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OCILLA. GEORGIA.
HENDERSON & HANLON, Publishers.
The United States of Central Amer¬
ica managed to have a federation and
a secession all in the same year.
The Henley regatta is to be open
to Americans. This is only another
sign of the friendly feelings which
mark all the dealings of the two coun¬
tries at present, in sport as in every¬
thing else.
There appears to be no possibility
•of acquiring territory which the mos¬
quito lias not already claimed, In
the far Philippines as well as in Alas¬
ka, he or she is prominently mentioned
as a pioneer.
It is some consolation to learn that
the unfortunate grounding of the
cruiser Cincinnati iu Santiago harbor
was caused by au erroneous chart,aud
not through any fault of bet- com
mauder. The Spanish surveys of its
possessions in the Antilles are notori¬
ously inaccurate. Many of them are
aucieut, and make no record of shift¬
ing currents aud shoals. The order
for a new survey of this harbor with
its tortuous entrance is a natural se¬
quence of the accident.
The new era takes iu the whole
world in its possibilities, Distance
has long since been annihilated. Swift
ships go everywhere, and where the
land begins railroads take up the run
niug. Countries that had been aban¬
doned, like Egvpt, are being brought
again under tillage, while countries
which have as yet contributed nothing
to the world, but are rich in undevel¬
oped materials, are to feel the awak¬
ening hand of progress. There are
few secrets left. The sweep of the
commercial vision has grown to be
world-wide. The men of ampler view
and greater courage are looking far
beyond their old borders and prepar¬
ing for ventures on the largest scales.
The so-called “kings” in this, that or
the other fields of activity will lower
their colors to the new magnates who
are now coming on, says the Wash¬
ington Star. In only a few years the
ambitious man whose name is associ¬
ated with enterprises and holdings on
xmly one continent will hardly com
mandareverence that will satisfy him.
He will feel like a provincial and sigh
for other countries to conquer, and
particularly as everything has been
brought so near to hand.
In the report of Isaac B. Brown,
superintendent of the Pennsylvania
Bureau of Kailroads, made a year ago,
some comment was made regarding
the bicycle as a competitor of the
street railway. Observations made on
Third street in the city of Harrisburg,
with a view of showing the number of
persons riding wheels aud the number
riding iu the cars, were given. It was
found of the 6078 persons who passed
a given point between seven in the
morning aud six iu the evening, dur¬
ing two days in the mouth of October,
1962 rode in cars aud4116 on bicycles,
or (17.7 per cent, ou bicycles aud 32.3
per cent, in the cars. A comparison
of the figures obtained this year with
those of last year is therefore of con¬
siderable interest. This year the num¬
ber counted at the same point in the
same length of time was 5819, of
whom the number in tbe cars was
2370 aud on wheels 3449, or 59.3 per
cent, on wheels and 40.7 in cars. The
conclusion drawn by Mr. Brown is
that the bicycle is not so keen a com
petitorof the street-cars as itwasayear
ago. Another conclusion drawn is of
inle.est. Of the 5819 persons count¬
ed this year 1470 passed between the
hours of 12 noon aud 2 p. m., of
whom 1026 were ou wheels and 442 in
cars, or 70 per cent, on wheels and 30
per cent, iu the cars. These figures
show very clearly that the clerk aud
the laborer in going to and from their
work use tbe wlieel quite generally.
But the figures bearing on the use of
the wheel during other hours of the
day indicate that fewer persons are
using the wheel as a sort of pleas¬
ure. This Harrisburg condition may
bo a purely local oue, but Mr. Brown
draws the general conclusion that the
wheel has reached the highest point of
competition with the street railway.
TO PROriOTE HILLER.
Will Be Hade Brigadier General For
Services At Iloilo.
Colonel Marcus P. Miller, of the
Third regiment of artillery, will be
nominated to be brigadier general in
the regular army. General Miller
commanded the military forces which
captured the city of Iloilo without the
loss of a man and his promotion is in
recognition of his meritorious services
on that occasion.
WHIMS OF OUR INDIAN SCOUTS.
DANGEROUS RIDE WITH APACHES.
By a Regular Army Officer.
