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THIS week a Brooklyn grand jury brought in indictments for arson against Perkins and Connelly, two tough citizens, who are accused of having started half a dozen fires in that city in one night. There is, therefore, some chance that they may be punished. The wires also bring tidings from Homer, L.a, of the lynching of one Wooten, who had confessed to burning a dwelling house. It is now about time that the New York authorities secured a conviction or two—for a novel change.
如果我们可以相信德国杂志s brick and terra-cotta are no longer to stand alone as the best fire-resisting building materials. A new hotel, which has just been put up at Hamburg, is described as being built entirely of blocks of compressed wood as hard as iron and by subjection to certain chemical processes rendered absolutely proof against both fire and the attacks of insects. If the claims of the inventor are well founded, he is clearly wasting time in the Fatherland and should come over to us with his invention without delay and reap the reward of his labors. A process for making wood fireproof is just one of those things which American builders have been hankering after for some decades past.
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