People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — Page 2

NEWSPAPER LAWS.

Any person who takes the paper regularly from the postoffice whether directed to his name or whether he is a subscriber or not, is responsible for the pay. The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the postoffice, or removing and leaving them uncalled for is prima facie evidence of INTENTIONAL FRAUD.

BY the act of the last Missouri legislature all able-bodied men between the ages of 21 and 60 years are required to pay poll tax. THE Utah Mormons are making a desperate fight in the courts for several hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property confiscated by the government.

STEPS have been taken towards the erection of a statue of James A Garfield, to be placed at the Washington boulevard entrance to Garfield park in Chicago. A STATEMENT issued by the president of the World’s Columbian exposition shows that the receipts to date have been $17,496,432, and the expenditures $16,708,320. ONE of the devices of the weariedout office seeker in Washington, in order to retire in good form, is to have a telegram sent to himself, calling him home on urgent business. FORTY-FOUR guns are fired for a national salute, one for each state. The national flag is saluted with twenty-one guns, the president with twenty-one and the vice-president with nineteen. TWO OF the rules which the president laid down for his own guidance in appointments to the diplomatic and consular service were: First, officials under his former administration are barred. Second, none but first-class business men need apply.

THE most noted Chinese doctor in the country has just died in San Francisco. He was Li Po Tai. He came from Canton about 1850 and built up a large practice, having white people as well as his own countrymen for patients. The emperor a few years ago sent him the highest Chinese medical diploma. THE export of frozen mutton is becoming one of New Zealand’s chief industries. The export of frozen beef has been declining of late years, but that of mutton has largely increased. There are now twenty-one freezing establishments in the colony, with a capacity not far short of 4,000,000 sheep a year. THEY are experimenting with an electric cab in Berlin by having it run races with the ordinary horse cabs. The reports to date seem to show the superiority of the vehicle propelled by electricity. A distance of six English miles was covered in twenty minutes, or at the rate of about three minutes a mile, by it. THE recent invention of Prof. Elisha Gray of what he has christened the telautograph it is said threatens to reduce the value of the services of the expert telegrapher to a minimum. A cheap boy is said to be capable of feeding the Gray machine with the copy furnished by the person sending the message and no expert is required to receive the same.

Senator Camden, of West Virginia, is getting out some large timber for the • World’s fair. One of the pieces .is an ash plank three feet three inches wide, and another is a poplar plank exactly five feet wide. Another poplar tree, eleven feet in diameter, is being hewed out to be sent to Chicago. It can not be cut with a saw on account of its tremendous size. It is claimed that the greatest exhibits of timber and coal at the fair will be from West Virginia.

Dr E. Hutchinson said, in a recent lecture before the Royal institute at London, that with the electric motor a speed of 1,000 miles an hour could be obtained, “though beyond that point they perhaps enter the region of projectiles rather than that of locomotives.” This remarkable speed is obtainable because of the great advantage of the purely rotary motion of an electric motor over the reciprocal motion of the piston and connecting rod < f the jsteam locomotive.

■One of the recent volumes issued by "the English Folk Lore society exhibits ■the extraordinary erudition of Miss Roalfe Cox, who after wading through innumerable books and pamplets in numerous languages has discovered that 'the story of Cinderella has been known ■fold in. 845 ways. The current story of the glass slipper maiden has been since 1697, when Perrault published the tale, but it bears no ear-mark to determine definitely its origin, and is found in the most ancient literature of India and Egypt A London barber explains why hair turns gray. “Gray hair is no wso common that one wonders what it comes from. Yc~ng men have it in profusion, sand young women are very proud when ■they have a coiffure in which gray has a prominent part I attribute the prevalence of it to frequent cutting and soap. Soap and the barber do more -toward taking color and strength out -of hair than anything else. The singeing of hair is done to prevent the oils -from exuding from the ends of clipped Bairs, and singeing is in this regard better. But ammonia-loaded soaps are the ■worst factors. ” The counting of the money in the -vaults of the United States treasury, at Washington, is not so very troublesome or tedious a task as might be imagined. In counting twenty-dollar gold pieces •experience has shown them to be so ■uniform that only one pile is counted, and the rest of the money is stacked and measured by this pile, until the last pile is reached, when that also is counted. Jn that way the process of counting proceeds very rapidly. Gold in smaller denominations is always counted or weighed. Silver is much snore troublesome to count than gold •ad can not be measured. ■ it

LIVES CRUSHED OUT.