66 ^ ■"jAOTS it cannot are facts, be and de-
1 1 scouts nied indispensable that are useful, Indian i n
truth, in campaign
ing against tribes
o f the Western
g; plains and moun
tains. Our regular
soldiers are fine
“ fighters, as good as
any in the world,
^ patient, luave and
enduring, aud they
have no trouble in
disposing of Indians under any fair
odds once they they can bring them
to battle; but just here is the trouble,
to catch them. The Indians, born
and bred in the country, knowing
every foot of it, accustomed to war¬
fare and to moving swifdy over wide
spaces, and hampered by no baggage
train or other impediments, can keep
away from a greatly superior pursuing
force of civilized soldiers for a long
time. If they decide to fight they
are able usually to choose their own
place and time for giving battle. This
is especially true of the Apaches, who
have been the most inveterately hostile
and the hardest to deal with of all the
Western tribes. It is in the blood of
an Apache to live by rapine and
plunder, and he is physically organ¬
ized and trained to that end. He can
run sixty miles a day over country,
open or rough, taking it as he finds
it, for a week on a stretch, finding his
subsistence as he goes; can hide him¬
self anywhere almost that a ground
lizard can, and knows every trick of
dodging or following or getting away
from an enemy.
“Of all our Indians the Apaches
have been employed the most as scouts
for the regular army, aud without
their services in this way the Govern¬
ment might have failed to this day in
making the Southwest Territories,
New Mexico and Arizona, safely
habitable for white settlers. In first
organizing this service men from one
Apache tribe were enlisted to fight
those of another tribe. Later, when
all the Apache tribes had been put on
reservations, the Indian scouts and
police 'were found quite as ready to
perform their duty with then- own
tribes arnii as with offenders of another
trihe. When called on to take the
field against hostile Indians they fully
match them iu cunning and endur
ance. They know every move of the
enemy, can trail him night and day
and fight him in his own fashion when
they come up with him. Almost with¬
out exception the Apache scouts have
been loyal to the Government and have
done their duty bravely and faithfully.
But their usefulness depends greatly
upon the qualities of the officer who
leads them. They must first and fore¬
most respect him, and any suspicion
of timidity or lack of prompt decision
in his behavior forfeits his efficient
control over them, and may even be
dangerous to his ‘safety. Nowhere is
force of character, pure aud simple,
more appreciated and bowed to than
among Indians, and in dealing with
them in friendship or war the lack of
it is fatal.
“It was about the time that General
Crook wound up his famous cam
paigns against the Apaches that I came
with my new Lieutenant’s commission
to Camp Bowie, Arizona. Crook had
whipped the Apaches out and out, had
killed a great many, and had corralled
all the tribes iu reservations except a
few warriors, a remnant of Cochise’s
old band, who had refused to surren¬
der and had gone into the Sierra Ma¬
dres across the Mexican border, where
he could not reach them. The Apaches,
for the time being, had enough of
fighting, and so things were quiet for
a while. This gave me time to pick
up some Spanish and Apache words
for use with the Indian scouts before
I was called on to lead them any
where. I had the chance to go as
junior officer on a scouting expedition
or two, and so got a little the hang of
the thing before I was assigned to the
command of scouts myself.
“It was in early autumn that I got
my first orders to go out with a detail
Apaches to scout the Chiricahua
Mountains southward as far as the
Mexican line aud return by way of the
San Simon Plain. It was difficult
country, wholly new to me, as it was
to most men then, and, to make the
thing worse, there had just been a
shifting of scouts at the post, and
there was not a man in my command
that I knew except Casimiro Grijalba,
a Mexican, who acted as interpreter.
But of course I took my assignment
thankfully, made my requisitions for
a ten days’trip, and rode out of the
post the next morning into the south
west opening of Apache Pass, sitting
very straight on my horse, with Gri
jalba riding by my side and twenty
Apache scouts stringing along on foot
behind.
“We camped that night on the San
Pedro, and the next morning took in¬
to the mountains. The country after
passing the foothills was horribly
rough, and there was only one man in
my command who owned to having
been in the mountains before. He was
a half-Mexican Apache called Duran¬
go, the least to be trusted of any.
