Chicago, March 10. From evidence
cojlented it is believed that the dent
raeUon by fire Thursday night of
tho Second Presbyterian church and
the burning n few weeks ago of the
Trln! tj Methodist church were the
work of un incendiary crank- Doth
fires started in the organ loft, where
It was almost impossible to reach tlu
flames. Rev. W. E. McClellan, pastor
of Trinity church, received a postal
card bearing tho following message:
"God docs not caro any more for
churches tliun he docs for barns, or
ho would not let them burn up." An
ell'ort will be made to find the writer.
Charged V.lli 1'oIhohIiib.
Columbia, S. C, March 10. A sensation
has been caused hero by tho
renrrest of Mrs. Hello Graddick, a
handsome young woman, on the
onarge of poisoning her husband
who died February 10. The coroner's
Jury nt tho time of Mr. Graddlck's
death had the wife and a young man
named EldriJge Dawuins arrested,
hut the two were released subsc cni
v on ft technlcaluv.
The above illustration shows one of tho
mammoth buildings occupied by the great
Mail Order Douse of the John M. Smyth
Company of Chicago.
For one-third of a century this Company
has been in business. Heginnini? in n small
way tlicy supplied their neighbors in the
towns, each year widcninslhcir
Beld. They arc now selling merchandise direct
to the consumer at wholesale pricea
throughout the United States.
Some years ago they began supplying
Iheir customers with an illustrated catalogue.
As the business expanded they
were obliged to increase the size, of this
catalogue, until to-day it exceeds 1,000 illustrated
pages, quoting the lowest wholesale
prices on everything to Eat, Wear and Use.
