Pike County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 April 1884 — Page 1

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ts. An item of *900,000 for «run foundry also inserted, and a clause directing the atary of the Navy to report to the next rreas a plan for an armored vessel of the class. The bill passes. The Post-office opriation bill was reported. The turnkey bill was considered and several seoi adopted. In the House a resolution adopted directing the Committee on In the Senate on the Mlh bills were ihrodueed: To amend the act relating to the adulteration of tea: to authorise John C. Fremont to pe placed on the army retired list with the rank of Mnior-Geaera.: to lorfeit certain northern Pacific lands. The naval bill was taken up and the amendment providing for the construction of seven steel cruisers was on incomes of more than IMOO. — _ triot appropriation bill was reported. District business was discussed till a roll-call showed no quorum, v lx the Senate on the 16th a resolution was ottered to Inquire whether Paul Strobaoh is acting as United States Marshal in Georgia, his confirmation having been rejected. After brief consideration of the Sioux Reservation bill, the bankruptcy bill was taken up and several amendments were adopted....Tbe Mouse, in committee of the whole, hT • vote of HO to IS*, adopted a motion to take up the tariff bill, and Mr. Morrison ggO\e in support ■position "ength. In the Senate on the troduced to revive tbe grade of General Army. The bill to divide the Sioux He tion passed. Mr. Morrill was granted permission to reply to criticisms made by Mr. Beck on his course relating to the tariff. The bankruptcy bill was taken up and further amendments adopted....In the House Mr. Russell spoke in opposition to the tariff bill,' He was followed by M-“-~ T" ~—* . * * of Arkani In tbe introduced declaring it competent ior congross to take measures to regulate interstates transportation, prohibit certain pooling arrangements. etc. A bill was introduced tor the appointment of a Missouri Elver Commission. Toe bill to-balance tho account of South Carolina with the Government for arms passed. Also tbe bill to establish a branoh of the Soldiers' Home. Mr. Slater addressed the Senate eh the bill to forfeit unearned lands of thp Northern Pacific grant and moved its reference to the Committee Jon Lands. It was UW tU HIP UUIUUIUKN7 JMSUUCN XV WHO t that the bill lie on the table. Tbe bankruptoy btll was further discussed.... The House *0 comm ttee on the pension appropribill and attested one or two amendments. xn the Senate on the 18ih the newspaper copyright bill was reported adversely and plaoed on the calendar. A bill was introduced requiring money order receipts to be paid into the Treasury. The Post-qffloe appropriation bill passed. It appropriates SM.ra.SOa, being *3,499,900 more than as it from tbe Houfie. Eulogies upon the lata Representative Herndon were pronounced and the Senate adjourned to Monday... .Inthe House.the bill passed to bridge tbe Missouri at Sibley, Mo. The bill limiting to two years the time for beginning prosecutions under the Internal revenue law also passed. A night session was held for consideration of pension bills.

grading the Chinese Prince Kang states that he 'accepted bribes and aimed at sapreme po» er. Recebt additions to the retired list of the army include Lieutenant-Colonel David •O 'H. Brotliertou, Twenty-fifth Infantry, and Major Edward Ball, Seventh Cavalry. | Information has reaohed the Navy Depart men t that a rumor prevailed at Johns, N.F., that the Greely party had been rescued from a mass of floating ice by the crew of a whaling schoouer. Trk Crown Prince of Austria has gone on a visit to Turkey. , Cardinal Lxbochowski has resigned the 'Archbishopric of Posen. The Pope has accepted the resignation. It transpires that the defalcation of Church, the Treasurer of Troy, N. Y., exceeds ijftO.O "0. The President has appointed Chas. E. Goon, oH New York, to succeed John C. New as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. IT wan the ere w of a sealer and not the Greely party-who were recentiy rescued from an ice flow. El Mxowi has issued a proclamation in which he urges the tribes to blookade all roads and push the siege of Khartoum •s a religious duty. On the 15th Minister Lowell represented ‘American colleges at the ceremonies attending the celebration of Edinburgh Univarsity tercentenary. Comptroller Knox will embark in the hanking business May L On the 16th, the Pennsylvania Htpublican Convention instructed for Blaine and Lincoln. Dn- Laws, of Cornell University, is in Kansas investigating the ci plague. On the 10th, Thos. A. Hendricks arrived at .Indianapolis after a four mouths' trip in Eurbpe. _^*ab;kino firm in Washington has pre■pd charges of fraud against BrigadierHral D. G. Swaira. His reported that Stanley is meditating ^pclHfon across r,he African continent PoomTxJngo to the Boudin, The Republicans of Illinois on the 16th nominated Richard G. (ipick) Oglesby for Governor and N. C. Smitih for Lieutenant.Uovernor. , I Ww. Bliss, of Boston,'and Sherman S. Kfew«t<, of Buffalo, are the uew men in the ■few Tori Central directory. . 4 ■ On the 16th Uie West Virginia Democratic Sltate Convention adopted a resoiuEon declaring Tilden its choice for PresiEent V IN the contested election case of Farrell ■against Paul, from Virginia, the House ■Committee on Elections will report in fa- ■ °THE rwoval of Collector WickerAof Key ■Vest is recommended by the President for ■oUus'oa with the filibusters. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. An attempt was made on the 14‘A to assassinate the President of Guatemala. The decree of the Empress of China de

