Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1887 — SHAKEN AND SHATTERED. [ARTICLE]

SHAKEN AND SHATTERED.

A Cyclone Followed by an Earthquake Shakes Up the Town of Nogales. A NogAJJas (A. T-> dispatch says: There was a pretty severe shock of earthquake here Monday afternoon, which in its severity created much excitement, though no damage was done. Ten minutes afterward there was another shock, but it was very light. In the evening a terrible dry cyclone visited Nogales. It came from the mountains on the east side of the town and swept away a great many Mexican huts and unroofed several more substantial buildings. No one injured. Funeral of the Theater Fire Victims. The services over the remains of the victims recovered from the ruins of the Opera Comique were held in the cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, on Monday. The editice was tilled with an immense throng, including many distinguished pet sons. Many in the crowd wept audibly. Two hundred thousand persons lined the route to the cemetery. The procession was half a mile long. MM. Goblet and Berthelot delivered orations at the graves. ■- France. The French Cabinet question is still in somewhat of a muddle, says a Paris dispatch. Gen. Saussier has been obliged to surrender the War portfolio and Heredia has retused to Accept the post of Minister of Public Works. President Grevy, so it is said, will close the session of the Chamber of Deputies June 15 in order to avoid the certain defeat of the new Ministry on any important issue. Tariff Reduction; It is ntated that laecretary Fairchild; with the approbation of the President and Cabinet, is engineering a scheme toward securing a reduction of the tariff. The bill is to be made an administration issue in the House, upon which the Democratic party will stand in the next campaign. Three Drunken Miners Drowned. A skiff containing three coal miners named David Jones, David Reese, and lUvid Llewellyn, capsized in the Monopgahela. JKiver: at _ Monongahela... City r F a. and the men were drowned. They were' drunk. It is thought they upset the skiff in trying to boil it. :_TheAJeadlyßotler. Thp.ee persons were killed and about a dozen injured by the explosion of a boiler in a Huntington. West Virginia, elevator. A similar accident at Cortland. New York, caused the loss of thiee lives and serious injury to several persons. Electric Sparks. - William Kissane, the California notoriety, has been found on his ranch, near Sonoma, where papers in the Chemical Bank suit were served upon him. His neighbors are said to be indignant at the mile boat-race at Pullman. 111., between Hanlan and Gaudaur. the latter won. The official time: was 19:30. The race vm rowed almost from the start in a driving rain. The aggregate subscription to the fund for the benefit of Mrs. Logan is $63,000, of which $50,000 has been Invested in government 4 per cents... . The Presbyterian Assembly adjourned its session at Omaha, on Monday to meet in Philadelphia the third Thursday in May of next year.