Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — Page 3

In sheep's Clothing.

BY Caplormond Steele

CHAPTER XV. STRANQE HUMORS FROM NEW FORE. In obedience to Capt. Denham’s last •ordeis, as well as in anticipation of being soon ordered to sea, Lieutenant Hedges, now in command, set all the crew to work, painting and tarring and greasing, so that the Sea Hawk looked like a huge floating hive, about which a great number of strange bees were working with restless industry. Squire Condit was not a seaman; he couldn’t tell the difference between the martingale and pennant halyards, but, as Balph Denham’s adopted father, he felt that a great responsibility had been imposed on him by that young gentleman’s absence. He rowed ou*—or, rather, had himself rowed, for he went “catching crabs,” as falling backward is called, whenever he got an oar in his hands—several times a day; and he Would climb up to the deck, and stand with his feet' apart and onp eye shut, and his face upturned to the men aloft, in a way that was highly amusing. Every man on board knew and liked the squire, and all doffed their caps to him when they came near; and he, in charming ignorance of naval forms, would shake hands with them, call them by their. Christian names, and present his snuff-box to their paint-stained and grimy fingers. .As the prospective father-in-law of Second Lieutenant Valentine Dayton, the squire felt it incumbent on him to encourage that young gentleman to greater industry. Valentine, as was his right, made it a point to visit Ellen every evening, and at such times the squire would exclaim, with the surprise he assumed when saluting an old toper, who had been brought before him for the twentieth time, for reprimand or fine. “What! you here, Valentine?” “Here again, squire,” would be the cheery reply. “And you are quite sure everything is shipshape and quite snug, sir, aboard the Sea Hawk?”

“Yes, squire, everything right as a trivet ” “Sure you’ve forgot nothing that ought to be attended to?” “Quite sure, squire.” “Because if you have, you know, it is not too late to go aboard, sir, and fix up. Though Balph Den—l mean Captain Denham is off to New York, 1 know he is forever thinking about the ship, and how she’s ” “Oh, she’s well, squire, and I’ll bet she’s thinking about him as hard as she can ” “Why, you young rascal, I am speaking about the ship.” “And I’m speaking about Cousin Lea.” “Oh, indeed;” and then the Squire would go off and draw his wife to one side, and chuckle, as he whispered to her: “My dear, I fear our future son-in-law is addicted .to levity, and inclined to make light of life, ..which, as the dominie tells us, is a-solemn thing, and not at ail to be laughed at." Squire Condit knew Valentine Dayton, ever since that young gentleman, without any volition of his own, appeared in the village church for baptism. He knew Valentine Dayton’s father and mother-before they were married, and he often boasted that he could have cut the former out if And he would give many reasons, the principal ones being that he was a warm iriend of the senior Dffyton, and was himself in love with another girl at the time. If Doctor Hedges had known Balph Denham’s father and mother he would not have dreamt of refusing him his daughter; on the contrary, he would have placed their hands together aad repeated something like the thieadbare formula, “Bless you my ohildren. ” If he had known Balph Denham’s father and mother, even if they were not so good a stock as his own—and he flattered himself, as every other man of good standing in Sag Harbor did,, that his own family was just a “little” bit better than any onu else’s —why. he would have offered no objections. As a man who firmly believed the days of miracles had passed for some centuries, and he knew nothing about the doctrine of “spontaneous generation,” and wouldn’t have believed it if he had—he was fully aware that Balph Denham, like every other man of his acquaintance, had a father and a mother. As the tree is known by its fruit, he might have reasoned that s ßalph was a scion of good stock; but the mischief about prejudice is that it does not reason.

So the more he thought it over, and the more he discussed the matter with good Mrs. Hedges, who was not at all averse to Ralph, the more settled became his conviction that Lea should not marry the young Captain. With this determination firmly fixed in his mind it follows, as night does the day, that, from warmly liking Ralph Denham, Doctor Hedges gradually grew to dislike him, and with positive natures dislike is very near ty> hate. . The Doctor went about with his eyes open, and during taptain Fox’s stay the attention to, and the evideht preference of that gentleman for his daughter, did not escape his notice, and in his heart he favored the • suit of the Wanderer’s captain. He did not know Fox’s father, but Fox was a man of wealth, a captain In the regular navy, and, without doubt, connected with or a member of one of the great aristocratic families of England, in all of whose veins—lt was at Shis time claimed—the blood of royalty dowed. .. “You are my only child. Lea,” said the Doctor one day to his daughter, when the question uppermost in both their minds was being discussed. “I live only for you, and it is due that you should respect my judgment and obey me.'" “Have I ever disobeyed you, my father?” asked Lea, quietly—so quietly and firmly, indeed, that the Doctor would have been better pleased had she shown some excitement. “Not until of late," stammered the Doctor. “And wherein has been the disobedience of late?” *You persist in loving, -against my will, Ralph Donham, about whose origin I know nothing.” “And-about which I care nothing, with all due respect for you. And again, let me say,»that we do not love or cease to love in obedience to any one’s will, not even our own. I would be false to myself and a hypocrite to you if I promised not to love this man. * “Then you give no thought to his ancestors?”

