Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1892 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Governor Dower of New York is ill. Baltimore's export trade in March amounted to $7,721,640. A cyclone visited Nelson, Neb., on the Ist, nearly demolishing the town. Some of the biggest concerns have not gone into the rubber trust and it may not succeed. -» Carmen Roderique. a Mexican women 150 years old, so said, died at bathe 31st, A safe trust, composed of thi Hennr ck_ Hall and Marvin companies, was formed on the Ist. The launching of the cruiser Raleigh was witnessed by 46,000 persons at Norfolk, Thursday, Gen/ Daniel Dusten,* assistant United States treasurer at Chicago, died in that city on the 31st. The Chicago grand jury which indicted the boodle aidermen doubts if there is sufficient evidenceToconvlct them. The Messiah craze has broken out among the Pawnee and Otoe Indians in Oklahoma. The ghost dance is again under way. Claus Spreckel’s sugar refinery at Phila.delphia was formally turned over to tho sugar trust Saturday, the consideration being $750,000.

The Sergeant Milling Company at Jop lin, Mo., has been burned out. The plans cost $150,000, and there was only s2s,oooinluranceon it. '►An exodus to the Cherokee strip and Oklahoma from Denison, Tex., has begun, and 200 citizens are bound thither in wagons and on foot. Now it is reported that young Timothy Hopkins received $10,000,000 instead of $3,000,000, in the compromise settlement of the great,will case. Jeremiah Cottle, an ignorant Italian who murdered a fellow emigrant in Brooklyn, N. Y., last July was electrocuted at ~Sing Sing prison Monday. John Riddle, a farmer living near Lexter, Mo., took his eight-year-bld son with him into the woods where he was felling trees, and the boy was crushed to dea th beneath a cotton-wood which hIS father felled. , , - ■, . Miss Annie Gregory, a member of the Episcopal congregation in Jacksonville, 111., has renounced the Christian faith and will leave for Chicago to study the Jewish religion, so she may marry the man of her choice, one Meyer Wiel. > The steamer Golden Rule burned to the water’s edge at Cincinnati, Thursday evening. She was to have left a half hour

;before she caught fire for New Orleans. There were fifty people aboard the vessel. Five lives were lost. Three or four others are missing. Later particulars make the burning of the river boat Golden Rule at Cincinnati still more appalling. It is now believed that at least twelve persons were burned or drowned. The boat had a very large cargo, and the pecuniary loss is henvy, also. A passenger train for Atlanta, on the Pacific railroad, was held up by masked robbers at 1 o’clock Thursday morning, near Weems, Ala, As the train moved away from the station a robber boarded the engine and covered the engineer with a rifle, compelling him to stop the train five, hundred feet away on a trestle. One man stood guard over the engineer, while several others opened fire on the inside of the train in order to frighten the passengers. Another robber knocked on the door of the mail car and demanded entrance, which was refused. He then broke open the door, fire at the postal clerk, who was slightly wounded. All the registered letters, supposed to contain about 86,000, were taken. The express car was not molested tThe robbery was done in a few minutes, in which timeseveral of the gang kept up the firing, and flagman Quincy Adams was wounded. The engineer said the robber od the engine was a white man> and the postal clerk says the man who robbed the mail car was a mulatto. The police started on the trail of the robbers with bloodhounds.

FOREIGN.

Prince Bismarch was 77 years old April L The event was duly celebrated. The foot and mouth disease is alarmingly prevalent in Belgium. Dr. Vaughan has been appointed Arclr bishop of Westminister, to succeed Cardinal Manning. The yellow fever epidemic In Santos BrtMl. is claiming one to two hundred Victims dally. The French authorities have arrested Ravachal, the leader of the Paris Anarchists and dynamiters. The importation of cattle from Spain, Portugal and Norway to England has been prohibited by the government, owing to the prevalence qf the foot and mouth dlmaso. Captain Pon th ter, of the Congo Free SU'a. baa captured several strongholds of the Arab slave traders and liberated ts QVmher of captives. The slave traders hod been carrying ou extensive incursion ß in he Congo territory. It is ra.d that to such straits are the children in IRustia’c famine districts re duaed, when £ovaiag in the form of food be obtained, were in the habit of eating whatever rags fell to their possession, and that when tfir rags failed they actually devoured quantities of earth.

