Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1886 — Page 6

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THE NEWS CONDENSED,

Tin- kAst. v The Governor of Pennsylvania has urged the Attorney General to proeeo«te persons who have boon systematically defrauding r the State in the soldiers orphans' schools. Ho draws a terrible picture of thq unwwahed clothing, poor food; and cohlftgious diseases. — ; A suit brought against the Penn Bank directors by a depositor aho claimed that ho had been induced to leave his inouey in a bank known by defendants to be insolvent, resulted in a verdirffoY the plaintiff of $24,<123.41. This decision of the Pittsburgh court will, it is supposed, result in the immediate institution of hundreds of similar suits... .At Merrick. L. 1,, l>r. Thomas S. Taylor, in attempting to put a bullet through n tomato can, placed on the head of his coachman, Thaddeus Gretman. shot the latter dead. A UPFrAtO speoial to the Chicago Timen says: “The statement of Rev. William Cleveland, brother of the President, that the latter will marry Miss Frances Folsom,the lovely daughter of the late Oscar Folsom, leaves no doubt of the fact that the White House wedding will take place. The wedding, it is said, will he* of the most quiet character possible, and it is to be solemnized in June. There will not be a dozen persons present, and, if it is possible, the time of its occurrence will be kept secret until after the ceremony. Miss Folsom is modest, retiring, and sensitive, and her wishes are that there shall be no display. In this it is. understood the President concurs.” A remarkable tale comes from Lewiston. Me. A young man been for months in failing health, and doctors could not fathom his case. It was not understood until a snake thrust its head from the young man's mouth. His sister seized it and landed it safely at her feet, hut the operation killed her brother, as the snake’s tail had grown into his body, and the separation ruptured a blood vessel... The giving way of a vessel at Pittsburgh containing one thousand pounds of molten steel seriously injured a number of persons ... The carpet firm of Learn & Snyder, of McKeesport, Pa., has made an assignment to secure d Ats of $40,000 ... The elephant Alice, Jumbo's London partner, has arrived in New York.

THE WEST.

Henry H. Pouter has organized in Indians a company with $5,000.0(H) capital to operate the Chicago and Great Southern toad, which he recently purchased mider f foreclosure for $501,000. The directors are all Chicagoans Milo Coll, a young farmer of Kelloggsville. Ohio, died under suspicious circumstances. His wife reluc- , tantly consented to a postmortem, lrnt when the physicians arrived she went tip I stairs under pretense of taking a"nap, and there hanged herself. J. Q. Biggs, a clerk in the office of the Lake Erie Road at Bloomington, Illinois, stole 285 California and Western tickets, worth SIO,OOO or more. Those remaining unsold were found in his house. He was eaught by using a false name for registered letters. '■ .. ' :: • - ' A Republican Valley Railroad train was Wrecked near Oketo, Neb., two coaches leaving the track and plunging intoJtbe Blue River. Fortunately the cars burst open in their descent, permitting the rescue of the occupants. A little girl was killed, a babejfatally hurt, and fourteen other persons were more or less injured. ■! A St. Paul dispatch says: “Reports from the cyclone disaster at St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids, Minn., show that the loss of life will reach nearly if not quite 100. Bodies are being brought in hourly, but there is great difficulty iu identifying them. The remains in the majority of instances are blackened and mangled, and the scenes attendant upon their recovery are heartfending. Medical and other aid is pouring in from all directions- Reports from lowa, Missouri, and Kansas tell of destruction to life and property.” In several of the public schools at-St. Louis the boys struck for shorter hours the other day. At the Hodgen School the following notice was found posted on the building in the morning: “Boys of the Hodgen School: Strike Friday, April 16. By order of the Strike School Association.” The principal of the school made an investigation and found that the notice had been put up by two pupils in the j “Second-Reader” class. He gave them a 'sound thrashing, which had the effect of keeping their fellow-strikers from going ont. At the Madison School about thirty of the boys ran away and marched through the streets in the vicinity. They were out on a strike, they said, for shorter-hours, and less music in the schools. They wanted the afternoon session to open at I o'clock instead of 1:60, and to let out at 3 instead of 3:45 p. m. The girls took no part. in , the rebellion. There was also some trouble at the Clinton and Peabody schools Michael Eagan, a boy 10 years of age, committed suicide by hanging at his home in South Chicago. His father would not let him go with him to call on a neghlwr... The grand jury at St. Louis has indicted Martin Irons and other leading Knights of Labor, besides a telegraph operator, on charge of conspiring to tap the wires of the Missouri Pacific Road and secure messages passing let ween Gould and Hoxie. A Telegram from St. Cloud. Minn., says: “The fist of the cyclone's victims grows longer. -Mary TarbouL 32 y<&ra old, has died at Rice's Station, and Abner St. Cyt at Sauk Rapids. The funeral of the Catholics’ dead took place from the cathedral in this city with impressive ceremonies. All stores were dewed and the hells were tolled. The sky was overcast, threatening rain, as if to add to the gloom which has settled over the city. Others of the dead were buried later in the morning. Enough physicians from Minneapolis, St. Paul and other places are on the ground to give the injured the best attention. Relief' in the shape of beds, provisions, money and nurses is constantly coming ih from Minneapolis and St. Paul, but still more is - needed. A corrected list of the dead shows eighteen killed here, thirty-three at Sauk Rapids, ten ;it. Station and at Buckman. Several more will die. Two tag graves in the Catholic Cemetery each received ten bodies. Nearly aH the dead are now buried:” Among the freaks of the cyclone in Minnesota were wafting a suit of clothes from a SC Cloud tailor shop to Brainerd, sixty-two miles, and the cairying of a headstone from the graveyard at St. Cloud across.the Mississippi and landing it three