Mine Men Killed During a Storm Near Joliet, ILL—Several Badly Hurt. Joliet, 111., April 8. —At 6 o’clock Friday afternoon the worst storm known for years in this region, the powerful gale being almost cyclonic in its violence, swept up the line of the great drainage channel of the Chicago sanitary district. At Romeo, a little village about 10 miles north of this city and 4 miles north of Lockport, the wind caused a strange and horrible accident. A cantilever crane on wheels, used to carry the dirt from the drainage canal in the section managed by Mason, Hodge <fc King and sublet to Dandridge & Hanger, started down the track and when at the end of the track the bottom of it was compelled to stop by the manner in which the track Is built. The top part, however, had gained such momentum that it could not stop and the enormous machine, weighing 280 tons, fell directly on the engine house. In this small house were fifteen men, nine of whom were killed and six injured. The unfortunates had gathered in the house to get out of the way of the coming storm, w’hich was accofnpanied by pelting hailstones. The cantilever is 90 feet high with arms 350 feet long and weighing 280 tons.

The killed are: Samuel Korus, foreman, of Joliet, and eight Italian workmen. The six injured men were Italians who Were employed in operating the crane and in other work of excavation. Every effort was made at the commissary, where the dead and wounded were taken, to care for the injured men. Doctors were called from Joliet and Lockport, but it was 11 o’clock before the wounded or dead were got out. The force of the fall damaged the crane so that it is a total loss. The tracks on which it runs extend north and south. The crane was on the south end of the track and had been carelessly left unfastened. The wind also blew over another cantilever a mile north, but no damage was done. The enormous crane which caused this horrible accident is one of the most remarkable pieces of machinery yet built for the work of canal digging. Its great height and vast reach of its arms render it of very important service in the work of excavation. Traveling buckets or cars move along its arms, going to the very bottom of the canal and then carrying upward and to the tops of the high spoi l banks the laden receptacles containing earth and rock. A number of these great machines are building for work along the canal of the sanitary district, at a cost, it is said, of 840,000 apiece.

HF AVY LOSSES RESULT.

Fierce Eire* Raging on Western Prairie* and In Timber Lands. Ho c Springs, S. D., April B.—Sparks from a locomotive on the B. & 6. Friday morning set fire to grass near Minnekaka station, 12 miles west of here, and the wind, which had been blowing a hurricane all day, swiftly carried the fire to the timber. The fire has burned over an expanse of country 12 miles in width and is now burning off the timber immediately south of here. The damage will prove the greatest ever done by a fire in this part of the Black Hills, as many settlers have evidently been burned out, besides destroying timber covering an area now 12 miles long and fully as wide. Omaha, Neb., April 8. —Reports from many portions of the state indicate prairie fires of considerable magnitude in many counties. A violent gale prevailed on Friday, spreading the flames over a vast area. Banner, Keith, Dawson, Blaine and adjoining counties are completely devastated by the flames. In Banner county the village of Ashmore is supposed to have been completely destroyed. Word was brought to Harrisburg Friday night by the driver of the stage that that town was directly in the path of the fire at 4 o’clock, and that the entire population of the village was engaged in a battle to save their homes. The stage driver reported having seen several dwelling houses in flames and the settlers fleeing for their lives. Meager details received from Ogallala, Harrisburg, Dunning, Inverton, Kearney, Grand Island, Lexington and Hastings give accounts of great losses to property. A Burlington bridge at Dunning and another at Hastings on the Elkhorn were destroyed, delaying trains someI what. At Kearney the fire burned near enough to town to destroy a brewery located just at the edge. At Dunning an old lady named Bartlett was burned so badly she may die. The gale subsided by nightfall, but the fires have raged with scarcely less fury. The region burned over is the chief grazing section of the state.

