Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1885 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. B. K. MARSHALL, ' - Puuubhix

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. - At Newburgh, N. Y., a decree of foreclosure has been entered against the West Shore Railroad Company, and the property ordered sold for not less than $22,000,000. A decree of foreclosure has also been granted against the St. Louis, Hannibal and Keokuk Railway Company....At New Britain, Conn., an omnibus crowded with school children was struck by a train, the son and two daughters of the owner of the vehicle being fatally injured. A similar accident at Chambersburg, Pa., resulted in the death of two brothers aged respectively 7 and 4.... Franklin J. Moses, the ex-Governor, was sentenced at Boston to three years imprisonment for swindling. The mud-drum connecting a battery of boilers ini Clarke <t Co.’s Solar Iron Works, at Pittsburgh, exploded, blowing machines, hoop-iron, and tools in all directions, a flying missile bursting the cylinder head /of a large engine, the escaping steam doing deadly work among the employes. Seventeen* men and boys were burned or maimed, two of the victims dying after being removed to the hospital. It is believed that four others are also mortally injured. This is the third explosion in the same mill within five years.... The failure of Mr. Henry Smith to put up Margins caused the suspension of the New York firm of William Heath & Co whose branch house in London is the leading American house in that city. Heath & Co. made assignments, as also did Mr. Smith, who, it is alleged, owes the Heath firm sl,000,000, while Heath <t Co. are supposed to owe their customers about $1,000,000.... After several rounds of a prize-fight between James Donnelly and Edward Berry had been fought near Pittsburgh, Pa., the friends of the latter threw pepper in Donnelly’s face, completely blinding him. Donnelly was at the time getting the belter of the fight, and the referee declaring in his favor, the affair broke up in a genera! row. George Bassendorf, a printer on the Freie Press, of Jersey City, accompanied by a woman, who, as learned from letters found afterward, had left her husband on account of ill-treatment, went to Central Park, in New York. There they made an agreement to kill themselves, Bassendorf shooting the woman and then himself. .. .According to the census just completed, the population of Massachusetts is 1,941,465, an increase of 158,380 since 1880. Boston has 390,406 inhabitants, against 362,536 five years ago.

THE WEST.

At Salt Lake City, Bishop Hiram B. Clawson, of the Mormon Church, was convicted of illegal cohabitation and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of S3OO and costs. Two other Saints, found guilty of the samea offense, received lighter sentences..,.A special from Warm Springs, Montana, sayrf one of the buildings of the insane asylum was burned, and three inmates, A. B. Magee, Hannah Belcher, and Hector Milan perished in the flames. It is not known how the fire originated.... Nearly all the towns in Washington Territory were represented at a mass-meeting at Seattle, which adopted resolutions calling on all citizens to aid in the expulsion of the Chinese, who wil] be notified to leave on or before November 1.... Over 10,000 people witnessed the first game of the final series between the New York and Chicago baseball clubs, played in the latter c ty. The game was a brilliant one, and resulted in the defeat of the visitors by a score of 7 to 4.... Indian depredations continue in Arizona, and the Governor has called out the Territorial militia for active service against the hostiles... .Patrick Hartnett, a wifemurderer, was hanged in the Ohio Penitentiary, at Columbus. Jonas H. Rowe brought suit for $25,000 damages against the Detroit Free Press for the publication of charges made in proceedings that had been entered for divorce. The Free Press copied them from the court records. The jury brought a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for 6 cents damages. .....Bloomington (Hl.) special: “First Assistant Postmaster General Stevenson, who arrived home ~~ a few days ago on a brief visit, has received calls from all manner of people. Applicants for office have bothered him by day, and burglars hang about his residence by night. Last night burglars invaded his residence. Mr. Stevenson was not at home at the time, and, after thoroughly ransacking the abode, the robbers made off with several Government bonds and a small amount of money.".... Rosenfeld <t Kauffman. Cincinnati clothiers, failed, with liabilities of SIOO.OOO. ■ The Detroit Post has been sold to W. C. and C. A. Nimocks, late of the Minneapolis Journal.... The men employed in the Union Pacific mines at Carbon, Wyoming, and Louisville, Colo., struck last week, and General Manager Callaway received official notification from the Knights of Labor at both camps that it was decided that miners would not return to work until all Chinamen were dismissed. At Salt Lake City, Edward Brain was convicted of unlawful cohabitation. His latest wife, a Danish girl, testified freely to their marital relations. Brain made *a long statement to the court, maintaining the truth of the Mormon gospel. He said he knew it by a direct revelation of God to himself. His covenants were made for eternity. He would stand by them at all hazards. Judge Zane reminded him that two of his wives.were in this eternal covenant. He spoke about one already divorced from him—bis first wife dishonored in her old age. To talk of this being an eternal covenant under divine command was blasphemy, and he was tired of hearing such hypocritical cant. Brain was sentenced to six months in jail and S3OO fine. Four cars broke away from the first section of a circus train near Fergus Falls, Minn., and running backward on a heavy grade struck the engine of the second section. Five men were killed and many others seriously wounded.. Nearly two hundred men were asleep in the wrecked cars at the tune. Col® weather, it is expected, will end the Apache campaign in the- Southwest, compelling the Indians to, surrender.... William Bookwaiter, of Circleville, Ohio, while intoxicated, took a position on the railroad tracks and said he would kill the first negro that passed. He kept his word, and Samuel Tibbs was his victim. He shot hup in the back, with fatal result..., John O’Brien, a political “fine-worker" of Cincinnati, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment and to pay a fine of SI,OOO. He

