Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1884 — Page 2

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. A bill for the relief of the Jeannette survivors passed the Senate on the 2d lost. A memorial was presented from William Webster, an American citizen, asked to be secured in the owner, ship of A half million acres of land in New Zealand bought irom native chiefs before the British took possession, A bill was reported for ascertaining the expense incurred by Idaho' Territory in suppressing the Bannock and Nez Perce outbreaks. Bills were introduced to regulate the letting of mail contracts in Alaska, and to make gold and silver certificates legal tender. Mr. Coke argued against the education biU. Generals Grant and Beale were tendered the courtesy of the floor. In the House of Representatives, bills were favorably reported for the naturalization of the descendants of aliens who served honorably in the army; authorizing the service of processes of Federal courts within the limits of Indian reservations; to provide for the inspection of live stock, hog products, and dressed meats; to forfeit the Marquette and Ontonagon land grant; to prohibit contracts for the labor of Federal prisoners, and to pay Government employes wages withheld in violation of the eight-tiour law. The bill to redeem the trade dollars was passed, by 180 to 46, after the erasure of the fourth section, which provided that they should be counted in the compulsory coinage. The special committee appointed to investigate the charges made by ex-Speaker Keifer against H. V. Boynton teported that they were not sustained by the evidence. The Senate held its usual debate on the educational bill on the 2d inst. No legislative work worthy of record was accomplished. In the House a memorial from bondholders of the Northern Pacific road was presented, praying to be heard before the Public Lands Committee in regard to the proposed forfeiture. A recess of fifteen minutes was taken to receive Gen. Grant, who leaned on a crutch at the clerk's desk and was introduced to members by Speaker Carlisle. A message from the President was received, recommending an appropriation of SIOO,OOO for the protection of levees on the lower Mississippi. A joint resolution of the Legislature ol lowa, asking immediate steps to recover unearned portions of railroad land grants, wat presented In the Senate on the 3d Inst, by Mr, Wilson. A petition was received from 8,000 citizens of the Western States, asking for a pension of at least $8 in money for each honorably discharged soldier and sailor of the late war. Favorable reports were made on bills to erect a Sublic building at Sacramento and to authore the bridging of the Cumberland at Nashville and the Missouri at White Cloud. The Library Committee was instructed to inquire into the expediency of purchasing from the Lewis family the sword worn by Washington when he resigned his commission. When the education bill came up, Mr. Pendleton opposed it. Mr. Beck made a political speech, Mr. Williams advocated the measure, and Messrs. Hoar and Harrison outlined amendments which they propose to introduce. The House of Representatives adopted a joint resolution authorizing the loan of flags and bunting for the fair at Richmond in aid of disabled Confederate veterans. The Secretary of the Interior was authorized to inquire into the massacre of Dr. Marcus Whitmore and others in Oregon in 1847. Forty-six pages of the Indian appropriation bill were disposed of. A bill to authorize the appointment of a commission by the President to run and mark the boundary lines between a portion of Indian Territory and Texas was reported to the Senate on the 4th inst. Mr. Logan presented a petition from the Chicago Board of Trade against the further coinage of silver dollars. Mr. Lapham intoduced a bill to authorize the reappointment and retirement of disabled officers honorably discharged from the regular army. Mr. Jonas submitted a joint resolution making an appropriation of SIOO,OOO for the protection of levees on the lower Mississippi. Speeches on the education bill were made by Messrs. Bavard, Gibson, and Morgan. Mr- Butler gave notice of an amendment that the money required shall be raised by a direct annual tax on the States. In the House a bill was reported to provide for the adjustment of Congressional land grants within the borders of Kansas. The Indian appropriation bill was passed. An evening session was held for the consideration of pension bills. Bills were reported to the Senate, on the Sth inM., for the erection of public buildings at Dayton and Springfield, Ohio. Bills were passed making it a felony to pretend to be an officer or employe of the Government, and to 'authorize the construction of a railroad bridge across the St. Croix River. After some debate on the education bill, an amendment by Mr. Logan, appropriating $15,000,000 the first year and $20,000,000 the third year, was defeated. Another amendment to set aside $2,000,000 to aid in building school-houses in sparsely populated parts was lost. 'An amendment was agreed to that the fund should be distributed regardless of race or color. Mr. Hoar then proposed an amendment to commence with $7,000,000 per annum Ind give $15,000,000 the third year. The House of Representatives passed the agricultural appropriation bill, with an amendment increasing by $25,000 the appropriation for the distribution of seeds and plants. Amendments by the Senate to the House bill making it a felony to personate a government officer or employe were concurred in. The question of forfeiting the Oregon Central land grant was debated for some time, without action.