“No; if they were all living since the flood, I am sure there is not one of them I could love as I do Balph, or would care to marry.” “You are talking nonsense," said the Doctor, getting angry as men usually do when they persist in a debate In which they,are being worsted. “Did you • not tell me that you would not marry' Balph Denham without my consent?” “I did, father?" “Then why do you keep on loving him?” “Because, as I told you before, I could not help it if I would, and would not if I eculd.” “ This is rank disobedience! ” cried the Doctor, rising. “I certainly do not intend it as such," replied Lea. still calm and firm, adding, “I never have, and I promise now never I to introduce the subject so disagreeable to you." “Hear me. Lea." Dr. Hedges sat down and pulled his high-back chair closer to his daughter. “I am listening, father." “Next to the duty I owe my Creator, you are the one object in life for which I live ” “You forget my mother.” “Oh.” replied the Doctor, with much adroitness, “she and I are one —one and the same person. a 9 Squire Condit would say. If I could see you well married and settled before I passed away, death would be robbed of all his i terrors." “I believe what you say." “Now, I have a husband in my mind; he is rich, he must be of noble family, and I am sure he loves you." Dr. Hedges stopped and looked at his daughter, confident that she, with the cariosity which is said to distinguish her sex, would ask him who the man was. But she went on with her sewing, and seemed as indifferent as if she had heard an allusion to the man in the moon. The Doctor was perplexed, and he made up his mind to have her manifest more interest in the man of his choice. “Do you not know who the gentleman is?” he asked. “I do not" “Don’t you want to know?” more angrily. “Why should I?” “Because all the chances are that he will be your husband;" with great vehemence. “My own conseni is essential to my marriage. But, dear father, why plague yourself with troubles that exist only in your imagination. Let us wait. I will be dutiful, loving and obedient to you. There is no danger of my leaving you so long as you and mother need me. There, and there, and there. ” And she came up behind him, and, throwing her white arms about his neck, kissed his knotted brow with every closing word, till the wrinkles melted and he went out, not quite sure that he had not been making something of a fool of himself. Five days since Balph Denham sailed j away in the Wanderer, and a reply should have come trom him in three days.

“There has been a fair wind aU the time, either for coming or going,” said Lieut. Hedges, addressing his nephew, Valentino Dayton. “There can be no doubt but the captain got up to New York the night of the day he left here, yet there i 9 no woid from him.” “It isn’t like Balph to write at once,” said Valentine, thoughtfully, adding: “But depend upon it, he has a good excuse. ” “No, there can be no excuse for neglected duty, unless it be in cas<* of strong sickness,” said the bluff lieutenant. “But the captain maybe sick.” “Nodanger of that.” “What makes you think so, Uncle George.” "Because If ne was to get sick he’d send a post through with all speed to toll the officer left in command of the ship.” “But supposing he was unconscious?” “Then some one else would do it for him Capt. Balph Denham is too big a man to be hid away in New York City, to which the Gov’nor ordered him, and be sick, and us not told of it at once." “Why, Uncle George, you talk as if you blamed the'Captain.” “Do I, now?” “You certainly do.” “Then I belie my intentions. The man &s blamed Cap’n Balph in my oom-i p’ny would find himself keel-hauled in no time," said Lieutenant Hedges, bringing his big brown palm down heavily on his knee. “But i’ll tell you, Yal, I aint been easy since the lad left; he’s in my thoughts by day, and at night I dream and dream, and keep on dreaming ’bout him.” “You are nervous,” suggested Valentine. “Nervous!" exclaimed Mr. Hedges, who had an idea that nervousness was a variety of sickness brought on by fear. “I don’t brag, Val, but there’s them as has known me, man and boy, for five and forty years, and even them that didn’t like me never dared to say I was nervous.” “You misunderstand me, Uncle George," said Valentine, and he ceeded to explain the more modern meaning of the word, after which the Lieutenant was much mollified.

