Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — Page 2

SbegeniocraticSentinel *T. W. McEWEX, Publisher. *■ .. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

WOULD CORNER GOLD.

SCHEME OF MORGAN-ROTHS-CHILD CROWD. Death Grins nt a Royal Pair—Big Strike Starts with Rioting—Cleveland Preparing to Work with Comfort This Summer. Buying Up the Gold. A Washington dispatch says the treasury officials are greatly excited over the discovery that there is an actual basis for the report that the Morgan-Rothschild bond syndicate is conspiring to corner the gold market. The story has been circulating in a semi-confidcntial manner for some- days past and was at first regarded as a foolish canard. It is a fact, however, given out by, the very best authority, that brokers representing this syndicate of money “sharps*’ have lieeii paying a premium for the refined gold output of the private refineries throughout the West during the last two months and that they are accumulating fine gold at the rate of $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 per month, which represents fully two-thirds of the entire gold output of the United States. The attention of officials of the Treasury Department was first attracted to this peculiar business by the sharp falling oft in the deposits of gold at the mints, and inquiry very soon developed the fact that private parties were buying the product of the refineries. Further inquiry revealed the additional and very suspicious fact that the metal thus purchased was drifting to New York, where it is being put in store to the credit of the Morgan-Roths-child syndicate. FURNACE MEN QUIT. Twelve Hundred Illinois Steel Works Men Go Out-Dispute Over Wages. About 1,200 men employed in various capacities at the blast furnaces of the Illinois Steel Company at South Chicago went on strike Tuesday. The laborers, greasers and helpers at the same company’s tjhops in Joliet are on strike. Altogether 4,500 to S.O<M) men are affected by the strike. The strikers of South Chicago demand a reduction in their hours of labor and an increase of pay. They have been working twelve hours a day and their pay has been $1.60 per day. They demand a ten-hour day and the restoration of the former schedule by which they were able to earn $2.10 a day. The Joliet men ask for an advance of pay ranging from 10 per cent up. The laborers, who have been paid 11 cents an hour, or sl.lO a day, ask $1.35 to $1.50 a day, but it is expected they would be satisfied with $1.25. Thus far there has been no sign ttat the company will accede to the men’s demands, and the strike may prove a serious setback to the revival of business which seemed to have begun. Men in other industries are said to be infected with the same desire for more pay, and the strike may spread both in South Chicago and Joliet. A serious riot occurred Tuesday afternoon at South Chicago, in which ten police and forty or fifty strikers were hurt.

TO WORK AT GRAY GABLES, Preßident Fitting Up an Executive Office at His Summer Home. A complete executive office will be established at Gray Gables for the President’s use this summer, and as arrangements have been made for the transaction of all public business that will come before him, it is probable that his departure for Buzzard’s Bay will be made as soon as the weather becomes oppressive in Washington. Private Secretary Thurber will be near enough so that he can work with the President every day. No appointments that may be made or other business transacted by the President will be furnished to the public at Buzzard's Bay, but will be sent to the White House in Washington for announcement. All communication with the departments will be through the clerks in charge of the White House. This method is taken in order to avoid any necessity for the officials to be in attendance at Gray Gables.

ROYAL LIVES IN PERIL. King Humbert and Queen Margaret Barely Escape Death. King Humbert and Queen Margaret of Italy had a narrow escape from death Tuesday. They were on their way by rail in a special train from Florence to Rome, attended by their suites. Suddenly, near Incisa Lake, there was a violent shock, one of the carriages was derailed and everybody on board the train received more or less serious concussions. An obstruction of some description, it appears, either fell across the track or was placed there by evil-minded persons. Several members of the royal suite sustained slight injuries, but the King and Queen escaped with nothing more serious than a bad shaking up. Six New Gunboats. The six gunboats, for which plans have recently been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, will be known by number until they are named by the Secretary. It is the intention of the construction bureau in preparing the specifications to have the new boats completed in the least possible time, and it is considered that they should be ready to go into commission within fifteen months. Many Adulterations Discovered The annual report of State Food Commissioner McNeal to Gov. McKinley, filed st Columbus, 0., reflects severely upon the commercial honesty of the day. Out of 1,329 samples of foods analyzed 846 were adulterations. Death in the Water. Five out of seven occupants of a leaky old boat, which the party had taken to go for a fishing trip on Carsrude Lake, Colo., were drowned. Badger, one of the party had become frightened and overturned the boat while attempting to paddle it to the shore. Hovae Lost Three Hundred Killed. Additional advices received from Majunga regarding the victory of the French on the Betaiboka river show that the Hovas lost 300 men, including several important chiefs. Swindled Workingmen. An indictment has been drawn in Cleveland, Ohio, against Charles W. Rogers, now in jail in Toledo. Rogers advertised for stationary, engineers and charged applicants $lO each for finding them employment, when, it is claimed, he had no ritnations to offer, those that he named being fictitious. Victims of a Woman Dentist. At Hiattsville, Kan., over half a dozen people, including the Methodist minister, Bare been poisoned, some of them perhaps fatally, by medicine administered by a traveling woman dentist. Dr. Alberta Oberlin. from St. Jxmia.