Topeka, Kan., April B.—Much property has been destroyed by prairie fires in Graham and Phillips counties. Only meager particulars can be learned. It is known, however, that a great deal of hay, several head of horses and about fifty head of sheep perished, and that Mrs. Bowen and three children were caught in the flames and so badly burned that they have since died. A strong south wind has been blow ing over western Kansas for several days and the dry grass is very heavy and thick. Everything before one of these great fires succumbs to its terrible ravages. Passengers who come in on the Rock Island say that the entire heavens are lighted at night by these fires

DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

A Michigan Farmer Kills His Former Wife and Himself. Bangor, Mich., April 8. Andrei Campbell, a respected farmer, on Friday shot his former wife and himself, both dying instantly. They were divorced about four months ago, but had lived together in a house on their farm about 4 miles west of Bangor until about three weeks ago, when the house burned. After that they lived separately. Their oldest chikl, a 16-y ear-old girl, was present whan the tragedy was enacted. They leave five children.

A HUSBAND’S CRIME.

Be Murders Hie Wife, Who Refused to Live with Him Because of His Dissolute Habits, and Then Kills Himself. Chicago, April 11.—William William*, * painter, murdered his wife Monday night by cutting her throat and then committed suicide in the same manner. Williams had been drinking heavily for the past few weeks and his wife left him. Monday night upon her refusal to return to him Williams killed her and then himself. After leaving her husband Mrs. Williams took up her abode with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Boehnet, friends of her youth. She was 28 years old. She had a tall, graceful figure and was handsome. She had formerly been connected with a dramatic troupe and was taking lessons in her art with a down-town instructor preparatory to going on the stage again. Williams came to the house at a few minutes past 7 o’clock Monday night and persuaded his wife to come to the door and talk with him. As she emerged from the door Williams made a jump toward her. He seized her around the neck and drew a keenedged knife three times across her throat. With a scream the woman ran back into the sitting room. The Boehnets jumped out of the front window, trembling with fright, and their cries aroused the neighbors. Mrs. Boehnet went back into the house and found Mrs.. Williams lying on a sofa. She gurgled out a request that Mrs. Boehnet fan her. The latter started to do so, when a smothered cry from Mrs. Williams tore wider apart the ghastly slashes in her throat. A stream of blood burst forth and Mrs. Williams was dead. When his wife staggered back into the sitting room Williams coolly walked into a shed at the rear of the house and sat down on a trunk belonging to his wife. The cries of the neighbors apparently aroused the murderer. He started out of the shed for the street on a run with the bloody knife still in his hand. Officer Hagaman, of the West Chicago avenue station, now appeared and saw the man running. Williams led him a lively chase around the square, dodged through an alley and hid again in the woodshed at the rear of the Boehnet house. When the officer came upon him Williams had fallen upon the floor. As the 1 officer reached the door he pointed his revolver at Williams and ordered him to surrender. Williams looked at the officer, who saw that the flee’ng man had cut his own throat. He was not dead, and vainly tried to say something. He still clutched the knife. Williams was placed in an ambulance and driven to the county hospital. But he died on the way. In his pocket was found a picture of his wife as a tambourine dancer in her theatrical costume. Neighbors give the dead woman an excellent reputation. She was known to have been in great fear of harm at the hands of her husband and had several times expressed a feeling that terrible trouble was coming. The dead couple leave a 4 year-old son, whom Mrs. Williams had placed in the home for the friendless, paying for his board at that institution out of her scanty earnings as a seamstress.

A SHORT STRIKE.

