Ligonier Banner., Volume 24, Number 51, Ligonier, Noble County, 3 April 1890 — Page 2

@ ! » * ), e FLigonier Banner, LIGONIER, ' IND}.JNA. T = QUEEN VICTORIA recently ordered her baker to make her an American apple pie. ; ———————— Tue projectors of a tower at London that shall be from 200 to 550 feet higher than Eiffel’s are confident of success, —————— . Tur hen of the United States was worth to this country on her own personal account last year $200,000,000, according to the bureau of industrial statistics. - Eicnr varieties of leprosy are recognized in China, and the:disease is regarded as contagious, infectious and hereditary, but is said to disappear in four generations. .

Ayios F. PARKER, who was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1813 and is now ninety-eight years of age, is said to be the oldest living college graduate in the United States.

STRIKING oil continues to be a flourishing industry in' Pennsylvania. During the past month. 476 new wells were opened, adding 10,459 barrels to-the production of the oil regions.

HerMAN GUTEN has for more than seventy years lived in fish boats on the Cumberlandriver. He says he was born near Lubeck, Germany; in 1773, which, if true, makes him 117 years old. .

A WESTERN clergyman recently announced that he would preach a sermon on “Looking Backward.” He kept his word, for he delivered a discourse on Lot’s wife to the great congregation that assembled to hear him.

A cHEWING gum manufacturer amassed a fortune of $1,000,000. Say six sticks for five cents; five into 100,000,000 goes 20,000,000 times. Twenty million times six equals 120,000,000 sticks of gum. Great heavens, girls!

GEORGE MURRAY, a colored man of Baltimore. is one hundred and fifteen years of age. He walks about and is ir possession of all his faculties. The most remarkable thing about him is that he never saw George Washington.

QUEEN VICTORIA has written two books which have never been published. They are volumes of travel, and recount her impressions of various places on the continent. She has been so annoyed at the criticisms of her published works that she has refused to have these manusecripts put into ‘print.. They will be published’ after her death. :

Tue ex-soldiér, John McKeough, who was accustomed to stand guard over the Burnside monument in Providence, R. I, with a drawn saber, saying every now and then: “I followed you at Newberne and I will not desert you now,” was killed by a railroad train the other night. He was perfectly sane, with the exception of this eccentricity. .

CArTAIN WILLIAM REED, who has been on the police force of Pittsburgh, Pa., for forty-four years, claims td be the oldest police officer in the United States in point of service. He recently celebrated his seventieth birthday. Of the twenty-four policemen who constituted Pittsburgh’s force forty-four years ago Captain Reedis now the sole survivor.: - - .

It appears that the past winter wis a sort of a centennial celebration of the same season .im 1790. A Connecticut man has been consulting the weather records. kept by his grandfather, and finds that in February one hundred years ago but one and a half inches of snow fell, while in March the fall was 1817 inches, with good sleighing *for several days.

. 010 GABRIEL, the mission Indian, the oldest man on the Pacific coast, probably the oldest in the world, died the other day in the almshouse at Salinas, Mosterey. He is said to have attained . the remarkable age of 150 years, the rccord of his birth having been found in the mission at Monterey. He has been a standing advertisement for the glorious climate of California for these many years.,

WHeEN Samuel Feinberg eloped from Chicago recently to Toronto with his prevty servant-girl he took with him £20.000 and left his wife five children and fifty cents. If he hoped to prevent hcr from following him he would have ¢one much better to have left her a goed share of the $26,000. He is now in a Toronto cell. A woman with an outraged heart and only fifty cents to soothe it is a winged Nemesis and the ends of the earth are not too far away for her to seek her vengeance there.

Tue young Emperor of China is dig« playing a good deal of vigoras a reformer. He is inquiring into every department of his Government and is issuing orders for the removal of abuses. He recently published a decree requiring periodical returns relating to the strength of the army, in order to prevent officers from drawing pay. for troops which did not exist. He has also abolished a large number of unnecessary Government places in the provinces. Altogether he bids fair to be a progressive and enlightened potentate. Meanwhile he is at odds with his mother and his new wives. .

It has been computed that between 36.000,000 and 37,000,000 babies are born in the world each year. The rate of production is, therefore, about 70 a minute, or rather more than one for every beat of the clock. With the one-a-min-ute calculation every reader of this journal is familiar, but it is not every one who stops to calculate what this means when it comes to a year’s supply; it will, therefore, probably startle a good many persons to find on theauthority of a well-known hospital writer that, could the infants of a yedr be ranged in a line in cradles, the cradles would . extend around the globe. : , : e —————— - Oxcr waterspouts were regarded by seamen with terror, but it appears that now they are looked upon as comparatively harmless freaks, which vessels of the larger kind need not fear. On its last voyage from Hamburg to New York the steamship Slavonia encountered one of these roving monsters near the grand banks, but nothing disagreeable happened beyond a harmless shock to the hull. In faet the collision seemed to demo?alifz‘&*j&%fl@%rapout, for it trayeled away with its cone parted in the middle; in other words, its backbone was broken. Waterspouts are of frewuent océurrence on the China sea.

Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. TuespAy, March 25.—Senator Sherman’s anti-trust bill was further discussed in the Senate. Bills were introduced to pension Mary Crook, widow of the late General Crook, at the rate of $2,000 per annum, and to establish an educational fund from the proceeds of public lands. In the House the world’s fair bill locating the fair in Chicago, the opening to take place May 1, 1893, and . close October 30, 1893, was passed by a vote of 202 to 49. Bills were introduced for the payment of a bounty of $lOO to soldiers and sailors of the late war who received no bounty; providing pensions ' for soldiers and sailors who are dependent for support on others. ' ;

WEDNESDAY, March 26.—1 n the Senate the Sherman anti-trust bill was further discussed and the world’s fair bill was reported. In the House a bill was introduced granting a pension of $2,000 per year to the widow of General €rook. The rest of the day was spent in discussing the bill for the admission of Wyoming intp the Union asa State.

THURSDAY, March 27.—The Sherman anti-trust bill was further discussed in the .Senate. The House bill for the admission of Wyoming as a State was presented. The bill appropriating $25,000 for the purchase of 2,500 tents for people driven from their homes by floods in the South was passed. The .bill authorizing the President to appoint and retire John'C. Fremont as a Major General was reported favorably. In the House the bill admitting Wyoming as a State was passed by a vote of 139 to 128. FripAY, March 28. —ln the Senate the greater part of the day was spent .in executive session discussing the Florida judicial nominations. In the House Mr. Enloe, under instructions from the committee on war claims, reported bills embracing nearly 300 claims for stores and supplies furnished the United States army during the war. At the evening session twenty-five private pension bills were passed.

FROM WASHINGTON.

Tne President on the 25th issued a proclamation announcing that the new British extradition treaty would go into effect on April 4. By the terms of the new treaty the crimes of manslaughter, counterfeiting, embezzlement, perjury, rape, abduction, burglary, kidnaping and piracy are made extraditable. BRIDGET SWEENEY, a trusted old servant in the Tracy household at Washington, had, it was reported on the 28th, confessed to setting the fire that burned the Secretary’s home and killed his wife and daughter. .

Mgrs.- Harrisox®and party returned to, ‘Washington on the 28th from their visit to Florida and the South. = -

IN the United States there were 189 husiness failures during the seven days ended on the 28th, against 200 the vrevious seven days. The total of failures in the United States from January 1 to date is 8,356, against 3,346 in 1889. _

THE EAST.

Ox the 25th the grand jury at New York reported that the sheriff’s office was a disgrace to the city and a shame to civilization. - : i

SHERrRIFF FrAck, of New York, sent his resignation to Governor Hill at Albany on the 26th, as a result of Flack’s conviction for conspiracy. - - Tug force at the Philadelphia niint was on-the 26th working night and. day to meet the demand for silver dollars, of which it was expected to turn out 1,800,000 during March. . Four engineers and four firemen of the Reading road at Shamokin, Pa., were discharged on the 26th for drinking intoxicants. : v L

A verbicer of $lO,OOO was recovered by Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Rylance, of New York, on the 26th against Nicholas Quackenboss for malicious libel. - - "ON the 27th John A. ‘Davis, ¢ity treasurer of Rochester, N. Y., who embezzled $60,000, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in Auburn prison.

AT Red Rock, Pa., thtee brothers— Deidrick, John and Henry Bakeslee—all of New York City, were killed by the cars on the27th. : '

EpwArp Spauvrping and William Slattery and his wife were arrested on the 27th at Buffalo, N. Y., for counterfeiting. They had been flooding the city with b”bgus ten-cent pieces. '

Tur Governor on the 28th appointed Major-General Daniel E. Sickles sheriff of the city and county of New York, in place of James Flack, resigned.

- WEST AND SOUTH. ; - THERE were 557 persons killed on Illinois railroads and 1,706 were injured during the year 1889, :

O~ the 25th 8. V. R. Trowbridge, At-torney-General of Michigan, resigned on account of poor health, and the Governor appointed Benjamin W. Houston, of Tuscola, as his sucoessor. . :

INCENDIARIES made an attempt on the 25th to burn the city of Bismarck, N. D., but the flames were discovered and extinguished. - : W

O~ the 25th a skiff containing John Rickett, Louis Williams and Hirriett Lee and her four children, ranging from 6 to 16 years of age, all- colored, was capsized at Arkansas City, Ark., and all were drowned except Rickett and one child. d

NEAR Omaha, Neb., the two sons of a well-to-do farmer named Shipley, accompanied by two other boys, names unknown, were drowned on the 25th by the capsizing of a boat.

ON the 26th the Lima (O.) Oil Company was sold to the Standard concern, the reported consideration being $1,125,000. - - ' :

L B. RooT’s house at Medicine Lodge, Kan., was burned on the 25th, and his -three children perished in the flames. GOVERNOR JACKSON, of Maryland, was informed on the 26th that State Treasurer Archer had misappropriated the securities in his possession. A LARGE part of Pioneer, a town of about 1,000 inhabitants in Williams County, 0., was burned on the 26th. Tug Maryland Legislature on the 26th ‘passed the bill suppressing pool-rooms, and it was signed by the Governor. : IN Arkansas the low lands seemed to be doomed on the 26th. Levees were continually breaking and the floods were practically beyond control. Work on the crevasse at Arkansas City had been suspended, which meant devastation for that section. ; L “JACK,” the old chestnut horse that carried Brigadier-General Geddes ‘through several campaigns during the war, died at Des Moines, la., on the 26th, at the advanced age of 36 years. - Ix Indiana on the 26th the young wife of John Weirich, of Shipshewana, committed suicide on account of domestic troubles, and Mrs. Hattie Norris committed suicide at La Grange be-

cause she had been deserted by her husband. = :

