Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1894 — CHAMPION HAIL STORM. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHAMPION HAIL STORM.

A dispatch from English, June 22, says: Reports of the storm are gradually coming in. In the vicinity of ex-Sheriff Cummins's farm, three miles northwest of town, hundreds of acres of wheat, rye. oats and corn were badly damaged. The barn of Minton Brown wa? razed to the ground. George Temple, who was fixing a reaper, declares that ho was blown across eighty acres of wheat. Benton Cummins, Elias McDonald and William Cummins barely escaped death from wind and hail. Hail fell to the depth of fifteen ir L cll _ es - Much of it was one inch in diameter. Hail fell on the farm of the Rev. Fred Marthig as large as pullet while on the farm of James Hobbs, twelve, miles south, hail rolled down th 7 hillside until it accumulated to the depth of four feet against buildiiigs and fences. George Morris, in (trying to cross Little Blue river to save his wife, narrowly escaped drowning. No less than 1,000 acres of wheat which was ready for the harvest is now lying in the mud.

Recently convicted of murder at Monticello, N. Y. Iler defense was insanity and it seems probable that she will bo placed in an asylum. Mrs. Halliday has been confined in asylums several times. Shortly after her last discharge she killed or helped to kill three persons in a drunken row. Mrs. Halliday is a benighted creature of the sort called crackers in Florida and dippers in the Carolinas. She is about four inches more than five feet tall and weighs 130'poun is. Her strange, almost pig-like nose lies close to her face, until at the enffit stands straight out at right angles in a thick, flat-topped, porky deformity. Like a pig's snout it move.about. If has muscles that seem to work independently, SO that when she is otherwise in repose this strange, repulsive member is lowered and raised, and -moved sidewise as we see the antennae of insects feeling about in the air. Such Is the effect of Mrs. Halliday's face that there were men in the court-room who said they would not touch her or let her touch them for (1,000.

MRS. ELIZABETH HALLIDAY,