Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1883 — Page 2

@ lie Demo cifltirScr.tiiicl RENSSELAER. INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. EASTERN. Plenro-pneumonia has broken out among the cattle at Salem, Ct Two whole herds are attacked by the disease. Both are In quarantine, by order of the State Commissioner, who' appreciates the Importance of preventing a spread of the malady, and having full authority will doubtless prevent its further extension. Potatoes throughout Western New York have been attacked by black rust, and the entire crop ot that region is in peril The Misses Mary Kairns and Mary Budd, each 15 years old, were drowned while boating in Silver Lake, near Rochester, N. Y. The funeral of Judge Jere 8. Black was the largest ever held in York, Pa, and was attended by many men of distinction in law and politics. Gen. Hancock and Chief Justice Mercer were among the pallbearers. A fire at Long Island City destroyed the Empire oil-works and a large amount of petroleum, causing a loss of #500,000 and injury to three workmen. The large papermill of J. H. Lewis, near Chester, Pat, valued at #BO,OOO, was burned. Fourteen persons were drowned at Welfa, a watering-place on the Maine coast. They were bathing hi the surf, and were swept out by the strong undertow. George Beattie, who had been employed by Noremac, the pedestrian, as bartender in a New York saloon, killed Mrs Noremac, in her rooms in Eighth avenue, and then took his own life. He was found lying across her corpse It is believed the deed was committed in revenge for being discharged. The annual great auction sale of cotton goods in New York city was attended by the most important buyers in the country. Sixteen thousand packages were closed out in a few hours at prices said to be unsatisfactory to the mills. The offering, however, as a whole, was considered to lack in attractions, and therefore standard elements, such as tickings and muslins, suffered in sympathy. At Sunbury, Pa., Henry Stein, 45 years old, a tramp who was traveling with a band of Gypsies, was bitten twice by a Newfoundland dog, and died of hydrophobia in the evening of the same day. By the burning of a tenement house in Boston four persons were smothered to death and one fatally injured by jumping, from the building. The steamer Elbe brought to New York a party of German journalists, professors, army officers and members of Parliament They came at the invitation of President Villard, to witness the formal opening of the Northern Pacific road. The postoffice, hotel, a private residence and a block of brick stores were consumed at Mifflintown, Pa., causing a loss of #65,000.

WESTERN.

Eleven of the victims of the cyclone at Rochester, Minn., were burhd at Oakwood Cemetery on Thursday, the 23d of August in the presence of a vast concourse “At an early hour,” says a correspondent, “strangers began to pour in from all directions, and by noon the streets were crowded with a surging mass of humanity. The expression of sadness on every face told more plainly than the fluttering crape or tolling bells the tale of mourning, desolation, and death. A procession was formed in front of the Cook House, and startel for the cemetery. Literally the streets from Broadway to the cemetery gate were jammed with teams. Tfie ceremonies performed were of the simplest character. No dirge was sung, and no sound was heard but the humble prayers and smothered groans of unutterable anguish. The only tributes left upon the close, clinging clay were silent, sea’ding tears. It was by far the saddest funeral that ever occurred in Rochester.”—A Rochester dispatch says the official list of deaths in the city gives the, number at twenty-six, and in the immediate surrounding country ten, making a total of thirty-six; injured, eightytwo. Nine ot the latter will die The effect upon the fields through which the cyclone passed is only describable by saying that the earth was left, and that was all Scores of farmers who ate their suppers with the pleasurable consciousness that wheat and oats were cut and shocked could not And in the morning a vestige of straw even, and those who had not finished cutting met with no better fortune, since the fields reaped by the whirlwind showed not a vestige of vegetation. The track of the storm probably averaged three-fourths of a mile in width, and the length of the course was fully fifty miles, twothirds of which were under cultivation. Corn was stripped to bare stalks, unless, indeed, the stalks, too, disappeared, and the dead domestic animals ore to be counted by the hundreds —George McDonald, who occupied an upper room at the Cook House, ip Rochester, thus describes the approach of the cyclone: “I was standing at the window, watching the approaching storm, with no thought of the fearful consequences which would follow. The sky was a mass of ominous inky clouds, which made the earth as dark as twilight, but was illuminated every few seconds by vivid flashes of lightning shooting from one cloud to another. A strange stillness pervaded the hour—a hush as if there was a sense of impending calamity. To the southwest I saw a black, funnel-shaped cloud approaching, which seemed to ne revolving with great rapidity.. I rushed to shut the window, but before I could reach it there was a horrible crashing, banging, anA creaking—the whole building shook, and the wind rushed with such force as to throw me to the floor. The shock lasted but a few seconds”— A freak of the wind was the driving of a pine board through the trunk of a mapletree. In a field near Dodge Center a herd of twenty cattle was in the track of the

