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by PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY Sixteen' Pages The Philadelphia Inquirer Co. ENGLAND MAY REQUEST THAT UMBRIA PLOTTERS BE FOUND r''iWr Ml Y- explosives LAWYER MARCUM'S fflll MORNING, MAY 11, 1903" OTTAWA IS AG SWEPT BY FLAME; LOSS ENORMOUS Ex-Convict Said to Have Startled Fire Which Threatens to Destroy Canada's Capital Montreal Called On for Help in Fighting' Worst Peril Since the Conflagration of Three Years Ago Special to; Inquirer. OTTAWA, Canada, May 10. This city-is- again; in- the grip of flames. For the second rme' within three years the city is threatened with destruction.

At 3 o'clock to-day a terrible. fire started in the outskirts of the city and spread towards the business centre. At 7 o'clock to-night three hundred houses had been burned and over .2000 persons were homeless. It is believed that the fire was started by an ex-convict in hope of gaining by the ensuing The cpread of the flames is immense and Covers practically the same district as was devastated in the great fire of 1900. Montreal was called on for aid at 0 o'clock and fire apparatus was quickly on ts, way here.

The Montreal men quickly to work upon their arrival and render ed great aid in endeavoring to check the spread of the flames. At 10 o'clock- owing to the herioc exertions of the fire fighters, the flames appeared to be under control. It-is feared that by the time they are extinguished over a mile square of the city will be prey to the flames and teti thousand persons Avithout homes. The fire of 1000 lasted but four hours, but nearly twenty thousand persons lost all their possessions before the -end came. To-day's fire bids fair to be as bad.

The Great Fire of 1900 Originating in Hull, which is just across the river from Ottawa, the. great fire of three years, ago climbed over and along the bridge to Ottawa, where the lumber piles and mill offered a ready prey to the' fierce jaws of flame. The path of de struction ran for a distance of no less than five miles. The financial loss was enormous1. The two cities of Hull and Ottawa-are separated by the river, the boundary between- tbc province of Quebec and On tario! The chief works are the timber, pulp and electrical industries.

The population of the city of Hull is chiefly French-Canadian; that of Ottawa is more cosmopolitan. The Seat of Government Ottawa was chosen as capital of the Dominion of Canada by Queen Victoria in 1S5S. and is the seat of Parliament. The city has the reputation of having the finest- telephone, electric light and tramway systems and water works of any city, of its population in the world. The hotels and residences on the Ottawa side of the river are of a very superior character.

The popidation in 1900 was over 70,000 at Ottawa, and probably 15,000 in. Hull, making the total, including the suburbs, about 120,000. Both cities have been the scenes of great fires in the past. The Governor General's residence is situated in Ottawa. The Parliamentary and departmental buildings are fine edifices.

The foundation stone of these buildings was laid by the Prince of Wales when visiting America. They were erected at a cost of five years' labor and over seven million dolfars in money. THE WEATHER Forecast from Washington: For Eastpru Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware. District of Columbia and Maryland, fair Monday and Tuesday; light to fresh southeast to south winds. For Western Pennsylvania, fair Monday and Tuesday; fresh south winds.

City' Temperature Yesterday. AN CAST UP BY THE SEA think It about time I extinguished that fuse betore it does any i' PLUCKY MAN CLUNG TO RUNAWAY ONE CENT Actual, Size Fbotoerspbs show ins relative size of the sticks of dynnmite found in the infernal machine on' the Cunard Iine pier. -the machine, and a dia-, jram of the inside of the lox. tosretner with, a picture of Captain Duttop. of the L'mbria.

British Ambassador Waits ort; Official Reoort Before Mak-irig Representations to Sec, retary Hay for Detection of Would, Be Destroyers of British Steamship Special to THe Inquirer. WASHINGTON, May 10. Sir Michael Herbert, the British Ambassador, has not yet received from the British Consul General in New York a report on the Mafia plot to destroy the Umbria and other ships sailing from New York harbor. Why such a plot should be directed against Knglih interests is more than the officials of theBritish Embassy here can comprehend. Until the Embassy has received a report from the.

British Consul General in New York there will probably be no representation made to Secretary of State Hay. Arthur S. Raikes, secretary of the British Embassy, said to-day: Embassy at a Loss "We are nt a loss to know why such a plot should be directed against the British merchant marine. As reported in the newspapers the incident appears serious. The activity of the New York authorities in discovering the plot is appreciated, and it may not be necessary to call upon the State Department." It is thought, however, that prompt steps will be taken for the co-operation of the United States and British governments in unraveling the myitery and -tunning down the perpetrators.

