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n RJ1 tftj House chock full of new, seasonable AiUJUSJ o BESG-IKTS -o Moiaf, i fit imili i! i1 19, ami Closes Slnniaf Dec. SI. SET FIRE The Becker Leather Company's Rig Tannery, Milwaukee. Destroyed as Was Conrad's Tannery Adjoining. Two Flramon Killed, One Mining and Two Sarlnusly Injured Tha Firemen Handicapped In Their llnttle with the Element! The Two riant. Valued at OOO.OOO) Tart tally Insured. .- Milwtjkkk, Doc. 2fl, The William i. Becker Leather company's big tannery, , together with that of Conrad Brothers', located at the foot of Hhnnnan street, was burned Tuesday morning. Both were a total Ions. Nothing remains of the Becker tannery snve the office and warehouse. Like all big fires of late it was attend jd with fatality. One fireman is dead, another is missing and two mon are lying badly injured at the emergency faospital. The listjs: Julius Heubnej, pipenwn, company No. 6; dead. Thomas Sullivan, member fire patrol; missing. George Koichnian, of the fire patrol, was overcome by smoke in the Conrad building and died. 1 lis body whh re covered! Thomas Malonoy. lineman, Company 6; iniured internally. John Oeogh, pipemau No. 6; badly bruised and injured internally. The plant nt the William Becker com pany was valued at about IJWO.OOO and that of Conrad Brothers, as stated by tha senior member of the firm, at $ 100, (KK), Both are partly insured. Two minutes before 6 o'clock Oustav Tros tel, of the Trostel tannery, adjoining the burned buildings, saw the flames bursting from tlio second story of one of the Becker tannery buildings, and turned in the alarm over bis private wire. When the companies arrived tha main building of the Becker plant was enveloped in flames, and a general alarm was turned in and in a short time all of the apparatus of the city was on hand. Fanned by a fresh southwest wind, the tiro burned briskly. The firemen were seriouslv handicapped by the lire In the rear ot' the building from which they were shut off by the river. The Are tug Cataract had a difficult time plowing through the thick smoke, and its progress was so slow that by the time the fire was reported the flumes had gained fatal headway and had leaped to the building connecting. The latter building was filled with firemen working on the Becker building. Bo quickly did the flmnet spread that those at work in the upper story were cut off from escape. Many of the fire men jumped from the windows, but be yond a few who were bruissd none were severely injured save those mentioned In the list above. Thomas Sullivan at tempted to rind his way through the dense smoke to the entrance, but was obliged to retreat. Reaching the win dow he was overcome by smoke and fell to the ground outside. 'He died almost Immediately. The source of the fire is a mystery. The watchman aSrms that he had visit ed the place at which it started a few momenta before, and that all was welU There was nothing in the room which J9JU gite credence to the sjKmtoeous 3m: combustion" theory. "There Is no doubt," Bald Mr. Becker, the president, "that it was incendiary," in which state ment all of the members of the firm coincided. At 9 o'clock the fire was considered under control, and ,, tha loss being con fined to the two companies. The Becker company'! loss is $325, 000; Insurance, $175,000... Conrad Brothers' loss is I20O.0O0; Insurance, $38,000. ON A BICYCLE-SKATE. Frafassor Murphy Make a Mil la liSS In . BroaJiln. New "Yobk, Dec. 88.--All previous trotting and bicycling records were smashed Monday afternoon on the Flat bush pond, Brooklyn, by- Professor M. Murphy, who rode a wfeieyolekate' a mile in 1 :33. About 200 wheelmen were present, and it had been given out that Murphy wld try to lower the world's record for a mile. Alfred Coningsby, of the Montanlc - club, waa judge and two other members, time-keepers. The ico was cleared of skaters and Professor Murphy, after a few turns on his wheel, got a good start. He attained terrific speed before-toing one hundred yards, and at the end of a half mile the stop watches registered forty-five seconds. At the mile post they showed one min nte and thirty-three seconds, and Mr. Coningsby announced to the spectators that all previous records had been broken by twenty-three seconds. DANA DODGES. Think, f'nndar. ..Weald Make a Good Senator. Parih, Dec. 2.S. Charles A. Dana, ed itor of the New York Sun, who has been in Europe several weeks, is at present in this city. A large number of Americans called npon him at bis hotel, where they received a most cordial wel come from their distinguished fellow countryman. Speaking of the New York senatorship, In connection with which his name has been prominently mentioned, Mr. Dana says that the De mocracy may select Mr. Frederick It. Coudert. the well