ATROCIOUS MURDERERS.

•Russia tp the F. ont With a Series ot.Revolting Crimes. Two Brothers Strangle and Rob Many Victims—&.'tne of the Bodlee Burned Others Boiled. Police Inquiries Into the case of two brothers n\med Koullkvosky, who are imprisoned at Warsaw, Bussia, on thecharge 6f murdering and robbing a peasant near BlelostocK, have revealed the practice of the wholesale murder of emigrants on the frontier Already the naked bodies of five victims have been discovered In the snow n the woods adjacent to the house occupied by thq Kudilkvukys, who lived in the village of Monk!. The search for bodK jis proceedlw.x There have been fl ' . I 1

many disappearances of late In the neighborhood of the Koulikvosky residence,and the police estimate that the two brothers have murdered at least forty persons The residents of Monk! have been greatly startled by the revelations concerning the brothers, and there is much excitement throughout the whole district. The elder brother, who was a peasant farmer, has a young wife, who, it is took advantage of her sex to abet her husband in his crimes, receiving her share of the spoils secured from the unfortunate victims. The younger brother had been a soldier in the Russian army, but his time had expired. He took to smuggling across the frontier as a means of livelihood, and naturally became thoroughly acquainted with all the paths that led into Prussian territory away from the eyes of the careful frontier guards. Many of the persons desirous of leaving Russia, particularly emigrants, were not supplied with the passports required by the government before Russians are allowed to country, and in these persons the brothers found their victimk These persons would approach the Koullkvoskys and bargain with the men for a safe conduct beyond Rnssian soil, and with his knowledge of the frontier it was comparatively an easy undertaking for the younger brother to get them safe away from Russian territory. Fugitives from j ustice also availed themselves of Koulikvosky’s knowledge to escape from the officers of the law. The metaod followed by the brothers in the cases of persons desiring to cross the frontier was as follows:

They would select as their victims only those who had good outfits and money. The others would be taken across In safety. The victims, however, would be taken in. charge by the younger brother, and singly they would be conducted along a narrow path through a dense forest. In the meantime the elder brother would hurry by a short route to a spot previously agreed on, and when the victim approached he would be attacked by his guide and the man who laid in ambush. The unfortunate man would be strangled, and then to make their work sure, the brothers would beat in his skull with clubs. He would be then robbed of everything in his possession. A" the outset they carefully burned the bod ies, but as time went by they, being uddetected, became careless and shoved them under the brush wood after stripping them.

But this was not the only way they had of securing victims. The wife of the elder brother would indulge in flirtations with strangers who came to Monki, and would make engagements for them to visit her at her home. She is a coinely.buxom woman, and admirers would hasten at night t° her house, only to meet death at the hand of the husband and his brother, who waited their coming. Among the last of the victims was a peasant, who had sought she! ter from the inclement weather in their hut. He fell asleep and the brothers attempted to strangle him. The man awoke aml tnade a most desperate struggle for his life, as his body showed. While he was held so ho could not escape boiling water was poured over his head and face, and the murderers then succeeded in strangling him. The body was hidden beneath some straw in the stable, where it was accidentally discovered before the brothers had time to carry it to the forest. The finding of the body led to the discovery of the five other bodies In the woods. The woman wits taken into custody with the men. but she is kept entirely separate from them. All three have been subjected to a prolonged examination, but they rteto confess anything.

LYNCHED.

Joseph Lytle, of Findlay,' 0., Wednesday morning, fiendishly slaughtered his divorced wife and his daughter, using a hatchet. He attempted the life of a second daughter, but she escaped. Thursday morning at 1 o'clock a mob gatheredtook Lytle from the jail and hung him' When the mob made a rush on the jail, I** did not attempt to get the sheriff’s keys, but hurried back to the corridor. Lytle was perfectly game, and called the mob’s attention to his own cell as the one wanted. After working nearly an hour the cell door was battered down and the doomed man dragged out. He was taken several blocks to the Main street bridge. A rope was furnished and one end thrown over one of the top girders. Another moment and the body of Joseph Lytle swung in the all*. Only for a moment, however, as a strflty bullet cut the rope and the body fell. The mobcaught the end of the rope and dragged the victim through the street about two hundred feet, and again the rope was hoisted over a telegraph pole arm. As the body was pulled up half a dozen shots were fired,,and the end of the awful tragedy came/ The mob is said to have been of the best citizens, but was poorly organized. His victims are stil] alive, but neither will recover.