rnn-nr-.m.;! . 777,..- . , , , 777 , . had offered to sell fraudulent certificates of registration... .Cole <t Dodge, Stockton, Cal., farmers, filed a petition in bankruptcy, placing their liabilities at $200,^00.... All the in St. Daul were closed by order of Mayor Rice.... The first snowfall of the season is reported from East Tawas, Alpena,and Cheboygan, Mich., last week.

THE SOUTH.

Four negroes, one of them a woman, who were accused of several murders, were taken from jail and hedged by a mob, in Chatham County, North Carolina. The cell .doors were broken down and the four negroes were each put on a horse with a disguised man astride behind. The men made no outcry, save to protest their innocence, but the moans of the wdmap were heartrending. A mile was quickly traveled, and the cavalcade stopped in a grove. The negroes were tied hands and feet and made to stand upon their horses. They were given five minutes to make confessions and to pray. They protested. *heir innocence to the last, and as' z lhey prayed the horses were driven out from under them, and they were left hanging to the tree. Teamsters who were transporting a large quantity of merchandise from Piedras Negras to New Laredo, Mexico, were attacked thirty miles from the latter place by highwaymen, who bound them to trees and carried off most of their goods. Between Abilene and San Angplo, Tex., a smoothfaced boy, with a Winchester rifle and a six-shooter, relieved a Texas stage of its mail, the driver and six passengers quietly acquiescing. At Petersburg, Virginia, Senator Mahone’s son, Butler Mahone, was fined SSO and put under bonds of S2OO to keep the peace. He had attempted to shoot a police officer, who had arrested him for using profane and indecent language on the street, firing a shot which missed its mark ... .Heavy rains have fallen in Tennessee andj-Northern Georgia, causing serious injury to the cotton crop, and partially suspending railway traffic.... Three hundred miners at Chattanooga, Tenn., struck for higher wages, and it is thought tfie trouble will become general in that section.

WASHINGTON.

