.
Er.r.rteI Pears 15c. pound.
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S.rLLNIAN,S son,

~ AND lS12 EAST MAIN STREET.
IIOwn store. rs east MARSHALL
Both phones al both stores.
AZ ".- pay you 10 call for or write LOT
.. our complete prlce-Nsts. It's
regular m0ncy-saVeT.
lrn 81 @ srnR-Thl
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RAYr10ND &
WHITCOMB'S
TOURS.
Ar travelling Expenses Included.

parties viii LEAVE PBILAD u III,
- Grand Tours through the Southern
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-13
GRAIN AND COTTON EXCHANGE.

Quotations are for bonds maturing l.
not less than ten years.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-13
.VAL-sTORE MARKETS.

SAVANNAH. GA, December l2.-Spirits
Of Turpentine-Opened at SIC, with sales
OF 253 casks. and closed firm at 5il4c bid.
with sales OF 167 casks; receipts. ~ casks.
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RYAN THE WINNER.
The Police Save O'Brien From an
Actual Knockout.

HARTFORD (Conn), Dec. 23.-Tom-
my Ryan of Syracuse, N. Y, proved TOO
much for Dick O'Brien of Boston at
the Coliseum tonight. The police in
terfered in the fourteenth round, and
saved O'Brien from an actual knockout,
but as far as practicable purposes were
concerned he was out. Ryan had
foored him a few seconds before with
a right-hand swing on the jaw, and
Dick got on his feet again just as Ref
cree Roche counted seven. The fight
had all been knocked out of him. He
was helpless, and Ryan again f1oored
him with a vicious right-hand swing
Dick came to time once more, only to
fall a victim to a hard uppercut. Then
Chief of Police Bull jumped into the
ring and stopped the bout, and Roche
awarded the fight to Ryan.
The action of the police was gener-
ally approved as preventing unneces-
sary brutality. 1t was Ryan's fight
all the way through. He wore O'Brien
down by inches with jabs, and had
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FRESNO'S TRUSTEES.
The Entire Board Indicted bv tho
Grand Jury

FRESNO, Dec. 23.-The Fresno Conn
ty Grand Jury created another sensa-
ton this afternoon when it found accu-
sations against all the members of the
Fresno City Board of Trustees, charging
them with corrupt conduct in office and
mismanagement of public affairs.
The officers accused of malfeasance
are Mayor c. J. Craycroft and Trustees
F. NJ. Chittenden, Joseph Spinney, w
F. McVey and E. L. Austin.
The specific charge against them is
that they squandered the funds of the
city in paying S1,195.25 for the recon-
struction of an engine-house, without
having first advertised for bids. II is
alleged that the amount is over 500 in
excess of what it would have been had
bids been called for in the usual man
ner
The engine-house in question was
built for the Fresno Fire Department
over year ago, at the instance of
Trustee Joe Spinney, at a cost of So
O00 1t is one of the finest of it's kind
in the State.
The evidence against the accused Off
cials seems to be conclusive, and it is
thought that they will be ousted from
office. They will be notified of the
ordered to answer before the Superior
Court within ten days. The proceeding
is only quasi criminal in nature, the
object being simply to oust the Trustees
from office.
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STANDARD OIL CO.'S BOOKS.
FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THEIR
DESTRUCTION.
Another Effort to Subpoena Secre-
tary Squire and Frank Rocke-
feller Proves Futile.

CLEVELAND, Dec. 23.-Evidence
was secured from additional witnesses
to-day to show that books belonging to
the Standard Oil Company had been
destroyed on November 18th and list.
The first witness examined before
Notary Mason to-day was George
Fields, who was claimed to have sent
employees of the company to the gen
eral offices after the books that were
alleged to have been destroyed.
Fields said that he was an employe
in the car shops of the Standard. He
said that he was instructed by tele-
phone to send two men to the general
office.
George w. Moran said that he was
sent by Fields to the general offices on
November 10Th after boxes of books and
papers. Edward Ohea and McNierney
went with him, and Harry Gabeline and
Henry Moran said the boxes were about
four feet square and weighed about 800
pounds. He said that the hallway was
so narrow that he lowered them to the
ground with a block and tackle through
a window Moran said the boxes were
loaded on a wagon and taken to the
storehouse on Independence street.
Moran said that on the following
Monday morning the general office tele-
phoned to the car shops for two men,
McNierney and himself were sent. On
that morning they took some boxes
from the storehouse to the river pump
house He did not know whether they
were the same boxes that they had got
Saturday. They took the boxes to the
furnaces and burned the contents. He
admitted that he had talked to At
torney S. H. Tolles Of the Standard in
regard to the destruction of the boxes.
On cross-examination Moran said
that he knew lot of books and papers
were burned a year ago, but he did not
help to burn them. The books were
burned Saturday in the carshops and
on Monday in the pump house. Nobody
said anything to him about the mat
ter.
Several other witnesses appeared to-
day, but their dispositions were not
taken.
Constable Mcmahon was sent to sub
pena several bookkeepers and clerks
employed at the Euclid Avenue offices,
but came back with the result that ne
had been unable to find any Of the men
he had been looking for. Another effort
was also made to-day to subpoena Sec
pany and Frank Rockefeller, but
neither could be found.
The taking of depositions was con-
tinued until 9 O'Clock tomorrow morn
ing
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NO JOINT ACTION TAKEN.