Some curious items are found in the of China's trade statististics. For instance, the report of exports from Ichang, a large city on the Middle Yang-tse-Kiang, contains* an item of 13,000 pounds of tiger bones, valued at nearly $3,000. Only a Chinese would think of putting tiger bones to any other use than that of a fertilizer, but in China tiger bones are used as medicine. They impart to the invalid some of the tiger’s strength. Another item is 9,000 pounds of old deer horns, worth $1,700 —another medical agency with whose peculiar properties Western medical science is not yet acquainted. In Aroostook county, Me., is a man who has been in jail for nearly four years because he refused to pay a debt which he might have settled easily. He declared that he wouldn’t pay, and that if sent to jail he could stand it as iopg as his creditor could, the latter being obliged to pay the prisoners board. The debtor may be liberated soon, he having promised io pay his bills more promptly in the future, but the bill for which he was incarcerated will not be paid. The prisoner was a soldier and known as a “stuffy” man.

TORNADO’S WORK.

Death Rode in the Storm, and - Scores of Dying Mark Its Path. The Town of Towanda Literally Wiped From the Earth— Nota House Left Standing—Augusta, Also, Greatly Damaged— Havoc Wrought at Many Other Points—- • Chicago to the Front—Details of a Fright- . ~ tnl-CgiaenHy, , ■ —l-

News was not received until the 2d of a frightful tornado that swept off parts of Kansas and other adjoining States. We quote from dispatches: A storm of mad destructiveness swept over Kansas last night. Butler county seems to have been the scene of the greatest havoc, The town of Towanda was wiped off the face of the earth and Augusta, a few miles distant, wa 3 buffeted out of all semblance to its former self. Not a house or building was left Standing in Towanda. The town wa s asleep when the storm swept down, razed everything in its path and leftdead bodies lying in its wake. Towanda is a small village of 1/0) inhabitants, situated ten miles west of El" dorado. The storm laid the whole town . flat with the earth and left not a single house standing. Of the eighty families comprising the population there is not one to-night that is not either mourning for a dead or dying member, or sorrowing with the suffering. Six persons were killed outright, seven fatally injured, nineteen badly hurt and others injured. Joseph Glassen and family were killed at Strong City and others injured. The wind reached a velocity of 61 miles an hour at Kansas and considerable damage was done to property, but no lives were lost. At Augusta the storm wrought great havoc and caused a considerable loss of life. Houses were leveled to the ground and the inmates were cr u shed and man - gled and some of them killed-. The dead number four, fatally injured eight. The people of the town and vicinity lost nearly everything. At South Haven eight persons were killed and a score injured. Near Wellington thirteen person a were injured. The family of Wm. Little near that place were frightfully mangled and crushed, himself and four of his children being killed outright and Mrs. Little dying soon afterward. At another farm home in the neighborhood four persons were in jured. The storm, so far as can be ascertained, swept across the country from the Indian Territory in the southwest part of Barber county, Kansas, taking the little town of Kiowa in its path. In a northeasterly direction it passed through Frazier county and through the center of Sumner county. Bending as a bow it passed almost directly north through the center of Sumner county and along the western part of Butler county. Villages and farmhouses were carried away as it swept along. The tornado continued in Kansas and the northwestern part of Missouri Friday, but was less destructive.

