Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1888 — Page 7

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Mrs. Langtry ia sick. Brooklyn is threatened with a smallpox epilemic. Westerly, R. 1., was visited* by an 1150,000 fire on the 18th. It is costing the raihoada $1,500,000 to maintain the Northwestern rate war. A. 8. Btrnes, of A. b. Barnes & Co. the publishers of New York, ia dead. C ana Spreckles, the California sugar millionaire, will fight the Sugar Trust. A split in the Chicago Trades and Labor Assembly is inevitable along the line of Socialism. The steamer City of Pekin, which arrived at San Francisco on the 17th, had smallpox on board. Boston has increased the Jprice of liquor licenses 25 per cent. They range from S4OO to SI,OOO. Brosfield & Co, of Lexington, Ky., last week sold 266 head of horses at an average price of $334. F. D. Musaey, the correspondent, was granted a divorce, Saturday, from his wife.ex-Governor Foster’s daughter. Two students have been expelled from the Bible College at Lexington, Ky., for attending a theatrical performance. B. E. Hopkins, the Fidelity bank wrecker, is so ill at Cincinnati that he can not be removed to the penitentiary. The recent reported strike of oil at Carmel, 111., was a deliberate fraud, and is<said to have netted its projectors $30,000. The St. Albans (Vt.) hospital was burned, Monday night., Charles Chandler and Susan Gales perishing in the flames. The Nelson mine at Shamokin, Pa., has been shut down because the 6,000 employes refused to accept a ten per cent, reduction. Chicago City Council has passed the ordinance compelling gas companies to supply gas to all consumers for $1 per 1,000 cubic feet. The Chicago boodlers were taken to Joliet Friday. A rehearing was denied them by the Judge of the Appelate court Thursday. West Virginia coal operators have reduced wages to two and a half cents a bushel, and all but the Black Diamond men have struck, Thp Harper county (Kansas) countyseat war is raging with great violence, and two editors have been arrested for contempt of court. August Hetzke, of Chicago, charged with beating to death with a strap his little step-son, has been found guilty and sentenced to death. _ — F. D. Popart, the confidential clerk of Adolph Schrieber, Treasurer of the New Orleans Cotton(Exchange, is a defaulter for $23,000. Too much lottery. Captain W. F. Whitehouse, of the Schooner Albert Nichols, of Baltimore, was killed inran attempt to arrest an illegal oyster dredger in Chesapeake Bay. A letter is made public written by General Grant to Admiral Ammen, declining the American Presidency of the Panama Canal and characterizing the scheme as unsound. \ The Mississippi Senate has adopted the Hou,se bill to pay S3O yearly pension to officers, soldiers and sailors and their servants who served in the Confederate army from Mississippi and can not now labor. Brack Cornett, alias Captain Dick, the notorious Texas train robber, was killed near Pearsall, Monday, while resisting arrest. He led the gang of “rustlers” who got SIOO,OOO at Flatonia, in 1887. —The labor organizations of Louisville Friday night tried to induce the Democratic Committee to bring the CourierJournal and Times back into the Union fold, but the committee declined to interfere. Holders of bonds issued by the city of Houston, Tex., duringjthe reconstruction era and since repudiated, have petitioned Judge Pardee; of the United States Court, to apponit a race!ver for the city. The Chicago police have identified one of the burglars who killed Amos J. Snell, the millionaire, as Wm. Geb right, son of a respectable family, but an accomplished cracksr ian. He has not been apprehended. Friends of Metins* and Duckworth directors of the bi oken Cincinnati Metropolitan Bank, have just put up $250,000 to pay off tbeir indebtedness. The Department of J ustice will now be asked to extendm ercy. Amanda Gray, aged seventy years, was divorced from Wm. Gray, aged eighty-two years, at Hamilton, 0., Monday. They w ire married fifty-one years and had thirteen children. She was compelled tc leave him on account of cruelty. The miners’ strike on the Reading railroad ha > ended, the miners returning to work at the old rate, and the wages in the future to be fixed by arbitration. The railroaders who struck to help the miners out with their demands are left in the lurch. Tn > explosion of a boiler on Mrs. J. N. Harp’s plantation, Bastrop, 111., Fri lay, killed two white men, named Rrems and Johnson, and two colored nen whose names are not given. Four ■ther men were so badly scalded that they can not recover. Thursday afternoon a Chinese merchantin Mott street, New York, twentythree years of age, was married to a