At the Italian Embassy to-day the idea that the Mafia is responsible for the plot was discredited, and it i-s thought that the naming of the Mafia in the letter of warning was a blind, for it was stated that the Mafia was not so strong in New York as it is iu Southern cities, especially in New Oilcans. Mafia for Individual Revenge It was also pointed out at the Embassy that the Mafia's interests are individual, not international matters. The Italian Consul General at New York will gladly, assist in every way to clear up the mystery, but no report on the occurrence has yet been received from him. The United States Secret Service has not been called upon to make any investigation of the plot to destroy British ship-; ping. Mr.

Wilkie, the chief of the Secret Service, said to-night that he knew no more of the case than what he had seeu in the newspapers. "BLOOD 'WILL, TELL" Is a familiar expression and. like must rxu-ular sayings it has at least a foundation ot truth! The reason for the fam? and popularity of our li. Suits is found in the fact that they ar-' superior in Fit aud Btvle to all other rady Clothes! (Ol'serre that we do not adopt the newfangled term "ready to wear." because it means nothing that is iot expressed ia the familiar "ready Nothins is ready to wear, until the customer puts it on and sar he's satisfied! We serve the public, and serye them well! Our salesmen are us more of this!" and so' on! continually eryicz "Clva "We haren't euoush of Our manufacturing stautly enlarging are utmost! facilities while ion-ulways pushed to the I'ERRV A 152U Chestnut Street. I VOL 148, NO 131 POLICE GAVE STRICT ORDERS FOR SUNDAY In -Some Districts Closing Regulations Applied to Cigar and Drug Stores Provision Places Closed at Nine o'Clock No Milk or Ice Obtainable After Eleven Police regulations in this city yesterday were the strictest that have been enforced since Colonial days, when chains were stretched across the streets on Sundays.

Lieutenants of all the districts received verbal instructions from Superintendent of Police Quirk at City Hall on Friday and Saturday to order all doors to be closed to business on Sunday. As understood by the-majority of the lieutenants all stores selling merchandise of any kind were not to be open at all, while groceries and provision stores could keep open doors until 9 o'clock not to make any sales, but to deliver articles ordered in advance and milk stores could be open, under the same conditions, until 11 o'clock. Any furnishing store, shoe store, confectionery store, fruit store, meat store, baker's store, or, in fact, any kind of a store excepting the provision and uilk stores, restricted to early deliveries, was to be reported to police headquarters in case it was detected with doors open at any time during Sunda'. Any provision or milk store was also to be reported if xiot closed promptlv at the hours specified. Orders Variously Interpreted In most of the districts orders to this effect Mere communicated to the storekeepers by policemen while making their rounds on Saturday.

It appears, however, that Superintendent Quirk's directions were not inteppreted in the same way by all the lieutenants. The Superintendent had been emphatic on the point that the Sunday closing law must be stringently enforced. Impressed by this, some lieutenants ordered everything closed in their districts without reserve. They extended the prohibitory mandate not only to cigar stores candy, ice cream and fruit stores, but even to drug stores. In the case of drug stores, they notified the druggists that no cigars, confection-try, soda water or toilet articles should be sold and that the only sales made must be to fill a physician's prescription.

Such orders were issued in the Twenty-third district, where the station house is located at Twentieth and Jefferson streets. Lieutenant Lyons, of this district, is out of the city, and in his absence one of the sergeants, acting as lieutenant," issued orders of the sweeping character described. Effect in One District As a result there was morfe or less trouble throughout yesterday in the big northwestern district. Men could get nothing to smoke, and it is recorded that some who were never known to use profanity before swore on this particular Sunday worse htan George Washington did at the battle of Monmouth. When the girls found that they could get neither ice cream nor soda water they, in turn, used language as expressive as the feminine vocabulary would permit, in which the? were somewhat hypocritically encouraged by their escorts, and the whole northwestern atmosphere was strongly charged with irritation.

Most edifying of all were the scenes enacted in the drug stores, where all purchasers were told that they must get Continued on 4 tit Pasre 5tli Col. FIRE FOLLOWS GAS FXPLOSION; TWO ARE DEAD Ex-Assemblyman Blasdell and Wife Fatally Burned and! "Their Home Destroyed An Adopted Son Injured in Endeavoring to Rescue His Foster Mother, i Victims' Thrilling Experience BUFFALO, N. May lO.Herman M. Blasdell, of North Collins, a former Assemblyman, after whom the town of Blasdell, N. is named, and his wife, were so badly burned in a fire which started, from an explosion and which destroyed their home to-day that they died a few hours later.