Half my men might have fought or
hunted through and through the whole
range, and known every pass and
spring and valley in it; but that sort
of knowledge an Indian keeps to him¬
self, and until he knows and trusts
his commander he simply follow his
orders and leaves him, without so
much as a hint of assistance, to find
his way. I knew too much by this
time to show a sign of hesitancy, and
helped by Grijalba, an admirabie and
trustworthy man, I picked out my
route, good or bad, riding ahead into
all sorts of places,scanningthe ground
and sky for Indian signs, and generally
making a grand bluff of knowing
everything about everything for effect
upon my men. Perhaps I overdid the
thing, for on the third day I began to
notice a change in the behavior of the
scouts. They had started briskly
from Camp Bowie, as pleased, appar
ently, as a pack of hunting dogs at
taking a trail. For the first two days,
at any time on the way, they were
ready to dart off in chase of a jackrab
bit or turkey, laughing as they fol¬
lowed and headed off their victim at
every turn and usually carrying it along
at the end to help out the Govern¬
ment rations at supper at the bivonac.
Now they had grown silent and sul¬
len, talking together in undertones at
our halts and taking up the route
again with little willingness. Duran
go, the half-Mexican Apache, had the
most to say among them, and I could
see that they listened to his words.
Oasimiro Grijalba,who understood the
Apache tongue and character better
than any other white man living, was
quietly attentive to what went
on in camp and on trail,but said noth¬
ing to me of what he heard and saw.
When I noticed a shade of anxiety ap¬
pearing in his face I took the first
chance to ask him what' was wrong
with the scouts. I put my questions
to him on the morning of the fourth
day as we two rode up a grassy valley,
hemmed in by steep mountain cliffs
and dotted with pine and oak trees
like a park. I had sent a man up on
the mountain to report any Apache
fires he might see, and the rest of the
scouts were behind us about 200 yards
down the valley, where I had ordered
them to wait until the Indian came
back from the mountain.
it t What is the matter 'with the
scouts, Oasimiro?’ I asked. ‘They
seem to have grown unwilling and
sulky. ’
“He shrugged his shoulders aud
nodded. “Yes, senor,’ he said. ‘They
get that way sometimes. It is their
nature.’
“ ‘But this won’t do,’ I said. 'The
way they feel now, I can’t truest them
to report any Indian signs they find,
much less to take up a trail and follow
it. And how much could I depend on
them if we fell in with the hostiles?
They would leave us in the lurch, if
they did not join them outright.’
“He nodded again. ‘It is bad, very
bad,’he said gravely. ‘It is tbe talk
of Durango that makes the other In¬
dians’ hearts bad. He thinks himself
a medicine man and he tells them that
it means ill luck if they follow you
against their own people—that you
are young and know nothing of war
and that your heart will quake when
danger comes.’
“It would have been a great com¬
fort just then to have my half com¬
pany of regulars at my call. But here
I was in the heart of the Chiricahuas
alone, except for Grijalba, among
twenty Apaches on the verge of mutiny.
Things looked squally and I could see
no ending of them that was not bad.
I felt that Grijalba’s advice would be
valuable just then.
(( t Well, what is to be done?’I said.
‘I can see no way but to shoot Dur¬
ango, and the quicker the better. It
will make things no worse, and will
brings matters to a head.’
“ ‘You may have to do it, or I, if
you give me the order. But wait un¬
til I have talked with the scouts. Ah,
here comes Duraugo now to tell us
that the scout reports no Apache fires
from the mountains. There will be no
signs of the hostiles found depend
upon it, senor, until the men’s hearts
have changed.’
“The half-breed was coming and
taking his time about it. We waited,
and when he got up with us he told,
as Grijalba had said, that the scout
had come back and had seen no fires
from the mountain top.
“ ‘Casimino, go back and bring the
scouts up,’ I ordered. ‘Durango will
stay with me. ’ I wanted to give the
interpreter a chance to talk to the
scouts with the half-breed away.
“Grijalba hesitated, and gave me a
look that meant ‘Be on your guard;’
then rode back to the scouts, I mo¬
tioned for the half-breed to go ahead
of me, and we went slowly up the
valley, I knowing that Grijalba, with
the scouts, could easily overtake us.