pretty, golden-haired girl named Jennie Farrell, in the judge’s chamber of the City Court. Judge Pitshke tied the knot, and representatives of five nations were present at the ceremony. A mob from Duquoin, 111., visited Pickneyville, 111., early Tuesday morning, took *from the jail Alonzo Holly, colored, confined on the charge of raping a white woman in Duquoin, two months ago, and hanged him to a tree. There is no sympathy for the victim, as he was milty beyond doubt. An error has been discovered in the Constitution of the State of New Jersey, which, it is said, will open the prison doors throughout the State and liberate all prisoners committed since 1885. It is also said that all persons convicted since 1885 of all erimes, except murder will have a cause for action, and that £all decisions pertaining to the probate of wills, settlement of estates, etc., will become null and void. The burning of the Elmira (N. Y.) Advertiser Block caused a loss of $250,ofio. Chas. Bently, a fireman, who was hurt by falling walls, is dying, and Wm. F. Naylor, of Bethel, Sullivan county, a student in the Commercial College, who Lad rooms in the building, is missing. It is pretty certain that he was burned to death. Bookkeeper Fitzpatrick, employed by the Robinson furniture house, is also reported as missing. A drunken carousal at Silver Brook, Pa , near Hazleton, Sunday night, resulted in the loss of six lives. The party had been to a Polish Catholic Church dedication and all got drunk. A lamp was overturned and the following were burned to death: John Ellis, aged twenty; John Seddo, twenty-five year..; John Kebini, thirty years, Michael YaKOvitch, thirty years; Paul Siskowitz; thirty years, and Maulick, aged sixteen years. Maulick and his wife and mfant child were also badly burned, and it is feared they will die. /bbott L. Kebler, of Cincinnati, brother of Charles Kebler, who recently eommitted suicide when the knowledge of his forgeries was about to develop, has followed by suicide. It happened Wednesday night at Fern Bank, a suburb of Cincinnati, down the Ohio River, at his residence. He used two revolvers. Holding one in each hand, and directing one to his brain and the other to his heart, fired simultaneously. No cause is known for the the deed except the disgrace of his brother Charles. He had a wife and a three-year-old daughter. The latter was ill at the time, and he had left business early Wednesday afternoon on that account. He had been employed for the last three years as secretary of the Cincinnati Banking Company.

FOREIIOH. Canada papers, as a rule, do not like the fisheries treaty. All Russian cavalry officers have been ordered to learn telegraphy. Forty miners were killed by an explosion in a German colliery Thursday. Shanghai advices state that two thousand persons have been killed by an earthquake in Nun Nan. - =- Mr. Pyne, M. P., was re-arrested at Kilmeethalas, after be had been admitted to bail pending the appeal from his recent conviction, and, in a riot that ensued while he was on the way to jail, he was struck on the head and badly injured. The anarchist Galls, who created a sensation in Paris last year by firing a pistol from the gallery of the Stock Exchange at the brokers below, and who was sentenced to twenty years’ penal servitude, has been sentenced to death for attacking his guards at New Caledonia with a pick axe. In Parliament, Monday night, Home Secretary Matthews apologized to Mr. O’Brien for the unfortunate indignity that had been placed upon him by the police through mislake, but he maintained that Messrs; Pyne and Gillhooly had no grievance. A motion to refer to the committee on privileges was rejected. Louis N. Fleury, late postmaster at Paso del Norte, Mexico, vas arrested Friday on a charge of robbing the mails and smuggling into Mexico. He is charged with stealing two lots of diamonds passing through the mailfl from Hamburg, Germany, to the South of Mexico. One lot was valued at $25,000. There are also many other charges against him.