known lawyer, as a compromise candidate, BURNED HIS StSTER. A BaWjr tiny. Horrible Deed at Elwood, Indiana. Elwood, Dec. 2fl. A widow, Mrs. Million, left her three children in the house while she went out to invite some friends to a Christmas dinner. The youngest son secured a box of matches during bis mother's absence, and after lighting tbirty-one. succeeded in setting fiif to his baby slater's dress. The little one was so badly burned that she lived but four hours. HrltMier Illegally Eiemted. New Yokk, Dee. 8 Attorney Peehall says he will bring a elaim for indemnity, naming $1,000 as the amonnt, before the British minister, for the benefit of the heirs of Murderer Hallinger, who, he claims, was a British subject and waa illegally executed. NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. Item, of Inter. Gathered from All Part, of tha World. Mrs. Langtry has snffered a relapse. Mors rough weather on the Atlantic. Violent gales off the west Doast ot Spain. The upper Ohio lain danger of freezing ever. Below aero weather In Indianapolis, Monday, a northern Iidao. DRESS GOODS, CARPETS, EIGH ART CLOTHING, SHOES, HATS, GENTS' FPRHI8HINGS, ETC., and running over a with CHRISTMAS Tricks of all kinds, all of which must be moved out in the short time given. We can't help the loss, they must go. gaBafsacncinEnEaEiaEaE aeaBBEasaEUBaeaEBEaBaoaH traces on many lines of -goods. If you are a money saver, you cannot afford to pass us by, Should you not get waited on promptly, please be a little patient, for you will soon get served; 16 salespeople anxious to serve you. We want your trade. OG - LIVE, HUSTLIIVG PEOPLE FOR TRADE. The Zuni Indians have just tortured to death two women of the tribe for witch craft. Slater, Mo., had a $150,000 fire Ilaas' and Siber's dry goods stores. Insurance, 165,000. John J. Regan, of Chicago, suicided Monday because he was unable to find a lost brother. Jerry Simpson now announces that he is an out-and-out candidate for the United States senate. The Ohio is frozen overjnear Steuben ville, O. At East. Liverpool the people cross on the ice. The Rev. William Perrin, of St. Luke's church in Hants, has been appointed bish op of British Columbia. W. H. Cooper, a convict at Helena, Ark., died Monday, making the twelfth victim of the arsenic poisoning. At Crawfurdsville, Ind., Henry Mc Namee, a gambler, fractured Cal Wilson's skull with a billiard cue. John Duss, junior trustee, has succeeded to the leadership of the Economlt.es, vice Father Henrici, deceased. It is now claimed positively in Paris that Baron Reinach was poisoned by the Panama canal corruptionists. Patrick Mahoney and J. H. Barnett were killed by cars in Chicago. They Mre in a hack which was struck by tin engine. Charley Johnson and Jim Wakeley, who backed Sullivan in his fight with Corbett, say that whisky is rendering Sullivan erazy. James Agileco, an old man, lost his life In a burniiiK tenement house at Greens burg, Pa. Several children were severely injured. A yacht containing twenty-three persons capsized by a bqiiull near Sydney, N. S. W., and ten were drowned. It was a pleas ure partv. E. S. Corner He Company, real estate agents, Minneapolis, have failed. Liabil ities about $1,000,000; assets possibly more than that sum. At New West Brighton, S. I., Mrs. Mary McGovern, ninety-seven, got up to light her pipe, set the bed on fire and was burned todetrih. A dispatch from Paris to the Ixmdon Standard states that there are three cases of Asiatic cholera in Dunkirk and that one has just died. A church, three stores, seven house and three barns litlrned at Wyoming, N. Y. Loss, $l0u.0c0; insured. The village has no fire protection, A man, having in his pocket the address of Ed Miller, Allegheny City, Pa., was found frozen to death in Kramer & Bene dict's ic house at Elwood, Ind. Kansas and Missouri have an old-time blizzard on hand. The snow drifts are deep and several trains are hidden in t hem. The thermometer is lwlow zero. Miss Rose Tudor, of Cincinnati, waa knocked down in her father's house by an unknown man,who cut off her hair. Her neck was scratched by the blade. At Indianapolis, Anna Crouse, a domes tic, found a burglar in the bouse, and stabbed him three times. His name is Charles Jay Cook, and was found to be her cousin. Hagan, the Norwegian skater, defeated McCormick in the second raee for the world's championship and $1,000 a side. Monday a five-mile race will end the tournament. Two frail women robbed the room and corpse of John F. Miller, a saloonist, at Columbus, O. He was a former Panhandle conductor. His widow is in a mad house In New York. Frederick H. Marsh, formerly chief In spector of police at Chicago, who waa sua vended some time ago by order ot Mayor Wash burns for alleged irregularities, has been reinpMited. CUT TO llS Fred. L. Smith & Sons, Manufacturers of and Dealers in DG0RS, BLINDS, SASH, Flooring, Window Frames, etc. i Nos. 607, 609 & 611 Fraptliti 8t, near University Ave. CLAB..KSVILLE. American Cholera. Daily Reveille, Whatcom, Wash.: "T. V. Burnett, the Democratic can didttte tor Sheriff, was tMken violent ly ill at Clearbrnok. He had all tin symptoms of Asiatic cholera, and fin an hour or two it was feared he would die. They iinally gave him a dose of Chamberlain's Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy, which revived him until a physician Hrrived." That is precisely what the manufacturers of that medicine recommend for chol era. Send for a physician, but give their medicine until the physician arrives. If cholera becomes prevalent in this country next summer, this preparation will be in great demand becsuse it can always be depended upon. For sale by Owen & Moore, druggists. How to Cure a Cold. Simply take Otto's Cure. We know of its astonishing cures and that it will stop a cough quicker than any known remedy. If you have Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption or any disease of the throat and lungs, a few doses of this great guaranteed remedy will surprise you. If you wish to try, call at our store, 119 Franklin street, and we will be pleased to furnish you a bottle free of cost, and that will prove our assertion. Tudhope Drug Co. Farmers come fifteen miles to my store to get Chsmberlain's Couch Remedy. Many of them, like my self, are never without It in their hom;s. I cured my boy of a very sever? attack of croup and, I believe saved his life. K Dalton, Luray, Ttnasoll countv. Kansas. This ia a certain cure for croup and, if used as soon as the first symptoms appear, will prevent the attack. For sale by Owen 4 Moore, Druggists. The essentisl lung-healing princi ple of the pine tree has finally ben successfully separated and refined into a perfect cough medicine, Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Byrup. So d by all dealers on a guarantee of satisfaction. For sale by Tudhope Drug Co. Corn on the stlk is an emblem of plenty. A corn on the toe is an em blem of woe. Remove them quickly by using ''C. C. C. Certain Corn Cure," the great remedy lor corns and bunions. Bold by Owen A Moore. FOB 8ALE Cheap, a buggy; good as tew. Apply at Ibis office. d!7,dtf ATOMS TENN Big Excitement in Town Over the remarkakle cures by the, grandest specific of the age, Aunt Fan uy's Health Restorer, which acts as a natural laxative, stimulates the digesi tive organs, regulates the liver and kidneys and is nature's great healed and health renewer. ' If you have Kidney, Liver or Blood disorder do not delay, but call at Tud hope Drug Co.'s drug store for a free! trial package. Large size 50c j DR. M.W. PMC OFFICEHOURS-9tol2and3to& Pr actio limited exclusively to diseases of tbe E7E, EAB, HOS AND THROAT. WOFFICK over Bradley Boyd's Drug Btore. Jane 20,dwlyr A Dyspeptic's Argument Is s growl and that growl murks the limit of argument wltti him. The best way to gat' him to try a madicinn would be to advise' against It nni none now ninireni ma wni after lining Bui dock Blood Hitters "I have suflfcrwd with dyspepsia f r the last two yearn. Not long ago I commenced tak lnir B. B B. I sro now on the aeeond bottle and 1 feel like a new man. O.Knox, 12 f herwood A ve., I BiriEhamton. N, V. ' : Repeated tenta with uniform aueceaa prove the fact that Burdock Bl-'od Blttert III care dyapepKla. 1 h reanon ta plain, It tones the ntomach to natural action and keeps the alulce ways of the system free from clogging impurities. "I have been tronbled with dynpepsla and heart disease for Bine years, and found no relief nulll I tried Burdock Blood Bitters. How I am well ater taklnx two bottles. i ' Maa. Ettib Fsaziks, Bowna, Mien." Sold by Tudhope Diug Co. TABLER'S BUCKEYE CUBES NOTHIKG BUT PILES. A SURE and CERTAIN CURE known for I3yeara asth BEST REMEDY fOtt PILES. -Iillll fc? irnMKDSOS.TATLOBKRB, Co.. sr. urn, READ you lni II IT on SATURDAY and NEXT WEEK WE WILL SELL A LOT OF OLD STYLE CLOAKS TOR $2.50,-$3j50,:$5.OO TheseCloaks were old for $10 o ?15. Come and net a' barcain WK HAVE NEWMARKETS and CIRCULARS f hat w will aell below cost. Our houce is the place to bay CHEAP v CLOTHING . AND v OVERCOATS New Goods arriving every day. - ,- amm-aajgf.-ssa. We are receiving and can ttipply in any quantity ANTHRACITE, all sizes, - PITTSBURGH, Sr. BERNARD, DIAMOND. MUD RIVER,, GREEN RIVER, and tha famous MAIN MQUNTAIN JELLICO COAL. Also keep fall supplies of Telephone Coal Office or Wharf Boat. P. P. GRACBY &BRO. A REDUCTION IN GOODS ! From this date I will Bell my entire stock of Fall and Winter Millinery Nice Felt Shapes, m Ladies' Hats, will go at 50 cents and $1.00. Other goods at correspond ingly low Respectfully, J. Gr- GOOPER-s 11 tail? rates.