Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Nearly the entire West and Northwest felt the effects of the fierce storm, or series of storms, which swept over those sections on the 15th and 16th inst. The storm was accompanied by a fierce electric display, and in some cases by heavy wind. The rain ponred in torrents. Many deaths from lightning are reported At Newark, Dakota, four persons were killed and one wounded At Mansfield, Dak., the lightning struck the postmaster, injuring him seriously. The house of Peter Strand, near Morris, Minn., was blown down, but all the inmates escaped serious injury, except Mrs. Ole Martinson, , whose thigh was fractured At E.kton, D. T., the depot was unroofed and the Catholic chuch blown from its foundations. ‘At Larimore, D. T., the Presbyterian church was blown down. Some twenty buildings were unroofed at Duluth. Standing grain in the track of the storm was badly beaten down, and that in shock was scattered Lightning did much damage near Moorhead, Minn. Many houses were struck by lightning in Chicago and vicinity. Mrs. John Culver, of that city, was so badly frightened that she died At the first clap of thunder she sprang from her bed and cowered in a corner. Her husband attempted to calm her. At the same moment a terrific triple crash of thunder came, shaking the bouse from top to bottom. Mrs. Culver fell with a scream and went into spasms. She died before her husband could render her any assistance. At Madison, Wis., four incites of rain fell The spire of the Congregational church was badly damaged by lightning. Logansport, ludiana, reports that the storm did fearful damage to the crops in the Wabash valley, eorn being blown flat to the ground on many farma From other parts of the country come reports of the damage done by the wind, rain, and lightning, showing that the storm was generaL One good effect of the storm was the exinguishment of the Wisconsin forest fires. An answer has been filed by the solicitors of Attorney General Garland to the bill recently filed by J. Harris Rogers against Garland, Senator Harris, and others for a settlement of tho affairs of the Pan-Electric Telephone Company. The answer denies every material statement of the bill and calls attention to “the scandalous and impertinent matter” contained therein, which Mr. Garland declines to answer unless directed by the court Tho Attorney General recounts at length his connection with the Pan-Electric Company. R. M. Yardley has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans in the Seventh Pennsylvania District The little city of Ashland, Wis., was startled the other morning by a terrific explosion, which was soon discovered to have been occasioned by the bursting of a boiler in the carpenter shop of Perinier & Webster. The boiler-house was utterly demolished, and five men and boys instantly killed and two wounded. The terrible accident cast a deep gloom over the entire city. The cause of the explosion was lack of water iri the boiler. In an interview at New York, Mr. T. Y. Powderly is reported as saying that the Richmond convention of Knights of Labor will be a democratic assembly in which no anarchists will be tolerated, that the subject of strikes will be considered, that legislation will be enacted to protoct knights from the lockouts and boycotts of employers, and bring industrial people in closer relationship and isolated assemblies under State legislation, and that the insurance and other laws of the order will be revised In speaking of the relations of the order to political parties, Mr. Powderly is reported to have said: The million men who are in the Knights of Labor are to-day studying the science of government. They in turn will be teachers of other millions, and if the parties of to-day do not heed the handwriting on the Wißll and make American laws for the American people the millions so instructed can form a party that will do so. There never will be a political party called the Knights of Labor, but members of the Knights of Labor in such a contingency as I have hinted at may one day co-operate with other thinking men in forming a party that will keep the country straight in the lines marked out for it by the founders of the republic.