A SINGULAR ACCIDENT.

A goaded Street Car Crashed by a Derrick —Three Persons Killed. A peculiar accident occurred in Brooklyn Tuesday, being the falling of a derrick fro ma new elevated railroad, now building, upon a street car passing beneath. The accident was due to the spreading of the rails. The car was crushed like an egg shell, and seventeen of the passengers were injured and four killed. Of those injured eight were employes of the road. The workmen were engaged in hoisting a girder in position when the accident occurred. Suddenly the whole apparatus began to tremble and the men, to their Horror, saw the entire mass go down, carrying six men with it. The accident was caused by a total collapse of which, it is said,was made to raise too great a weight by careless managers, and it came down with a terrible thud that made mince meat ouLof the unfortunate beings who chanced to be directly under its way in the car.

WASHINGTON.

Mr. McKinley, of* Ohio, one of the leading Republican mentkbers of the House committee on ways and means, is making a quiet canvass of Republicans in Congress for the purpose of gathering information to be used in the compilation of a Republican tariff bill. A conference is to be held between the Republicans of the.committee on ways and means and those of the Senate committee on finance, with a view to arriving at a general understanding as to what kind of a bill they will propose in opposition to the one a majority of the members of the ways and means committee will soon introduce. Mr. McKinley carries around in his mind a skeleton bill, and states its points to those with whom he talks. It reduces taxes on tobacco, $30,000,000; on brandy and whisky distillations, $13,000,000; and makes reductions on wool and woolens amounting to about $6,000,000, by accepting the bill recently recommended by the convention of wool growers and wool dealers. In round figures the bill Mr. McKinley has in mind makes reductions amounting to $50,000,000. A number of Republican members from the central and Western States, some from Indiana, told him, Wednesday, that they could not support the bill, as $43,000,000 reductions from internal taxes and $6,000,00$ from customs dues was in ill proportion. One member suggested that Mr. Randall be consulted, and a compromise made between the Republican and Democratic protectionists, but Mr. McKinley said he wanted a Republican measure, pure and simple, and that it was better to fail with that kind of a bill than win with one made by Democratic suggestions. Most Republicans want a reduction of the duty on sugar which Mr. McKinley opposes. John P. Rea, Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. R., was asked, Friday, about the probable passage of the Grand Army pension bill and its approval by the President. He said: “I had a conversation with Mr. Cleveland about, Jan. 19, regarding pension matters. I told him why I thought our bill ought to pass. His views on pension matters satisfied me entirely, and I have the impression that when our bill is laid before him he will approve it. You understand, though,that he made no promises whatever. I think that the majority of the soldiers who will be benefitted by this bill are men who fought throughout the war; men who had the sand to stand up under every hardship, and who, if they did feel sick ana worn out, were kept at their posts by a strong sense of duty. They were men whose constitutions were broken while they were discounting the future. Such men are now suffering disabilities directly traceable to the war, and, though they have no hospital record, they eught to be helped.” The judiciary committee of the House have derided to report favorably the bill to refund the direct war taxes to the States. The bill is amended so that the money will be paid to the Governors and by them to the persons who paid the tax, without the intervention of agents or lawyers. Several members of the committee were desirous that the committee should include in the bill a provision to refund the cotton tax. This desire finally took the form of a motion, which was voted down by a decided majority, but Mr. Oates will, in all probability, present a minority report on the subject. A decision was rendered in the United States Supreme Court Monday upon the application for a rehearing of the case of Wm. D. Andrews and others against George Hovey, which is widely known as the “drive-well case.” This court held that the patent issued to Nelson W. Green, in 1871, for an improvement in the method of constructing artesian wells, was invalid, because the invention covered by it was in public use more than two years before Green applied for the patent. The court, after an exhaustive review of the whole case, adheres to its decision and denies the application for a rehearing. Opinion by Justice Blatchford. Senator Biair has introduced a bill declaring that any person convicted of carnally and unlawfully knowing any female under the age of eighteen years shall be punished by imprisonment for from five to ten years, and for the second offense during his natural life. A punishment of from ten to thirty years is provided for persons forcibly ravishing any female, and for the period of his natural life for any person who carries out his ends by means of potions or drugs. The provisions of the bill are made applicable to all places within the jurisdiction of the United States. The President has sent the following nominations to the Senate: Wm. H, Steele, of Colorado, to be register of the land office at Montrose (formerly Lake City), Col; Henry Charles Fink, of iColorado, to receiver of public moneys at Montrose (formerh Lake City), Col; Enos G. Heen, of lowa, to be agent for the Indians of the Sac and Fox agency in!ows; E. P. Briscoe, of Mississippi, to be agent for the Indians of the Crow agency in Montana; Leonard B. Cornell, of New York, to be receiver of public moneys at Spokane Falls, W. T. . The House Committee or Commerce, Tuesday,decided to report favorably the bill to ch ar ter the Ni caragua Canal Company. The committee inserted two amendments in the original bill, the first requiring a majority of the direct-