lubtished by General Badeau t hi* resignation wm not do* .Government at Washington Captain-General of Cuba had |uks for his course as Consul

AMD CAC8CAX.TCES. On the 14th a fire-damp explosion occurred in a colliery near Elisabeth, Pa, killing two men and {injuring others. The conference cl Osman Digna witli the sheiks friendly to the British failed in produce aay pacific result. A double lynching occurred in Breathiirt County, Ky., on the lltb, and more bloodshed is likely to follow. On the i&th a train ran into a washot near Ackworth, Ga.„ killing the mail weigher, engineer and: fireman. The West Virginia, squatters who recently fired on_a surveying party have served the County Assessor in the same way end killed his horse. A force will lei sent into the mountains to subdue the rsbellion. . Wadsworth, Not.,, was totally destroyed by fire on the 15th. At Grand Rapids, Mich., the wall nl Hubbard's hardware store, recently burned, fell on the 10th, during a heavy gale, and crushed an adjoining dwelling occupied by Daniel Affeldt. Mrs. AffeKlt 6, a three-year-old daughter and u boarder na med Murphy were k illed. On the 17th, a great conflagration was wported at Rangoon, British Burmeih. Near Newark, Pa., on the 17th, a freight wreck resulted in the death of a man wlho was stealing a ride. Loren so Dimmiok, of the firm of Crosby & Dimmick, Buffalo, HI. V., is under three charges of larceny. The amount involved is over 5101,000. . On the 18th a telegra ph operator's neglect ca used a collision on the Pan-Handle Roed near Wheeling, W. Va. The Sani Joaquin levee at Lathrop, Cal., broke on the 18th and threatened 10,001 acres of growing whea t. At Dall as, Tex., on Che 18th, a tornado demolished a school-honse, wounding tlie teiaober and a number,of the pupils, one fttally, and caused extensive damage at other points. On the 1,8th Chas. A Spaulding; having been arrested for theft in New Have:], Conn., shot himself five times, inflicting fatal wounds. The Coles County (Ml.) Grand Jury has re turned (me biif* oi indictment on two counts against James Winklebacl: for the m urder of the Fleetwoods. The Supreme Court of Ohio has grafted leave to file a petition in error to test the constitnti Duality of th e Scott law. English and French detectives are working together on the dynamite plots and it Is IwUeved havo secured full infer nation. The Cuban authotities exercise stria censorship over all nows sent from Havana, and dispatches arc delayed in the H ost aggravating manner. Ths Flood-Relief Committee atCinmn iti is about to close its labors. It bis recvklveA $184,000, and has on hand 46,000 a aexpended. The proposed new Russian loan of £16 010,030 foir railroad construction is looked on as a movement to consolidate the inter mil affairs of the Empire. The Catholic Bishops in Canada haft petitioned the Government to interfere m pevent the Italian Go vernment fromcarry it g ont its designs upon the propaganda ai Rome. Great excitement exists in China over tie latest French advance. The Governwent is degrading and punishing all tlie Chinese officers who are in any way responsible tor the failura to oppose the in