I~ front of Skipwith, Miss., the levee broke on the 26th and the crevasse was more than 400 feet wide, the water reaching to the eaves of ‘houses in Skipwith. A large section of country was flooded. :

. ‘'Ox the 26th Justice James W. Campbell, of the Michigan Supreme Court, died suddenly at his home in Detroit, aged 67 years. - Ox Lake Superior navigation opened on the 26th. -

WiLLiAM SnArp, aged 90 years, the oldest veteran in Indiana, was found dead in his bed on the 27th at La Porte.

-IN a mill-dust explosion at the Chicago sugar refinery eleven men were killed and soventeen wounded on the 27th.

TrROUGHOUT the entire Northwest the worst blizzard of the season prevailed on the 27th.

. ON the 27t counterfeit ten-dollar bills .on the Germania Bank of New Orleans wege in circulation in Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. -

A TORNADO swept over the western portion of Louisville, - Ky., about 9 o'clock on the evening of the 27th, wrecking 200 or 300 houses, and kiliing 200 or more people and injuring many others. The path of the oyclone was about a square and a half in width. AT the Farmers’ convention at Columbia, S. C., on the 27th B. B. Tilman was nominated for Governor and C. Colt for Lieutenant-Governor. :

At Jeffersonville, Ind., hundreds of houses were wrecked by a cyclone on the 27th, and the loss of life was estimated at from 150 to 200.

¢ IN Maumee bay, near Toledo, 0., the tug May French was wrecked on: the 27th, and Captain Tom Cary, Engineer George Reynolds and two déck hands were drowned.

At Bird’s Point, Mo., a tornado on the 27th blew down several houses. ’

ON the 27th James Hubbartt, living near Maple, Ind., was 105 years old. He wasin good health. ; ApvICcES of the 27th say that Metropolis, a small village in Illinois, had been destroyed by a cycione and that several hundred people were killed and injured. Many buildings at Olny and Nashville, 111., were also wrecked.

ALASKA advices of the 28th say that four whisky-smugglers—Frank Muzzy, John Ackerson, William Bennett and a man named Mitchell-—were drowned near Douglass island. - . LATER advices of the 28th say that the number of lives lost in the recent cyclone at Louisville, Ky., was pretty definitely known to be seventy-five. The property loss would be about $2,500,000. The wrecked portion of the city lies between Eighteenth, Broadway, Seventeenth and Main streets. The storm passed diagonally across the section, vglich is probably a mile square. Some 2,500 buildings were wrecked.

IN the recent cyclone twenty-five persons were killed in Jackson County, 111., over 100 were killed and injured in Posey County, Ind., and many lives were lost in Metropolis, 111. The town of Bowling Green, Ky., was wiped out, and many buildings were wrecked and several lives lost at Evansville, Ind. Ox the 28th the first Legislature of the State of Washington, after having been in session 143 days, adjourned sine die. Port Rovar, Ky., was enfirely swept away in.the recent cyclone. ' A HEAVY wind-storm on the 28th at Staunton, Va., unroofed houses, uprooted trees and blew down fences. '

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

CHINA advices of the 25th say that in a recent fire.in Tokio 2,625 houses were burned. <

"Ar Townesville, Australia, a hurricane on the 20th flooded the town and caused much damage. Several persons were drowned. e 2 . ON the 26th the annual race on the Thames course between thecrews of the Oxford and Cambridge universities was won by a léngth by the former. Time, 22 minutes 8 seconds. :

Ox the 28th a naphtha train of thirtyeight cars took fire near Brelogory, Russia, and -an explosion took place in which twenty train-hands were killed.

IN Brussels on the 28th the English delegates to the anti-slavery conference adopted a resolution for the prohibition of the sale of alcohol in the interior of Africa. >

LATER,.

BiLrLs were passed by the Unitjed States Senate on. the 29th ult. appropriating $3,738,000 for the improvement of St. Mary’s river, Michigan, and $1,684,000 for the improvement’ of the Hay lake channel, Michigan. In the House the naval appropriation bill ($22,151,523) was reported and the army appropriation bill was discussed. :

AX earthquake shock was felt at Contoocook, N. H., on the 29th ult.

THE five-story elevator of the John W. Kuffman Milling Company at St. Louis was burned on the 29th ult., caussng a loss of $280,000. - e v

NEWS of the 30th ult. says that in the recent cyclone every building between Bledsoe and Eulia in Macon County, Tenn., was blown away, the town of Dixon Springs was entirely destroyed, and many persons were killed. The property loss was estimated at $2,000,000. In Jackson County over sixty persons were killed. o ;

THREE miners were killed on the 29th ult. by a cave-in at the Prince of Wales "mipe near Negaunee, Mich.

DispatcuEs of the 29th ult. say that hundreds of houses in Jeffersonville, Ind.; were wrecked in the recent cyclone, causing a loss of $750,000. No lives were lost. In Gibson County fifty buildings were destroyed and much stock killed. : : e

| Tae, defalcation of Archer, State Treasurer of Maryland, was on the 29th ult. said to be nearly $500,000.

