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The Machinery Started and Fountains Played When Cleveland Touched the Golden Key. WORLD'S FAIR'S FIRST DAY. Appropriate Ceremonies Before Distinguished Guests, And In the Presence of the Assembled Thousands. The Weather Unfavorable, the Day lie in ft Gloomy anil Ilainy Mud Under Foot anil a Leaden Canopy Overhead The Speeche ol DirectorGeneral Davis and President Cleveland Dedication of the "Woman's Building The Program In Detail. Chicago, May 1. The electric ago was ushered into being in this last decade of this ninteenth century today when President Cleveland, by the pressing of a button, started the mighty machinery, ind the rushing waters, and the revolving wheels in the world's Columbian exposition. No exhibit of the fair that is to attract the thousands to this city for the next six months can be more marvelous than the magical etlect which followed ihe solemn opening of the fair at 12:03 oday. Of the multitude of visitors aorao estimate the number at :200,00) probably not one fully realized the full import of tho effect that was to cotne from the arrangement, cleverly devised, in the openjag of the exposition. It wad known in a rague way that the president was to press l golden key and that the electric communication with the machinery was to ttartthe fair, but no one realized how indicate was this machinery, how infinite the ramifications of that electric park until the great fountains threw up their gey eers seventy feet into the air.and the rumble and hutu of wheels in the manufacturers' building and the clatter of machinery in all parts of that area of a mile square or rr.ore told the etory of the Snal consummation of scientific thought. The lifeless started into being on every hand, draped statuary shed its veil and revealed to the world the artistic labors of the past eighteen months, and in a moment all that had been apathy and inert and inactive through the long hours of the morning, sprang into an animated existence acd thrilled the multitude and rrowned the triumph of the exposition. In previous expositions the possibilities of elecricity have been limited to the mere starting of the engines in machinery hall, but in this it made a thousand servants do its bidding, and from the great Corliss engine and the mammouth fountains down to the minutest acta where power nd touch were requisite, tho magic of electricity did the duty of the hour. THE DAY'S CEREMONIES. President Cleveland Kncfil the Lnrgest Audience Ever Greeted ly nn American. The multitudes which thronged the world's fair grounds today were greater in number than had been anticipated considering the inauspicious condition of tho weather. Probably three hundred thousand people were assembled when at 11 o'clock the advance guard of the cortege signaled the approach ol President Cleveland and the dignitaries of the day to the world's fair grounds. After entering the grounds, the journey to the administration building was made with all possible dispatch, the presidential party not stopping to acknowledge any of the popular ovations extended to the ctiief executive. Of course the cheering was tremendous when President Cleveland faced the great multitude assembled the largest audience ever faced by an American citizen. Following the president and the directorgeneral were the members of the presidential cabinet under the escort of the world's lair officials, the Duke do Veragua and Lis family, members of the diplomatic corps, members of congress, senators and other prominent dignatariea who had seats on the grand stand. The 2,000 Columbian guards who surrounded the administration building made a futile effort to keep back the crowd, but tbey were swept forward by the resistless wave and jammed against the railing until they themselves became iq unrecognizable part of that incoherent, struggling, but good-natured and cheering area of humanity. At 11:30, to the minute, the program opened with a blast from the orchestra, which rendered the martial air of the Columbian march of John K. Paine. The music lasted for fifteen minutes, and at its conclusion Director General Dav.s stepped to the front of the platform, waved his hand supplicatingly two or three times to the vast audience, and then announced in tone whi'.'b. was lost in the hum of Toices that the Lev. W' II. Milburn would pronounce the invocation. The blind chaplain of the U. S. house of representatives stepped to the front, guided by a woman's hand, his adopted daughter. Miss Louie Geraley, escorting him, faced the multitude which he could Lever see, but whose presence he felt by the animation that permeated the atmosphere. lie is one of the historic characters of American politics, first receiving his appointment of chaplain of the house of representatives some years ago, and lately being selected chaplain of the U. 8. senate. During his long residence in Washington Mr. Milburn has Leen the intimate acquaintance of President, cabinet ofliriale, senators and congressmen, until today, although blind, he probably recognized by the timbre of their voices more men prominent in American life than it has been the lot of most men to ever know. Chaplain 31ilbtiru'a Prayer. After a brief pause, when the murmur of voices had ceased, the blind chaplain uttered the following prayer: "All glory be to the Lord Öod of IIoiU, that Thon hast put Into the hearts of all tongues, peoples and nations to keep a feast of tabernacle ia this place in eommeceoratioo of the most momentous of all voyazea, la which Colambas lifted tbs veil which hid tbs new world tiia the old and esened the gateway of the