cyclone. Of these nine were killed, and the horns of the eleven others were found sticking in the ground, indicating that the cattle had been caught suddenly by the wind of bed-clothing. One was found dead and the other fatally injured beneath the window. At the triennial conclave in San Francisco, Robert E. Withers, of Virginia, waaulected Gand Master of the Knights Templars of the United States. Charles Roome, of New York, was chosen Deputy Grand Master; JohnP. a Gobin, of Pennsylvania, Grand Generalissimo; Hugh McCurdy, of Michigan, Grand Captain General and J. Larue Thomas, of Kentucky, Grand Senior Warden. The recent reported robbery, of railroad laborers in Michigan was exaggerated. The pillaging party were workmen from another section, who run short of whisky, and limited their depradation to relieving persons they met of any bourbon in their possession. Of the seven arrested, two were discharged, and five were given ninety days in lonia prison. At the County Infirmary at Zanesville, Ohio, two sisters named Littlefield attempted to escape by means of a rope made and thrown to the ground head-foremost, their horns being left in the ground. The Sir Knights gathered at; San Francisco laid the corner-stone of a monument to James A Garfield at Golden Gate Park. The regular season at McVicker’s. Theater, Chicago, commenced on Monday evening, with the brilliant young tragedienne, Miss Margaret Mather. She opened her engagement in the charming character of Juliet, Alexander Salvini personating the role of Romeo. “As You Like It,” “Leah, the Forsaken,” and other plays in which. Miss Mather has achieved her wonderful success, will follow. The supporting company is a strong one, including Milnes Levick, William Davidge and Mrs. Carrie Jamison. The Presidential party arrived in the Upper Geyser basin of the Yellowstone Park on the 25th of August, after a horseback ride of 230 miles, and went into camp near Old Faithful geyser, which treated the excursionists, a few moments after dismounting, with one of its hourly eruptions. The party were in the best of health and spirits. A sensational story is telegraphed from Idaho to the effect that a band of cowboys had gone to the Yellowstone Park to kidnap the President and hold him for a ransom of #500.000; that a Texas desperado was the leader of the gang; that five Indians were employed as guides, and that each member of the band had sworn by all the gods to do his duty. A number of masked men at Pafk City, Utah, stopped a train and forced it to run to Coalville, where they took from jail a man named Jack Murphy and hanged him to a telegraph pole. A frightful tragedy is reported as happening at Ogden, Utah. Andrew Burt, City Marshal, and Charles Wilken, City Watermaster, were both shot by a negro. The Marshal was killed and the Water mas ter slightly wounded. A savage mob took the negro from jai’, hung him, and afterward dragged his corpse through the streets. The officers were in the performance of their duty, attempting the arrest of the desperado, when he did his bloody work. De Molay Commandery, of Louisville, were awarded first prize in the Knight 3 Templar drill at San Francisco. Raper, of Indianapolis, got second position, and St. Bernard, of Chicago, third. St Louis was selected as the plice for the holding of the next triennial conclave.

SOUTHERN.

A train on the Memphis and Little Rock road broke through a trestle near Forest City, Ark., by which three persons were killed and fifteen injured. Representatives of every colony of Cherokees east of the Mississippi met recently in Swain county, North Carolina, and reported a population of 3,000. A chief w.ill soon be elected, and delegates will be sent to Washington to secure $8,000,000 allowed the tribe by a late act of Congress. H. J. Kimball, of Chicago, will rebuild the Kimball House, at Atlanta, at a cost of $500,000. A yellow fever panic prevails at Pensacola, and the people are seeking safety in flight The newest avocation in South Carolina is the destruction of illicit stills for a Government reward of SSO each. It is freely charged that the moonshiners axe in collusion with the raiders in putting up cheap distilleries in remote localities, to be captured and credited. Walter F. Pool, Congressman-elect for the First North Carolina district, died at Elizabeth City, N. C., after a long illness. Ex-Chancellor James P. Carroll, of South Carolina, died at Caesar’s Head, S. C. He was one of the most distinguished jurists of the Palmetto State.