An adopted son, -who was the only other occupant of the house at the time of the explosion, was slightly burned. Mrs. Blasdell was conscious -for some time before her death, and from her it was learned how the explosion occurred. Awakened early in the morning by a strong smell of gas, she began an investigation. Explosion and Fire When she reached the hall she struck a match, and instantly there was a terrific explosion.

The walls of the house were forced outward, and one side of the building dropped. Fire broke out in half-a-dozen places, and the whole house was soon in flames. The adopted son, who slept in a remote part of the house, rushed to his foster mother's rescue and succeeded in smothering the flames that enveloped her. Mrs. Blasdell walked out as far as the fctreet, where she fell unconscious.

Ieaped to His Death Mr. Blasdell, who had been awakened by the explosion, endeavored to reach the stairway, but found himself cut off by the flames. With his night" clothes ablate he was forced to. jump from an upper window. The shock of the fall and the severe burns resulted in his death.

Mrs. Blasdell died at the home of a FLAGMAN FOUND BIG CHECK Ttrenty-one Thonsand Dollars Flattered Oat of a Car Window RAHWAY, N. May 10. rt became known to-day that Patrick Moore, a flagman at the New Brunswick avenue crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad, found on Wednesday a check for $21,000 which fluttered out of a window of the Long Branch express as it passed through here. The check was drawn on the Merchants' National Bank of Chicago, in favor of Mrs.

Isabella Stewart, but the name of the maker was undecipherable. The check was turned in to the lost property department of the railroad. NOT SEEKING A DIVORCE Al Adams' DaoBhter Denies Inten-. 4 in tn Sne Robert Armita Special to The Inquirer. NEWPORT, R.

May 10 "You may deny the stories that I am at Newport to secure a divorce residence," said Mrs. Robert Lees Armita, daughter of "Al" Adams, the policy King, to-day. "There is positively no truth whatever in the recently published stories that I am seeking a she continued. "I came to Newport because I was told it was a pleasant place to- live in, and having found it so shall remain here some time longer, but ut to secure a divorce residence. r- ALLEGED SLAYER UNDER ARREST Curtis ett Taken From His Bed During the Night by a Sheriff's Posse Prisoner Refuses to Discuss the Tragedy and Vows Vengeance on His Uncle, Who Accuses Him LEXINGTON, Ky May "capture of Curtis JetC cliarged with the assassination B.

Marcum in Jactaon Monday, was accomplished, without blood-a shed early Sunday morning. He in the Clark county jail- at Winchester Bearing a warrant which had been sworn out by Sam Jett, uncle of the accused man, Sheriff Mcfchdrd'and. a posse of seven men left Winchester at midnight on Saturday. Reaching Jackson's Ferry, ten miles distant, at 2.30 they left their buggies and crossed the Kentucky river to Madison county in "canoes. They proceeded on foot to the home of Haggin, Jett's mother, two miles from the ferry.

i. Six of the posse were stationed "around tae dwelline, and Sheriff McChord and Deputy Stokeley approached the front door and knocked. Jett's mother answered, and after some parley admitted that Curtis was within. A Peaceable Surrender They were admitted and found Jett awake, but in bed. He shook hands with the Sheriff and said that he would give no trouble.

Reaching under his pillow, he drew out his pistol and turned it over to his mother to keep. He made no show of resistance and Avas landed in jail at Winchester by daylight. Jett's stepfather, A. Haggin, charges that when Jett reached his house last night from Jackson he proceeded to draw his pistol on him and ordered him to get out of the neighborhood. Haggin went to Richmond and swore out a warrant charging Jett with breach of the peace by assault with a pistol.

In the jail to-day Jett was communicative on all matters save the killing of Marcum. Threatens to Get Square 'Til get out of this all right," was the only statement he would make which could be construed as a reference to the charge. He said he wanted to be tried, in Breathitt county. He was bitter in denouncing his uncle, who had had him arrested, and said that the score would be evened up when he was liberty. When, asked about the statement that five men would testify that he killed Marcum; he sneered and replied: "What's that to you?" To Sheriff McChord he was equally non-communicative as to the Marcum tragedy.