EASTERN.

Trichmiasis carried off Mrs. Galle and daughter at Loyal Hanna, Pa., and Mr. Galle and another daughter are not expected to recover. Seven Austro-Polanders looking for wprk were struck by a backing eugine at Pa. Five were killed, one lost an arm, and one is unhurt. They were dismembered, and heads and limbs scattered over the road for many rods around. At Northeast, N. Y., Edward House, while firing at a mark, shot his wife dead. Mrs. a maniac, murdered her 16-year-old daughter, near Forestport, N.Y. • A bloody tragedy was enacted at a prize fight near Hyndman, Pa. Two Hungarian bruisers, Vest and Kilraine, entered the ring and fought fifty-eight rounds, pounding each other to a jelly. During the fifth-eighth Kilraine struck a blow which laid Vest out. There were cries of “Foul! foul 1 ” when the referee and umpires jumped in and drew their guns. A horrible riot followed. The results of the whole affair, collected when it was over, were Vest dead, another man shot dead through the body, three others apparently dead, and half of. the rest of the crowd badly used up. Ben Hogan, the ex-prize-fighter, was present exhorting the crowd to “flee from the wrath to come.”

WESTERN.

Frank Elliott, a negro who assaulted a white girl in York County, North Carolina, was taken to Rock Hill for examination. The citizens overpowered the Sheriff’s posse aid lynched the offender. Edwin McCullough, a negro murderer, was hanged by a mob at Dallas, N. C. Buffalo gnats are killing mules in Western Mississippi. Deer are Seeing to the the high lands of Arkansas to escape the pests. At the close of the year the Western Kansas Stock-raisers’ Association, recently, in convention at Dodge City, had a membership of ninety-five, who owned 350,000 head of cattle, valued at >10,000,000. A passehger train on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad jumped the track at Belleville, IIL, throwing the caches down a

twelve-foot enbankment. Both coaches were filled with passengers, twenty-five of whom were injured, some quite serioualy. A babe was killed. Cincinnati dispatches of the 3d inst. inform the world that the barricades about the Court House had been removed; that the 17th Regiment was still guarding the jail, while "the gallant sth" was at Music Hall; and that it had been ascertained that the casualties in the three days* fighting numbered 45 killed and 138 wounded. The feeling of ill-will against the militia was wearing off. A good deal of discussion was going on touch, ing the question as to who gave the first orders to fire on the mob, and the general drift was that Sheriff Hawkins would have to shoulder the responsibility. At Columbus, Gov. Hoadly suggested to the Legislature that it offer a reward for the arrest of the murderer of Capt. Desmond, and that an appropriation for the relief of Desmond’s mother be made. A bill was also -introduced that citizens may recover from the State damages for property destroyed during riots. A committee of fifty citizens of Lincoln, 111., appointed at the mass meeting held there last month to express indignation at the acquittal of Orrin Carpenter, tried for the murder of Zora Burns, went in a body to the residence of Carpenter, last week, to present him with a copy of the resolutions, among -wfcich was "that we demand of the said Carpenter that he leave Logan County without necessary delay.” The Chairman advanced to the door and presented the paper inclosed in an envelope, which Carpenter refused to receive, and it was laid on the floor at his feet, and in response to which he said; "I do not recognize your authority to pass or to present to me.any such resolutions, and I refuse to accept them. I have lived a law-abiding citizen in this county for the last thirty years, and don’t know more about the killing of that girl than you do. I shall use my own judgment and discretion as to my futuro course. I thank you all for your friendly visit.” The committee then retired. The farm-house of Carl Schultz, near Tawas, Michigan, was visited by three masked men, who battered down the front door with a fence-rail. They secured nearly $3,000 in German gold coin, and brutally assaulted the family. As the latter fled toward a neighbor’s the villains fired upon them, killing a son of Mr. Schultz. The tug Peter Smith exploded her boiler off Vermillion, on Lake Erie, killing John Perew and John Cado, engineers, and Capt. Smith, of the schooner Sherman, who was on a pleasure trip. Five boys, from 9 to 13 years of age, crossing the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day. ton Railway track, near Cincinnati, in a onehorse wagon, were struck by a train and thred of them killed. The other two were so badly injured that their recovery is deBpairedpf.

SOUTHERN.