WASHINGTON.

J. B. Gardner, a wealthy citizen of Boston, recently deceased, provided by will that a large sum of money, bonds, and other securities, aggregating in value $931,600, should be turned over to the United States treasury to be used in helping pay the national debt The bequest has been received at the Treasury Department, and placed to the credit of the “Patriotic donations;” The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that bitters sold in good faith as medicine need not pay a special tax as a beverage. One specimen which he caused to be analyzed contained 82 percent of whisky. The enormous sum of $26,000,0000 was paid out for pensions during August Gen./ Crook has written a letter to the War Department, reiterating his views on the .’Apache question. He does not believe the fiends can be exterminated with powder and and ball, but holds that the evil of which they, are capable can be minimized by corraling them at San Carlos.

POLITICAL.

John C. New says the leading Republican candidates for Governor of Indiana are Postmaster General Gresham and Congressman Calkins.

The Democratic State Committee of New York voted to hold the nominating convention at Buffalo, Sept 27. A joint resolution has passed the New Hampshire Legislature favoring a Government postal telegraphic system.

MISCELLANEOUS. Flames swept away an extensive sawmill near Winnipeg, Manitoba, causing a. loss of $300,001 The Mexican Secretary of the Treasury has -called a conference of delegates from the States to discuss the modes of abolishing the Internal Custom Houses and devising a more equitable tax For the first seven months of 1883 the Pennsylvania's lines of railroad earned, over #300,000 more than they did in the same time during 1882. The Eastern division made proportionably the most moneyThe Federation of Trades and Labor Unions, in session at New York last week, resolved" that the question of shortening the hours of labor was paramount to all questions at present, and demanded the enforcement of the eight-hour rule on general and State Government work. Patrick H. McLogan, of Chicago; was elected President A letter received from John Jarrett, President of the Amalgamated A fiß( > c hition of Iron and Steel Workers, stated that the association would not connect itself with the federation on account of the position of the latter on the tariff question, the iron and steel workers being in favor of a high tariff, it was re. solved to answer the letter, stating that the tariff question should be ignored ? entirely on account of the diversity of opinion on the subject among the different trades unions. -s Jack Reilly, who was aocusteippd to drink heavily and then shoot off lamp chimneys with a revolver, was placed in > the calaboose at Stevens Point, Wia, for a brutal assault The other night unknown parties went to the jail and shot him dead. In Wayne county, Tenn., a negro named McLain, uiyier arrest for criminal assault upon a young white woman, was riddled with bullets, and the Sheriff was killed while defending his prisoner In Kaufman county, Texas, two negroes, were lynched for a similar crime. The failures reported for the seven days, ending Aug. 25, throughout the United States and Canada,numbered 165, against 170' for the preceding week. The distribution was as follows: New England States, 23; Middle, 20; Southern, 30; Western, 48; Pacific States and Territories, 21; New York city, 4; Canada, Ift A brisk fall trade is predicted by the mercantile agencies. The American Bar Association held its annual meeting at Saratoga Oortlandt Parker, of New Jersey, was elected President, and C. C. Bonney, of Illinois, one of the Vice Presidenta

FOREIGN.

