Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 10, Number 10, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 31 May 1888 — Page 6

THE KAPPANEE NEWS. i < h —H | BY G.N. MI'RE VY. NAPPANEE, : : INDIANA. Epitome of the Week 1 inTeresttng news compilation. I CONGRESSIONAL. The bill to establish a Department of Labor Vaa passed in the Senate on the 22d. The Finance Committee made an adverse report on the Fractional Currency bill, and would report a bill reducing the fee on postal notes for less than one dollar te once cent. By a vote of 28 to 27 it was decided not to consider the fisheries treaty in open session In the House the session was occupied in discussing the Con vlct-Labor bill. Ist the Senate on the 23d some routine matters were disposed of, after which an adjournment was taken that Senators might attend the funeral of the wife of Senator Sawyer... In the House the time was occupied in discussing the Post-office-Appropriation biH, but, no action was taken. Ms. Stewart (Nev.) called up in the Senate on the Slth the joint resolution for a constitutional amendment reducing to a simple majority the vote necessary to override a Presidential veto, and spoke at length on the subject. He said that the Government was now one-man power, and lamented the fact that the advice of Congressmen was not considered in the appointment of office-holders In the House the bill for the admission of South Dakota into the Union was discussed. The conference report on the Invalid Pension bill was agreed to. The Post-Office Appropriation bill was passed. Us the Senate on the 25th the Deficiency Appropriation hill was passed. Senator Turpie introduced a bill to provide for a directory of the most skilled mechanics and artisans in all parts of the country. Senator Blair introduced a joint resolution' providing that no State shall ever make a law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, and that every State shall establish and maintain a system of free public schools, ~.. In the House the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was discussed. At thfe evening session fifty private pension bills were passed. Is the Senate on the 26th the question of dis cussing the fishery treaty In open session was cottsiderect.in caucus by the Republican members, who favor ah open discussion In the House the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was further considered. DOMESTIC. The prospect for the winter wheat crop in Illinois and lowa was on the 23d consicff ered decidedly unfavorable. James TV. Schooler (colored), of Nicholasville, Ky.. was on the 23d admitted to practice before the Court of Appeals of Kentucky—the first instance of the kind on record, %. • j The dead bodies of John F. and Charles G. Fuhrmann (brothers) were found on the 23d in a hotel room in St. Lotiis. The police believed that the men committed suicide by poison, but no cause for the act was known. | A reception" was given to the members of the Northern and Southern Presbyterian general assemblies on the 23d by Mr. and Mrs. Wistar Morris at their residence in Overbrook, near Philadelphia. President and Mrs. Cleveland were present. While drunk on the 23d at Cleveland, 0., William J. McFarland shot his wife and little daughter and then shot himself. All were fatally wounded. The Michigan State convention of the ‘Woman’s Christian , Temperance Union : commenced on the 23d at Cold water. The license judges in Philadelphia comrpletfcd their work on the 23d, granting 1,257 i licenses, against 5,773 granted last year. A freight train on the Rock Island railjroad went through a bridge on the 23d near Randolph Point, Mo., crashing into a ravine • twenty-five feet deep, and' five men were l killed. i Thu annual parade of Sunday-school children at Brooklyn. N. Y\, took place on the 23d. It was estimated that sixty thousand children were in line. Mayor Roche, of Chicago, on the 23d re- | ceived an appeal for help from the Mississippi river flood sufferers. It was represented that afc territory fifty-two miles "in ‘length had been inundated, the crops destroyed, the residents driven from their 'homes and a large number of families wore dependent upon charity. A cyclone swept over Browntoh, Tex., on the 23d. and the Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches were demolished fcnd eight houses destroyed, and Amanda ■Willis (colored) instantly killed. The path of the storm- was three hundred feet wide, and crops, buildings, trees, fences and every thing in the danger belt were swept away. Mrs. George Reed, of Nappanee, Ind., took her three-mouths’-old child in her arms on t}ie 23d, leaped into a well and both were drowned. She left a note saying she was tired of life, i AJ-bert Ks mpkek. the bid farmer who murdered his wife near Columbus, Neb., a few weeks ago, hanged himself in his cell cn the 24th. J/ ‘ ' * Des. Newman and; Goodsell were elected Bishops on the 24th by the Methodist General conference) in session in New York City. The National meeting of Dunkards at Wabash, Ind.,‘on the 24th