POWDER MILLS BLOWN UP. Five Persons Killed by an Explosion at South Acton, Maas. Friday morning one of the powder mills of the American Powder Company at South Acttm, Mass., blew up.* A few minutes later a second mill, situated 100 yards away, also exploded. Fire, caused by the explosion, spread to the third mill, known asfirerCorning mill, and in a few minutes it blew up and was also destroyed. Five persons are believed to have been killed. The woods close by the mills were set on fire and burned fiercely, threatening the big storehouse of the company, containing 20,000 pounds of powder, and preventing the saving of property. Fifty men were employed in the tnills, and when the noise of the first explosion was heard those in the Corning hifllsjsbout thirty in number, nisbed from the building and escaped before the flames Siax ad to the mill. The mills, ten in number, are separated from one another and inclosed by high board fences. The explosion of the first mill set lire to the surrounding fence and the flames soon spread to the second mill. In fifteen minutes after the first explosion three of the'mills bad been destroyed. INTERESTING COTTON FIGURES. Movement Is Already Larger than Ever Before Known. Secretary Hester’s monthly cotton statement, issued from New Orleans, shows the l'?gest April movement on record, 324.000 bales, against 249,000 last year. The movement from Sept. 1 to April 30 includes total receipts at all United States delivery’ ports, 7,730,153 bales, against 5,682,842 lust year. Net overland movement by railroads across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers, 046,706 bales, against 788,714 last year. Southern mill takings, exclusive of quantity consumed at Southern outports, 586.109 bales, against 500,054 last year. Interior stocks in excess of those held at the commencement of the season, 114,309 bales, against 103,891 last year. These make the total amount of the cotton crop brought into sight during the eight months to close of April, 9,377,358 bales, against 7,166,401 last year (the year of the 9,000,000 bale crop).

CRITICISES OUR ARMY. Observations of a Swiss Officer- Military Affairs Here Arc Dormant. Consul Germain, of Zurich, Switzerland, furnishes the State Department at Washington an account of the impressions of an officer of the Swiss army who recently made a tour of the world and is now lectwring on what he has seen. The officer declares that the United States is dormant so far as its military affairs are concerned; that although it has on paper an army of 7,852,718 men, 7,695,000 have never seen service, 120,600 of tbem are the National Guards and 25,707 men from the regular army are doing police duty and fighting unruly Indians. Comparing the military systems of Japan and China, he says that Japan’s compares favorably with European organizations, and Cliinu’S is the worst existing.

DIES AT HIS POST. —I Alton Engineer Killed by Masked Bandits, Near Carlinville, 111. Alton mail and express train No. 3 wap held up about half a mile north of Carlinville, 111., at midnight Wednesday by a gang of five men. The train had just stopped for the crossing when the men began firing and jumped into the cab and commanded the engineer and fireman to hold up their hands. They were scared away by the train ’crew, but not before they had killed the engineer. The gang ran in all directions, but three of them were captured and are now in jail. The sheriff and posse, armed with shotguns, have started on the trail of the rest of the men and hope to have them soon. The dead engineer was Frank Holmes, one of the oldest and best engineers on the Alton road. JUDGE’S HEART IS SOFTENED. Reducesa Prisoner's Sentence Because of a Child’s Letter. In the United States District Court at St. Louis Judge 'Priest sentenced Ira G. Cook to four years in the Missouri penitentiary for counterfeiting. Judge Priest at first gavefiCook seven years. Cook said that he had two little girls and his mother was also living. He drew from bis<pqcket a letter from one of the girls and handed it to the judge. The girl is 10 years old and wrote that she hoped her father would soon be with them, and said She and her little sister were going to write to the court to let their papa come home. Judge Priest read the letter and told Cook that bis sentence was reduced to four years.