futare for mankind. Thy servants have builded thesa palaces, many chambered and many gsllerUd, more than imperial in their splendor, in wh:oh to store and show the victories of man over air. water, fire and earth. Engines ot useful treasuri a of beauty are sigaificmi as illustrating the world's advance within these 400 year. Woman, too, the shackles tailing from tier hands, throbbing with the pulta of the new time, joyously treading the path of a larger freedom and of respouiible aad self-helping life that is opening before her .vornan, nearer to God by reason ot the intuitions of the heart and the grandeur of her self-sacrifice, brings the inspiration of her genius, the pro. da ol of her brain and sensibility to shed over the spot a loveliness and charm of her own, thus making the house beautiful. To the holiest among the mighty, mightiest among the hr!y, whose wounded hand has lifted the tats of great empires from their hinces and turned the stream of history into

new channels, to the risen and ascended Lord, i we dedicate these tropnies of the past, achieve- j raents of the present and prophecies of the future reverently and with humility. I pun Tnine hoaored servan.the president and vicepresident of the United States, the members of the cabinet, the judges of the supreme court, the senators and representatives of the people, and upon all other magistrates throughout this broad land; upon that most illustrious sovereign of the world, our kinswoman, revered nnd loved in this land as in tier own, the gracious lady Queen Victoria; upon the president, emperor, kingr, queens, rulers of whatever name or degree, and upon the people over whom they bear sway, let the benediction of the Kinsr of Kinus and Lord of Lord descend and abide, hastening the time wheu cations shall know war no more, but the sword shall be bittered into the plowshare and the spear into tue pruuing hook. Thon, alone, O Lord, knowest the weil nigh insuperable obstacles surmounted, the envie, jealousies, bickerings, the open hostility and unjust opposition mastered by dauntless o urage and inexhaustible patienca and kiudness. Thou knowest the unexampled fert-hty of resources and the resistless energy by which men and women charged with the conduct of this mighty undertaking have brought it to a triumphant consummation. Crown their labors and victory with Thy gracious word, "Well doue, good and faithful eervant," and move the world to echo Thy plaudit. I'pon this great city which is the wonder of the world, upon whose site, within the memory of liring men, h3 been found the pasture tor ytld beaaU, the lair of the wolf and nest of the raltlesnfiae. and which now sits euthroDed as one of the capitals of the earth, and throws wide its gates of hospitable weloome to the people of all language and clauses send upoa this city and all its people dwelling within its border Iby blessing, which rt.&ketb. r;ch and bringeth no sorrow. O. Lord (iod. aocepi our praise, receive our prayer throngh Him to whom Thou taught to sv : "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. '1 hy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us th s day our daily bread and forgive ns our trespasses as we forgive those who tresspass naainst us, and lead us not into temptat.ou but deliver us from evil. Amen!" SCENES AND INCIDENTS. Unpromising Wenther for the Opening Day of the tireat Show. Half in cloudland was the white Columbian city by the lake when, disused and eourceless, the slow daylight crept up on the earth this morning. The eastern horizon had no more of color than had the western horizon. Katward where the dawn was breaking drifting scarfs of mist brooded close down upon the waters of Lake Michigan, so that cloud and waters mingled into a gray field that bal'lod vision and perspective. Northward, eouthward, everywhere, a palpable, leaden veil trailed from aloft to the lowest reaches of the horizon. To one who early stood in the midst cf the great plaza where the crowds should later be, the surroundings, stupendous in plan, ponderous in their extent and soft whi e in the morning light, gave more than ever the impression that this was a ghostly city that had been raised up in the night ; or that it may have been a deserted city, whence Titons of some 6trange race had moved away to other shores. The bases and columns of the surrounding buildings were softly distinct, but their domes, minarettee, towers and llagstalTs, were yet in the cloudland. You have seen the rock-ribbed bases of mountains, whose topmost trees tore locks of wool from the low down clouds. So, in some measure, was the e pectacie in early dawnin the aisles and avenue? of the great city which should at the noon-tido hour be turned over to the uses of mankind. Even Columbia, riding her t-hip of state at the plaza, thougu relatively not high in air, was in cloudland, as veritable goddesses are, and should be. Tho figures of her hand maidens straining at the oars were wet and dripping with the mists of the morning, which chiefly constituted the raiment. L'ncier tho prow of Columbia's bark, and stretching out toward the lake, the waters of the grand basins are steely blue in their half light. Circling them about was their setting of green turf, between the great buildings of agriculture