Reports of injuries to persons been received, though many count-y barns and their outbuildings and haystacks, and occasionally a weakly constructed residence were wrecked. At Atchison no damage was done to speak of till nearly noon Friday, when a tornado struck the city and unroofed and large buildings and scattered signs and awnings in every direction. Hundreds of chimneys have been blown down and a great deal of light damage done. Heavy damages in the country to fruit trees. No one was injured. At Olathe, Kan., the general store of Mariner & Mauvel was wrecked by the -£torm. Farm houses and stables in the city were unroofed, but no one was injured. At Marshall, Mo., considerable damage was done, The cupola of the Methodist church was blown down, plate-glass windows were blown in and roofs carried away. . At Salina, Kan., the house of M. A. Brather was carried from its foundation and wrecked. The family was at supper at the time and all were more or less injured. One daughter had a leg broken and was internally injured. Another was hurt about the back and also sustained internal injuries. Neither are likely to recover. A young son was badly injured and bruised about the head, but not fatally. The house of Samuel Buckhalder was demolished, but the family escaped injury. Mrs. Zimmerman took; refuge in the cellar of the house. Th 6 house was demolished and she was fatally injured.

At Ottawa, Kas., the tower of the water company’s building was toppled over, roofs carried away and sidewalks turned oyer. Trees were uprooted and much damage was done to orchards. At Warrenburg, Mo., the Methodist church was unroofed and the cupola blown down. At Chillcothe, Mo., also, the cupola of the Methodist church was blown down an<j the building unroofed. No one was hurt. At Kansas City, Kas., Arn Connors, aged 5 years, was thrown violently to the ground by the ijind and had his hip crushed.' Del March, a girl aged 17, was struck by a piece of flying sidewalk and sustained injuries that may prove fatal. The great P*avy elevator was badly wrecked, being uproofed and severely strained at its angles. At Chllicothe many houses were unroofed and the Louse of James Pothe at the'edgeof the town was demolished, but the occupants escaped Injury. Special from Hiawatha, Seneca, Oneida. Horton, Lawrence, Bolckow and Mary -0 ville, Mo., report great loss. CHICAGO. A Chicago special says: At 0:30 o’clock Frtdav evening the sky, which had been threatening ail day, became black as night and in another miuute a terrible cloudburst occurred. The wind blew at a hurricane rate and drove the raln t in sheets along the streets, sweeping every movable object before it. The wind was of cyclonic

force and at the corner of Halstead and "Pearce streets tore down a house. The building was a seven story brick structure. It was surrounded by one and two story frame and brick buildings, the homes of humble laborers, and crashing upon them instantly crushed out the lives of nine inmates and fatally or seriously injuried nineteen others. 1Thomas Hulett lived immediately in the rear of the ruined seven story brick building. He and his family, together with two guests, Mrs. Emma Hope and Mrs. Ada Keown were at supper. When the immense mass of brick, iron, wood and plaster comprising the larger bulding fell its force seemed to be directed to. the rear upon Hulett’s residence. A passer-by, as soon as the ac. cident occurred, turned in a fire alarm and a police and ambulance call. Citizens who heard the crash and the cries of the injured also rushed to the scone and the work of rescue was at once begun. The dead and injured were at once removed to residences near by. The Hulett family occupied only one side of this dwelling and on this the ruined building descended like an avalanche. The six-month-old baby of David Hulett was instantly crushed into a shapeless mass. Of the thirteen people sitting at the table the infant was the only one-instantly killed. The others, who were pinioned under broken timbers and bricks, were soon released by the hundreds of firemen, police and citizens who rushed to the rescue, A number physicians were soon at the sceneof the disaster to care for the wounded as fast as they were removed. James McGowan, his invtllie wife and Mary Walsh, Mrs. McGowan’s nurse are believed to be buried in the ruins of the brick building. Up to this hour, 11 p. m., no trace of them has been discovered by the diligent searchers and it is feared all are dead. /' x ■ -