“Yes, lad, I’m unstrung, that is the downright truth, and I’d give all my share of-the prize money made on the last cruise if I saw the Captain coming up that path.” Mr. Hedges pointed to the path leading from the veranda on which they were sitting before Squire Condit’s door, to the road that went down to the town, and out to the land of the Montauks. At that instant the gate swung open, and the messenger or post-rider, Thrasher by name, who had brought the order, on which Ralph Denham left, appeared with his garments travelstained, and his saddle bags over his shoulder. CHAITEB XVI. INCLINATION VBReoS DUTY. On first meeting this man, who proved himself weak and faithless to his trust in the presence of gold, Fox offered to take him to New York on the Wanderer; but as the pirate’s plans became matured he changed his mind, as he found other uses for the man. Had Thrasher gone to sea on the Wanderer, as he was more than willing to do, he would have been tied up In a shotted bag and dropped overboard the first chance, for Fox believed in destroying his useless tools. Captain Fox found in Thrasher just the man to aid him in one of the grandest schemes he had yet plotted, which was no less than to get possession of the cruiser, Sea Hawk, and by the easiest means to rid himself of such of the officers and crew as did not enlist under h a piratical standard. Already the reader is familiar with the Identity of Captain F. x with the traitor and pirate, Captain William Kidd of the Adventure Galley. There was scarcely one species of villainy In which he was not proficient, and where he failed, he found a most willing coadjutor in Guy Freuauld. A good specimen of Ralph Denham’s handwriting was obtained in that officer’s reply, aocepting Fox's Invita-

tlon to sail m the Wanderer to New York. Frenauld was an adept in the imitation of handwriting, so that it became au easy matter to forge a letter from Captain Denham. buch a letter was forged and given to Thrasher—with due instr.uotions —just before the Wanderer sailed. » The better way to carry out these instructions, Thrasher was given a large sum of money, with promise of a fabulous amount if he sucoeeded. He was to prevent, by death as a preference, any other post-rider from getting through the forest to the town of Sag Harbor. He was free to associate any other man of like character with him, but he was advised against it if he could get on alone. At a certain date he was to appear in Sag Harbor, with a letter from Captain Denham to Lieutenant Hedges, and this date had now come. Mr. Hedges and Valentine Dayton, as well as Suulre Condit, who had just come out with his wife and Ellen, recognized the post-runner as he came up the walk. “Hello, my man, where do you come from?" asked Mr. Hedges, in his anxiety, going out to meet the oourier. “From New York,” was the reply, given in the voice of one much exhausted by the journey. “Have you a letter for me?" “You are Lieutenant Hedges?" “I am.” “Then, sir, I have a letter for you from Captain Balph Denham, of the cruiser Sea Hawk. ” Thrasher came up on the veranda and took the saddle-bags from his shoulder, and Ellen got hi,m a ohair, and Mrs. Condit went off for a glass of currant wine. Thrasher' had not been thirty miles from the town; during his absence he had a companion of like kidney watching the road for genuine post-riders. So anxious was Mr. Hedges for news from his well-beloved Captain that he was about to stoop down and help Thrasher to open the pouch, when the latter handed him the letter. Ah, there could be no doubt about its genuineness; there was the dear fellow’s handwriting, and the impress of the seal on the wax was all right; it bore the design of the provincial impress. Mr. Hedges realized how anxious the people about him were to hear from the Captain, but he was too good an officer to read aloud an official communication, the contents of which he was not familiar with. As he read the letter, all eyes, Thrasher’s included, were on his face, whioh reflected his emotions as a limpid lake does the foliage overhanging its banks. “Is Balph well?” asked the Squire, unable to stand the uncertainty. “He appears to be,” said Mr. Hedges, his eyes still on the paper. “Any bad news?” from Ellen. “I can’t exactly say.” “Is it unusual?" asked Mrs. Condit. “Unusual? Well, yes; upon my soul, it is the most unusual and altogether the most extraordinary thing that I ever came up with in the flve-and-forty years of my life, mostly spent at sea where surprises ain’t unoommon. I’ll tell you about it after a bit,” said Mr. Hedges, with a glance in tho direction of Thrasher, to indicate that he was the obstacle that prevented his telling them all about it at once. |TO BE CONTINUED. 1

Notes on Medical Science.