decided that Imembers must, quit using tobacco before “they take baptism. The act of the Legislature of Washington Territory extending the suffrage to women was declared unconstitutional on the tilth by Judge Nash at Spokane Falls. David Pierce and his son were killed by lightning on the 24th at Moscow Springs, Mo. •'!,;] Fred Mathiessen, editor of the Odell (HI.) Reporter, committed suicide on the 24th by shooting himself. The output of gold and silver of Montana last year was on the 24th estimated at over *23,000,000.1 A wind-storm on the 24th damaged business and resident property at Corsicana, Texj, to the extent of S2S,(XX), and in the surrounding country the damage was very large and over a dozen buildings were uu- , poofledi Fire on the 24th: in a rag at New York entrapped ten women, seven of whom escaped, while the others sustained fatal injuries. Th e corner-stone of the new Catholic University of America was laid in Washington on the 21th by Cardinal Gibbons witl) appropriate .ceremonies. A ‘convention called to encourage immigratjion to Mississippi met at Jackson on the 24th and it was decided to establish a State Immigration Society. Judge Wallace, of New York, decided on the 24th that Rev. E. W_ Warren most pay a fine of SI,OOO for coming to this country to preach under contract for Holy Trinity Church. Lqccsts in large quantities were being ' found on the 24th in some sections of Central II linois, and it was thought they were the "seventeen year” species. Is the Methodist general conference in New York on the 25th resolutions were adopted demanding voluntary total übstanence from all intoxicants and complete legal prohibition of the liquor traffic as the duty of the civil governments, and church members were advised not to permit themcelvcs to be controlled by political party

organizations that were managed in the Interests of the liquor traffic. President Cleveland on the 25th approved the act authorizing a conference of American nations and the act limiting the hours of letter-carriers,, There were 213 business failures in the United States daring the seven days ended on the 25th, against 183 the previous seven days. j - Reuben Drake, a well-to-do farmer, sixty years of age, and his wife and two grandchildren were murdered in their home in the town of Kickapoo, Wis., on the 35th. It was supposed the murderer’s object was robbery. Three workmen were killed on the 25th by the falling of a stone in a quarry at Portland, Conn. 'William Miller, a prominent citizen of Brunswick, Ma, shot his wife and John Morgan dead on the 25th. Miller had had reason to suspect his wife of intimacy with Morgan. The National Butchers’ Association -ejected officers at Philadelphia on the 25th, Charles James, of St. Louis, being chosen president, /'Charles BL Hocklet, a wealthy lumberman of Muskegon, Mich., on the 25th presented to the city *IOO,OOO to found a public library. } ■ Joseph Boatright (colored), convicted at Marshall, Mo., of vagrancy, was on the 25th sold for six months’ service to the highest bidder for cash. The highest bid was $6.50. R. G. Dun & Cos., of New York, in their review of trade on the 25th state that the tendency of prices during the week were downward both for securities and products. Business failures were also on the increase. Hogs about Galena. 111., and the southern part of Wisconsin were dying in large numbers of cholera on the 27th. A wind and rain-storm on the 27th at Shelby ville, 111., uprooted trees and unroofed houses; and lightning struck one dwelling and a barn, cutting them in two as though cleft with an axe. Bishop Gilmore, of the Canton (O.) Catholic diocese, ordered on the 27th that no priest should officiate at funerals where flowers were used. William H. Roe, who murdered his wife by poisoning to secure the insurance on her life, was hanged on the 26th at Anderson, Tex. Two boys, each about fifteen years old, named Lennie Johnson end Henry Holberg, while playing in an oat bin of a railroad elevator on the 26th at Orion, 111., were smothered to death, j At Chadron, Neb., ana vicinity a -waterspout on the 26th did great damage to crops, swept away grazing live stock and inundated miles of territory. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of'the United States, with headquarters at New York, joined the American Protective Tariff League on the 26th. An Italian hoarding-house at Pittston, Pa., was burned on the 27th, and three children of the proprietor, Christopher Sarageni, perished in the flames. For -the week ended on the 26th the rec ord of the base-ball ‘clubs in the National League was as follows: Chicago (games won), 21; Boston, IS; Detroit, 16; New York, 13; Philadelphia, 12; Pittsburgh, 11; Indianapolis, 9; Washington, 6.