On Sunday evening a fire broke out in the city of Liuchow and in Jess than tw hours 300 buildings had been destroyed by the flames. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it broke out in a wine shop on Mihang Street, near the Souch Gate.
This is the wood and lum-} ber district and the buildings, for the most part, are of an inflammable character and the first alarm had scarcely been given before the flames were spreading in all di carry voluntarily joined the fire brigade and carried water from the river and city cisterns.
Water was sold as high as 10 cents a pail, and frightened merchants, money in hand, caught the water carriers and led them to their burning shops or threatened buildings.
It was not until the entire lumber section had been totally destroyed and buildings had been torn down to check the spread of the flames that the fire was at last brought under control.
The day following the fire the city magistrate issued posters offering a reward of $50 for the apprehension of the owner of the wine shop in which the fire started, but it is doubtful if anything will come of this and the proclamation is considered more as a warning to others than tions. A perfect hum of vole es a desire to prosecute the present ne, offender. mingled with the crackling of the flames, as the frightened people The price of lumber has gone up fied from their doomed dwellings; considerably and it will probably or sought refuge in the small boats jhe months before' an adequate anchored along the foreshore.
The surplus stock can be secured to wind fanned the flames, and bur n- Warrant the price dropping to its. ing cinders were caryled far and wide, starting other fires in the joao state. near vicinity. Motor boats along the river lifted their anchors and THE private and public lives of with a motley crowd of smaller; the Emperors of Japan: from the craft started for the other shore.
Fire} Apparares Too Weak, The city firemen responded to the first call and worked energetically to extinguish the flames, but their pumps were not strong enough to check the fire, and the flames spread to other streets. Everyone, me riy women and children, who could earliest recorded days to the present time, which have heretofore been veiled by the curtain of mystery and religious piety, are to be revealed to the people of the Empire and of the world under the proposed plan of the Bureau of Librarians of the Imperial Household Department, says the "Fominri.?
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