and manufactures. Human pigments of green and blue nre never used as a foil, one against the other, for no shades of these colors that man has ever made harmonize or blend. Put here was nature's own arttry defying the tastes of men. but reaching a combination and results beautiiul in the early hours when the city was scarcely astir, and when none, pave guards and watchmen, were about to see. Across the vista, lakeward, arose in delicate grid work the pillars of the Colonade, under which the waters of the lake creeD inio the lagoons and basins. Like a dim picture of the imaginative school, these outlines, while positive, were no softly lined against the gray background of waters and clouds as to suggest rather than aiiirm their existence, ithin hr gyves of wooden scafolding the k'oddees of the rapublic at the lakeward end of tho grand basin rose up ponderous in her golden might. Veiled she wti), bv the curtnin, which was so arranged that it should fall away the moment the nation's president should give the electric eignal touch to open to the world this great enterprise. Towering above all the administration building, whoeegold dome were half wrapped in vapors, stood dark and sentinel-like in the midst of this great white camp of buildings. At its front and eloping upward to the second story stretched from side to side the grand stand, where the dignitaries of the earth should later sit in their representative dignity. Hundreds of chairs waiting for th,eir occupants seemed yawning in wet discomfort after a night out of doors. Under tho main arch of the building and having for its base the topmost row of seats on the grand stand was the great sounding-board machine where the bands aud orchestra should be placed during the ceremonies. Strange vagaries come to a lonely watcher at "uch hours in such weather; and, while the day was yet young, this great whita cavern seemed to be a titanicear, listeningto the muilled swash of the waves out yonder beyond that beautiful colonade. Meanwhile what was being done? A ponderous grinding roller, keeping slow time to the snorting of its little, impudent engine, was ambling to and fro across the sloppy plaza where soon thousands ol feet would bo standing, Th

Columbian guards, moving to their places about the grounds, and the watchmen, going here and there, caused low slapping sounds under foot as boot-soles beat upon the muddy tracks and passage wave. Kariy cauio tho cohort of college students who have been employed for the season at 30 per month to wear blue uniforms and to push chairs about the

grounds at 50 cents per hour. At convenient places iron-roofed pagodas had been erected as headquarters for the.-e young men, and thereabouts in their light blue uniforms, with flocks of willow chairs, they were loitering and waiting for the coming of their work. Kthibit Not Yet In Shnpe. There is do buildingof exhibit in all the white city where exhibits aro yet wholly arranged, but this fact did not interfere with the issuance today of the oiiiclal catalogue which told where each exhibit should be when everyone bad done what 19 expected to be done. In order to not lose a moment of profit these catalogues rhouM be placed on sale the first day of the fair and it was very early when a little regiment of lads arrayed in scarlet uniforms with blue caps and brass lettering marched through the grounds to their rendezvous in the administration building. These little fellows were the to-be-vendera of the official catalogue. Between 8 and 5 o'clock, from somewhere away oil' on the edge of the grounds, the notes of the buz'.e came softly through the misty air. It was the first indication of stirring scenes that ßhould later occur in the great plaza. The bugle notes were almost instantly swallowed up in q burst of melody from the throats of brass instruments carried by the band of the Fifteenth regiment infantry, ordered from Ft. Sheridan for duty during the day. Nearer came the strains of music until, turning the corner near the transportation building, the blue uniforms came in sight, and behind the band 400 regulars, carrying each a musket on his shoulder. Lieut. -Col. Overshino was at their head and led them to a position to rest alongside the north wall of the administration building. As the bntta of their muskets dropped with a thud into the soft mud, tho eounds of other bands of music drifted out upon the air and noon the Second regiment National guards of the lato of Illinois marched to position on the south front of the administration building. Clearly the great citvat the northward had not, through the night and in the lowering clouds, forgotten this great white camp on the prairies seven miles away. The coming of the troops attested the fact and showed that already the elements to the great demonstration were being moved into place. Meanwhile a loitering breeze had changed the conditions somewhat. The beads of the great supporting columns of the building had come to view; the mists had so lifted that on the low dome above tho agricultural building tho great figure of Diana, brought from New York City, could be discerned pointing her arrow straight into the Northeaet. Away up 200 feet on the roof of the manufactures' building the figures cf a half dozen men might be seen creeping like ants upon an iceberg, half concealed by mists and half revealed against the dark iron work of the structure. Great white winged gulls circled above the blue basin of water