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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-14

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or salts ~ zinc. which formerly went -
waste. but row IL used - 4 weed presNev-
atsye by railroads. bridge builders ana
dock builders. and for the protection U9
shingles, esarboards psiIars ana any other
wood that IL exposed to moiasure Or inl.u.
ences that cause decay. The salts of nine.
in solution. by hydraulic pleasure afo
forced into the pores Of the wood. which
il then soaked In = stronG solution ~
;snntn and glue. The ties and ptfin9 nom
s.sed ny the aante Pc and guush~rn parinD
and ether Western roads are treafed -
this manner. The railway companies
named use from 1sse.6O TO at6 no pounds
a year each. with this treatment . p6no
tie. whseh II tae eniy kind that can ~
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-14

LOW RATES 80 BEAUTIFUL SCENERY.
Nov 10 the time 20 fAks . trip 20 Gait
fcrntA The Shasta Route effsrs you : ~.
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.rx scenery. superior equipment And J1W
co. ess hrss class. iae!adsng berth IN Pun.
mar ear. yis tourist. including berth q
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50 ard berfh~ Apply - G.. J. 5teeple. a.
srIes "a sa~nw<r agent Southern Pae30a
COMPANY as First Avenue. eattte
STEAMSHIP Iasrads sails TnaYDdo1s
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-14

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NOVELTY Jxns f1-TAe anrsuat srhoeJ
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esosce ct ire following a1seerss Jain arn,
director for sf@ year. 80 All an ssrexrsyeA
term A. &. Pickering director for ssxrex
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-14

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-14

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appointed Jef% SefeEsr. Of New Rnaseern
trustee Of sste state uefEzzs sesseoa AZ shas
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exp&-eS Trustee Sessrsr@s term wsii sx-
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-14

FIRST e~easax concert Of xhe Rasoa.
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-14

THE CAscAxs MfwaHxss 4 g. Paul
railways famous ~ftoaeer lkasselrs n she
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-14

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Paul White. ron 81 Mr.. Emma white. ~
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-14

Congressman Henderson 81 - yeas %
age anss docs nes sscw MS years mere
sa&E TIE average saAn. rogwtsNssasf ssx
lis severe wesa8s ea-szS LIS var -.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
ENJOYS AT WORK.
The samoan Com mi missiOners Are Well
coined to the Islands and Hold
Their First Meeting.

Apia, Samoa, May II, via Auckland.
n. H., May 26.-The Samoan commits
sion, consisting of Bartlett Trip, fors
mer United States minister to Austria
Hungary; Baron Speck Won Sternberg,
representing Germany, and c. IL. Eli
OF, c. b., of the British embassy at
Washington, representing Great Brit
ain, held its first sitting. Nothing was
disclosed regarding the deliberations;
but it is reported that they will uphold
the action of Admiral KautZ, the Amer
lean naval commander.
Mataafa sent the commissioners let
ter of welcome and expressed hope that
they would satisfactorily end the trou-
bles in Samoa.
Rear Admiral Kautz has telegraphed
to Washington that the Philadelphia
will leave so as to reach San Francisco
about June 25. The flagship will be re-
placed at Apia by the cruiser Newark.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
PERISHED BY FIRE.
Man, Wife and Seven Children
Burned to- Death Near Har-
deeviIle, =. &.

Savannah, Ga, May 29.-Advices from
Hardeeville, S. c., report the burning to
death of Jacob Solomons, his wife and
seven children in fire which destroyed
their house. The house was located on
the Oestricher farm, near Hardeeville.
1t had been damaged by storm and
Solomons built fires ON the floor to keep
warm. 1t is supposed a fire which was
left smouldering after the family had
retired was famed into a blaze and
ignited the structure. The verdict of the
coroner's jury in each case was that they
came to their deaths through the culpa-
bic negligence of Jacob Solomons in
neglecting to build chimney.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Cubans Are Stubborn.

Havana, May 26.-Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee, military governor of the Havana
del Rio department, wired Gov. Gen.
Brooke at Elvedado, Thursday, that 200
Cubans, of the command of Gen. Rod
riguez, near Mariana, dispersed Wednes-
day, after resolving not to take the SIS
per man. Some of them sold their arms
and others took them to their homes.
kilograms from different points say
that the Cuban army in the western
provinces will adopt the idea of the
troops in the orient, declining to give
up arms or to accept American money.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31

Died ut Paris-Had Been
Seriously HI.