FRANK YOUNGLEY, aged 30 years, quarreled with his wife on the 29th ult. at Pittsburgh, Pa., and then shot himself dead. ‘ THE town of Huntington, Miss., was from five to seven fiéléglhfiunder water on the 80th ult. and the water was still rising. . ‘ MASKED men on the 20th ult. robbed C. D. Miller, a farmer living near Lima, 0., as he was returning from town with $5OO he had drawn from the bank. - Jou~N OwsLEY, of St. Joseph, Mo., a man 70 years old and ten years ago a millionaire, was on the 29th ult. sentenced to the penitiary for burglary. = THE latest estimate on the 30th ult. placed the number of persons killed by the cyclone at Louisville at 103, and the number of injured at 800, of whom about sixty were expected to die from their wounds. Dispatches from ‘other points in the State report great damage and some loss of life. The towns of Caledonia and Grand Rivers were entirely destroyed; in West Louisville every business house and half the residences were wrecked, and.Blackford was n2arly wiped out. . L

IN THE STORM’S PATH.

The Recent Cyclone Proved Truly to Be but the Breath of Death. ‘Nearly 200 Lives Were Lost in Kentucky, Tennessee, Southern Indiana and Illinois, Not Including the Victims ; : ; at Louisville. . * '8 R ~ ° DEATH'S HARVEST. : LoviwsviLLe, Ky., March 81.—It is now estimated that 150 persons were killed in this State outside this ecity and from fifteén to twenty-five in Tennessee, to say nothing of the fatalities in Illinois, Indiana and other States. - The destruction of property loss and of live stack can not be approximately estimated at present. A brief synopsis of the loss of life and property, wherever an estimate could be made, at other points than this city, is as follows:

~ In Louisville the latest estimate of thé loss of life is 103; the injured number, according te close figuring, about 150, and the loss to property is about $2,500.000. s -

At Eminence, Ky.—Seven fatalities; propei'ty loss about $60,000. .

At Marion, Ky.—Four killed and fifty-five wounded. S G

Eight miles from Marion a family of six persons were crushed to death by the fall of their dwelling. .

At Sulphur Springs, Ky.—One death. In the vicinity of Grand River, Ky., and Paducah, Ky.—Eizht fatalities. o At West Louisville, Ky.—One killed and thirteen injured. . ; 2 :

At Pooltown, Ky.—Four killed and many hurt. :

At Blackford, Ky —Twenty-one lives lost, and as many more persons injured. In this district the property loss is estimated at about $40,000. . =

At Hibbardsville, Ky. — Loss to property about $50,009, : - In the country just back of' Point Pleasant, Ky., twenty-five houses and a large number ‘of barns were blown away. Several persons were fatally injured. .

At Bremen, Ky., every dwelling in the place was destroyed. Six people were reported ki}'led and nine badly injured.

At Glasgow, Ky.—Five lives lost; damage to property, about §50,000. ' o In Laurel County, Ky.—One death. : In Crittenden County, Ky.—Two deaths. At Plymouth, Ky.—One dtath. b At Eddyville, Ky.—Six deaths. The property loss in the neighborhood will reach $50,000. At Sullivan, Ky.—Ten or twelve persons injured. ° : In Webster County, Ky.—Eight lives lost; thirty persons hurt; loss of property about $150,000.

Between Hornburg and Clay, in Kentucky, seventeen deaths are reported. o - In Hardin County, Ky., a farmer named Pauley and his daughter were killed, and there are two or three other fatalities reported. ° Reports come from Hopkinsville, Ky., that for twenty miles around great damage was done. Houses and barns, fences and forest trees were blown down and scattered. . At Caledonia, a village in Trigg County, every house was swept away. : o A telegram from Belleview, Ky., states that the store'of McGhee Bros. in that place was wrecked and burned and three men perished in the flames. : : '

For the second time in its history the town of Fayetteville, K):.‘ was almost completely destroyed. The losses are estimated at $100,.000.

The tow-boat Nail City was caught by the cyclone Thursday night at Gayoso, Tenn., 135 miles above Louisville. Six offthe crew were drowned and two produce barges lost. :

At Rogana, Tenn., William Wood, a postmaster, was instantly killed, and John:Jones, the oldest man in the county, was so injured that he died in a few hours. -

At Gallatin, Tenn.—Two deaths and many persons hurt. - It was known that every house and building betwéen Bledsoe and Eulia in the path of the storm are blown away and hundreds of people are injured and without food or shelter. Itis reported that the whole town of Dixon Springs in Smith County, Tenn., thirty-five miles distant, was swept out of existence by the angry cyclone. - The loss to stock and other property in this district is estimated at $1,000,000. :

In Jackson County,: Tenn.—Twenty-five persons are reported killed. Sixteen are reported killed in and about Shiloh and north of Campbell Hill, in the northern part of the county. Several were killed about Poplar Ridge, in the southern part of the county. At Grand Tower four were Kkilled, three children were missing and a great amount of property was destroyed. . ‘

* In Washington County, Ind.—The loss to prop erty is said to be $lOO,OOO. Two deaths are reported. Over 100 houses in the.bottom lands between Evansville and Mount Vernon, Ind., were swept away by the wind and water in the recent storm, the farmers losing all their household * goods and stock and barely escaping with their lives. One entire family who were living in a small farm house between Fairplay and West Franklin, Ind., are reported to have been carried off in their home. At Metropolis, 111., two or three pevsons were killed, 150 buildings were destroyed, and the loss of property is estimated at $250,000. At Little Prairie, 111.. fifteen houses were demolished and one woman was killed.