ors of the company to be American citizens and the second providing that the Dreeident of the company shall be a citizen and a resident of the United States. Mr. Mills had a conference with Mr. Rindall in regard to tariff legislation. Randall stated emphatically that he wonld oppose placing wool on the free list, but seemed willing to have Borne reduction made in the steel-rail and metal schedules. The Senate committee on privileges and elections Friday considered the Tdrpiecase, ordered the papers printed and referred the subject for further consideration to a sub-committee consisting of Senators Hoar Spooner and Eustis. Far Western members say there will be a rush into the Indian Territory upon the passage of the Oklahoma bill, such as never was experienced in the opening of any country. It is stated by good authority that President Cleveland is preparing a message on the silver question, taking strong grounds against the continued coinage of standard dollars.

POLITICAL.

Chauncey M. Depew 'says he is not a candidate for the presidency. The Ohio State Republican convention will meet at Dayton April 18. Anti-saloon Republicans will hold a convention in New York April 18 and Is. Gen. Phil Sheridan savs that he would not accept the nomination for President under any circumstances. Wm. Walter Phelps thinks Blaine’s letter of declination places Hiscox’s chances of nomination away up among the first. The Commercial Club, of Providence, R. 1., gave a banquet Saturday night at which Congressmen Mills and Breckenridge discussed tariff reform. Mr. Childs says, in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Friday, that he will not be a candidate ior the presidential nomination, and would not serve even if elected. A New York special says that Father McGlynn is going to be a candidate for the presidency on the labor platform and a savage attack on the Catholic Church. Seymour (Republican) was Tuesday elected to Congress from the Eleventh Michigan District, over Breech (Democrat and Labor), to succeed the late Seth C. Moffatt. The Republicans of the Kentucky Legislature urge the nomination of Hon. W. O. Bradley, recently candidate for Governor, for Vice President on the Republican ticket. -■■== Julius Dexter, president of the C., H. AD> railroad, a former prominent Republican, says he will vote for Cleveland against any Republican on the basis of his tariff message. The Ohio Republican League gave a Lincoln birthday banquet at Columbus, Monday night The banqueters were mostly Sherman men, and the letter of Blaine, made them particularly hilarious. It was a rousing Sherman meeting. Governor Beaver, Pennsylvania; Governor Luce, cf Michigan; Senator Sherman, Governor Foraker,ex-Govern-or Foster, Judge West and J. P. Forter made addresses. The Anti-poverty Society of New York has struck a rock. At Monday night's meeting of the executive committee, Dr. McGlynn, as president of the society, announced that he had appointed ten new members of the committee. This was charged as an attempt to pack the committee in his favor in order to stave off a possible censure of himself —for his recent criticism of Henry George. A row ensued, and the factions separated. Each then re-or-ganized and read the other faction out of the party.