An unparalleled crime is reported by cable from Breslau, Germany. The wife of a hotel-keeper called her five children to her and carefully washed and dressed them in their best clothe& She then led them to the attic, where six ropes were suspended from a .beam. A rude bench had been placed underneath the improvised gallows-tree. On this she made the children stand while she adjusted the nooses around their necks. After the crazy mother had made all ready she mounted the form herself, fastened the end the sixth rope around her own neck, and kicked the support away. The ghastly sight was first seen by one of the domestics. All were dead. For some time previous the woman had been acting strangely, and was undoubtedly insane at the time she committed the deed. O’Donnell, who killed Informer Carey, will be tried in England. Senator Windom was banqueted in London. Four members of Parliament and Senator Hawley were present Mr. Collings, an English Liberal member, announced in the Commons the other day that at the next session he wduld introduce a resolution granting home-rule to Ireland. Thirty miners were killed by an explosion in a colliery near Cardiff, Wales. The French are in possession of Haiduong, Tonquin, and in the fight for Its capture also took 150 cannon and $50,000 in Anam money. The attack of the North German Gazette on France has caused a commotion in Europe, resulting in a decline of prices in the exchanges of Paris, Vienna and Berlin. The French press says Bismarck is seeking a pretext for war; Austrian journals ask if hostilities are intended; while the English newspapers think that, as a warning to trance, it has been overdone. Count de Chambord has ended his earthly career, retaining consciousness to within a moment of dissolution. He was born in the Tuilleries in 1820, and was baptized with water brought from the Jordan. He recently designated Count de Paris to succeed him as the head of the Royal House of France. Sir Stafford Northcote steps aside as leader of the English Tories. The steamer lonia arrived at Plymouth, England, forty-five days from New Zealand, with 13,000 frozen carcasses of sheep. Something like the Bulgarian atrocities which gave an excuse for the wars of 1876 and 1877 is reported from Turkey once more. Ninety-two Christians have been murdered in one district of Albania. Twenty-three villages have been abandoned. The Turkish officials wink at the slaughter and persecute the Christian priests. The Queen of Ronmania has returned to her father, .and the King seeks the consent of the Pope to an annullment of the marriage Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, has assumed a dictatorial authority in the Congo region. It is reported that he has closed the river to commerce The latest American freak in Paris was that of a lady well-known in society, who appeared at a ball in a costume of white kid fitting like a glove In a collision in the English channel between the French steamer St Germain and the English steamer Woodburn, the latter sank and eighteen of her crew were drowned. At a conferance of Irish members of

Parliament a programme was prepared for the convention of the Irish National League of Great Britain Sept 27. The programing demands self-government for Ireland, and direct representation of the Irish laboring class in Parliament In a speech proroguing Parliament, Queen Victoria recognizes progress in the reorganization of Egypt, whose occupancy is declared to be only temporary; differences with France in regard to Madagascar will be satisfactorily settled, she believes, and there la a marked diminution in agrarian crime in Ireland