\ In Albany, N. yI, on the 26th Joseph Sherer shot Lizzie McCarthy dead because she would not marry him and then killed himself. The exchanges at twenty-six leadigg clearing-houses m the United States during the week ended on the 26th aggregated $589,614,028, against $960,138,882 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1887 the decrease amounted to 5.2 per cent. A passenger train ran into a drove of horses on tlje 26th near Saybrook, 111., killing seven of them. The Parry stove works at South Pittsburg, Tenn., were burned on the 26th. Loss, $200,000. The Supreme Court of North Carolina decided on the 26th that a woman who had murdered her husband was entitled to a widow’s share of his property. The standard gauge railroad to the summit of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., was completed on the 26th, and the first passenger train ran up the mountain. Two men named William Johnson and Jefferson Tapley were drowned near Han'nibal, Mo., on the 26th by the capsizing of a skiff. 2 | PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. At the North Carolina Republican convention on the 23d in Raleigh a full State ticket was nominated with H. O. Dockery, of Richmond, for Governor. S. S. Brown, of Waterville, was nominated for Congress on the 23d by the Democrats of the Third district of Maine. Mississippi Democrats met at Jackson on the 23d and named W. H. Sims, R. A. Taylor, W. T. Martin and E. B. Calhoun as del-egates-at-large to St. Louis. The platform indorses President Cleveland’s Administration and the "Mills Tariff bill. Rev. O. Robards, pastor of the Madison (Ind.) African Methodist Episcopal church, fell dead on the 23d at his home. The Texas Democratic convention in ses sion on the 23d at Fort Worth named the following as delegates-at-large to St. Louis: James W. Throckmorton, D. C. Giddipgs, George Clark add Horace Chilton. The platform favors tariff reform and opposes further agitation of the question of fetate prohibition. . The Democrats of the Third district of North Carolina on the 23d renominated Charles W. McClammy for Congress. The Illinois Democratic State convention at Springfield on the 23d made the following nominations: For Governor, John M. Palmer; Lieutenant-Governor, Andrew J. Bell; Secretary, N. D. Ricks; Auditor of Public Accounts, Andrew Welch; Treasurer, Charles H. Wacker; Attorney General, Jacob R. Creighton. Resolutions were adopted indorsing President Cleveland’s renomination and approving of the policy of tariff reform. The following are the delegate s-t large to the National convention : William R. Morrison, James L Ewing, N. E. Worthington and William C. Goudy. • The Democrats of Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg on the 23d and elected as dele-gates-at-large to St., Louis L C. Cassidy, Charles F. Boyle, William T. Mutchler and William L. Scott. The platform indorses the President’s tariff message. •The Wisconsin Prohibitionists met at Madison on the 24th and made the following nominations: For Governor, E. G, Durant; Lieutenant-Governor, I. H. Dahl; Secretary of State, Nelson La Due Collins; Treasurer, D. Cline Prescott; AttorneyGeneral, General Charles E. Pike; Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. H. Gould; Railroad Commissioner, E. W. Drake; Insurance Commissioner, S. M. Bixby. The platform denounces the liquor traffic; insists upon State and National prohibition laws, and opposes all forms of license. T. C. Richmond, S. D. Hastings, E. C. Durant and Mrs. Amy Kellogg Morse were elected delegates-at-large to Indianapolis. Colorado Democrats met at Denver on the 24th and named the following delegates to St. Louis: T. M. Patterson, E. A. Ballard, T. B. Ryan, James Carlisle, Dr. W. T. Cockrel and C. Boreid. Maryland Democrats made the following Congressional nominations on the 24th; First district, C. H. Gibson (renominated) ;

Third, HI W. Rusk; Fourth, Isadore Raynor (renominated); Fifth, Barnes Comton (renominated); Sixth, H. K. Douglas. Pfcor. E. B. Elliott, Government Actuary of the Treasury Department, died on the 24th in Washington from a stroke of apoplexy. The Seventh Wisconsin district Prohibitionists on the 25th nominated J. H. Moseley, of Tomah, for Congress. General Sheridan was seriously dll at his home in Washington on the 25th with an affection of the heart. The Democrats of the Eighth North Carolina district on the 25th renominated W. H. H. Cowles for Congress. The Ohio Prohibitionists in convention on the 25th at Toledo nominated the following ticket: Secretary of State, Walter F. Payne; Board of Public Works, J. W. Penfield; Supreme Judge, John F. Moore. Colonel A. H. Markland, who had charge of the Government mail service in the South during the war, and who was a close friend of General Grant, died in Washington on the 35th, General Sheridan was in a dying condition on the 27th, and his physicians had abandoned all hope. The Louisiana Democrats .met at Baton Rouge on the 26th and named as delegates-at-large to St. Louis Samuel D. McEnery, Charles Parlange, James Jeffries and Dndlery Avery. The resolutiqns adopted favor President Cleveland’s renomination. The Democrats of the Seventh Indiana district on the 26tb renominated W. D. Bynum for Congress. FOREIGN* The French Senate passed a bill on the 23d exempting school-masters and theological students