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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
CAR EARNS ARE KoBsEp.
Three Employees and Two Passenger.
Gagged and Women Terrorized.


Gagged and Women Terrorized.
-Four masked robbers visited. the car
barns of the Delaware County Electric
Railway at Clifton Heights. near Pl;la-
dolphin. and blew open two safes, TAX
ing $3.50 in cash, but failed to get 81 600
in one of the safes. The cracksmen
bound and gagged three employees of the
company and two man passengers and
terrorzed two belated woman passengers.
The robbers first covered the three EN-
ployes with their revolvers, and when
one Of them attempted to resist he was
made unconscious by blow on the head
with the butt end of a revolver. The
three men were then bound and gagged
and placed in the conductors room, with
one of the robbers guarding them. Pro
ceeding to the waiting room, the remain
ing three outlaws found the four passen-
bers, the two men being asleep. They
were bound and the women were warned
to make no cutlery. A second robber was
left on guard, and the two others went
10 the office. where they blew open two
safes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
STILL eAR AMuseMgRTs.
Methodists Will Not Make Changes In
Church Rules.

The Methodist general conference at
Los Angeles decided, by the decisive yea
and nay vote of All to 1873, not to make
any change in the church discipline in
the matter of prohibited amusements-
dancing. card playing and theater going.
Immediately after this action by the con-
ference the majority report, to retain the
paragraph and strengthen it by the Sddi-
ton of a clause in the advices. as rec
commended by the bishops, was adopted.
The conferences decision on this, the
most momentous question so far as mem
bers of the church generally were con-
cerned before the body, came at the end
of heated and lengthy debate. The
most pronounced advocates of the reten-
ton of paragraph PAS were women dele
gates. Advocates of the proposed change
argued that young people were kept out
of the church by an unnecessarily severe
restriction which was not obeyed by
many in the fold and could not be gen.
orally enforced.
The man who says ! cannot right
eously witness Shakspearean drama to-
night and go to prayer meeting tO-mor-
row night said Prof. Winchester of
Wesleyan University, lis either ignor-
ant or guilty of an uncharity that is
worse. in my opinion, than the sin com
planned of"
The question is one which agitated
the minds of the delegates to the general
conference perhaps more than any other
single problem before it. The church at
large took a wide interest in the subject
of proposed striking out of the specified
prohibited amusements from the disci-
pine, and many memorials and petitions
from all parts of the country reflected
popular opinion in the church on the
matter.
In all sixty-ive memorials were re-
ceived. ffty-fve of which opposed any
change in the discipline on this point and
ten favored various changes. A single
petition from Binghamton, n. Y, bear
ing 1000 signatures, was one of the
protests against any change being made.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
DEtz lESs29GRS
.,st;SSE;S 60.

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 10 $3.50; hogs, shipping grades.
800 to $4.S2; sheep, fair to choice, $2.75
to $575; wheat, No red, $1.03 TO $L06;
corn, No. 2, 47c to 4Sc; oats, standard,
4Oc to Ale; rye, No. 2, re TO 73c; hay,
timothy, $3.50 to $500; prairie, $500 to
S1l.5O; butter, choice creamery, 16c TO
tic; eggs, fresh, be to 15c; potatoes,
95c to Sill.
st. Louis-Cattle $3.50 TO 500; hogs,
800 TO $475: sheep, $500 to $5.65;
wheat. No. 2. S1.06 TO $10S; corn. No 2,
47c 10 4Sc: oats, No. 2, 40c to 41c; rye,
No. 2, CSC to roc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs. $500 10 S4.S5; sheep. $500 to
"a. 25; wheat, No. 2, SL09 to $1.10;
corn. No. mixed. 5zc TO 53c; oats. No
2 mixed, 40c 20 Ale; rye, No. 2, 7Sc to
soc.
Detroit-Cattle. $3.50 TO $50; hogs.
800 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to $500:
wheat, No. 2. $1.10 to SLIP; corn, No. g
yellow. Sic to &c; oats. No white, 43c
TO 44c: rye, No. 2, lie 10 re.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern.
97c to csc; corn. No. 3. 44c 10 45c;
oats, No. white, 4Sc to 49c; rye, No. ],
TIC 10 roc: barley, No. 9, SIC to &c;
pork, mess, $11.00.
Toledo--Wheat, No. mixed. s1.O7 to
$1O9; corn, No. mixed. SIC to sac;
oats, No 2 mixed, 42c TO 43c; rye, No. 2,
tic to 73c; clover seed. prime. S6.25.
Bufalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
800 to $40; hogs. fair to prime. $500
TO $500; sheep, fair 10 choice, s5.75 to
$3.50; lambs, common TO choice, 1915 TO
$3.50.
New York-Cattle, $3.50 to 1918;
hogs, 800 10 $500; sheep. $500 to
S5.25; wheat. No. red. $1.O4 to $1-06;
corn, No. 2, SIC TO 5sc; oats, No. white,
45c to 47c: butter, creamery, 16c 10 1Sc;
eggs, western, 15c to tic.
Indianapolis-Cattle. shipping, $500 to
S5.35; hogs. choice light. 500 to $40;
sheep. common to prime. $3.50 to 800;
wheat, No. 2, $1.03 to S1.06: corn, No. 2
white, 4Sc to Acc; oats, No. 2 white. &c
70 4Sc.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
"cooK STOVE" RISK DECIDED.
Question of Unnecessary Exposure in
Lighting Fire with Kerosene.