miles away in the heart of Sank Rapids. A aafc.wr tghrag- i-tWO pounds tciw carried 400 feet.. By the explosion of eight tegs of powder, which was being unloaded from » freight car at Cfintonvtlle, Wfs:,/SEreS men were killed and several wetohadly hurt, whihvfhe car was blown into. Kindling wood.'. George Smith, a veteran.ioqrnalifet, arid out* of the owners of t ha Slate HUiiiHier. died at sprin.gfieid. 111. ?

THE SOUTH.

.Ik the colored Methodist conference at' Richmond a minister undertook to boycott n candidate foi admission solely beeansa he had Voted a Democratic ticket, but the attempt was frowned down. Charles Itoit lssa N, a negro murderer, wan hanged<at Newcastle, Del. He killed Mrs. Ella F. Gardner, a white woman, October 5, 1885. / ~* Another dime museum freak has been discovered in Lawrence County, South Carolina, a boy twelve years of age, with' spinal column prolonged into a wagging tail covered with a thick growth of hair. ' . Robert Smith, nineteen years old, colored, was executed at Nicholnsville, Kv., for the murder of his stepfather, James Sea. The murderer sold his body to a physician for $25. which lie expended for fruit.

WASHINGTON.

The House Committee bn Indian Affairs have agreed to a favorable report on the bill introduced in the; Senate bv Senator Hawes to provide for the allotment of lands in severally to Indians.... The Senate Committee on Commerce has agreed to a favorable report on Representative James’ hill to; reflate oonimercinl-tmv-clers' sales of goods and merchandise. The bill, as agreed upon, reads ns follows; “That residents of each State and Territory may, within the other States and Territories and within the District of Columbia, solicit from dealers or merchants-ordere for gmids- and merchandise by sample, catalogue, card- pripe-list, description, or other representation without payment of any license or mercantile tax.” A special agent of the land office reports that 09 per cent, of the homestead and pre-emption entries ir Minnesota are made ns pretexts for obtaining the timber on the land, with no intention of permanent settlement. \ — By a close vote —fi to s—the Educational Committee of the House directed a favorv - - l :,* , . . able report on the Senate bill to provide for the study of the nature <if alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and of their effects upon the human system, in connection* w ith the several divisions of the subjects of physiology and hygiene by the pupils in the public schools in the Territories and the District of Columbia, and in the military and naval academies and Indian and colored schools of the Territories.. The President has signed the act authorizing the erection of a building for the Congressional library; also the Set for the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi River near Alton, 111., and the act for the construction of a dam across the Mississippi near Braincrd, Mum.

POLITICAL.

M.woiuty 553 minority reports of the Payne investigating committee have been submitted to the Ohio House. The majority claim that the testimony adduced is sufficient to have the matter referred to- the Pnited States Senate, while the minority simply present arguments impeaching the most damaging witnesses. , The name of General AY, F. 'Sagers, of Buffalo, is mentioned in connection with the public printing office, as the successor of Sterling P. Bounds,. The Governor of Tennesee has appointed the Hon. ■W. C. AY hi tthome to succeed Senator Howell E. Jackson, recently appointed to a United States Judgeship. A committee of the survivors of the Pennsylvania State Constitutional Convention of 1872 has prephted an address to the people of that State, asking that action lie taken looking to the selection of members of the Legislature at the next general election who will provide regulations for the euforeemeiif'“of the constifutionr among others the provisions intended to limit and restrict corporations, railroads, and canals in the interest of the citizens,

GENERAL.