Builders of the World’s Fair to the Number of More Than 5,000 Quit WorkAfter Being Idle for a Day a Compromise Is Effected and They Agree to Resume. Chicago, April 11.—Twelve hours saw the beginning and the peaceful ending of a strike at the world’s fair Mpnday that involved all union workmen within th* gates, to the number of 6,000 or more, and imperiled the successful opening of the exposition. The settlement satisfied the laborers and the exposition authorities ?<id was effected in a conference that lasted nearty all day, with short intervals for consultation on both sides. By its terms the union men gain a minimum rate of wages, are allowed passes for their delegates, with the privilege of entering the grounds and talking with their tradesmen at any time The agreement also provides that no discrimination shall be made between union and non-union workmen; that none of the men who went out on the strike shall not be refused employment hereafter on that account; that every artisan shall receive at least the minimum rate of wages prescribed for the trade in which he is employed, and that passes entitling them to free admission to the grounds, with the right to confer with the workmen of his trade at all times, so long as such conference shall not materially interfere with or retard the work, shall be furnished the authorized representative or delegate of each trade. These concessions are made with the understanding that they shall be accepted as a full settlement of the controversy, the men to return to work at once, and the stipulations to be in force during the whole period of the exposition. According to figures furnished by contractors themselves, between 5,000 and 6,000 men struck, Of this number 1,800 were carpenters, from 800 to 1,000 were painters, 400 were electrical workers, and the others were cornice workers, plasterers, cement workers, orna mental iron workers, fresco painters, glaziers, hod carriers, gravel roofers, steam fitters and machinists. Chicago, April 11.—More than 1,000 architectural and ornamental ironworkers employed in different shops and upon numerous buildings in course of construction throughout the city are on strike for shorter hours.

“The czar must have a pretty nice time, after all,” said Mr. Meekins. “What makes you asked his wife. “His wife takes chances on going to Siberia if she blows him up.”—Washington Star. A religious census of Lafayette college, taken in connection with the day of prayer for colleges, shows a total church membership of 200 in an under-graduate body of 285. G. M. Heldt has just entered as a student in the agricultural department of the University- of Georgia.' This venerable freshman is sixty-three years old. *•

THE FLAG INSULTED.

A ParuriM Mob Saek* an American Consulate aod Shoot* the Agent—Detail* of the Affair Are Meager—An Explanation and an Apology to Be Demanded. Washington, April 7.—lt was Chili with whom Uncle Sam had trouble in South America daring the last administration. It may be it* neighbor, Peru, during this. It appears that th* United States consulate at one of the Peruvian ports has been sacked by * mob, with apparent police sanction. The officer acting as consular agent for the United States was fired upon and wounded in the foot. The news comes in a brief telegram through the United States minister to Peru. He omitted such essential details as the name of the place and the name of the wounded officer, or they were dropped from his dispatch in the telegraphic transmission. His telegram is as follows: •‘Lima, April s.—Gresham, Washington: At (place omitted) mob attacked the masonic lodge, sacked the building and burned the fixtures In the street. Incidentally the United States consulate was Invaded, the furnishings destroyed and the acting consulate agent shot In the foot. The archives were saved intact. A squad of Peruvian police looked on while the mob performed its work without interference. The mall brings the particulars. Hicks.” Secretary Gresham conferred with the president on the subject and sent the following telegram to the minister: “Department or State, Washington, April 6, 1893.—Hicks, Minister, Lima: Protest against the failure of the authorities to afford protection to the consulate; and if the facts are well established ask an expression of regret, prompt prosecution of the guilty parties and reparation for the injury to American property or person. Gresham.” There is but one consulate in Peru, that at Callao. In this position Mr. Aquilla J. Daugherty, of Illinois, appointed during Mr. Harrison’s administration, stands on the record as consul. There are under him seven consular agencies, the occupants of which positions are doubtless mostly merchants of the country, who are paid by fees, and those fees seem to be very small, inasmuch as only two make any returns at all to the department of fees collected and those returns are under 825 a year. These consular agents are as follows: Cerro de Pasco, M. C. McNulty; Chiclayo, Alfred Sols; Mollendo, William R. Griffith; Paita, John F. Hopkins, Jr.; Piura, Emilio Clark; Truxillo, Edward Gottfried; Tumbez, William Baldini.

Whether the outrage complained of occurred at one of these smaller places or at Callao no one at the department can determine from the telegram; but inasmuch as it comes from Lima the impression prevails that the scene of the outrage was one of the interior points. <’his impression is further strengthened by the knowledge of the department that in many cases where the natives assault the sub-consulate the trouble is due not to any antagonism to the country represented but to prejudice and illfeeling against the representative personally. This is not an uncommon occurrence in South America or in other parts of the world where the acts of a mercantile consular agent are resented by the people, who would respect the acts of a citizen of the United States duly appointed to a full consular position. It is believed that the matter will be satisfactorily explained in a short time. Secretary Gresham’s action in the matter was marked by promptness and caution. The demands are predicated on a corroboration of the facta, as stated briefly by the minister.

