FLAMES DAMAGE HOUSE AND BARN 

The residence of George T. Weaver on Maple avenue in the village was badly damaged by a fire Wednesday afternoon. Sparks from the burning building were carried to one of the barns on the James. E. Kirk property, opposite the Weaver residence, setting fire to it, and before the flames were discovered they had gained considerable headway. 

The fire in the Weaver house was discovered about 1:30 o’clock by neighbors, who saw flames coming from the roof. Within a few minutes the eastern half of the roof was burning. Mrs. Weaver was home alone at the time, and being slightly deaf, she did not hear the crackling of the flames. Her first intimation that anything was wrong was when neighbors alarmed her. 

A large crowd began gathering immediately after the fire alarm was sounded, and soon several hundred persons had congregated. The Altamont Hose company was on the scene in less than five minutes, and in a short time had two streams playing on the flames. More than fifty men and women worked like beavers in removing the contents of the building to a place of safety, and practically all furniture, including bedding, carpets, rugs, dishes, pictures, etc., was removed without the slightest damage. 

Hardly had the flames subsided and the crowd begun to disperse when a shout arose that a barn on the property of the late James E. Kirk was afire. No one was home at the Kirk residence, and the flames in the barn were extinguished before they could spread to the adjoining buildings. 

CALLANAN’S CORNERS. 

Mr. and Mrs. George Wisenburn, sr. and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wisenburn, jr. had a very serious accident on Thursday evening as they were returning from Cobleskill. The car was operated by George, jr. The accident took place in Berne by the Becker Bros. mill. They took the wrong road and after turning around to correct the error, the car slid from the road down an embankment and into the mill. Had they gone but two feet to one side they would have been instantly killed by going down a bank of forty feet into deep water. George, jr. was rendered unconscious but none were seriously hurt. There was no railing along the road to prevent the accident. 

Not In a Mood for Clemency. 

Considerable pressure, political, congressional and otherwise, is steadily made upon officials of the Judge Advocate General’s office on behalf of men who have violated some section of the Selective Draft law or ignored its provisions altogether. Since the ending of the war the opinion has prevailed that those who transgressed the law would be let down easily, but the recommendations on individual cases made by the Judge Advocate General’s office to the Department of Justice shows that clemency is not the rule; if anything, the determination to bring men to book is stronger now than it was during the war.