GLASS IN MASHED POTATOES. William Hersinger Almost Killed by a Strange Accident. For the first time in eight days William Hersinger, a young man living at 621 Bush street, San Francisco, slept Thursday. He had a narrow escape from death and suffered intense agony, and all because he was indiscreet enough to eat mashed potatoes in a cheap restaurant. The potatoes contained some bits of glass, which cut his throat so that it became terribly swollen and inflamed. He was unable to eat or sleep for many days. Physicians say he may recover. Bread Will Rise in Price. Flour is to follow oil, beef and wheat in a plunge for higher prices if certain millers have their way. The United Millers’ Association was to have held a conference in Chicago Friday. While the conference was not held in Chicago—unless the meeting was in the office of one of the trust companies where complete ignorance of such a conference was claimed—the meeting is yet to come off. There are 18,000 millers of all classes in the United States, and of these 750 are merchant millers. To combine nil would be an impossibility, but the Pillsbury contingent of Minneapolis, all the Milwaukee millers but two, and a few from Buffalo and Rochester, would like to bring the Duluth mills within their organization and go in for a general rise in prices. The situation in rye flour is deemed phenomenal. The visible supply in the country is 150,000 bushels. The visible supply a year ago was 386,000 bushels. In New York rye patent flour has been advanced to $4 per barrel. Some advance has already taken place in Chicago. An advance in the price of bread would probably be the first effective notice the public would receive of the successful formation of the combination. The organization, if perfeeted, would* it is estimated, directly control fifty mills, indirectly 100 more, and have some 200,000,000 bushels of spring wheat to keep out of the hands of the speculators and 17,850 other mills not in the combine.

Race for the Pennant. ±J Fallowing is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: •Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Pittsburg ... .13 10 3 .769 Boston 10 7 3 .700 Cleveland ... .12 8 4 .667 Baltimore «... 9 5 4 .556 Chicago 13 7 6 .538 Brooklyn .... 10 5 5 .500 Cincinnati . ...14 7 7 .500 New York..., 11 5 6 .456 Philadelphia ..10 4 6 .400 Louisville ....12 4 8 .333 Washington ..10 3 7 .300 St Louis.

GEESHAM ts A SICK MAN. Too Many Visitors Are Admitted to the Bed-Chamber of the Secretary. Secretary Gresham is a sick man. He has not taken any nourishment for three days. He has lost his voice and is in a bad way. Several visitors were admitted during Thursday afternoon in violation of the physician’s orders, and they persisted in discussing pending diplomatic complications and left him in a feverish, semi-delirious state during the night. The ailment, neuralgia of the stomach, it is learned, is one of nearly a year’s standing and twice before in three months has compelled the Secretary to take to his bed. FELL DEAD ON THE LAWN. Mr. Burrough, of New Jersey, Expires After Making a Speech. Edward Burrough, of Merchantville, N. J., ex-president of the State Board of Agriculture, a member of the State Road Commission and ex-clerk of Camden County, made a speech on the lawn at the residence of Gen. E. Burd Grubb, exminister to Spain, Friday, and five minutes Inter fell dead at the feet of bis comrades, of the famous Twenty-third regiment, New Jersey Volunteers. Mt'. Burrough had charge of the New Jersey agricultural exhibit of the World's Fair. Statistics of Divorces. S'The London foreign office publishes a table giving the number of divorces in foreign countries yearly for the last ten years, the figures having been sjiecially gathered by members of the consular corps. In the whole of Great Britain during 1894 but 500 divorces were applied for, while in Germany the total was nearly 7,000, and in France 5,700. The State of Massachusetts shows up with one divorce to every twenty-two marriages. Slain by a Cyclone. A death-laden cyclone Saturday afternoon struck the town of St. Charles, twelve miles, south of Elgin, 111., leaving a corpse-strewn track. Four persons were killed, one person was fatally hurt, and two victims received serious injuries. The dead are: Mrs. Hattie E. Church, aged 30; Charles N. Thompson, aged 28; Miss Augusta Anderson, aged 18; Charles Anderson. The injured are: Miss Emma Johnson, fatally; Luke H. Caustin, dangerously; Andrew Johnson, severely. Wisconsin Storm Swept. An electric und wind storm in Wisconsin on Friday and the day before killed several people and damaged much property. The dead are: Joseph Anderla, aged 14, killed in his bed at Kellnerville; Jasper Chlup, killed at Lodi; John Kitchen meister, killed at Seymour; Mrs. Joseph Sutherland, killed in her cellar at York, where she had gone to get away from the storm.

