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————— Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - The hens are selfishly using all the egg food for the sole purpose of get- ting fat. When we can vote by touching a button the women should be proficicnt in the useful art. A Corean mob has wrecked an American troiley car at Seoul. Dispute over a transfer, probably. Felix Adler wants to know why a wife ought to obey her husband. Mrs. Adler is to be congratulated. It is claimed that Scotch whisky in this country is not so good as it used to be. But that seems hardly credible. Maude Gonne is a ma, and will for a while at least be more interested in baby foods than in the Irish ques- tion. Warships are always a safe invest- ment. Wars threaten frequently enough to make a constant market for them. Long Island sound was frozen from New Haven to Hell Gate—which is evidence that Hell Gate is not rightly named. One day the war cloud in the East is larger than a man’s hand, and the next day it is smaller than a society girl’s foot. The American “hello” is a part of the language wherever the telephone is used. But the American hello girl is all our own. Smith Paine of Wolfboro, N. H.. cut an old-growth pine recently that, scaled 1,300 feet. There are a few of the old masts left. Prominent New York men have giv- en a complimentary dinner to Prof. Langley, but would they risk their lives in his aerodrome? The most distressing thing about slippery sidewalks is that somebody always happens to be looking when your feet go heavenward. The adoption of the automobile, with its gasoline tank, by the empress of China brings her within the sphere of Mr. Rockefeller’s influence. Gen. Joe Wheeler says that he is deeply interested in war, but hardly at all in politics. And yet war is only politics carried to an extreme. If an ordinary old one-dollar bill harbors 96,090,423 germs, how many could get board and lodging on a veteran twenty-dollar note of com- merce? President Loree says the fear of pov- erty is one great drawback to success. All that’s necessary for him who wishes to succeed is to get rich first. How easy! Basketball has become most popular among the girls in some of the wom- en’s universities, but it usually gives place in time to the saner game of market basket. Many a man whose brain is some- thing under the 54-ounce record of George Francis Train can remember days when it certainly felt as if it weighed 54 pounds. They have just had a riot in the French chamber of deputies. Hvident- ly the deputies feel that it is about time to let the world know that France is herself again. Mme. Patti refused to appear in Butte, alleging that the altitude would have a bad effect on her voice. The effect of the altitude cf the price on the audience is not stated. Who would have thought that a question of precedence in entering a reception room or of the location of seats at a dinner table would jar the impressive dignity of the Supreme court? The editor of the Cosmopolitan gave a dinner to Prof. Langley at the Wal- dorf, which was pronounced a great success. It is the first successful af- fair participated in by the professor for some time. Some of the people who are not kept busy earning their living have taken up for discussion the old question, “Should a genius marry?” Of course each of the discussers speaks from personal knowledge. Prof. Harper sneered at Boston as being “narrow and provincial,” and Boston never said a word. Then one of his faculty called Boston “pseudo- monocotyledonous,” and now there is going to be trouble! A St. Paul man has secured a ver- dict against Russell Sage, which calls on him to pay $7,500. If Uncle Russell survives this blow there will be no reason to fear that he isn’t strong enough to get through the winter all right. At Great Neck, L. IL, a widow with a fortune of $1,000,000 recently mar- ried a poor young man whom she had known only two weeks. Still, there are plenty of men who will go right on striving so that theirs widows may be left rich. MINNESOTA. |. From the Capital. A twelve-inch gun on the Missouri is reported to have. thrown a shot fif- teen miles. Y. N. Jamieson has been appointed by the president to be a naval officer of the port of Chicago. i The senate is expected to confirm Dr. Crum, colored, as collectcr of the port of Chaleston, shortly. Representative Davis has introduced a bill appropriating $60,000 for the construction of a public building at Faribault, Minn. Secretary Cortelyou, in response to an inquiry