An unknown man employed as a watchman in the runied building is missing and is supposed to be buried in the ruins. The loss from the destruction of the building is about 835,000.— ZZ At the signal service office it was stated that during the storm the wind attained a velocity of fifty-six miles an hour. At Des Moines the velocity was sixty and at Sioux City, la., sixty-four miles an hour. The same source reports that the storm which centered at North Platte, Neb., is now central in northwestern lowa southeastern Dakota, haying originated in the Northwest territory. Ft. Buford reports a fall of the thermometer of thirty degrees and at 10 o’clock Friday night a heavy snow was falling in northeastern Nebraska. The total loss from this seemingly wholesale destruction can not be estimated at once but will aggregate hundreds of thousands of dollars. Nebraska reports its tornado to have swept through the entire State, damaging property to a very great value and killing or injuring many people. At Des Moines, lowa, the wind blew one hundred miles an hour. The daughter of Gen. James B. Weaver was among the injured at Bloomfield, lowa. Many of the towns in the State suffered. Even sleepy, old St. Louis suffered from the storm. A passenger train was blown from the track near Burlington, lowa, and some of the passengers injured.

REVIEWED. This storm has been one of the most farreaching and destructive on record is borne out, as fragmentary scraps of information straggle in from the Northwest, the far West and the Southwest over the badly crippled, almost unworkable wires which escaped the fury of the warring elementsThe justly famous, though not popular, “Kansas cyclone” seems in this instance to have comprehended a vast expanse of territory upon which to wreak its fury and any estimate approximating the amount of damage done to property, or the number of lives lost, is out of the question. In the onward march northward in swirling shrieking eddies “bleeding Kansas” first fell under its mighty power Death and destruction marked its baleful progress from the moment it left the rollng prairies of the Indian territory. Grasping in its pitiless clutch the pretty little city of Tawanda, Kas., it bounded on with ever increasing volume, leaving in its wake a maze of shattered score of mangled corpses and a hundred torn and bleeding victims. „ * Wellington, Caldwell. Augusta and Kiowa, Kas., then furnished the quota to the death harvest. Passing northward through Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas and Minnesota, a track of desolation miles in width marks its passage, and feeble wails straggle through the fag ends of prostrate wires from interior towns to tell their tale of woe. From Omaha and Council Bluffs the tale is but a repetition of that from the Southwest—crippled wires, buildings unroofed, fences and trees laid waste, chimneys. signs and plate-glass front? smashed and scattered. Minneapolis and St. Paul have no outlet and their story is yet untold, and only a cessation of the awful visitation will admit of a summary of its results. When the result has been Summed u p it is probably that the country has not been visited by such a storm 'or years.

A Woman’s Good Name.

Ladles’ Home Journal. Many people who would recoil with horror at cutting a human creature’s throat, which really does not hurt verv much and only lasts a moment will murder a woman’s good name without rerhorse or' compunction; and that hurts worse than death; for a lifetime. It is a meaner crime tnan murder. We cry out, and right! too, against the sensational and depraving habit of making herccs cf robbers and cut throats. It .s a horrible thing to do. And yet I have less of hatred and loathing for the late Jesse James than I have for some people who have never been convicted of a capital crime, but whose tongues, we know, are worse Tfean any knife that ever severed a human jugular.

MILLIONS IN IT.

An Immense Cotton Fire at New : J Orleans. Eighty Thousand Bales of Cotton Burned --Four Squares of Residence Property Also—Loss, •3,500,000. Oneuof the most destructive cotton fires onßecord broke out at 10:30 o’clock, Sunday morning in the cotton on th® Sidewalk tn front of the fireproof compress on Front street at New Orleans. The fire department responded promptly, but the wind was so strong and the cotton so dry that it burned like tissue paper. The flames ran high, and in an almost incredibly short space of time had communicated to the press itself and were working their way along the wood work of the roof. The firemen worked hard to arrest the progress of the flames, but all their efforts were unavailing. Through the yards swept the fire, carrying devastation with it, burning cotton and wood as if they were so much paper. After three repeated alarms a general alarm was sent in, and all the engines in the city, with the exception of two or three, were called out. The fire proof press had about ten thousand bales of cotton stored in it, and in half an hour the building and contents were consumed. The flames in the meantime had communicatedto the upper press. The destruction here was as great as.at the flrsrone. In a marvelously short space of time the flames had attacked the building on all sides cutting their way through the woodwork with wonderful rapidity. In this pres 3 was stored fifty thousand bales of cotton some of which was taken out to a place of safety. The larger portion of the staple, however,was inflames in a short time, and it was impossible to save it. It required but a few minutes, with the high wind that was blowing, to destroy the press. The walls soon looked like charred pillars, tottering to and fro and endangering the lives of firemen, several of whom had narrow escapes. ... f __