Hottest on Record. In the twenty years' meteorological history of Chicago there are but seven years jn which the temperature rose as high in any time of May as it did Friday. In the quarter of a century no similar date ever equaled-the day in heat. The maximum temperature was 88, and the average for the twenty-four hours 73. One case of prostration by heat was reported. Two Men Killed in a Duel. Seth Stallcup, a Fuited States deputy marshal, and I. N. Taylor, old-time enemies, met in a duel at Sherer school bouse, Cherokee County, N. C. It was agreed to fight with naked fists, but Stallcup soon whipped Taylor, when each ran for his firearms. Stallcup's head was shot off. Taylor was mortally shot in the stomach and Reed's horse was killed. Will Not Lose Her Home. The pension department at Washington has sent orders to Special Examiner Davison at Parkersburg, W. Va., to go to Mrs. Ryan, the aged widow whose pension was suspended because the department made a mistake, and. withdraw the demand that was made on her to pay all money back that she Had received. Echo of an Ocean Murder. Herman Spars has been acquitted in the United States Circuit Court at San Francisco of the charge of assisting in the murder of Second Mate Marice Fitzgerald of the American bark Hesper. He was found guilty on a former trial Killed His Enemy in Court. In Judge Maye’s court at Tazewell, Tenn., Grant Poore, a notorious outlaw, while on trial for larceny, shot and killed Benjamin Carroll, a witness against him. The men were enemies for years and once arranged a jluel, which friends prevented. Must Use Some Other Fuel. The Standard Oil Company served notice on a number of Cleveland factories, which have been using petroleum for fuel, that it could no longer furuish them with fuel oil. ter Embarrasses the President. The position of San Salvador’s president is embarrassing, as Congress has decreed to itself almost absolute powers. The trouble may have to be settled by force. Duke of Orleans Very 111. The condition of the Duke of Orleans, who broke his leg on Friday last while out hunting, is serious. A slight attack of pneumonia is complicating matters.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3 to $5; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $5» wheat, No. 2 red, 63V&C to corn. No. 2, to 49 Vic; oats, No. 2,28 c to 29c; rye, No. 2,64 cto 65c; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 70c to 90c; broom corn, per lb, common growth to fine brush, 4c to 7c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3 to $6.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime, $2 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,65 cto 65',Ac; corn, No. 1 white, 47c to 48c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3 to $6.25; hogs, $4 to $5; wheat. No. 2 red, 64c to 66c; corn, No. 2,46 cto 47 Vic; oats, No. 2,29 cto 30c; rye, No. 2,.63c to 69c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $6; hogs, $3 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2,69 cto 69Vic; corn, No. 2 mixed, 48c to 49c; bats, No. 2 mixed, 30%c to 31 Vic; rye, No. 2,62 cto 63c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $6; hogs, $4 to $5; sheep. $2 to $4.75: wheat. No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 49c to 49*4c; oats. No. 2 white, 34c to 34'Ac; rye, 67c to 69c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 67'.Ac; corn, No. 2 mixed, 50c to sO'/»c; oats, ■No. 2 white, 33c to 33 Vic; rye, No. 2,66 c to 67 c. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3 to $5.50: sheep. $3 to $5; wheat. No. 1 hard, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 53c to s&Vic; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to W Milwaskee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 65c , to 65Vie; corn, No. 3. 49c to 50c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; barley,, No. 2, 51c to 52c; rye, No. 1,63 cto 64c; pork, mess, sl2 to $12.5f). ( New York—Cattle, $3 to $6.50; hogs, $4 to $5.50; sheep, $3 to $5; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c ’to 71c; corn, No. 2,58 cto ,59c; oats, white Western, 38c to 41c; butter, creamery, 14c to 20c; eggs, Western, 11c to 12c.