Fontainebleau, France, May 27.-
Rosa Bonheur died at IL o'clock Thurs
day night.
the daughter OF a painter. Raymond Bon
heur. and during her time refuted the COM
plant that a womans genius has not the
degree of recognition accorded the genius
OF men. Her first public exhibition was In
lS4l, and long years ago her fame as the
worlds master painter of animals was as
sured. Her masterpiece was "The Horse
Fair" now Ia the Metropolitan museum
of art, New York In laying the founoatioh
OF her knowledge OF animals she visited the
abattoirs of Paris, disguised as boy, ana
there, with the bodies of lifeless creatures
lying all about her, she made her studies
of the living and on the canvas wrought
such wonders that the whole world stooa
and looked in admiring awe.
In 1S49 she founded in Paris Free
School Of Design for Young Girls" Her
life was full of work; her home on the edge
of the forest of Fontainebleau, hidden
away at little place called BY. To the
day her fatal illness began she wore the
velvet blouse which had its beginning Ia
the abattoirs of Paris and which gave her
the reputation Of going about in mans at-
tire.
One of her pictures represents "Bunaio
Bill on horseback. 1t was painted because
the great scout had sent her two mustang
chargers for models. She saw poetry In
cart horse, and went into ecstasies over
two North American Indians who visited
France. She had these redskins luncn
with her, and, filled with admiration. ex-
claimed: These are real men! They are
not the simpering, gossipng, bowing am
NAL of to-day! How men have degenerated
as compared with these noble specimens!
She was a tireless worker and in the last
five years Of her life executed some OF her
best paintings. Animals she loved and at
BY she maintained a vast menagerie, where
she reveled among lions, tigers and every
other kind of wild beast. The beasts loved
her. The sound of her voice would, 1t Is
said allay the furious rawlings of the most
savage specimen.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
The Jubilee Ends.

Washington, May ga grand his
toric street pageant, followed by patri-
otic addresses, was the chief feature
yesterday of the last day of the national
peace jubilee in this city. The pageant
was allegorical and historical and
typified the great historic epochs in our
country from Columbus at the court of
Spain and the discovery of America
down to the victory which crowned our
arms in the war with Spain. President
Mckinley and his cabinet reviewed the
parade. The addresses from the re-
viewing stand in the court of honor fol-
lowed. The jubilee closed at night with
masked revelries at convention hal and
q display of fireworks.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
HEAVY LOSS BY FIRE.
An Area of Fifteen Blocks burned
Over I'm 81. Johns, N. B.-LOss About
S5OO,OOO-TwO Deaths.

ST. Johns, N. b., May 26.-Fire that
broke out in building adjoining the
general warehouse of T.. Nase d. Sons,
Main street, North End, Thursday aft
ernoon, did enormous damage. A lead
ing underwater estimates the loss at
S50O,OOO, and the insurance at $780,
600. The area burned over COM
prises Is blocks, or portions of blocks,
and the buildings destroyed number
$50. Probably 1000 persons are home
less, majority of them laboring peo-
ple Two deaths are to be set down
to the fire. A Miss Cunard, an aged
lady residing on Holly street, was
burned in her house, and Mrs. Arnold
Mowery, who resided short distance
from the scene, died from shock.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
AN AWFUL TRAGEDY.
Dead Bodies Of n Man. His Wife and
Two Children Found at Jop-
lin, Mo.

Joplin, Mo-, May 26.-In and near a
tent in the southeast part of town,
Thursday, were found the dead bodies
of j. T.. Moss, his wife, an infant child.
a girl of seven years and boy of nine.
The heads of all save Moss had been
mashed with a hammer. He had a
bullet hole in his head and still clasped
revolver. He had apparently killed
his family, then committed suicide. The
motive is mystery. The tragedy is
believed to have occurred on Tuesday
night while the family were asleep.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
PASSED AWAY.
ernor of Florida and Founder
of the Milwaukee Sentinel.