and out through the colonade the movetnentof the waters of the bike could be discerned. Eastward in the sky the softened light was growing. Somewhere in space tfie sun was gaining power as the day grew older. Then, soon after 'J o'clock, began the incoming of the people whoso great enterprise was to bo consummated at noon. Coaches rumbled over the moist earth and gravel to dispatch their guests at favored places where they should witness the display. Oflicials became in evidence first in ptraggling groups and then in equads and battalions. Farmers' folk were there, too. They came with whclesomo baskets in which was carefully stored a luncheon for the family. Momentarily the light grew stronger aloft and the clouds failed higher in the air. In front of the grand stand, where the president should be, there was a lofty flagstaff, and at its peak, in a baloon-like bunch, the Hag of the United States was ready to broken out when the electric eignal was given. At each corner of the grand fctand were other stairs cf great height, nnd just abovo the heads of the people, at their basee, the crossbars of great banners hung waiting for the eatno signal to givo them forth to the air. Ilaving observed this, a visitor gazed about ail the buildings and upon evry flagstair. At every gable and at the point of every tower, smaller bannerettes might be discerned, each waiting the same eignal for the same part in the great outbursts which should attend the opening signal. Pencath the colonade the revenue cutter, Andrew Johnson, steamed through to a place in the basin. l'roiuinent luents Arrive. Ten o'clock had come and the dull roll of carriages with prominent people was almost constant. Tbey were deposited at the northern entrance of the administration building and found their way to their seats, indicated by their tickets, upon the grand stand. Papidly then the spaces there filled up. Among the early comers was the earl of Aberdeen, attended by two of the British fair commissioners. A lithe man of nervous tomperament, he viewed the gathering of the people with quick and lively interest. He beheld the representatives of the press of the country huddled in pens upon the ground level on either side of the jutting circle of platform on which President Cleveland would be seated. These quarters for the press were protected against the crowds that might come only by a light wooden rail. Meantime the ekies had again thickened, and while not obscuring absolutely, they dimmed again the outlines of all the structures round about. At 10 o'clock several guards had placed upon the president's platform a small square table over which was draped an American flag. Two electric wires were uncoiled from the lloor and carried up to the table. Upon the table was placed a square, pyramidal stand, which was covered with gold and blue plush. Up through this little pyramid the electric wires were run and were then adjusted to a golden telegraph key, the button of which ahould be pressed by Mr. Cleveland as a signal for the machinery to start. The diplomats of foreign powers had not come to the opening in a body, but more in an individual capacity. Down the broad isle of the grand stand, a tall, white-haired roan sought a place in front. It was Paron l ava, Itadan minister to the United States. Fred Douglass next took a place on the stand, Minister 1'omero of Mexico followed closely, and then, without particular order or attendance, the consular corps strolled down the aisle to ! their places. Meanwhile the Second regiment had been formed obliquely from the south corner of the grand stand across the plaza, and the regulars of the Fifteenth regiment took a relative position from the north corner of the stand. At the base of the center flag-stafT, a man in white shirt with yellow sash and black trouaere. took DOsition and seized the)

rores of the awaiting flag aloft. Two men, similarly attired, laid hold of the ropes ot the othe'r two ßta'Ja and then waited their signal. Meanwhile, rapidly arriving trains and street cars were pouring forth their freight at the gates of the grounds, ftreatns of people were floating toward the great plaza before the grand stand. Cheer for President Cleveland. Short time was required for such rapidly arriving throngs to blacken the entire space, and when 11 o'clock had come the spectacle thus presented was notable. Ten minutes later a great cheer went up from those in the rear of tho grand stand and white-haired Director Davis camo down the main aisle side by eide with President Cieveland. The rattling shout near the great sounding board bad attracted every eye thitherward and aethe familiar figure of the nation' executive was discerned hats Hew in air, shouts shook the clouds and echoed along the. white facades of the surrounding building. Behind the president came Secretaries Uresham, Herbert, Smith and Morton; scarcely had the partv been seated when a brilliant group of figures appeared in sight and fo lowed.along the aisle. The duke ot Yeragua and Lib party were recognized instantly, and Bhouts of welcome greeted them as they eeated themselves a little to the rear and side of President Cleveland. The duchess and Secretary Herbert's daughter entertained each other during the brief waiting. A corps of photographers mounted on the platform at a little distance from the pla.a at this time became busy at their work. At twenty minutes past the hour the orchestra, with a grand buzz, opened the Columbian hymn, which had been written by