Wagea in Connecticut.

The Connecticut Bureau of Labor Statistics issued Saturday its second statement of the incomes and expenses of workmen in the State. The report is based on returns from fifty families in all sorts of trades and in all parts of the State. In these families are 216 J persons and 79 wage-earners. The average monthly earnings of the fathers is $42.46; of six motherr, $18.85; of sixteen eons, $21.42; seven daughter, $18.13. The average income of these fifty families was $56.88 in November, 1887, and the average per person $1156. The daily income was $1.89, or 38 J cents per person. The bureau gives the cost of groceries, meat, fish and other necessaries, and all expenses for these fifty families, and goes on to figure out an average of $2.78 monthly for each family above all expenses. In these families the average expense above the father’s wages was $11.63 per month. Of the fifty families only five owned houses, and three of these were mortgaged. Twenty-two of selves in debt, and only.eleven had any savings. The highest daily wages paid were $3.50 for the men, sl-65 for boys and $1 for girls. The lowest wages were sl.lß, 65 cents and 58 ceuts respectively

Air Awful Scare.

Society Belle—Mother, Mr. Da Brass has proposed and I have accepted. Mother —What? Oh, you wicked, ungrateful girl, after all we’ve done for you. Mr. De Brass hasn’t a cent to bless himself with and won’t have until his father and grandfather die. “The Mr. De Brass F amT referring to js the grandfather.” “Oh! Bless you, my child.”

THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

On the IMh, the Senate returned consideration of the Blair educational bill. In hit closing argument Mr. Blair made some remarkable statements. He said the opposition to the bill was a fight against common schools of the country, an attempt to subvert the great ayatem. Soon after the bill passed the last Congress, and while it was struggling in the hands of a packed committee in the House of Representatives, where it was finally strangled, a Senator had shown to him. and he had read, the original letter of a Jesuit priest begging a member of Congress to oppose the bill, and to kill it. The wiiter said there was an organization all over the country for the destruction of the bill and that they would destroy it inevitably, and also, if they had known of it in season, they could have prevented its passage through the Senate. They had begun inseason this time, but they would not destroy it. Twelve years ago, when he was a member of the House of Representatives, and while there was a proposition pending to amend the Constitution so as to prevent the appropriation of public money to the support of sectarian schools in the country, a friend of his pointed out to bim nine Jesuits on the floor ot the House log-rolling that proposition—nine at one time. These were not, he thanked ftod, the Catholic Church. Within the sound oi his voice were sleeping the remains of John Carroll and Charles Carroll, of Carrollton —men who had been devoted to civil rights and true religion; and against the memory of those men, or against the great Catholic organization of the country, he would say nothing, for he venerated their memory, and he venerated that great organization, which in his belief, was the true exemplar of Christianity. He cored not how far it extended, or how widely its power was spread. But within that organization was a Jesuit organisation which had set out to control this country, which had been repudiated by every country in the old world, Catholic, or Protestant, but which had eome to America and was now trying to secure control of this continent by destroying the public school system. The Jesuits had been expelled from the countries of the old world, and the time would come when they v ould be looked upon as enemies of this country and when the question of their expulsion would have to be considered. Several amendments to the bill were proposed and voted down. The bill was then passed by tho following vote: Ayes—Allison, Berry, Blair, Bowen, Brown, Cameron, Call, Chandler, Colquit, Cullom, Daniels, Dawes, Dolph, Eustis, Evarts, George, Hampton, Hearst, Hoar, Jones (Ark.), Manderson, Morrill, Palmer, Pasco, Payne, Platt, Pugu, Quay, Ransom, Riddleberger Sawyer, Stanford, Stewart, Stockbridge, Teller, Vance, Walthall and Wilson—39; nays—Aldrich, Bate, Beck, Blackburn; Blodgett, Butler, Coke, Davis, Farwell, Faulkner, Frye, Gray, Hale, Harris, Hawley, Hiscock, Ingalls, Jones, (Nev,) Kenna, Morgan, Plumb, Reagan, Sabin, Saulsbury, Spoone, Turpie, Vest, Voorhees, Wilson,—29, The House bill ior the appointment of two additional division superintendents of railway mail service was passed.