Jacksonville, Fla, May 26.-Ex-Gov.
Harrison Reed died Thursday evening
in South Jacksonville, aged Sc. The
cause of his death was the general de-
bilities of his age.
[Mr Reed was born in MiddleseX county,
Mass, in 1913. His early life was spent in
the east and he moved to Wisconsin in
1896 He was the founder of the Milwaukee
Sentinel, and afterward was member of
the constitutional convention of Wiscon-
sin. AT the outbreak of the civil war he re-
moved to Washington and filled an impor-
tSnt place in the treasury department. In
1865 he was elected governor of Florida
under the new constitution, which place he
filled for AZ years of the stormy period of
reconstruction times. He then retired
to private life and has never since filled
public Office, though being at various times
contributor TO current political litera-
ture.l
The true northerner., 1899-05-31

New York, May 27.-August Roeder's
feather renovating factory at Newark,
n. j., was nearly destroyed by fire Fri
day. Loss, $4,000. The widow of
Charles Norton, the ex-champion pugil-
ist, who died a few weeks ago, was
badly frightened by the fire. She was
suffering from heart disease, and, al
though safely removed from the apart
ment which adjoined the factory, she
expired few minutes later as a result
of the excitement and the shock.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Death of n Veteran.

Athol, Mass, May 29.-Brig. Gen.
George w. West died at his home in this
town late Saturday evening, aged 81
years. At the breaking out of the civil
war he enlisted in the Fifth Massa-
chusetts, but resigned to accept cap
taincy in the Tenth Maine volunteers.
He became colonel of the Seventeenth
Maine and was promoted to brigadier
general for bravery at the battle of
Antietam
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Killed by the Cars.

Buffalo, N. Y, May 29.-Joseph Kel-
Ter and Ray Sherman, of Alden, N. Y,
and Louis Carey, of Auburn Four Cor
ners, Pa, were killed at Wendes Station
at two o'clock Sunday morning while
driving across the New York Central
tracks. Their carriage was struck by
an east-bound express. train. The
bodies of Carey and Keller were thrown
on the west-bound track, and freight
train which passed moment later
mangled them beyond recognition.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Cen. Wood RenOrfs.

Washington, May 26.-The following
dispatch has just been received from
Brig. Gen. Wood. the governor of San
tiago province:
Santiago, May 25-To the Secretary OF
War Washington: Just returned from in
spection OF principal interior towns and
north coast, this department People at
sonal assistance during the trip: people
absolutely quiet; no Cuban troops under
arms anywhere in province; no brigand-
age.
ssWOOD
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
storm Causes Havoc I'm Iowa.
The Pence Congress.

Washington, May 27.-Meetings of
the disarmament conference at The
Hague indicate a unanimous accept
ance of the principle of international
arbitration and mediation. 1t is now
generally thought by the delegates
that the outcome of the conference will
be as outlined by Andrew ID. White,
head of the American delegation, and
that there will be nothing more than a
suggestion as to disarmament.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.



The business portion Of Staples,
Mimi, was destroyed by fire.
The national Baptist anniversary
meetings began in San Francisco.
Daniel Fox, hermit, was murdered
and robbed of S., 800 at Guthrie, o. 4.
Outlaws Sam and Bill Martin were
killed by sheriff's posse at Guthrie.
o. T.
Mrs. Lucinda Pratt, 103 years old,
died at the home of her daughter in
Chicago.
The president has appointed John A.
Merritt, of New York, to be postmaster
at Washington.
Fire in New York city destroyed
row of tenement houses, making 100
families homeless.
The funeral of Miss Margaret Bailey,
aged nearly 1O4 years, took place at
Monument City, Ind.
Cattle perished by the hundreds as
result of an unusual downpour of rain
near FL Dorado, Kan.
Seven men were drowned in the Yu-
kon river near Dawson, Alaska, by
breaking through the ice.
Col. David French Boyd, president of
the Louisiana state university, died in
Baton Rouge, aged GA years.
Mrs. Edward Cooper and her two
year-old daughter were fatally injured
by vicious horse at Findlay,O
Three men were killed and three fa-
t,I1 s,x NJ hn
Cambria blast furnace in Johnstown,
Pa.
A. c. Kraenzlein, of Pennsylvania,
made a running jump of "a feet 4h
inches in New York, establishing a new
record.
Clayton fatally shot her five-year-old
daughter in Nashville, Tenn, and then
killed herself.
In state convention at Boston the
social democracy of Massachusetts NOM
mated Winfield Z. Porter, of Newbury-
port, for governor.
After a snow blockade lasting four
months the South Park line has been
opened and train has reached Lead
vile, COL, from Denver.
The Illinois Steel company at South
Chicago broke the worlds record of
steel rail making in 12-hour run. The
new record is 1910 tons.
The one hundred and eleventh assem-
bly, of the Presbyterian church in the
United States adjourned at Minneapolis
after ten days session.
Burglars entered the house of Jesse
Wakeman, wealthy farmer near Wal
ton, y. Y, and stole over So, 600 in cash
and $4,000 in securities.
Peter Byers, wife and one child and
Mrs. Jerome Pfamm were drowned
while attempting to cross a swollen
creek near Bancroft, Neb.
James Williams shot and killed Harry
Jones in Pittsburgh, Pa, and then com
mitted suicide. Williams objected to
Jones attentions to his daughter.
At Montgomery, Mimi, Mrs. Frank
Glass and he' four-year-old son were
drowned in a deep well. The mother
lost her life trying TO save her boy.
Over $4,000 Sunday-school children
paraded in Brooklyn, n. V, the occa-
sion being the seventeen anniversary
Of the Brooklyn Sunday-School union.
The Iowa supreme court has con-
firmed the sentence of Frank A. Novak
to the penitentiary for life in the mur-
der of Edward Murray February 2, 1897,
at Walford.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
French Wheat CrOp.