MUST ANSWER.

Article* of Impeachment Formulated Against Accused Nebraska Officials. Lincoln, Neb., April 7.—The two houses of the legislature met in joint convention in representatives’ hall at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon and proceeded with the reading and considei ation of the articles of impeachment against George H. Hastings, attorney general; John C. Allen, secretary of state; August R. Humphrey, commissioner of public lands and buildings, and John E. Hill, ex-state treasurer—• members of the board of public lands and buildings luring the years 1891 and 1892. When they had all been read a motion to adopt was carried without material opposition. ' G. M. Lambertson, of this city, late assistant secretary of the treasury; Judge Doane, of Omaha, and Col. W. L. Green, of Kearney, were engaged as the attorneys to prosecute the cases; and Messrs. Colton, Casper and Barry were appointed a committee to represent the two houses in the prosecution. Resolutions directing impeachment against ex-Auditor Thomas H. Benton were adopted, and the committee was directed to bring in articles of impeachment, charging him with “holding up” the clerks in his office, and drawing fraudulent vouchers on the penitentiary and asylum funds. The articles of impeachment contain three articles and twenty-one specifications. The first article relates to the cell-house awards, the second to the junketing trips and the third to furnishing supplies and the coal deals at the Lincoln asylum for the insane, the various specifications relating to individual deals with various firms. The specific charge against the treasurer is that he compelled parties who had claims against the state, allowed by the legislature, to pay him a portion before he would issue the warrant, and other transactions that are peculiar, as in the admission of insurance companies to do business in this state and refusing permits to others.

RAN INTO A TRAIN.

An Electric Car Collides with a Passenger Train at West Bay City, Mich.—Seven Persons Hurt. ' Bat City, Mich., April 7.—A Grand Trunk passenger train struck an electric car at Henry street crossing Thursday, injuring seven people, one, Ed VreeJand, the motorman, fatally. The others injured are: Mary Demonia, of Bay City; E. M. Donovan, of Bay City; H. A. Durand, of Colum biaville; H. B. Durand, of Bay City William Foster, state agent New York underwriters,' of Grand Rapids; William Marksheffle, of -Toledo, O.

DEATH IN A COAL PIT.

Three Hundred Miner* Caught by an Explosion in a Welsh Colliery -Seventy F*eape, But It I* Thought the Beat Have Perished. London, April 12.—A spark from an engine ignited the gas in the coal pit near Pont-y-Pridd, Wales, and caused the gas to explode. A large number of miners were at work at the time and the explosion caused terrible havoc. The situation is appalling. Three hundred miners are entombed in the mine. The engine house is in flames and there is great fear that hundreds have perished. The rescuers who went down were driven back without being able to bring up more than five of the dead, and the fate of the other miners is in doubt.

The most agonizing scenes are witnessed and throngs of men, women and children, relatives of those below, arc crowded about the mouth of the coal pit The pit is worked in sections, one being above another. -The fire resulting from the explosion broke out in the eastern section. From this section seventy men succeeded in reaching the surface through the main dip working, led by a miner who knew the roads. They had a terrible struggle to get out, forcing their way through fire and smoke. Many of them were scorched and all were terribly exhausted when they emerged to safety. They brought no good news as to those who were left behind, but, on the contrary, expressed their dread that all those in the mine had perished. The first alarm was given at 2:30 p. m. The sparks from an engine in a 4-foot seam are supposed to have ignited a pile of cotton waste. The flames spread to the woodwork and finally ignited the inflammable gas in the seam. Flames and smoke gave to the men at work in the seam the first warning of approaching danger. All ran toward the landing. Many were overtaken by the fire and smoke, fell, and were left to their fate by their comrades in advance of them. Comparatively few of the men who were in the seam at the time of the explosion reached the landing. At the entrance of the pit a rescuing party was formed by the pit surveyor. The party got as far as the landing at the seam where the fire started, but was driven back almost immediately by the dense smoke issuing from the seam. The surveyer took his men back to the surface. After a half-hour’s rest they went down again and forced their way ten yards into the workings. They found four dead bodies, which they brought back with them. Attempts to go farther into the workings were vain, as the woodwork was burning and large masses of ruins were falling incessantly from the roof. One of the rescue party, who ventured too far, was killed. The men who saved themselves immediately after the fire broke out were too much confused and frightened to observe the positions of their fellowworkingmen. They are unable to give any clear account of the distribution of the miners, and the work of rescue must therefore proceed under all the difficulties of uncertainty.

