Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A cyclone which wrought great devastation swept over sections of Wisconsin and Illinois on the evening of May 1& The greatest damage was inflicted upon the city of Racine, Wis. The storm struck the northwestern portion of the town, destroying about one hundred and fifty houses and fifty barns, killing twenty people or more and causing serious injury to about one hundred persons, many of whom will not recover. • A correspondent, •describing the onset of the terrible visitant says: “The day was ushered in bright and. cool, with a fresh wind blowing from the southwest. During the afternoon the temperature was about 80 degrees, and about 6 o’clock, when heavy masses of clouds, which gathered in the west, portended a storm, the air was oppressively warm. The cyclone was announced by a breaking of the clouds, which took on a whirling motion, and struck the ear-h with a noise which might be compared with the roar and rumbling of a thousand railroad tra’ns thundering over a bridge. The path of the storm is a little over half a .mile long, and perhaps a quarter of a mile wide. In this territory here and there’ a building is left standing. Ail, brick and frame alike, sollapsed, and their sites are marked only by * heaps of formless debris. Many occupants -of the houses escaped by seeking the cellars and other placed of comparative safety, but the cycldne came with such lightning quickness that many were killed before reaching the cellars. In only a few oases were houses moved from their foundations. Those in the center of the storm center simply exploded and fell in ruins where they had - stood. Some nearer the circumference were turned around, and some light articles, such as wagons, were swept into the lake. The cyclone as it moved from the city out upon the waters of Lake Michigan presented a grand spectacle, such as is seen but once in a lifetime The whirling columns of air seemed monster wreaths of smoke, as they whirled over the watery expanse. All the physicians of the city responded nobly to the calls for assistance, and did what they could to alleviate the sufferings of the wounded, who were at once conveyed to St Luke's and St Mary’s Hospital The dead were tdken, some to the houses _offriends and some to the Court House.

Seventeen gamblers and lottery-deal-ers pleaded guilty in the Court of General Sessions at New York and were sentenced to imprisonment for from ten to thirty days and to pay fines ranging in amount from $1 to SIOO. A battle between the Haytian troops and the rebels under Barzalene was fought at Miragoane, the loyal army being defeated with great slaughter. Two Haytian ships th .t endeavored to assist the land force were sunk by Barzalene’s guns. Barzalene was a latest accounts advancing on Port-au-Prince. • Daniel Curley was the second of the Phoenix Park assassins to pay the penalty of the crirfie, his execution taking place in the Dubiin jail oh the 18th or May.- Curley made no confession, receiving the sacraments of the church, and dying -with fortitude. Davit t and Healy utter their protests against the Pope’s circular, the former saying it is prejudiced and unjust, and the latter stating that -Ireland, will neither take its,religion from Rome.” In aq, examination at St. Petersburg an •officer stated that many officers in. the Guards belonged to a Evolutionary club, which, hotyever, had no connection with the terrorists. This confession led to a nttmher of arrests apd’almost decided the Czar to postpone hl's coronation. The shoeing ,ofthe free canals in New York. is. cfeaxances of 216,109 tons the first week, against 147,194 tons for the corresponding. week in 1882. e