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and clad where to the Y. M. C. A. building the injured nearby drug stores, Within an hour after mass were cared for. the hotel was a the fire started, the walls remaining. of ruins, only many thrilling escapes, conThere were of the guests, whose is A. W. dition is former the only one regarded as serious departSmith of McPherson, the Grand Army of commander of and once ment for Kansas, Republithe Republic governor on the alcandidate for H. A. Poland, canticket. McPherson. Smith and were sleeping in the so of floor near room on the fourth building. There was e south-side o fthe for their receiving aid a 8 little chance so the two made o from bed in e ladder the o ftheir outside, the window. clothing and Each suspended it from as fas as possible the on turn descended and dropped to area r the rope ladder crashed into an He susf d stound. striking Smith on the railing. internal inh tained way, a broken ankle followed and Smith down of juries. Rowland also fell. He was 3. ladder and and both were the unconscious, There it was 8 picked up the hospital. brok serious, take nto Rowland suffered three én y e CHICAGO, ribs. ILL., Jan. _"Suicide over a a the lofty structure soon be p a good bridge", in Lincoln park, for will its destruction park h n has been made is thin contemplated o fthep bridge ast, b ythe Lincoln who a board. The number of persons, de famous leaped by a to their deaths from that the its e top. have The commissioners built unusually say high under in or nbridge was sailboats might pass have red der that that launches struc1 6. is useless. placed it, and these now craft, the unsightly in ture Jan. 15.-It is expected into 8, h DENVER, legislature will probe Las Aniat that the election frauds in be start d the alleged and Huerfano counties to resolution mas weeks. The joint r le ed in two appointment of a commission three in for the of two senators and the sen3 to consist after adoption went by to the of n members, where it originated, motion a ate, this morning, and on Senator is Howell house of Denver went over. whose seat is Barela of Las Animas, alleged irregu8because of for an d contested, is loud in his desire however, n investigation. larities, His colleague, in oppos d. Senator Wood, became Both angry are Republic n. a ing the Senator measure. Barela may the be allowed investiit cans. his seat unti lafter con to hold Dr Beshoar, (Dem.), the g at gation. is here urging an Immediate com e testant the senate elections this o hearing by Chairman Campbell of of the e mittee. cosulted with both announced contestants committee yesterday and up early case would be taken Dr al that the The charge Is made by comof B next Beshoar week. that wholesale fraud was mitted openly. t. d. DENVER, Jan. 5.-Gov. message Shafroth e sent to the senate a Judge in ntoday Lee Champion for appointd naming of Bailey, resigned, The judiciary place was referred to the receive e ment committee which declined motion to of the d appointment on a is now at Speer the Democrats. The matter up in the air. a 15.-Four a NEWARK, N. J., Jan. factories t workers in the hat when or thousand struck this morning, employers y in Orange were notified by their would be st they more union labels in the e that no in the hats produced that 'permitted factories. It is understood was dee Orange order promulgated today. of the e the upon at a recent meeting The a of Associated cided Hat Manufacturers. industry entire hat manufacturing t the country may be affected. the s NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-During of a public bof the festivities Palace shottheight at Grand Central middle aged 6. dance after midnight today, a up of ly who, according to the papers clerk y man, was William Schoerd, dancers a n on him floor dead. Other but y, fell to somewhat the panic stricken, When ; were quieted by the police. dancing OTe were der had been restored, the was resumed ; e PITTSBURG, Jan. 15. J. B. vice-presi- F. Rine. cashier and Na. r hart, of former the Farmers and Drovers was this 7 dent Bank of Waynesburg, grow: tional found guilty of charges, bank. He k morning of the failure of the in the was ing out convicted of all counts t charge. le of / WASHINGTON Jan. An import1 conference on the administration depart h ant naval matters by the navy the reeorof which may result in e 1 ganization ment, of the system at is present being r vogue in that department, attendance at the 1 in today. Those in Secreof meeting held in the offices of the Court d of the Navy were Supreme Paul tary William H. Moddy and r Justice of New York, former Secretary A. Morton United States Judges k of the Dayton Navy; of West Virginia, former on t G. of the house committee of B chairman affairs, and all high President naval y naval and officers. The and ficials was in touch with the big meeting , a big shake up is expected. n e CHICAGO. Jan. 15 Aibert S. novel Bier was the originator of a d s method field of routing a robber, according He says he to was stopped by a colored man, the police story told here. who