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Ok Uni 16ih the fourteenth annual meeting of the Women1! Board of Foreign Mia* sdons of the Presbyterian Church began ttf aessiona In New York. Thk people of Manitoba are threatening secession in good earnest. A tooling plan is under consideration by the National Flint and Lime Glass Association. A cask of cholera resulting fatally was reported on the 17th as haying occurred on a British troop-ship in the Sues Canal. Mexico is trying to effect a loan of .* 20,. 000,000 with the Franco-Bgyptian lank. The ooal companies in the anthracite region hare decided to restrict production during the year. The California wheat crop it is estimated will be sixty per cent, greater than last year. A cordon has been formed by the United States Nayy around Key West to ijtreyent the sailing of any more filibusters. ' AT Braddock, Pa., on the 17th, a serious riot occurred between Hungarian and Polish rolling-mill hands. Citisens turned out and quelled the riot. On the 17th the Senate Committee on Commerce indorsed the President's recommendation for dismissal of the Key West Collector on account of sympathy with the Cuban insurgents. Naval officers may carry a pretty high hand over the men on Arctic expeditions, but the sailors take rigorous revenge when •hey get before a Congressional committee. Continued activity prevails among the Fenian agents in Paris, who arc sail to receive considerable supplies of money from America.' The English police claim to have made substantial discoveries. Reports of another French victory in Tonqutn have been received. In Calcutta last week there were 267 deaths from cholera. There is another gold excitement In the vicinity of Pike’s Peak. Dynamite continues to be exported from Havre to England unchecked. It is expected that the Northern Pacific earnings in the present fiscal year will be $1.3,000,6UA United States revenue officers captured ten moonshiners in Casey and Greer Counties, Ky., on the 18th. The convention of the Irish National League of Kilkenny has reaffirmed its allegiance to Parnell. At Rome an order has beea issued exempting from sale the property of the American College. In the seven days ending the 18th there were 16) failures in the United Statra, and sixteen In Canada, being thirty-eight less Jian during the preceding week. In the Maine and New Hampshire streams freshets continue to cause serious unbarraasment to the lumber and factory interests. On the 18th, in the United States Court at Charleston, 8. C., all the cases involving iolation of the Federal Mection lavs were s iricken from the docket. A bill will shortly be introduced in Contpre s to meet the troubles caused by fencing in public lands in Dakota and Texas iind by the cutting of such fences. THe House Committee on Post-offices and I'ost-roads have adopted, ten to one, a resolution declaring it expedient to adoptthe » itract system of postal telegraphy. 9* LATE NEWS ITEMS. The Senate was not in session on the 181 t......Iq the House the resolution railing for information relating to the Veitesuela awards was adopted. A message from the Prddeut recommended the appropriation of 126,528 to payFrenoh claims; $25,0JO foi expenses of the Siamese Embassy and $10 100 for the International Congress to fix n common aero of longitude. The House went into committee of hs whole on bills reported from the L» ir Committee. The bill to establish a i opartment of laborstatisMos wat taken RAu amendment substituting tho word iraau" for “department” was adopted. Ali-o one fixing the salary of the Labor Co imisaioner at $3,6)1. The bill leased. 7 he Canadian parliament was prorogued on the 19th.

( txcoRD, N. H., had As 109:h annivjrsa17 celebration on the 19A. I jinell has secured a verdict agninst a ter cat for arrears of rent. 'it monastery of Dominican nuis was op ted at Newark, N. J., on the 19.h—the fir; establishment of that order in the Ue ted States. Da. Gustav Nichtigall, the noted trs eler, has gone to Congo. ( jvxknor Ordway of Dakota hau been Inc eted lor corruption in county organism- ( lRavans iu the trans-Caspian regions rc selling American cotton-seed to the Til comans. Til* Paris police are inclined to reeomnw id expulsion of the dynamiter* from Pit ace. 1 id New York banka at the close of basinet on the 19th held in reserve &K'F,eooin ex< :<as of legal requirements. 1 iB prosecution closed its testimony in the Prank James case on the 19th aitf the sue opened. in Evelyn Baring has been summoned a Egypt to London for a conference on ptian affairs. luruLD, Dak., lias been selected as the For shipments from the Northern nil University, says emplague is wood. dttee on Public draft of a bill to I iitnhar.rtiHitira * UlHUWi'vulHllJn oran off iriw i ' . ■