question OF Unnecessary Exposure IN
Lighting Fire with Kerosene.
Is lighting a cook stove fire with kero-
sene unnecessary exposure to obvious
risk of injury or obvious danger? The
Minnesota Supreme Court holds in such
case the facts must be submitted TO a
jury and sustains a verdict of $1,000
against an insurance company, because
of conflicting evidence on that point. The
case was that of Nathaniel Price, as ad-
ministrator of the estate of Margaret
Price, against the Standard Life and
Accident Company. Mrs. Price was
killed in the manner described. The
court also gave an opinion that may
have a bearing on fire insurance policies
issued in Minnesota hereafter. The case
is Herman Kollits, respondent, against
the Equitable Mutual Fire. The SUI
preme Court takes the broad ground
that delivering policy. without pre-
payment OF premium, is extending credit,
and that if loss is suffered in the mean
time il must be paid stipulations to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Dun's review of Chi
cago trade for the past
week saws:
Chicago.

Z
l. week saws:
Disparity appears in the movement
of heavy manufactured products, and
there are indications of further con-
servatism in industrial branches due
to lessened demand and difficulties pre-
scented by new symptoms of labor un-
rest The delayed solution of differ
ences responsible for the tie-up of lake
commerce occasions serious interior
ence to business, besides occasionng
financial loss which cannot be fully re-
gained.
Against these unfavorable factors
there are various gratifying develop
ments. New building operations are
assuming prominence and require in
creasing forces Of workmen at good
wages. Weather conditions remain
eminently seasonable, and while benef-
icent to growing crops, are also an en-
couraging factor in the distribution Of
necessities.
Country merchants report enlarged
consumption and show more conf
dence in placing orders FOR fall sup
plies. Local trade exhibits steady adj
vance in both leading retail and job
bling. Sales of staple goods were
strong, especially in dress wear, foot
wear. groceries and clothing, and the
demand was well sustained in paints,
vehicles and sporting goods. Mercan-
tile collections were uniformly steady
and defaults decreased
Grain shipments, 2.744,919 bushels,
compare with 2,742,345 bushels last
week and 3,759,1 JOG bushels year ago.
Dealings in -four were rather limited,
and although cash wheat held strong,
there was little demand. The coarse
grains made the best showing of ac-
tivity. Prices contrasted with last
weeks closings have declined in corn
seven-eights of cent, in wheat half
a cent and in oats one-quarter of a
cent. Receipts of live stock, 266,5SG
head, compared with 239,754 last week
and 269.542 year ago. Hogs closed
~ cents per hundred weight under a
week ago, but increased values APP
pear, for cattle 35 cents and sheep 90
cents.
Failures reported in Chicago district
number eighteen, against twenty-four
the previous week and twenty eight a
year ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Kills Woman and Himself.

Irwin Wise, n mechanical engineer,
shot Katie Graft through the heart and
then turned the revolver on himself,
sending bullet into his own heart. The
shooting occurred at boarding house in
Allegheny, Pa. OF which the Graft wom-
an was proprietor. The motive for his
crime is believed to have been jealousy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Kiuchau Taken by Japanese.