PATH OF THE STORM

Fi.ty Persons Killed and One Hundred Badly Hur.. FARMS LAID WASTE. Property Worth Half a M illicn Destroyed. Survivors of the Horror Deprived of Their Homes Fair Villages and Fertile Fields Devastated Schoolhouses in the Path of the Storm, and Teachers and Pupils Annihilated—A Carpet of Mud Strewn Over Growing Crops in lowa Work of Wind, Rain and Hail. Northwestern lowa’s cyclone in Sioux, Lynn, Osceola and O'Brien Counties cost at least fifty human lives. A hundred others are injured, and the destruction of half a million dollars’ worth of farming property is a low estimate. The whirlwind, but half an hour iij duration, while at its fiercest, swept over 1,200 square miles of cultivated farm land, and left in its wake a ruin rarely equaled in so short a period of time. The number of dead, although not so large as at first reported, is great enough to have plunged the whole of Northwestern lowa into mourning. A revised list, as accurate as could be, obtained at the time this is written, reports the following: At Sioux Center and Vicinity. John Marsden, Miss Anna Marsden, Mrs. John Koster, Alice Koster, aged 8; Miss Tillie Haggie, Babe of Mrs. L. Wynia, Mrs. Annie Postma, Jacob Jansen, Tewnes Verhof, aged 4; Maurice McCoombs, aged 4; Babe of W. Vlesma, Mrs. K. Waner and babe, A. Barblin, Mrs. L. E. Ost, Mrs. J. Post, A. M. Perry, Mrs. F. 8. Fieldcamp, Mrs. Charles Waldron, Henry Smith, B. L. Smith, Mrs. L. Maretie and babe, L. D. Everetts, John Frize, H. Deboor. At Sibley. Mrs. John Waterman, Mrs. M. Blackburn, Mrs. Herman Belknap. At Laurens. Peter Stimmer. At Sutherland. Rudolph Schwordtfeger. At Creston. Everett Arnold. Many Fatally Injured. The fatally injured are: H. Koster, aged 3; Minta McCoombs, Luella McCoombs, Mrs, L. Wynia, J. Deboor, Hattie Koster, Willie, Jennie and Grace Ccrumman, Maggie, Gertie, Jennie and Jimmie Welbard, Jennie and Eddie Brown, Ben Pry, John Herman, Henry E»:ggie, Mrs. James Warie. • The greatest loss of life is in Sioux County, between Ireton, on the Hawarden branch of the Chicago and Northwestern, and Sioux Center, oh the Sioux City and Northern. It was a veritable slaughter of the innocents. The children of tender years outnumbered all others in the mortality list, and that of those fatally injured. Upon the edge of a plowed road two little ones lay, their hands clasped together, their bodies torn and mangled. Beyond them in the roadway the leaves of an arithmetic fluttered in the breeze. Still further on and close to the McCoombs homestead was a battered dinner bucket and nearby a reader turned back to the page where the old lines ran, “This is a cat; is this a cat?” In the wrecked school houses little feet protruded from plaster and broken boards. Sun bonnets lay in the pastures yellow with butter cups. In one child’s hand was clasped the broken slate and in another’s a reward of merit card given but half an hour before by the teacher, dead, also face downward, in the furrow of a distant field. From Sioux Center to Perkins and from Perkins to Hull and George and Ashton there was the wail in the close of the spring afternoon of children, not dead, but dying, children with limbs torn apart, children who had been carried over fortyacre fields and hurled into ditches, children who called out for mothers already dead or beyond the aid of human help. Anticipated No Danger. Friday in Northwestern lowa was blistering; the barometer vibrated with alarmug changes, falling at one time to 29.50. in the Niobrara Valley, to the west, the thermometer indicated at different points 80, 82, 84 and 86 degrees. Such a temperature in May had never been known before, but the people were not apprehensive. They were preparing for the rain which had been denied them for two years past. Early in the morning in thejnidst of heat unknown in the past at this time of year, a tornado sprang up in the Niobrara Valley, fringed the towns on the west side of the Missouri and entered lowa at the gait of fifty miles an hour. The sky was clear above Sioux County, but the gale bent the young grain to the ground and demolished a few granaries. Hail had fallen a day’ before in a few spots along the Little Sioux and rain was looked for. For six feet in depth the soil of Sioux, O’Brien, Clay and Pocahontas was baked and the winds of April had piled the dust along the tracks of tlje Chicago and Northwestern from Eagle Grove west from a foot to two feet in depth. Farmers refused to plant their grain under such conditions. The tornado swept over Sioux and O’Brien Counties. The first victim of its wrath was claimed at Sutherland. Rudolph Shwerdtfoger was plowing in a field a quarter of a mile from Sutherland. Four horses were ahead of him. The sky was clear, but thunder sounded in the distance and frightened his animals. He sprang to their heads, and an instant later from the blue sky above him shot a thunderbolt. Three of the horses fell dead and underneath was Shwerdtfoger, struck by the same bolt. He was the first of the fifty who gave up their lives in Northwestern lowa Friday. The fury 'of the gale ceased about noon and was followed by a dead suffocating heat. Death Visits Schoolhouses. ’ About 3 o’clock in the afternoon black clouds, with green fringes, appeared west of Grange City and five miles northeast of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. From the bla.ck mass, nine miles west of Orange City, as near as eould be estimated, tentacles dropped, and at last a high, round ball, which appeared to strike the ground, rebounded and then touched again, just as football wages between goal and goal. Conductor Halaii, on train No. 10 of the Chicago and Northwestern east-bound, saw the bounding' mass of wind aiiil electricity, as did also his brakemnn, W. F. Dobson. This and its valuable contents just escaped destruction. Annie Marsden, a young girl from Boscobel, Wis., had dismissed her twenty pupils when she saw the approach of the storm. It was already 3:30 in the afternoon. She was conducting her second term of school and two miles beyond her »a the same section' line her brother was

conducting a county school. She boarded at the farmhouse of L. McCoombs, the wealthiest farmer in the district. His home was a quarter of a mile distant from the school. Four of his children were taught by her. When she sent the other children home the four were frightened and refused to leave. Annie Marsden stood in the center of the little white school house and drew the four children, whose ages ranged from 5 to 14, about her and waited. An instant later the cyclone was upon the school house, and the five hapless beings within. In less time than it takes for a watch to tick the seconds of a minute the teacher and one child were dead and two others fatally injured. The school house and its rock foundation •was swept out of existence. At the Haggle school house, where George Marsden, brother of Annie, was teaching, not a vestige of the school house remained and Mr. Marsden was found some distance away in a field, dead, together with two pupils. On the McCoombs homestead every building was destroyed but the house. There was not a seeded crop in his fields worth a picayune, and the honest accumulations of a lifetime swept away by a half hour’s storm. His hundreds of acres of wheat, oats and barley were buried in dust and debris out of sight forever. His fanning machinery was scattered for miles about his home. His cattle were dead or dying. At the little school house where his children had lisped their A B C's there was a hole to mark the spot, and in his house a little one dead and three others praying for relief from pain. Beyond McCoombs’ the storm raged. Curious things were found in the field by the relief partie’s sent out. In one field, on the crest of a furrow, lay an open prayer book. A clod of earth pointed to the lines, “Have mercy on me, O God, according to Thy great mercy.” On the fly leaf of the book was found the name of Eva Butler. Mrs. Butler’s home was three-quarters of a mile distant from where the book was found. Leaving the Butler’s, the storm attacked Herman Ripma, one-half mile north of the destroyed school house. Ripma had his arm badly crushed, his house destroyed and his crops ruined. But shortly before this he lost his wife and two children through trichinae.