tag site FAILED TO APPKAB at breakfast, and the Sisters iimmedintelv notified Frederick Weber, of No. 80» EJgarket street, amende of the young lad?, and he telegrapliec the facts no her .parent*. They arrived on last night'll train, and i=fter consultation with Acting Chlel tTochte a reward of *100 win offered lolfi any information tltat would lead to her recovery. I. A reporter who called at the Convent found the porteiress commissioned by the Mother Superior to give all Information that conld be furnished. She said: “The list time she wen seen In the Convent was yesterday at morning prayers, and vre have no traces of her since that time. We have a half formed theory about the mutter: At Easter the Inmates of the Convent are allowed extra privileges, and go oat mote than usual. Last Thursday afternoon Cora Weber went out aid stayed all night with some lelatlves, but returned to the Convent on the following (lay and iffSSSK r-Humed her dutiss as usual, not the faintest snipicion of her until her sudden disappearance. We now think t int during Cora’s absence from the Convent she made plans to ran sway.” “She came to the convent the 7th of January and appeared to be greatly pleased with the place and heir treatment and said she was coming back next year, lest Thursday she came ova and stopped with her ancles family here, and was returned by a member of the family Monday morning;. She broke one of the rules of the Institution. What one we do not wish to ntate just now, but it hid to a reprimand and the Sisters made her write a confess lob of her fault. She begged not to have to tell us, lltut the Sister waa inexorable and, despite her entreaties that it be Hdden from ns she had to write. Her offense was not such as would have led to Iter expulsion, only a VIOLATION OF THU BU1JCS. After writing the letter she showed a marked sadness, 10 much so that her classmates called the attention of the Sisters to her condi tion. Tuesday morniag about seven o'clock the Sister told her It was her how to practice on the piano and she ran up stairs.. A little liter one of her classmates saw her in the hall with a water proof, or something I ke it thrown over her arm. 8he said, •Where are you going, Coral and Cora told her that her sent yvae dead, and that she was going home. That was the last seen of her.” TUB LOOT FOUND. Sr. Louis Mo., April 18. Hie lost girl hash sen found and restored to ber parents. Mr. E. £. Ligget, who Is a cashier for McCormick A Co., and a friend named Howland, who is living with him, saw the account of the disappearance of Cora Weber in the paper)i and instantly remembered that a girl answering h»r description had been engi gedat their home the Light before. They wept borne and *■ sstioned the girl, bat did not give her to understand that ^they knew who she was. About uix o'clock last night they cilled at the residence c>i her undent 529 Papin street, jmd asked permission to see n photograph of the iwlng girl. The picture was produced, and after a glance at it they told the parents they knew where the young lady was and wonld turii her over to them. The father of the girl accompanied them to 1536 Wash street, where “Miss Cora” was restored to her parents. The seme was, of course, dramatic, and was accompanied by tie usual lachrymosal manifestations. Everybody wept, and after the tears had Icon wiped away Messrs. Howland and Eigget were paid the *100 reward. Miss Con said she was torry she hod done it, and then burst oat crying sguin. To a reporter she said: “I did not like the uuy they treated ms at the convent, so I iEis.de .up my mini to leave. After I i cached Cass avenue I went to an iatelli{peace office on a sheet that I do not remember the name of. I did not have uijr mosey, but promised to pay something ® after I got a place. 'Oiey told me about the place and gave toe the number. It was then afterpoou mid I was hungry. I went Into the houst of a colored woman and asked her for l aethlng to eat and she gave, it to me, (i.ud then I came hare and engaged to ' ‘ark for *10 a month. I would have {pone to my friends If I had thought such ft loss was going to be raised.” The Sisters say that there was a diamond ring nod a pair of bracelets In the vsiiise which she can-led off, hut she mikes a vehement denial of this Her parents attach n great deal of blameto the Sisters. The lainlly are Presbyterians, and claim that Cora was urged to become a Catholic, i tid that because she refused to give up her own religion, she was persecuted by the Sisters. It will be recollected that ' irelda Garrison was also found in a ish street house. Weber state > that he will take his back to Atchison to-idght.

riujt, Ala , April 17. Ding of coi rt the cast was called. Defendant impanied >y his wife e six and the other :n witnesses for Gov>d eight answered, n the wai, to be exPromptlyupon jjalpst Frank James ■mine into court acc .Hid two children, 01 ear year* old. Wl ament were cal] t'tnir absentees are mined upon arrival

CURIOUS PRtCEKDUiGS. rnerJorj 1 Employ. 1 Relates tli . 1 to Blips About a Venliet at MiUMtaogt ter—Foreman Shmm Ana Three Others B) teed to u Unenviable Light. Cute IKS An, 0„ April It. The Grand Jury, co nposed ol some oi the best cltlaena, wh ch is Investigating the late riot and ti e proceedings ol the Berner Jury, has had the statement ol McGuire, one ol the jurors, to an £ veiling Pm re. porter made before a witness laid before them. McGuire says i “I am forty-three years old, an Irtshmar ; have been living in Glendale since ’65; have burled a wife and six children; have a wile and three children. I work as it hostler, gardener, etc.; I worked seven years in Glendale; hare had much trouble In the past live years. Three years ago I lost my house, valued at #1,000, by a storm; have been Inpoor health. I was drawn, qualiBed and served as a juror in the Berner murder trial. Alter we retired to the juryroom a ballot was immediately suggested by Foreman Shaw, who asked me and the others to vote ‘not. guilty.’ jt did not exactly understand him, when fe said it was merely to see how it would 'vork. Shaw, Harmeyer and Daliahan wro te on