At the inquests at St. Louis and East St. Louis aver the bodies of Thompson and other men shot by deputies, the juries returned verdicts that the shooting was not justified aqd holding certain persons (deputies) mentioned responsible for their death. ... .A freight train on the Cairo Short-line Road was cut in two at Belleville, strikers, and Conductor Whelan was severely beaten. A rioter' who was arrested was promptly set free by the mob... .At a mass meeting of the business men of St. Louis resolutions were adopted urging the settlement of the strike by arbitration. The authorities of Moutreal have begun a crusade against the tnule in art. Action is to be taken against one of the wealthiest gentlemen in the city for keeping in his house copies of the “Venus of Milo,” the “Venus di Medici,” Gabovas’ “Venus,” Powers' "Giuck Slave.” the “Ladcoou,” and other works. J. W. .Walters. -Company F. Eighth Regiment, Illinois Nation# Gnurd.'whilepatrolling the Yandalia yards at East St. Lcfuis. was tired upon by an unknown man. who immediately afterward ran. Walters tired' after him. but he escaped. A second shot-raised another man, who also escaped. Ordeis were immediately issued to patrol all the yards, in the hope of capturing the men. but the search proved futile.. In the Criminal.Coutt at St. Louis, Judge Noonan discharged J, J. McGarry and other Wi---.»ri ctrilrm'«lin hiCt been charged with obstructing traffic; basing his decision on the ground that a coupling-piu is wot pair ot a railroad... .The fuTmtore factory- of F. Mayer A Co., in Chieago.employing nearly three hundred men, has been closed because of a demand for 20 per cent; advance in wages and an eight-hour day. General Master Workman Powpeßli; of the Knights of Labor has addressed the following, circular to members of the order: -Noble Order ot the Kuights ot Labor of America : -To the order, wherever sot nd, greeting: You have all read of the great strike on the Gould lines of railway in the Southwest; its history is being written day by day. It makes .but little difference now whether the men of the Souths west acted wisely or not.; Let us pass that part of the affair o\er. for it. too. has passed intar bjsfewy-. Yiiifl ■ffl-nf 1 . fa.l Klsc ttti yft IkMUti of order attempted to settle the t-r.>uhie and restore harmony. Agreements were made with them by Jay Gould. Eso., but when the board reached St. Louis Mr. Hoxie would not treat with them : not that alone, but ha positively refused to em» ploy Knights of Labor, whether they had been active in the strike or not. •It now beeomes the part ofneverv man and woman in the country to take up the fight of the men of the Southwest, aDd assist theuito the full extent of their means. They have been idle for nearly two months. They have had a most trying ordeal to gq through, and arc in need of funds. It requires no eloquence dr rhetoric to

plead the cause of these suffering people. They . fluty, to oxtonA that aid as quirkTy as possible for tisto <!o ho; Send every dollar you van spare to the general Secretary-Treasurer, who will at once forward 1t to t)ie iricihaS St. Louis for distribution. Kouieml er the out there do notask for charity ; they do not ask at all. It IS your Executive Board th at. makes the appeal in their behalf. He who givtw quickly gives doubly. Act at . one®. _i._. r -“Another Rpis-al may bo sent to you,' and we ask of you to prepare for it new. Wo must be judged by out actions in this matter. Do not pass resolutions c/ndeiuning capital. Iw.wey not lighting capital Do not antigouito the contest we have before,®*. LcJjjs make a friend of j every ihan who has guttered* through monopoly. I Tills battle against tho man who represents monopoly must be fought out manfully. Watch his w-tiorm -eTrrrWheris:-- Keep--an eye on -tho dofngs of Congress. Urge the committee .that has been np;>oiiitcd ti do its duty fearlessly ; strengthen their hands ; give them every aid. "In conclusion, let us again ask that you send at once every dollar you can at present raise to -Uphold the men who are now out along the lines of the (Southwestern system of Gould’s railways. Do not delay, and at the same time, make ready to bring the w hole power of the order to l»ear upon tho man who wrecks railroads, homes, fortunes, and lives in his greed for gold. Lfet us determine to have it go into history that the men of 1886 struck as grandly for liberty as the, men of 177(1. The men of 1776 broke the i>ower of monarchy and dethroned the king. Tho power which they wrested from tho hands of a king was not so great as that which is now held by one man, who through the corrupt use of money, has brought,'manufacturer ants workluan to ruin- The power of the king has passed away, and it must now be determined whether nikn shall rule or whether illegitimate wealth shull rule. T. V. Powdehly, “General Master Workman." Vioe-Pbesident HoxiEof the Missouri Pacific Railroad, sent a written reply to the request of the St. Louis Citizens’ Committee that he appoint three Southwestern directors to arbitrate on the strike. He says there is no trouble on the roads; that traffic has been resumed and that there is nothing' to arbitrate. A threatened strike of iron-molders at Quincy, 111., has been averted by the manufacturers conceding an advance of It) per cent. The convention of local iron-workers, which dosed a session in Philadelphia last week, decided before adjourning to give $1, (ICO to support strikers on : the Gould system of railroads. A resolution indorsing Powderly’s course was adopted. A strike was inaugurated on the-Tliird Avenue Street Bailro ia.m New York- The managers of the road refused to discharge nonunion men at the request of the Empire Protective Association. A meeting of the Millers’ National Association is called for May 12 and 13 at Nlil waukee.'NVis. . ..A laTgely attended public meeting was held in Montreal, Canada, at which.resolutions were passed indorsing Mr. Gladstone and his Home Rule bili. The Mayor and city officials-took part in the demonstration. The St. Louis .Grand Jury has indicted a number of persons who had been connected with the Gould railroad strike. • Some of the indictments are for turning switches and others for assault, and the indicted were arrested and gave bail. Following this the Missouri Pacific authorities issued a circular forbidding the employment of any Knights of Labor along the road as section foremen, which would seem to indicate that the fight was stilbon. A scheme is said to be on foot to boycott the Gould railroads through Eastern manufacturers. It, is said, the .cotton, workers of District Assembly 30, Knights of Labor, with headquarters at Boston, will notify manufacturers for whom they- work to stop shipping their goods over those roads. . . . Switchmen employed by the Lake Shore Road iu Chicago and vicinity, to the number of seventy-four, struck because the company refused to yield to their demands. It is now pretty certain that the schooner Charles 11. Morse sunk the steamship Oregon. The schooner was a coaster of 535 tons, and was built at Bath iu 1880. She was loaded in Baltimore with coal, and it was known that she was off Fire Island the night of the disaster, since which time ’ she has' not been heard of. There was a crew of nine-men on board, every one of whom, it is presumed, went down with her. The whole aieu of Montreal along the river front, m some places for half a mile broad, was inundated from three to eight feet deep by the ice breaking up and floating down the St. Lawrence in great masses, and thereby blocking the channel opposite the city for four miles. The tlood was the greatest since 1861, and was very destructive to property.

