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VOL. XI
THE DALLES, OREGON. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1899
NO 298
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ON MONDAY NEXT, the same being the 27th. day of the month, we make formal display of our
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To make this a red-letter day in the history of our Clothing Business, we have laid under contribution the best and fore
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for the spring season of 1899, we cordially invite you to attend next Monday. "Ladies, bring your husbands. Husbands,
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will particularly interest the man who is still under the impression
that to posaeES a thoroughly stylish, perfect fitting euit of clothes he
must needs patronize the merchant tailor. We can please him in ev
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CAUGHT IN A
FIRE TRAP
Twenty Lodge Ladies Suddenly Snr
ronnded Dy Fire.
TWO DEAD,
MANY INJURED
Lose Their Heads and Jump From the
Window to the Pavement Below-
Injured Doing Well.
late. The fire swept through the door
and down the single stairway. Those
nearest the door fled through the blind
ing smoke and reached the street with
hands and faces bnrned and blistered.
The rest faced the solid wall of flame.
There was a fire escape at the south
front of the building, but not one of
them seems to have thought of it. They
rushed panic-stricken to the windows.
In anothor instant the spectators, at
tracted by the elouds of smoke, were
horrified to see one after another spring
from the open window and fall heavily
to the pavement. Most of them were
bleeding from severe cats and bruises,
and all were burned until their torn and
blackened skins hung in threads. In a
few minutes all. except Miss Taylor, re
covered conRcionsnens. and the nhvsi-J
cians and nurses, hastily summoned,
did all that was possible to relieve their
Bufferings. .
Omaha, March 21. Comparatively
insignificant in material destruction,
but appalling in its harvest of death
and Buffering, was a fire that partially
destroyed the Patterson block at Sev
enteenth and Douglas streets this after
soon. Two of its victims have died ;
one more is not expected to live, and
about twenty others are suffering from
broken limbs and burned and lacerated
flesh.
The blaze started just after 3 o'clock
from a gasoline stove explosion in a
room In the rear of the third floor of the
building and next to the elevator shaft
It was not discovered until it had spread
to the adjoining apartments, and the
entire floor was filled with smoke and
flames. About twenty members of the
women's lodge of Maccabees were at
tending a committee meeting in a wait-
ingroomin front of the middle of the
building, on the same floor.
They were unconscious of danger until
the janitor threw open the door and
told them to get out before the flames
cat them ' off. The warning came too
CORBIN DECLINED
THE PROMOTION
Would Not Stand in the Way of tne
Generals of the line.
WAS IN THE
RIGHT PLACE
Injured Doing Well.
Omaha, March 22. Most of the in
jured in yesterday's fate in the Patter
son block are progressing favorably.
There is a suspicion that the fire may
have been of incendiary origin, as sev
eral people have informed the coroner
that two women were seen to hurriedly
emerge from the basement near the foot
of the elevator shaft a few moments be
fore the fire was discovered.
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Number of Major Generals Were
Limited and All Were Needed in
the Field.
Nbw York, March 22 A dispatch to
the Tribune from Washington eays : In
the furthcoming army register, the first
to be printed for more than a year, which
will be issued by the war department by
theendof this week, official corrobora
tion is given to the report that Brigadier
General Corbin refused to accept a com
mission as major-general of volunteers
which was. tendered' to him by the
president in recognition of his services
in the war with Spain.
From the new official register it
appears that such a commission was
made out for General Corbin August 31,'
189S, and declined. - This entry :a notably
conspicuous in the. register7 because in
the 300 pages of the volume, containing
the complete military records of all the
officers in the army, there are few eimilar
instances of an appointment by the
president having been followed by a
declination. '
General Corbin, when asked why he
did not accept, said :
"The number of major-generals was
limited, and we needed every one of them
in the field. I could not stand in the
way of any man who was in the fighting
line. I wanted them to have their pro
motions first. My place was here. The
law did not specifically provide that the
adjutant-general of the army, large as it
had grown to be, should be' increaeed in
rank. It did permit an increase of
major-generals in the line,- and I
thought the officers of the line ought to
have all the vacancies as long as we
needed them."'
JOHN SHERMAN
NOT DEAD
Yesterday's Dispatch Announcing Bis
Demise on the Steamer Paris Was
. Erroneous. .
John Sherman is .not dead. The dis
patch received by the New York Evening
Telegram Tuesday and put on the wires
by the Assocaited Press, was erroneous.
Mr. Sherman is now reported improving,
with fair chances for recovery.
Washington, March 22. Mrs. McCal
lam, daughter of Sherman, received a
telegram from Mr. Wilberg, who is ac
companying the former secretary of state
on his tour of the West Indies, announc
ing Sherman's continued improvement.
The Chicago will probably arrive at
Santiago tonight, ' and if Sherman and
his friends are still of the same mind
they will take him on board and bring
him home.
- Mrs. Sherman is the one person of the
senator's household who suffered neither
from the first announcement, or rejoiced
over the second. She was not informed
of either. Mrs. Sherman has been quite
ill from paralytic attack for several
months, and had never been informed
even of the senator's serious illness, for
fear of its effect upon her. - It was felt,
when the news of his death came today,
that it wopld have to be broken to her,
but all hesitated to make the announce
ment. It was ultimately decided to
postpone the sad duty until tomorrow.
She was thus saved the shock.' .
Already ' many telegrams of condol-
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How the Mistake Was Made.
Santiago dS Cuba, March 22. In
vestigation regarding the false report
sent out yesterday saying that John
Sherman was dead reveals the facts in
the case. The chief signal officer here.
Captain Leigh, received the news from
the signal- office at Guantanamo. The
men on duty at the latter office got the
story from the French cabl?, and having
no reason to doubt the correctness of the
statement, at once advised Captain Leigh.
How tbe French company made the
mistake is. not stated.
Sherman continues to improve..
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- The Pope's Condition.
Rome, March 21. The pope's physi
cian, Dr. Lapponi, and Professor Maz
zaoni visited his holiness at 5 o'clock
this afternoon and found his general
health good and the seat of the recent
operation in excellent condition. While
conversing ' with them the pope ex
pressed deep grief at tbe false stories
circulated as to his health, especially
reports about a second operation, which
had so disturbed Catholics deeply in
terested in liia welfare.
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