Several persons were hurt at Olney, 111., a

the loss will reach nearly $50,000. ; In theneighborhood of Grand Tower, 111., dozens of houses were wrecked, four lives were lost and twenty-two persons were injured. At Sparta, 111., one woman was killed. At Golconda, 111., four fatalities are reported. Rumors are constantly coming in from the vi¢inity of residences destroyed, barns wrecked, fencing blown away, orchards ruined and men, women and children killed or washed away by the rushing waters. . 7 : ;

MORE STORMS TO COME.

St. Louils, March 31.—Rev. Ira R. Hicks, of this city, who- has achieved much more than a local reputation as a weather prophet and who predicted the late storm with wonderful accuracy, now gives a forecast for April, which includes numerous marked changes in temperature and -three storm periods. He says the month will open with a summer temperature and vernal storms will occur on ' the Ist and 2d, especially on the 2d. The 6th, 7th, Sth and 9th are designated as danger days, when there will be heavy storms of lightning, wind and hdil, with snow in Northern sections. About the 13th it will be cold with much frost. Active and violent storms will occur on the 19th, 20th and 21st, moving from the west to the east. From this on there will be the usual April showers, and the month will go out with a high thermometer. The dates of greatest earthqualke probabilities are given as the sth, 19th, 20th and 21st, Prof. George Root, of Canton. Me., another successful weather prognosticator, predicts a tornado period from the 20th to .the 25th of April, and says it will be the worst storm period of the year. GLEANED HERE AND THERE. ~ CULTIVATION of the date palm has become an established industry in Florida. . AmD Ri'v'erside, near Denver, the finest .equestrian statue in America marks the grave of a ‘‘hard-worked farmer.” Trr Ventura County-(Cal.) papers are vrging their readers to plant camphor trees. They.are said to grow as rapidly as the eucalyptus. THE coinage of the one-dollar gold piece, the three-dollar gold piece and and the three-cent nickel piece is henceforth to be prohibited by law. ALL the tramps in the Battle Creek (Mich.) lock-up were offered two dollars a day to go out. to Goguac lake and cut ice, but every one of them declined. A NUMBER of Philadelphians during the coming summer will make trips around the world and in some cases have made bets as to which wili make the quickest time. ° ° o A cirizex of Addison, Me., has the res mains of an ancient walrus that was washed out of a clay bank near his home. 'The bones were at least fifteen fect underground, showing that the animal must have died many years, ago and fhat the walrus once inhabited the Milgpooust, . g e

DEADLY MILL-DUST.

It Explodes in the Starch-House of the Chicago Sugar Refinery—The Building Demolished and Three Men Are Known to Have Been Killed—Eight Others Missing and Probably Dead—Seventeen Persons Injured. :

Cricaco, March 28.—Eleven men were killed and seventeen wounded in a mill-dust explosion at the Chicago sugar refinery, Taylor and Beech streets, at 5:30 yesterday afternoon. Three dead bodies have been taken from the ruins, two of which have been identified. Eight others are missing, and are more than likely dead. The explosion occurred in the starch-house.

The concussion that accompanied the explosion shook the walls of the great twelve-story building, which is the main structure of the plant. The workmen rusheéd to the rear of the building. The starch-house was a mass of flames. Here and there men were seen crawling from such apertures as were left in the ruins. Three scrambled through' the windows of a woodshed that adjoined the starch-house. The roof and first floor were lifted by the forcé of the explosion and fell to the ground. The walls stood for a moment, then tumbled on the massof ruins. When the fire department arrived there was nothing left of the building. There was a pile of ruins burning fiercely. Buried under the debris were no one knew how many of the mill-hands, but the work of rescue could not be commenced until the flames were extinguished. The horrible weather, the innumerable railway tracks which surround the structure, the mud hub deep, and various other things combined -to make the fire a difficult one to fight. ‘

The news of the frightful casualty traveled with its usual speed, and within an hour the place was besieged with anxious members of the families of employes. Men who were employed in departments far remote from the scene of the explosion in many instances remained to assist.in the work of removing the dead and dying. The wives and daughters of ‘many such employes faced the fearful storm and waded the nasty mire in a frenzy of anxiety which would not be quieted until they had scen with their own eyes the living persons of their husbands, fathers or brothers. : i

A Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad employe told the story of the -explosion, of which he was an eye-wit-ness, as follows: - “I was standing on-the corner of Taylor and Sherman streets, in plain view of the refinery, when I heard the explosion. What a sight it was! You couldn't tell whether the roof or the sides went up tirst, all in a bunch. I was soon joined ‘by two comrades, and together we worked like wild men in the ruins, and as I rushed into the place where the old building stood I saw two or three men rush out.. Right down there in the corner (pointing to a dark cavern of smoke, fire and burning timbers) Isaw a man pinned down by a heavy timber. He stuck his| head and hand out and, yelled tome: ‘I ain’t hurt much, but a little buntr, and’l can't get out.” 1 tried my best to move the plank to free him but-then the fire which was breaking out all the time got so hot that I had to leave him to be burned to death. All three of us hdd to ruu for our lives, and we barely escaped ourselves. It . was mighty hard to leave a man that way, but it was no use; it had to be done. There was just about ten minutes from the explosion until the fire got so hot that nothing could be done. Under my feet I could hear voices. and I know that move bodies are in the ruins. One man I saw just for a minute who was burned o that whep I grabbed his hand the skin dropped off.” - ot The clearest account of the cause ‘of the explosion is given by Dr. Behr, the sugar refinery chemist, who told Dr. J. B, Mu}rphy how the explosion tfik. place. ~ *‘Directly under the room whele the explosion occurred,” said = Dr. Behr, ‘‘was a plant for the manu-. facture of printers’ rollers. 'The plant was owned by the Chicago Sugar Refining Company. The gummy substance used in making the rollers is heated in a number of pans. One of these pans caught fire and this set the ceiling ablaze, the fire then communicating with the room above, where the men were engaged drying the starch. The dust then ignited and exploded.” - The force of the explosion can hardly be estimated. The-building in which it occurred was a substantial brick structure 75 feet long by 50 feet in width. The roof was hurled into the air as if it were made of card-board, and the walls were entirely demolished. - The losses on the demolished building are figured at $4,000 on the structure and $15,000 on stock. .

ALL DIED TOGETHER.

Three Brothers Run Down and Killed by an Erie Passenger Train.

SUSQUEHANNA, Pa., March 28.—Train No. 14 on the Erie railroad killed three men at Red Rock, a small hamlet seven miles west of here, early this morning. The victims were three brothers, named Deidrick, John and Henry Bakeslee, all of New York. The two Ilatter were employed by Henry Eggert & Co., wholesale grocers. On the 30th of last December Henry disappeared suddenly after having last been seen in a saloon at the corner of South Fifth avenue and Blecker street. The police and detectives in New York, Jersey City, Hoboken and Brooklyn searched for him without success. Deidrick and John then threw up their positions and devoted all their time to an endeavor to discover the whereabouts of their brother. They found him somewhere in the West, and the three were returning to New York when they were struck by the passenger . train and hurled against a freight train ‘ which was passing and which prevented them from hearing the approach of the express, one of the fastest on the road. The bodies were all horribly mangled, and death in each case was instantaneéous. o

PAY OF PARLIAMENTARIANS.

IN Austria the pay is $5 a day. i . IN Germany members of both houses receive about $2.50 perday. ] IN France members of each hopuse receive the same—ss per day. - ’ . IN Greece the Senators get $lOO per month and the deputies $5O. l IN Belgium each member of the Cham- | ber of Representatives gets $B5 a month. | IN Denmark the members of the' Landsthing each receive about $3.75 a ' day. b ' | IIN Portugal the Peers and Commons | are paid the same sum, which is about ! $385 a year. : ! IN Spain the members of the Cortes ! are not paid for their services, but en- | joy many advantages and immunities.. IN Switzerland the members in the National Council get $2.50 per day, and the Council of State, the lower house, $1.50. : : Ix Italy the Senators and Deputiesare not paid at all, but they are allowed traveling expenses and certain other pmivileges, . . ENGLAND is the only country where members of Parliament are not only un- | paid, but have no special ‘rights or privHegen whatever, .+~ - .

STRICKEN CITIES.

Far-Reaching Effects of the Cyclone ' of Thursday. ,

Many Lives Have Been Lost and an Enormous Amount of Property Ruinedin Illinois, Indiana, Tennesse- = and Other States. S

BOWLING GREEN, KY., WIPED OUT.

CiNCINNATI, March 29. — Late dispatches state that the tornado struck the town of Bowling Green, Warren county, Ky., and completely wiped it out. As the wires are down no detailed report can be obtained, and but the meager fact that the calamity had occurred has been received. Bowling Green has a population of about 8,000 inhabitants, and the loss of life is conjectured to be correspondingly large.

3:15 a. m.—All efforts to secure news from Bowling Green, Ky., up to this hour have proved fruitless. Bowling Green is out of the world as far as getting any information from there is concerned. The worst is feared and the best is hoped for. : : '

AT METROPOLIS, ILL.

MeTROPOLIS, 111, March 29.—This town was Thursday visited by the most fearful storm in its history, resulting in the wounding and death of a portion of its citizens and such a wholesale destruction of property as was mnever known here before. - RUIN AT OLNEY, ILL. e

OLNEY, 111.,, March 29.—News has reached .this city of more damage done by the cyclone of Thursday night than was at first anticipated. The storm brought destruction and ruin.to this vicinity. Six miles southwest H. Clark, a farmer, lost his dwelling. The residence ‘of Mr.. W. O'Donnell was destroyed and his daughter injured. Martin Totten’s fine sparn was blown down. A milliner, Miss Spoonster, received injuries that may prove fatal. Mrs. Mattie had twe ribs brokén and her breast crushed. Her condition is critical. Mrs. Heem, a blind lady, was bruised and otherwise injured. The loss to property, not insured, ranges from $40,000 to $50,000. .