A dispatch from Toxic says the Jap
anese have stormed and captured the
town of kinchau. about thirty-two miles
north Of PORT Arthur
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
! New York.

| H. W AuNlceS from Speclat
N6H LULA. correspondents of the In
tenational NJ erca ntile
Agency indicate that there has been
further Improvement this week in dis
r1hution of merchandise at prominent
Western centers, and generally better
Jobbing trade at Omaha and similar
points of distribution, where sales are
being pushed successfully. Uncertain
~ has given place TO comparative as
surance in quarters where new ven
lures could scarcely obtain hearing
a few weeks ago.
But merchants everywhere are con-
servative, buying closer than wear
ago. In both lines indications point
to heavy trade in fan goods. Boots
and shoes are passing quickly into
the hands of consumers, returns in this
line being for the most part abnor-
mally heavy. Enlarged distribution of
foodstuffs is noted at Chicago.
Ne-up in aake traffic is becoming
more serious, with no prospect of les
SEEMING the congestion and little relief
fact, shows a small decrease in terri
tory where the roads might be expect
ed to benefit as result of the water
blockade. New England advices sug-
gest serious interference with general
trade unless idle longshoremen resume
work at the piers of Sound steamers.
Other than this, the labor situation is
less troublesome than a year ago al
though the laying off of many thou
sand employees by the different rail
roads involves complications which
cannot be accurately reckoned with at
this time. &
The weather during the week has
been favorable for crops throughout
the West, Southwest and Northwest.
Although reports of crop damages
come from Oelio. Indiana. Michigan
and Oklahoma, other sections, notably
the Missouri Valley, Rocky Mountains
and the Pacific coast. have expert
enced satisfactory temperature. The
weather has been rather unfavorable
for new cotton in parts of Texas. The
situation iii other sections of the South
is, however, satisfactory Corn and
oats are being harvested in some sec
tons of that State. Rice and sugar
cane are in good state, and business
governed by crop conditions shows up
well in all branches.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Churches to Unite.

By vote so nearly unanimous that it
was not counted the Presbyterian gem
eral assembly in Buffalo declared in
favor of the union of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church with the main
body, and if the presbyteries ratify the
plan. as no doubt tho will, the two
churches will be one again in year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Following is the standing of the clubs
Standings in the American Association
RIackmailers Blow Up House.

Having refused to pay $500 demanded
by a band of blackmailers, Andrew Di
Fiore and Antonio Bartolotta, two pros
porous Italian business men, with the
members of their families. narrowly es-
capped death, the house in which they
lived at $40 Fourth avenue, Brooklyn,
N. Y. being demolished by dynamite.
The two families were asleep, but no one
was hurt.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
STRIVING FOR REMNANTS.

Standing of Clubs in the Three Princi'
pal Leagues.
The clubs in the National League are
nAnndinn Ahuc.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
SENATOR QUAY DEAD.
Long Career of Veteran Pennsylvania
Politician Is Ended.

Acitts@idh 40 A-udeus
Matthew Stanley Quay, United States
Senator Tor PENNSYLVANIA ana for years
one of the foremost men in the Repub-
liean party, died at his home in Beaver.
Pa, Saturday afternoon. Early in the
day he fell into stupor from which he
could not be aroused and while in this
condition the end came. Ina his last mo-
ments he was surrounded by members
Of his family and many personal and po-
litical friends. including his colleague in
the United States Senate, Boies Pen
rose of Philadelphia
Senator Quay had been unconscious
since S o'clock in the morning. Oxygen
was administered several times in the
hope of revving him, but the physicians
long before the moment of death came
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Rain and Wind Hurt Crops.

During forty-eight hours two incIes
of rain fell over the greater part of Kan
sas. Windstorms have destroyed siou-
sands of acres of wheat, and reports of
rust in the grain are alarming the farm.
ers. Streams are bank full, and farmers
are unable to get into their fields to
pillow and plant corn.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07

mines After sixteen hours of fighting
they charged up the steep sides, aided
by the fre of three gunboats in kinchow
Bay, and drove the Russians back A
Russian report places the japanese loss
Mt 1000 killed. and another report says
the Russinn loss was heavier.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
KILLED LIKE Rlr4N TRAP.
Strange Death Comes to Ohio Farmers
Wife While in Barn.

Singular death was met by Mrs. John
Lutz, a farmers wife, who lived near
Bucyrus, Ohio. Mrs. Lutz had climbed
into piano box in the barn to get some
little chickens which had been hatcbed.
The box had the usual slanting lid. which
she propped open. In some way her
weight overbalanced the box and it fell.
Mrs. Lutz thrust her head out of a ~
inch hole in the top of the box, which
i'll its fall caught the woman's neck be-
tween the edge of the hole and board
against which it fell, and she was held
as in a wise until she had strargied.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Piers and shinping Rurn.