WASHINGTON, Dec. $50 far as
can be learned here, the conflicting
claims between the French Government
and the United States Government at
Shanghai, China, do not involve any
broad question relating to the acquisi-
ton Of large tracts of China by France.
Complaint was made to this Govern
ment that the French representatives
in China, under guise of extending the
limits of their extra territorial conces-
sion in Shanghai, had included IN the
claim certain property valued mainly
for riparian uses, which had long been
occupied or. enjoyed by American citi-
ems and American corporations. Upon
this statement United States Minister
Conger was instructed to protest to the
Chinese Government against any action
on it's part which would result in injury
to the American citizens above de-
scribed. 1t is gathered from the Shang
hal dispatches that the British Govern
ment has taken similar course. But
beyond that there has been no joint &C.
ton between the two Governments.
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IN FAVOR OF THE RAILROAD.
Decision Rendered in the Famous
North Dakota Rate Case.

FARGO On. d., Dec. 23.-After many
months work and thousands of dollars
expended in securing expert testimony,
the famous North Dakota Railroad case
was decided by United States Judge
Amidon to-day in favor Of the railroads.
The decision is concurred in by United
States Judge Thayer.
Pursuant to law enacted by the last
Legislature. the Railroad Commission
ers made a slightly reduced freight tar
iff. The railroads obtained an injunc-
ton in the United States Court, pre-
venting the enforcement of the rates.
Judge Amidon then appointed Attorney
Livell a special master to take testi-
mony in the case. Attorney General
Cowan and he devoted practically an
entire year to the case, assisted by a
number of experts.
The decision is to the effect that cap
ital has a right to proper remuneration,
and North Dakota failed to show that
the railroads rates more than yield a
proper income on the capital invested.
All the roads in the State had joined i'll
the contest.
The record-union., 1898-12-24
LIEUTENANT HOBSON.
The Hero of the Merrimac Given a
Reception at San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23.-Lieu-
tenant Richmond p. Hobson, the hero
of the Merrimac, arrived in this city
shortly before 10 o'clock tonight. lie
was met by a committee of citizens
and escorted to the Palace HOTEL
where he was given a public reception
Governor Budd, Governor-elect Gage.
Mayor Phelan and other prominent
citizens being members of the COM
mittee which arranged the affair.
After shaking hands with hundreds
of, people, Lieutenant Hobson spoke
from the balcony of the first story to
the thousands who were packed close
lv in the court of the hotel. He spoke
of the siege and capture of Santiago,
and told of the destruction of Ger
vera's feet, alluding to his own IA
nous exploit in modest manner.
After the reception he went to the
Christmas cotillion party ofs the Fri
day Night Club in Native Sons Hall.
He will make his home at the Uni
versity Club during his sojourn in this
oft
The record-union., 1898-12-24
Wassernan, Davis & CO.

letter Mr. Chandler reviews the va
rious methods of financing political
campaigns in New Hampshire from the
earliest days to the present. He tells
of the early Wing and Democratic
contests, and speaks particularly of the
Presidential campaign of 1852, when a
son of New Hampshire was elected
President of the United States, and
when the entire expenses of the cam
paign in the State were paid from
fund of $500, which was raised by ad-
dressing letters to individual Demo-
Gratis requesting subscriptions of So
each.
In the campaign four years later,
when the politics of the State was rev.
olutionized, New Hampshire becoming
a Republican State from that time for
ward, no money was used, though the
campaign was the most enthusiastic
known in the State. The Wide-Awakes
took care of themselves, and paid their
own bills.
Coming down to more recent years,
Mr.. Chandler states that in 1896 very
little money was spent in the State
campaign, and in the last Presidential
campaign there was no excuse for
lliOuty, anu IL Was llOl SPENT
The Senator refers only briefly to ex-
penditures in national campaigns. but
he seems to regard the expenditures
previous to 1882 as morale. He says:
During this period, prior to 1882, the
National Committee of the Republican
party raised and expended moneys, but
to no considerable amount except in
the Presidential canvass of 1864 when
Mr.. Lincolns second election in war
time was in danger. In the first Grant
election of 1868, when Governor Will
lam Clafiin of Massachusetts, was
Chairman, and in the second Grant
election of 1872 when Governor Edwin
d. Morgan was Chairman, some money
was raised, and it was mainly expend-
ed by donations to the State commit
tees in the States where fall elections
were held prior to the Presidential cleo
ton. In neither of these years did the
National Committee expenditures for
all purposes exceed 5000 600"
The record-union., 1898-12-24
DEATH RATE AT HAVANA.
The Mortality Over a Hundred in
Every Thousand Of Population.