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Louis Phillips and Jacob Rosenbrook, two young men residing near Vandalia, HL, got into a difficulty and decided to settle the matter with pistols The duel came off shortly after sunrise and resulted in the death of both combatants. Rosenbrook was killed instantly, and Phillips lingered four hours after being shot But one shot was fired by each belligerent A saloonkeeper of St. Louis, Mo., named Lemp, was acquitted of the charge of vio'ating the Downing Sunday law. Judge Noonan holding that the aot of 1857 overrides the Downing staute. Another climber of the Alps has paid the forfeit ot his folly with his life. This time it is a French nobleman. The Mark Lane Express says the wheat yield of England this year will be the smallest ever known. O’Donnell, the slayer of Carey, has dropped the role of Avenger,' and now ’ claims he shot the informer to save his own life. ' Ufijler''fife auspices. of the press of ; Paris, agtandfete was given in the gardens jof the /Tplferies for-'the benefit of the suffererS in Ischia. The’ receipts were 300,000 frap.cs. > Terrible popular persecutions of the Jews are constantly reported from Russia and Hungary. In the recent riots at Ekaterinoslav, Russia, twenty-eight lives were lost and 346 houses torn down. At Egerszeg, Hungary, a riot lasted three days. Twenty soldiers were killed by the rioters, who resisted the troops with muskets and fought sturdily. Henry Jones, colored, was executed for murder at Raleigh. N. 0. ' At Colquitt, Ga., a negro who had attempted to assault a white lady was killed by a mob, his body being riddled with bullets. Groese & Co.’s bank and Hugo & Schmetzer’s wholesale grocery house at San Antonio, Texas, were burned, resulting in a heavy loss. Ex-Gov. Pease, of Texas, is dead. He emigrated from Connecticut in 1835, served two terms as Governor before the war, and was appointed Provisional Governor by Gen. Sheridan. He was Collector at Galveston two years ago. The police of Philadelphia have closed all the turf pool-rooms. The lady members of the Pennsylvania Board of Charities pronounce the jail at Pittsburgh a chamber of horrors Cattle are being poisoned at the Government quarantine in Boston, their drinking-place being in what was formerly a potato field, and the water is strongly impregnated with parts green. The Wameset S+eam Mills, Parker & Cheney’s bobbin shop, Peabody & Sons’ sash and blind factory, and the Howes planing mill at Lowell, Mass.,were partially consumed by fire. Loss heavy. A fire which started in Finley, Young & Co.’s saw-mill at Williamsport, Pa ,quickly spread, and, entering the lumber-yards, destroyed about 30,030,000 feet of lumber, besides several dwellings and barns. The total loss will reach $500,000. A stock speculator in Chicago, who sat watching the declining quotations on the blackboard the other day, turned to his broker and requested him to ask his New York correspondent, by telegraph, what effect a frost in Minnesota would have upon Chicago and Northwestern. When the dispatch reached New York it was construed as a matter of actual occurrence, and soon found circulation sufficiently to drive Northwestern off a couple of points, whereupon the speculator grew alarmed and sold out at a loss he had himself engineered. In the Pennsylvania House the othei evening, a Democrat named Maokin offered a resolution that all the members of the Legislature resign, and the Speaker declared it carried.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK Beeves $ 4.65 @ 6.75 Hogs 5.00 & 6.00 Flour—-Superfine 4.20 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.09 & 1.09% No. 2 Red 1.17 @ 1.1716 Corn—No. 2 G3l4@ .63% OATB--NO. 2 3612$ Jj7 POBK—Mess 14.25 @14.59 LABD B%@ . 9 CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.00 @ 6.40 Common to Fair 3.C5 @ 4.65 Medium to Fair 4.70 5.55 H0g5..... 4.75 <<h 5.69 Floub—Fancy White Winter Ex. 5.75 @6.00 Good to Choiof Sor’g Ex. 5.00 @5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring" i.oi @ i.oiii No. 2 Red Winter 1.07%@ 1.03 Corn—No. 2 51 @» .51% Oats—No. 2 a. 26J4@ .26% RYE—No. 2 53 @ .5656 BARLEY—No. 2 63 @ .63% Butteb—Choice Creamery 19 @ .2u Eggs—Fresh 16%@ .17 Pobk—Mess 11.90 @12.00 Lard B%@ . 8% MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 1.04 @ 1.04% Cobn—No.2 50%@ .51 Oats—New. 28 @ .28’2 Rye—No. 2 56 @ .5614 Barley—No. 2... 64%@ .65 Pobk—Mess 11.75 @11.87% Lard B%@ . 8% ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.n%& 1.05% Corn—Mixed 40%<«. .46% Oats—No. 2 27%@ .Kfi Rye 54%@ .55 Pork—Mess 12.62%@12.75 Lard 7%@ . 7% CINCINNATL Wheat —Na 2 Red i.07%@ 1-08 CORN 51 %@ .52 Oats 2u @ .21% Rye 59 (ft) .go Pobk—Mess 13.00 @13.25 Lard 8 @ .8% TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.09 @ 1.09% Corn .53%@ ,53>6 Oats—No. 2 jjjtft'-Rn" '" ,atf Flour , 4.00 @ 6.75 Wheat—.xo. 1 White 1.10 @ 1.10% Corn—No. 2 , S3%@ .51 Oats—Mixed. 35 *@ .36 Pobk—Mess., 15.00 @15.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat— No. 2 Rea i.04%@ 1.05 Corn—No. 2 .47M@ .48 * Oats— Mixea .26 @ .26% EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle—Best 5.75 @ 6.51 Fair 4.75 @ 5.50 Common 4.25 @ <SO Hogs 5.45 @ 5.35 Sheep 3.50 & 4.65

RUIN AND DEATH.

