Four Fires In Ann Arbor

The fire departraent has had , siderable work on hand since our last issue. Friday forenoon they were called out to put out a fire in the Cheever house on Thompson street, occupied by Fred Stimson. 1 The alarm was understood to be for Catherine street, so that some time ' was lost in getting to the fire. The 1 department got there in time to put ' it out. Mrs. Stimson had looked into a clothes closet with a lighted match. The damaged amounted to about $125. On Saturday the fire department was called out twice. At 6:20 a. m. they responded to a cali at John R. Miner's new house on East Liberty street, occupied by Mrs. Cordley. A student rooming in the house who had gotten up early to take an early morning bath, went to his clothes closet with a lamp. Af ter he got i-n his bath he found the closet on fire, and succeeded in extinguishing the fire with a mattress just as the department arrived, but not until after the clothes had been burned up. At 6:45 a. m. Saturday morning the department was called out by a chimney fire on North Main street. On Sunday morning a fire broke out in William Burke's house, No. 30 División street, caused by hot ashes being set out in the rear of the house in a tub. The darnage by Tire was $25 or $30.