The sight at this time was an awe-in-spiring one. For a space of at least two blocks a great sheet of flame was shooting upward. The smoke and sparks from the fire was carried down into the street by the wind and choked aijd singed the spectators, Suddenly a small flame was seen t,o leap skyward from a corner of the Independence press. In a second nearly the entire square was ablaze, and the flames formed almost a solid block of fire. In the yard was stored some ten thousand bales of the flossy staple. This proved excel lent fuel for the flames and in a little time it was consumed. At length four rows of walls were all that stood to remind one thatg large building had once occupied the site. The last press to catch was the Orleans. The place was gutted and its contents, consisting of about twenty thousand bales, were consumed. There was no chance to save any portion of the cotton, as the work of destruction was very rapid. For some time the firemen worked on the flames and when it becam t) apparent that none of the bales of cotton c ould be saved they devoted their attention to the surrounding structures. The total amount of cotton burned as near as can now be ascertained, is estimated at 80,000 bales, held by factors and commission merchants and covered by their open polices. Much of this cotton will besent to the pickeries and saved, so that the total loss will probably not exceed 830 per bale, making the total loss on cotton between two and two and a quarter millions of dollars. The loss on presses and at'-ftOS.ooo It is thought the fire started from a cigarette which some person threw among the cotton.

While the cotton-press fire was raging, an alarm was sent in for a fire in the residence portion of the city, it being bounded by Laurel, Annunciation, Second and Third streets At the time the fire de. partment, police and large majority of the residents of the burning district were at the cotton press fire. A gale was blowing and the flames were blowing in all directions. Chief O’Connor sent several engines to the scene, but before they couid get down to action, a dozen houses were in flames. All the engines on both sides of the river were summoned to the scene at once. The heat was intense, and for this reason it was almost impossible to get near the burning buildings. People who lived in the square bounded by Laurel, Magazine, Second and Third streets began to feel alarmed at the encroaching flames. At first they packed up a few valuables, but as the element refused to be subdued jthe alarm grew Into fright and a wild scene ensued. Houses were dismantled and tkeir contents carried away. House after house went down, and the efforts of the already overworked firemen seemed in vain in the face of the overwhelming odds. The fire spread in a southwesterly direction and swept across Laurel street with a rapidity that was at once alarming and amazing. Soon the section bounded by v First, Third, Lauro* and Magazine streets—four squares—was ablaze, and the wooden buildings were devoured as if they were so much chaff. Magazine street stayed the march of the destiuctive element westward and acted as a barrier on the south.

Every building in the four squares mentioneJ, except foot, were destroyed. Most of the houses were small but, some very handsome houses on Magazine street were destroyed. Hundreds of people have been left Ihome.ess by the fire, and in many cases n thing was saved from the burning buildings. The scene presented was truly one of desolation. Nothing remains of the many handsome buildings embraced in the four squares but tall, gaunt-look-ing chimneys, like huge spectral forms, stunding<guard over the blackened ruins. The losses by the fire are estimated at f2s!\fCO,ooo. It is believed that the buildings were mostly insured. « ■ The 'saloons of New York city were lightly dosed Sunday, and thirsty New Yorkers had to rdy on prohibition drinks. The police irsned an order Saturday to all saloon-keepers that they must shut up or standHhe consequences. The order, so far as known, was strictly observed.

HOPEFUL SAINTS.

They Look Forward to More Revelstioa*! and a Happy Future. Over 12.000 Mormons attended the first' -day’ssession of the sixty-second annual) conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints at Salt Lake, . Saturday. This session, in view of the recent poHtleal events, is looked upon as one of the most important in the history of the Church. Apostle Richards in a speech declared that those people who believed that they had received all the reve-, lation that they were to get are mistaken and that more were to come. f President George Cannon spoke hope-[ fully of the future and said the church- was advancing with mighty strides and that the hearts of the people of the East had been softened and they now all have a friendly ie • ing for the church. President Woodruff, in a short speech, advocated the union of the people; they should be united in their work, for as a people they cannot deviate from the duty mapped out for them if they expect to have the blessings sf God showered upon them.