Durango went none too willingly, feel
ing guilty toward me, perhaps, and
not knowing what I had found out or
meant to do. It would not have helped
his feelings to have known that I was
watching for the first hint of treachery
or disobedience, which would have
been my pretext for shooting him out
of hand,
“A grizzly bear brought an end to
this interesting situation quite differ¬
ent from what anybody concerned had
intended. As we came opposite a lit¬
tle blind canon, a mere recess in the
cliffs that shut in the valley, there
came from within it the roar of a grizzly
disturbed in his midday nap by our
passing. There was no way for him
to climb out of the canon, and, think¬
ing himself cornered, he showed fight
at once and came for us, grizzly fashion;
his hair bristled up, making him look
as big as two bears. I could not pay
much attention to the bear for some
seconds, for at sound of the roar my
horse wheeled and ran from under me
so quickly that I found myself sitting
on tlae ground without quite knowing
how I got there. The jar with which
I came to the earth made me see stars,
and when the fire stopped dancing in
my eyes so that I could look the bear
was just coming out of the canon and
Dnrango was running for a tree. I
might perhaps have got to a, tree in
time, but the scouts, who were now
coming up the valley, could see every¬
thing that went on, and, as things were
then, it was as bad as the grizzly could
do for me to show the white feather
before them.
“My carbine, with eight cartridges
in the magazine and one in the barrel,
was in my hand when I was thrown*
If those nine shots failed to stop the
bear before he covered the hundred
yards that lay between us—well, it was
safe to bank that I wouldn’t care fo.
bears or Apaches or anything else any
more. I dropped on to one knee,
using the other as a rest for my elbow
as I nred, ana pumped bullets at the
bear. He was a moving mark, not
easy to hit in spite of his bigness, and
my first three shots missed him. The
fourth shot struck his right shoulder
and he turned to bite at the wound,
giving me a fair mark for the next bul¬
let behind the left shoulder. It struck
where I sent it, but he came on with¬
out wincing, as fast as before. My
other four shots all landed, one of
them in the head, knocking the bear
down, but he got up aud came on, wab¬
bling a little and bleeding from both
nostrils, but as determined as ever.
With the bear not ten paces away I
drew my revolver and gave,him every
one of the six shots, dodging to one
side and firing the last one into his ear
as he lurched over the place where I
had been aud fell in. a heap, gasping
out his last breaths.
“Oasimiro Grijalba got first to the
spot, with the scouts close behind
him, and the little Mexican’s eyes
were dancing. He did not stop by
the bear, but rode to the tree where
the half-breed, was just climbing
down, and began to make fun of him
in the Apache tongue for running
away from the bear.
“‘You area coyote,’he said.
breeds, yon understand, are called
coyotes by the Mexicans. ‘You are
not a true Apache, and I am ashamed
of the Mexican blood in you. Go
back to the reservation and carry
water with the women. You are not
fit company <or men.’
“An Indian taxed with an act of
cowardice which he has committed
before his fellows has not the spirit to
show resentment. Durango stood
sullen and downcast under Grijalba’s
words and the other Apaches jeered
and laughed at him.
“‘Now is your time,’Grijalba said
to me in English, not turning his
head. ‘Disarm him and send him
away. ’
“I walked over to Durango. His
rifle was lying on the ground where
he had dropped it when he climbed
the tree. ‘You are a coward, not fit
to serve in my command,’ I said to
him, Grijalba translating my words
into Apache as I spoke. ‘Take off
your cartridge belt.’ The half-breed
unbuckled his belt and the interpreter
took it. I held up my watch. Twill
give you two minutes start. After
that yon shall be shot like the cow
ardly coyote you are, wherever we
find you. Now git. In two minutes,
remember, I shall turn loose,’ I said,
and cocked my carbine, which, I just
remembered, had not a cartridge in
it, while my revolver was likewise
empty. It was just as v- 11, lor the
scouts, all loyal again now that' there
was business to do and I had asserted
myself, were cocking their rifles wait¬
ing for orders to fire, with their eyes
glancing from mine to Durango, who
was running like a grayhound for the
nearest timber.
“I made the two minutes last until
the half-breed had got beyond rifle
shot, for I did not want any shooting
done. The scouts were disappointed
at missing their chance to fire at Du¬
rango, but we all went back to the
bear, which was a big fellow. I could
not take bis skin along, but his scalp
aud the claws of one foot I carried
back to the post as a trophy.
“There was no more trouble for me
in handling Apache scouts then or at
any other time. I was big chief with
this party, and it was not long after
our return to Camp Bowie before the
story of my killing the grizzly and
running the half-breed off had traveled
over all the reservations and wher¬
ever there was a band of Apache
scouts. We had some luck, too, be¬
fore we got back, capturing a party of
seven renegades from the Sail Carlos
reservation on their way to the Sierra
Madres to join the hostile Chiricahuas
and killing two of the bucks. Du¬
rango was next heard of on the reser¬
vation, and he lived long enough to
make more trouble for the whites. He
was found among the dead left on the
field after a winning fight with hostiles
two years later, and it carne out that
he had been dealing with renegade
Indians, selling them ammunition and
bringing them information all the
time that be was pretending to be the
friend of the whites.”—New York
Sun.
