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THE ROBBERS' RAID. A Haul of More Than Three Million Dolars-Fires, Including the Normal School Building at Leavenworth-Other Fires Etc. THE GREAT BURGLARY. Oct. 28.-The gigantic robbery of the senNEW Manhattan YORK, Savings institution Notice is has the been sation in banking circles. in the bank, saying: of loss to depositors, posted preventing "For it the is purpose ordered that no be made The of the more notice. payments surplus without bank loss is sixty that days' than sufficient to cover any probable may be sustained by reason of the robbery." A large number of depositors have given the necessary notice. The directors were in secret session to-day. It is said to be the rule for janitors of bank buildings of this city to have the combinations of the vaults. Every available detective in town has been assigned to the case. The Evening Post says: So far as can be ascertained no arrests have been made yet. Walling said this morning he could give no new information about the case, and denied that he professed last night to have clue to the robbers, and if he had one he would not admit it. The janitor and night watchman are at the bank to-day helping to straighten out matters. Augustus Schell, Democratic candidate for and and brother of the president of the bank, mayor says the bank will have a surplus of half a million dollars if all the coupon bonds stolen were counted as lost. Great crowds continued all the morning about the bank. The robbers left behind skeleton key and also three pair of handcuffs. Of forty or fifty boxes stored away about twenty had been opened or their contents rifled. It is feared the amount taken may be more than $3,000,000, since the contents of a number of tin boxes centaining gold coin and government bonds with which the sides of the vault was lined have disappeared. NORMAL SCHOOL BUILDING BURNED. ST. LOUIS, Oct. -ATopeka, Kan., dispatch says: The State normal school building at Emporia, burned Saturday morning. The fire broke out at 3 o'clock, and the building burned with such rapidity that nothing was saved. C. M. Pomeroy, president lost his valuable library, besides effects. throughout the was an odor of through the Friday, gas entire entire all household day, building. there Mr. Pomeroy made a careful inspection celof the building and found the coal in the lar, seventy-five tons, in a heated condition, and had the janitor, with some help, shovel over to cool off. At 11 o' clock at night the janitor left his work feeling that everything was safe, but the fire broke out and in a short time nothing was left but the walls. The building cost $85,000 and had not a farthing of insurance. SUICIDE AT SEA. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28.-Mrs. Honora Burke, a steerage passenger from New York on the steamer Colima, arrived yeaterday, committed suicide by jumping overboard during the voyage. The body was recovered and interred at Punta Arenas. SUICIDE OF A MURDERER. CINCINNATI, Oct. 28.-Provost, the suspected murderer of the Vacelet family, hung himself yesterday in his cell in jail at Vincennes, Ind. POLITICAL ALTERCATION. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 28.-In an affray at Plaquemine, between A. C. Brule and State Senator Geo. B. Waite, the former received a flesh wound in the arm, and the latter a serious wound in the side, and is now in a critical condition. Cause, politics. WRECKED AND SEVED. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 28.-The bark Leopold et Marie brought the captian, two passengers and the crew, of the sehooner M. M. Lindsay, Havana for Key West, abandoned Thursday in a sinking condition. The schooner belonged to Captain McKay, and was uninsured. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28.-The officers of the wrecked steamer Georgia, who arrived yesterday on the Colema, deny the statements of passengers concerning ill conduct of the crew and want of control over them by the officers. GOVERNMENT QUARTERS BURNED. PRESCOTT, A. T., Oct. 28.-Fire broke ont at Fort about one mile this at o'clock this morning, town, Whipple, totally north occupied destroy- of three government cottages, two by Gco. W. Kingsbury, and J. D. Craige. ing master, Capt. Capt. assistant the other quarter- cottage unoccupied. Loss to the government, $15,000. Furniture of the occupants about $500; no insurance. The fire originated in a defective flue. The persistent bravery of the officers and men saved the powder magazine, which would have involved serious loss. PACIFIC SLOPE FIRE. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28.-The sash and blind factory and lumber yard of the Sierra Flume company at Chico, burned this morning. The fire caught from sparks from the engine. Loss variously estimated at from a quarter to half a million dollars, probably nearer the latter figures. PICKLED IN FIRE. PITTSBURGH, Oct. 28.-The pickling establishment of F. & J. Heinz, Second avenue, was destroyed by fire late to-night. Loss, $50,000; fully insured, mostly in home companies. Origin of fire unknown. LAKE WRECKS. BUFFALO, Oct. 28.-The tug Hi Smith with lighter in tow, wentashorelast night on Tecumseh reel. The tug will probably be a total loss. One man missing. Of Course, a Man Who Will Swindle Will