AT OTHER ILLINOIS POINTS.

~ Carlro, 111.,, March 29.—The gale-here Thursday night sunk several shanty and fish ‘boats on the Ohio river ar& rendered navigation almost impossible. In the city it blew oné frame house from its foundation into the water. No one was hurt. The gale blew at the rate of sixty miles an hour at Mill Creek, and five houses and several barns were leveled and a Mrs. Hartline and her child severely hurt. . DECATUR, 111., March 29.—During the storm of Thursday evening Charles and Emma Black, children of Charles Black, a wealtliy’ farmer, were riding home from school on horseback, near Mechan: icsburg, when lightning struck thé boy, killing both him and the horse. The little girl walked home through the driving rain to tell of the awful death of her brother. : e AT JEFFERSONVILLE, IND:

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., March 29.— Jeffersonville was struck by , the: eyclone at 8 o'clock Thursday night. Fortunately not a person was killed, though some were badly hurt. East of Front street the old Orphans’ Home was demolished, ten buildings, mostly private © residences, were totally wrecked, and many others were badly damaged. West of Spring street -the damage was even worse. Among the residences blown to pieces in this district were those of Mrs. Cranweiss, loss, $20,000; William 1. Harriwell; loss, 16,000, .and Rev. T. G. Bosley, loss, $5,000. - ) G

IN INDIANA.

EvAxsviLLe, Ind., March 29.—Evansville escaped lightly as compared with the Louisville horror, but there were many rumored. casualties that ordinarily would have becn considered serious enough. The ' south wing -of Ulmer’s brewery collapsed, and two men— Claude Tilly and Joseph Winnegar—were crished to death. ‘The loss will be 825,000. : | |

‘WasHiNGTON, Ind,, March 29.—Additional particulars of the great storm in the southern part of this ceunty show that five houses and seven barns were destroyed, many horses and cattle killed, and over 200 miles of fence ruined. ‘The track of the storm was about one mile in width. - So far as can be learned no lives were lost. e

‘PrINCETON, Ind., March 29.—Shortly before 6 o'clock Thursday night a tornado swept over the country just north and west of this city, doing an immense amount of damage to the farm houses, farms and valuable timber. - - At Lyle’s Station, five miles west, Ralph Ashby was badly hurt, the roof of his residence falling in on him and holding him down uutil assistance came to take him out. In short, atleast fifty buildings in this county have been wrecked, together with a large number of valuable stock killed. The total loss will be great. :

IN GEORGIA.

CHATTANOOOGA, Tenn., March 29:—Reports have reached here that a tornado struck Graysville, Ga., a town eighteen miles south of this place, Thursday night. The roof was blown off the large flouring-mills, an& two houses belonging to John Woods and ;T. T. Wilson werg blown down. Every house and outbuilding at Allsbrook wasdestroyed. Several narrow escapes are reported, but it is impossible to learn whether or not any body has been killed. -

— IN VIRGINIA. : StAaunTOoN, Va., March 29.—A heavy wind-storm has prevailed here since noon Friday, unroofing heuses, uprooting trees and blowing down fences. , A NATIONAL CALAMITY IMMINENT. . NEw York, March 29.—Sergeant Dunn, of the Signal Service, in an interview yesterday afternoon said that one of the greatest calamities the country has ever known is imminent, and that it is the duty of the press to warn people of the Lower Mississippi-to prepare for the worst. He says: P ‘lt will be the greatestdcalamity that has ever befallen that section qf the country. The damage will be greatest below Memphis. The storm is just like an enormous pitcher of water poured upon a country already flooded. Although several immense crevasses aave been found in the levees Dbelow Vicksburg from 200 to 1,500 feet wide and twenty to twenty-five feet deep, carrying off millions of gallons of water every second, the height of the river at Vicksbmfi% and Cairo has remained almost stationary at the top flood limit. This shows that the channel of the river below is (all choked up with alluvium and debris from the first flood, and that this :is acting ‘aB a dam which will eventually work havoc with all the levees. When the wave crest. from this .new gtorm comes down the river, things are bound to be cgrried away, and the entire surrounding country covered, This will probably arrive at Cairo in two or three days but it may be three weeks before it reaches New Orleans. New Orleans will be reached without ‘doubt by one of the most disastrous flogds ever known, and I would not give five cents for my life in that city when the wave crest strikesit. I do not say this to frighten people, but am. simply Statiag facts that will be veried, s - LY

A BURSTING LEVEE.

It Causes the Complete Inundation of the ‘Town of Skipwith, Miss., Forcing the ~ Residents to Swim for Their Lives. .