One hundred years ago American medical literature comprised one medical book, three reprints, and about twenty pamphlets. This was the beginning of a medical literature which now challenges the profoundest respeet of the scientific world. To-day exclusively American - literature comprises between six and seven thousand medical books and reprints and twenty thousand pamphlets. New medical books and monographs are now appearing from the American press at the rate of one a day, and the members of the American medical profession, in addition to the above, are contributing annually six thousand articles upon professional subjects to tho medical journals of the world. One hundred years ago we had no hospitals, no medical colleges, no medical libraries. Yes, there was one small hospital in Philadelphia known as the Pennsylvania Hospital, and it had a medical library of 250 voliimes. Now hospitals crowd every city. There are 120 medical colleges, several hundred valuable medical libraries, and 100 organized training schools for nurses. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary war there were only 200 men practicing medicine, the Sangrados of that day, and to-day there are 100,000 in the medical profession. The advance in medicine and’ surgery has been greater In the United States than anywhere else on earth. The man who takes a survey of the field as it apr jared a hundred years ago, and tries to make a like survey of the field of medicine and surgery to-day, is simply appalled at the advance made.

Sit in the Middle Cars.

“l’m very particular,” said a commercial traveler to a Washington Star reporter, “what car of the train I select. I travel thousands of miles a year, and have made it a rule to observe in the accounts of railroad accidents which cars of the train are the most often demolished. The result of my experience—for I have been in a dozen smash-ups—and observations are that the middle cars arc the safest I never under any circumstances ride in the rear c&r. I avoid the car next to the baggagecar, though this is selected by many as the safest The greatest danger at present in railroad traveling Is telescoping. When a man has been in a wreck and has seen the engine of the colliding train half way inside of the rear car, or rather what’s left of it, It impresses him most forcibly. The baggage-car is usually heavily loaded, and in the collision its weight, together with the ponderous engine, generally smashes the next car to splinters, while the central cars are comparatively uninjured. When the train Is derailed the baggage-car and next coach, as a rule, go over. The roadbeds of our great transcontinental lines are so solid, each section Is so carefully examined, the rolling stock Is so much improved, that a broken wheel or axle and like mishaps are reduced to a minimum. But where trains follow on a minute or two leeway and the blocks or automatic signals don’t work—well, look in the Star the next day for farther particu. lars and see if my judgement Is not correct ” About 1570, women adopted a kind of doublet, or breeches, to be worn undei the gown, that they might the more easily use men’s saddles and stirrups. In 1800 plague visited Morocco; 1.008 died in one day.

FOR OUR LITTLE FOLKS.

A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO THEM. TTh»t Children Hare Done, What They Are Doing, and What They Should Do to Put Their Childhood Days. The Young Driver. His hone is fed On gingerbread. And its stable Is under the trundle bed; e - And he has a cart That has beeu a part Of a button-box—and the rein* are thread. But his heart'*. as bold As his hair ts gold. And he handles the lines with a •‘coachman's hold;” “Good-by!" be cries. And his sparkling eyos Are as bright us the stars when the night is cold.

Of course you know That tbo h,oree can't go But it isn’t worth while to tell him so, For he’d only say, “Horse running away! I can’t stop horsey; whoa, horsey! whoa!” The ears have fled From the horse's bead. And the most of the horse's hair is shed; But his legs are left Though he’s tall bereft. And bo stands very quietly while he’s sod. What's this? a race? And at such a pace! Why, the driver is getting red in the face! “Get up, I say!” And he whips awuy— He says there’s a pack of “woofs" in chase. May the wolves, my dear. Be never more near Than they are on the floor of the nursery here. And your eyes as bright, And your grasp as tight As now—on the reins of a proud caroor. —Nursery Days Tpddy’s Party. Teddy was 5 years old last week. The birthday came on Sunday. It was very hard to keep Sunday last week. Some way his new boots, his birthday present, would kick and prance even when they were going to church. Once he whistled. That night he put the boots under his pillow. Monday morning everybody knew how old he was. He jumped out of bed in his nightgown and only stopped

TEDDV’S QUESTS,

to put on his boots. The next minute he gave five kicks apiece at every chamber door. “I’m as old as thatl” he shouted. “Aren’t you glad?” “Are you going to give* a party?” asked Uncle Tom through the keyhole. “IIo!” said Teddy. “I expect somebody will give a party to me.” “Well,” said Uncle Tom, “come up to my room after school Is out and you shall have one.” “It’s a whole year to 3 o’clock,” said Teddy a dozen times that day. But at last he ran upstairs, two steps at a time, and knocked at Uncle Tom’s door. What do you think he saw? Why, the party of course, and the queerest party! Dogs! Yes, dogs! Dogs of all sorts and sizes. Eleven dogs! And Teddy said he made twelve. There was a little mastiff, a little St. Bernard, a little Newfoundland, a little shepherd, a little spaniel, a little greyhound, a little watclidog, a little terrier,' a little bulldog, and two little shaggy dogs thatvUncle Tom couldn’t tell what they were. Teddy was to have his choice. It took him a long time to choose, butafter spending an hour running from one to another he chose one of the ugly, shaggy little fellows after all. Uncle Tom said he looked like Teddy. Teddy says he shall have a cat party next year. Wouldn’t you like to come?—Edward Rlmpo, In New York Recorder.

