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VOLUME LVII. ROBERTS TELLS ABOUT HIS WIVES Testifies That H Kept Knowledge of Third Marriage From Both r of His Other "Better Halves." ; Knew Action to Be Contrary to Law and Did Not Wish First Wives to Testify. SEGOND ROUND OF THE CASE Important Testimony Hrutifrtit Out ut llenrlnir ISH'orfl Com- ml t tee YcNterdny Favor able to I'roMM'iitlon. Washington, April 10. What will be termed the second round of the Reed Bmoot contest opened today be for the senate committee on privil eges and elections. It wee ennoum-ed that eeven wltneeeee would be heard before the adjournment of congress, end It la practically certain that the committee will then adjourn to con vene July IS. At that time will be examined wltneaiiee who were unable to come to Washington and othere who could not be reached wl,h ,um" mona to come here. ' Important testimony for the prose cution la expected to be developed at thl session of the committee. The hearlnir opened without formality ot any character, nrlgham II. Itoberts waa called to the atand by Mr. Tay lor. He waa questioned to brine out a atatement of hla official connection with the church. Mr. Ttoberts said u wmm t)MA n ha wMillnn tna of the first 70 presidencies In 188, and entered politic In 1889. Hla In terest wna manifested In making speeches, but he waa not a candidate for offlce until 1894. He waa then elected as a member ' the constl tullotial convention which met InlMS. He explained hla enndliltury for con gress and the oppoaitlon that had de veloped from Mormon sources. He said the church hud opposed the elecr i Hon of high ofndals of the church' to! membership of the constitutional con vention and thut he had accordingly consend not to urge hla candidacy. He waa nominated during hla absence and waa Informed that the order had been rescinded. He aald that Joseph Hmlth wna the member of 'he first presidency who aald the ruling had been modified. He explained fully certain criticisms whih has been md of an all 4 111 fluenee which ths first presidency and apostle had brought to bear against the present aspirations of himself and othere. Mr. Roberta aald he protest ed and later the burch took up his protests. Mr. Roberta was defeated the first, time be ran for congress. He thought hla last child was bom three or four years ago. In response to question by Mr. Taylor Mr. Roberta wild his first plur al marriage was perfected by t. H. Wells, consul to the apostles, and he thought the ceremony waa performed at the home of Mr. Well's son. Senator Overman Inquired of Mr. Roberts whether his first and second wives had consented to his marriage to his third wife. "No, air," aald Mr. Roberts. Con tinuing he said they did not learn of the marriage for three or four years. "How was thatr asked Hen. or Ileverldge. "Do you nieun to say that the marriage was not known to any one?" it was known to some of my friends, but not to my wives." was th answer. . "Why was the marriage concealed from tbemr asked Chairman Olur rowe. "Iiecause I did not want to embar rase them." "How embarrass them?" "Well, we knew the marriage woe Il legal and might be embarraelng to them. If they should, for any reason, be called on to testify." Mr.- Roberta sold hla third wife .waa the divorced wife of Dr. Ship, and In regard to his courtship he aJd he al ways had met her s the house of a mutual friend end never had called on her at her home. He also said that she continued to live In her home, but that he never had called on her there until she removed to rooms on Main street Bait Lake. Mr. Taylor asked Mr. Roberts If he knew that Maggie Ship Roberts lived In a house where lived her divorced husband and two of hla divorce! wives. Mr. Roberta aald he was aware of that fact. Question were asked respecting Mr. Roberts' views regarding the mani festo of 1830 regarding plural wive? and living In polygamous cohabitation and tho witness said hat he regarded the manifesto a an administration act of the church of binding force upr on all member. VJfle admitted that to disobey any of these laws would sub ject the members to liability to church discipline. (Continued on Page I.) TORONTO FIRE LEAVES LOSS. AND SUFFERING IN AWFUL RED HOT WAKE Flames Rage During Entire Night in the Busiest Centers of the City Entailing Loss of Over $10,000,000. Aid From Surrounding Cities Arrives Too Late to Be of Any Real Importance Steady Wind All that Saves City From Total Destruction, as Sudden Shift Would Have Proved Generally Fatal. te Price To A Do Yon Udow What That Means? A bojr can buy a Suit of Clothes from our immense stock, i"d get as good a bargain and us good a fit as though his father made the selection. , t " '- . Fair and honorable tratmeut and the Lowest Prices consistent with Honest Goods have .givt n our store the reputation of being the Leading Clothing house of the city. Pa An Toronto, April 20. Revised esti mates of the loss place It at $10,000,000 with f7.000.000 Insurance. One hun dred and fourteen buildings were de stroyed, and It Is estimated that 8000 people are thrown out of employment. Toronto, Ont, April 20. -The fire that raged throughout the night and up to an early hour today In Toronto's wholesale and retail business district, waa the most disastrous In the history