NEW YORK, Dec pa dispatch
to the World" from Havana says:
Havana's death rate is astounding.
There are between 80 and 70 deaths
each day, the majority from malarial
fever, typhoid claiming the next largest
number of victims, and pernicious
fever about the same
The civil register to-day shows
total of 40 deaths in this city in the last
tWenty-four hours, and two parishes
where the death rate was usually high
made no report. The mortality last
week was at the rate Of JOG in every
1000 of the population. This week it
will be bigger In New York the rate
is only % deaths per annum for every
thousand of population.
All the hospitals are overcrowded,
and no more patients can be received
The municipal hospital, organized as an
emergency hospital to care for sick re-
concentrates, is taking care Of 800
patients, with space for only 16O. A
surgeon in one hospital said to-day that
lie had to leave sufferers lying in the
streets because there is no place TO
care for them.
Vile stenches from the indescribable
dirtiness of some sections offer a her
culean task to the engineer officers
preparing to clean the city, making the
Americans here despair of any imRCdi-
ate lowering of the frightful death rate.
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A DENIAL FROM DE VRIES.
Declares Untrue an Alleged Inter-
view Credited TO Him.

STOCKTON, Dec. 23.-Congressman
Marion De Vries in a letter to the
Mail" from Washington denies an al
legged interview credited to him by sew
eral newspapers. The statement in the
interview was to the effect that Mr..
De Vries was favOrably impressed with
the Presidents message.
1T was plain, straightforward
statement of the Executive Depart
ment's affairs Mr.. De Vries is quoted
as saying. Il am against the acquisi-
tion of territory remote from our own
shores, but l have repeatedly said that
! hold the opinion that while a Sem
ator or Representative in Congress
may have positive convictions upon
The record-union., 1898-12-24
CONFESSES HER GUILT.
A Woman Admits That She is
ShoDIifter.

SPOKANE (Wash.), Dec. 23.-With a
babe in her arms and tears streaming
down her cheeks, Bertha Bruges was
brought into the police station to-day,
charged with systematic shoplifting
The police believe that she is a shop
litter of national reputation. They have
letters from the East, and on the
strength of these have been shadowing
the woman for some time. Chief jan
sen of Milwaukee wrote that the Wo-
man is undoubtedly Bertha Wier, one
of the Wier sisters of Chicago, notori-
Gus shoplifters, all of them. She was
driven out of Milwaukee, and Chief
Jansen adds that she has a sister in
Joliet Prison, another under arrest in
Chicago, and a sister and brother serv-
ing an eight-year sentence in the Col
orado Penitentiary. The woman con-
fessed to the police here, but denies
relations with the Wier family
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Submits a Report on the Measure to In
crease the Army Standing.
Provides for a Regular Army of
Thirty Thousand Men and a
Volunteer Force Of Fifty Thou
sand, to be Taken From the
States and Territories in Pro-
portion to Their Population.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-The minor
ity of the House Committee on Military
Affairs filed with the Clerk of the
House their report on the Hull bill TO
increase the army to 100000 men. 1t
says in part:
The minority of the committee dis
sent from the majority of the commit
tee, because the bill reported makes a
permanent standing army for the Unit
ed States of over 100000 Such an army
is not necessary to be maintained IN
this country now, neither because OF
our relations to the islands Of the sea,
nor because of any necessity which in
the past year has arisen in this country
itself
1T is estimated that the Hull bill will
cost the people annually the sum Of
$150,OO0,OOO. This would be perma-
nent charge upon the people. One hum
dred and fOrty-five million dollars are
being paid annually to the soldiers Of
the civil war and the war with Spain,
thus placing a permanent charge OF
S29o, 100000 upon the people of the
United States, and this to maintain the
military establishments alone, to say
nothing of the navy.
1T is we'll understood that the great
corporate interests of the country are
demanding this large standing army;
their reasons for such a demand are too
obvious to be pointed out These in
tereStS want force to enforce their de-
mands, and a President dominated by
such interests would have, with such a
standing army, the means at his hand
to invade the liberties of the people, to
suppress freedom of speech, and to
desecrate the ballot box ITSELF
The minority presents a substitute bill
providing for an army of oO,UuN men,
The substitute also provides for 5OOOO
volunteers, to be taken from the States
and Territories and the District of CO.
lumba, in proportion to population.
These volunteers are to be mustered
out of the service of the United States
within two years from the date of the
passage of the Act, unless sooner ter
minated Their organization is to be
the same as that of the regular army.
Representative Hay of Virginia, who
prepared the minority report, estimates
that the regular army establishment
provided for in the minority substitute
would entail an annual expenditure of
$40. 100000. or about 81 900 per man,
and that the volunteer force of 50,0Uo
men, by the same calculation, would
cost $4,000. 900, or a total during the
existence of the volunteer army OF
$50, 600, 600
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FIRE AT Los ANGELES.
Results in a Loss Estimated at Ten
Thousand Dollars.