from the house, says his department has eight carriage horses, ten vehicles and an auto. Howell (Dem.) has been unseated and his place awarded to Mr. Connell contesting Republican. Three Re publicans voted with the Democrats. Among bills passed recently was one authorizing the secretary of the navy to donate to Minnesota, a steer- ing wheel of the former warship Min- nesota. Representative Stevens has report- ed favorably from the house commit- tee on commerce, a bill permitting the construction of bridges across the Minnesota river. The president, in response to the Culberson resolution, has sent to the senate additional and confidential cor- respondence on the Panama matter. It will not be made public. The secretary of the navy has re- ceived a cable from Commander W. H. Everett at the Canaries, in which it is reported that the torpedo flotilla. en route to Manila, has been found ad- mirably seaworthy. Reed Knox, who has been, acting as confidential clerk to his father, the United States attorney general, has resigned from the department and will devote his time to the Knox farm of 300 acres at Valley Forge. Father and son, will engage in the business of raising blooded cattle. Crimes and Criminals. A canvas bag containing $5,000 in gold was stolen from the Adams ex- press company at Sterling, Ill. Charles E. Kruger was hanged in the county jail yard at Greensburg, Pa., for the killing of Constable Harry Bierer. Frank Dunham shot the woman who has been known at Adrian, Mich., as his wife, and killed himself. The woman may die. George C. Osborne, a Harvard grad- uate, has been arrested in Boston for stealing, he says, to keep his wife and children from starving. Taylor Fields, a negro, was tied to a telephone pole and unmercifully whipped with wires at Roanoke, Va., because he talked too much. Thomas Boyd, colored, is under ar- rest at Baltimore, charged with steal- ing $1,500 worth of jewelry from Con- gressman Marshall of North Dakota. George A. Yielding, an actor, killed himself in a sensational manner in Hotel Spokane at Spokane. He hada divorced wife and child in Rochester, N. Y. Edward Waters, twenty-two, a con- vict, made a sensational escape from the state prison at Charlestown, Mass., by a rope thrown, from the outside. Daniel Barker, a farmer of River- ton, Mich., and his wife, are missing and are supposed to have been mur- dered. Frank Barker, a brother, is under arrest. Artur E. Little, ticket agent at the St. Lonis union station, rode out to Bellefontaine cemetery and commit- ted suicide on the grave of his mother by swallowing carbolic acid. Cyrus W. Freed, one of the oldest clerks in the office of the United States Express company, was arrested at Bloomington, Ill., charged with the theft of a package containing $1,000. Brooding over losses sustained in cotton speculations, Emanuel Eichold, said to be the wealthiest man in Ala- bama, killed himself by sending a pis- tol bullet through his brain. He was worth $800,000. “Jim Ray,” one of the best known figures in the St. Louis sporting world, a leading negro politician, reputed to have been the wealthiest negro in St. Louis, was shot and killed in a pistol battle. In a fight between, union and non- union miners at Knoxville, Tenn., Monroe Black, W. W. Taylor, Jacob Sharp and Robert S. Harmon, a dep- uty sheriff, were killed and several others badly injured. Casualties. The town hall at Stamford, Conn., has burned; Joss, $180,000. Four persons were killed in a fire which destroyed the Brooklyn Chair company’s factory. An alarm of fire nearly precipitated a panic in the Metropolitan opera house in New York. A dozen persons were injured in a train collision at Lockport, N. Y., due to the blizzard. The entire east side of Fremont, Ohio, is under water, and many per- sons are homeless. Fifty workmen were killed by the caving in of an embankment on the Warsaw-Vienna railway. Back water from the ice gorge near New Holland has caused the greatest flood ever known at York Haven, Pa. A fire destroyed a block of buildings and half a dozen residences at Hous- ton, Tex. The loss is estimated at $150,000. fi Fire destroyed the Joy line steamer Tremont at her dock at New York. Two trained lions and a Great Dane dog, part of a traveling show, were burned. ‘. Fire in New York almost destroyed the home in Pelham Manor where lay the body of Harry A. Spalding, ‘for many years one of the leading jewel- ers of New York, Chicago and Paris. W. W. Copeland, president of San Francisco Typographical union, is dead