FOREIGN.

The French Government proposes to doftate 200,000 francs to the Pasteur fund for the establishment of a hospital for the treatment of persons who havebeen bitten by rabid animals. The appointment of Mr. John Morley as Chief Secretary for Ireland is received with moderate iriendliness bv the papers of the Green Isle. In {he event of Morley’s defeat for re-election at Newcastle, Mr. Parnell offers to find him a constituency in Ireland. The Earl of Shaftesbury, while riding in Regent street, London, drew a revolver and discharged the contents of all the barrels into his body, dying almost instantly. He bad been greatly depressed by illness. -He leaves a widow, a son'and five daughters. In the British House of Commons, on Tuesday, the 13th inst.. after speeches by Harcourt and Gladstone in favor, and Gosehen and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach against the Irish home-rule bill, a motion that leave be given to introduce the bill was put by the Speaker, and agreed to, without a division. Mr. Gladstone then stated that the second reading of the bill would be fixed for the 6th of May. ■ At Moute Carlo a young commercial traveler who was on his bridal tour and had stopped for a few davs at Monaco, committed suicide after - ruining himself at the gaming table.. . .The cable announces the death of the Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, the famous Baptist preacher of Liverpool, who in early life run a locomotive on the London and Northwestern Road. Mr. Gladstone, in an hour and five minutes speech, laid his Irish land hill before the House, of Commons on the 16th inst. The Conservatives believe the amount which the bill proposes to expend in buying out the i landlords will not be enough to cover the proposed pun h : \se. The Parnell--ites are divided in opinion on the general features of the bill. Mr. Gladstone pro,-, poses to free Erin from landlords by the . issue-of 3 per cent, consols to the amount of . £180,000.000.. .. Sisty-eight cases of cholera, of whichten have proved fatal, are reported from Brindisi, Italy. A quarantine against Brindisi has been established in various cities, and precautions of the most stringent kind A fleet of French vessels is at Papeete, the capital of the Tahiti Islands, and it is thought that France intends either to annex one yf the islands or establish a ate. and that islands of other groups may he included. : T. The Cologne Gazette says thai- the Duke of Edinburgh, commander of the British Mediterranean fleet, in a recent council of war, proposed to destrov the Creek fleet,

hut tho Russian Admiral stated that his instructions permitted hinronly to participate in the blockftde of the Greek coast... .Thp Bishop of Madrid was shot threo times by a priest while entering the Cathedral. The Bishop was borne in ail unconscious condition to the-private chamber of the Cathedral, where the last sacrameuts fpr The dying were administered to him..., I lie Ljwn of SL v, m Austrian Poland, was totally destroyed by fire. One hundred persons were killed in one street by falling wa115.... The King of jßavaria has stopped the building of palaces, and is retrenching in every wiv. He is to pay. his debts in, yearly installments of £550.(11)0..—-*—-