Dr. E. 0. Shakespeare, of Pennsylvania, has been commissioned by the President to visit European countries where cholera exists, and make investigation as to its cause, progress, and prevention. His report will be made to Congress at the next session. Congress will be asked by Secretary Bayard to appoint several Inspectors of Consuls, the idea being that the service will thus be promoted and the revenues increased by securing an honest and uniform system of valuation... .A recent decision, making Indians ineligible as Postmasters, has caused about seventy-five resignations to be forwarded from Indian Territory. It will be difficult to replace them with white people. The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist inst.: , Interest bearing debt— Bonds at 4 % per cent $250,000,000.00 Bonds at 4 per cent 737,736.450.00 Bonds at 3 per cent....• 194,190,500.00 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 227,000.00 Navy pension tundat 3 per cent.. 14,000,000.00 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent 64,623,512.00 Principal 1,260,777,462.00 Interest: 12,214,788.83 T0ta1..51,272,992,250.83 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity— Principal...;.;. $3,871,385.26 Interest. Total $4,092,717.56 Debt bearing no interest — Old demand and legal-tender notes $346,738,886.00 Certificates of deposit.... 23.185.000.00 Gold certificates... 118,137,790.10 Silver certificates...... 93,656,716.00 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934 estimated as lost or destroyed) 6,961,162.88 Principal $588,679,554.88 Total debt— Principal $1,853,328,402.14 Interest 12,436,121.13 T0ta1...... -$1,865,764,523.27 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt $240,927,074.70 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000,00 Total $340,927,074.70 Total debt less available caeh items $1,524,837.448.57 Net cash in the Treasury 63,903,106.30 Debt, less cash in Treasury, Oct. —l, Debt, less cash in Treasury, Sept. 1, 1885 1,473,692,307.52 Decreaseof debt during the month as shown by this statement $12,757,965.25 Cash in the Treasury available \ for reduction of the debt— Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $118,137,790.00 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding,'.. 93,656,716.00 United States notes held for cer- * tificates of deposit actually outstanding 23,185,000.00 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid.......... 5,945,066.71 Fractional currency 2,501.99 Total available for reduction of the debt $240,927,074.70 Reserve fund held for redemption of United States notes,acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882.. 100,000,000.00 Un • vailable for reduction of the debt — Fractional silver coin.,, $23,611,803.70 Minor coin 796,852.26 Total $24,438,746.«0 Certificates held as cash. 54,667,230.00 Net cash balance on hand 63,903,106.30 Total cash in Treasury, as shown by Treasurer s general account $483,936,157.05 The payments on account of interest due on bonds amounted to about $7,500,000, which will reduce the decrease of the debt to about $5,250,000.

POInTICAL.

The Massachusetts Republican Convention, in session at Springfield, placed the following ticket in the field: Governor, George D. Robinson; Lieutenant Governor, Oliver Amts; Secretary of State, Henry B. Pierce; State Treasurer and Receiver General, A. W. Beard; Auditor, Chas. R. Ladd; Attorney General, E. L. Sherman. Senator Hoar, who presided oven the convention, made a lengthy speech, in which he said that his party, although in favor of restoring peace and harmony between the sections, would insist upon the right of all loyal ’citizens to free disenssipn, unobstructed suffrage, and an honest counting of their votes. The platform indorses the civilservice laws and urges the extension of their principles to all the business offices of the Government; demands the suspension of silver coinage; the enactment of a general bankrupt law, and the vigorous enforcement of the Edmunds bill in Utah: favors reductions or reforms in the tariff which. may not. be inconsistent with the doctrine of protection, and appeals to an “aroused public conscience" to prevent further suppression of the negro vote. ... A convention of colored men of Virginia met at Lynchburg. M. V. Beckley, of

Richmond, delivered an address, saying the convention had not assembled as Republicans or Democrats, but as citizens of Virginia, claiming the right of freemen. He hoped their deliberations would demon--strate that they were worthy the citizenship. The convention adopted resolutions rehonnciug allegiance to the Republican organizition, and proclaiming absolute independence henceforth in political matters. The “straight Greenbackers” of lowa held a convention at Marshalltown, and" nominated the following ticket: Governor, Eiias Doty, of Cedar Rapids; Lieutenant Governor, J. K. Clark, of Mount Pleasant; Supreme Judge, M. R. Farnsworth, of Cresco; State Superintendent, J. D. Guthrie. of Oska’oosa. J. K. Eckert was chosen a member of the National Committee, and a full State Central Committee was appointed. Resolutions approving the Indianapolis National platform of 1884 and denouncing fusion with the Democrats were adopted. « The Democrats of Colorado nominated Wilbur F. Stone for Supreme Judge and adopted resolutions favoring the free coinage of silver and the enforcement of the, pre-emption and homestead laws against corporations and syndicates Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is of the opinion that there will be no legislation on the silver question this winter. In regard to the Civil Service Commission it is stated that Dorman B. Eaton’s successor will probably not be named until Nov. 1; that Dr. Gregory will remain for some months, with a possibility that his resignation wi l nob be accepted; and Mr. Thoman will likely be retired. The South will, it is thought, be represented on the new commission. Col. Codman, of Massachusetts, has been seriously considered in connection with the prospective vacancy, but does not want the place.... The following Consuls have been appointed by the President: Owen McGorr, of Colorado, at Ecuador: J6hn Cornwell, of Texas, at Cairo; Thomas R. Jermyan, of North Carolina, at Montevideo; and Lewis G. Reed, of New’ York, at Barbadoes.