as the result of falling through an open elevator shaft. He was con- nected with Iowa newspapers twenty years ago. Freddie McCartney, the eight-year- old son of a Seneca farmer, fell back- ward in a tub of scalding water while playing with a one-year-old baby. The flesh of the back and arms nearly fell off to the bones. One seaman was washed overboard during the rough voyage of the steam- er Blucher, which arrived at New York recently, another fell and broke his leg, and a boy was injured. The steamer encountered a succession of high westerly gales. While the naval board of inspection was testing the battery on the battle- ship Iowa, at Fort Monroe, both guns in the starboard forward eight-inch turret blew off their muzzles. here was no damage except to the guns and to one whaleboat. Notes From Abroad. Pope Pius X. is said to be losing his sight. Increased tension between the porte and Bulgaria over Macedonian re- forms is noticeable. There has been a change of senti- ment in. Montevideo, and there is now no fear of an attack on the city. Sixto Lopez, the well-known Fili- pino agitator, has refused to take the oath of allegiance at Manila. He will be deported. The management of the Ufizzi gal- lery at Florence, Italy, has discovered eight cartoons, on which are a score of sketches and studies by Michael Angelo. By a decision at Victoria, B. C., Edna Wallace Hopper is defeated in her efforts to break the will of her step-father, Alexander Dunsmuir, and to secure a portion of the Dunsmuir millions. The Canadian Press association passed a resolution asking the gov- ernment to cancel the present pos- tal arrangements regarding American publications. ‘This would mean that all papers coming from the United States would be charged at the rite of 8 cents a pound, and would imply a 5-cent rate on letters. é Otherwise. ' re Prof. W. F. Arthur of the University of Illinois, a famous chemist, is dead. Andre Matteson, once editor of the Chicago Times, died at Highland Park, Il. Adolph W. Sevhwarzman, one of the founders and editor-in-chief of Puck, is dead. James B. Colgate, prominent finan- cier and philanthropist, is dead at Yonkers, N. Y. The Iroquois theater will be opened under the name of the Northwest. Projected repairs will cost $22,000. According to an opinion given by the appellate court, the city of Chi- cago has no power to license auto- mobiles. f A. Burlingham Johnson, formerly of Denver but now a resident of Manila, is building a fifty-mile electric road through that city. W. J. Bryan, has announced that he will build and equip a public library at Salem, IIl., at a cost of $40,000, in memory of his parents. Clinton A. Gilbaith, associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of Hawaii, has announced his inten- tion of retiring from office at the ex- piration of his term in June. Members of the Modern Woodmen of America will supp three and one- half square feet of cuticle to be graft- ed upon the body of C. M. Schinsler of Los Angeles, who was burned. Miss Elizabeth Vanderbilt, eighty- seven years old, daughter of Oliver Vanderbilt, who founded the first ferry between Staten Island and New York, a relative of Commodore Van- derbilt, is dead. The official call for the prohibition convention to meet in Indianapolis June 29, shows that Minnesota is en- titled to 47 delegates, Montana 65, North Dakota 8, South Dakota 12, Wisconsin 55, Iowa 52. There is no sign that the Common- wealth Trust company, as succéssor to the Trust Company of the Repub- lic, will take a position in accord with the new plan of reorganization for the United States Shipbuilding company, put on by the new organization and assented to by Samuel Untemeyer on behalf of the bondholders’ protective committee. © Hanlan Ten Eyck, former amateur sculling champion of the United States and Canada, has accepted the offer made by the Philadelphia Barge club to act as a coach. His decision to become a professional was a great surprise. After searching for forty-seven years for her brother, George Jumont, who disappeared from his home in De- troit when ten years of age, he has at last been located by Mrs. ° Lucy Clark of Detroit on his farm in Brecks- ville, Ohio, where he is living a quiet and retired life, a bent and aged man. ~ SENATOR HANNA EMINENT STATESMAN PASSES AWAY. AFTER’ A HEROIC STRUGGLE. LAST MOMENTS WERE PEACEFUL FATAL TERMINATION OF A SICK: NESS LASTING OVER TWO MONTHS. PROFOUND .SORROW EXPRESSED PROMINENT SENATORS MAKE NO ATTEMPT TO RESTRAIN GRIEF. Washington, Feb. 