of the city. The total loss Is conserva tively estimated between $5,000,000 and $(,000,000. The principal warehouses of the city were reduced to ashes and nearly 250 firms were but out of busi ness. The area covered by the Are is three blocks In length and varies from half a block to two blocks In width. Every building on Bay street, from Mellnda street southward to the water front, were wiped out and the fire spread on Wellington end Front streets, along the waterfront from this section and the Ksplamade along the water front from this section with Bay street for a boundary for a few hunted feet to a whole block. Early In the evening when the fire assumed alarming proportions, appeals! for assistance were sent to London, Hamilton, Montreal and Kuffalo. Spe cial trains were at once started from these points, but It was long after midnight before the flist of them be gun to arrive, and In the meantime the local firemen were having the tight of their lives. From the time the tire started on the north side of Wellington street, a short distance east of Bay street, In the E. A S. Currle manufacturing plant, till it burned Itself out at daybreak, there was not a moment when a shift of the wind to the northward would not have resulted In the destruction of the greater part of the city. The fire started In the elevator shaft In the rear of the Currle building. Then the names spread across the street to Brown Bros., and from there east to Bay street. The wind, which had been brisk, Increased to a gale. A general alurm was sounded, but be fore all the firemen had reached the vene. the fire had leaped to the high buildings occupied by Anley & Co., and Pugsley, Dlngman & Co. Then Suck ling & Co.'s building adjoining Currle's caught fire. Almost simultaneously names began to shoot out from the Brown building and the firemen were compelled to divide their forces. The roof of Dlngman & Moneypenney's building, on the northwest corner of Bay and Wellington streets, was the next place to burst Into flames. In an Incredibly short time Suckling's, Cur rle's, Brown's and Dlngman & Money penny's were all a mass of flames and the streams of water thrown Into them had no apparent effeet The Bale Manufacturing Company's Immense plant In the rear of Anley Company, waa the next to fall prey to the flames, and shortly afterward the Homes on the east side ot Dlngman Moneypenny's were carried across to the east side of Bay to the Office Specialty building. It was here that the firemen made a desperate stand to check the progress of the flames northward In the heart of the city. They won, but not until they had lost considerable by the flames, which were now sweeping down Bay street toward the river front The office of the Evening Telegram, the next building north of the Office Spe cialty building, was slightly damageJ in the two hours' fight with the rag ing flames. In the meantime the Immense ware house of the W, R. Brock Company, on the southwest comer of Bay and Well ington streets, was being subjected to the Intense heat from the burning Brown building, on the east, and the Dlngmun & Moneypenny building op posite, with scarcely a stream of water playing upon them. The big wooden watertank on the roof caught Are, but In some strange manner the building Itself escaped destruction for the time being. The fire cut Its way through the rear of Brown Bros.' building, which faces on Front street, the first street south of Wellington. In a brief space of time Front street, on both sides, waa like a roaring fur nace. For over half an hour the fire In Front street burned fiercely, prac tically unchecked. It then began to wrk Its way back upon Bay street, Gordon. Mac Kay A Col's warehouse serving as fueL A few minutes before, the Canadian Rubber Company's plant started to burn. While It lasted this furnished the hottest and fiercest con flagration of the night The flames, shooting hundreds of feet Into the air and scattering great masses of sparks and cinders on every side,, continued north on Bay street until a complete circle of Ore had formed around the Brock building on the southwest cor ner of Bay and Wellington streets, over which the flumes had hurled in their first dash south. The Brock i building was soon In ashes. It was only the Intervening park that saved the Queen's hotel, one of the finest hostelrles In the country. The guests hurriedly left and everything portable was removed from the hotel The flames leaped across Bay street In half a dozen places, and shortly be fore midnight It became apparent that the whole block south of East Welling ton street was doomed. The Oordon-MacKay building, on the northwest corner of Front and Bay streets, which for nearly 70 years was one of the finest In the city, made a fierce blase. The Copp-Clark building and Warwick Bros, and Rutter's were destroyed at about the same time. The heat was so great and the smoke and flying embers so thick that the fire men were helpless and, could not get near enough to the Are to play a single stream on it. To add to the terrifying scene came a bombardment of explosions giant firecrackers and fireworks stored in the Copp-Clark building. The flre next leaped across Front street to the Mc Phersoh Bros.' boot and shoe ware house and the adjoining building. In 4a