Presented a Pitiful Sight. At the farm of L. Wylanga was one of the most pitiful sights of the storm. Wylanga was some distance from his house when the cyclone struck his fields. He was picked up in the teeth of the gale and carried bodily over forty acres of land. He fell in a plowed field, practically uninjured, but frantic as to the safety of his own wife and children. The wind had lifted him over two wire fences, but on his return he had to cut these down in order to pass. He found his house, barns, sheds and granaries gone. His hogs and chickens were lying in their yards. Still searching for his wife, he walked to the southwest of his house. In a field tilled for an early crop of corn, he found her, face downward, unconscious. She had been carried before the wind until her strength left her. In her head was a terrible gash and from her hips downward she was a mass of bruises. Close to her bosom was clasped her baby, dead. Thus husband and wife met, with the rain beating down upon them and the ruins of their home. The description of the McCoombs and Wylanga property and school could be .repeated on nearly every section in the wake of the storm. Numerous victims were found lodged in the trees, where they had been hurled by the storm, and so seriously injured that death is expected momentarily. Two grown boys who had come from the field near Alton at the approach of the storm were injured in the barnyard, one seriously and the other fatally. Wires were completely stripped from the posts, and in some places posts were all taken from the ground. Horses, cattle and vehicles were hurled through the air like chaff, and the country for three-quarters of a mile wide and many miles in extent is entirely wrecked.

Where had stood fine residences could be found nothing but a cellar hole and in some cases a few twisted timbers, while strewn on the ground were portions of the buildings and furniture, bearing not the least semblance of their original form and useless except for kindling. Fields that were beautiful as green carpets With the sprouting grain are now as bare as in the bleak months of winter. Trees are uprooted and all is desolation along the trail of the destroyer. In Osceola Comity Mrs. John Waterman, five miles west of Sibley, was instantly killed. A joist fell on her neck. She held her baby in her arms and the baby escaped injury. The Melcher and Whitney school houses were both wrecked. Miss Marie Good, teacher of the M hitney, closed the school twenty minutes before the storm struck. John Coughlin, wife and ten children were all saved by taking refuge in a cyclone cave. They lost their house, household goods, barn and had a horse killed.

DESTRUCTION IS WIDESPREAD. Other Points Contribute to the Death List by the Cyclone. Aside from the cyclone proper, which was confined to the three Northwestern lowa counties, other sections of the country suffered from severe wind and electrical storms. On Saturday afternoon a terrific wind at St. Charles, 111., blew down the brick walls that were left after the destruction by fire of the Lungreen & Wilson block. Next to the east wall was a small building owned by George Osgood, formerly used as a post office. It was occupied by Mrs. Hattie E. Church, milliner; John F. Elliott, justice of the peace, and the Anderson Sisters, dressmakers. The heavy wall crushed the small building, killing four persons and injuring two others, as follows: Charles Anderson, Miss Gustie Anderson, Mrs. Hattie E. Church, Joseph Thompson. The injured were as follows: Luke Cranston, will die; Andrew Johnson, Elgin. Fred Cronkhite and his team were killed at Henderson, 111., by lightning. The storm was severe at Abington, unroofing the new wagon factory, causing a damage of $10,00). Reports from the country indicate great damage. Everett Arnold was instantly killed by the storm at Creston, lowa. J. I’. Smith’s house near Lake Geneva, Wis., was struck by lightning and totally destroyed. Loss about $40,000; well insured. Several freight cars were also burned. George Rhodes and James Ashford, who had taken refuge in a barn, were killed by lightning at Lancaster, Mo. Both men were farmers living near Downing, and each leaves a family. Th«ee barns belonging to D. Ayres, about six miles west of Burlington, Wis., were struck by lightning and burned to the ground, with a loss of about $3,000. In Racine the residence of James Murphy on Jackson street was struck by lightning and his little eon was knocked senseless. Considerable damage was done to the house. At Superior, Wis., waler came down in sheets, and a destructive hailstorm followed. Lightning destroyed several small buildings in the country. A cyclone near Huron. S. D., took onehalf the roof off Martin Baum’s house and carried it half a mile. Lumber was scattered over the prairie. The graneries were also wrecked and scattered over the country.