*' Baby kin* and Hl> Bath. Babyklns always liked to have his bath. He never wanted to come out when Nursie was ready to dress him. Babyklns told Judy that a bath would be nice for her. But Judy wept on lapping up her milk, orpurrfbg by the tire, as if she could not bear him; Babyklns liqd very nice times with

BABYKIXS TAKES HIR BATH.

Judy. Nursie would tie a spool to a string and roll it on the floor, and Judy would jump at it, until Babyklns would laugh to see her antics. But- he thought it was too bad that be could never catch Judy when he was going into his bath. Sometimes when Nursie was quite .hrougb washing Babyklns, she would give him the sponge and let him play with it a few minutes. It was great .’un. Babyklns would try to wash Nursie, afcd would rub hfs own little face with it, for he knew what a sponge was good for. Sometimes he would kiss It. For

whenever Babyklns loved anything very much he would want to kiss it. Altogether a oath was very nice, and Babykins would have been glad to have a bath four or five times a day, if Nursie hud liked it as well as he did.—Babyland. Getting Oat of Bed th© Wrong Tray. Whenever little boys and girls are cross it is a sure sign they must havo gotten out of bed the wrong way. As a general thing Leonard is a very good little boy, indeed, but even the best little boys will sometimes get up in the morning feeling cross at everything and everybody, without knowing Just why. When ttys happens to Leonard his mamma will say: “Oh, Leonard, jump right into bed again, quick.” “But why, mamma?” “Oh, I’m sure you got out of bed with the wrong foot, so get into bed again, dear, and try to get out with the right foot this time.” So Leonard will take off his shoes and stockings and elimb into bed again. “Which foot must I put out flrst, mamma?” “I don’t know, Leonard,” says his mother, “only be sure and put out the right foot. 1 can always tell two minutes after you get up if you havo put out the right one.” And then Leonard is so busy looking for the right foot to put out of bed flrst that ho forgets ho ever was cross. I think if every little boy and girl would follow Leonard’s example and get back into bed again when they get up cross in the morning and stay there until they find the right foot it would be ever so much nicer. Don’t you think so, too? ltohy Ruth's Lullaby. Big and little folks all know Baby Ruth Cleveland, but not evervlody knows the pretty lullaby Baby Ruth’s mamma sings to her every night as she rocks her to sleep. Here it is: Kockaby, lullaby, bees In the clover. Crossing so drowsily, crying so low, Rockaby, lullaby, dear little Rover, Down Into Wonderland, Down to the Wonderland go. Rockaby, lullaby, rain on tho clovor, ' Tears on the eyelids that waver and veep, Rockaby, lullaby, bending it over, Down on the motherworld, Down on the other world, sleep, —St. Louis Republic.

MRS. JONES' MISTAKE.

She Jumps at a Conclusion and Gets the Wrong Idea. “How long is it since you’ve seen Hank Smith?" asked Mrs. Jones, as she washed up the silver and put it in the china closet. “I saw him yesterday,” said Mr. Jones pensively; “he was buried ” “Mercy goodness, Jeptha! You don’t mean to tell me that great strong Hank Smith was buried yesterday! Dear, dear, what are we coming to? And so Mrs. Hank Smith’s a widow! I do wonder how she’ll look in black. Won’t she splurge round, though, on Hank’s money! She ain’t a little bit goodlooking, but she thinks she is. Boor Hank, the world isn’t worth much to a man when his wife's a widow. Something has stained that butter knife black. Do you suppose it's sterling silver? I know Mr. Sterling's name is on jt somewhere. And so poor Hank Smith is gone?” “Gone where?” asked Mr. Jones, looking up with a curious twinkle in his eye. “How should I know, Jeptha? That depends on how he has lived. What was it that carried the poor fellow off?” “Who said anything about his being carried off?” “Why, you did, Mr. Jones, you said be was buried yesterday.” “So he was, but you chipped in, as usual, and interrupted me before I got to the end of my sentence—he was buried in thought.” “The land sakes!” exclaimed Mrs. Jones, as she dropped a dozen teaspoons on the floor, “what a turn you've- given me, Jeptha, and all for nothing.”— Free Press.

