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Tenement House Fire

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
August
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Fiftee$ ppople were burued to death In & six-gtory brlok building in tho rear of 197 Bowery in Now Vork tho othor afternoon. Six more, burned so badly that they will probably die, were removed to various hospitals. The house was a ram shackle affair hidden in the middle of the block, the only tsntrance to it being a narrow allcyway irom the Bowery. In front of it was a fourstory building, on the flrst floor of which was a saloon called "The White House." Adjoinlng this is Harry Miner's People's Theatre. In the rear of the burned building were two houses, hemnjlng it on the Chrystle streot aidc, In tliin cagod-iu building lived about 150 people. Eaoh of the six floors was occupied by a single family, the head of which was a tailor who made ulothing for the cheap wholesale clothing houses and employed from fifteen to twenty men, women and children, in addition to hls own family, in making up the clothing. They were all Polish Jews and employers aud employed worked late and slept in the crowded rooms of the dingy tenement. The fire was discovered about four ft'clock and spread with such rapidity tn&t all means of escape were cu pff, and uothing could be done to save the unfortunate victima. OVER A CAVERN. Findlay, Ohio, in Great Danser. - A Scientist's Opinión. Dr. Krnst Weissenbaur, professor of geology in Heidolberg university, German.v, has been making a visit of scientific inspection to the natural gas welig of Findlay, O. The professor says that he found by the aid of delicate instrumenta tlrtit the vastness of the pus deposits uuder Findlay had been greatly underestimated. About twelve hundred feet below theclty lies an immense cavern. It is severa! miles long and in some places more than half a ínlle deep. Thls is crowded full of gas, which is under a pressure almost iueonceivable. Thon comes several strata of rock, perhaps a mile in thickness, and then a furDaco whore great internal flres, at atempcratureofoverthree thousand dogrees, are raging. The last of the layers, whioh lies directly over the fires, is melting away. About ten miles from Findlay, on either side, this layer is of great thickness, but as it nears the town it grows thinner, the I furnace beneath dislntcgrating it and ever i lessening the barrier between ltself and the gas wells. From the tremendous cracking which is to be heard by the sound instrument, it v almost certain that the disintegration is going on with great rapidity, and the professor seems to think an oarly catastrophe not only possible but probable. A Retaliatorv' Mensure. The full text of the Dingley bill to establish toll-gates at the St. Clair canal and at the Sault is as follows : Bo it enacted, That whenever the President shall be satistlcd that the Dominion of Canada imposes on vessels of the United States passing through the Weiland or St. Lawrence canals higher tolls than are posod upon Dominion vessels, or whenever the President shall be satisfied that the Dominion of Canada imposes on any vessels passing through the Weiland cuñal and bound to ports of tho United States higher tolls than are imposed, whether directly or indirectly, by a systom of rebatos, on vessols ! passing through such canal and bound to any Dominion ports or ports of foroign I tries by way of the Kt. Lawrence, it shall be the duty of the executive to issue his ' mation imposing a toll of 20 cents per ton on all vessels of the Dominion of Canada passing through the St. Mary's andthe St. Clair flats canals, or either of said canals, and also to issue his proclamation revoking such order for the imposition of tolls whenever such discriinination against vessels or ports of the United States sball cease ; such toll to be collected by tho secretary of the j treasury Under such rcgulations as ho may prescribe. Died of Leprosy. Mrs. Helen Helverson of Legraude, Iowa, died a few days ago from leprosy. The case has attractod considerable attention. The victlm was born in Norway, 20 yoars ago. Theie was no history of the disease in the family for several generatlons and no exposure or contagión, and tho physicians attribute the case to one of leprosy's freaks, that of skippiug scvoral generatlons. Tho woinan locate-u in Iowa ín L889, was married, but had no children. She flrst complained of illness in Norway, Septombcr, 1885, tho pains being erratic in the chest, shoulders and arras. The disease was obscure until last June, when it begau to develop rapidly. It i tho secoud death from leprosy in Iowa, both from Norway. Morgan Hung. Charles (Blinkey) Morgan was haii.L'ed ut Columbus, Ohio, on the niorning of the 3d inst., for the murder of Detective Hulligan of Cleveland, near Havcuna, Ohio, in tho winter of 1887. He loft a lottor in which he asserts his innoceuoe, and declares that he couUl have proved au alibi had another hearing been given him.

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