TEACHERS TO GO WEST

A HOST WILL ATTEND THE DENVER CONVENTION. Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the National Educational Association, July 5-12—Many Eminent Educators on the Program. Thirty Thousand Expected. The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the National Educational Association will be held in Denver, July sto 12. The association goes so far West this year for the second time in its history. In 1888 the session was held in San Francisco, the president of the association for ’BS was Aaron Gove, then and now superintendent of the Denver schools. The San Francisco meeting was the largest the association has ever held, before or since that

time, and such enthusiasm as was manifested in 1888 has not been known until 1895, when the fame of Denver has called forth, three months before the time set for the July meeting, an enthusiasm on the part of educators throughout the country,

DR. BUTLER.

which assures an attendance of between 20,000 and 30,000 people. The San Francisco attendance was 12,000. The National Educational Association was established in 1857 in Philadelphia; its object, as stated in the preamble to the constitution, is “To elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching, and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States.” Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia College, professor of philosophy and education, and State university examiner for New York, is president of the association. Dr. Butler is one of the young men who have of late years come to the front in educational lines. He is 33 years of age and is recognized as one of the

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most advanced thinkers, and among the most progressive educators iii the world. Superintendent A. C?. Lnne, of Chicago schools, is vice-president; Irwin Shepard, State superintendent of Minnesota, is secretary; Superintendent J. M. Greenwood, of the Kansas City schools, is treasurer, and Superintendent N. A. Calkins, of the New York schools, is chairman of the Board of Trustees, the governing body of the association. The membership is composed of men and women eminent in educational lines in the United States and Canada, and numbered last year over 5,000. Convention Program, The National Educational Association has eleven departments, each of which has a meeting place and holds sessions of its own, in addition to -those of the general convention. The departments are: Kindergarten, Elementary, Secondary, Higher, Normal, Manual Training, Art, Music, Business Education, Child Study; and a National Council of Education.

Among the noted educators who will read papers and take part in the discussions of the convention and its departments are: President De Gar mo, of Swarthmore; Commissioner Harris, of the United States Bureau of Education; Hon. Hoke

Smith, Secretary of the Interior; I’rof. Jackman. of the Cook County Normal School, Illinois: Chancellor W. H. Payne, of Nashville University; George H. Martin, Supervisor of Boston Schools; Prof. William Carey Jones, of the University of California; James L. Hughes, Inspector of Schools, Toronto; Dr. J. M. Rice, of New York; Mrs. Mary Hunt, of Boston; Prof. Richard T. Ely, of the University of Wisconsin; N. C. Shaeffer, Pennsylvania State Superintendent; Halsey C. Ives, Chief of the Art Department of the World's Columbian Exposition. The Convention City. Not only has Denver become famous as a city of conventions, some sixty organizations having met there in convention last year, but no city of the age and size of Denver is so well known throughout the country for the superior excellence of its school system and for the educational advantages it affords. Ever since the Knight Templar Conclave. of August, 1892, when 109.000

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guests were so royally entertained in Denver, that city has always been considered in choosing a place for large conventions. Several other cities, east and west, fought hard for the ’95 convention of the National Educational Association, but Denver prevailed. from all points in the East, railroads will sell tickets to Denver and return at one fare, plus $2 for membership in the association. These tickets will read, “good returning July 15 or 16,” but if deposited with the Union Ticket Agent in Denver the return coupons will be extended to any time up to Sept. 1.

Big Deficit Certain.

A Washington dispatch says that the treasury receipts during April have not been np to expectations, and it is probable that there will be a deficiency this year of nearly $.45,000,000. Receipts for the month were $24,247,836 and expenditures $32,952,690, leaving a deficit for the month of $8,704,851 and for the fiscal year to date of $45,247,006. J. Fletcher Williams, ex-secretary of tie Minnesqta Historical Society and one of the most prominent Odd Fellows in the Northwest, died at Rochester, Minn., of softening of the brain, due to overwork.

Fine Showing of Winter Wheat—Corn Planting Well Under Way. Reports as to the conditions of crops throughout the country and the general influence of weather on cultivation and growth of crops made by the directors of the different State weather services and telegraphed to Chicago are as follows: Winter wheat is reported as in excellent condition in Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland and over the greater part of Illinois; Nebraska reports good condition in extreme southeast, elsewhere mostly winther killed; lowa reports good condition; Ohio much improved and in fair condition except in northern portion; a good crop is promised in Indiana, except on clay soil; Arkansas and Oregon report crop much improved; Michigan fair condition, except in some central counties, where winter killed; in Wisconsin it has been largely winter killed ; in Kansas the crop is impeded in western portions of the State, but in central counties much has been plowed up Sndthe ground sown in other grain. Spring wheat is coming up and growing tncifly in the Dakotas and ’Minnesota, bat in the southern portion! of the last named State the late sown is needing .rain. -Corn planting has begun in Minnesota and-is progressing in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lowa and South. Dakota; some damage is being done by cut worms Tn Mississippi and Kentucky. Cotton planting is nearly completed iti South 'Carolina, Alabama and Arkansas and will be finished in Louisiana the’coming week.