Blue-Jay Conscience.
A correspondent of Science tells
this story: The nest of an English
sparrow being broken, four fledgings
fell to the ground. A blue jay seized
and devoured one of theiu. Another
of the fledgings was then carefully
placed by the observer iu the jay’s
nest. Neither the male nor the
female jay, which had young of their
own in the same nest, disturbed the
intruder, but they refused to feed it,
when feeding their own. When the
jays were away, however, the parent
sparrows watched their opportunity
and fed their little one. In three
days the young sparrow was able to
fly away. A scientific flavor is given
ko this story by the suggestion that
the rites of hospitality have a biologi¬
cal significance, being instinctive with
blue jays as well as with savages.
SENATE ADOPTS
THE RESOLUTION
As Presented By McEnery, Defines
Government's Policy.
THE VOTE WAS 26 TO 22.
Bacon Amendment Was Defeat¬
ed On a Tie Vote.
A Washington special says: The
8enate , > Tues,la m V afternoon, P asBed , the ,,
-
McEnery resolution, declining to ac
cept the Bacon resolution as a substi
tute by a vote of 30 to29. It required,
However, i the vote . of the vice president
f° decide the fate of Senator Bacon’s
substitute, the senate being a tie on
the proposition.
Senator Bacon mnde a strong and
hard fight for the adoption of the
declaration of this government’s pur¬
pose as set forth in the resolution
which he introduced, and the vote it
received was largely due to his able
presentation of the case. The Bacon
amendment read:
“That the United States hereby
disclaim any disposition or intention
to exercise permanent sovereignty,
jurisdiction or control over said
islands, and assert their determiua
tion, when a stable and independent
government shall have been erected
therein entitled in the judgment of
the United States to recognition as
such to transfer to said government,
upon terms which shall be reasonable
and just, all rights, secured under the
cession by Spain, and thereupon leave
the government and control of the
islands to their people.”
It was defeated—29 to 29, the rice
president voting in the negative.
The McEnery resolution was then
carried—26 to 22.
The McEnery resolution is as fol
lows:
“That by the ratification of the
trety of p ace with Spain it is not in¬
tended to incorporate the inhabitants
of the Philippine Islands into citizen
ship of the United States, nor is it in¬
tended to permanently annex said
islands as an integral part of the ter
ritory of the United States, but it is
the intention of the United government States) to
establish on said island a
suitable to the wants and eonditvons
of the inhabitants of said islands to
prove them for local self-government,
and in due time make such disposition
of said islands as will best promote
the interests of the citizens of the
United States and the inhabitants of
8a id islands.” i
The voting was preceded by stftate ree
hours: and a half of debate, tie
having convened at 11 a. m. in order
to admit of discussion on the resolu
tion.
Mr. Stewart first took the floor to
speak j n opposition. He expressed
the hope that whatever the United
States might do, it would not follow
tbe policy indicated by the resolution.
This country was under no obligation
to go to tbe expense of establishing a
government for tbe. islands,the United
States were not in the business of
captuiing countries, educating their
people and then selling them.
On the contrary, he tliouglii anjfthus we
should hold the Philippines
render the United States indepHident
of other countries iu the produdKon "other¬ of
trojiical products, which must
wise be a source of great expense. '
Now it costs $250,000,600 to secure
these products."Why not,therefore,hold
these islands and produce our own
fruits, sugars, etc.
Mr. Bacon, of Georgia, then ad¬
dressed the senate iu opposition to
the McEnery resolution.
ite maintained that the resolution
meant nothing favorable to the Fili¬
pinos. It did not look to the future
freedom and self-government of the
Filipinos. He regarded it as simply a
declaration that while the Filipinos
were subjects of this country, they
coul “1- e citizens of the
Ui
lassachusetts, was
0 I’Enery Lined, resolution
Ij it gave no
I liberty or self-
1 Sinhabitauts of the
P. cause it provided
tl tj [er It have become a part citi- in
or
a Itates.
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GEOMIA STATE NEWS.