17—Senator Mar- cus Alonzo Hanna died at 6:40 o’clock last evening at the family apartments in the Arlington hotel after a sickness of nearly two months, filled with ap- parent recoveries, followed by re- lapses, and finally drifting into ty- phoid fever, which his weakened con- dition made him unable to withstand. When the end came all the members ofthe senator’s family were in the room except the senator’s wife and Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hanna. Mrs. Han- na had left the room only a few min- utes before. : There were no distressing incidents attending the last moments. It was a sinking spell which terminated in death in ten minutes. Just after Mr. Hanna’s eyes closed in death Mrs. Hanna was able to come into the room. She bore up well under the ordeal, and she is showing For the last two days Senator Han- .na had not been conscious except at intervals, and then only to obey me- chanically some instructions given him by the physicians. Fourteen hours before the end was announced, life was almost suspended, the flick- ering spark being kept aglow by the most powerful scientific agencies. Five minutes before death came Gen. Charles A. Dick came from the bed- side with the announcement: “He is worse, and has only a few minutes at the most.” That statement immediately pre- faced the last official bulletin, which was: “Senator Hanna sank gradually during the afternoon and died quietly at 6:40 o’clock.” Word went over the hotel like a flash. The lobby was crowded and a score of friends were waiting in Mr. Dover’s room. Though it was known five minutes before that the word probably would be the announcement that - The Senator Had Died, the effect on his friends was that of a shock. No attempts were made to re- strain grief. Senators Fairbanks, Scott and Kittredge broke down. They had remained at the hotel all day and knew there was no hope. Gen. Dick wept his sorrow at the loss of a friend who had been as a brother. So it was that conversations were a curious admixture of whispers and choked sobs. Spontaneously outbursts of unstint- ed tribute were heard on every side. Men who are ackowledged leaders of the political parties, kings of finance and commerce, and men selected to serve in the highest positions in the nation were among those who ex- pressed the country’s irameasurable loss. Friends at once took charge of the funeral arrangements, wuich will be held in the senate chamber at noon Wednesday, at which the president, cabinet, congress, public officials and friends will be present. For a brief period in the forenoon the body will lie in state in the marble room. After these services* special trains will carry the body, the family and friends to Cleveland, where services will be held either at the home of the sen- ator or his son, Dan Hanna, Friday afternoon. Compared with the numbers which had been about the hotel during the day, there were few persons present when the announcement of death was made. Postmaster General Payne sent word to President Roosevelt and he expressed deep sorrow. President Expresses Sympathy. President Roosevelt called at the Arlington last night personally to ex- press his condolences to the members of Senator Hanna’s family. He saw Mrs. Hanna, H. M. Hanna, the sena- tor’s brother, and Dan R. Hanna, his son, and remained with them for some time. Some consideration has been given by the president and several members of the cabinet to the question of ac- companying the funeral. party to the place of burial of the senator’s body in Ohio. The president would like to go very much and it is possible he may go. ARRESTED FOR ROBBERY. Two Men Alleged’ to Have Looted a Nebraska Bank. 4 Sioux City, Iowa, Feb. 17.--“Shorty” Gray, Sam T. Bullis and George. Keel- er are under arrest at Kansas City for robbing the Lyons, Neb., bank Nov. 17 last of $2,000. Gray was one of the “Brown block” burglars here some years ago, that incident being the most sensational of any robbery in the city’s annals. Keeler was former- ly a member of the Bill Rhea gang at Fremont, Neb., which was broken up when Rhea was hung for murder. HERO UNDER ‘THE KNIFE. : Colorado Maa Submits to a Secend Operation. New York, Feb. 17.