Jett is 2S years of age, athletic in build, with deep set, keen eyes and has bushy red hair. That he submitted to arrest was an agreeable surprise to the officers, who feared an encounter. Jett denied that he drove his stepfather' from home, lie will be arraigned on Tuesday, and it is supposed he will be transferred to the Jackson district for trial. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS Arrived I.a Bretagne New York from Havre. Patria New York from Oporto.

Belgenland Liverpool from Philadelphia. Campania Liverpool from New York. Georgic Liverpool from New York. Sailed Etruria Queenstown for New York. Barbarossa Cherbourg for New Y'ork.

Passing of the Ships Herald's Observation Station. Nantucket Lightship. May 10. (By wireless telegraphy.) At 25 minutes after 2 o'clock this morning was in communication with the Cunard line steamship Umbria. from New Y'ork.

for Liverpool. At 5 minutes to 9 o'clock this- morning was in communication thirty-five miles to the eastward vrith the Atlantic Transport Line steamship' Minneapolis, from New York, for London. At 20 minutes to 3 o'clock this afternoon was in communication fifty miles to the eastward with' the Cunard Line steamship from Liverpool, for NewYoik. Passed at 15 minutes after 5 o'clock this afternoon the Anchor Line steamship Calabria, from Mediterranean ports for New York. Pased at half past 4 o'clock this afternoon the Anchor Line steamship Aachoria," from, llksgow, tot New York.

more damage." HEBREWS HOLD MASS MEETINGS TO AID BRETHERW Stirring Demonstrations in Orthodox. Synagogues Against Recent Atrocities Rabbis Exhort Congregations to Give Moral and Financial Support to Persecuted Coreligionists Orthodox Hebrews in all parts of the city raised their voices yeteiday afternoon in earnest protest against the recent anti-Semitic outrages in Kisheniff, Bessar labia. Three stirring mass meetings Mere held and the rabbis and prominent Ile- brew members of the bar denounced with I dramatic eloquence- the barbarities to which their coreligionists have been subjected, as they pleaded for financial aid to relieve the distress in the prejudice-ridden land. meetings were held at the B'Nai Reuben Synagogue, Sixth and Carpenter streets; Sons of HaJberstram Synagogue, Sixth and Green streets, and the B'Nai Abraham Synagogue, 'Fifth and Lombard streets. The synagogues were crowded with, weeping men and women, who listened-, with horror and indignation to the recital of the atrocities inflicted on their kinsmen and brethren.

The pathetic scenes enacted in' the Kesher Israel Synagogue, Fourth and Lombard streets, last Sunday, when men and women arose in their seats and lamented the loss of parents and sisters and brothers, were repeated with distressing frequency. During the past week many letters have been received from the scene of the massacre by former natives of Kisheniff, living in this city, and some of them were read at yesterday's meetings. The shocking details of the inhuman cruelties inflicted on the innocent Hebre are beyond description. Many of the epistles told entire families of ten and twelve persons who' were destroyed by the fanatical anti-Semites. The letters told of the inability of the Russian military authorities to' cope with the situation in and unless the unforeseen occurs it is likely that a second and more general massacre of the Hebrews may-follow.

Liberal Financial Aid More than has already been sent by the Hebrews of this city to aid their persecuted coreligionists in escaping from the intolerant country. Nearly $120O was subscribed at yesterday's mass meetings and still further funds will probably be secured through the proposed demonstration to be made shortly at the Academy of Music. Arrangements for this meeting wiH be. made to-night at the Zion Institute. 240 Pine street." The first mass meeting was held yesterday afternoon at the B'Nai Reuben Synagogue, Sixth and Carpenter streets.

A. M. Stalberg, president of the ard ofTJi-rettors of the synagogue, acted as. chairman. The speakers were Bei Zion D.

Oliensis, a member of the bar, Rabbi B. L. Levinthal. Nathan Grayev and Rabbi England er. "For three long days," said Mr.

Oliensis, "these unfortunate people, whose sole offense was their steadfast adherence to the faith of their ancestors, were handed over to murder, pillage and lust, and were made the storm-centre of a pandemonium of crime and brutality. Men abandoned their property to sve their lives, and tender Contlnaed on 4th Fage-2il CoI TEAM JOHN K. PETTY. the time, and beyond the curb a group of little girls were playing- ''London bridge is tumbling, on the asphalt pavement. Seeing the danger of the little ones, Petty clung to the horses as though his own life upon it.