» v nmnoer oi sups of paper and g^ve me one. Mine Mad ‘not guilty.’ I don’t know what was on the others. 1 voted It but drew It out and voted gaUty ‘murder first'degree.’ I don’t remember what was the result. On the third ballot I think the vote stood eight guilty, four for manslaughter. I asked Shaw 11 that was not for guilty. He said no. I refused to vote any more that (Saturday) night and we retired. The others played cards for money. Some whispered among themselves. Harmeyer, Shaw, Phillips and Gallagher stuck together and seemed trying to talk the others over. There .was no open debate, but continued whispering before taking ballots. The four men named wanted to vote Sunday morning; I refused,, wanting to think. I had slept near an 0|>ea window through which the escaping gas entered and had a bad headache. On the next ballot things were badly mixed. I voted first degree. Juror Merrill voted second degree. I suggested that we all vote guilty and make a clean job of if. He stuck to the second degree. Shaw tried to convince me once that no juiry had reached manslanglger, but 1 woicild not have It. We sent once to ask the Judge if we could find him guilty and thro w him on the mercy of the Court. He answered ves, but Shaw and three others said they did not want it so and would not have it. I asked to look at the confession. Shaw refused. He was a good talke r and soon talked the otfier fellows out <jf their opinions. 1 stuck ont to the las ballot. Before this was cast Shaw and :ihe others wrote fig ure three over the word “first,” so as to make the tieket r :ad, “murder, third degree.” We voted them. They said there was a verdict of “manslaughter,” and rushed us out Into conrt. I had a i atkm to write to the Judge, but did not; was all alone, as they were all su-angers. 1 did not yoje 5}s I wanted to ;>r 1 should have voted first degree. When I refused to yield to Shaw’s request, he tofd me it wou'd please the Judge a id the people. The four men stuck together from the first— Shaw, Harmeyer, P lUlips and Dellahan. I and others were forced Into a manslaughter verdict against our wills. A SAID ON THE BEAKS. A Party of Chleago ll'vtwislon Men Make a Bald an the Bears <ia the Wheat Pit aad Get Away with a Hage “Scaly”-Clew Cudahy. Chicago, III., April 18. Have the Milwaukee and the Hobbt crowd sold their wheat? everybody inquired yesterday. At first the little traders thought they had; on Wednesday they were sure they had. Yesterday most people admitted that they knew nothing about it There we e some very strong buyers In the wheat pit in the morning. The opening was weak. May wheat at one time selling down to eighty-three and seven-eighths cents. The weather was fine and the feeling decidedly bearish; all at once there was a metamorphosis. The scalpers, who had been disputing over eighths and quarters, suddenly dropped their haggling. They all turned buyers, and anxious buyers, too. They did not stand an small fractions, but In a twinkling bid the price up from eighty-three and seveneights cents for May to eighty-five and a half cents. ALL WANTED IT. Prom being very uncertain and even a little bearish the temper at once became very bullish. Everybody wanted wheat. The shorts became frightened. . The fellows who havs been persistent bulls during the thirty-cent decline, and who were on the point of giving np hope, whirled abont and acted as if now finally the advance hail began, and that nuless the utmost speed was used the stuff would advance too fast and net away from them. The cause for this sudden conversion was a scalp successfully made by a provision crowd presumably acting- under the direction of Cudahy. When wheat was at its lowest early In the morning a crowd of provision brokers made their appearance and quietly picked up about one million bushels of wheat. The figures advanced under this buying, and continued to advance long after the buying ceased, under the influence of the purchasing of the shorts, who had taken fright. The theory last night was that the wheat bought by the provision traders In the forenoon ae 84c and thereabouts was all sold out at above 85c. It la set down as a huge, successful scalp by that very clever operator, Cudahy.

Another Coal Mine Horror• Mt. Cahmel, Pa., April 17. An explosion took place late last evening lit the Pennsylvania colliery, at Green Ridge. While the men were hard at work, the accumulated gas ignited from a naked lamp, and a terrific explosion occurred, fatally burning Jobs l>rakosky, Peter Entrix, Michael Mexeval, laborers, and seriously Injuring John Graham and Samuel Menken, contractors. Hie rescuers found the men In total darkness. Mexeval and Kntrlx were found creeping up the slope so badly burned that the flesh was hanging froth them in shreds. All of the victims were unmarried. Tercentenary o* Edinburgh University. The celebration of the tercentenary, and foundation of Edinburgh University, which began on Tuesday, continued until to-day. X huge number of prominent gentlemen were present, among whom Wart Minister. XstWallf.; Harvard, Yale f.nd Cornell Universities and tike Smithsonian Institute! Proles sor Green, of Princeton, N. J.; M. De* Lesseps, Principal Dawson of McGill University, Montreal; Prof. Briggs, of the Union Theologies! Seminary, M. Y., EoiNBtrtiOB, April IT. ttgd Pwf. viable, of Virginia.