GENERAL.

W. W. Wood, aged twenty-one, a reporter, killed himself at Quincy, III.; Mrs. Eliza; Steel, a widow of seventy years, living near Fort Recovery, Ohio, climbed a ladder to a height of thirty feet, and then dashed herself to the earth, causing instant death; an actress who registered in a New York hotel as “Annie Bennett” turned on the gas in her room, stuffed the chinks in windows and doors with paper, and was dead in a few hours. There were 172 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet’s during the week, against 140 in the preceding week, and 188, 160, and 122 in the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1883, and.lßß2 respectively. Bradstreet’s, in its weekly commercial summary, says: “The check to the activity in business circles at the East noted last week has become more pronounced. In New England the distribution of boots and shoes is as heavy as ever, but the demand for woolen and cotton goods has fallen off. Both staples are quieter. Raw wool is fairly active and the advance in prices previously noted is sustained, but the tendency to an advance in quotations is less marked, Late sales are less than during weeks in the latter part of August and in the earlier portion of September. There is a diminished activity in dry goods. The request for iron East and West is of fair proportions, with no indications of an advance in prices. Less is heard of Southern iron, at -least than formerly. Anthracite coal is firmer and in moderately better demand.” In an interview, Mr. F. A. Dockray, who had just concluded a thorough investigation of the general trade with Mexico, says that the West has every advantage for commanding Seventy-five per cent, of the total business of this republic with its Southern sister. There is great danger, however, of American houses losing the trade they have already gained with Mexico, as English firms are making rapid strides toward commercial supremacy in that country. It is now not so much a question to the United States of increasing as of holding the Mexican trade According to Sir John MacDonald the fate of Riel depends on the Privy Council of England. If that body approves the sentence, Riel will hang. A rebellion of the French Canadians would be promptly suppressed, Sir John’thinks, by the Englishspeaking people of the Dominion... .It now transpires that Count Zacharoff, w'ho figured very conspicuously as an agent for the Mann Boudoir-car, and was married to Miss Florence Billings, of New York, in August, has another, his first, wife living in Bristol, Eng.... A cow threw the engine of a train on the Canadian Pacific Road off the track near Kamloops, killing one American, five Chinamen, and wounding several others.

FOREIGN.

The business portion of the town of Iquique, Peru, was destroyed by fire, the loss being estimated at $2,000,003.... Sir Andrew Clark. Mr. Gladstone’s physician, says that Mr. Gladstone’s throat is now in a condition that will allow him to deliver speeches. Representatives of the great powers met at Constantinople on the Ist inst to consider the Roumelia question, but took no action, and adjourned to await instructions from their respective governments. The opinion gains ground that the crisis is extending and that a general war is inevitable unless the powers intervene at once. Active preparations for defensive operations are in progress in Roumelia. Frequent conferences are oeing held by the leading monarchs and diplomats of Europe with regard to the existing complications.... Mdlle. Emma Nevada was married in Paris to Dr. Raymond Palmer, of Birmingham, England. The bridemaids were Misses Morris, John-, son, Everest, and Tift, of America. Signor Salvini, the Italian tragedian, was the “best man.” > In summing up the situation in regard to the revolution in Roumelia, Smalley’s special cablegram says that it develops no decided phases, and that war Still hangs in the balance. The danger of the situation is increased by the delays of the powers, owing to difficulty in arriving at combined action. A deputation of Bulgarians waited on the Czar at Elsinore, Denmark, and solicited his approval of the annexation of Roumelia to Bulgaria. The dispatches state that the- deputation retired apparently satisfied. A collision between Servians and Bulgarians was reported on the frontier.... Germany and Spain have arrived at an amicable understanding regarding the Caroline Islands, and the Pope’s good offices will not be requred. Spain’s claim to Yap is conceded by Germany, which'in turn is granted free navigation of the Caroline waters, free commerce with the inhabitants of the islands, and the; privilege of establishing a.coaling station on one of them..,.. It is expected that King Christian IX. of Denmark will abdicate in favor of his son Frederick. The difficulty between the I King and Folkething, of Parliament, has