Starting in barge moored at pier
No. u of the Delaware. Lackawanna
and Western Railroad in Jersey City,
fire destroyed FIVE piers, causing loss
estimated at S5,000O00. including the
shipping alongside the piers. The road
carried it's own insurance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Masked Men Bind and Rob,

A bold robbery was committed in New
Bedford. Mass. by FIVE masked burglars,
who broke into the oneka wooden mills,
in the northern part OF the city, over
powered and bound the two night watch
men. used dynamite on the safe and es-
caned with its contents.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Gillespie Case Causes Suicides.

Three attempts at suicide i'll three
days is the result of the public excite
ment over the Gillespie murder mystery
in Rising Sun, Ind. The latest is I'hos.
Moore, a young farmer, who was found
hanging by his neck in his barn. The
others whose brooding over the case
caused them to seek death were Andrew
Davis and August Greve.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Kills wife, Child and Self.

Andrew Messer killed his wife and
child and then himself in Cambridge,
Ohio. Messer and his wife had frequent
quarrelS. Neighhors heard the shooting
i'll the night. but were unable to break
into the house in time TO save any Of
the victims.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Heroes Die, Fund AnpeaIed To.

The families of Gideon Marshall and
Ferdinand Pillette, who lost their lives
in Pittsburg in vain attempt to rescue
Arthur TRULY from well, will benefit
by the Carnegie hero fund, if r move
ment already started is successful. One
member of the fund commission has ex-
pressed a favorable opinion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
FIRES AT A CONGRESSMAN.
Unknown Man Shoots Through Car

Unknown Man Shoots Through Car
Window and Barely Misses Victim.
Congressman Henry A. Cooper narrow
ly escaped being killed by bullet fired
through car window on a Northwest
ern train. He and Mrs. George A. Yule
of Kenosha, Wis, were sitting together
near the rear of the car and just as the
train pulled out Of Clybourn Junction
pistol ball was fired through the win
dow. 1T shattered the glass and passed
within a few inches of the Congress
mans head, burying itself in the other
side of the car. Congressman Cooper
was slightly cut by the broken glass
falling on his head.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Longest phone Line in World.

The Bell Telephone Company has be-
gun estimates for a long distance line
between Kansas City and Joplin to con-
meet with a new line that is being built
from st. Louis TO Joplin and thence
through the Indian Territory into cen
trail Texas. Over $1.0O0000 has been
appropriated for these extensions.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Husbands Love Worth $500.

Ardent love letters written by Mrs.
Annie Radelif, widow, win cost her
$500 unless the verdict brought in by
jury in Baltimore is upset on appeal. Of
which notice was given. Suit was
brought against Mrs. RaGcliff by Mrs
Sallie C. Earickxon for $4,000 damages
for alienation of Earickson's affections.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
O. A. r. Urges Shaft to Lee.

The Grand Army of the Republic. in
reunion in Frankfort, KY. adopted a
resolution calling on Congress 10 erect
AZ Washington monument to the rem
orv of Gen. Robert +. Lee. The resolu-
tion urges that such memorial will
give to the people of the South new
and stronger pledge OF brotherhood.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Commits Suicide in Paris.

Viscount d'Oyley. the youngest son of
DR.. John Evans. prominent American
in Paris. committed suicide because his
income was cut of when he eioped with
an attractive Peruvian.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
CONVICTED AS BABY FARMER.
David r. Mosier Found Guilty by a
philadelphia Jury.

After short deliberation the jury in
criminal court No. 2, in Philadelphia,
returned verdict of guilty against Da-
vid f. Mosier, tried in connection with
death of infants Sentence was suspend
ed pending motion for n new trial.
Bail was denied. Mosier, who was
known under several aliases and as
doctor was the witness who testified
against a woman who kept baby farm
and who was charged with making away
with infants intrusted to her care. 1t
was he who declared he had seen babies
thrown into a furnace in the woman's
home. 1t was alleged that he was
member of a syndicate of baby farmers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
ChicaCo Wins over street Car 60.

