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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07
RECORDED MORTGAGES.

Adeisteiu. LYMAN. ard another 70 Jacob Junri
iisth-st Nos l5s. l5sis ana ICE East year. =.
Lcxsnfsld Pincas. and ahoihcr to lawyers
Aorts2Es Company; 90 ave : e cor whist:
Neumaan. Johanns c. TO John McDoaaid: so,h-s,
no lls West; years. per cent. :.......-;:.
Sherry, John - 70 Arthur X Butler: Harrison
ave, 400 II Of McGraw-aye Van Nest
station; years. per cent. .......-....-.-.....
Clarke william y, 70 Frederick J sherman;
Seumsnn. Johann. c. 10 John Mcdonald: 9oth-.,.
woehok. samuel 10 Louis Gordon 81 al: Isth-.,,
No 643 East: prior mortgages $4,000. yesr1.
Same to same; iiaih, st. 10 CAS- Fast prior mort
wsinstein. Julius. to tho Dime savings Bank Of
BROOKLYN; 2d-avs. cor o'h-st; years.
MsnieIbauri Jacob. 10 joseph l. figtt.nwi...r;
ioth-st. Nos 22e and rs West: instruments
ssvsstTe. Aurusts 1. and another to Jane 4
SENEGAL; l09th-st n 8. % Z, " Of sd-avsi
Same to Emil = Gabler. executor: icaih-s t. rs
la2 n W % sd-ave; YEAR. . per cent. .....
ether; Avenue G no o. to los: Friar m s5a
se5 900: due Nav !. 1893. 8 per cent. .....,..:.
folk-st. No 70; building loan; year. 0 per
ssTns to zane: sane property: building Ioani
Bsrkin Samuel. 10 the Excelsior savings Bank:
Iies,eskins Leon 4. 70 tie city sortras, c5al-
{eny; ic4th-si $. 100 n " Of Central Park
Pest, Herbert A. % Ellen Lesser: ir,n-nve, e.
2te q % S5th-s,; prior mortgage. 10000;
veins,ein' Juiiu. 20 Tarri. Mandeibaum ana an
ether: 2a-sve Eos IS and 90. n cor ''h-s' due
Del Garcia, Helen " 90 ne CITY Real ra;s::
Company: Broadway. No el5: I-6 parti year.
PsiHieri. John to Flora seat.nn: Jafnss-st, W.
oo2 n OF oak-st; years. per emit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07
ANS FOR A CITY PLAYGROUND.

Ions have been fled with Building superinten-
Hopper. by c. b. J. Snyder. the architect for
obstruction ~ a playground on the lot adJoin-
he NCw-York TrUant School. In Twenty-hrst-
east 81 TEird-ave. four story tenement
. the front 81 the LOT is to be torn Gown ana
Z OF area. which Is 44ls feet wide and $50 feet
cfsQ, inc0sed with brick walls. Part OF the play
FlOunG rs 20 pc sheltered Tor use IN stormy wea Their
VIC -mrrnEnmEnt IS 10 cost The cltN s. ool
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07
By Jesse C. Bennett q Co. for Joseph Hammershlag
20 Morris K Jesup for about $4,000.
BIO DOWNTOWN BUILDING PLANS.

BIO DOWNTOWN BUILDING PLANS
word about building operations IN the down
town business section: IL Is already known that
plans for buildings TO many million dollars and
TO be built in the downtown section have already
been filed These projects comprise a new building
for the Produce Exchange Bank at the northeast
corner OF broadway and Beaver St, the new trinity
Building, building for the American Express
Company at No. q 10 % Broadway ana the Wet
more Syndicate building at Beaver and Broad SITS
stu. in the face of these facts, some people may
yet that she real estate market Is dull IL they
DO they sleeping and should awake before their
GroWsness becomes chronic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07
INTERFERING BRONX DEAL.