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

..Attorney General G*rkakdp=hp=: peared before tlie Telephone Investigation Committee at Washington, on the 19th inst., and gave full details of his connection with the Pan-Electric Company. Following is a brief resume of his testimony:'He wished, he said, to lay before the committee and reaffirm the matter Contained in his statement to the President on Oct. s last. In addition, he wished to explain two or three points in that statement. In February, 1883,’ Gen. Atkins had said to witness that be believed the Rogers inventions were of great utility if properly handled, and that money could be made out of them, Being a poor man, like himself, General Atkins had desired witness to enter into this. "I told him,’’ said the witness, “that I had never undertaken to make any money, except by law and j>oker. I had always lost at poker, and generally won at law. I wjtfc willing to go into this if lie thought it-olfered any inducements.” Witness arranged to leave Washington on Aug. ‘27. and spend the entire month of September at his home iu Arkansas. He had chosen that time because lit had found September the best month to be but of Washington, and because he could shoot deer in Arkansas iu that month undor the game law. Mr. Goode returnod about the middle of August, but witness said nothing to him about tho application he had received to bring suit at Memphis, because he did not know oxactly wliat to say. He supposed the men who had made the application woultrfind their remedy if they supposed they had one. He returned to Washington about October 1, and when he called at the. White House the President told him the papers were speaking of the ease. Whereupon he had made the explanation that had been published. Witness had never to this day spoken to Mr. Goode about tlie first suit or the one alleged to be pending Mr. Goode spoke something about the counsel, and the practice of tho Government in dealing ' with counsel. Witness did not know what was in the bill; had never seen the papers on which the suit was predicated and had never talkeel with Secretary Lamar or tho men who had sat with him. He had even declined to talk with the President about the suit. One of the men in Secretary La oar's department— Mr. Zach Montgomery, an old college friend who was appo.uted at witness’ solicitationdeclined to sit in the case because of his friendship, and old acquaintance with the witness. Witness said that he had not received his stock as a gift. As to the question of propriety, there was no more impropriety in his ]>ositic.n than in the case of men holding railroad stocks while in Congress, or Congressmen going over to the Supreme Court to practice for money. It was a legitimate business, and witness never dreamed of any legislation being asked. His only regret was that it had not' “panned out.” If any question had Como up in Congress connected with the company he would not have voted on it. He recommended Dr. Rogers and his son to Messrs. Cox and Hewitt, because he rogarded them as very competent men in their line. The Chairman again inquired if witness regarded the stock as a gilt. He replied, in the negative. Five or six persons came together for the organization of a company, and they made assessments, the first move being to give a note for SI,OOO, which was followed by assessments of ¥SO or SIOO each. He did not regard the invention as having any marketable value; the company was to establish their utility amt - put * them on -the market. Witness had no more idea of using his official influence for the advantage of the enterSrise.than he had of jumping into the Potomac Tver with a millstone, around liis neck. Tlie company was simply an undertaking by half a dozen impecunious gentlemen. They never tried to boom the business and scatter the stock upon the country ; at least witness had never heard of it. The Chairman asked why witness wanted to put telephones in the Capitol. The witness replied that they wanted to exhibit the instruments to the public ; it was not intended to bring them before Congress. ‘ . The heaviest Krapp gun ever made, weighing seventy tons, thirty feet long, and throwing a shell’weighing 784 pounds, has just been mounted in Germany... .It is rumored that the Greek Consul at Crete,- with the approval of his Government, has been engaged iu plotting a rebellion among the people, a majority of whom are Greeks, against Turkish authority, and that the Consuls of the other Powers have-asked their respective Governments to interfere to prevent the movement from being carried out. Ms, Cullom, of Hlinois, offered a bill in the Senate on the 19th inst. to increase the pension for total disability to $72 per month. A favorable report was made on a-measure for the erection of a fire-proof hall of records in Washington. An adverse report was submitted on the bill to grant full pay for life to all Federal judges who may become seventy years of age or resign after thirty years’ service. The House of .Representatives, under the leadership of Messrs. Browne and Hatch, refused” to fix a date for the Consideration of the Hennepin canal bill. On motion of Ms. Mcßae, of Arkansas, from the Committee on Public Lauds, the rules weie suspended and a bill was passed providing for the sale of the Cherokee Reservation in the State of Kansas. Mr. Henley,, of California, introduced a resolution for an" inquiry by a select committee on the relations at the Union Pacific Railroad Company to the .United-States. Mr. Carey introduced a bill to authorize the Union Pacific Railway Company to make limning or traffic arrangements with or to become the lessee of any railroad which connects with its lines of railway, ,

THE MARKETS.

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DEVASTATION AND DEATH.