* ——— George Lee, colored, for assaulting a 4-y ear-old child, was hanged by a mob at Magnolia, Miss. • Capt. W. N. Robinson, Democratic candidate for Congress in the Eighth Alabama District, killed himself at Scottsboro by driving a pen-knife into his breast. The steamer Rebecca Everingham burned to the water’s edge in the Chattahoochee River at Fitzgeralds Landing, Ga. Thirteen persons lost their lives, and of the passengers who escaped in their night clothes, many were severely burned. The boat, valued at $24,000, Isa total loss; 807 bales of cotton and other freight were conumed. Forest fires are doing vast damage among the plantation sand pine trees in the Carolinas. The flames extend over six countis in-each State. A Texas Pacific train was wrecked near Cisco, Texas, the baggage car and three coaches tumbling down an embankment. Seven persons were killed and many injured. Forest fires have broken out in various sections of North and South Carolina through the attempts of the farmers to clear the planting grounds by burning the “brush.” The fires have spread with alarming rapidity. Hundreds of farmhouses and outbuildings have been destroyed. Berkley and Chesterfield Counties have suffered severely. The schooner Shoters, which left Key West a few days ago in a mysterious manner, has returned to that port. The pilot in charge states that when the vessel was clear of the harbor Aquero, a Cuban chief, with drawn pistol, forced him to take a party of filibusters to the Cuban coast, landthem near Cardenas.

WASHINGTON.

The following is the regular monthly statement of the public debt, issued on the Ist inst.: X interest-bearing debt— Four and one-half per cents $ 250,000,000 Four per cents 737.643,950 Three per cents 254,808,650 Refunding certificates 305.400 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt 11,256,758,000 Matured debt...,. $ 14,048,915 Debt bearing no interest — Legal-tender notes. 846,739.541 Certificates of deposit 15,475,000 Gold and silver certificates 24d.644.561 Fractional currency 6,984,317 Total without interest I 589,843,419 Total debt (principal) 11,860,645,334 Total interest... 11,492,685 Total cash in treasury.... 402,875,210 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,469,262,809 Decrease during March 14,238,324 Decrease of debt since June 80, 188 X 81,828,398 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid $ 1,469,339 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 14,043,915 Interest thereon Gold and silver certificates 220,644,561 U. 8. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 15,475,000 Casn balance available 150,915,315 T0ta1......... $ 402,875,210 Available assets— Cash in treasury $ 402.875,210 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable by United States— Prindnal outstanding | 64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid. 969,352 Interest paid by United States 61,160,798 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service. .1 17,966,821 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United States • 6?,538.778 Before the Springer committee at Washington, George Bliss testified that his charge as counsel in the star-route cases was >Sfi,53S, of which >48,442 was for expenses. A 10-year-old boy, ’who killed a farmer by hitting him with a stone, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Washington, and

was sentenced to the Reform School for eleven years. The House Committee on Post-Roads adopted a resolution declaring it inexpedient for the Government either to construct a postal telegraph or purchase any existing line.

POLITICAL.

Of 100 business men who are Republicans who were interviewed at Cedar Rapids, lowa, 90 per cent, favor Blaine for President ar d Lincoln tor Vice President. Gov. Bourne, Republican, has been re-elected Governor of Rhode Island. The Republicans have 18 majority in the Senate and 32 in the House. The statement is again made upon the authority of Oliver Payne, that his father, Senator-elect from Ohio, will under no circumstances consent to be a candidate for the Presidency. Judge Field, of the Supreme Court, writes from Washington to ex-Gov. Johnson, of California, that he is not and does not wish to be considered a Presidential candidate. The lowa Legislature adjourned sine die on the 2d inst. * The municipal election in Chicago resulted in the success of the Democratic ticket. A very light vote was polled. The new City Council will stand 21 Democrats to 15 Republicans. Mr. George A. Pillsbury, the Republican and high license candidate for Mayor of Minneapolis, was elected over Ames, Democrat, the present incumbent, by an estimated majority of 3,000. The municipal election in Springfield, 111., resulted in a triumph for the Republican candidates for Aidermen, who made the canvass on a uniform SSOO saloon license issue. Emil Wallber, Republican, was elected Mayor of Milwaukee, the Democrats carrying all the other offices. Charles H. Parker, high license, was chosen Mayor of Beloit by 233 majority. The Democrats swept Madison, Wls., selecting B. J. Stevens Mayor, and secured most of the officers of Janesville and Watertown. H. D. Davis, People’s candidate, was elected Mayor of Eau Claire, and A. J. Webster, Democrat, Mayor of Menasha. The Democrats carried Racine, La Crosse, Chippewa Falls, Oshkosh, Appleton, and Prairie du Chien, and the Republican ticket were triumphant at Waukesha and Portage. At Leavenworth, Kan., the Democratic municipal ticket was elected by about two to one. The Minnesota State Democratic Convention will meet at St. Paul May 29. The Ohio Legislature has passed a bill providing for graded saloon licenses. According to this measure all retail liquor dealers have to pay a license fee of SIOO. For saloons on which the sales are over $3,000 2% per cent. Is to be levied on the surplusage in addition, and when the sales exceed SII,OOO the tax is 5 per cent. Senator John F. Miller telegraphs the Republican State Committee at San Francisco, declining to be a candidate at the Chicago convention. A test vote at a Republican primary at New Philadelphia, Ohio, gave Blaine 215 votes for President, Lincoln 21, Logan 4, and Arthur 2.