from serving three years, and letting them off with one year of military service. Advices of the 23d from Corea say that eighteen hundred out of two thousand houses at 'Olino, in Yechizen, had been burned, and that several people lost their lives. The monsoon was blowing at Point da Galle, Ceylon, on the 23d. The Germah Government on the 23d issued a decree imposing strict regulations upon travelers entering Alsace-Lorraine from France. Every person must have a passport re-qised by the German Ambassador at Paris. Advices of the 23d say seven highway robbers were shot dead by the police and soldiers of Durango, Mex. The Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park, on the Canadian side, was thrown open on the 34*h. It contains 118 acres. Lord and Lady Lansdowne sailed from Quebec for England on the 24th. Advices of the 24th say that one hundred and three persons belonging to the fishing fleet lost their lives in the recent gale off Ireland. ' „ ' . An explosion on the 24th at Herlot’s fireworks and cartridge factory in the suburbs of Paris destroyed seven buildings and killed eleven workmen. The marriage of Prince Henry, second son of Emperor Frederick, and Princess Irene, third daughter of Grand Duke Ludwig, of Hesse, took place on the 24th at Berlin. Several of the wealthiest merchants of Moscow were convicted on the 25th of adulterating tea, and one of them was deprived of his civil rights and banished to Siberia for life. In Paris on the 25th a large number of forged Bank of France notes were in circulation. Public confidence was shaken owing to the refusal of the directors to reimburse holders of forged notes. The village of Harlan, in Roumania, was destroyed by fire on the 25th, and four hundred families were homeless. Advices of the 26th, say that a copious rain-fall in Southern Russia had saved the crops and an abundant havest was assured. The ne,w gasometer of the Montreal gasworks exploded on the 26th, killing four persons and injuring six others, three fatally. A cyclone did great damage to property on the 26th in Ottawa and Cloud counties, Kan. Several persons were injured, but none fatally. Advices of the 27th from Egypt say that Osman Digma’s camp had been burned by incendiaries in order to compel him to retreat, and that two thousand of his followers perished. LATER NEWS. The New York World announced on the 2Sth that Mr. Blaine had written to one of his most intimate friends a letter pcsitively refusing the use of his name as a Presidential candidate and declaring that he could not, under any circumstances, accept the nomination. Great damage was done on the 2Sth by hail and lightning in various parts of Kansas and at Des Moines, la. An explosion of gasoline on the 28th in the store of A. F. Zellers, at Frederick, Md., during the progress of a fire, wrecked the building, killed a boy, and injured seventy persons, ten probably fatally. Forty-four violators of the SundayClosing law were arrested at Cincinnati on the 28th. One man was killed and ten others probably fatally injured on the 28th by a stroke of lightning at Milenberg, La. A cyclone on the 2Sth at Wellsville, N. Y., unroofed twenty business blocks and wrecked the Baptist church. The glass in hundreds of windows was broken. At Allentown, N, Y., a church, and other buildings werfe ruined. James McLaughlin & Son, woolen manufacturers at Skaneateles Falls, N. Y-, failed on the 2Sth for over $250,000. Heavy rains on the 28th flooded farm lands and did great damage to crops in many parts of Illinois, 'Wisconsin and Indiana. Washington advices of the 28th say that General Sheridan passed a very comfortable day on the 2Sth. His whole condition was very much improved, and he declared that he felt splendid. A cyclone on the 2Sth at Titusville, Pa., blew down whole avenues of trees and wrecked many buildings. The First National Bank at St. Paris, 0., suspended on the 28th, owing to the shortage of Emmett V. Rhoades, the cashier, amounting to SIO,OOO. Three children were swept away by the swollen flood of Solomon creek in Kansas on the 28th and were drowned. A furious wind-storm on the 28th near Morenci, Mich., wrecked eight buildings, tore down fences, uprooted trees and did other damage. Ekastus Snow-, one of the twelve apostles of the Mormon church, died at Salt Lake on the 28th, aged seventy years. At Canton, 0., buildings were blown down by high wind on the 28th, and losses amounting to- $70,000 were caused. The River and Harbor bill was reported back to the United States Senate on the 28th from the Commerce Committee. A resolution that the injunction of secrecy be removed from all the proceedings of the Senate in reference to the fishery treaty was adopted. In the House bills were introduced to retire ex soldiers and sailors who have been wounded in battle after twenty-one years of service in the civil service; providing for an Assistant Secretary of War, and providing for issuing bonds to refund the National debt. The Legislative, Executive and Judical Appropriation bill was farther considered.

