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AR OCH eS FIRE-SWEPT CHICAGO. | | Fie Blocks of Buildinys in South | Chicago Burned. } ine Vanity Responsible for the re Calamity—Loss One Mil- | lion Dolla Ii, Aug 24—A fire of territory it! | covered, almost rivals Chicago's his jtorie conflagration began in that! | part ofthe city known as South] | Chicago, thirteen miles from the, City hall, about 5 o'clock chis after-| noon. | Itis estimated that 250 buildings | |were burued aud many people ren-| dered homeless. The joss approxi-| 3 $1,060,000 | “ filled rep em rh peer ne From a three story brick building | Be ee ee eon teat jat the corner of Ninety first street | rs “: | gtodowitboutthem. Butafterallsick head which | aud Superior avenue, flames | ACH E rapidly grew in volume under a gale |of wind from the west ate its way anc of so many lives that here fs where ar great boast. Our pillscureit while adache and reli » w bilious state of the system, suc! ese, Nausca, Drowsiness, Distress after nin the Side, &c, While their moss le success has been shown in curing SICK GeaZache, yet Carter’s Little Liver Pills are equally v Loin Constipation, curing and: : ig ¢ oraplaint, while they also correct ull disorders of thestomach stimulate the diver and regulate the bowels. Even if they only “ HEAD they would bealmost pricelessto these who tue ext over block after block of swall frame jr-sidences until they reached the! zee or ere ae man otine te lake Within two hours the flames atu nm et Sola | had consumed at least thirty build- jings and five blocks of the greatest here, or sent by mail. CARTER (PEDICINE CO., New York. s : x = : industrial suburb of Chicago. The 59.000 residents of (the town were SHALL PILL. SIAALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE = precipitated into a panic, second ook’sCotton Root only in this city to that which char acterized the conflagration of 1871. COMPOUND. As the pine structures in which serene agli eb livel the workingmen employed in ynonthly by thousands of | the large steel mills of the Illinois Ladies, 1s the only perfectly fete Cha ellatis dearine aie, | Steel. company, and the small mer covered, Beware of unprincipled druggists who of ths clans wade thew nomics Gffer inferior medicines in place of this. Ask for |C220t8 (Pees tenis ate Kone Cook’s Cotton Root Compound, take no substi- | were leveled by the roaring flames. tute, or inclose $1 and 6 cents in postage in letter CON : and we will send, sealed, by return mail, Fullsealed | those whose howes had burned fled with valuables and particulars in plain envelope, to ladies only, 2 etamps. Address Pond Lily Company, household chattels to the other por Streets blockaded with waygous coptaining the effects of the frightend resi ver Pills are very small and not yet No. 3 Fisher Block, Detroit, Mich. Sold in Butler and everywhere, by|tjons of the city. all druggists. were Nature's /( Scuenck's ore ene Remepy Men aud women fled in every di ror 3a Manorake rection. Fiom the brick building in Live which the fire had its origin, aud be- R LiverP: Lis | fore the few fire eugines of the dis- Comp taint trict could make the slightest im pression upon the flames, they bounded eastward between Ninety- FENNYROVAL PILLS ‘A first and Ninetieth streets in the di "Eh (@OAL PIL in Red and rectiou of the lake House after house fell before the sweep of the fire, hurled blazing brauds far in 5 hts” in letter, by returm advance, After Superior avenue,the r.Chemtcal ConMadicon Sauare | flames crossed Ontario aveuue, Buff alo avenue, Mackinaw Gren Bay avenue. Before the scores of engines had} made the appreciable effect sare, always Druggist for Chichester’ d Brand ot particulars, testimonials and avenue and least sotfer from ex wonie. It HINDER Stops all pain, Pain. We. e eure for Corus, number of engines to give it any Oetober Ith to 2th Now is your time to visit the World’s Fair; rates $20.45, tickets good for return until Oct ‘ist. Round trip tickets with same limit will be sold to St. Louis at rate of $12.55 upoa the progress of the flames, the immense docks of the Sunday Creek Coal company were in rums. Over} 100,000 tons of coal are stored in the immense bins, which extend for 500} a — feet along the river front. The earl-} Indispensible in lest estimate veutured was that the 2 loss at this place alone would easily Every good Kitchen. |i. s200,000. As every good housewife knows, When the fire began in the coal the difference betwren appetiz-| yards everything that could be spar- ing, deli fous) cooking and the ed and the powerful steamer Yose | opposite kind is largely in deli-|_. ips . 2 2 mite, as soon as it reached the har- cate sauces and palatable gra vied. Now, these require a bor, was brought to fight the con strong, delicately flavored stock, fligration. At the same moment the! and the best stock is Arbeck lumber yards, with dock | . . 9 ¢ | frontages almost as great as those of | “tenis Conmnany + the Sunday Creek company, were | xtract o SCT found to be burning, and there the a first great battle of the firemen with! Special excursion rates for the following oc- | She flames was begun. The fire de casions at Pertle Springs, Mo., have been are made. State reachers’ Association June 20 to | dartment had only by this time suc 4, State Car Association June 27 to 29 . = ae Mo. Methodist Sunday School Assembly and | ceeded in getting together sufficient | »worth League convention July loth to Isth. Junior Order United Mechapics, Aug sth Ao iiatd carare rea gag mats ri poe Suadey chance at all against the roaring A st 15th to gs skeepers association | MSs of flames. | There were but seven engines on! Moat rate of ao. se ne eidaa ead meee the ground at this time, and the fire Sweet Springs, Mo. rake cs acon trip, boat arrived just in time to lend its! | powerful aid at the critical moment. | Several small building bad been torn | down by the firemen and citizens.