been of some duration, the monarch* Appointing his ministers frpm the minority, and thus gaining the enmityof the representatives of .the pe0p1e...., “Poor Carlotta’s” insanity is pronounced ihcurable by an, eminent specialist who has been for some time her custodian. One of her hallucinations is, that Maxmilian is still alivfc and that he wijl soon be emperor of the entire world... .No doubt is entertained that the Litin monetary union will be continued until January, 1877. Belgium will be represented at the approaching conference. .. .Fred .Hassaurek, a well-known German journalist and politician, of Cincinnati, died in Paris.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Five polygamists were sentenced in the Third District Court at Salt Lake—lsaac Gross. Alfred Best, David E. Davis, Chas. Keal, and Andrew W. Coley. All refused to pledge themselves to obey the law, and were sentenced to the full limit ofithe law—six months’ imprisonment and S3OO fine. In the Tabernacle, last Sunday, Apostle Heber J. Grant said: “Woe to the Judge who sits on the bench of the Third District Court! We will not stand his abuse much longer. ”... Chicago elevators contain 12,612,915 bushels of wheat, 871,308 bushels of corn, 108,964 bushels of oats, 174,579 bushels of rye, and 13,860 bushels of barley; tota’, 13,781,623 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 8,085.311 bushels a year ago The enumerat on just taken shows the population of lowa to be 1,753,980, an increase of 129,365 in five years. The growth has been confined wholly to the, large towns and the northwestern counties. A patient escaped from a small-pox hospital at Montreal, ran through the streets in his night-clothes,''and finally entered a dwelling, the inmates of which gave him a beating and handed him over to an officer. At many Catholic churches on Sunday the priests urged their congregations to submit to the medical authorities and be vaccinated at once. The procession to invoke the intercession of the Virgin Mary to stay the epidemic took place at one of the French churches in the presence of 10,000 people. Several. cases of the disease have appeared at Quebec and at Cape St. Ignace, near that city. A dispatch from Rusk, Tex., says that “at the terminus of the Kansas and Gulf Shore Line, near Lufkin, Tex., sixty convicts working on the road made a desperate break for liberty just as they had finished their supper. With deafening yells they started up in a body and rushed for the neighboring woods. The guards opened fire on the fleeing convicts with deadly effect The latest report says that twenty-five of them were killed or wounded. The prisoners ran in one large body, and the guards simply emptied their repeating rifles and small arms into the moving mass. Rumors of an_ intended mutiny in this camp have been rife for some weeks past. These rumors were strengthened by the fact that many of the convicts were serving life-sen-tences'and were known to be desperate characters, and extra precautions were being taken. Every means possible is being used to recapture the thirty-five who succeeded in eluding the rifles of the guards. All avenues of escape are being guarded, and posses are being organized to scour the country. The soene of the outbreak is some miles from a telegraph office. ” The President appointed the followingnamed Presidential Postmasters: Benjamin F. Devore, at Independence, Kan., vice William T. Yoe, resigned ; Thomas A. McCleary, at Medicine Lodge, Kan., vice W. D. Vanslyke, resigned; Samuel T. Carrico, at Harner, Kan., vice James O. Graham, resigned; Thomas IL Love, at Wellington, Kan., vice J. Y. Coffman, resigned; Colin Campbell, at Florence, Kan., vice William A. Stanford, resigned; Martin Sinnett, at Arkansas City. Knn., vice James C. Toplitt, resigned: Edward T. Besh, at Neligh, Neb., vice J. Jones Melick, resigned, Forrest L. Wheden. at York, Neb,, vice L. J. Gandy, resigned: Charles C. Hathaway, at Del Norte, Colo., vice W. H. Cochran, resigned; Lyman Thompson, at South Pueblo, Colo., vice G. B. Stimpson, resigned; C. S. Clark, at Tombstone, Arizona, vice’J. P. Clum, resigned; Charles W. Huggins, at Lamar, Mo., vice J. B. Emery, resigned; Thomas*H. Frame, at Liberty, Mo., vice W. H. Robinson, resigned; Henry S. Dean, at Stockbridge, Mass., vice H. L. Plumb, resigned; A bert A. Haggctt, at Lowell, Mass., v ce Edward T. Rowell, resigned; A. H. Dudley, at Princeton. Ky., vice Robert M. Cravens t resigned; William D. Swail, at Belvidere, 111., vice Charles B. Loop, resigned; John O. Johnson, at Austin, Tex., vice J. C. Degress, commission expired; Peter McCamley, at Grand Rapids, Wis., vice G. T. Witter, commission expired; Thomas Bowipan, at Counc I Blurt s, vice Philip Armour, suspehded; James W. B'attie. at Marshfield, Mass., vice Edward S. Henne, suspended: Chas. G. Hagnauer, at Highland, 111., vice Louis Kinue, suspended: John H. Hill, at Goldsboro, N. C.. vice Hiram Grant, suspended; Wm. H. Hensley, Columbus, Neto., vice H. J. Hudson, suspended; Henry P. Howard, at San Antonio, Tex., vice J. P. Newcomb, suspended; Lewis Liwry, at Cameron,Mo., vice F. M. Kimba'l, suspended ; B. F. Ellsbury, at Ironton, 0., vice S. B. Steccc suspended; John D. Waterman, at Rockford, 111., vice Thomas G. Lawler,- -suspended; J. H. Brinker, at West Point, Miss , vice H. H. Harrington, suspended: Walter W. McGrew, at Eureka. Kan., vice James W. Nicholas, resigned; John C. Friend, at Rawlings. Wy. T., vice H. T. Snively, suspended: Isaiah Garrett, at Monroe. La., vice Julius Ennemoser, suspended; Arthur D. Glover, at Olympia, W. T., vice James W. Gale, suspended.