MISCELLANEOUS. The failures in the United States for the week were 148. Geo. W. Clay & Co., notion dealers, of. Pittsburgh, have suspended payment, with liabilities of $22,1)00. C. N. Holst, a private banker at New Holstein, Wis., who offered 8 per cent, for deposits, has reached the end of his rope, owing $20,000 to working people. The steamer Daniel Steinman, from Antwerp, carrying a crew of thirty-four men and ninety passengers, was wrecked off Sambro, NS. The captain and five of the crew are the only survivors—llß persons perishing. A cable dispatch from Rome announces that Archbishop Ryan, of St. Louis, has been appointed to the vacant Archbishopric of Philadelphia, which is considered an important ecclesiastical promotion. The Neptune reached St. John’s, N. F., with the greatest catch of seals on record —4l,soo—worth $125,000. The record of failing traders through the United States for the first quarter of 1884, as compiled by Bradstreet’s, is very long. The aggregate of annual failures in 1883 was in excess of the total of any preceding year since 1878, when special causes conspired to put an end to the shaky and insolvent concerns. In the first quarter of 1883 the number of business' failures was 3,189, or 31 per cent, of the total for that ' year. The total number of f allures for the first quarter of 1884 being 3,320, this points to a record of over 10,400 business deaths within the current year. The total number of failures in the various geographical divisions having liabilities of SIOO,OOO and over during the quarter ending March 31 was: Total Total No. assets, liabilities. New England.,. 2 $ 175,000 $ 348,000 Middle2o 1,820,273 4,241,536 Southern 8 672,000 1,364,477 Westernl4 2,007,000 3,576,516 Pacific. 3 1,236,215 1,459,862 Total 47 $5,910,488 $10,993,391 Burned: The machine shops of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, at Memphis, Tenn., $100,000; a pigeon-house at Mel.rose, Mass., $10,000; a Methodist Church at Fergus Falls, Minn., $10,000; several stores at Steele, Dakota, $20,000; a hardware store. at Grand Rapids, Mich., $25,000; a schoolhouse at Appleton, Wis., $10,000; a tannery at Milford, N. H., $40,000; paper mill at Niagara Falls, $40,000; a wool warehouse at Toronto, $90,000, a block of buildings at Portland, ye., $25,000; a business block at Medina, N. Y., $20,000; several stores at Calais, Me.. $20,000; a business block at Sherman, Texas, $15,000; a hotel and store at Milltown, N. 8., $15,000; a manufactory at Sterling, 111., $10,000; a flour mill at Jerseyville, 111., $15,000; a railway depot at Rock Hill, N. C., $40,000; a tile manufactory at Pekin, 111., $10,000; a flouring mill at Horseheads, N. Y., $20,000; the Michigan Saw Works, at East Saginaw, Michigan, $100,000; a saw mill at Muscatine, la., $50,000; seven business houses and a dwelling at Perrysville, Ind., 20,000.

FOREIGN.