Indiana—Warm weather and few showers were beneficial, but rain is weeded; wheat on favorable' soil promises good crop, on clay ground it stands thin and spotted; plowing for corn nearly ended; planting begun in.njost counties. Wisconsin—Weather, too cold and dry for crop growth; grass and oats making slow prograss; winter wheat largely killed and land sown to other grain; about 50 per cent, of the crop saved in east portion; planting begun. 1 lowa —The week ended warm and favorable; a fair starfhaS been’made in corn planting; all small grain crops doing well; winter wheat in good condition. .. <- North Dakota—Favorable weather, wheat seeding about finished; oats, ryeand flax being sown; grain coming up nicely.

Minnesota—Good rain's in northern and central portions and light - showers in southern portion; warm sunshiny -days, with frosty nights; early sowrL-grain good stand and sprouting nicely; potato planting well advanced and corn .planting.begun ; grass and J at e sown grain pged more rain in southern portion. South Dakotij—Above ,an average temperature, with about average rainfall aijd sufficient sunshine caused satisfactory progress in all' vegetation; wheat, oats, gardens and grass growing nicely; flax seeding progressing; potato planting advanced; corn planting becoming general. Michigan—Warm, dry week has greatly advanced farm work, but held back vegetation, which is badly in need of rain; all winter wheat in fait; condition, except in eastern third of central counties, where it is poor and winter killed In spots. Nebraska—Crops have grown slowly owing to dry weather first of week, but heavy rains the past three days make the week close with all crops in excellent condition. Winter wheat good in extreme southeastern counties; elsewhere mostly winter killed and has been plowed up for other crops. Fruit in remarkably good condition.

Delegates from All Over the World Meet at Indianapolis. Twenty-four States were represented at the first meeting of Supreme Council Uniformed Rank, Knights ®f Pythias of the World, which began in Castle Hall at Indianapolis, Tuesday. There were in attendance the supreme chancellor and other officials, many representatives of supreme lodges, the brigade commanders of the various States and the members of supreme tribunals. The supreme council is the legislative power of the rank. This is the first meeting since'the uniformed rank was authorized to be under control of its own members. James Carnahan, who is at the head of the rank, welcomed the delegates to the convention, and Supreme Chancellor Rich, of Ohio, responded. The report of General Carnahan was then read. It called attention to the rapid growth of the uniform rank and made recommendations for the future government of the rank. The report was referred to a committee. Committees were then appointed on rules and regulations, finance, revenue, appeals and grievances, mileage and per diem and law. The convention fixed a basis on mileage and per diem for the representatives and accepted and approved the bond of William J. McKee, of Indianapolis, adjutant general of the rank, who will hereafter handle all the funds of the uniform rank. In the afternoon there was a magnificent parade', commanded by Gen. J. R. Ross. At night the delegates to the convention witnessed the exemplification of the proposed ritual of the uniform rank at tin opera house.

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Charles B. Lewis, better known as “M. Quad,” has resumed his editorial connection with the Detroit Free Press. Mr. John W. Foster is well pleased with the peace treaty between Japan and China. He gets $16(5,000 out of it. The Princess of Wales is a lover and collector of fine and rare laces and has $150,000 vyorth locked up in her cabinets. John Ruskin can play chess and indulge in other similar recreations, but it is not thought that he will ever be able to resume literary work. Mr. .Foote has been elected president of the Boston Boot and Shoe Club. Some years ago Mr. Foote was walking on his uppers, but now he is well heeled. Chief Clarence of the Mosquito Reservation is still at Kingston, Jamaica, under British protection, and is allowed $22 a day for'living expenses. Dr. Edward S. Holden, director of the Lick Observatory, has been made a commander of the Order of the Ernestine House of Saxony in recognition of his services to science. Mrs. Potts, the woman suffrage leader of Topeka, has applied for divorce for the reason that Mr. Potts has accorded her, among other rights, the one of earning her daily bread. E. Clark, Jr., who recently ‘resigned his position as general freight ageilt of the New York Central Railroad, had been forty-seven consecutive years in the service of the company. Prof. Guntz, of Nancy, says that he has found a simpler method of obtaining argon than that of Lord Rayleigh and Prof. Ramsey. He extracts it from lithium gt| a moderate temperature. E. St. John, vice-president of the Seaboard Air Hine, was recently presented with a magnificent gold watch from the locomotive engineers of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railread as a token of their appreciation es the kind treatment they received from him while he was general manager of the Rack Island road.

CROPS IN GOOD SHAPE.

PYTHIANS ON PARADE.

PERSONAL Tidbirs