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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Lire swept through the plant of the inion Storage ■ Company at Pittsburgh yesterday, completely destroying one warehouse and wrecking another with a loss of 00,000. Twenty live ineii at work in the plant were believed to have escaped, although a number of men were reported missing alter the walls of the destroyed building collapsed. Pupils in the ollara school, a block away, were quickly inarched from In- structure when a quantity of "ii ami brandy in one of I he burning warehouses exploded. German commerce raiders who, n lue-day. ran , the captured British steamer Westburn into the . port of Santa Cms, Canary Islands, dashed out , to sea early yesterday, scuttled the vessel and l escaped in boats, according to dispatches from 1 Santa Cruz. The Westburn reached that port in 1 charge of a German prize crew and carried 208 prisoners taken fi i various vessels captured by a German sea raider believed to be the Micwc. The prisoners were lauded in Santa Cruz.