^ ~rSE£48. CICMWB. Delta* TUIM by • iMtMttn Mona—A Idboot-Haa— PwnIMiii and a Maabw aC tU Inmates Injured—Psrtlsns ot Ikt City Flooded. _ Dallas, Tex.. April 19. A terrible storm visited Dallas and surrounding country yesterday. The morning was sultry up to ten o’clock when It suddenly became exceedingly dark, and St was necessary to light gas or lamps. Suddenly a terrific thunder crash rent the air, vivid lightning flashes spilt np the heavens and the rain poured down In torrents. A strong wind from the north accompanied the storm for a space of about fifteen minutes. The electric disturbances were of n pronounced character, the telephone bells being frequently rung by them. The storm lasted about an hour and a great rainfall occurred, swelling sewers and drains and flooding many portions of the city. The most serious event was the wrecking of the colored chu-ch known as the Evening Chapel of the African Northern Methodist congregation, at the corner of Ball and Juliet streets. The building was being used as a public free school for colored children of the Sixth ward, and was taught by a young colored woman named Clarissa Williams. There were thirty-two children, ranging In age from six to fifteen years, in the building when the catastrophe occurred, about 10 a. m. The teacher said the great blaqk cloud and the deuse darkness that came np filled berseK and the pupils with alarm. Ail at once the loud roar of a rushing wind Was heard. The frame building bej>an to tremble and the teacher called to the children, “We must get odt of here.” All ruShedJoi the door, screaming and crying with fright, but before they could make their exit the windcaugtodhe house and dashed It to the ground wlunKQrash, making a total wreck of It, and catching, a number of children In the debris. >. Screams, cries add gjoaug filled the air, and In a few minutes a large number of people, white and black, collected at the scene and started to work rescuing the unfortunates > The following is a list of the wounded: Lulu WUsou, aged eight years, head crushed; injuries fatal Harriet Bohannon, aged thirteen years, left leg broken. Melinda Hill, aged twelve yean, gash In i the head and forehead. Lula Edmondson, aged twelve years, Injured internally and severe bruises. Arthur Perry, aged eight years, hurt in head. Lucy Carroll, aged ten years, left hand lacerated and fingers broken. The following received slight injuries: Clcily Bland, aged nine years; Annie Hill, aged nine years; Mary Jones, aged twelve years; Henrietta Avery, aged twelve years. The teacher, Clarissa Williams, had her left hand badly crushed. Medical attention was secured at the earliest possible moment. The wounded as fast as possible were sent to them

Domes. : . - During the storm lightning struck the residence of William Worden, on Pacific avenue, between Jefferson and Houston streets, setting the building on fire, but injuring none of the family. The fire department extinguished the flames with small loss. Shade trees and shrubbery suffered badly, and a great deal of window glass was broken in business houses. Passengers on an east-bound train over the Texas & Pacific Road say that a terrific cyclone occurred yesterday morning south of the Texas & Pacific line, and must have done appalling work. A great storm-cloud was passing from northeast to southwest at a great rate of speed. The funnel-shape cyclone cloud was of great proportions. All could be plainly seen from the cars, as it was only a mile or two from the train. A KANSAS STORM. Atchison and Vtatalty minted by n storm of Unprecedented Severity—Heavy Lome* by the Flooding of Huemaats and the Sweeping Away of Buildings and Loom Property. AtcriSos, Kan., April 18. A fearful rain felt here Thursday night. Old Inhabitants say such a storm was never before'known in Kansas. It began to fall at 7:30 and lor nearly an hoar it came down in a flood and was accompanied by fierce thnnder and lightning, The streets of the city were running streams from curb to curb in fifteen minutes. The roar of the storm as it descended upon the earth resembled a mill-dam, and, to add to the confusion, several houses were struck by lightning and set on fire. The creeks were beyond their banks in a very few minutes, and White Clay Creek, which flows through the center of the city, was an angry torrent, forty feet deep, and spreading in some localities 80% yards wide. The stream was never known to rise to such a height before. Dwelling houses which have for years stood high and dry many feet above the greatest flood were surrounded by the . water, and in many cases caught in the current and carried down the stream. Oocnpants of houses in low-lying grounds had to flee for safety, abandoning their household goods to be swept away. Numerous highway bridges are gone and many more damaged. So far as reported, the railroads do not suffer. Tim merchants suffer heavy losses by flooded cellars and basements, and manufacturers by the material carried aWay. While the rain was very heavy the great flood in White Clay was no doubt caused by a waterspout which evidently broke west of the city. The damage by lightning was unimportant. The Baptist Church, the bant of Dr. Linley and a dwell log-house in the northwest part of town and a barn in East Atchison were struck and the latter burned down. Many narrow escapes are reported, but no loss of life. The damage to property can not now be estimated. but It will certainly be many thousands.