NOMINATIONS.

The President Sends Another Batch to the Senate. Washington, April 12. —The president has sent the following nominations to the senate: State—Edward H. Strobel, of New York, to be third assistant secretary of state, vice William M. Grinnell, resigned. Treasury—Daniel N. Morgan, of Connecticut, to be treasurer of the United States, vice Enos H. Nebeker, resigned; Conrad N. Jordan, of New York, to be assistant treasurer of the United States at New York city, vice Ellis H. Roberts, resigned. Justice—Henry V. Johnson of Colorado, to be attorney of the United States for the District of Columbia; Charles B. Bellinger, of Oregon, to be United States district judge for the district of Oregon; William K. Reid, of Utah, to be judge of probate in the county of San Pete, territory of Utah. Interior—Daniel M. Browning, of Illinois, to be commissioner of Indian affairs; Frank C. Armstrong, of Washington, D. C, to be assistant commissioner of Indian affairs [Daniel D. Morgan, of Bridgeport, Conn, nominated for treasurer of the United States, is one of the leading citlaens of his native state, socially, politically and financially. He is about 50 years of age, has been mayor of Bridgeport three terms, served in the legislature and has been the president of a national bank for ten years. Conrad M. Jordan, nominated for assistant treasurer at New York, is well known to the country as United States treasurer in Mr. Cleveland’s first administration. He is about 60 years of age.]

BEAT HIS BOY TO DEATH.

Horrified at the Crime, the Father and Mother Take Poison. Bowling Green, Ky., April 12. —A horrible murder and a double attempt at suicide was made in this city Monday night. George Bradley, a negro, went home about 10 o’clock and flew into a rage about something his 7-year-old boy had done. Picking up a piece of plank the man beat the child to death. Horrified at what he had done, Bradley went down town and purchased some rat poison and went back home. He and his wife both took a dose of it. The poison did not operate fast enough for Bradley and he procured a razor, and, getting on the bed, cut his throat, making a gash 4 inches long and' nearly severing the jugular. Neighbors Tuesday morning found the lifeless body of the boy on the floor, and in a bed together were Bradley and his wife, the former gasping for breath and his wife in fearful agony from the poison. Bradley will die, but it is thought his wife may recover. Bradley and his wife have been industrious people and stood well with everybody.

FOR EMBEZZLING $194,000.

James Flood, of San Fraritlsco, Arrested for Bank Frauds. San Francisco, April 12.—James Flood, who was forced to resign last week as cashier of the Donohue & Kelly bank because of irregularities in his accounts, was arrested Monday night on a warrant charging him with embezzling $194,000 of the bank’s funds. When Flood was first retired his friends said he could make good his shortage, which was caused by overdraft by one of his assistants. Flood transferred his real estate to the bank, but since then it has been found his shortage is heavy.

STORMS WORK RUIN.