THE MARKETS.

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TORNADO WARNINGS.

Trustworthy Reports to Be Sent tc Localities Threatened by the Funnel Fiend. Lieutenant J. P. Finley’s Observations—The Per Cent of Verification Gratifying.

[Washington dispatch.] ' The phenomena of tornadoes, \> the scientfic study of which Lieiijt. John P. Finley, of the signal corps, , has devoted about eight years, are now so well understood as to warrant the belief that trustworthy warnings may soon be sent out to the inhabitants of localities which may be threatened with disastrous visitations. Daily predictions are in fact being made at present, having begun last year and continued during the tornado season, and resumed recently upon the return of Lieut. Finley from an inspection tour in the West. The percentage of verification is already gratifying, though the predictions are as yet largelj’ experimental, and are embodied in the daily published bulletins of the signal office only when the conditions favorable to the creation of tornadoes are very pronounced. In such cases “severe local storms” are noted as probable. To a reporter Lieutenant Finley recently described the known phenomena of tornadoes and the ends toward which present researches are directed. These storms have distinctly marked characteristics, and are by no means to be confounded with hurricanes, “blizzards,” cyclones, or northeasters. Their tracks are never more than a few hundred yards wide, aud their forces are generally exhausted by the time they have traveled a course of forty or fifty miles, though in this latter respect they are quite variable, some having been traced by their lines of devastation more than 180 miles. Their rotary motion, which is greatest toward the center, -'sometimes reaches the enormous rate of two thousand miles an hour, while their forward movement,always from southwest to northheast, ordinarily does not exceed forty or fifty miles. They are usually unaccompanied by electrical disturbances, and are believed to be uninfluenced by electrical conditions, though violent thunderstorms sometimes follow them a few miles away. There is a distinct and curious relationship between the tornado and the general storm center, which is always apparent in their jtthiforip relative positions; the tornado always occurring southeastwardly from the center of the low barometic pressure, and at a distance from one to six hundred miles. The shape of the general storm center, the direction in which its longest diameter lies, and the appearance of the upper and lower clouds enter as minor elements tn the problem out of which the weather experts hope to work a complete system of tornado warnings. The visits of the tornado are commonly between the hours of 2 and 6 o’clock in the afternoon. Its home is an area which includes the whole of lowa, all of Missouri, except the southeastern corner, the northwestern corner of Arkansas, the northeastern part of Indian Territory, Eastern Kansas, Eastern Nebraska, Southern Minnesota, Southern Wisconsin, and Western Illinois. Here its season extends from April to August, inclusive. It is a frequent visitor to two or three regions. One is a strip along the gulf and South Atlantic, which takes in the central portions of Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, with termini in Mississippi and North Carolina, over which its devastations are confined to the months of January, February, and March. The other includes a portion of southern and central Ohio, a large part of Pennsylvania, a small area in Maryland, a strip across New’ York, and a corner each of Massachusetts and Connecticut, where it is seasonable only during the months of August and September. Lieut. Finley further said, while a host of interesting scientific questions respecting the origin of tornadoes, the laws which govern them, aud their relationship to other meteorological phenomena remain to be answered, the more practical questions as to when and where they are likely to appear seem to be advancing rapidly toward solution. The interests which are subject to disaster from tornadoes are alive to the importance of the work in progress. Intending purchasers of farms apply to the Signal Office for information respecting the liability of their selected locality to disaster. To such are sent the records of the past as far as they are known. Whenever Lieut. Finley travels in pursuit of his studies farmers and villagers press for information. To these he says that nothing raised by tne hand of man above the surface of the earth can withstand the shock of the tornado. He advises them to seek their dugouts upon the appearance of the portentious sigi s of disaster, and there await the passage of the storm. For their property he advises insurance, so that the losses of the individual may be shared by his more fortunate neighbors. The insurance companies which last year “wrote” $40,000,0'0 in tornado policies are eagerly awaiting the completion of a map now in the process of making which will, it is expectefl, greatly narrowthe so-called tornado regions, and perhaps show that large portions of them have never experienced a destructive storm. Upon this map Lieutenant Finley proposes to show from the complete records of several years and dates the average number of tornadoes for each locality per annum.

