Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — STORM-SWEPT KANSAS. [ARTICLE]

STORM-SWEPT KANSAS.

ANOTHER DISASTROUS AND FATAL CYCLONE. Methodists In Conclave at Omaha A lengthy Address—Bad Wreck on the Panhandle—Anti-Option Bill Delayed— Wichita’s Sensation. Congressional. In the Senate, the 3d. Mr. Morgan called tip the message on the subject of an International conference as to silver coinage. Nr. Kyle then proceeded to address the Senate In favor of the free coinage of silver. At the close of his speech the message was •gain laid on the t itle, Mr. Morgan giving notice that he desired to speak upon it The conference report on the exclusion bill Was then laid before the Senate and agreed to. The House bill placing binding twine on the free list was laid before the Senate and referred to the Finance Committee. But little routine business was done In the House in the morning, and shortly after the reading of the journal the Hous? went into committee of the whole, with Mr. Oates, of Alabama, in the chair, on the diplomatic •nd consular appropriation bill. Mr. Blount. of Georgia, lu charge of the bill, moved to strike out the appropriation of *65 ,000 to continue the preliminary survey for an intercontinental railway; agreed to. Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, demanded • separate vote on the amendment'striking out the $65,000 appropriation for the InterContinental Railway Commission. It was •greed to The bill then passed. The Senate amendments to the army appropriation bill were non-concurred in, and a conference was ordered.

. INCITED TO MURDER. Anarchists Mowbray and Nicholls Indicted at London. A London grand jury brought in true bills against Mowbray, publisher, and Nicholls, editor, of the anarchist newspaper, the Commonweal, seized last week by the police. The charges against them are based on articles in the Commonweal, inciting to the murder of Mr. Matthews, Home Secretary, and Sir Henry Hawkina Justice of the Queen’s Bench. The suppression ot the paper at the time it was effected was most fortunate, as it prevented the issue of a dangerously inflammatory number which was to have been Circulated on May Day, anl revealed its connection with the Walsall anarchists and threw further light on their doings. It in fact, completely broke up the conspiracy of the anarchists so that they were ab’.e to make no show whatever last Snn-iay. Of the men indicted an example is sought to be made which will put a final extinguisher on a species of plotting so foreign and •verse to the spirit of the" British people'.

giffiSAS §Y CYCLONES, VhreePeople Killed jfcar Topeka and the Lynn Creek Valley Devastat'd, The most terrible and destructive storm that ever occurred in that section devastated the Lynn Creek Valley, southeast of Topeka, Monday night A cyclone swept up the Lynn Valley, destroying everything that came In its path. A territory eight miles long and varying in width from half • mile to a mile suffered a total destruction of everything, 'two persons were kilted outright, and over one hundred were more or less injured. Three or four cannot lie. Many others may die. Houses were blown down, and in many instances were torn to pieces •nd scattered over areas of half a mile in diameter. Trees were torn up by the roots •nd stone walls leveled to the earth. At Moline one was killed and several badly hurt Hundreds of cattle and horses perished. In Oklahoma, also, two fatalities •re reported.

PAN HANDLE WRECK. < Passenger Train Crashes Into a Freight —Several Persons Injured. ** A bad wreik occurred on the Pan Handle Ballroad one mile west ot Scio. Ohio. The second section ot No. 2. east-bound passenger. while going at the rate of fifty-five miles an hour, crashed Into No. 85 westbound extra freight. The fireman and engineer of the freight Jumped for their lives. The passenger engine was in charge of Bobert Buchanan, engineer, and William Odlom. fireman. Both stuck Jo their posts, and Buchanan was seriously Injured InterBally. The passengers in the forward coach of the passenger train were badly shaken up and a number were injured, none fatally. Setback for Hatch. Washington dispat-h: Mr. Hatch has received another setback. He expected to have his anti-option bill disposed of this week, but there is now not the slightest probability of its coming up, and not much likelihood for next week. “You see j„ he said, “it has been decided to fellow the consideration of the consular and diplomatic bill, which now has the floor, with the river and harbor blit and when that is disposed of. the sundry civil bill win bo taken up. All this may take a fortnight; anyway there is no show for try antioption bill before the latter part of next week." Conference at Omaha. The twenty-fourth quadrennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was called to order at Boyd's Opera House, Omaha, by Bishop Bowman, and Dr. S. Monroe was elected permanent Secretary. The entire morning session was devoted to a discussion of the proposition to seat the lay delegates apart from the clerical The apiscopal address contained 76,000 words, or fifty columns of matter set in small type. Bishop Foster, who read It, is slow and deliberate in speech and as his voice Is not very Strong It required nearly a halfday to de liver it.