Appalling Work of a Cyclone in South* em Minnesota. One-third of Rochester Devastated and Twenty-six Citizens Killed. A Train Overturned and Many of the Passengers Killed. A deadly cyclone swept through Olmsted county, Minn., on the 21stof August, audits path was strewn with wrecks and the bodies of the killed. So terrible was the force of the wind that trains were blown from the track, buildings were destroyed, crops annihilated, and the town of Rochester, the county seat of the county, was wrecked. The loss of life was great, twenty-six people being killed outright at Rochester alone, while many others were injured so badly as to preclude all hope of recovery. The destruction of life and property is nearly if not quite as great as that occasioned at Grinnell, lowa, last spring. The following details of the work of the tornado are gleaned from the telegraphic reports printed m the metropodtampress: Tuesday evening at , 11 o’clock, Rochester was one of the most beautiful cities in the West Ten minutes later its beauty had disappeared, and In parts of the city ruin and desolation reignea. A terrible cj clone visited the city, leaving death and destruction in its track. The day had been beautiful—warm—until evening, when clouds began to gather. The atmosphere was oppressively and hot About 4 o'clock Lt seemed as though it had commenced to clear up But soon heavy black cloudy came from the northwest and rain feu heavily. ‘Directly after 6 o’clock the clouds assumed the greenish appearance that is the forerunner of these terrible visitations, accomjJanied by a rumbling noise, ana In a shore time the wind rose, increasing in violence until the full force of the cyclone was upon us. What was once a weU-populated portion of the city was the scene of ruin. To describe it is impossible. The main course was through the tower part of the town, but its force was felt more or less in all parts of the city, and its freaks were wonderfuL It demolished well-built structures on Broadway, doing no harm to adjacent buildings beyond overturning chimneys and stripping the tin coverings from roofs. One great beauty of the city was its many trees that lined the streets. Of these hundreds were either torn down or broken off, and many streets were rendered impassable by their being filled with trunks or limbs. Some were stripped perfectly bare, even the bark being torn off, and ft will be years before Rochester will recover Its loss. As before stated, that portion of the city north of the railroad called “ Lower Town” received the most damage. Indeed, there is not a house that is not injured, ana not to exceed twenty that are left, standing In some parts. It looks at a distance as though there had, never been a building standing in that portion, while in other lections the ruins of houses show the terrible destructive force of the wind. As soon as the cyclone had passed and the people in the more favored portion of the city began to learn of the damage, they went at once to Lower Town to render what assistance they could, many working all night The dead and wounded were conveyed to Buck’s Hotel, the Winona House, Dr. Layer’s Office and private resldencea While all knew the destruction had been fearful, no Idea of it could be obtained until next morning, when its honors were made known. Commencing at the J. R. Cook House on the Bt Paul road, which was entirely demolished, the cyclone next took Mr. Leland s residence, barn and outbuildings, not leaving a stick standing. Thence it swept through Lower Town. From the appearance of the ground it appears as if a terrific fiood had swept over this section. In many places where residences stood scarcely a Board is left on the premises. The grass is tilled with dirt and sand, as if a muddy Stream had poured over it An organized movement was made to care for the wounded and appeals were made to the larger ■titles for aid, which were answered with liberality. The principal losses in the city, as nearly is have been estimated, are as follows: Court-House unroofed and dome gone, |2,000; High-School building, tower ana part 9f roof gone, $2,000; Methodist Church, roof rone, sides hulked, inside wrecked, $6,00); congregational Church, steeple off, $1,(00; railroad depot unroofed, round-house gone, bridge ruined, and other losses, $15,000; Vanuuzen & Ca, elevator, $10,0(0; H. T. Porton, elevator, $7,000; Harvester Works and machinery, $12,001: I. M Cole’s mill side and roOff off, mill wrecked, and engine blown into the river, $3,000. Crescent creamery, $1,000; Cascade mill $5,000; George Stockburg, store and stock, $3,000; William Beardsley, building, $1,000; A. D. Vedder, machine depot, $2,000ten busmess blocks unroofed, $5,000; 250 houses, with contents; $185,000; 200 houses damaged, $30,000. The total loss is $394,000. The cyclone was first heard of south of Dodge Centre, thence east, striking Olmstead county in Salem township, where Cyrus Hall’s ba>p and part of his house were destroyed. • Baxter Little’s buildings on his farm and Mr. Donovan’s buildings were iwept away and several families injured. Much damage was done to farm property and live stock. The storm then enterea Rochester, taking a northwesterly oourse through the city. Three hundred houses are destroyed, and fully 200 damaged. The Congregational Churchy where thirty-five children had just returned from a picnic, had the spire blown off. No children were hurt Mrs. Helen Beck, of Ashland, Dodge county, was taken up by the storm while in a field and has not been heard from Olson and his wife and daughter, of Canistee, Dodge county, were killed. Mr. Berg was Killed and his farm buildings blown away. A Soung lady visiting Van Franche was fatally ijured. In the town of St Charles the cyclone struck Job Thorington’s farm, destroying the house, crops, and killing Job Thorington and injuring all the family. Farm property was much injured in Utica and in the southern part of Wabasha county. A terrible accident occurred between Rochester and Zumbrota, on the Rochester and Northern division of the Chicago and Northwestern road, by which about 1(0 people were killed and wounded. On account of the interruption of the teleShic service at Rochester no information d be obtained till the arrival of a train from the scene of the disaster with thirtyfive people who had been wounded in the accident 'Of this number many seemed to be seriously hurt, and all were taken to the hospital. The train running at a great speed was lifted from the rails and dashed to pieces. A gentlemap who has been to the scene of the* disaster describes it'as one of the most horrifying character. Every car on the train was almost Immediately shattered to pieces by the sudden stop caused by the train leaving the rails, together with the forces of the storm, burying the unfortunate -passengers beneath the debris, killing many and injuring nearly every person aboard the train. The gentleman stated that nine dead bodies had been taken from the ruins, and a large number of those seriously injured were removed to Rochester and Owatonna A passenger on the Northwestern railroad, who reached Rochester a few minutes after the fatal cyclone had accomplished its fearful work, describes the scene as being sickening in its horrora The entire north part of the place from the Chicago and Northwestern track was a confused mass of debris Scarcely a house was standing, and' the few which were had been moved from their foundations and shattered as by an earthquake. The affrignted survivors were at work rescuing the injured and recovering the bodies of the dead. Before midnight twenty-three corpses lay in a hotel to which they had been re-