The British Government claims to have unearthed a plot by Irish Invinolbles to blow up Mountjoy Prison. Letters found in a cell showed that the wardens were to be bribed to place an infernal machine in the prison, and that a noted conspirator was to be thrown over a balcony qnd killed. Michael Davitt has written a letter to Mr. William O’Brien, one of Mr. Parnell’s

Parliamentary lieutenants, protesting against the nomination for Parliamentary seats of Irish residents of England, whom Mr. Davitt describes as "carpet-baggers" and political adventurers. He claims that men like himself who are trying to keep the National cause "to the front” are being made political scapegoats, and protests against too much political dictation. He asks that the people be given a chance. Jem Ward, a veteran pugilist, died the other day in London. He retired from 'the ring in 1830, after which he developed considerable talent in painting and music.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The funeral of Minister Hunt was held in Washington last week. Chief Justice Waite, Admiral Porter, and ex-Secretary Blaine officiated as pall-bearers. Prospects for the wheat crop in England are good, but trade is slow. Nubar Pasha has withdrawn his resignation of the Presidency of the Egyptian Ministry until the English Government gives a decision in regard to the relative powers of the Egyptian Ministers and English officials. Crow-King, the Sioux chief, died at the Standing Rock Agency last week. He was the first of the hostiles to surrender after the Custer massacre. Judd? Crouch and Dan Holcomb, the alleged murderers of the Crouch family, were admitted to bail at Jackson, Mich., in the sum of $20,000 each. The people did not receive the decision with favor. The Executive Committee of the Gould and Wabash systems has ordered a reduction of 10 per cent, in all salaries of SIOO per month and over. The Canadians express alarm over the magnitude of the emigration to the United States. A party of 325 left one parish, last week, 200 of them to remain permanently. City of Mexico (April *8) telegram: "All the stores in this country are closed today, even including the liquor saloons. A deep feeling of anxiety prevails. There may be a riot, but hardly a revolution, for the merchants have only refused to pay the stamp tax.”

The municipal election in Cincinnati was one of the most quiet held for years, and resulted in the election of the Democratic ticket by about 2,000 majority, in a very light vote. The Republicans elected their municipal ticket in Cleveland by about 2,000 majority. The Columbus and Toledo elections were carried by the Republicans, while Steubenville and Newark were captured by the Democrats. At Muskegon, Mich., the Demo-cratic-Workingmen’s ticket was triumphant. The Democrats also carried Jackson, Ypsilanti, Niles, Port Huron, Hillsdale, Charlotte, Adrian, and Benton Harbor, while the Republicans were successful at St. Joseph, Big Rapids, Battle Creek, East Saginaw, Saginaw City, Howland, and Kalamazoo. At Lansing, the capital of Milligan, the Republicans elected the Mayor, while the Democrats elected the Clerk and Treasurer, and gained four Aidermen. The Democrats carried the day at the municipial elections In Keokuk and Dubuque, lowa. A well-informed politician who holds office under the present administration writes to a friend in Chicago from the Western Re. serve of Ohio that Blaine and Lincoln are the choice of nine-tenths of the Republicans of that region. Logan is preferred to Arthur.

The Senate took up the education bill for the final struggle on the 7th inst., Mr. Voorhees making the closing speech in its favor. Amendments by Mr. Hoar were agreed to, that the amount to be distributed shall be $7,000,000 the first year, $10,000,000 the second, and 15,000,000 the third, then diminishing s2,ooo,ooi)yearly, and that all children have an equal opportunity for education. An amendment bv Mr. Sherman was carried, that the money shall be used only for common schools not sectarian in character. The bill was then passed. The House of Representatives passed a joint resolution giving court reports and sets of the Revised Statutes to the Cincinnati Law Library. Resolutions were offered calling for information regarding the threatened confiscation of the American College in Italy, and authorizing the President to fill the vacancy in the International Prison Commission. Bills were introduced to incorporate the Cherokee and Arkansas River and the Montana and Idaho Railroad Companies. On suspension of the rules, a resolution was adopted making bills for the erection of public buildings a continuing special order for April A motion by Mr. Converse to suspend the rules and pass the bill restoring the duty of 1869 on wool was debated for half an hour by Messrs. McKinley, Morrison, Hurd, and Converse, and was defeated by 119 to 126. A resolution declaring it unwise to reduce the tax on whisky was adm’ed bv 179 to 33. It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety except that of duty.— Nevins.

THE MARKET.

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SWEPT AWAY.