Poker-Rooms Closed at Wichita. No rattling chips nor cry of “ante up” bus been heard for several days In the poker-rooms of Wichita, Kan., and nobody seems to know how long a holiday the “perfesh” will be allowed The present fight on the gamblers Is led by Postmaster E. B, Jewett, who made a written complaint to the Board of Police Commissioners. Several months ago about 8300/ of postal funds were embezzled, ani the embez-.ler was found to be addicted to poker. President Cable to Resign. At Denver. It is stated on excellent authority that President Cable, of the Bock Island, will soon resign and that Mr. Tisdale will be his successor. Mr. Cable will remain in the directory. He has accumulate 1 quite a fortune and desires to take the remainder of life easier. Jumped the Track. A car on the San Francisco and San Mateo Bailroad, a new electee motor line, jumped the track tn the outskirts of San Francisco and was overturned. The car was filled with passengers and thirteen were more or Injured. Shot for Taking a Kiss. George Doyle went to the residence of Sari Dudding. a farmer,’ near Anderson. Isd. Mrs. Dudding was sitting on the >areh beside her husband. Doyle coolly Maaed bee. The busband drew bis revolver awd fired three times, shooting Doyle through the right elbow, thigh and right Doyle will die. *■ fiay. Sho Doesn’t Love Him. Tnsktinrr*. Ga.. comes to the front with fibe aMWt peculiar divorce suit on record. <Sbw fifiafialK la Hamilton A Bee, aged 87, ■MI MM defendant bis wife. Sarah, aged 81 MsaMai tbtaka Sarah doesn't love him as

BTATEOF TRADE. Gaining Slowly but Surely Improving tn AU Sections of the Country. The following la R. G. Dun & Ca’s weekly review of trade: More favorable weather in many parta of the country during the past week has brought better reports of business. Undoubtedly distribution has been much retarded by the backward season and the condition of the country roads, and in some quarters collections have been slow on that account, but this week the Improvement in such quarters has been general, and meanwhile the volume of business continues to surpass all previous records. Gaining but little, and yet gaining at least over last year, and falling behind only about 1 per cent, at the South in the aggregate, notwithstanding the great depression in the price of cotton, the volume of trade has been over 10 per cent greater than in any other year at the West, though on the Pacific slope some decrease appears That collections are on the whole satisfactory the condition of the money markets and reports from other cities clearly show. In aUparts of the country the supply of money is abundant, but the demand is not especially active.

DEEMING IS GUILTY. The Rainhill Murderer Sentenced to the Death Penalty. At Melbourne, Australia, Deeming’s trial for the'murder of his last wife, formerly Miss Mather, of Rainhill, ended in a verdict of guilty and the imposing of lhe death sentence on the prisoner. The attorneys for the defense devoted all their energies to attempting to ] rove that Deeming was insane. Deeming and his counsel encouraged the Idea that be was the Whitechapel fiend, in ordqr to sustain the theory of uncontrollable homicidal mania. During the early days of his imprisonment Deeming was defiant, and even- affected to laugh at the charges against him. and boasted ot the libel suits he would bring against the English and Australian papers after his acquittal, but after the coroner’s jury found him guilty of the Windsor murder he was very much changed, showed signs of breaking down, and finally confessed the crime for which he has been sentenced to die.

FATAL LOVE BETWEEN WOMEN. The Near Departure of One Leads to the Suicide of Another. A strange case of love between women is reported from Altamont, Tenn. Miss Katie Tipton. of that city, sent a bullet crashing through her breast, and it Is thought she will not recover. April IT Miss Lula B. Sanders and J. D. Meeks were married at Beersheba Springs, and since then Mrs. Meeks has been boarding next door to Miss Tipton's home. Their love for each other was remarkable. They would write each other letters every day. and finally a letter was written to Miss Tipton by Mrs. Meeks informing Miss Tipton that she would soon have to leave her. This letter was a reply to one she received from Miss Tipton In which the latter declared she could not live without her and that It was either Mrs. Meeks or death. Before shooting herself Miss Tipton wrote another letter saying she could not live without Mrs. Meeks, ■er--;".— - BRAVE DEED OF A POLICEMAN. Ho Receives the Fail of a Fire Ladder to Save Others and Will Die. A New York policeman’s heroic attempt ’’to save a number of lives was the feature of an otherwise umlmportant fire at the Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church. An extension scaling ladder toppled over into the midst of the crowd, which scattered right and left, except one policeman in citizens’ clothes. He tried to break Its fall. The heavy ladder, weighing over half a ton. broke his arms and. striking striking him a fearful blow upon his head, felled him to the ground. Surgeons said he couldn't live.

ALTGELD IS CHOSEN. Nominated for Illinois* Governor Upon the First Ballot. Judge John P. Altgeld was chosen by the Illinois State Democratic Convention upon the first ballot to make the race for Governor. The whole ticket is as follows: Governor John P. Altgeld Lieutenant Governor Joseph B. Gill Secretary of State William H. Hinrichscn Auditor of State David Gore Treasurer Rufus N. Ramsay Attorney GeneralMauries T. colony , ( J. E. Armstrong Trustees State University....-) I. 8 Raymond I N. B. Morrison Six of Them Are Dead. The destruction of the Grand Central Theater, In Philadelphia, by fire proves to have'been far more terrible In Its results than was anticipated. Six members of the “Devil’s Auction” company lie dead .beneath the walls of the building, aud nearly three score people are In the hospitals suffering from burns. Of the men and boys In hospital seven are In such serious condition that their recovery is doubtful. All were members of the audience. Besides those who were seriously enough hurt to remain in the hospitals, fully fifty others were treated for minor Injuries. Damaged by a Heavy Storm. A terrible wind and rain storm swept over Holt, Nodaway and Atehlnson Counties in Missouri and the southern tier of lowa counties Sunday. The damage done will reach many thousands of dollars, and loss of life is reported In the vicinity of Fairfax, Mo. The Creston branch of the Burlington was washed out for a distance Of a mile and a half south of Conway. The water rose nine inches In an -hour. Destined for the Western States. The steamship Karlsruhe arrived Thursday from Bremen. She brings 2,295 immigrants. nearly 90 per cent of whom are destined for Western States.