moved. They were pitiable figures—some of them crushed and mangled out of resemblance to the human form. Nearly all were injured about the head, and the begrimed faces appeared to have been dragged in the earth by the whirlwind. Forty wounded, many of them seriously, had been removed to undestroyed dwellings. It was thought at least tweniy bodies jet remained in the ruins. The portion of the city swept by the cyclone comprised about a third or its extent, including several stores and generally the poorer dwellings. The storm appeared to have formed about eighteen miles northwest of Rochester, and, gathering violence »s it progressed, destroyed several farm-houses in its course. * A lowering, dun-colored funnel-cloud was seen approaching the fated town, and in a few moments the slaughter had been accomplished. No time was given for any preparation had it teen possible. Tbe scene among the devastated district, and the place where the dead lay, was indescribably sad. Mothers wildly searched for their children, while little homeless waifs were found whom the tempest had orphaned. One child was the only survivor of a family of seven. The passengers on this train were not aware that a frightful cyclone had passed near them until their attention was directed to feather beds and articles of wearing apparel lodged against the barbed-wire fences which indicated something of a blow. The wheat and other straw which was blown from the stacks was twisted abput the rails in large quantities, presenting a singular appearance where the death-dealing funnel crossed the track. The fatal black cloud swept toward St Charles, five miles southeast cutting a wide swath through the timber and the farms, wrecking buildings in the country, and touching the skirts of the little hamlet with fatal effect, leaving two corpses and three fatally maimed. One of the dead men Whs found in a tree-top, his body apparently having been taken limb from limb by the mere force of the wind while being drawn up and carried along in the terrible funnel The Stevens family, consisting of four persons, saw tire approaching storfh-cloud and hastily wept into a huge tank cistern bur- * ied In the ground, ana which fortunately contained no water. Their house was torn, to pieces and wholly carried away over their heads Not a vestige of their house remained, but their lives were spared.

A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.