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

The rebellion in Venezuela is growing tn strength. Indian police at Sisseton killed two land hunters Saturday. A mother and five children were killed in a fire at Posen Sunday. Burglars at Quincy, 111., got away with $20,000 worth of jewelry Saturday. Pennsylvania moonshiners beat an agedr witness to death with a rock Saturday. Eighty free-coinage men are said to have formed a filibustering combine in the House. Fifer and Harrison carried most qf the Illinois Republican county primaries Saturday. Tin is reported to have been found near Chattanooga. Tenn., where a company ha 9 been formed to work the mine. The-main school building at Crawfords*ville burned Saturday evening, causing a loss of $75,000. The water works gave put. C Fifty persons are known to have teen killed in the great Kansas cyclone, and still the list is incomplete. Four towns were completely ruined, and a dozen others were badly wrecked. Ex-President Cleveland, Ex-Speaker Reed. Governor McKinley, Governor Boyd, ex-Governor Campbell and Governor Winan were among its speakers wh o entertained little Rhode Island Saturday night. Nearly the whole State was out to hear them.

A perfectly petrified ham of a hog was recently found in a field on the poor farm near Salem, and is now there in-possession of George W. Roseberry. The specimen is almost perfect, even showing the saw marks on the rock. The line of division between the flesh and skin is also very plain. The flesh side is beautifully ornamented with a shell fish and other water animals. It Is a fine piece o f nature’s handiwork. A terrific bail and rain storm passed near Wheeling, W. Va.. at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon. In Martin’s Ferry the hail stones were as large as hen’s eggs, and great damage was done to windows, hundreds of which were broken. The streets were badly damaged by the heavy rain. Washouts are reported on the railroads. It is reported that much live stock in the fields iii the country was injured by the hail; in some instances the horns of the cattle were broken off. A telephone _ message from Martin’s Ferry says that nearly every window facing the west was broken. Chairman Gowdy, of the Republican State Central Committee has annc_nced bis executive committee as follows;R. B. F. Peirce, Indianapolis. J. B. Homan, Danville. J W. T. Durbin, Anderson. • Moses G. McLain, Indianapolis. W. M. Milford, Indianapblis. George Knox. Indianapolis. | George M. Youngs Vincennes. A P. Hendrickson. India napohk Theodore Sbockney. Union City. F.. H. Tripp, North Vernon. A. A. Winslow. Hammond.

The Rope Core for Kickers.

During the last thirty-five years a neighbor has permanently cured over twenty horses of the kicking habit without fail in any case attempted, says a writer in the New York Tribune. Folio wing in his method: Take a half-inch rope that has been stretched until it cannot be stretched any inorv, tie it around the horse 6 inches back o! the pad and belly-bnnd of the h mens; insert a short stick and twist it up J nearly as tight as the rope will bear without breaking, and tie Ihe stick so that it- will stay. Fasten the horse in a stall where there is room behind him to wield whip, then strike him around the«hind legs quite severely; at the second or third blow he will generally kick with both feet with all his might but only for two or three times. If he has been In the habit of kicking in harness, drive him with the rope on two weeks, or until he quits making threats. Some Will kick once or twice with one foot and bob up and threaten for several days. They should be tickled or teased, or have a basket or pail thrown under them or tied to a hind foot several times a day to made them try and/kick, and until they cease to make aAy effort in that direction. The remedy is then effectual. After driving the animal half an hour, the rope should be tightened. This will also cure bucking horses, or any which try to throw lhair rid Ar-.

Estson’s Close Call.

Had the King of Italy monkeyed with Edison’s telephone instead of his phonograph the chances are that we should be t short on the count. Just imagine him calling up the royal hand organ grinder and hearing a woman five miles away shout, “Well, I tried it on last night and it is entirely too short in the basque.” And lima comes the roar of a butcher: “Caii’t fill that order ’smorning; wo're all out of pigs’ feet.”—Now: York Herald.