People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1896 — Keeley Cure Law Invelid. [ARTICLE]

Keeley Cure Law Invelid.

The supreme court Minnesota Monday morning filed a decision declaring the Keeley cure law to be unconstitutional. This is the law which authorizes county commissioners to pay tor inebriates taking the Keeley cure.

Lincoln Park, where races were about to be held, presented a sad scene of desolation, and much money will be necessary to restore them. A. 'is. Woodward was crushed under a falling church, and had a leg broken. It is not thought the crop damage will be great. The severely injured are: J. L. Workman, head cut by flying debris: A. L. Woodry, in a collapsing building; Mrs. J. B. Abbott, caught beneath a horse; Henry Meyer, J. T. Thorpe. The storm raged with unabated violence twenty-five minutes. During this period rain fell as from a cloudburst, accompanied by hail. The prevailing drift of the wind was from the southwest, but at times it seesfed to form in edies between the business blocks and was accompanied by cyclonic features. buildings were unroofed and torn down, cornices were swept from roofs into the streets, and the residence portion of the city was nearly denuded of trees. The greatest damage wasat the State Hospital for the Insane, where many of the larger buildings were unroofed. The damage will be heavy. In the city it probably will reach $40,000 and may be much heavier, as the suburban districts are yet cut off from communication. At the state asylum iron supports weighing 300 pounds were blown several hundred feet. There is scarcely a street in the town that is not strewn with large branches and whole trunks of trees unrooted by the storm. Thfe damage to the Kelly block will be about $2,000. The Bohemian Catholic church, a brick structure at the corner of Second and E