:. Clarence Davies has sold for J. & J. Slater
ue State Realty and Mortgage Company n
- - plot OF lots on the northeast corner OF One
N-nofrcro -s:xty-eiefath- and fsoston-zve con-
~4ns about eievsn lots. t<;ng 100 feet In Boston
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07
TO BUILD AN APARTMENT HOTEL

Esw-in Wilbur Is drawing plans Tor a twelve story
sriok stone and Gotta steel framed apartment
actei, 20 stand a plot the south side OF
Nhirty-third-st- ST feet west OF Seventh-are.,
By Edward 4. Robinson.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07
vkNDEssiLT's FORMER HOME so, r

Grnelius Vanderbilt has cold No. 60 Fgftb-,v,
- story dwelling house. which he occupi.d he
he moved % No. Washington suuare
q Ugh Davis Robinson and Horace s. Elv a
70 Tie Elfth-ave. house Is Columbia COLLEGE
lee ehoic, and occupies a plot eoEi6 feet al the
20. hRnEt corner o. Fort1-rinf -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07
NEW BUILDING PLANS.

Delaney and Clinton Ets. cor, fer six story
owner; W Laaitzen. architect; -.-.'. fa,.
i4th-st ara Avenue A. cor fcr = So story
brick nsthouss. with stores. 24zsG4 Wei q
Mayer. owners; A Badt. srchitect ............ az.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07
Riga CLASS DWELLING HOUSE So, =

&. " EsuEhan. OF James 7. I,l,,,z,. o4,c. 49,.
colo for " ". and r Il Hal No 2 East r-r,x-
Grst-rt, q ave story American Basement srr,l1,-.
house. On lot Sxioo feet. The house e. N oop-s.
81 cOnEtruction. Nrs FIarriet Fss,-srlr -. =
r)r. Everett HerricS. IS tie buver Tp,e 49, = g.
been held at $1,000 nv -O-se mas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07
BUSINESS BUILDING CHANGES HANDS

Il. Berry has sold for George Fuchs 10 Leo
Peck No. e West Fifteenth-st., an eight story
Iasrcantiie building, lot 25xI0s feet: No. 46l
West FifJy-frst-st. two four story hathouses: No.
a. Prospect Place, a three story dwelling house.
E1d 20. 1.6S Eonroe-ave-, q three story dwelling
lcGse.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07
!, lmpsoNE EosTY.EouRTH.sr. sIrE.

We G. T B. TAYLOR have sold for the estate
q, Josenh Brandon No. ? West Forty-fourth-st-. =
swo story stable on lot 25xoo5 feet l25 feet west
% Flfth-ave The buyer VIII improve the sits>
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07
THE BRONX BUILDING PLANS.

Jackson-st, north side rs feet east OF Railroad
ave. two story frame dwelling house. 1Sx2s feet;
Jacob Rooder. owner; Rudolph Werner architect;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07
City Property for s ale or to Let.

- TNTION!-GENTLEsfAN WILL SELL. OR RENT
A magnificent residence al -ucton Prise; y rOonis
ga Cntral Depot: adjoining beautiful botanical Gsrders
BROTHERS. 2joth-st and Neoster-aVc BED
park Bronx open Sundsys
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

