Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1890 — IN THE STORM’S TRACK. [ARTICLE]

IN THE STORM’S TRACK.

Oberlin, 0., has flooded cellars. A school houso was unroofed at Kalamazoo. They had hail stones as large as oranges at Anchor, 111. Twenty buildings were felled by the wind at Collins, O. The Wabash river has overflowed its banks and spread out over the bottoms. The farm of George Frazer at Allegou, Mich., was visited by a cyclone and not much is left of it. A hail storm northeast of Muncie at Red Ke£, Thursday night, smashed nearly every window in town. An electrical storm swept East Liverpool, O. Tho Methodist Church steeple was struck down. Highland Park, a Chicago suburb, was damaged by a fierce storm, which blew down the handsome Catholic Church of the place. The loss to business blocks and dwellings is $40,000. The county asylum at Winamac was Btruck by lightning and considerably damaged. One of the inmates was hurt. A severe gt6KE Wayne" Tuesday night. A Monon train-shed was blown down and five engines damaged. Wabash county was visited Tuesday night by one of the most terrific storms ever known in that section. Hail fell to a depth of one inch, and the rainfall was prodigious. Much damage was done in the country, several houses and barns in the vicinity of Roann having been unroofed, and much timber and fence de stroyed. A bridge between Wabash and Largo, on tte Wabash Railroad, was washed out, and trains did not get through until Wednesday morning. Traffic on the C., W. & M. was also interrupted.

WASHINGTON. For the purpose of getting “oven” wit the President, who wanted to make his own appointments to offices in Oklahoma under tho new government, somo gentlemen in the Senate and House had an amendment made to the Oklahoma bill providing that the Governor, Secretary and a lot of other officers—about twentyfive in all, including commissioners—should be appointed from among tho citizens of that Territory. The bill is now in conference, and it is stated that tho amendment is unconstitutional, as the appointing power of the president cannot be limited orinterfered with, as he has the power, which cannot be qualified, to make such appointments "by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.” The Chief of the Secret Service is informed of tJO arrest by that service at Denver, Col., of George Ammons and Wm. Dorrell,for paying counterfeitflO National Bank notes of Richmond. Ind., and were held for the United Statos Grand Jjury. These counterfeits were made by Miles Ogle, who was arrested in 1884, when he surrendered the plates for these notes, together with the plates of the Third National Bank 1 ] of Cincinnati, 0., and Muncie and Lafayette, Ind., National Banks,and a two and a twenty dollar silver certificate. Wfailo Representative Randall’s condition has been serious at all times f or many months, he is now worse and in a critical state. His mind, which is usually olear and bright, has at times been clouded and he has not seemod aware of what was going oa.