A French Aeronaut Dragged to the Clouds at the End of a Rope. a. [Cablegram from Paris.] At Rpyan, on the Gironde, M. Gratien, a well-known aeronaut was about to make an ascent in a hot-air balloon called La Vidouvillaise last Friday. Mdlla Albertine, the heroine of several balloon ascensions, was seated in the car, and M. Gratien was holding in his right hand a loose coil tied to one of the cords that served to attachfthe balloon. The air-ship unexpectedly broke loose, and the cord, unrolling itself with lightning rapidity, caught in a sort of running knot around the first and second, fingers of Gratien's right hand. The aeronaut was immediately whisked off into the air COO meters high. In vain he tried tohaul himself up on the cord and loop ft over his arm. After frantic efforts he became exhausted, and hung at‘the end of tho cord suspended solely by his two fingers, and suffering excruciating agony. Owing to the jerking of the balloon the cord cut like a razor through the flesh to the bone. In that situation Gratien was carried to the distance of nearly four miles at the height of 660 meters above the earth. Mdlla Albertine. overcome by the horror of the situation, fainted away and sank helpless to the bottom of the car. As the air in. the balloon became cool it descended, but bumped against the earth in the midst of n dense mass of thorny shrubbery. Gratien. was not only stripped of his clothes, but his skin was literally torn in strips Irom his body as he was dragged for nearly half a. mile through the thorny brambles. Some peasants finally managed to cut the cord. Gratien appeared to be a mass of wounds, and to be near bleeding to death. Strangeto say, he did not lose consciousness for a single instant He suffered no internal injury, and although his condition is critical, he will probably recover. When the rope was cut and the balloon was freed from the weight of Gratien's body, it again arose in the air carrying off Mdlie. Albertine. - By singular good fortune it soon landed in a marsh, and the lady at last stood on terra firma. She was sorely distressed in mind and badly scared, but otherwise safe and sound.

WONDERFUL THINGS.

IN Bedford county, Va, there stands a. chestnut tree that Is twenty-seven feet around. In Jefferson county, Mo., a parsnip fiftyinches long and fifteen inches in circumference was grown. At the Tokay Vineyard, near Fayetteville, N. C., is a vine 25 years old which has bore over 103 bushels of grapea The Arctic raspberry is one of the smallest plants known. - A six-ounce vial will hold the whole plant, branches, leaves and all A watebmelon vine grown by the Beams Brothers, of Harris county, Ga, is 1,700 feet long, ana it has produced 400 pounds of melons. A jjaboe farm near Stockton, CaL, hasbeen completely cleaned of its crops by millions of little birds no larger than a man’s thumb. The famous Bidwell Bar brange tree, in California, Is twenty-five feet tall, and itstrunk is forty-five Inches in circumference. It bore last year 2,075 orangea In a garden at Bowling Green, Ky.,isa bush that bears a large deep red rose, with, two perfect small roses in the center which, are minature copies of the big one. The largest apple ever grown in America came from Nebraska, and weighed twentynine and a half ounces The Smithsonian Institution has a model of this apple. Another Blind Tom has come to astonish, and plague the American public. A colored boy, 0 years old, at Borne, Ga., is said toplay the piano like an educated performer. On the table-lands of Southwestern Arizona, at altitudes of 8,000 to 12,000 feet, a species of wild potato grows which is said to be superior m taste and flavor to the bestcultivated potatoes. John H. Parnell’s peach orchard at WestPoint, Ga, is the largest in the world. The trees are planted upon different slopes, so that when all are bearing a crop is certain in one place or another every year. There are 25,000 trees. A cave on the Colorado river, over one mile in length and in some places thirty feet in width, is attracting considerable attention at Lampasas, Texas This cave is about sixteen miles from town, and has two small streams running through it, which are about two feet deep. At Jonesville. Ind., Henry Prather went to an old, unused pump, ana while drinking from the spout, felt something go down his. throat. He soon turned deathly sick, and vomited up a small water-snake, four or five inches In length, after which the young man recovered. The snake came out alive and unhurt J. L Bkaslt, of Santa Rosa, CaL, has a hen with a progressive turn of mind. She has scratched around and laid for her master a pair of eggs of entirely new design. One egg contains the yelk, tqe other the white. Both are joined together T»y a ligamentous membrane, something after the style of the Siamese twins. A genuine whipsnake, six feet long, attacked D. B. Taylor, of Charlotte, Va.. and tried to jump into his wagon. With every jump it would crack its tail like a whip and with such force as to make the horses prance. Mr. Taylor finally succeeded in knocking it senseless, and one of his sons cut off its head- After the head was out ©fl it snapped at the boy.