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Death By Fire

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Day
14
Month
August
Year
1885
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Public Domain
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The Webster bloek in Manchester, N. H., a handsome brick building costing $500,000, was discovered to be on flre about 10 o'cloek the other nlght. The block is used for stores on the first Hoor, and above this is divided into boarding-houses, with small rooms. The number of inmates at the time oí tho fire is estimated at 500. At least 100 made good their escape in their night clothing by means of a ladder placed against the building by the flremen. The hrst person taken out supposed to be dead was Lizzie Barns. She was conveyed to the pólice station, where restoratives wére applied and she may recover. Soon afterwards Mary O'Brien and her child, elghteen months old, were found in a dyicg condition on the flrst Hoor. The child died within a few minutes. In the meantime tho firemen were having a fierce fight with the flames, which swept the entire front of tho building and mounted a stairway in the rearof the bloek. A second alarm was sent out and twelve streams were playing upon the building before the flames could be controlled. Abaaty examination was made of the rooms, but no bodies were found. Shortly after it was asserted by some of thoso rescued that members of two families were missing. Their place of abode was in the fiftb. story. On removing a closet d3Of which had fallen inwards a woman's head was disclosed. In a few moments anotherbody was found. It was that of a woman, clasping in her arms an infant. Bevond them were found the bodlea of three ehildren, one a girl 18 years old, and the others a boy of 9 yèars and a girl of 13. The family were French. There was an insurance of 810,000 on the propertv, which will about cover the damago done. The loss on the furniture will amount to thousands of dolíais. F0EEION NEWS. IN FRANCE. _ Cholera Is increasing in Marseilles. During the three days ending August 10, there wero 180 deaths in that city, indicating very plainly that the plague is as virulent there as ín Spain. NOT ACCEPTABLE. Austria has formerally notified the United States government that Mr. Kelly is not acceptaple as American minister to Austria, and ljas expressed a hope that he will be recalled and another appointment be made. DEPLORABLE. (ranada. Spain, is in a most deplorable oondition, the result of the ravages of cholera. The state of affairs there is really worss than it was at Naples last year during the cholera epidemie in that city. Ther1 are no doctors now In Granado, and the dead bodies of cholera vieüms He unburied in the streets. PANIC 8TICKEN SPAIN. The panic caused by the rapid spread of cholera in Spain is increasing. Entire villagos have been deserted by their inhabitants, who have fled for safety from the dreaded dipease. In niaiiy places doctors and municipal authoritcs have been attacked by the scourge and the ' siek have been abandoned and the dead left unburied. Reports from severa! place6 state tjiat it is impossible to obtain provisione or medicines. The misery throughout the country is great. Nearly 5,000 new eases were reported on the 7th inst., and of these about 2.000 provod fatal. TUE SIBERIAS ri.AGUE. A dispatch from Odessa states that the Siberian plague is spreading to au alarming extent in the south of Russia. Several vlflages in the immediate di.strict of Odessa have been completely depopulated by the ravages of tha disease and the flight of the terror stricken inhabitants. Reports from othi-r towns and vlllages show great distress among the peoplo and many deaths from the plague, which is loathsome, fatal and Urribly contageous. It ■ is reported that the scourge has made its appearance in Odessa and that the authorities aro endeavoring to hush the matter up. Philadelphia Is to have a crematory. They make bottles out of paper in France. You can hear a clap of thunder 20 miles. Georgia i3 a better temperance state than Maine. Card swindlers infest eastern watering places. Women are a great success as dentists d Germany. Chili gives a bounty of $5 a nead for dead condors. Cornell iwiversity owns 340 acres of ground. They build temples of human skulls in Dahomey. There only about 7,000 colored people in California. ' ' Chinese are goiug in heavy ns dealers in pork in 'Friseo. Frailee is the greatest country for suspension bridges. In Augusta, Me., aman of 40 recently married a girl of 11. Niágara Falls hackmen still prey upon thö weak-kneed visitor. Peanuts wcre never cheaper than now, when bought at Wholesale. A boy of 16 in Georgia is seven feet high and weighs only 80 pounds. Tomatoes are now grown in Turkish gardens onder the name of red eggs. St. Johns, New Foundland, is said to havo the largest doek in the wortd. Three patients, inoculated for yellow fever, have just died at Vera Cruz. Aíter a dance in England it is fashionable to eat jelly sprinkled witli berries. The richestman in Leonardville, Neb., is also the oldest, the tallest and the heaviest. Montreal pays f i-om $8,000 to $9,000 to getrid f the ice in her harbor every spring. An Austrian lleutenant of artillery has shot himself dead with a large cannon. A Montana Chlnamen when stiuck bj lightning changed color from yellow tn black. The trip taken by the "Liberty bell" io tho New Orleans exposition cost Philadelphia $1,roo. Stafford Northcote, now the earl of Iddesleigh, complains of being hard up. He haa only $25,000 perycar. Chicago belles complain tliat tlieir pet puss are stolen by Chinamen. Pug di igs roastcd ai'O said to be goocl eating. Bricks are passed from luuid to hand in Germany whrn buildings are being put up. No hod-carriers need apply. There are 15,000,K) hones iu ibis country, and it requires 1,00,000 new on 5 cuch year to keep up with the (Iemand. m

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