Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-22
TERRIBLE CONFEDERATION
LOSS OF $12,ooo,ooo BY FIRE IN
TORONTO.
Church Gets Gold Mine-The Premier
Life Saver-Great Work Of Agri-
cultural Department-Chicaso Car
barn Bandit Attempts Suicide.


Life Saver-Great Work Of Asri-
cultural observation-disclosures Car
barn Bandit Attempts Suicide.
Fire which began AT o'clock Tues
day night, April 10, swept through n
section of Toronto's wholesale BUSH
ness district and was still raging the
next morning although help was sum
moned from Montreal, London, Ham,
ilton and Buffalo which, at once respond
ed. The fire started In "A factory In We'll
lington street and could not be con-
trolled, but spread from building to
building until the whole block was in
flames At IL o'clock 1t was believed
to be under control but a sudden shift
in the wind famed the flames into
roar, and clouds of sparks and burn
ing brands We're carried down SIDE
streets until three entire blocks were
doomed. The firemen were making a
gallant fight amid the falling build
ings, and a mass of tangled wires, but
their efforts at midnight seemed TO be
fruitless 1t Is estimated that the total
loss will reach fully $12000,000. Chief
Thompson of the fire department ana |
George Dowkes of Montreal were cut |
off by the flames while directing the |
work of the firemen from ROOF,
Thompson jumped six stories to the
ground, and miraculously escaped with
a broken leg A mass of tangled wires
broke his fall near the ground. Dowkes
has not been seen since, and II is De-
lieved that he persisted.
The area burned embraces IA acres
and from 5000 to 1000 persons are
thrown out of employment, one
hundred and twenty three buildings
were destroyed. The total insurance
was $S,36O,0o0. The blaze was check
ed on Front street at the Bank OF
Montreal building on the north ana
the Custom house on the south Botn
of these buildings narrowly escaped
destruction Several persons VINO
viewed the Baltimore fire said this
conflagration bore a remarkable re-
semblance to it.
A heavy snow storm swept central
and northern New York and New
England Friday and Saturday, Street
and steam railway traffic was greatly
impeded.
Ex- Mayor Albert A. Ames of MIN :
neapolis has been again arrested for
accepting brides, the indictment be-
ing similar to the one on which ne
was first arraigned. He pleaded not a
guilty and his case was set for trial s.
May 2. q
The West Virginia republican state |,
convention at Charleston Thursday, !,
April IA, instructed its delegates-at- Y
large for Roosevelt for president and 81
Senator Elkins for vice president. All pl
the district conventions held previ- I
ously acted likewise, making IA dele a
gates secure in the Roosevelt column. y
Representative Bankhead. after the a y
most strenuous fight in his life, has p
carried the day in his fight for re- w
in the sixth Alabama dis "
trict over Captain Richmond Pearson "a
Hobson of Merrimac fame. Hobson's "a
was the most picturesque
Alabama ever witnessed women Wy
ing with men in adulation of the hero
of the Merrimac." "a
Senator Dietrich of Nebraska has a. a.,
been declared by a special committee ~
Of congress to be not guilty of any ~
violation of the statutes of the United No
States or of any corrupt or unworthy ~ ~
conduct relating either to the APP ~ -,
pointment of Jacob Fisher as post ~ ~
master at Hastings, Neb., or the leas- ~ ~,
ng of the building in that city to the w
United States for a postofflce. ".
u.
captain Hans DuHTuu VI lile iNcu tn,
star liner Kroonland has saved 36S az
ives in the S6 years he has been a 90,
ailor He has just received from mi
King Oscar of Sweden the decoration va
# the order of St Olaf in recognition ist
# his great service to humanity. ~
President Mckinley presented to- me
,apt. Doxrud a fine gold watch, while 90,
le holdS uecoratIoils ifoiil many y. tib
medals from numerous life saving So hai
ieties. pa,
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Two st. Louis physicians are using wa
new drug IN the treatment OF con- ust
umption The remedy is a very pow les
rful proteid, which is found in ms,
ealthy blood The theory of the doc no,
ors is that consumption can be vii
brown off by increasing the carrying del
over of the blood and the use of the SUI,
rug is intended to do this. Several he;
have resulted most fav-
rably The drug is given internally,
inhaled in spray or in extreme cases,
injected hypodermically 1t is very COZ
apid in its action, the effects being Da
oticeable in few days. ito
da.
Fred B. Griffin, receiver of the In gat
Tobacco Culture corpora ten
ion, recently testified in court that Ethr
ISL year was not altogether prOntaDle the
Or tobacco growers in the Connecti era
ut valley, and that tobacco grown Sp;
nder shade is not meeting much of Fa
ale. He has in his possession prac- fro
cally all of the shade grown tobacco the
aised by the corporation in 1902 and pic
903, or about $4,000 pounds. He said cot
hat he had sold some of it, one bale, hal
Or 50 pound and he had sold more dec
it at one and one-half cents a lb. TIL
he average price he received was tot
SS cents pound. He had been Of 30
cred. II cents pound for all the TIL
hade grown in his possession, but re- wa
used it. thinking it too low. 1t costs pre-
bout 81 a pound, he says, to get tho
hade- grown tobacco in the bundle use
eady for market. ma