ist-sve No l2s 2os5o; Philippine Knansr o., IA.
soth-st No ils West, y 6xiO0s: Jacob New -.
~ lula o. eirno notsase So 500 Nominal
jung e LYMAN Adels;ein sHd another' mort ~,
2s1g5s; as%a9 b., H IS;
iistS-st -, co It Of M3dis9n-aye 2o1loolii
Ado.ph Hoilander to Louis Harris mortgage 80
M syoSS a5 No iea g a5xioo; Marcus
cTohn julia GROIN: nortssses So 900 90: 'snnai
iesn ~ fssr ,,;,: 100; .5 5Gan 100
oI reTsY 70 mare dor Aibanyst runs 5oI
.elx * lseI 64X e co: William TODD ,,o,r,,,,
ors-aS i;f No ia PISS io12I s5s ioI
Lester g Taylor to Louis NJ Bailey mortgage,
Iesef e Tayor to Louis bailey
Letter Taylor 20 William Todd Nominal
sS pas,. ~opsi"' "li'H ',.'.......... .Nosnin.i
lsth-st No cis East 2i1io55 Gerdoa e 500
rstS-.t No Gas Fast 25xic5.3 Louis Gordon ct Al 49,
20 samuel woehol: nnortgage 5000 o 9 aRa. Nv
st An.;-H ZJ;u 40 81 s "a i4 Wen. 100
Ct W Mnn . 70 wi Mo 4 n 241i1S7 wIlheins
Ferdinand Kurznan to joseph Berhoff; \ part
,sSnst So, 20 and 22s West; 5oxioas Joseph
I Buttennwsiser 70 Jacob M'ndelbeum' mort 100
utR-st, t'' :. iss # " Of Avenue c a5xio5a;
os fsii faoTtssse 1880: s.. 100
As MAN wsc.sn ana snothsr to David Jaso6o,
Hcuet0n-Sf 10 o. LAST -sNNs.oA-JAoe-1' l'a'l0
Jacobowltz TO Max Wachsman and another; 90
HsTriseassye $ 800 IT Of McGraw- ave COX
100; Arthur Rutlcr John y sherry Nominal
..ats anna II GeThart 70 Clara scheiena ses 90
Jo.sph Fistere mortgage 5000. ..-.... Exchange
Park-ave. 10 q q I70th-et. 76xl60xSox
$50: Thomas Nesry TO John II Doherty ana
other Nominal
Suffolk 81. No 75 25x1O0 Joseph I Buttenwteser
TO Max weinstein. mortgage. $4,000; o and. 100
I07th-st. o.. 2I2G n q OK 1th-ave 31.6xl00ll.
Joseph fiesse 10 Fannie Spring quit claim
sarnes-st. s. SO2 = of Oak 2Sx59v2sx5T.4
Flora Seatsna John Pelmieri; mortgage.
Lot, 81 partition map part Hunt estate Van
Nest station: Sarah CahiI Nellie Roesch
NV
Eohni.r 70 Thomas i Scott Q c snd....-... 100
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07

ave bY II feet IN one-hr-cred -strty~eirth-se
large house - the plot
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07
THE FEDERAL TREASURY.

washington, Feb. e-The condition Of the Treas
ury divisions OF issue and redemption, at the be-
ginning of business to-day. follows:
RESERVE FUND.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07
City Property to Let.

n vopFRN HOUSE for family wRverlsy PiacA between
vi Wegt IIth and SITS. vacant Inquire.
pOaF- 252 west 14th-st-
. ADVERTISEMENTS sni subscriptions for TIE Trfeuns
n received at their Uptown Orlce
- NO. 1894 BROADWA1-
Advertisements VIII be received at the following braneh
orces az regular Office rates until o'clock p M viz
90 sfh-sye s. cor 23d-st 153 oth1ye.. 12th-st
% Fast iSti-s 257 42d-st- between tn SIN
Sas west l25th-st 1883 Sd-eve between 1eth and
STth sts 6lst-st Los lst-sVe near
sash-s ia7 125th-st.; $50 Trenont-avs GO id
80 near 4istst. 90 Chrtstopher-st Brook
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-01-07
Their Security is Worthless.

Publication is made that many OF
the mortgage companies doing busi-
ness in this State, together with
some of the banks, have refused to
lend money to farmers in the white
cap counties of South Mississippi
Franklin, Lincoln and Amite. The
ground on which these moneyed in
stitutions have refused to lend mon
ev in these counties is that the
whitecapping outrages have made
the security ter+.aresl for these loans
very undesirable. Most of the se-
curity is farming land, and they
figure it out that farming land with
out labor is worthless. 1t remains
to be seen what effect this will
have on the lawless element. 1t is
generally conceded that the lawless
element only forms a very small
per cent of the population. The
people have united with the officials
of the counties in trying to stamp
out lawlessness and have made a
most excellent start.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-01-07
TERRIBLE scenes ARE enacted
N THE PLAYHOUSE OF DEATH
Rescuers Are Forced to Walk on Dead to
Extricate Living---Exits Choked With
Bodies of Women and Children.