THE CATTLEMEN.

Conference of Those Interested in Herds in the Cherokee Strip. [Kansas City special.) A meeting was held at the Brunswick this afternoon of cattlemen interested in the herds in the Cherokee strip and No Man’s Land. Fully a dozen of the largest cattleowners were in attendance. These are the cattlemen against whom suits aggregating nearly $509,000 have been brought by the Texas cattlemen who were stopped while driving their herds north through Indian Territory about three months ag'dThe attorneys of the Indian Territory men were present, and at the expiration of the conference the expressions of all those interested was to the effect that they had little to fear from any suits and would make a vigorous defense. The statement was also made that while about four hundred and fifty thousand head of_ cattle still remained on the Cherokee §trip and No Man’s Land, most all the-cattle have been removed from the Arapahoe and Cheyenne reservation, in accordance with the President's order.

Fleeing from the Vaccinator.

(Quebec (Ont) telegram.] Great excitement was caused yesterday in St. Sauveur when the public vaccinator entered two of the largest French schools there for the purpose of vaccinating the' scholars. Entire classes rushed from the school and home to their parents, who consequently became exasperated and proceeded to the school in no peaceful state of mind. They were met by the Mayor, who expostulated with them and finally got thenl to understand. IT will take three months and $2,0Q0 to mount Jumbo.

THE PAPAL SEE.

It Makes Many Concessions to the Advanced Spirit of the Nineteenth Century. the Hierarchy Invested with Power of Control Over the Material Affairs of the Church. [Baltimore special ] The American of this city publishes a special letter from Rome having reference to, the confirmation and effect of the decrees passed by the Plenary Council of Baltimore. The writer says that their influence will be felt throughout America, and to a beneficial purpose. A canon, which took its origin in medivael times, and was founded on and constituted for a civilization that has almost passed away, is cut into by the decrees. They will constitute a law suitable for the time. The education of the clergy will be elevated to the wants of the time. The Christian civilization of the people will be made to keep pace with the material civilization of the time. Christianity will be brought into harmony with the education and civilization of the present age. Regulations have been made for the establishment of schools for children, normal schools for teachers, and a university for priests and for those laymen who devote themselves to the pursuits of higher knowledge. It is not by “benefices, ” that great feature of the middle ages by which, while education was assisted, it was also hampered, that these results are to be obtained. “Benefices”' will not be brought in as a means of support. The Catholic Church in the United States wants no subsidy from the state, and thus it will not become at servant, or rather a slave, of the state, as it has so often been in European countries, such as France and Austria. The church in America prefers to depend for her support upon the free off erings of the people; In the new dioceses it is provided that no such thing as parishes and parish priests, in the old canonical sense of the term, will exist in the United States. These were founded.on “benefices,”, but there they will not be employed. This,' however, does not indicate that pastors who have created and fostered a congregation, dud m ide the desert to blossom as a rose, will be harshly treated or removed from the places they have built up. There will not be an absolute removability of pastors. A certain percentage of them'will be declared immovable, and this holds good except in cases where faults are ascribed to the pastor, and these faults and their consequences will be determined by a trial. A certain amount of liberty of action is required in the United States both by Bishops and .clergy, and it is not advisable to remove or curtail their liberty. The dignity and authority Will be increased nmd brought more prominently into relief. They will have their courts over those of bishops, in which appeals will be received before such appeals can be sent to Rome. In future bishops will have a permanent board or council, which they will assemble at certain intervals during the year. They will also give some voice to the clergy in the selection of bishops. Another important decision of the Baltimore Council refers to societies or associations. A stop is about to be put to indiscriminate, injudicious, or conflicting condemnation of Secret societies. Henceforward the condemnation of any secret society will be reserved to a permanent board of all the archbishops of the country, and all cases of such a nature must be referred to them for their judgment and decision.