St. Cloud, Sauk Eapids, and RiceV Station, Mmnl, Swept >y a fierce Cyclone. I. - . "'V,"'V. 'j, — l —“7“’ Thirty Persons Report«*<! Killed at the Two Former Towns, and Flftjr Others Injured. All the Inhabitants of Eice's Station Either Dead or Wounded—Euin in lowa Sections. 11 tat.TftnonSjgfittHri ’ Reports received here give meager details of a cyclone, the most kostructive that has appeared in tlie Northwest for years, which passed over Sauk Rapids and St Cloud this afternoon, carrying death to fully fifty people and destruction to three times that number of residences and other buildings. The day had opened balmy ns ever did a spring day, and ut noon the sun shone brightly. Soon after clouds began to jowor and the atmosphere to change from balmy to stifling. ‘About i o'clock a fatal black cloud ap»: peared apparently two or three miles to the southwest of the city and moving with great rapidity. It came 1n n northeasterly course and swept away everything in its track, which was some 600 yards wide. It lasted but for a few minutes, .but in these few niiiiuteTTt cAfiSed 1 destruction which, in the confusion and darkness_ that followed, cannot be told as yet. ’ In St. Cloud the havoc was the same. Among the structures wrecked are tlie Manitoba freight house; Sanborn’s flouring mill, Briggs <fc Co.’s hardware store, the Central Hotel, ami the Court House at Sauk Rapids. They all lie in splinters and level With the ground It is reported that twenty-five are killed at Sauk Rapids and as many more at St. Cloud, and that 120,in all are injured. The following are killed at St. Cloud: Nick Tineinann, a fanner; Mrs. Meisman, an old lady, and a little girl; a son, 4 pears old, of Bowerski; a son, 7 years old, of Frank Gcmskorffski; Mrs. Stein, a widow ; a son, 4 years old, of P. Waldorf; Shortridge, a young railroad man; Van Hoser, a railroad man ; two |wing children of Mrs. Cens; a baby of August The following were killed at Sauk Rapids: J. Berg, merchant, and two children; John Kinard, County Auditor; George Findlay, County Treasurer; two children of C. G. Wood, merchant; Abner St. Gyr; a child of P. Carpenter, Clerk of Court; President F.dgar Hill, of the GernranAmerican National Bank, Forty are missing and are thought to be buried in the debris. Freight cars on the Northern Pacific tracks were lifted from the ground and smashed to bits. The appearance of the cyolone, its course, and progress are told by the following graphic special from St. Cloud • A few minutes alter 4 o’clock, the skies becanie overcast by.a dark cloud, and a great black mass rose over the hills southwest of the city, and coming with terrible velocity toward the western outskirts in a direct line for the Manitoba freight yards. The clouds hung low and rolled over and over like smoke over a battlefield, and were accompanied by a loud roaring and cracking sound that resembled a conflagration in its fury. The cloud was funnel-shaped and the point dragged along the ground like the tail of a huge aerial beast lashing -everything that came in its path into atoms. Citizens had hardly time to flee to their cellars and seek other points of refuge before the whirlwind was on them, and the air was filled with flying boards, shingles, bricks, and other debris, that were strewn over the country and piled in promiscuous heaps. It came from the southeast and moved in a northeasterly direction until it reached the river, where its course was diverted, and it followed the river banks until it reached Sauk Bapids, where it diverged to the left, passing directly through the center of the town. The utm6st excitement prevailed. Women end children fled from their houses and rushed . aimlessly about in the midst of the daTk cloud of dust and an avalanche of boards and brick. Men lost their presence of mind and stood in silence and inactivity in the presence of the wind demon. It was hardly noticed before it was on the city in all its fury, and people were not warned of their danger before it vans upon - them, -and tbey-fell like grain before a reaper’s sickle. The portion of St. Cloud struck by the cyclone was the southwestern, and was the residence portion occupied by the laboring class of people, a majority of them being foreigners employed on the railroads. Their dwellings were lightbuilt houses, and became an easy prey to the monster that had so viciously pounced upon them. They were like cockle shells in the grip of the whirlwind, and were picked up and tossed in the air and rent into a thousand pieces and scattered to the four winds of heaven. The earth was plowed up in the line of the and the path over Vhich it passed, to a width of nearly a quarter of a mile, looks as though it Rad been upheaved by a .terrible volcanic «**#SSp>stbn. It