John J. Pavne. Then prayed the blind chaplain of the house of representatives, and while there was something of a hush, the crowd Beemed irrepressible. At that tiir.e the great space cf the plaza had been filled. The bases of the lamp-posts and even the great columns and towers had been climbed upon by sightseeru. Branching away to the left and the right on either eide of the basin, tho crowds extended away to the manufactuiers' building and to the epricultural palace, filling all the standing room. A little before the president hud been presented the sunlight came through, brightening and warming the entire ecune. It wa during his speech that the shoving crowds seemed threatening themselves with danger, and when women and men, fainting and insensible, were carried away by officers end lied Cross attendants. Touched the tioldcn Key. But all that preceded had been tending up to the culmination which was reached when, with the laet word of his spoech. President Cleveland reached forth his arm and pressed down his fore linger upon the button of the golder electric key. At that instant the dull rambling of machinery came to the ears of thousands of people from machipery hall. Those who could not see the pressing cf the key heard the result as the distant engines received tho steam and reaching out their ponderous iron arms, applied their power to the network of belting and w heels which were thus set in motion. Tho man at the base of the center Hagstar! quicklv released the American banner which floated away to the southwest, while upon tho corner liagstatis the great banners that born the r..s of Castile and Arsgon were pulled aloft. Water gushed to the great fountains and sprang aloft in showers of spume. From every Uagetaff and tower broke forth a fluttering bannerette. The revenue cutter opened its whistle in the basin and from the face of the statue of the republic, near the colonade, fell away the veil which had hidden her from view and with all and above all rose in the tir tho mighty roar of 'JO'J.OOO voices, cheering the consummation of their great enterprise, and the turning over to the people ofthat which ehould now be theirs to study and enjoy. THE FEEBLE-MINDED HOME. Charges Which State Itonrd of Chari. ties "Will lie Asked to Investigate. FoitT Way F, May 1. Special. The Fort AVavne Timet today, iu speaking of the pending investigation by the state board of charities at the home for feeble-minded children, er: The charges whioh the state board will be culled upon to investigate are varied. Primarily it will be shown that tho officers of the institute knew of the misdeeds of "fiishop" Blake months before the expose was made, one of the otlioers himself having discovered him in the act of practicing one of his disgusting and unnatural crimes. The matter was hushed up and the good bishop was allowed te continue in his position and his debauchery. It was not discovered at that time that he was insane. It will be shown that money belonging to the state was ued for private purposes and no account was made thereof. It will be shown that the state's funds were used lor the purpose of making expensive presents to certain favored individuals, an 1 that no record of the mouey ro expended was ever made upon the books of the institute. It will be shown that earnings of certain portions of the institute were not credited, and no account of what became of sMd earnings appears on tho cash took of the state. It will be fhown that upon certain occasions bids were advertised for, for supplies for the school cad that DOtwithstandioar the act that the quality of the supplies olTered was of precisely the same quality and the bidders were equally responsible, that the contract wan let to the highest bidder instead of the lowest, in one instance amounting to a diCerence of 13;j per c-nt. on a large contract. It will be shown that the matron of the institute received male company in her private room after 11 o'olock at night, and that she on one occasion received some company after she had retired for the night and was attired only in her night clothes; nothing criminal is charged in this affidavit, but tne most stupid ean readily see that it was an act of the grossest indiscretion entirely intolerable in an institution of this kind and unworthy of one occupying ao responsible a position. It wilt be shown that a brother of "Bishop" IUeke was housed and fed by the state for a period of nearly a year, he being iu do way employed by the state and rendering it no erviee whatever aud giving absolutely no return whatever for his keeping at the state's expense, the trustees being all the time fully ware of this tact. Other charges alleging cruel treatment of children, excessive punishment, and loose management will be made enough to occupy the attention of the board for a nice long time anyway. Take Simmons Liver Regulator to keep the bowels regular. One doso is worth $100. NOTICIl INVENTORS should remember that every patent tor an invention secured through the Sentinel Patent and Pension Agoncy, 1 120 New York Ave., N. W., Washington, I. C, will receive a frco notice (with an illustration) In the Daily and Weekly KentlneL Thi Is) of the greatest advantage to the patentee, as It calls attention of the people or every town in the state of Indiana to the invention and i a great help in finding a market for the patent itself or for tho manufactured Article.