I The Hot Springs Trial. Hot Bpruos, Auk., April 1*. The examination of witnesses for the State in the trial of 8. A -Ooran and five confederate* fdr murder • in the first degree was concluded last evening, twentythree witnesses having been examined. Sheriff Nichols. CMeOaf Police Toler and Frank Flynn were Among the principal witnesses examined^ Examination of witnesses lor the defense commences to-day. The case wifi not probably be given to the jury before the middle of next week. Intense interest attaches to the trial and the probable result. Colorado Avalanches. *■ Dawvaa, Cou, April IB. Early yesterday morning a large boulder fell otfa bridge across the Gunnison near the month of the Cimarron, and smashed It down. In addition to this there were half a dozen snail slides yesterday between Carrecantl and a point three miles this side, in Black canyon. The rnggllW west-boundpassen-ger train went as far as the first slide and was waiting for workmen to clear the track when another slide came (town striking the engine and turning It over, and Instantly .killing the engineer, Arthur Pratt, and slightly Injuring the fire®** frank rntym. ■ l

Ieomprehen- &** sive svje«rat® view i in interest *ad imnartaiKa First. Tfe first .juMtfe is whether *>-e welfare sad best. iJMtitfryBft: ss eontiiised i» power toe long it * a-ssbss: lie semew. ssmI regardless of the r ami interests ■£ tho people. The hi: of all government* show this. Let I books of the govarr.-iaeot be looked f byfa new an of. mm. Let abases _ frauds be exposed and corrected. Sft party that ames into power does u right and prove faithful if vs itl dcu_ be turned out st tho end of four yean. Let os bare a change. The present party baa beta already too k»ig in power. TVentv-four years is toe long for one sat ef y'.oa to control the power and affaire of-the people unless ourGoveraraeBt is to be changed and offices are to be for life, and one dvna&ty of men is to bemud* perpetual without change o? reform If the peoole ire capable os preserving their free institutions and meiutaistag ther liberties and their right* they will demand a change. Let the chango cjme; idt it. be tried for a time at least Wisdom, good sense. and common honest? on the' part of the people, m well 33 fidelity to themselves and their eehatvy require It This is the first issue. Second. Are the abuses and evil practices of the party in power to be approved and sanctioned by the people? The Star-route swindle and the Starroute trial stand to day as the most recent practical demonstrations of the necessity of a change. But this Is but one-of a tfeousjtr-d of such things. This happened to crop out from Intestine variances in ti«e party, like the sale of the trading--stations by Belknap as Secretary of War; the whiskey-ring frauds, the Credit Mobilor bribery and swindle. But hundreds of others doubtless evict which ham not been brought before the gaze of the world. Reform and a ehanga of party are imperatively demand*!. Third. Every department of the Government has deteriorated and become corrupted by the long continuance of this party in power. - Even the Supreme Court of the United States has become so fur partisanteed as to declare in a recent decision that the standard of value of the commercial world is not fcy our Constitution made basis of our money system. This sweeps away at once the' foundation of our financial system, and of the credit and character of c;or Government at home and abroad, and subjects the country hereafter #0 the deplorable evils of an irredeemable paper money system. - & ■ .. Fourth. Tb< rights and interests of tho citizens of the United States are not protected against foreign nations. The State Department is fill'd with complaints of wrongs, depredations and outrages committed upon American a tizens by forcing ^governments, to which no attention risassmevwt is given. The foreign legations Kafs the ear aad eoa* trol of the State- Department under injunctions of mock secrecy, and American citizens are denied even a semblance of justice in an appeal for protection against wrongs and depredations from foreign nations. And'the most solemn adjudications on fnll hearing of both parties, under treaties in favor of American citizens against foreign governments, are repudiated and set aside upon mere ex parte and irresponsible statements made in seerpey by the emissaries of the foreign powers. 'Fair and impartial justice to American citizens against foreign powers requires, a change of men in power. Filth. The party in power has with reckless extravagance increased the net ordinary annual expenses of t he Government from about sixty million dollars in 18S?, the last year fof a Democratic administration, to near three hundred millions a year, together with a collection from the people of over a hundred million dollars more than is needed to pay the public expenditures. Sixth. The chief end and aim of the party in power is to enlarge the operations and expenditures of the Federal Government, in order to centralize all power in it, and wholly absorb the powers of the States, and reduce them to the condition of mere subordinate departments. -- America* Register. Upon What Beaoeratle Sereess Will Repeat.