Theodore Runyon.

Among the appointments made by Mr. Cleveland this Week was that of Theodore Runyon, of New Jersey, as

Minister to Germany. Mr. Runyon was born in Somerville, N, J., in 1822. He is an alumnus of Yale, being graduated in 1842, and afterward he studied law and was admitted to the New Jer-

IHEODOBB RUN VOX.

sey bar In 1846. In 1857 Mr. Runyon was appointed Brigadier General of Militia for the county of Essex, and when the war ’ broke out he went to : the front as General of the First New Jersey Brigade. This force, under his command, was the first to go to the defense of Washington. It reported at the capital nineteen days after the first man had been mustered in. • He served with the brigade till it was mustered out and received the personal thanks ol Mr. Lincoln for his services in; tbe ; presence i>f his' Cabinet. Mr. Runyon tfras l Aififesidentlal elector 1n 1860, and for tyvo years was Mayor of Newark. In 1873 he was nominated Chancellor and was reappointed to office in 1880,

A Simple Government.

The village of Chincbteague, on the Virginia island of that name, is without other government than that administered by a local justice of the peace and a county constable, although the place has more than 1,000 inhabitants. Good order prevails, however, in spite of the fact that a great many men are idle for many weeks in summer. A strictly enforced local option law might be esteemed in part the cause of the prevalent good order, but for the fact that the working of the law is considerably mitigated by a lively “jug trade” with the mainland.

Live Oak Is Scarce.

In former times live oak was largely used in naval construction, arid j warships had their frames and plank-' ing principally of this wood, so that a web of historical sentiment and romance had been woven about the tree. The wood is still used to a considerable extent in building ships, but its value has increased largely on account of the diminished quantity now available.

DEATH IS IN THE AIR.

FEARFUL WORK OF AN APRIL WIND. Widespread Destruction In Michigan, Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Nebraska and Other States—Rain and Flame Add to the Awful Havoc. Later Reports Inorease the Loss. Death and dlsolation followed tho tornado which swept the Southern and Western States, At Higginsvillo, Mo., the path of the tornado was 100 yards wide, and in the entire distance of fifteen miles not a farmhouse or a tree remains standing. Eight persons were killed outright and three mor®. will probably die from their wounds, and twenty-five were wounded. The tornado swept down upon that part of the country at exactly 7:40 o'clock in the evening. It came from the southwest and traveled northwesterly a distance of fifteen miles. It passed six miles north of Higglnsvllls, two miles south of Dover and two miles southwest of Page City. It crossed both the Chloago and Alton and the Missouri Paclflo Railroads, breaking wires, absolutely shutting tho people on from communication with the outside world. Just before the awful crash there was a moment of death-like stillness. All along the line the Inhabitants of the houses whloh were just outside the path of the tornado agree to this. Thon there was a frightful crash, whloh could be plainly heard as trees and houses wero swept away. The storm struck Dent County near the center on the west side, coursing to the east It made a path In that county from two to four miles wide for a distance of twenty-five miles. Trees, fenoes, houses and bains were demolished and many porsons killed and injured. The greatest loss of life is reported from Condrny, a mining town of about 300 people. Only three houses are left standing, there, and nine persons were killed. Over fifty othors were injured, several fatally. A Miss Lay was blown away and has not been found. A small child was also blown away, W. A. Wilson is seriously hurt. Supt Condray of the mines was badly hurt, and his wife Is also badly Injured. All the dwellings and a big store wore blown down. At Jadwln’s Postofflee four men were killed. On Dry Creek, Crawford County; the residence of A. M. Green was torn down by the wind and the old man killed. Farm houses and bams were destroyed throughout the county, and reports are coming in every hour of persons killed and damage done. Havoc at Vpullautl. Tho storm struck Ypsilanti, Mich., coming from the southwest and sweeping everything In its path through the principal part of the olty. It was a quarter of a mile wide. Houses wero moved from their foundations. Probably SIOO,OOO damage was done. Every store in the olty was damaged. The opera house was swept to the ground, the Curtis carriage factory has both ends gone and carriages are piled up in the street a mass of ruins. The roofß of store buildings were blown off and many stories foroed.down. Stock of all kinds is plied up lh tho street. The postofflee was blown to pieces and tho mall scattered everywhere. The Cleary Business College, a largo brick struoturo, was blown off above the flrst floor. No one is known to bo killed, but many were injured. Probably somo bodies will be found in tho ruins. Rubbish is piled In the streets ten feet high. The largest dwellings in the oity were carried completely to the ground. The wind came up suddenly and everything in its path went. -