CYCLONE AT CISC

'i The Texas Town Almost Completely Wrecked. Scores of People Killed and Injured. TWENTY DEAD RECOVERED And Others of the Inhabitants Still Missing. Five Children Crushed to Death in One House While the Father nnd Mother Were Outside Invebtigating the Cause of the Unusual 1 1 oaring Noise of the Storm Meeting of Citizens Called Disastrous Hail Storm in Illinois. Dallas, Tex., April 20. The Ann correspondent learned from passengers on the east-bound train this evening that the destruction by the cyclone at Cisco was eimply appalling. There are not more than twenty-five or thirty houses left standing, and up to tho time tho traiu passed there about twenty-one dead bodies bad been recovered from the ruins and there were ten or twelve more persons missing. Strong one etory buildings, with walls two feet thick, were leveled to the ground. A heavy freight engine and a whole train of cars were blown from the track and demolished and several hundred feet of side track was torn up. The number injured is something like a hundred. Dr. Coleman and citizens from Weatherford went out this morning to render any assistance possible. The building which Prank Hickman occupied wai blown down and his five children killed. The New York Conference. Late this evening Mayor Levy received the following telegram from two citizens of Weatherford, who went to Cisco this morning: Town nearly all demolished, twenty killed, 125 injured. Hundreds without food or shelter. lUise ull the relief possible and send to John P. Pattercon, chairman relief committee. The following telegram was also received by Mayor Levy from County Judge Davenport and Mayor Grave of Cisco: Cisco has been destroyed by the most destructive cycloue' that has ever visited Texas. More than four-fifths of the people ate without houses. There are many kil el and wounded, llelp is needed to bury the dead and take care of the wounded, and relieve those who lost everything. Mayor Levy has called a meeting of tho ritizenB of Weatherford rto take measures fur the relief of the sullerers. A message from Valley View stated that a severe storm passed over that town at S:li0p. m., blowing down deveral houses and doing much damage to property. 2so one was hurt. Several lreight cars were blown oil the side track and caused the people to take refuge in cellars. P. F. Willie, who arrived here tonight on the Texas Pacific east-bound train, was at Cisco an hour and a half. He says at that time twenty-one dead persons had been found. Over one hundred injured were counted. Some of the Dead. Kil'led: Mrs. JONES and baby. DAVE CAMEltON. brakeman. Caph VIUTE?1 DES, merohant. Five chil Iren of W. A. Iliokman. One chdö of M. H. Owens. ELKDOE, brakeman. Mrs. J. T. THOMAS. Mrs. I OKTEll. WILLIAM SIMMS. Mr. KMUIIT. Injured: V,'. II. Skjjastian, severe cut on the head. Pkank Vkr.von, badly wounded, will die. Mrs. Ykhso.V, led broken. Mrs. Davis, crippled iu the back. M. It. Owens, leg broken. JlM Hayi-s badly cut on head. A daughter of Mrs. Stephens, wounded and will dio. Mrs. Powers and daughter, badly Injured. Mr?. H. W. Jon Ks, head badly injured. William Walker, head bruised. W. A. Hickman, face badly cut. Gkokük IIakris. bsdly hurt. Mrs. Kennanu, hurt badly. Mrs. Jones, seriously hurt. Section boss (name unknown) and wife, severely injured. H. L. liimvELL, badly eut on head and arm, and buck injured. Mrs. W, B. ("handler, ankle crushed. Miss Elsik Moellek, arm brokeu. Conservative estimates place the number of wounded at about 150. Tho cyclone traveled northeast, blowing down houses and laying waste farms. The houses blown down are too numerous to mention. Mrs. L. D. Ladd. soven miles northeast of KastUnd, was killed and Mr. Ladd severely injured. Others were more or lees hurt. Mr. Furgeson, four miles cortheart of Cisco, was killed and his house burned. Tho wind storm lasted not more than a few minutes. It was followed by a heavy rain. Telegraphic communication is practically cut of I". Five children of Mr. Hickman, who w ere in bed asleep, were crushed to death by the falline house. Hickman and wife had gono outside to see what the roaring noise was, and were blown oil" their feet. Mr. Hickman was seriously injured. SUICIDE OR MURDER. Young Woman Found Dead in a Chi. cago Hotel. Chicago, April CO. On a slab in an undertaking establishment in Fifth-ave. lies ihe body of a young woman about whom little is known save that she bore in life in the name of Mrs. Alexander and is supposed to belong in New York. The body was found in a room at the (Southern hotel at Wabash-ave. and Twenty. second-st tnis afternoon, and while the hotel people eiert that it is a ease of suicide, there are circumstances which cause others te think that a foul murder has been committed. April 19th a man about thirty years of age, weil dressed, engaged rooms at the Southern. He waa accompauied by the woman whose body now lies iu the undertaking establishment, and registered as Mr. and Mrs. Alexander, New York City. The two were seen together daily. Friday night they were seen together for the last time by a chambermaid, who saw them returning to their room from supper, and says that they were chatting together in a happy manner. Later in the evening the man paid hie bill, saying to the clerk that he was goiag out of the city, bat would rsturnSttudsj etcoicÄ. Today about oooq.

when a chambermaid visited the rooms the was horntied to tind the body of Mr. Alexander lying upoa the bed in a pool of blood, the womau evidently btviug been dead several hours. In the right hand of the corpse was a bloody razor and the throat was slashed from ear to ear. Absolutely no renson csn be learned why the woaian should have Uken herownlife. Amojig her etlects ws fouud the nitme iloce E. Uurghold. 14 W. One-Ilundred-and-Twenty-Niiitn-st., New York City, and upon some of her underclothing was marked the letter "E." TOWN ELECTIONS.