THE DEMOCRATIC HOSTS. Preparations for the National Convention nt St. Louis—A List of Headquarters of the Various State Delegations—Preferences Expressed for the Nominees. St. Louis, May 38.—The official announcement of the headquarters of the members of the Democratic National Committee, and the various State delegations has been completed by the local Committee of Arrangements, and is as follows: States. So. Committeemen. HeadDelegates. quarter *. Alabama ..2D H. C. Temple, Lindell Arkansas 14 S. R. Cockrell, Jr.,Southern California 16 M. F. Tarpey, Laclede Colorado 6 C. S. Thomas, Southern Connecticut 12 W. H. Barnum. Planters (by proxy.) Delaware 6 J. C. Grubb, Lindell Florida 8 Samuel Pasco, Southern Georgia 91 Patrick Walsh, Southern Illinois 44 S. Corning Judd, Lindell Indiana 30 AH. Brown, Lindell lowa 96 M. M. Ham, Lindell Kansas 18 C. W. Blair, Planters Kentucky 96 H. D. McHenry, Lindell Louisiana. 16 B. F: Jones. Planters Maine 12 Edmund Wilson Southern Maryland 16 A. P. Gorman, Southern Massachusetts...9B F. R. Prince, Planters Michigan 96 J. M. Western, Southern Minnesota 14 P. H. Kelley, Planters Mississippi 18 C. A. Johnston, Southern Missouri 39 J. G. Prather, Laclede Nebraska... 10 J. E. Boyd, Planters Nevada 6 J. H. Southern (by proxy.O New Hamrshire 8 A. W. Sulioway, Lindell New Jersey 18 Miles Ross, Hurst's New York 79 Wm. Steinway, Southern North Carolina.. 99 M. W. Ransom, Lindell Ohio .46 Ml W. Armstrong, Lindell Oregon 6 A. Noltner, Laclede Pennsylvania...6o W. A. Wallace, Southern Rhode Island... 8 J. B. Bamaby. Southern South Carolina. .18 F. W. Dawson, Lindell Tennessee 24 R. F. Looney, Southern Texas 96 O. T. Holt, Planters Vermont 8 K. B. Smolley, Lindell Virginia .’...24 J. S. Barbour, Planters West Virginia...l2 A. G. Davis, St. James Wisconsin 99 J. L. Mitchell, Planter's Arizona 2 W. L. Meade, Hurst’s Dakota 2 M. H. Day, Hurst's Dist. of Columbia 2 William Dickson, Laclede Montana 2 W. J. McCormick, Hurst's New Mexico 2 A- Josephs, Hurst's Utah 2 A. P. Rosebrough, Laclede Wash. Territory.. 2 J. Kuhn, Hurst’s Wyoming 2 M. E. Post, Hurst’s Idaho 2 John Haley, Hurst’s St. Louis, May 28.—Several days ago the Post-Dispatch sent to the delegates to the Democratic National convention and to other well-informed sources in every State and Territory in the Union for information respecting.Vice-Presiden-

WIIEIIE TUB CONVENTION WILL BB HELD.

