The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-18
A HOTEL ON FIRE.
One Woman Dropped
From Third Story
Window.
FORTUNATELY WAS NOT INJURED
Little Fire and More Smoke
Caused Commotion in
The Leicester.
FORTUNATELY WAS NOT INJURED

Leicester, Sept. ia little fire and
more smoke created lots of excitement
at 1920 last evening at the Leicester
hotel. Just before that time w. G.
Chase, DR.. John N Murdoch and Dr.
A. McNeish smelled smoke They
rushed upstairs and discovered that
the smoke proceeded from a small lin
en- closet ON the second floor near the
front Of the building.
The door was opened and little cir
Gle of flame and lots of smoke were
seen. The blaze was confined to a pile
of soiled clothes on the floor and was
quickly put out by water brought up
in pitchers, and smpthered with blank
cts. The guests who heard the tumult
rushed out into the hall but soon re-
turned to bed. Practically nothing but
the soiled clothing was burnt, and Mr.
Chase estimated the loss at 81 or 80
cents, fully covered by insurance.
The origin of the fire is unknown,
and q match on the floor may have
been ignited by someone stepping on
the head and leaving it to shoulder.
One lady was so frightened that she
dropped from the window of her room
on the third story to the tin roof over
the piazza. The fall was slight and no
bones were broken. There was no ne
cessity for a match being used in the
closet, as gas light in the hall shone
right in the door but one might have
been carried in the clothes or dropped
by some one.
The w. R. G. will give an oyster sup
per on Tuesday evening in Memorial
hall at $40 o'clock for the benefit of the
piano fund.
A meeting of the First Congregations
al Society win be held in the vestry
at 7.S0 o'clock on Tuesday evening.
The principal business viii be to vote
whether or no to authorize the Ladies'
Charitable Society to make certain
changes in the ladies' parlor and YES
try and to hear the report of the COM
mlttee ON spire repairs and act there
on
The w. F. NJ. S. of the First Congre-
gational church viii hold their annual
business meeting on Friday afternoon
at O'Clock, in the vestry. Officers will
be elected and other business trans
acted. At $50 a salad and cold meat
supper will be served. Mrs. T. S.
Snow is in charge of this feature. Al
an entertainment will be given con
sisting principally of a Japanese we'd
land. Miss Bertha Denny is arrang-
ing for the wedding
The funeral of a one-year-old child
Of Edwin w, Cheever, who died Sat
urday morning, will be held Monday,
No physician attended and so Medical
Examiner F. H. Baker of Worcester
was called to sign the death certificate,
The Cherry Valley Epworth League
will hold its annual meeting for the
election of officers and the reading of
reports for the year on Tuesday eve
nlng at T45 in the vestry of the Meth
odist church.
John Deyine, Jr., of Locust street,
who is critically i'll with typhoid fever
was taken to a Worcester hospital
yesterday,
jerry Delaney will start in working
at the Brick City mill Monday.
The Ladies Charitable Society will
meet on Friday in the Vestry.
Gherry Hatch, assistant auditor at
Newton, is visiting his parents, George
D. Hatch and wife
Echoes of the trouble in Court Tho
mas ID. Cunningham, F. of A, of Wor-
cester are heard in town quite fire.
quently these days. Chief Ranger Jas.
A, Quinn and Is or 20 members of the
court live in Leicester and Cherry val
ley Most of the Cherry Valley men
side with the suspended members. and
90 not ike Mr.. Quinn's stand on the
subject Judging by the way members
talk, the fight will be carried into Town
politics and some of the Foresters will
be after Mr. Quinn's scalp election dav
Mrs. J. Sidney Whittemore sang q
solo at the First Congregational church
this evening and the orchestra PLAYED
selections.