Los ANGELES, Dec. 23-A fire in
Chinatown this afternoon resulted in
a loss aggregating nearly $4,000. 1t
resulted in the destruction of twelve
frame shacks and one frame dwelling
house, the latter the property of Mrs.
Sing, the Americanized Chinawoman,
who had a neat home furnished after
the American fashion.
All the houses burned were located
at the head Of Juan street, in the east
ern edge of Chinatown, and north of
Apablasa street 1t is a section of
town given up to Chinese vegetable
peddlers and to merchandise shops.
The greater portion of the loss is
from destroyed merchandise and veg
etables. The houses were of little
value.
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In a Precarious Position.

SAN JOSE, Dec. 23-Mrs. Sutcliffe,
the woman who shot herself last night.
is in a precarious condition, with little
chance for life. 1t is believed that she
became insane, or else had some disa-
greea BILE news from her husband, and
grew respondent. The big knife and
ak found in the room are held by some
to be proof that she intended to kill her
two boys first, but her heart failed her
She fired two balls into her abdomen
The record-union., 1898-12-24
USE OF MONEY IN POLITICS.
Senator Chandler Reviews Methods
of Financing Campaigns.

MANCHESTER On. h. Dec. %
Senator William e. Chandler has ad-
dressed a. letter to the Union" upon
The Growth and Use of Money in
Politics in New Hampshire-ShallI 1t In
crease or Stop?"
The first portion Of the letter will be
printed in tomorrow issue. In this
The record-union., 1898-12-24
Two Men Make a Big Haul at Co.
guile City.
Hold Up the Employees of a Merchandise
Store and Loot the Safe.
Fire in Chinatown at Los Angeles
Results in Losses Aggrega ting
Ten Thousand Dollars, TIE
Greater Portion Being From
the Destruction Of Merchandise.

MARSHFIELD (Or), Dec. 23.-Last
evening the general merchandise store
of n. Lorense at Coquille City was
the scene of a most daring robbery.
The two sons of LorenSe We're just CLOS
ing up, when two men stepped up 10
them, and at the point of pistols or
dered them back into the store. The
boys complied with the request, ana
were followed inside by the robbers
One of the boys was then compelled to
open the safe, and afterward the boys
We're securely bound and gagged, and
after securing the contents of the safe,
amounting to about 81 LOCO in coin, the
robbers quietly left the store.
The record-union., 1898-12-24

him bleeding at the nose and eye early
IN the fight. Several times Ryan had
his man going, but although he made
dozens Of passes he could not land that
right swing till the fourteenth round.
Ryan was too quick on his feet and
too scientific for his opponent, who
could simply stand still and punch and
be punched
The record-union., 1898-12-24
Battleship Massachusetts,.

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Navy yard
engineers went under the battleship
Massachusetts in dry dock to-day and
measured her damaged plates. Work
men were there also cutting out riv-
cts. Repair work will proceed night
and day next week. 1t is estimated it
will cost about $40, 900 to put the ship
in order, and that the work will take
six weeks. The board of inquiry, of
which Commodore Pickering is Pres
ident, finished its work to-day, and for
warded the report to the Secretary of
the NaVy
The record-union., 1898-12-24
Fire at Mendocino City.

MENDOCINO, Dec. 23.-Early this
morning three dry kilns, several sheds,
about 100000 feet of lumber and thou
sands Of shingles belonging to the AL
bion Lumber Company, were destroyed
by fire. The county bridge across the
Albion River was threatened by the
flames, but was saved after one of the
approaches had been burned. The total
loss by the fire may reach $4,000; in
surance not known.