Democrats Make Clean Sweeps in Various Places. .unguiwooa came to me Vfront nobly and elected the .IBsentire democractic ticket.'J Politics out there has, on the surface, been unusually quiet, but there has been a great deal of "hustling" under the surface. The complete victory surprised even the democrats, for they had no idea of electing everybody. For clerk, W T. Nessersmith received 10.) majority, and John Eurklino for treasurer was elected by a majority oi 42. Trustee First district. John K. Flack, :! majority; trustee JSecond district, Albert Kemper, b' majority ond William Wright Si majority in the Fourth district. t At Clay City. Clay City, Ind.. May 1. Special. J5 The municipal election Friday CyO was a battle royal between the jvJ'm democrats end republicans, in K Tl " 1 1 . ... . , wjjr wnicn tne aemocrats secret a I complete victory. One councilman, clerk, J treasurer and marshal were voted for j and the majorities of the demI ocratic candidates average 50. In the election of one year ago tho republicans elected their entire ticket by fifty-five majority a net democratic gain of 103 votes. KeDublicnn tuiamansgement of the town allftirs during the past year is S3 responsible for the great ,J change in tho pentiment VKvsAlnf tha r.ponle. That tbet'.:Ml m. J " loyal democrats of C!ayfa City are jubilant over the result is putting it miid. Mor nenioorntic (inlns. Fort Wayne, Ind., May 1. Special. One of the most spirited town elections whicti New Haven has had for years was held todav, resulting as follows: ti. Peugnot (dem. ). trustee. Second f. ward no nnnnoitinn .Irno.a f'.m.v vvi'A1 i - , , - - ' cron (rep ), trustee. Third ward." over Henry Koenn (dem.); W.P.Stock, jr. (dem.), treapurer, over E. C. Carter (rep.);S. J. Stock (dem ), clerk, over E. 13. Whitaker (rep.); Ldwurd Harper (rep.) marshal, over Henry Grabner (dem.). The majorities range from 2 to 20. Gaina tit Aunurn. Fokt Wayne, Ind., May L Special. At Auburn today the city election resulted in the election of Charles Jones (dem.), treasurer; L. S. Rant (rep.), clerk; Alva Pak er (dein.), marshal; Ezra Ensley (dem.), trustee, and W. II. Paikstraw (rep.), trustee. The republican clerk was elected on account of his personal popularity and the republican trustee on tho new school building question. l ortville Mixed. Fortvili.e, Ind., May 1. Special. The town election today was quiet, with a full vote cast, there being two trustees, a marshal, a clerk and treasurer to elect. Following is the result: T.W.Gardner (rep.) 14 majotity, A. Lamb (dem.) C9 majority for trustees; J. W. Tritope (dem.) for clerk and treasurer, 1 majority ; William Morse (dem.) for marshal, 11 majority. Die First Democratic Clerk. Oakland City, Ind., May 1. Special. At the city election the following oflicers were elected: Three councilmen, rj marshal, clerk and treasurer. Oif the councilmen two are deraocratsV , and one prohibitionist. The mtr-i" shal and treasurer are republicans and the clerk a democrat, tho iirst democratic clerk over elected in this town. Democratic (ialns. Knightstowx, Ind., May 1. Special. At the corporation election today the contest waa on marshal. The republicans elected three councilmen and marshal. The councilman in the second ward is close. The marshal's majority in 80 over the democrat. There were slight democratic gains in ail the precincts. Democrats Get Everything. BnooKviLLE, Ind., May 1. Special. A heavy vote was polled hero today and the entire democratic ticket was elected. The majorities average 2i. The marshal's majority was but thirty-seven, the result of pereonal matters. Knox Turns Kound. n Knox, Isn.,Moy L Special. vThe democrats carried tho town few election Oscar Goldiog marshal yTJim by 4 majority; Ilepner, clerk, 2J; Kri8, treasurer, G; " Pertram. trustee, 73. Last year Knox went republican by three VOteä. A Itijr Victory. FoitT Wayne. Ind., May 1. Special. The election at Avilla was a big victory for the democrats. Every kit .1.mA..ntiii nti(tta ti' . A 1 A p t 4 by increased majorities.