. NEW ORLEANs, March ,27.——Meaget,i reports were received here Wednesday afternoon saying that the levee at Skipwith, in Issaquena County, Miss., had broken, :and that the whole town was completely covered with water, some of ‘the inhabitants being forced -to make their escape by swimming. The crevasse is said to be" 400 feet wide, and the ends are washing away rapidly. ‘lt is difficult to get details because the telephone line between the town and the outside world was washed away 'almost at the first rush of the water through the break. Unless the break :is stopped at once great damage will ensue, because the country threatened includes some of the finest farming lands in Issaquena, Sharkey and Warren counties. The Mississippi Valley railroad will also suffer . both on the main line and the Riverside division. In fact, the railroad officials expect that the line will be washed away within forty-eight hours. . There is no doubt that the flood will cover all the fine plantations in the threatened ‘section, and there is a likelihood also that Greenville will be cut off. o St :

‘GREENVILLE, Miss., March 27.—Tuesday night a deafening uproar, too familiar to the oft-afflicted people of the delta, awoke the sleeping family of Mr. Lachs, of Skipwith, Miss.,” to the terrible consciousness that the levee, behind which was . their dwelling, had broken and.the waters of the Mississippi _were upon them through a crevice hundreds of feet wide. Through the inpouring ‘flood they battled their way to a large skiff in front of the warehouse of Lachs & Co., near their dwelling, Mrs. Lachs barely escaping with her life. When she arrived at their ark of refuge the water had risen to her chin, and it was with the utmost difficulty/that.her two children ¢ould be rescued by her husband. Mr. Lachs, thinking of the immense loss both of life and property that must occur, entered the'store and telephomed an alarm up and down the river. He also narrowly escaped drowning. " Two citizens of the unfortunate little town: were drowned. - To add further horror to the scene the warenouse belonging to Lachs & Co., with its entire contents, was totally destroyed by fire resulting from the water coming in contact with several barrels of unslacked lime. The warchouse also contained an immense amount of freight. The damage doné is inestimable, as no precaution had been taken against the flood. An immense quantity of live stock was drowned. |

- ArkAxsas Ciry, ‘Ark., March 27.— Captain Leach, United. States engineer, is fitting out a boat to go to the relief of the sufferers at Laconia circle, below here: Awful devastation is reporced there. Houses are surrounded by water and the occupants havie taken refuge on the roofs or in the top stories and are without provisions. A large amount of live stock is drowned. ==

GONE TO HIS REWARD.

Archbishop ‘Heiss,i of the Diocese of Mil- " waukee, tlie,"enera;ble Catholic Prelate, Dies at the Age of Y 2 Years. :

- LA Crosse, Wis., March 27.—Archbishop Michael Heiss, of the Catkolic diocese of Milwaukee, died in this city ° Wednesday night after a sickness of, several - months. .~ He: was born in Pfahldorf, : - Bavaria, in 1818, and studied. law ‘and - theology at the University of Munich. He came to Milwaukee in 1844 as secretary of Archbishop Henni. He. founded 3t. . Francis’ Theological Seminary in Milwaukee afnd in 1868 “was consecrated Bishop of La Crosse, which diocese he . administered for twelve years. In 1880 . he was promoted to the Coadjutorship of Milwaukee, and upon the death of Archbishop Henni succeeded him to the arch-diocese of Milwaukee. i

JUSTICE CAMPBELL DEAD.:

The Venerable Michigan Jurist Ixpires Suddenly at His Home in Detroit.

Drrrorr, Mich.,, March 27.—Justice James V. Campbell, of the Michigan Supreme Court, a member of the Supreme Bench since 1859, died suddenly at his home in this city this morning. Justice Campbell was horn in New York in 1823, came. to-Michigan in early life, and was one of the pioneers of the State. He has been Chief Justice of the bench in rotation nine- times, has been 3a law - professor of the University of Michigan = since the ' organ~ ization of the law department of thas institution, was one of the standing committee of the Protestant Episcopai Diocese of Michigan, and was a man of wide culture. His death was caused by heart disease. His family found him dead in his chair, where he had died while reading anewspaper. =«

NEARLY WIPED OUT,

Fire Destroys a Large Part of Pioneer, O. . —The Loss Is $£25,000.

ToLEDO, 0., March 27.—Fire Wednesday morning destroyed mnearly all of Pioneér; a @Jw,n of about 1,000 inhabitants, in Williams County, fourteen' . miles from - Bryan, the county seat. The = flames first broke wut in a blacksmith shop, and, fanned by a' strong wind, destroyed twentyone biildings, including the post- ' office, ~ Alliance- newspaper, black-smith-shop, wagon-shop, livery-stable, agricultaral-implement store, boot and shoe store, hardware store, two millinery stores, meat market, photograph gallery, drug store, twelve dwellings and the bridge over the St. Joseph river, - Oxford Wins the Boat Race. : ‘LoxnoN, March 27.—Thegreat annual race between the boat crews of Oxford and Cambridgs universities took place on the Thames Wednesday afternoon. The weather in the forenoon was brilliant. but at the time of the race the wind was changeable, causing the water to be quite choppy. Oxford won, the time being 22 minutes and 8 seconds. & Hu'l-'_x"icafle'in Australia. - : . BRISBANE, March 27.—A hurricane in Townesville has flooded the town and caused mueh damage. Several persons were drowned. Rains continue throughout Queensland. -=~ . | - © ' Buck Ewing May Play. L NEw York, March 27.—1 n the case of the Metropolitan Exhibition Company against Buck Ewing asking for an injunction to restrain the latter from playing with any other club, Judge Wallace sitting in the United States Circuit Court denied the motion. . . ToSucoeed Crook. ' - Nuw York, March 27.—Major-General Schofield, whose headquarters are at Washington, has beon temporarily assigned to the command of the Department 6t the Missourl, formerly under command of General Crook, L e