CRUSHED BY THE CARS.

Collision of Two Sections of a Circus Train on the Northern Pacific Road, Five Men Killed Outright and Many Others Badly, If Not Fatally, Injured. [Fergus Falls (Minn.) dispatch ] A serious smashup of John Robinson's circus train occurred on the Northern Pacific, Fergiifc and Black Hills Road, a.branch of the Northern Pacific, at Ames Station, six miles west of this city. Four cars were broken to pieces, five men killed, and a large number injured. The train was in two sections. After passsing Ames the coupling of the four rear cars of the forward section broke, and there being a heavy grade they ran back toward the rear section. The rear engine ran* in to the wild cars at nearly full speed, with a terrific crash, injuring the forward part of the engine badly and totally demolishing the cars. These were common freight-cars, fitted up with bunks, etc., as sleeping-earth for the canvasmen and roustabouts of the circus. They contained nearly 200 men, and the mystery is that so many escaped with their lives. A terrible scene followed the collision. Their groans, and cries from the many injured, and howls and curses from those who were tryirig to extricate themselves from the wreck. People in the rear section, none of them hurt, lent all the aid possible, and the forward engine was dispatched at once to Feigns Falls for surgical assistance, returning in half an hour with the Northern Pacific physicians here. The following are the names of the dead:' George Krouse, Cincinnati. His brother lives at No. 62 Main str.et, Cincinnati. H. Roberts, Wadena, Minn., canvassman. Charles Wallace, joined the circus at Portland, Me.; laborer. Samuel Blair, Colfax, Dakota; laborer. James Wilson, Cincinnati, formerly policeman; train watchman. The most seriously wounded are as follows: James Eccles, Nova Scotia, dislocated shoulder and bruises; probably fatal. Joe Brown, New York, leg hurt. Win. Winfield, Appomattox, Vi. side and hack; will die. Thomas Vanata, ruptured. James Meyers, sprained ankle and legs bruised. Al Turner, lowa, foot mashed. Henry Roise, New York, leg and arms bruised. Wm. Murray, New York, head badly cut. James Coleman, colored, leg cut. Jenkins, head canvasnian, jaw smashed. Ed Siegler, Cincinnati, head hurt. Wm. Warfen. Cleveland, both hands jammed; will l&ve to be amputated. Nearly every man in the four cars is somewhat bruised and hurt, but, except the above, none seriously. A brakeman named Peterson could not be found after the wreck was cleared, and it is not known ' whether he was killed or ran away. The injured will be sent to the Northern pacific Hospital at Brainerd, and an inquest will be held to-morrow on the remains of the deceased, which will be held at the disposition of relatives, if any telegraph; otherwise they will probably be buried here. A colored band in one of the cars escaped with little injury except to. their instruments. Hearty all of which were smashed beyond repair. • . --

A Very Peculiar Accident.

[Centralia (TIL) special J » M very peculiar accident happened at Sandoval, six miles north of this point, Saturday last A little girl named Birkley was playing around a plow, the’ tongue of which had been propped up with a stick. Under the tongue an iron kettle having four pointed legs was turned upside down, in some way the child knocked the prop out, when the tongue came down, catching the child’s head on one of the legs, which penetrated the brain, causing her death. Ik England the freight trains will average a speed of twenty-five miles an hour