The success of the Democratic party next fell deueads upon unity, harmony, and ooneerl of action. This may be counted oa as an absolute certainty. Without this hamoeiom action the ReEnblioan party will doubtless coot'nue 1 power, and aU the nefarious, corrupt and dangerous JOEssquences of that to the eoanSry sad its institutions will follow: The result of last fall’s election, adding Ohio and Vkgstiia to the Democratic side, indicated » re torn of the Democracy to ptbrer. B»t the Democratic majority in the Douse of Representatives in Congress seems to have blasted these hopes so far that the Republican party has Ulrsa new courage and now counts os its foatianance in power as a matter of nauwaabie certainly. How and why is this? Let ns look this matter fairly and sonsrely in the face and

bsrs have not I self-conceited lenders, above of advice awl aid from thee_ wisdom pf thehr colleagues and date Democrats, have underta' lead and are leading to disgrace i feat. Let this on wise course be i a* once. Let the QemocraUc oSthe House all meet in friendly confwre«icMld'?se aa<l consult together upon the putifte--®00^ SDA welfare, and act in concert i combined wisdom the members of the HouseT' impression that all of the i least, are high-minded and honors men, dnd not in any way influenced by” the vast shin said to have been raised by the foreign importers and foreign producers; the milted wisdom of all the Democratic members of " the House will be taken as a safe guide and will satisfy the country. We moat earnestly Insist upon friendly conference, ana upon unity, harmony, and concert of action on the part of Democrats generally, and especially on the put of the Democratic members of Congress'just at this critical time. The welfare of the country requires it, and the success of the Dem- • ocratlc party demands it.— Washington Post.

▲ Yaraisked Intrigns. Minister Sargent’s friends say be nas a story to tell. They declare that the late effort of the Arthur Administration ; to kick him up-stairs to Russia, was meant to get his sijenoe about what he is bound to reveal. Hie assertion is made that Mr. Sargent would not hare been unpopular in Germany at all if the American department of State tad done by him what it ought to „ have done, and what one gentleman ought to do by another. Of course, that requires explanation and it is this: A Minister abroad writes two sets of letters to the Secretary of State, one for publication and the other confidential. In the latter kind, he is expected to write very critically, and to give his “way down” impressions, as well as the tacts which he has gathered from secret agents and society sources, touching the action of the Government, to which he is accredited. These letters are never expected to be published. They are regarded as family matters. Secure under the guide of seeresy, Ministers who have a fondness for “smart” writing, to whom composition conies with fatal faeility, write with much freedom, minuteness, humor, wit and sarcasm and in colloquial form. Mr. Sargent wrote in this way about that sacred subject, the American pig. an animal eminently superior to the white elephant, inasmuch as the American pig can not get out of his own country and the white elephant can. Either because of blundering, or, as Mr. Sargent’s friends claim, to puaish him for his friendship for Blaine, the State Department published the very “best” oi Mr. Sargent’s private letters, which, for purposes of publication and of making things pleasant for Mr. Sargent in Berlin, was easily the very -worst” that could be put forth. It conti personal remarks % about the the Kaiser, the Empress, Bismarck and the Reichstag, and it intimated that the opposition to and misrepresentation of the American pig were but a pretext to spite America, because this country drew off so dishy able-bodied emigrants from Europe. The imp of the perverse farther led to this article, when translated into Gen man, being described as a volunteer contribution by the American Minister to a popular American magazine. Oi course, every imperial influence at once sent Mr. Sargent to Coventry—all because of his own GovernmentVact oi mistake or malignity against him." Office has been made an intolerable pillory to him in conMquence. Mr. Sargent's fiiendsclaimthVt the Administration has never done a thing to apologize to him, or to explain to the German Government that he had bsen made the victim of miaplaoed confidence. It would be difficult to do the latter. The former could have been done. Accepting these representations at true, one can understand readily how the Administration was willing to make ot the Lasker business and of the death of Mr. Hunt, at St, Petersburg, a bridge to pass Mr. Sargent over to Russiaunder circumstances which would make of his acceptance a cancellation of the grievance he had against his own State Department. Mr. Sargent's late nomination, his unanimous confirmation, and the neat telegram to him from Secretary Frelinghnysen, all, in this light, , wear the aspect of a tactical experiment Mr. Sargent's declination of the Russian mission, preceding his return home, “to take the people into his confidence,” wears a very Blainey look, and (be Blaine papers are accenting the matter against the Arthur Administration. The Administration is either unfortunate or characteristic, in publishing from the writings of its ministers what emphatically ought not to be published. It has given to the world the strictly personal and private matters, communicated to it in presumably the closest possible confidence, by our esteemed townsman, Mr, John Meredith Read, while he was voluntarily representingjhis country, without pay, at the court ofGreece.

AB« tar irons Mr. Sargent s experience being a novel action by the administration, it is a fact that on a previous occasion it did the same thing. In February, 1881, William Henry Trescott and Walker Blaine were in Chili as envoys from the United States, to endeavor to secure peace between Chili and Pern. They went there under instructions from Secretary Blaine, which, after he left the department, were modified in every important particular bv Secretary Freiing&uysen. Instead of notifying the representatives of the United States, by telegraph, of this change of instructions, Mr. Walker Blaine and Mr. Trescott were hnmiUat»d, during an interview with ‘~ Ceda, the Chilian secretary of affairs, by being informed by t both the original instructions published, and Chilian, official should have State not this