—Leo L. Loeb, the hero of the “Paul Revere ride” at Manitou, Colo., on Aug 5, 1902, that saved the lives of 2,000 persons from the flood, is in the city to submit toa second operation. Mr. Loeb, whose left side is almost totally paralyzed, has suffered many incisions for the purpose of separating tendons that had shrunk from lack of use and for the equal purpose of stimulating cer- tain muscles. He now will have the bones in his left arm and the two low- er ribs on either side scraped. Should the operation prove successful Mr. Loeb will accept a government posi- tion offered him by President Roose- velt. KILLED BY SNOWSLIDE. Well Known Mine Superintendent Loses His Life. Boise, Idaho, Feb. 17.—H. D. Spauld- ing, one of the best known mine superintendents in this section of the state, was killed Saturday by a snow- slide which struck the cabin in which were Spaulding and his Chinese cood, carried the building 200 feet down the mountain side and smashed it to splinters. Both occupants were crushed to death. Spaulding was a native of Milton, Mass., and a gradu- ate of Harvard. His body was re- covered and shipped to Boston. CODY SEES PRES!DENT. He Offers Big Tract of Land for Irri- gation Purposes. Washington, F=b. 17.—‘‘Buffalo Bill” Cody was cerdially welcomed by the president when he called at the White House yesterday, and the two talked over old times in the Far West for over an hour. Mr. Cody is an active champion of the president’s irrigation scheme for the arid lands of the West, and he told Mr. Roosevelt that he would donate a lot of land in the Big Horn basin to facilitate the Sho- shone river irrigation project. SOMETHING IS HATCHING. Plan to Pass Omnibus Fish Hatchery Measure. Washington, Feb. 17. — There prom- ises to be another interesting fight this session over the proposed omni- bus fish hatchery bill. Several bills are pending, providing one or more fish hatcheries for Minnesota, Wiscon- sin and the Dakotas. Representatives McCleary of Minnesota and Spalding of North Dakota have introduced such bills. A “pool” has been organized and every effort will be made to pass an omnibus bill. THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations ‘From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, Feb. 17. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 93@931-2c; No. 2 North- ern, 90@90 1-2c; No. 3, 86@87c. Corn —No. 3 yellow, 411-2@42c; No. 4, 39 @40c. Minneapolis, Feb. 17.--Wheat--No. 1 hard, 951-4c; No. 1 Northern, 941-4c; No. 2 Northern, 911-4c. Oats —No. 3 white, 391-4c. Corn—No. 3 yellow. 41c. Duluth, Feb. 17. --- Wheat --- No. 1 hard, 947-82; No. 1 Northern, 93 3-8c; No. 2 Northern, 90 7-8c; flax, $1.14 1-2; oats, 40 7-2c; rye, 62c; barley, 34@52c. Milwaukee, Feb. 17.---Wheat---No. 1 Northern, 921-2c; No. 2 Northern, 90 @91c; May, 95@951-8c. Rye—No. 1, 66@66 1-2c. Barley—No. 2, 63c; sam- ple, 38@60c. Oats—Standard, 43 1-4@ 441-2c. Corn—No. 3, 43 1-2@441-2e. Chicago, Feb. 17. --- Wheat---No. 2 red, 95@99c; No. 3 red, 90@98c; No. 2 hard winter, 85@90c; No. 3 hard win- ter, 75@88c; No. 1 Northern spring, 92@95c; No. 3 spring, 830@93c. Corn —No. 3, 48@431-2c. Oats—No, 2, 39c: No. 3, 381-2c. | Sioux City, Iowa, Feb. 17. — Cattle —Beeves, $3.50@4.70; cowg and heif- ers, $2.40@3.50; stockers and feeders, $2.75@3.80; calves and yearlings, $2.50 @3.60. Hogs—Bulk, $4.80@4.85. Chicago, Feb. 17. --- Cattle---Good to prime steers, $5@5.70; stockers and feeders, $2.50@4.10; cows, $1.50@4.25; heifers, £2@4.50; calves, $3.25@7. Hogs — Mixed and butchers, $4.95@ 5.25; good to choice heavy, $5.10@ 5.30; light, $4.55 @ 5.121-2; bulk of sales, $4.95@5.15. Sheep — Good to choice wethers, $4 @ 4.50; Western, $3.75@5.25; native lambs, $4.25@6; Western lambs, $5.25@6.15. South St. Paul, Feb. 17. -~ Cattle —~ Good to choice steers, $3.70 @ 5; good to choice cows and heifers, $2.70 @3.25; butcher bulls, $2.50@3; veals, $2 @ 5; good to choice feeding steers, $3.25@3.75; steer calves, $1.75 @2.50; good to choice stock cows and heifers, $2@2.35; heifer calves, $1.25 @2; good to choice milch cows, $30@ 35. Hogs—Range price, $4.60@5.10; bulk, $4.80@4.90. Sheep—Good to choie lambs, $4.85@5.35; fair to good, $4.50 @4.85; good to choice yearling weth- ers, $4.25@4.65; heavy, $3.65@3.90; zood to choice ewes, medium weight, $3.15 @ 3.50; culls and stock ewes, $1.15@2.25. State Bank Fai-ure. Corning, Iowa, Feb. 17.—The State bank of this place has failed with lia- bilities of $150,000 and possible assets of $75,000. Coaches Are Burned. Houston, Tex., Feb. 17.—A passenger train ran into an open switch at Healy yesterday. The engine was overturned and the oil which was used for fuel ig- nited several coaches and a mail car, which were destroyed. Several pas- sengers were injured. Several Vessels Lost. Rome, Feb. 17.