minutes the flames had leveled every building between Front street and the Esplanade, on the west side of Bay street. . The firemen, who had been forced to retreat slowly on Front street and the Esplanade, concentrated their forces and made another desperate stand; they failed this time. The flames leaped across the street below and destroyed McLaughlin & Co.'s flour mills at the southwest corner of Bay street and1 Front From there the fire took an easterly course towards Tonge street and dangerously near the wharves. On the southwest it burned itself out for lack of fuel. The flames were nlsc spreading toward the east along both sides of Front street and the east sldt of Wellington street. At 1 o'clock the Eddy warehouse, the Lincoln paper mills warehouse and th Klelnerle Rubber Co.'s warehouse or the north side of Front street were burning. On the south side the warehouse of IL S. Howland Sons A Co., the Dogg'r Paint Company and the Dodge BpHt Pulley Company were burning. On West Wellington street, opposite the Brock building-, Wyland Bark's warehouse, Bun Tin Reld Company's store, the warehouses of W, ft L. Samuel Benjamin Company, A. Brad shaw A Sons, Kilgour Bros, and the Union bank were destroyed. The custom-house, a four-story stone building at the comer of Tonge and Front streets, was the barrier that stopped the progress of the flames to ward the eastern end of Front street Tons of water were thrown against the sides of the custom bouse. That struc ture was not seriously damaged. Dynamite was used on several small buildings. ";'' Hundreds of streams of water are still being poured Into Immense de posits of glowing; embers, but the flre has spent Itself and all danger has passed. ALL IS QUIET ALONG THE YALU Japanese are Throwing up Ert- Trenchmenfs Opposite Golutz- Ky and also Further to the North. r Troops of Orientals are Increas ing In Numbers Wiju Being Central Point BRYAN NOT AFRAID. Believes That Only Crooked Work Will Nominate Parksr. Lincoln, April 20. W. J. Bryan gave to the press the following statement concerning the action of the New Tork democratic state convention: '1 do not think the instructions will give Judge Parker any additional strength, but the platform adopted by the convention ought to prevent his nomination unless the democrats. when they assemble at St Louis, de cide to work a confidence game upon the people." - I MEETING IN HOLY LAND. Sunday School Convention Begins 8es- sions in Jerusalem. Jerusalem (Monday), April 18. De layed In transmission. The world's fourth Sunday school convention opened today In a huge tent outside of Herod's gate. Arch Deacon Sinclair delivered the opening sermon. 4 The attendance Included 800 Amer icans and 500 British. E. K. Warren has been elected president of the con vention. Numerous Turkish officials, Greek, Roman Catholic, Jewish and other priests are honored guests of the delegates. BASEBALL SCORES. Pacific Coast At San Francisco Tacoma 1, Oak land 0. At Los Angles Los Angeles 2. San Francisco 5. American. ' At Chicago Chicago 4, Detroit 3. National. At Cincinnati Cincinnati t. Pitts burg 4. LIGHTS OF TRANSPORTS SEEM Cossack Sentinels Observe Ma neuvers of the Enemy, Trans ports and Other Vexiteta Being on the Move. St. Petersburg, April 20. General Kuxopatkin has sent the following telegram to the emperor: "General Kashtalinsky reports aa follows on April 19: "All Is quiet on the Talu. The Jap anese are throwing up entrench mezita opposite Golutzy and further ta the north. The numbers of the Ja troops are increasing. They are sentraUng at Wiju and spreading; north along the Talu. "'Cossack sentinels have obeerTcd the lights of the Japanese transport near Chlng-Tai-Is, opposite th vVL lage of Po tonga, 25 versts west of Ta tungkau. The vessels were anchored at a distance of so versts from shore. " 'According to dispatches from Gen era! Mistchenko, Japanese ships wen also seen near Sou Chou.' ' Quiet in Far East. . St Petersburg,' April 20. The" gen-" era! staff has Issued the following statement: "According to official reports all has been quiet at Port Arthur and Ylnltow and on the Talu river during the last few days." Wants More Men. . ' ( Paris, April 20. The St Petersburg correspondent of the Journal says that a friend of General Kuropatkln has re ceived a letter from him in which Use general says that he intends to await the arrival of another 100,000 men be fore risking a battle with the Japanese. here is a Style and Fit about our suits, shirts and jackets that distin guish them from others and the prices are below those of any other place in the city for low prices have made The Bee Hive famous. We have the largest stock of summer shirt waists in the city all in the very newest styles from the daintiest China Silk and Lawn to the heavy Oxfords. We are showing in the new dress goods and trimmings all that the new styles demand. In Millinery we lead. We are showing the newest Pattern and Tailor-made Hate. Our shoe department is in keeping with the rest of the store. YOU CAN BUY ALL THESE CHEAPEST .; AT THE BEE HIV $1.25 LATEST COPY-RIGHTS $1.25 MY FRIEND PR0SPERO ITI TIE GARRISON, lie Bill. LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR, Witlienuon, . BARLASCH OF THE GUARD, Merriman. Sir MORTIMER, Miry Johrooa- JNO. N. GRIFFIN