tial preferences and the most probable action cf the delegates in convention. Twenty-two S:ates had been heard from up to Saturday night. A brief summary of the replies from these States is as follows: New York—of the sixty-eight delegates fiftyone will probably vote for Governor Gray, of Indiana. General Black, of Illinois, is the general second choice, and seventeen of the delegates are for him for first choice. Tammany and the County Democracy are almost unanimous for Gray. Missouri, after W. R. Morrison, of Illinois, as a first choice, will go for Gray in consequence of Black’s course to Morrison. The Kansas delegates are divided between Gray and Black, but are chiefly for Gray. Oregon, after Governor Pennoyer as first choice, is for a Western man. Nevada is for a protectionist. Massachusetts is first for P. A. Collins and then for either F. O. Prince or Judge Abbott. Ohio is nearly evenly divided between Gray and Black. Connecticut is for a Western man. Nebraska is for General Stevenson, of 1111aois, first, and then for either Gray or Black. South Carolina prefers an Indiana man. Michigan ofTers a majority for General Black. Georgia will give its whole delegation to Govjmor Gray. Indiana is instructed for Gray. Maryland prefers Gray to anybody else. Virginia is first for Governor Lee, and then for Stevenson or Gray. The personal preferences of the lowa delegation are Gray 9, Black 17, but they will vote solid for Gray if it is evident that the Administration favors him. Kentucky prefers Stevenson, hut will vote for Gray or Black, witin the chances In favor of Gray. Illinois preferences are Black IS, Morrison Z, Stevenson 2, Gray 2. New Hampshire leans toward Gray. Colorado Inclines toward Black. Mississippi is chiefly for Black. Texas is instructed for Mills and is for Gray as second choice. Pennsylvania has a majority for Gray. St. Paul, Minn., May 2S. - A special train will leave here Sunday morning, June 3, at 10 o’clock, via the Chicago, Burlington & Northern conveying the Minnesota, Dakota, Montana and Washington Territory delegations to the Democratic convention at St. Louis, including the Mesaba Club, of Duluth, twenty-five strong; Key City Club, of Dubuque, sixty strong; the Eastern lowa delegation, thirty strong. Governor Church, of Dakota, joins the party at. St. Paul The principal Democratic papers ■will be represented and provisions are being mr.de for 400 persons on this train. San Francisco, May 28.—Delegates to th© National Democratic convention left here yesterday morning for St. Louis. On their special car was the inscription: “California delegation solid for Grover Cleveland.” i*. A Svriou, Fire. South Pittsburo, Tern., May 28.—Tha immense buildings of the Perry stove works were burned here- Saturday-night. The buildings, inc‘uding foundry and warehouses, occup ed three acres of ground. The large dry-goods house of Payne & Ca. was also burned and the tire is still burning. It is feared the town will be burnetL Losses were roughly estimated at midnight at $200,000. Three Children Barn <l. Pittson, Pa., May 28.—An Italian boarding house burned yesterday morning Three children of the proprietor, Christopher Saragani, perished and several gien were hurt, same fatally.

RHIL’S HARDEST FIGHT. General Sheridan’s Struggle with the Conqueror of All—His Physicians Say There Is a Slim Chance That He May Vet Vanquish Death—His Condition Slightly Improved. Washington. May 29. —The reports from General Sheridan's bedside are a little more hopeful, though the chances are still against his recovery. He is weak, and did not leave his bed yesterday, but his mind remained clear and bright and he hatched closely every thing that took place around him. The bulletin signed by Drs. O’Reilly, Matthews, Byrne and Yarrow, issued at 9:30 last evening, said: "General Sheridan has passed a most comfortable day. Re dozed at intervals, and about ip. m. had a quiet sleep of nearly an hour’s duration, from which he awoke feeling refreshed and cheerful. He has slept occasionally since. His mind is perfectly clear. He is stronger. His pulse has gained in force and regularity, and at no time has exceeded 110. The respiration shows great improvement, and the aeration of the blood is better. The oedema of the legs has ent:rely disappeared. He takes sufficient food, and his tongue, previously much coated, is now clear. His secretions are normal. He says he feels splendid.' The midnight report said: "General Sheridan's favorable condition still continues. He sleeps easily and restfully, wakes occasionally, makes some rational remarks and goes to sleep again.' 1 At 2:30 this morning General Sheridan was reported to have been sleeping quietly for two hours. His condition remained unchanged. Every one in the house had retired Except Dr. O'Reilly and the two watchers. r Colonel Kellogg, who came out of the house soon after the midnight bulletin was issued, said it did not state the case any too strongly. He had visited the sick chamber a few- moments before and was surprised at the indications of improvement. He was at General Sheridan's bedside yesterday morning at 7 o’clock when his life seemed to be at the lowest ebb' since his sickness began. Tlie doctors then believed that the fated moment had arrived. They all expressed the Relief that-he would expire in a few and wenfe greatly surprised w-hen a short time afterward he began to improve. When Colonel Kellogg again visited the General at midnight he was both surprised and delighted to find such a change for the better. Colonel Blunt was' also cheerful and Mr. Moxley, who supplies the oxygen administered to the