Paris, May 20. - An official report
just published says the harvest of the
winter crop promises exceedingly
well, though their appearance is slight
ly inferior to those of 1898. In 16 de-
partments they are very good, in 63
they are good, in six fairly good and in
one department the crop is fair. The
spring crops are in much the same con-
dition
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Not Chilly.

Kankakee, ILL.,, May 20. - Sidney
Ringo (coloredD was found not guilty
Friday of the murder of Mr.. and Mrs.
Emil Chiniquy at Stanne, last October
The principal evidence of the state came
from a Chicago detective and four of
his confederates, who swore that Ringo
had confessed to the crime. This testi-
mony is claimed to have been perjured.
The alleged perjurers are in Jail in
default of Sc, 1000 bail.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Three Texas Men Lynched.

Houston, Tex, May 26.-Three white
men, James Humphreys and his two
sons, were lynched Wednesday night
near the village of Alley, in Henderson
county, an isolated neighborhood, de-
void of telegraph, telephone or railway
connections, and about rs miles south
west of Dallas. The Humphreys were
farmers. They were suspected of har-
boring a murderer and assisting him to
escape.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Famous Surgeon Dend.

Louisville, KY, May 27.-Dr. Emory
Afford Grant, an eminent surgeon, died
at his home in this city Friday of heart
disease, aged rs years. Owing to his
successful treatment of deformities, DIR.
Grant attracted general attention from
the medical world.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Charged with Patricide.

Rapid City, S. d., May 20. - Lena
Bouts, aged IA, and younger brother,
children of Frank Bouts, Burlington
tie contractor of Pennington county,
are under arrest, the girl charged with
numbering her father. She shot him
through the head while asleep. The
man was cruel to his family, who lived
half starved half the time.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Caught I'm New YnrI.-

New York, May 29.-August f. Sick
man, secretary of the Garden City For
esters' Building and Loan association
of Chicago, charged with the larceny of
$3,soO belonging to the association, was
remanded without bail by Magistrate
Cornell to await extradition papers.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Coney Island Fire-Syyept.

New York, May 27.-Coney Island
property to the value of half a million
dollars was destroyed by fire early Fri
day morning, 20 acres in the heart of
the summer resort section, the district
known as "The Bowery," being reduced
to ashes. Two hundred buildings were
burned. The fire is said to have been
of incendiary origin.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Ready To Begin Payment.

Havana, May 27.-The distribution of
the $4,000, 900, which the United States
government has offered as a gratuity
TO the Cuban troops on disbanding and
surrendering their arms, will begin at
ten o'clock this morning at the foot of
The Pradn
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Noted Lawyer Dead.

Sandusky, o., May 29.-Judge John
Mackey, one of the oldest and foremost
lawyers in this section of Ohio, and at
one time a common pleas judge here,
died at the family residence here Sun
day in the eighty-second year OF his age.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Miners Blown to Pieces.

Butte, Mont, May 29.-Angus Nc
Leod and Anton Peranda, working in
the Diamond mine, while drilling in a
hole where the blast had not been fired,
were blown to pieces by the explosion
of the powder early Sunday morning.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Killed n Preacher.