The House passed three bills, only one of which is of interest,{[creating a board of arbitration to settle and determine the controversy between the United States and Texas respecting certain territory lying between the north and south fork of Red river. The deficiency appropriation bill was con-idered. Barnes stated that the committee en appropriations was in receipt of estimates for the completion of public buildings in various parts of the country. As, in every case, the estima es exceeded the limits fixed by law, the committee could not, under the rules, incorporate the items in the bill. The buildings, however, must be completed, and he offered an amendment making appropriations for the completion of public buildings at the following named places: Carson City, Nev.; Dallas, Tex.: Denver,Col.; Aberdeen, Miss.; Detroit, Mich., (Marine hospital); Fort Wayne, Ind,; Hannibal, Mo.; Jackson, Miss.: Keokuk, Iowa; Leavenworth, Kas.; Port Townsend, W, T,; Shreveport, La.; Springfield, O.; St. Joseph, Mo., (strengthening); Terre Haute, Ind.; Tdedo, 0.; Jefferson City, Mo. After a short discussion and an ineffectual attempt by Mr. Voorhees, of Washington Territory, and Mr. Herman, of Oregon, to increase the Port Townsend appropriation to 8-00,000, the amendment was adopted. An amendment was adopted appropriating 32,474 for the construction of a military telegraph line from San Francisco to Point Reves. The House, on the 17th,(passed the urgency appropriation bill after adopting an amendment instructing the public printer to rigidly enforce the eight hour law. The bill for the relief of Nathanial MeKay was passed. Steele, of Indiana presented a memorial to the authorities of the city of Bluffton, Ind., asking Congress to discontinue the practice of passing appropriation bills for government buildings, and instead thereof to pass a general appropriation bill providing for the erection of post-office buildings of every town of 3,00 - inhabitants or over, the appropriation to be made on the basis of inhabitants, not less than J2,0C0 for each I.COO inhabitants. The paswge. of such, a bill, says the memorialts, would prevent the present unjust discrimination against-the smaller cities; would save the Government millions of dollars, and would result in the erection of 1,200 buildings at an aggregate expenditure not exceeding 320, 000,000. Adjourned until Monday. In Abe Senate, on the th.'thefolio wing bills were reported and placed on the calendar: To establish a United States Land Court, and to provide a settlement of private land claims in certain states and Territories; to relieve purchasers and indemnify certain States under swamp aud overflowed land acts; to provide for the disposal of the Fort Wallace military reservation in Kansas; for a public building in Helena, M.T. Mr. Hoar offered a resolution, which was agreed to, ordering that on Wednesday next the farewell address of Washington be read to the Senate by the presiding officer at the conclusion of the morning business- Voorhees suggested that after the reading an adjournment of the Senate be provided for. He thought that that would be a proper mark of respect for the day. Mr. Hoar remarked that that wouldbe within the power of the Senate,. The bill to incorporate the Washington Cable Electric Street Railway Company was taken up. After considerable discussion of a partisan nature the bill was laid aside informally. A bill was introduced and placed on the calendar providing for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry. The Senate then adjourned. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting a report irom the Secretary of State in relation to an invitation from the Balgian government to the United States to participate in an international exhibition, to be held in Brussels in May next. Referred. Also, a message from the President transmitting a report from the Secretary of State relative to'an invitation from the German government to the United States to become a party to the International Geodetic Association. ReferrCT. Also a communication from the Secretary of War in reference to Boutellc’s battleflag resolution. Mr. Culbertson, of Texas, on behalf of the committee on the judiciary, moved to suspend the rules and place upon 'ltapassage the Hoar, joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment changing the date of Inauguration day, and extending the terms of members of Congress until April 30th. Quite a longdebate ensued, though little interest was manifested. The motion to suspend the rules and pass the joint resolution was lost—Yeas 129, nays 12£,~ not the necessary two-thirds in -the affirmative—gnffthgHOUte thCh’ adjourned. _____________ k The backbone cf winter is getting mere rigid every day.