Two Black Clouds Meet Over the Village of Oakville, Jnd., and Demolish the Town. The Cyclone’s Awful Work in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Tennessee. Meet people living in the Northwest will recall the fact that Monday, the 2d of April, was one of the darkest days of the year. Dense clouds obscured the son to such an extant as to render artificial light necessary in Marly all houses. The remark was a common one that it was a good day for cyclones, and so it proved. Many sections of the country were visited by fierce storms that swept away houses and killed many people. The worst of these elemental outbreaks appears to have directed its fury against the little town of Oakville, Delaware County, Ind A correspondent thus describes the min wrought by the windy monster: Its path was about half a mile wide and distance ten miles, presenting a scene of ruin and wreck seldom seen. The cloud came from the northwest, and was of funnel shape and of a greenish color. The center of its destructive track is Oakvilla, a small village on the Fort Wiyne Cincinnati <fr Louisville Road. It is, or was, a place of 125 inhabitants and of forty or fifty buildings, net more than five of which are now standing Indeed, the entire town, but yesterday busy and prosperous, is to-day a mass of confused debris. Houses and all buildings are destroyed beyond repair. The place <is absolutely wiped from the face of the earth. Five persons were killed outright, namely: Mrs. Anna Dearmond, a widow, aged about 55 years; Colwell C. Johnson; a small child belonging to the above; C. Brown’s infant about a year old; Susie Himes, aged 16, daughter of a widowed mother. Two others received fatal injuries. Turner Johnson and Jefferson Hoover. The following were wounded: Nancy Myers, 60 years of age, arm broken and badly bruised; John Hoffman, badly bruised; Mrs. Hoffman, wife of the above, severe wounds; Mrs. Brown, seriously hurt about the head; Jeff Miller, hip dislocated; Mrs. Miller, wife es the above, bad body bruises; Fred Coldscott, of Shelbyville, stopping over night, three ribs broken; Widow Himes, cut on the shoulder; L. J. Holtzinger, bruised and cut; Lemmie Myers, 13, arm broken.

Brown’s little child was found dead about twenty-five yards from the house, while that of C. C. Johnson was whirled through the air a distance of 150 yards, and dropped in a wheatfield, where the body was found two hours after the storm had passed. Miss Himes was alsa found some distance from her demolished home wita almost every particle of clothing stripped from her body by the force of the wind. Mrs. Dearmond was found dead under her fallen house. About a dozen others were injured slightly, but those mentioned sustained most serious wounds and bruises. Among the houses smashed was that of Johnny Sullivan, in which were himself, wife, and sit children, the youngest a babe 2 weeks old. Most miraculously none of the family were injured in the least. The babe was found in a bed covered with debris, but unscratched. The two clouds met at the house of Louis Cochran, two miles south of Oakville, and entirely demolished it in a second's time, and carried the ’ heaviest timbers over a quarter of a mile from the foundation, while some of the planks of the house were found at a distance of two miles and p half. Two bovs riding in a wagon were caught in the wind, the wagon tuxaed over, and the horses ran away. A flying piece of timber struck one of the boys, inflicting a severe scalp-wound, rendering him unconscious. The other boy was also seriously injured by the wagon turning over on him. At Luray, a small town two miles east of Oakville, Will Lines, with his family, was seated in the house when the storm struck and completely wrecked it, killing Lines, but the seven other members of the family escaped without harm. Four miles west James banders, a merchant from Middletown, wealthy and highly respected, had gone to his farm to instruct his tenant, and while in the bouse of the latter it was torn to pieces and Banders killed instantly. In the same vicinity W. F. Fainter, while at work on a farm, was caught by the cyclone and lifted high in the air and thrown to the ground and killed. About the same hour that Oakville, Ind., and the surrounding country was being devastated, a destructive tornado, accompanied by rain and hail, was sweeping with great force over the region adjacent to Greenville, Ohio. Many houses were blown down, one or two people killed, a number maimed, and a great deal of valuable farm property damaged. The village of Jaysville, near Grenville, suffered severely, every house in the town being more or lees injured, and several gersons receiving serious wounds. At Troy and asstown the destruction was also great, houses in both towns going down before the blast. Whole orchards were destroyed, and in some instances stately trees were carried away a distance of several hundred yards. The loss sustained is very great. At Dublin, a large number of houses and barns were blown down. The Christian church of that place was demolished. At Plain City, a number of large buildings were wrecked and scattered promiscuously. A carriage factory was demolished and the cemetery laid waste.

