Court House Afire

COURT HOUSE AFIRE

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PROMPT ACTION SAVES THE BUILDING

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The court house was saved from destruction by fire Monday evening by the prompt action of Walter L. Seabolt, democratic candidate for president of the council. Mr. Seabolt was passing the court house on Huron st. at 10 o'clock last evening when he noticed a blaze of fire through the front door of the court house. He promptly rushed up the court house steps and found that one of the large paper cuspidors so liberally scattered about the corridors of the court house was on fire and blazing nearly to the ceiling. The large wooden post at the foot of the stairs leading to the second floor, against which the cuspidor had been placed, was also on fire. Mr. Seabolt kicked the cuspidor out the door and down the stone steps and with the help of William Gerstner applied water to the post and extinguished the flames there, After the fire was out, J. E. Harkins suddenly appeared upon the scene from Judge Newkirk's office. Judge Kinne was in his office in the upper story at the time and had the fire not been discovered in time would have been obliged to have made his exit from the outside of the building or run the gauntlett of a blazing stairway. The fire was within a few feet of the register of deeds office where the valuable records of the property owners of Washtenaw are kept and but for the quickness of eye and promptness of action of Mr. Seabolt an exceedingly serious loss might have ensued He has evidently among other good qualities inherited from his father Moses Seabolt, the instincts of a tru fireman.