Kamm, lowa, Nebraska and Missouri Visited by Wind, Hall and Kain—Several Town* Almost Wiped Out of Existence— I The Los* of Life, It Is Feared, Will Be Considerable. Hiawatha, Kan., April 12.—Meager dispatches received here from the southern part of Kansas say that a cyclone passed over that portion of the state and that three towns, Willis, Everest and Powhattan, were laid in ruins. A* communication with those points is slow it is almost impossible to estimate the loss of life or property. It seems almost certain that some lives were lost and it is feared that but few in the villages named escaped injury. Hail broke hundreds of windows and it is feared spoiled prospects of a fruit crop this year. Near Robinson, the 14-year-old son of F. P. Polton, a wealthy merchan, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. ‘ Kansas City, Mo., April 12.—Parker, a small station on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad, was struck by a cyclone at 7 o’clock Tuesday evening. The business part of the town is a complete wreck as well as half the residence portion. Several persons are reported' killed and a large number seriously injured. Another cyclone struck Walnut, in the northern part of the state, at about 9 o’clock, and after causing much damage there switched off northward into Missouri and struck successively the towns of Mayview, Page and Hig’g'i ns ville. All along the route houses were blown down, outhouses and fences destroyed and numerous cattle killed. In Higginsville and Mayview the damage was slight, but in Page it is said that the whole town was laid . waste. In the latter place a man named Walker and his two children were ! caught in the ruins of his house and all were killed. Telegraph wires all over the state are down. St. Louis, April 12. Thunder and lightning, hail and wind combined Tuesday evening to form the severest storm this city has had for years. The steamer D. H. Pike, lying at its , wharf at the foot of Locust street, 1 with no steam up and five men on board, was blown adrift, and, as no trace could be had of it, it is feared she is sunk with all on board. The harbor boat City of St. Louis, with a small . crew aboard, was also blown from the same wharf and has not been heard from. Two wharfboats met with a similar fate, but it is believed there ' were no persons on board. ' The later storm created great havoc throughout the city, although at no place was the damage great. Trees, roofs and outbuildings were blown down and several runaways were reported. Several persons have been slightly injured, but none seriously so far as known. At the mammoth store called the Grand Leader, being erected on North Broadway, a portion of the uncompleted structure was blown down, causing 815,000 loss. Sioux City, la., April 12.—The town of Akron, la., on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road, 30 miles north of this city, which has a population of about 10,000 people, was devastated by a cyclone Tuesday afternoon. Houses were thrown from their foundations and overturned and many of them blown to pieces. The damage in the town is estimated at 8-50,000. The streets were littered with bedding and articles of household furniture. Many buildings in the country were damaged, and reports indicate heavy damage all along the path of the storm. The storm followed the Sioux valley south to Westfield. Its path was marked by demolished houses and barns. Two people, a man and his wife, were killed at one farmhouse. Several others were badly injured and many horses and cattle were killed. Omaha, Neb., April 12. —At midnight meager details from the path of the terrible storm that swept the northern part of the state late in the afternoon, indicate loss of life and terrible destruction of property. The greatest interest centers in information from Page. At 9 o’clock a wire was found that worked to Page for a few minutes. Then for some reason communication was again cut off. The operator at Omaha got this much out of a special telling of the awful destruction of the town: “A terrible cyclone struck Page during the afternoon. Mrs. Payne, wife of a local merchant, and two children were fatally injured and many were hurt. The Paynes were blown from their front porch a long distance and Injured by flying debris. Many other persons were hurt, but how seriously cannot be determined at present, though the situation is terrible. Many houses were torn to pieces and the town is in a wreck. A torrent .of rain fell while the cyclone prevailed. Nearly all of the inhabitants of the place were more or less seriously injured, as the storm came up so suddenly that the people did not have sufficient warning to seek places of safety before their homes were torn to pieces by the wind.” Here the wires failed to work longer and no further information is obtains-* ble. It is believed accurate details from the path of the storm will show great loss of life and greater destruction of property. Centralia, April 10. —A cloudburst Tuesday evening caused the entire city to be submerged, dbing thousands of dollars damage. A little river winds through the thickly settled part of the city, along which are a number of cottages with basements, all of which were flooded and the contents totally ruined. The lower floors of over twenty houses were flooded, many to the depth of 5 feet. The electric light company is the heaviest loser.

DEATH BY EARTHQUAkES.

• The Town of Malattia, in Asia Minor, Destroyed and 130 Persons Killed. Vienna, April 12.—Servia suffered most from Monday’s earthquake, but the loss of life appears small. Two villages in tne province of Svilajinac were destroyed. The chief judge was killed at Jagodina by his house collapsing. It is believed that these earthquakes are a continuation of the recent earthquakes in Asia Minor, which was meagerly reported, whereby the town of Malattia with 3,000 houses was destroyed and 130 persons Perished