DEATH IN A CYCLONE.

An Illinoiz Town Almost Demolished by a Wind Storm. Half the Town Leveled and the Remainder Coneumed by Fire—Basin ess Booms, the Court House and Hundreds of Dwellings Torn to Pieces—Thirty-one Persons Known to be Killed and Twenty Others Fatally Injured. At about 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon a cyclone struck Mt. Vernon, 111., and left it in ruins, killing thirty-one peo' pic, fatally injuring twenty others and seriously injuring a much greater number. Tie storm came from the southwest, and had a rotary motion. It swept down with fearful fury, striking first just south of the city hall, and carrying away the - third and fourth stories of the Mount Vernon mill. From there it swept on in a path 500 yards wide. Tbe Methodist church fell just a few minutes after 250 people had left the Snuday-ecbool room. The Commercial Hotel lost its third story. Next the wind struck the county court-house and rendered it a heap of ruins. By rare luck, however, the county records were saved. The Crew Block, on the south side of tbe square, is leveled with the earth, and under it was found th oil/ of John Crew, the owner of tbe block, formerly of Chicago. The roof and second story of R. L. Stratton A Co.’s hardware store was .blown away. The large two-story brick schoolhouse did not withstand the terrible shock any better than the smallest house in the track of tbe cyclone. The large two story frame house of George Ward was picked up and carried about twenty feet and left unhurt, while two brick buildings one hundred feet away were left in ruins. Tbe railroad shops were badly damaged and a great number of homes destroyed. Three-fourths

of the business portion of the city is ruined financially. The public square is in the center of the town; the courthouse is in the center of the square; the school building is in the northeast comer of the city, and all the dwellings in that portion of the city are destroyed. The storm was preceded by hail, but not more than five minutes elapsed until the fearful destroyer had swept over the doomed town. It came from the southwest. Buildings were wrenched and twisted and then dashed to pieces. . The storm passed : a little south of the city hall, missed Mr. Chance’s house, swept away the third and fourth stories of the Mount Vernon mill and destroyed nearly every house from the mill north for a space about 590 yards. Fire immediately broke out over the city, in the ruins. Assistance was telegraphed for to Evansville, Ind., and a special train with fire engines and reels, also a number of physicians, were imide Hately sent to the rescue. After a most stubborn fight the fire was got under control. The less cannot be estimated but not less than half a million dollars worth of property has been destroyed by tl e cyclone and fire in the neighborhood. Before the tornado, thunder was heard, and rain fell for some time, when suddenly a low, rumbling noise was heard, and a black, dense cloud that seemed to touch the earth swept over the city and it became very dark. Hundreds of houses were blown down, and many people crushed in the ruins. The south and east parts of the square are completely destroyed. The town is about two miles long, east and west, and the course of the tornado took in about twothirds of the east end, the western portion of the town escaping. The business ined. The place looks as though an earthquake had visited it. The county court house is one of the most complete wrecks. t w New Swindle on Farmers. Word received from the interior of Ohio gives an account of a new confidence game being practiced on farmers and others by which the schemers have enriched themselves some $6,000. Agents are employed to secure orders for groceries at ruinously low prices. The goods are delivered by car-loads, each man’s purchase wrapped in a separate package, and marked with his name. Collections are all m ide at once. The victim,on opening tue package at home, finds short weight or adulterated goods, and in some instances absolutely worthless stuff. One carload netted the swindlers over SBOO. Farmers looking for bargains are the principal sufferers.

THE MARKETS.

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