The city of Chicago obtained the Whip
HIND when Judges Grosscup and Jen-
kins ruled that the 99-year act does not
apply TO Union Traction franchises
granted by. the City Council since 1875
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
RattIe with OUTLAWS,

Sheriff Webb of Natrona County,
Wyo.. and posse fought a battle with
outlaws near the Putney ranch in the
Big Horn Mountains. One of the out
laws was wounded and fell from his
horse A companion lifted him from
the ground and escaped into the bad
lands with his human burden.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
TIMER IL Acquitted,

Within twenty-five minutes of the re-
tirement of the jury in the case of
James n. Tyner and Harrison j. Bar
rett, tried in Washington on the charge
Of conspiracy in connection with their
duties in the law Office of the Postoffice
Department, a verdict of not guilty was
returned
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
GOVERNMENT TO OWN WIRELESS.
Marconi Plants Forced from America
Messages to Be Free.

MarconI Plants Forced from a merlco
Messages to Be Free.
Government ownership of all wireless
telegraph stations at points where ever
the-sea communication is possible has
been decreed by the cabinet in Washing
ton, and the Navy Department is put
ting the order into effect. One result
will be that Marconi will be forced to
move his stations to Canadian soil. In
place of the Marconi station on the Nan
tucket lightship the department will es-
tablish its own plant, using a modifca-
ton of the Slaby-Arco system in its eight
stations. The government will make no
charge ON messages to and from ships at
goa
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
FirebuSs Cause a Big Blaze,

Incendiaries set fire to Strecker's liv-
cry barn in Marietta, Ohio. The entire
structure, together with Smiths oil well
tool works, part of the Marietta Dis
tilling Company. and three small frame
houses. were burned. There is said TO
be strong evidence as TO the incendiaries.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07

Two men, thought TO be freight car
robbers. while being pursued by detec-
tive in Cleveland, jumped into the river,
and il is supposed were drowned or
killed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
McDonaId Bound Not Guilty

James Mcdonald stands acquitted of
the murder of Miss Sarah Schaefer, the
Bedford, Ind, High School Latin teach
er, and his attorney, II. n. Palmer, has
promised TO reveal the guilty person.
The jury was out two hours and thirty
minutes and took seven ballots.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
DaInv Despoiled and Deserted.

The Russians have abandoned Port
Dalny. previously burning the Offices and
residences. destroying the railroad and
scuttling three large merchantmen. the
lied. Boreia and Nagadan. and all the
dredgers and launches.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Zen Wives: Ouits Eight; Asks Aid.

All records of the Pension Bureau
were broken by the receipt of an appli-
cation for pension from Peter West
of Pendleton, Ore. who declares himself
ten tines married and eight times di-
vorced. Long as West is on wives, he
claims only four children.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Rrotherhood Officer Drops Dead.

Thomas S. Ingraham. first grand engi-
neer OF the International Brotherhood.
dropped dead in the Los Angeles cen
vention. from aPoplexy. which also
caused the death of Chief Arthur at Gae
Winniney meeting last year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Race Riot in PbiIadeIphia,

A race riot between whites and blacks
started in Philadelphia by quarrel be-
tween children resulted in FIVE persons
being seriously shot or stabbed and in
eleven being locked up charged with as
sault and battery and melting to riot.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
validity o,r Laws Decided,

The United States Supreme Court up
holds the oleomargarine law, knocks out
the Cleveland 4-cent fare ordinance and
declares the constitutional right of trial
by jury does not extend TO the Philip
pines in the absence 81 specific legisla-
ton by Congress.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Battle in Tatung Pass.

Fifteen thousand Russians. advancing
on FeDgwangcheng in the belief that the
town had been abandoned. were met in
Tatung Pass by 10000 Japanese, and
1900 Russians fell, according to a report
from Newchwang. II is said also that
1000 Russians surrendered.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
LIVELY BLAZE IN CLEVELAND.
Small Dwellings Burned and Thousands
Witness Midnight Spectacle.

WItness MIDNIGHT Spectacle.
A fire which started shortly before
midnight burned over an area of half an
acre at the corner of Oregon, Perry and
st. Clair streets, Cleveland. The loss
will probably reach 100000. The prin-
cipal loss will be that of the st. Clair
street school, one of the oldest in the
city. A half dozen small dwelling houses
were destroyed. Opposite the burning
structure on each of the streets named
excited residents removed all household
goods because of the rapid spread of the
fire, which threatened their homes. The
blaze was the most spectacular the city
has experienced in years and was wit
messed by thousands of people.