had hardly begun its terrible work before it was finished, and the scene that greeted the eyes of those who had escaped its fury was one that caused the stoutest heart to sliudder. Cries and shrieks of wounded rent the air, and the ground was strewn with the bodies of the dead. Among them were stalwart men, weak women, and weaker children. Citizens almost to a man rushed to demolished districts, and, summoning physicians, began their work of rescueing those who were still living from beneath the piles of dirt and fallen buildings. Brainerd was promptly telegraphed to for medical assistance, and she immediately responded by sending a dozen physicians and surgeons by a.special train, but it was lata in the evening when they arrived on the scene. St. Paul and Minneapolis were also appealed to, and a special ear was sent out with twenty-three surgeons and physicians for the scene of the disaster. The scene on the streets after dark was impressive. Knots of men stood on the corners discussing the disaster, and speaking touchingly of their friends and acquaintances who -had either been killed or terribly wounded. On the grounds the scene was a.ghiistly one. The rain poured down in torrents, and hundreds of mejp. wandered over the ground, many of them carrying lanterns, searching for bodies among the ruins. The hotel lobbies were filled with excited citizens, many of whom yet suspected that some portion of their families or their friends had fallen victims to tho terrible disaster. Women, seemingly uneonscius of the rain that was failing, were in the streets, and, ignoring The glitters and turbid streams, glided througb the streets sobbing and moaning in their fright. Tlie scene defies description. Gov. Hubbard at once sent messages to the Mayors of all cities and large towns in the State, asking that steps be taken at once to secure money and things needed, and forward them as speedily as possible to Senator Buckman for the destitute. Brief dispatches have just been received, saving that between .forty and fifty bodies have been recovered from the ruins at St. Cloud, and the search not completed. The town presents a scene of the utmost desolation as seen by light, flickering lanterns, and the groans of the wounded and the lamentations of those who have lost relatives are heartrending in the extreme. Not until daylight will the full extent of the havoc be known. I The dead-were taken to the Little Giant engine house and stretched out on the floor, while the wounded were sent to St. Benedict Hospital, where they were promptly cared for by a corps of physicians *und nurses, among whom were several ladies Who had volunteered their services. There were twenty-eight wounded stretched out on cots in the various wards, and every facility of the hospital was tested to its utmost to fiUithe requirements. The scene in the hospital was heartrending. Men, women, and children lay in broken shapes, bathed in their own blood and faces blackened and grimy a’d arms and legs broken and scalps torn and bodies lacerated. ~ The scene at the engine house was more horrible. Eighteen lifeless bodies were stretohed on the floor in two rows, draped in sheets and blankets, while around and. among them moved men with lanterns uncovering faces, trying to recognize in the distorted faces some familiar line in which they might trace relationship. The Cyclone in lovya. fOmaha dispatch.] .The cyclone struck the town of .Coon Rapids, lowa, and completely demolished most of the place. One boy was killed and numerous persons were injured. Twenty-five houses, two churches, one schooltoise, and several l ouses were destroyed. A-freight train—except the locomotive —was blown from the track and demolished and the-contents ruined. The cvclone swept over Western lowa, doing considerable damage. It started about three miles east of Griswold, then passed north and slightly east, then going about- nine miles northeast of Atlantic, and passed two and a half miles eastof Brayton. The cyclone had the appearance of a funnel-snaied cloud. Southeast of Atlantic Away, and his hired man was badly injnred. John Kirk’s big stable, 300 feet long, was destroved, together with his house. In RentoA Township ten houses were totally destroyed and one woman fatally injured,. Near Brayton the dwellings of James Reynolds, William Briutner and Donald Brintnerwere destroyed, and also the Brintner school boos :. The pupils escaped, however, by running with the family into Brintner’s cave, .or cyclone cellar, they having seen the cloud coming. Mr. North graves, in that vicinity, was dangerously huit. Much stock has been kHled. Reports frem the cyclone are very meager so far, but it is beSeved that great damage hss been done and many lives lost. ■ v -