General, could not restrain his surprise when he found him so much better. The oxygen was not used much last night. For a period of three hours none was used at all and the General experienced no difficulty in breathing. The oedema in the legs, which subsided early in the day, has not reappeared, so that there seems now to be a genuine reason for hope. No one believes the General is out of danger, however. The improvement is simply over the condition of Sunday and there is great danger that it will not be permanent. From the beginning of his illness General Sheridan appears to have realized the uncertainty of his hold on life. The first attack alarmed him, and in a spirit of Christian resignation he gave* himself at once to serious consideration of the dread ordeal through which it was manifest he must soon pass. Tuesday last he made his-tonfession to Rev. Dr. Chapelle, pastor of St. Matthew's Church, where the Sheridan family attend. The great soldier heard the words of admonition with all the devotion of a child. As the physician did not think there was immediate danger of death it was not deemed necessary at that time to give him the sacrament, but Saturday afternoon his condition was such that it was not thought prudent by the family to further delay the administration of extreme sanction. Dr. Chapelle was sent for, and in the presence of the immediate members of the household and the senior surgeon. Dr. O'Reilly, the last sacrament of the Catholic church was given him, followed by communion. While the General's condition has im proved somewhat, the chances are still against his recovery, and the fact is fully appreciated. It is impossible to tell when a change may occur, and as several days elapsed between the early attacks of heart failure there is constant apprehension of its recurrence. The disappearance of the oedema in the leg has been quite marked and has given rise to a fear that it may have been in part caused by the fluid which produces the swelling having gone to other and more vital parts of the body. It was thought that it might have been due to " tapping,” but recourse has not been had to this process, and in the weakened state of the patient it might not have a good effect. It is thought that the heart failure is also complicated with chronic trouble of the liver, and that the existence of oedema is largely due to this complaint. If the General should liva he will owe his life to the skill and untiring attention of his physicians. As it is, they have prolonged his life several days. If he had been an ordinary man he would have died last Friday, but the General of the army commands the best medical skill in Washington, and four physicians have done nothing but watch him and invent means for prolonging his life. u There has been a shower of telegrams upon the Sheridan home, coming from every part of the country and from all sorts and conditions of men—from the old soldiers that fought under Sheridan's command in the valley of the Sheuandoah and from the aids-de-camp of the crowned heads of Europe, whose personal acquaintance Sheridan made during his visit to the continent at the time of the Franco-German war. The Emperor of Germany and Bismarck arc both personal acquaintances of Sheridan and have beeu his correspondents for several years, and messages of sympathy and hope have come from both of them. Every public man of note in town has called to leave his card, and the three aids of the General have been kept busy explaining to people the nature of his improvement. > Terrible Explosion. Frederick. Md.! May 29.—An explosion of gasoline occurred lasi, evening in the store of A. F. Zellers during the progress of a fire, wrecking the building and killing Charles Poole, a boy of 11 years. A number of firemen, who were in the building, were frightfully cut, burned and bruised, and about seventy-five people, who were watching the fire, were injured by the flying debris. Eight or ten of the injured will probably die. —“There is a strong resemblance between race horses and restauranj; waiters,” observed the Snake Editor, “f thought there was a great difference,” replied the Horse Editor, “for the race horse Sometimes gets there.” “That’s not it They both run to cups and stakes.” —Pittsburgh Chronicle. “Bobby,” said his father, with an ominous look in his eye, “why weren’t you at school this afternoon?” Bobby hung his head. “Cause I went to see the ball game,” he said. “Is that so? Who won?” — S’. I'. Sun.

IN THE TEMPEST’S PATH. Furious Cyclones, Raiq and Hall-Storms in Various States Create Great HavocSeveral Lives Lost—Live Stock Injured— Farm Lands Flooded and Crops Ruined. ■Wheeling, W. Va., May 29.—A fierce thunder-storm, with a gale of wind, hail and almost unprecedented rainfall, prevailed here and for 150 miles uvv.a the river yesterday afternoon. At Bridgeport, over the river, a 6-year-old son of Joseph Taylor was caught in a swelling stream and drowned. The tout of Clements & Russell’s circus on Wheeling Island was almost demolished. ,At Ravenswood, Jacksou County, hail-stones weighing four ounces fell, many windows were broken and fruit trees badly damaged. Near Charleston Robert Shannon was struck by a tree which was blown down and h’s peck broken. At Stevensville, opposite Ravens wood, Mrs. William Powell was killed by a stroke of lightning while sitting in her house The Ohio river train from here to Parkersburg had every pane of glass broken bv haiL Wellsville, N. Y., May 29. —Twenty business blocks were unroofed by a cyclone which struck this place at 4 o’clock jesterday afternoon. The Baptist church, a fine brick structure, was badly damaged. The roof was carried away and the interior wrecked. Parts of the roof were carried long distances, striking other buildings and doing general damage. Windows were broken by the hundreds, some of them very valuable ones. The storm swept violently east, felling trees and doing general damage. • j The church and several buildings were wrecked at Allentown’; N. Y., and many oil derricks in the Alleghany field were blown down. Titusville. Pa., May 29.