He made every effort to stop them. Finally, worn out from his dangerous exertion of being carried by the horses for nearly a square; and having succeeded in subduing the mad speed of the animals, Petty fell exhausted to the ground. The wheels of the carriage passed only a few inches from his head. He received numerous contusions of the head and body. The horses were checked by pedestrians after Mr.

Petty fell, and.no injury done to the children. Mr. Petty's bravery was the talk of Tioga yesterday and many persons called at his house to congratulate him upon his remarkable: exhibition of pluck and escape from death. STRUCK BY TROLLEY I SAVING CHILD Philadelphia Woman Badly Injured in Camden in-Trying to Pull Little Daughter From Tracks In an effort to-save her little girl from being ground beneath the 'wheels of a Camden Gloucester and Woodbury trolley car, at Broadway and Webster street, Camden, last night, Minnie Ziehachs, aged 20 years, of 415 Norris street, Philadelphia, was struck and injured. Mrs.

Ziehachs, with her brother Julius Kirch, had been visiting relatives and they were, returning home. When "they reached Broadway they waited for the trolley car to them" to Kaighn's Point ferry. As the car came along, in charge of Motorman Michael Laggy and Conductor Andrew the little daughter of the woman stood right in its path. Mrs. Ziehachs and" her brother made a frantic grab for the' While Kirch succeeded in pulling the girT out of harm's way, the mother "was struck and rolled along for fifteen feet.

She was found wedged between the truck of the front wheels and the track. Mrs. Ziehachs was taken to the Cooper Hospital. -where it was stated the woman was seriously injured internally and crushed on one side. Student Dies of Typhoid STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

May 10. Foster Ely Brackett, of Washington. Di a senior in. the department of Latin, died to-day of etyphoid fever. Brackett been down with "the fever for more 'than 'three weeks.

J. K. Petty Dragged early a Square Through Tioga by Maddened Horses Lives ot Children Probably Saved by His Heroic Act The remarkable pluck of John K. Petty, of the firm of boiler dealers" of K'. Petty Fourth street, above Race, probably saved many persons, among them being a number of little children, from being run down and killed by a runaway team late Saturday afternoon.

Petty himself was badly injured by his extreme bravery in holding on to the horses' bridles for nearly a square, and was taken to St. Luke's Hospital, but was afterwards removed to his home, where his condition is not regarded as serious. frightened, b1 Engine Mr. Petty's horses were standing in front of his house, at 3325 North Nineteenth street, near the tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, when a shifting engine passing by frightened the animals. They were facing the railroad tracks, and, thoroughly alarmed, made a dash towards the gates, which were down at the time.

No one was in the carriage; but Mr. Petty, who was standing on his porch, made a running leap towards his equine pets, who seemed bent on rushing to their own destruction. He caught one of the beasts by the bridle-rein and succeeded in turning them around, though as they changed their direction they started at once on a wild race up Nineteenth street. Several persons were on the street at RICH MEN'S SONS IT! CHARITY CIRCUS With Shots and Shouts, and Riding and Scalping, Pittsburg Boys Caught Coin for Fresh Air Fund Special to The Inquirer. PITTSBURG, May .10, Buffalo Bill, at the head of a band of rough -riding cowboys, and Sitting Bull, leading a war party of Sioux, Arapahoes and Apaches, held possession of the tennis grounds of D.

Herbert Hostetter's place, on Fifth avenue, yesterday afternoon, and for two hours gave a very creditable imitation of a wild west show. Tt was not really Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull, and the Indians and cowboys were not the real bloodthristy article, but just the same it was a first-class miniature imitation and the combined forces scalped and rode, fought and rescued emigrant trains, carried the United States mails by pony express, and finally burned the settler's cabin to an accompaniment of shots and wild yells, just like grown-up Indians and cowboys do at the shows. was the third annual affair given, by a party of boys of the neighborhood sons of millionaires, some of them, and the proceeds, which amount to about will be turned over to the fresh air fund. Accepts a Chair at Cornell ITHACA. N.

May 10. Announcement was made that Professor T. Hurt, dean of the College of Agriculture of the Ohio Stat. 1 Tnivfviitv Via awri. ed the professorship of agronomy in the! College oi "Agriculture of Cornell Univor- si a Tinre.

"IgS1 Weather. 8 A.M.. 30.31 58 C9 N.K. 10 Clear. 8 P.

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S. Weather Bureau Bulletin. Special to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia. May 10, 8 P.

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