A cyclone swept through the Monongahela Valley, at Pittsburg, leveling fences, wrenching signs from their fastenings, and demolishing several houses. Five persons received fatal injuries, and many others were more or less seriously wounded, by falling buildings. About the time these tornadoes were doing their awful work in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, a series of cyclones were tearing through the Sunny South, leaving death and desolation in their track. A dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn., reports: Much of the country is miles from a railroad, and only meager details can be learned, but enough is known to characterize it as the most destructive storm that has prevailed in this country in years. The storm commenced in the neighborhood of Collinsville, Ala., and passed in a northeasterly direction. Sweeping up Wills Valley and then crossing Lookout Mountain, it passed off into North Georgia, and near Tilton left the.,earth. The width was less than 300 yards, but its force was terrific. Tne ■wind seemed to be formed in numberless whirlwinds, each whirling within itself, with a roar like thunder, and it moved over the earth with lightning-like rapidity. Trees were uprooted and whirled hundreds pf feet, and the path followed by the storm was cleared as wheat before the scythe. The swath was precise and well defined, and the strip it made is a scene of ruin and desolation. Many people are known to have been killed. The house of the Hon. Clayton Tatum, of Dade County, Ga., brother of the State Senator, was demolished. He received fatal injuries. His child was instantly killed, and his wife has both legs broken. The house of Jahn Crowley, in the same vicinity, was also demolished and the entire family killed. A lady and her daughter at Collinsville, Ala., were killed. It is reported that the cyclone swept along the crest of Sand Mountain, Georgia, before it reached the valley, and every house in its path was whirled like corks upon the sea, and many lives are reported lost. The storm crossed the Alabama Great Southern Railway nbar Sulphur Springs. Immense trees were torn up by. their roots and thrown across the tracks. Another arm of the storm passed to the noritewest and did great damage in Madison Countv, Alabama, in the vicinity of Huntsville. The house of William White was swept away and his wife and his mother- in-law, Mrs. Conner, were instantly ki-led. When it struck the residence of James Glover he was sitting indoors with a little child on each knee. The house was blown over and several timbers struck him in the back, causing instant death, but both children escaped unhurt. In another family a little child was caught up by the furious wind and carried several hundred yards. Storms prevailed the same, night at several other points in North Georgia and in East Tennessee. Houses were unroofed, fencing blown down, and general destruction marked its path. The total amount of damage or the entire loss of life will never be ascertained, Imt hundreds of thousands were destroyed and scores met their death. It was the fourth destructive cyclone attended with fatal consequences that has prevailed in that section this year. A dispatch from Columbia. 8. C., reports that the town of Timmonsville, on the Wilmington, Columbia & f ugusta Railroad, has been completely wrecked by the gale, and that many of the inhabitants are kilted and injured.

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Every year gome 55,000 reproductions of the Venus of Milo are made in marble plaster, terracotta, etc., and sold in Europe. Beecher says that he considers it a fortunate day when he escapes being interviewed by at least half a dozen newspaper reporters. A fond St. Louis mother has sued the owner of a pond for the loss of one of her sons, who went skating on it before the ice was ripe. There are intimations of a cut in price* among watering-place hotels.

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Particulars Regarding the Loss of the Steamship Daniel Steinmann. One Hundred and Twenty-nine Persons Find a Watery Grave. ■The steamship Daniel Steinmann Antwerp March 20 for Halifax and New York, with a general cargo. She carried a crew of thirty-eight men, and had ninety-eight passengers on board. The vessel made a good passage until she approached what is known as Mad Rock Shoal, near the entrance to Halifax harbor. A terrible gale and a dense fog prevailed. The ehip was being tossed about like a cork by the enormous: sea, when she struck upon the rocks. She immediately backed off, and the next moment struck upon anothershoal. Two immense holes were knocked iq her bottom. The doomed steamer immediately filled with water, and in a lew minutes went, down, only the top sail-yard being left above water. Dispatches irom Halifax, N. S„ give the lollowing details of the awful catastrophe: Ninety-one passengers, thirty-three sailors, and five officers were lost on the Daniel Steinmapn. The agent of the White Crossline yesterday reached the island, where the captain and eight other survivorswere. From the captain the story of the wreck was obtained. It appears in the two days prior to the disasterthe weather had been so foggy that he could get no reckonings. About 1C o’clock Thursday night he saw a light, which seemed aboutfive miles away, owing* to the tog, and which he thought was Cherbucto light. As he approached he saw that he was almost in Sambro. Before he could give any orders, the steamer struck twice and began sinking. He tried to run her ashore, but she down. As soon as she struck he ordered the passengers on deck, but they were swept overboard and drowned by the heavy seas. Two passengers and five of the crew managed to get out a boat and reach the shore. The ship settled stern first. The captain, who was at his post, threw off his boots and coat and took to the forward rigging. She sank 1 aster than he could climb, and he let go of the rigging. Finally he managed to get to the topgallant yard, where he clung with one of the passengers till 5 o'clock Friday morning, when they Were rescued by a boat from theisland. The captain declared that the first shock was light but the second heavy, and that the steering gear was lost then. He did not hear any fog signal during the whole of the time. After the second shock the steamer drifted over the rocks and anchored. There was little sea and the captain ordered the mates to lower the boats. Just then a monstroussea broke over the poop, washing overboard every passenger on the deck. Then.came an awful crash, and the ship went down like aflash.