—The cyclone which struck this city at 2:30 p. ml was accompanied by a cloud-burst which deluged the city. Whole avenues of trees were blown out, smokestacks and chimneys demolished, outhouses and barns lifted into the'air and thrown down aud smashed to atoms. Mrs. J. R. Barber and family were thrown from a baggy and slightly injured. Frank Barchfieid met with a similar experience and was badly hurt. Pittsburgh, Pa., May 29. —A heavy thunder-storm, accompanied by high winds and hail, passed over Western Pennsylvania last evening, doing great damage. Churches, public buildings and- dwellings were unroofed, trees uprooted aud fences and barns blown down. A number of persons were injured. Cleveland, 0., May 29.—A fierce windstorm passed over Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania yesterday afternoon. At Niles and Millersburg, 0., great damage was done to fruit and shade trees and a number of buildings unroofed. At Sharon, Pa., the brick foundry of the Sharon stove works was wrecked and other buildings damaged. At Sharpsville, Pa., houses and shops were unroofed and chimneys blown down. At New Castle, Pa., Traverse’s cigar store was wrecked and the residence of Dr. Green badly damaged by lightning. Morenci, Mich., May 29.—A heavy thun-der-storm swept over this end of Lenawee Countj- Sunday night. It was accompanied by a cyclone some miles northwest of here. Fences were torn down, eight buildings wrecked, trees uprooted and great damage done. Canton, 0., May 29.—A wind and rainstorm yesterday afternoon blew down a portion of the newly-erected factory building of the Due ber Watch-Case Company, causing a loss of $50,000. The workmen emploj'ed in the building escaped. Beatrice, Neb., May 29. —When Sunday night's storm came Up the wife of A. F. Beckett, who lives ou a farm south of Odell, iu this county, fearing that the water would rise in the creek on which they lived and carry the house away, started for a neighbor’s withher five children, one a crippled little girl. In the dark they lost their way and fell into a gully which was running full of water. The mother and three children were rescued bj- neighbors who heard their cries, but the crippled girl and a boy five years old were drowned. - Topeka, Kan., May 29.—The eastern half of Kansas has had one of the heaviest rains known for many years. It commenced on Saturday night, continuing all day Sunday, and Sunday night, and is still raining in the northern half of thd State. The rains were accompanied last night by very heavy wind and hail-storms. Iu many places the hail was of exceedingly large size and drifted to the depth of three feet. Small grains sustained heavy damages, and in some places were driven into soft ground almost out of sight. Considerable damage was done to corn in certain sections. The loss in window glass will be great. Paxton, 111., May fJ. —One of the heavies* rain-storms known in this part of tha State for j-ears prevailed here Sunday and yes terday, and hundreds of acres of farm lands are lying under water, while cellar floors are covered and creeks are swollen to the proportions of rivers. The damage to late planted grains can not fail to be great. Tuscola, IH., May 29.— For the past sixty hours raiu has fallen throughout- Central Illinois in floods, and as a consequence thousands of acres of growing corn are under water, rivers and streams are raging, and much damage to bridges and fences has resulted. Seven horses were killed, in different places Sunday night by lightning. ’ Morris, 111., May 29.— The farmers are feeling very blue over the continued wet weather. The spring has been very cold and backward. Most of the farmers have been obliged to replant their corn, and the continued rains for the past few days make tho ground so wet they can not get upon the Land to destroy the weeds which are fast covering the ground. But little old corn is left in the hands of the farmers, the high, prices of the last few weeks inducing them to sell all that they could spare. The grass crop promises well. Eau Claire, Wis., May 29.— The prevailing moisture in Northern Wisconsin is seriously interrupting the work o£ getting crops into the ground*jand it is estimated that not over 75 per cent, of the usual acreage of spring wheat will he sown. Land intended for small gfains is being sown with oats and planted with corn, which, will be enormous crops unless affected by drought and premature frosts. Th© outlook for farmers all through Northern Wisconsin is quite discouraging. New Orleans, May 29.—At Milenburg, a. resort on Lake Pone bar train, within a few miles of this city, one man was killed and lau others injured, by a lightning stroke. —A new postmaster was appointed for a country post-office in Texas, and for several days afterward the mail agent received no mail from tho station, and reported the matter, to the Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service. The latter wrote the postmaster, who replied that he was waiting for the mail sack to get full before sending it to the train. —When a man steals a dollar, it is the bridewell; a thousand dollars, the penitentiary; a million dollars, Canada.—Chicago Journal.