At a conference a day or two ago be¬
tween School Commissioner Glenn,
Governor Candler and State Treasurer
Speer in the office of the school com¬
mission it was agreed tbal the condi¬
tion of the state treason y was such that
the salaries of school teachers in the
state could be paid for the month of
January on March 1st.
Governor Candler was notified by
the sheriff of Lee county Sunday morn¬
ing shortly before 1 o’clock that, a
mob of infuriated men had battered
down the doors of the county jail and
taken out Cupid Bedding and two
other negroes implicated in the out¬
rage of Mrs. Maroney, and lynched
them.
The Order of the Cincinnati is at
last to have a chapter in this state, so
it is understood at ttie capitol on good
authority. The brave descendents of
the fighting continental officers who
have been permitted to live at peace
with mankind in this vicinity are to
suddenly have their honors thrust np
upon them and are to brought together
for the purpose of perpetuating the
Order of the Cincinnati in Georgia.
The mooted question of who was to
fill the vacancies in the Third Geor¬
gia regiment made by the resignations
of Captain Baker of company K, and
Captain Aaron J. Burr, of company B,
has been decided by Governor Cand¬
ler. First Lieutenant James M. Kim¬
brough, of company B, is promoted to
the captaincy made vacant by the res¬
ignation of Captain Aaron J. Burr,and
First Lieutenant Walter A. Harris, of
company K, is made captain, vice
Amos Baker.
An organization to be known as the
Georgia Embalmers’ association, was
organized in Atlanta the past week.
Undertakers and embalmers from all
parts of the state were in Atlanta, and
discussed important topics relative to
their particular line of business. Th'
object of this organization is for th*
protection of its members; to raise the
standard of persons engaged in this
occupation, and to formulate better
methods for the handling of bodies of
persons who have died of contagious
diseases.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Sumter County Alliance company at
Americus the sum of $6,000 was dis¬
tributed among the stockholders. The
affairs of the company are in process
of liquidation aud already 65 per cent
of the face value of the stock has been
refunded, besides handsome annual
dividends in previous years. The
company formerly conducted a suc¬
cessful mercantile and warehouse bus¬
iness in Americus, but a year ago
decided to liquidate aud discontinue
business.
Atlanta’s free library is all but au
assumed “fact. Since tbe publication
of the first article which gave the in¬
formation that Mr. Andrew Carnegie,
the philanthropic multi-millionaire,
had offered to make the city a present
of $100,000 for the construction and
equipment of a public library, the
subject has caused considerable dis¬
cussion. Ou every side the question
has been discussed, and the universal
opinion is that the necessary appro¬
priation of $5,000 a year for the main¬
tenance of the library should be made
at once.
Gen. H. Y. Boynton, chairman of
the National Military Park Commis¬
sion, has made arrangements with
Governor Candler for the dedication
of the Georgia monument at Chieka
mauga. Governor Candler agreed to
the unveiling any time between the
1st and 10th of May, and as this time
is suitable to tbe Kentucky authorities,
it is expected that a joint dedication
will be held early in that month. Gen¬
eral Boynton will at once communicate
with the chairman of the Kentucky
Memorial Association regarding the
date and advise the Georgia committee.
The decision of the supreme court of
the state in the case of H. H. Hinton,
tax collector, against A. K. Childs, in
which the right of the state to levy a
professional tax upon the presidents of
national banks is denied, will attract
considerable interest in the state. The
case decided was brought up from the
Clarke county superior court, where a
fight was made by the couuty authori¬
ties to establish onde and for all the
right of the state to tax the heads of
national banks. The decision of the
court in substance was to the effect
that since the national bank was a
federal institution, authorized by act
of congress, it was not liable, through
its president, to capitation taxation by
the state.
BIG FIRE IN CINCINNATI.
Over Half a Hillion Dollars In Property
Is Destroyed.
A fire causing a loss of half a million
started mysteriously in the upper back
stories of the hat manufacturing plant
of Kahn, Feltheimer & Co., at Cincin¬
nati Tuesday morning, and before tbe
engines could get to work had commu¬
nicated to the clothing house of H. A.
Sunsheimer & Co. build¬
Next to that stood the corner &
ing occurred by Sanford, Warner
Storrs, containing a valuable stock of
clothing and material. The first
named buildings were entirely burned
out, but the firemen succeeded in sav¬
ing the corner building.
ITyou have anything to sell let the
public know it. This paper is a go#d
advertising medium,