If this had dropped and had been
thoroughly fireproof, it would have
cut of the fiery tempest and held II
within the stage space.
Third-The unquestioned failure OF
doors, leading out of the theater to fire
escapss and to landings. to move when
the people tried to open them. The
doors do not lock with bolts, but are
held by perpendicular levers. which
are inclined to stick Outside OF
the inner doors which lead to the fire
escapes are iron folders, which are
snapped together by horizontal iron
levers. These levers were ice-coated
and not movable when the crowd at
tempted to open them to get out to the
steel stairways.
Aldermen, firemen, policemen, insur-
ance men, architects and newspaper
men who spent good deal OF time in
the burned theater Thursday generally
agreed on these causes as being the
ones leading directly to the awful loss
of life. 1t was admitted that undoubt-
edly there were minor reasons which
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-01-07
GREAT THEATER DISASTERS OF THE PAST.

aster in the United States occurred at
the Brooklyn theater during the last
act of the last scene of The Two Or
phans," of which Kate Claxton was the
star She was the first to discover the
fame, but made no sign to alarm the
audience. The fire was quickly dis
cerned, however, and the panic began.
Miss Claxton and two others, joining
hands ct the front of the stage, be-
tweer. the spectators and the fire,
begged for order. and leisurely exodus
began, but robust man started the
stampede. and the terrible loss of life
resulted. Eddie Foy's vain appeal for
order in the Iroquois disaster is a
parallel. 1t was for cowardice. not for
heroism. that the Opera Comique fire
in Paris was noted. Strong men
knocked down and trampled on women
and children in the frantic rush for
the exits. The Official list of dead
in this disaster was put at rs, but many
missing were never accounted for, and
1t is possible that scores OF bodies were
completely charred In the ruins and
never found
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-01-07
Entrance and Front of Playhouse.

children, who, in the struggle inside
the doors, had exhausted their strength
and who, when the outside and COM
parative safety were reached, were un-
able to continue to the street and fell
helpless upon the marble floor. Some
were deau when the rescuers reached
them and some still showed signs OF
life. These latter were hurried to the
street and committed to the waiting
arms OF hundreds who had gathered
about the entrance, ready to carry
them to nearby stores and restaurants
and to the police ambulances which
soon began to arrive.
There are three doors leading to the
main balcony from the front of the
theater and most of the imprisoned
spectators attempted to escape by way
Of the east one. This door is higher
than either of the others and farther
away from the stage, and it is thought
that this accounts for the number that
tried to use it. The fire approaching
from the stage gradually drove them
back to the east wall. where they per-
ished in the frenzied jam.
women Beaten Down by Men.
Comparatively more men than wom-
en- gained positions anywhere near the
door. According to one man who es-
capped, they climbed over the backs of
the seats, beat down women and chill
dren and even walked over their
fallen bodies. They tore children
from their mothers and threw women
who blocked their way out of the aisles
en- and beneath the seats.
As soon as the todies which blocked
the door were cleared away the chief
and his assistants turned their atten-
ton to those who had not been so
fortunate as to even get near the
door:. Charred and stiff in death,
wome en- and children were found appar-
entity in the very seats from which
they had viewed the performance. One
little lad of about II years was found
caught between two seats not half
dozen feet from the center door. There
was no one near him and he seemed
to be one Of the few who in avoiding
the rush for the door above fell vic
Tins to the suffocating heat
Cause of the Horror.
Careful investigation into the hor-
ror disclosed three predominant fac
tors in the holocaust. This trio of IN
auencing circumstances, operating
simultaneously undoubtedly was re-
sponsible for the great loss of life 1t
was tbs consensus OF opinion of ex-
perts that there could be no doubt as
to the correctness of the conclusions
which follow:
First-The sudden shutting off of all
lights in the structure at time when
the people were endeavoring to leave
the building. This Egyptian darkness
caused people to stumble up or down
steps; those behind piled on top. many
being suffocated and crushed.
Second-The unfortunate spreading
of tie fire on the stage and its un-
lookld-for communication into the
aueA Atorium, caused for the most part
by tie failure Of fire curtain to work.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-01-07