Huntsville, Ala, May ga negro
Baptist preacher whose name could not
killed Saturday night by Tom Pitcock,
a prominent citizen of this place. The
negro had threatened to kill Pitcock
Pitcock was arrested.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
plan. ni.cuslxed.

st. Louis, May 26.-At conference
in this city yesterday of members of the
democratic national comm nhittee plans of
work for next year were discussed, but
no action was taken regarding plat
form.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
High Honor Conferred.

New Haven, Conn, May 26.-The Yale
corporation held its regular May meet
ing Thursday, and elected Prof. Arthur
Twining Hadley, M. A, president of
Yale university, to succeed Timothy
Dwight, resigned.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
wisconsin for Henderson.

Milwaukee, May l29.-David b. Hem
derson, of Iowa, will be unanimously
supported by the Wisconsin congress-
men for speaker. This was decided
upon at a meeting held here Saturday,
at which all the ten representatives
were present
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
nurinl nj Sen.

Manchester, N. H., May 24.-Word
has reached here that Benjamin Frank
lin Clark, United States consul at Per-
nambuco, died on board the steamer
Havalius while returning to his home
in this city and was buried at sea.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
A Fatal Quarrel.

East st. Louis, ILL.,, May 29.-James
Lynch, a prosperous saloon-keeper,
shot and mortally wounded his wife
and stepson, William Kelley, aged IS,
and then shot himself. A quarrel was
the cause
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
A Successful Trip.

New York, May 27.-The automobile
carriage containing Alexander Winton
and Mrs. Shinks arrived at the city hall
from Cleveland, o., yesterday, making
the trip of 707 4-10 miles in days IL
hours and as minutes.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
specinI Session Adiourns.

Albany, N. Y, May 26.-The state leg
islature, which met in special session
Monday night, adjourned sine die at
5:23 o'clock Thursday afternoon after
having passed the amended franchise
tax bill and bill appropriating $4,000
for the expense of celebrating Admiral
DeWey's return.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Irish ImmiRrniinn.

New York, May 29.-The immigra-
ton from Ireland is unusually heavy
this season. There were landed from
the Majestic at the barge office Friday
over $50 Irish boys and girls. The lat
ter were in the majority, and their ages
ranged from Is to 25 years.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Dronned Dend.

Nashville, Tenn, May 25.-Col. L. W..
Cole, of this city, one of the best-known
of the coal, iron and railroad capital
lists of the south, dropped dead in the
Fifth Avenue hotel in New York.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Dreyfus I'm Luck.

Paris, May 29.-The government an
nounces officially that former Capt
Dreyfus, now prisoner on Devils is
land, will be retired by court-martial.
The sittings will be held in a garrison
town distant from Paris. The prisoner
will be brought to France at an early
date.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Perfumery Trust.

New York, May 20.-It lis said that
plans have been practically completed
for a combination of the reading per-
fumery concerns in the country. The
capitalization will be s2o,ooo,ooo to
$40, ,oOo, 900.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Will neyeIop AInskn ConI Lands.

Seattle Wash, May 26.-The Stand
ard Oil company, having acquired not
only the old Russian title, but later
mineral land grant from the United
States government, TO the coal lands
at Cooks Inlet, Alaska, is preparing to
develop the coal fields, which are of
vast extent.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
spanish Statesman Dead.

Barcelona, May 26.-Emilio CASTELAR,
leader of the republican party in Spain
and president in 1873, died in this city
Yesterday.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Aguinai6o Reported Dead.

New York, May ga dispatch to a
local paper says: THE Spanish news
papers publish report that it is i'm
possible TO confirm to the effect that
Aguinaldo is dead. The cause of his
death, the papers say, is not exactly
known, but they declare that he either
committed suicide or was assassinated." :"
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Eighty Years Old.

Boston, May 29.-Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, poet, preacher, lecturer and
champion of the oppressed of all ma
tions, celebrated her eightieth birthday
at her home in this city.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
ON THE DIAMOND.
How the Clubs stand I'm the National
and Western Leagues I'm the
Championship Race.

The following table shows the num-
ber of games won and lost and the per-
centage of the clubs of the National
and Western leagues up to date:
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Roundbouse Partly Burned.

Cedar Rapids, Ia, May 27.-The west
ern half of the Milwaukee roundhouse
at Marion was destroyed by fire Friday
night, together with seven locomotives.
One man was severely burned