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MUST CORRESPOND THROUGH SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES. If They Desire to IteacH the Kar of the l't-iiftion Otllce What S.-nator Vooreees" N;ij of. the Order OfUc. Selkers Preparing for si East (irnnd thare on President Cleveland. PrTtEAt op The Sentinel, ) 142 ; New York-ave. N.W.. V Washington. D. C, .May 1. 1 The order iiued by the pension oilice that eoldiers uuat correspond with that ofüee through the senators or members of congress from the states in which they lire, or in the event of their writing to senators or members from other states than their own, that their letters will not be heeded nor the cases attended to, is causing considerable discussion here. On beingaporoached on the subject by Tin: Sentinel correspondent, this morning, Senator Yoorhces said : "No other senator ta the United States, at the records show will le so in not relieved by this order a iMjptlf, aud I have no disposition to criticize it if it lia teen d ice. The question has Ivo sicias, however, and it is doubtful how it will wurk. Tuoutaudt of Indiana soldiers for instance have gone siici the war, to vrestern and rouihern states and from there here constantly corresponded with me in regard to tueir reunion, in fact, there is not a ttate or territory in the union from which I hare Lot received letters requiring attention at the pension etilen during my service in the senate, and it has cost the government no more time or trouble to tränend the buMuen transmitted through my hands than if it bad cotne through the hands o! others. Of course this order will l ohten my l.ilors, but ;l must pay that I tiK think the Iudiana soldier, wherever he may he, or aur other soldier, has the right to j call oa me, oa nyone else i.e mity choose, to look utter his business in the pension oll.ee or any other government oilier." Senator Yoorbe-js receives on an average sixty letters daily from old soldiers outside ol Indiana relative to their pension claims and he haealwajs found time to comply with theii requeet. Iiis pnnion com ponüence keepi oi:e chrk bur. This clerk he pays out of hit own s.vary of 5,i0 a year. The otiiee Sft-kers have been hutinga!l day ta round up their men and senators preparatory to make a l ist ct ano churre upon the .reidrnt aud cabinet otl'---rs when they retura from Chicago. Otlice tetkers hca'lduarters at tho ilillmuu house were crowded with ludianians - today uut.l a lain Lour. 'Ihd senior senator does not dode ofUcvseekern. He has fuiiy recovered from hin rt cant iilnes, and remained ten hours at headquarters making arrangement 'to give each ofrice-seeker an au lieiiei with the president or Cihinet officers luring the remainder of the week. Senator Tnrpie was alio kept busy. After tins la-t ohunce call has been maie not i of the seekers will return home to await further development. One mau will remain to the end, however, Col. John Williams ot Lafayette, who was third auditor under President Cleveland's former administration. He wants to be made an "exception" to the ex-rule, but there are too many candidates for each from the rank and tile of t!ie party iu the field and the charters that Mr. Cleveland will suspend the rules for Co!. W ill. runs era not very good. Capt. I'rophy of Loglnsport, who has been here since the inaszuratlon seeking the appointment of inspector of surveys. Las gone home. It appears that the captain' democracy has not teen of the orthodox brand. The Logansport Journal ia the . last campaign charged that Frophy Lad goi; over to Cleveland because be had been promised a job in the legislature. It 13 true that lie was oce of the innumerable doorkeepers of the last senate. This democrats of the Tenth district say ought to square up l'rophy's aoount with the party, enl to give him an important oilioe now would Is doing the young, active democrats of the Tenth district an injustice. Jt is charge! also that Trophy once ran on the repub iau ticket for surveyor and that he is in politics for oirice only. The captain denies that he is a democrat for otlice only j and points to a bundle of letters from promi nent democrats inuors:ng mm ior oinee. 1 0 mis a bright young democrat of the Tenth district now in the city says thst any one can obtain letters of indorsement and exhibits as proof thone of a petition signed bv a judge of one of the Kankakee regions calling for the impeachment, by the legislature, of said judge for having committed the oflense of fishing on i-nndav. The judge signing it upon tlis representation of ti e young man that it was all rieht, only asking for lief er road laws. This petition wai obtained for the purpose of illustrating that politicians are careless about their indorsements. THOUSANDS OF MINERS OUT. Bift Strike In Ohio f or an Advance of o Cents a Ton. CoLr.Mnre, O., May 1. Twenty thousand miners in Ohio are idle today, the men having struck for an advance of 5 cents per ton ia price of mining. No trouble is reported and none is anticipated at this time. A very friendly feeling extots. President John Nugent of the Ohio miners says two operators in the Ilocking valley, employing 3'0 men, will sign the new scale tomorrow. The operators reafilrm their position and say tbey will not consent to arbitration. Cleveland, May 1. Dispatches received tonight indicate tbat 20,0Uueoal miners ia Ohio etruck today ks a reu!t of the action taken at Columbus Saturday. Lvery mine in the Hocking Valley is olosed. 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