CONGRESS.

wnat is Being Done by the Na- r tdonal Legislature. ' • r f ( ;/ . Senator Fryk-'b - resolution, stating that, in tho opinion of the Senate, the appointment of a commission in which, the Governments of the United States and Great Britain shallherepI resented, charged with the consideration and settlement of the fishing rights' of the two Governments on tho coasts of the United States and British North America, ought not to bo provided for by Congress, was adopted by . that body an the Senator Frye refiorted favorably from the Committee on Commerce an amendment intended to he proposed to the postofflee appropriation bill. It increases tho appropriation for trantportaEitm of foreign mailsfrom $330,000 to $1,(XX), 000, and provides that this amount shall include cost of railway transit across the ißtninuß of Panama. The President sent the following nominations to tho Senate’: Postmasters*—Edward Dolan, n-t Troy, N. Y.; Geo W. Langdon, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Lathrop 8. Tavlor, at Clyde, N. Y.; C. F.Coliner, at Baht New York, N. Y.; Samuel H. Wagener, at San Jose, Cal.; William E Baker, at Fairbury, Ill.; Charles H. Brown, at Sterling,'Kan.; Marshall Birdsall, at Emporia, Kan., and P, B. * Gavin, at Coming, lowa. The President withdrew the nomination of H. P. Albert to be postmaster at Stuart, -Gutlirio County, lowa. The House spent the day discussing the Ohio contested case of Hurd vs. Rounds. Mn. Coelom, of Illinois, called up and explained the provisions of his Inter-State Commerce BiU to the Senate on the. 14th inst. Mr. Palmer, of Michigan, also spoke in favor of the measure. Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, addressed the Senate in advocacy of open executive sessions of that body. In the House of Representatives, the Ohio contest of Hurd vs. Romels was decided by a majority of 62 in favor otoßomeis, tho sits ting member. The score stood 103 to 168 on a resolution declaring that KometH was entitled to "the seat. Messrs. Hatch, Green, of North Carolina and White, of Minnesota, were appointed a sub-comrnittee of the House Committee on Agriculture, to draft a bill regulating the sale of oleomargarine. Thr Venezuelan treaty was-ratified by the Senate on the loth inst. The consideration of the treaty with Hawaii was postponed for two weeks. Bills were reported to accept from the Vanderbilt heirs and Mrs. Grant certain objedtß of art presented by foreign governments to General Grant; to establish a sub-treasury at Louisville, and to organize the Territory of Oklahoma. Mr. Logan made a speech supporting the motion for open executive sessions. He declared that there was not now and never had been any necessity for secret sessions. The Hoar electoral-count bill was reported to the House with several important amendments. Senator Dolph (Oregon) made"® speech In the Senate on the 16th Inst, on his Indian depr«h ’ d&tions hill and a bill appropriating $5,006/060* to compensate citizens for losses suffered by them through such depredations. Senaton Wil- , son reported from the Judiciary Committee the House biU closing up the business and paying the expenses of the Alabama Claims Court, with an amendment providing for increasing the principal sum of the Geneva award by the amount of all the interest received thereon by the United States, although that interest was received on bonds of the United States. Senator CaU (Fla.) offered a resolution providing for the restoration to the roll of Senate employes of R. A Finelle, a Democrat, removed by the Sergeant-at-arms to make a place for a Republican; and also providing that the Democratic minority be allowed the same number of employes, with tho same proportion of salaries, as were allowed by the Democratic majority to the Republican minority in 1879. Senator Voorhees (Ind.) made a speech In . opposition to the Weil-Labra treaty in the executive ■ session, of the Senate. Senator George (Miss,) was appointed a member of tlie Judiciary Committee to succeed Senator Jackson (Tenn.), resigned. President Cleveland nominated John C. Rciley £ot Postmaster at Cincinnati, and Mrs. Virginia C. Thompson for a similar position at Louisville. He also named as Government djeectors of the Union Pacific Road Franklin TtacVteagh, at Chicago, and J|mues W. Savage, of Omaha. The House of passed the S::nate bill empowering the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the Chicago Bridewell property, after its appraisal by three commissioners, to the Great Westemjßailway Company, and with: the proceeds purchase a site and erect a building for the Appraiser of Customs. The House adopted the Dingley resolution calling on the President for information concerning the alleged exclusion of American sjrfM horn Canadian ports. ; The House of Representatives, at its session on the 17th inst., passed a bill to authorize the establishment of export tobacco • manufactories and to allow them drawbacks on imported materials. There was a spirited exchange of sentiment on the bill to appropriate $150,000 for the relief of sufferers by tlie overflow of rivers in Alabama, but no action was taken thereon. The Senate held no session. . The Jews in America Americans. j.’* It is a mistake and a blunder to make Judaism in America anything but American. Maintain it as Polish, Ger- , man, Portuguese, Hungarian, or Bussian, according to tlie.ideas oi-foreign rabbis and laymen who continue foreign, and you alienate young IsraeL Young American-born Jews and Jewesses, as a rule, will never sympathize with a foreign phase of their faith. There may be a certain pietat for their parents’ sake, but warm conviction and enthusiasm will be lacking. Here, on American soil, we propose to drop i what is local and provincial. We shall carve out as good a record as our ancestors in 6ther lands. We do not wish to concern ourselves with foreign ’ shibboleth. We shall maintain Jewish essentials, but we shall think for ourselves and act for ourselves; for Europe has little to offer toward the solu- ; tion of problems which it, too, finds of profound difficulty. American conservatism should not allow itself to be measured by the foreign rule. —Jewish Messenger. ' ,

British Races.

Dr. John Eeddoe has published the results of, thirty years’ study of the races which make up the population of Britain. He takes county by county from the Shetlands to Cornwall and examines all available statistics after personal acquaintance with the inhabitants, measuring heads and noting the color of skin, hair, and eyes. He places ! great reliance on the latter, thinking that “the color of the hair is so nearly permanent in races of men as to be fairly trustworthy evidence in matters of ethnical descent; and that nearly as much may be said for the color of the eyes.” Artists will find a curious con- ! elusion in his volume —namely: that the darker-skinned portion of the population of Britain is gaining on the blonde. He holds that the Gaelic and Iberian races of the West, mostly darkhaired, are tending to swamp the TeuJ tonic of England by a reflex emigration. - 1 This may account for the wide difference found by the tourist between the ; average Briton whom he sees, and the typical Briton of the pictures. ’ Hear Jena, Germany, there are beds df phosphoriferons gypsum, E. Reichardt says that thesejdeposits contain 2.94 per cent, of phosphoric acid, of which .52 is soluble in water, .78 soluble in ammonium, citrate and the remainder not attacked % that solvent In the United States there are eightytwo factories engaged in the manufacture of glue,f nd they employ altogether about 2,000 hands. The value of ! the product is above $5,000,000 a year