—There has been a severe storm in the Mediterranean, resulting in the loss of several sailing boats and the drowning of a number of sailors. : ne a mmc IMOURNS FOR DEAD UNIVERSAL SORROW EXPRESSED AT THE DEATH OF SENATOR HANNA. SERVICES IN SENATE CHAMBER VENERABLE CHAPLAIN CONDUCTS SIMPLE BUT IMPRESSIVE EXERCISES. NATION MOURNS AT THE BIER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEO- PLE PAY THEIR RESPECT TO THE DEAD. Wash. :gton, Feb. 17—The nation, repres, .c* by its servants in Wash- ington, to-day stood by the bier of Senator He .xa in the senate chamber at the capitol and paid fitting tribute to the distinguished dead. President Roosevelt attended the obsequies at the capitol, but he de- cided, after talking with his cabinet and with Senator Hanna’s brother, not to go to Cleveland with the funeral party. The family will take the re- mains to Cleveland on a special train, leaving this evening. Only the rela- tives and iinmediate friends of the family will go on this train. J. Pier- pont Morgan and Cornelius N. Bliss of New York, who were devoted friends of Senator Hanna, have reached the city and will go to Cleveland. The congressional escort, which is the largest ever appointed to attend less than a presidential funeral, will leave to-morrow, and will reach Cleveland Friday. morning in time to take part in the services to be held in St. Paul’s Episcopal church. Services were Simple. The funeral services in the senate chamber were att ed by the presi- dent and his cabinet, the supreme court, the admiral of the navy and the lieutenant general of the army, the diplomatic corps and the senate and house of representatives. The serv- ices were very simple, cunducted by the venerable Edward Everett Hale, chaplain of the senate. There was no military display in connection with the funeral. The casket containing the remains was escorted by a detachment of police and it was met on the east portico of the capitol by a committee of fifty senators and _ representatives, who preceded the remains into the cham- ber. After the services in the chamber the body, surrounded by a detail of, capitol police, was placed in the marble room of the senate, where it will lie in state until 5 o'clock this evening, when the congressional com- mittee will escort it to the train. Thousands of telegrams and letters from persons in all parts of the coun- try were received yesterday by mem- bers of the family, all expressing the profound sorrow of the senders at the death of Senator Hanna. Only a few of the a Most Intimate Friends of the Hanna family were permitted to enter the death chamber to view the body yesterday. In appearance the features of the dead statesman are very lifelike. They indicate little emaciation, and on account of the oxygen used during the last days of the senator’s Sickness there is an, ab- sence of the ashen pallor peculiar to the dead. An atmosphere of profound sorrow pervaded the hotel throughout the day. Men conversed in subdued tones and the name of the dis- tinguished dead was on every lip. Persons moving about the house, even in parts remoyed from the death chamber, stepped. so lightly as to make only the slightest noise. Busi- ness proceeded as usual, but it was conducted without confusion and with- out clamor. All felt the presence of death. WILL OPEN RESERVATION. Negotiations for Purchase of Wind River Lands Soon to Begin. Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. 17.—An agent in the interior department has left Washington for the Wind River res- ervation, Wyoming, where he will treat with the Shoshone Indians for about two-thirds of the reservation. The government will purchase the land and throw it open to settlement, probably before the end of the year. Admiral Cotton Retires. Washington, Feb. 17. — Announce- ment was made yesterday at the navy department of the retirement at his own request of Rear Admiral Cotton, commander of the European squadron. Admiral Cotton’s request to be retired was because of the continued illness of his wife. He will probably be suc- ceeded by Rear Admiral French E. Chadwick. Convention at Ortonville. Granite Falls, Minn., Feb. 17—The Republican committee of the Seventh congressional district met here yester- day and selected Ortonville as the place and March 23 as the time for holding the district convention. Another troquois Victim. Chicago, Feb. 17.—The death roll of the Iroquois theater disaster has been increased by the death of Leo Pinkus, a musician employed at the theater, and who was burned while escaping from the rear of the building. y ve