Death at Rockport. At Rockport, Ind., during the terrific wind storm the new three-story brick building of Honig & Co., on the public square, toppled over. It collapsed with a crash, falling on and crushing to the ground the small dwelling and store of Houston Frank. Mr. and Mrs. Frank are known to have been in the store, and it is believed that several men are also dead beneath the ruins, as some assert that they saw two or three people enter the store just before the catastrophe. Honig's building was not completed and less than a half dozen workmen were employed in the lower floors at the time, and not one of these escaped. John Taylor, a colored workman behind the building, was crushed and will die. He is the only person out of a possible six or eight who has been dug out of the ruins. The home fire department turned out, and assisted by 100 citizens the work of clearing away the wreckage was carried on. Advices received from over Indiana tell of heavy damage and loss of life, A tornado swept over the southwestern portion of Kokomo at 4 o’clock in the morning, demolishing the machineryroom and boiler-rooms of the American Strawboard mills, Robert Douglass, an employe of the mills, was instantly killed by the falling walls, Other workmen in the machinery-room narrowly escaped. A large portion of the building is a complete wreck. The storm struck Greencastle at 3 o’clock and did much damage. The roof of the female dormitory at the DePauw University was blown off and a number of dwellings were in a like manner disfigured.

Damago at Many Points. At St. Joseph, Mo. .several people were killed, among thorn a Mrs. Ward. Her husband was seriously Injured, as was also John Sheltdn. An unknown womah was also killed. A man named John Slingle, of Salem, Ore., was blown from a Chloago, Burlington A Quincy passenger train going toward Burlington, lowa, and killed. The storm was at its height at the time. News from Tunlea, Miss., is that the town of Roblnsonville, ten miles north, was completely destroyed by a cyclone at 4:80 o f olock in the afternoon. Not a bouse is left in the town of about 300 inhabitants, and, as a finishing touch to the’ destructive horror, the lamps that were burning in the stores owing to the intense darkness when the stprm came set the houses on fire and all is in ashes. As a through freight entered London, Ind., at 4:30 o’clock in the mornipg a cyolone struck the village and drove a loaded car from the side traok to the main track. The engine caught the front end and carried it twenty yards, when It ran into other cars and threw the engine from the track. The engineer, Benjamin Brown, jumped, but was caught and terribly crushed. He died an hour later. Near Columbus, Ind., a great amount of damage has been done to farm property. Bailroad property has been greatly damaged. Four hundred yards of the main line of the Pennsylvania company's track is under water, and much of the embankment washed away. The track of the Evansville A Richmond road, a branch of the Mackey system, is under water in several places and traffic Is suspended. As communication gradually becomes opened up with the small towns and hamlets through Kansas and Missouri | which were cyclone-swept recently, the real extent of the storm becomes known. Fifteen people are known to have been killed, thirty or forty were Injured, while numberless houses as well as smaller property were destroyed. Much stock was also killed. Fruit trees were broken and twisted, and hay stacks were scattered in all instances, and some anxiety is felt lest there be a shortage In fodder*