Chicago, jan 1.-On the heels OF the
iremen came the police, intent on the
work of rescue. Chief O'Neill and
Assistant Chief Schuettler ordered cap
tains from dozen stations to bring
their men, and then they rushed to
the theater and led the reaiec Up the
stairs to the landing outside the east
entrance to the first balcony.
The firemen, rushing blindly up the
stairs in the dense pail of smoke, had
found their path suddenly blocked by
a wall of dead eight or ten feet high.
They discovered many persons alive
and carried them to safety. Other
firemen crawled over the mass of dead
and dragged their hose into the theater
to fight back the flames that seemed
to be crawling nearer to turn the fatal
landing into funeral pyre.
Passages Strewn with Bodies.
Among the elevated passages lead
ing from the foyer to the balcony
were strewn scores of women and
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-01-07
Won't Ask Teddy,

Hon. J. A. Richardson, editor of
the Sunfower Tocsin, states that
the people of Indianola are getting
along nicely with their independent
postoffice, and there is not citizen
of the town who is willing to ask
President Roosevelt to re-establish
the government office. "Of course,
many of our citizens would be glad
to get the office back again." saya
Mr.. Richardson, ''but we are not go-
ing to ask the president to take this
step. and if it is done it will be on
his own initiative"
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-01-07

on the bottom of the piles where fire
and smoke could not reach them.
Awful Scenes.
So fiercely the. fire burned during the
short time which hundreds of lives
were sacrificed that the velvet cushions
of the balcony seats were burned bare.
The crowds fought SO in their efforts
to escape that they tore away the iron
railings of the balconies, leaping upon
the people below.
From $3.50 O'Clock, when the alarm
was sent in, to 7:30 o'clock, when the
doors of the gutted theater were closed,
the charred, torn and blistered bodies
were carried from the building at the
rate of four a minute. Many blankets
filled with fragments OF human bodies
we're taken from the building.
Like Rats I'm q Trap.
Most grewsome were the sights in
the upper balcony of the burned thea
ter, when the police and firemen began
removing the bodies. There $50 per-
sons, caught like rats in trap, had
died in fearful agony. Along the rail
guarding the edge of the pit were
stacked the bodies of the hapless vic
tins, their limbs drawn and faces set.
Indications in the highest balcony were
that in the last few seconds of the
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-01-07
Sued for Half a Million.

The city Of Meridian has entered
suit in the Circuit Co-;rt for $500
000 damages aga,nsts the Meridian
Waterworks Company. 1t will be
remembered that Chancellor Dea
YOURS recently rendered a decree an
nulling the contract between the
waterworks company and the city.
The allegations in declaration are
substantially the same as in the
chancery case, the principal ones be-
ing that for years the water com
oany failed to supply pure and
wholesome water to consumers and
to maintain sufficient pressure for
fire service. :,
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-01-07
Miller Makes His Bond.

State Treasurer w. J. Miller has
made his bond, as required by law,
with surety company. The bond
is for $250,000, and it costs the
State $3.50 a year to provide if.is
bond, the rate the surety company
charges for being responsible for
that sum of money. There is Il
great probability that the coming
legislature will make some change
in the law relating to the treasurer's
bond. None Of the surety compan-
les care to make the treasurer's
bond. for the reason that all of the
States moneys are kept in one
vault, and not in repositories, which
makes it easier to lose large sums.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-01-07
contributed in bringing up the per
centage of dead.