| Round trip tickets to Denver, Coloradg and this gave them a breathing spell | Springs, Pueblo, Manit. Trinidad, Colr$ + mite will be oa sale bintil Oct. siet hier for fev, which ultimately proved decisive for Nov t rat 25.60 e a B qerretueas on: fromm date of sale rate of the firemen, though at first not able For furthel information callon ov adress’ {0 do more than keep the flames in W.C. BURRUS, Ticket Agent, | check and steadily beat them down —_——__—_________--_— | when the additional engines arriv- i ed. $500,'000. | ae q : | By 8 o'clock the coal in the yards We desire to place out on | of the Sunday Creek company and real estate security @ large| Roots lamer eee amount of money- Will give 1 ee See the best terms and lowest | Paces where the fire was still up rates yet offered in this line of busines: three or jive years- ave some money to loan| pauable on ar before a given | over. CAUSE OF THE FIRE. ate. Caltand see how cheap | that the terrible conflagration origi- by anyone | permost, and in a short time it was | James A. Ross, a Towa. : | practically under control aud all, ¥88 read from Senator Brice, of Notes drain tor one, twos| danger of its spreading further was | Obie, in which be expresses the hope | |that the conference may promote) | the enterprise of bringing negro| There appears to be no doubt but | with his family, including his daugh- ter, to whose youthful feminine vau- ity must be attributed the begin- ning of the fire, Miss Gilles, aecord- ing to those who had lived in the vicinity, was engaged about 4:30 dragged t oclock in preparing toilette lamp to heat her curling-iron, and, her evening In this she was using a while arranging her bangs the lamp was overturned, and an followed, wh the homes ple. Conservative explosion hin the er estimate i aggregate loss in the resi trict ut $400,000, the Sunday Cre Coai company has lost fully $250,-; 090 and that of the Beck Lumber company $200,000. tors. completely destroyed and its busi- ness is once mere at a standstill. Despite the rapidity with | the flames spread, and the crash and kinds of pastry and home cooker panic which at oue time choked up there many hints for the table and the streets, no lives, as far us is kitchen, showing how to set a table, how to enter the dining room, ete.; known, were lost. The Only True Test of Religion. them by their fruits.—Matthew, vii, 16. Ye shall know the man who is loyal to a high mor- al ideal will produce a life quite! worthy of our attentiou A low theory is sure to show itself in low deeds be followed by great achievements. Great aims are apt to Hitchiny vour wagou toa stat is not | a figment of the poet's imagination; it is the exaggerated expression of a divine possibility If one projects lis thoughts towards the heaveus he wil at least kick the earth from un- der his feet. Companionship with nuble ideas makes vulgarity distaste- ful. Christianity claims the reyerence of mankind because it urges you to climb high aud acquire a wider hori zon The absorption of its truths is equivalent to re-iucarceration, or re- creation, or a re formation, for the bases elements die out just as sav- age races die out aud a nob'er man-| hood supplants them just as civili-| zation supplants barbarism. We es-| timate the yalue of christianity, 2 ot | by the creeds of churebes nor by the | the logy of learned scholars, but ty | its effect on society. In like manver we estimate the value of a new in- vention —the telegraph for instance | —bot by the language of the patent | which covers and protects it, but by | its ability to carry our messages | from one eud of the country to the} other. If it will do the work we want ;if it falls tested in that way it is worthless. | done it is priceles Zt Christianity does work, and there fore we can't get along without it.— | Ex. | Slang The following, to which I heartily | sabseribe, has beeu sent me: “A fall meridian | of her teens, if uot a little past. | by} high school girl in the shocked her father the other exclaiming: ‘Lamas huugry as a! dog.’ He begged her to substitute | wolf or even bound for dog, but she | declined saying they did not express | the degree of hunger she felt. Iam| sure she never beard such au expres-| sion about her home, and must have | caught it from some would be smart | gir], though it savors more of the, masculine) Woman aught to con-} refinement, which is suffering im-|] pairment in these rapid material | times. She could hold aloft the standard of elegance for her broth-/| ers and her lovers to keep them | from indulging in vulgarities of | speech. Great are her example and | influence for or against slang, es pecially for. When she stoops to vulgarity a mau drops to it like a shot "—Ex. Washington, D.C.. Aug. 24—A number of negro Democrats here to-day in response to a call by! A letter | met | Democrats into close association. } The following officers were elected: | we can let you have money. | nated in the destroyed dwelling of| President, Robert G. Steele. Penn | : | Master Mechanic William Gilles, an The Bankers Loan & Title Co} employe of the rolling Mills. Mr. as Gilles dwelling was lqcated at 162 P. C. FULKERSON, Manager. Ninety-first street, where he lived sylvania; Vice President, Charles F. Smith, West Virginia; Secretary, John C. Bell, Jr., Georgia; Treas.) urer, George T. 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