Three surviving passengers of the Daniel Steinmann have arrived in this city. They say the vessel struck but lightly, twice. Thecaptain then summoned all on deck and directed them to prepare to enter the boats, if such would be necessary. One boat was launched and all made a rush for it, though, good discipline was maintained among the ship’s crew. The boat was well filled and attached to the steamer by a rope. When some of those on board were about cutting the line the steamer suddenly sunk, dragging the boat and its occupants down with it. The boat turned over and over, and every person in it was thrown out and drowned. When the iStern of the vessel sank the cries and screams of women and children were heartrending for a few minutes. Capt. Schoonhoven made his way up the forerigging. JTwo men caught the rigging of the jmainmast and endeavored to climb along the stay between the beads of the twomasts. In this perilous passage one lost his grip and was washed away. The other, John Neidermann, succeeded in reaching the forerigging by a desperate dfiort, in the course of which his legs were seized by some one drowning. Above him on the mast, qne bf the wire uplifts on the foretopgallant yard, was broken, and this gave play to the yard, which worked back and forth with the action pf the waves and threatened to tear out the mast, which quivered and crashed alarmingly. The captain fearing he would be obliged toabandon his dangerous position and swim, pulled off his boots. The two unfortunatesirom time to time, cried out together for help, but the roar of the wind and water drowned their feeblp voices, so that, even if assistance had been at hand, it is doubtful if they could have been heard. They were doomed to painfully watch the passing minutes and hours throughout the night till daybreak, jn this dismal watch they Icould feel the vessel drifting nearer and jnearer to Sambro Island. To add to the horror of their situation, they saw blue lights burning on shore, and signals to guide the boats to safety, while conscious they were beyond assistance or relief. Soon after daylight a boat put out from the cove, manned by five men, who approached them. The captain was by this time so benumbed that his companion, Nelderman, had to use force •to disengage him from the spar and assist him into the boat. He then followed, and both were landed and taken into the lighthouse.

Among the curious incidents connected with the escape of the seven persons landed in a boat during the night, one of the most thrilling was that of an Italian, he having grasped the boat just after she left the steamer. Her occupants refused to take him in because a number of other drowning persons had seized his legs and body, and it was certain the boat could not take them all without swamping, as she was already half full of water. The Italian at once dived and thus shook off those holding to him. He toon reappeared at the surface and again caught the boat. He was then taken in, but was so exhausted that for a time he was helpless. The boat was in danger of foundering, owing to the water that was -constantly coming in, and those in her took off their boots to bail her out. The Italian at first refused to assist in this work, but on being threatened with being thrown overboard again unless he assisted to keep the boat free, he made an effort to do so. Another singular escape was that of Nickola, a lad aged 19 years. Just as the boat left the sinking steamer, he jumped from the bridge, falling into the boat on his head. He sustained no injury except having- one leg bruised. The youngest person on board, so far as known, was an infant 3 months old. Amon g those drowned was a young couple, married just before the Steinmann sailed, and who had experienced only eighteen days of wedded life. Several large families perished altogether. One was a Swiss family—father, mother, and eight children. Another was a family from Holland of about the same size. Reports from the wreck up to this evening' say the vessel remains in the same position. The water was comparatively smooth today, and a large number of boats were grappling for the bodies. Three only were secured today, making eleven in all so far found. The first body recovered was that of a little girl 6 years old, one of whose eyes had been almost torn out. All the bodies were so terribly mutilated they could not be recognized. The faces are smashed in, the eyes torn out, and the remains otherwise disfigured. Three schooners with a diving crew go to work tomorrow if the weather is favorable.

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A Bostonese family has trained a cat to eat baked beans. Robins with mushrooms is the latest dish in Florida hotels. The 1-cent copper coin has gone into circulation at Seattle, W. T. * At a baby show in Massachusetts, a brighteyed colored baby gained the prize. The Savannah, Ga., Cotton Exchange does a business of >36,000,000 annually. A Saratoga County, New York, man set a steel trap for skunks and caught an eagle.