centage of dead.
At Morgues and Hospitals.
Morgues and hospitals were the scenes
of wild disorder and frantic grief for
hours after the disaster. Kinsfolk and
friends sought their loved ones, frantic
with grief, threatening to break win
dows and overpower the police unless
permitted to enter and search for the
bodies of those they loved. Heavy po-
lice guards were necessary to keep the
crowds in check at Rolston's and Jor-
dams morgues. At the same time the
hospitals were filled in with injured.
Many of them unconscious, many of
them writhing in pain from their burns,
the yet living victims were taken to the
wards, where hastily collected extra
forces of nurses and physicians did all
they could to alleviate suffering. Many
had breathed fame and we're in the
stupor that preceded death; many had
been scorched from head to foot, and
some died on the way to the hospitals
or shortly after their arrivals.
Never have sucn scenes been wit
messed in Chicago's institutions for the
care of the dead or the suffering. The
capacities of many were exhausted long
before all had been taken care of.
wounded FIJI Hospitals.
Rolston's morgue was filled early,
when 100 bodies were laid out in rows,
and wagons carrying hundreds of 9th
ers were turned away. An0 all the
while, as the black wagons, express
wagons, carriages, vans, carts, wagons
for delivery of meat, groceries and mer-
chandise of all sorts, arrived with their
fearful burdens, the crowd surged
around the doors in waves that the DO
lice could scarce withhold and hailed
each new arrival with frantic manifesto.
tions of grief and horror. Those in
front strove to get nearer and look at
the faces of the dead as they were car
ried in and those in the rear surged for
ward. The whole human mass, swayed
by common impulse, moved in tide
that almost swept the policemen from
their feet
The Iroquois theater was vastly more
destructive to human life than any other
playhouse fire in the history of this
country. The fire next to it in point Of
lives lost occurred December 5, 1876. in
Conway's Brooklyn theater, Brooklyn,
N. Y. Here 295 of the audience perished
in fierce flames. The day after Christ
mas in 1911, while the play, The Bleed
ing Nun" was being performed in a
theater at Richmond. Va, fire started
that burned 40 persons to death, among
them the governor Of the state, George
w. Smith. Only two European theater
catastrophes approach that of the local
playhouse. On December 8, 1891, the
Ring theater in Vienna burned and 875
lives were lost. In the destruction of
Lehman's s theater In ST. Petersburg be-
tween 500 and 700 persons were killed.
In the great Chicago fire OF 1871, the
largest confiagration of modern times.
In which 2.124 acres were devastated.
but 200 lives were lost, so far as the most
reliable Information showed.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-01-07

having been stripped of their clothing
in the rush for safety. The heat Of the
fire and the water thrown in extinguish-
ing it combined to make the bodies
Shiny and most difficult to handle.
There was less difficulty after, thou
sand blankets had been brought from
the store of Marshal Field & CO., half
a block away Firemen and spectators
worked together in removing the last
200 bodies, which were taken from the
building in less than an hour. As fast
as the blanketed forms were taken TO
the street doctors examined them. The
dead were ordered taken away. the liv-
ing hurried TO the temporary hospitals
in adjacent buildings.
Bodies Piled ON Sidewalk.
When the dead became so numerous
that the ambulances could not carry
them away as fast as taken to the street
it was the first thought of the rescuers
to carry the bodies TO the shelter of ad
jacent business places. Twenty dead
were carried into Thompson's restau-
rant. east of the theater. There they
were piled beneath tables and covered
with tarpaulins and blankets from the
fire wagons. The crush of bodies final
ly became SO great that sheltering them
was impossible. Wrapped in blankets,
they were piled along the sidewalk for
hundred feet. four narrow lanes divid-
ing the piles and affording passages for
the firemen and police.
The Burned Theater.
The Iroquois theater was built at a
cost of s45o.0o0. 1t was opened to the
public with its first and only attraction
November 15- Managers Davis and
Powers said Wednesday that there was
but $4,000 insurance on the building
1t was supposed to be absolutely fire.
proof, and little insurance was consid-
cred necessary.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-01-07
Pyburn Cut to Death.

A few days since at McLaurin, u
P. Pyburn and w. Robinson. farm
ers living in that neighborhood, be-
came involved in a dispute arising
from the alleged non-payment of a
debt, which resulted in Pyburn be-
ing cut to death by Robinson. The
sheriff and a deputy were in Nc
Laurin at the time, having gone
there to fuell a disturbance report
ed to be in progress. and to them
Robinson surrenderd.