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OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: Important Happenings of the Week— Crimes aud Casualties Suicides— DeatUs— Weddings, etc. Minor State News. Mrs. T. C. Prick was found dead in her bed at Richmond. The Artesian City Gun Club has been organized In Martinsville. Owen County has paid sll4 as a bounty for. nawk scalps within a period' of six months. The Albany Land Company, with a capital stock of s.‘so,ooo,has (lied articles of incorporation. The Fort Wayne City Council has voted to ralso the city saloon liconsa from S3O to SIOO. The new $20,000 Methodist Church reI centiy completed at Noblesville, will ba dedicated April 20. An aerolite, weighing 00 pounds, supposed to havo fallen 50 years ago, was dug up noar Seymour. James Shocki.ey, who escaped from tho Northern Prison last October, was captured at Noblesville. Joseph Wilson, a stockman of Portland, was struck by tho north-bound express at llryant and one leg was cut off. The Rov. Thomas Parry of Michigan City, will probanly resign and accept a call to a Presbyterian pulpit In Terr® Haute. Several wealthy Columbus citizens havo boon arrested for not turning in a corroct assessment list of their taxable property. Ira M. Ci.kfkt, 21 years old and marrlod, was knocked from a Louisville and | Nashville Railroad train at Evansville, and killed. A reward of 823 is offered for tho recovery of tho bodies of Adam Fusslner and wife who wero drowned in Blue Creek noar Brookville. Adjt. Ukn. Roriiins has Issued a general order authorizing the mustering iu of a company of militia at Elwood and also at LaPorto under the laws of the I State. Carry O. Snyder, a school-teacher at Pyrraont, Miami Countv, who mysteriously disappeared nearly two weeks ago. has not yet been heard from. His wife thinks he Is insane. I The 2 and 4-yoar-old daughters of Albert F. Nelson were poisoned by milk at their home In Anderson. Mario, the youngest, died after four hours’ suffering. Ida will recover. 1 At Crawfordsvillo Wesioy Shotts was aliowod $2,500,111 his $5,000 damage suit against William Pyle, whom ho charged with being too familiar with his wife, causing thorn to be divorced. A boy, supposed to bo from Ohio, jumped off a passenger train near Greenfield, and roceivod probably fatal Injuries. Ho was on route to Marysville, and thought ho had passed Indianapolis, where he was to change cars. A portion of tho embankment between the St Joseph Rlvor and the race at South Bend was broken tho other night, causing a loss of about $2,000 and compelling all the South Bend factories using water power to shut down. Henry Allison, charged with the tnurdor of Alva Williams at PlalnUeld,ln November last, has surrendered himself to the authorities, and was lodgod la Jail at Danville. Ho has been In hiding in Arkansas since tho crime was committed. A woman in. Pike County was kicked in the chin by a mule, caqslgg. Jier to bite off the end of her tongue, and her .husband has since refused the offor of SI,OOO for tho Mule. He says that mule was the Indirect cause of lenthenlng his Ufa

A plant to manufacture ornamental pottery from the kaolin products mined near Shoals has bee established at that place, with $15,000 capital stock. Following are the directors: M. Shirley, John M. Sherfick, B. C. Johnson, J. T. Rogers, J. T. Albaugh, S. P. Yemlo, and John Hawkins. At Greensburg Dr. H. L. Millikin, dentist, met with an accident while vulcanizing a set of teeth. The instrument exploded, smashing skylights and windows generally, and covering the Doctor’s face with pulverized glass. Both eyes were hurt and he had a close call for his life. The accident was caused by a flaw in the iron part of the instrument. Nathaniel Strangler, aged nearly 101 years, died at his home a few miles south of Mitchell, in Crawford County. Great preparations were being made to celebrate the 101st anniversary of his birth, which comes on May 6. On his century birthday a grand jollification was held at his farm, on which occasion he and his wife, aged 90, entertained the people for miles around. Mrs. Sprangler is still alive, Mrs. Nancy Everly died at Wabash in her 80th year. For years the eccentricities of Mrs. Everly made her one of the best known of Wabash citizens. During the past twenty-five years, when able to leave her home, she was never seen without a white flag which she had tacked to a walking-stick and carried over her shoulder. She believed and told every one she met that unless they passed under her flag they could not enter the kingdom of Heaven. The deceased has been a resident of Wabash for about fifty years. The records at the office of the Secretary of State show that large sums of money are being invested in the State at present by local and foreign capitalists. The number of new companies that have been organized and incorporated in Indiana since January 1, has been the largest in the history of the Secretary’s office. The total amount of capital the companies and associations represent is about $16,000,000. The investment of the capital is principally in the gas belt. Indianapolis is also the home office of many of the new and larger incorporatlona Evansville has a number of new ones, and other cities and towns of the state have been favored. While the children of R. N. Taylor and his brother, Charles Taylor, were playing near their house, at Brazil, they became possessors of a dynamite cartridge, which evidently had been lost by one of the stone quarrymen. The boys thought it was great fun, and, procuring a hatchet, they gave the dangerous machine a whack, causing an immediate explosion. One of the children was seriously injured about the face, its right eye being almost torn out. The other child was also hurt, but not dangerously. The report of the explosion was heard at a considerable distance, and caused much excitement for a time. The Govornor has resolved to pardon McDonald Cheek, “a lifer" In the Prison South, who, jointly with Owen T. Bailey, was convicted of the murder of Cheek’s father-in-law in Dearborn County In 1871. Bailey was pardoned by the late Gov. Hovey, but Cheek’s application was rejected. He has served twenty-one years. Two Aged people, Jacob Moore and his wife, the former a wealthy ex-county officer, were fatally injured while on their way home from Shelbyville. They were driving a family horse and by some means the animal took fright, ran off and threw the old people into a ditch. Both legs of each were broken, and they were injured internally.