Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — DEATH IN THE STORM. [ARTICLE]

DEATH IN THE STORM.

FRIGHTFUL TORNADO AT THREE STATES, MO. Jackson Hole Settlers Not Butchered k ,,~ ■■ ■’tf—•—Sovereign’s Plan to Bet tear the Workingman’s Condition Military Gentlemen Wait for Salaries. Seven Lives Lost. A terriblte storm swept over the town of Three Statqg, on the Mississippi River, forty miles below z afternoon. The killed are George McClellan, Mrs. George McClellan, three McClellan children, Mr. Thomas, at Barnes Ridge; Mrs. Thomas, at Barnes Ridgr. The fun-nel-shaped cloud whirled through the dense timber, cutting a swath 100 yards wide, uprooting huge trees and tossing them high in the air. Just before it reached the village the cloud seemed to rise sufficiently to clear the cottage bouses, but it caught the high smokestack of the_Three States mill and twisted it to the ground as easily as if it had been built of straw. The power of the wind may be imagined when it is known that this stack was considered the strongest in the world. It was made of sheet steel, and anchored on an iron base by ten iron guy rods.

——No Indian Uprising, The story of an Indian uprising at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, told Saturday by an Associated Press dispatch and published by every daily paper in America and most of those in the civilized world, was utterly without foundation. Not a white settler had been killed; and till the bloody, hair-raising detail which accompanied the yarn was the output of the over-heated imagination of some tenderfoot correspondent at Market Lake, Idaho. Latest information is to the effect that many Bannocks, Lemhis and Utes are yet off their reservations, andrhat troops ate in the near vicinity. Every effort will be made by United States authorities to arrest the lawless whites who murdered the party of Indian hunters. This wanton butchery was the cause .of all ensuing trouble.

Tow Path Is Doomed. An experimental line for the propulsion of cnnalboats by electricity, contracted to be built by the Trenton Iron Company, is to be along the banks of the Erie Canal, and will be four miles in length. This line is to be completed within sixty days, and work will begin within a few days. The system to bo tried is known as the cableway or traction system. Frank W. Hawley, vice president of the Cataract General Electric Company, said this methQtl_QL application of-Dosm was in operation in the logging district of Nortff Carolina. Mr. Hawley said if the experimental line about to be built was satisfactory all the canals of the State would be equipped with the same system of electric propulsion. This, he said, would involve an expenditure of $2,000,000.

Army Shortof Cash, A portion of the army was not paid for June, 1895, as a result of the failure of the last Congress to make sufficient appropriation for the salaries of officers and enlisted men. Unless the next Congress takes some steps to obvlhte it there will be a similar story the latter part of the present fiscal year, but bit a larger scale. Last year’s deficiency was $75,000, and an estimate made at the Wai- Department shows there will be a $300,000 deficiency in the pay of the army for the present fiscal year unless the next Congress sets matters straight. The War Department has been compelled to suspend payments of the salaries of the officers and enlisted men at many frontier posts, especially in the Departments of the Platte and Texas.

Wants Them to Take Up Farms, Grand Master Workman Sovereign, of “tfieTKnightS of Labor, was in Kansas City, Mo., on his way South. In an interview he wa£ quoted as saying he is on an expedition loking up good farming lands for laboring men. HiS aim is to have as many Knights of Labor as possible go to agricultural and fruit lands for permanent settlement and occupation. The overcrowded condition of the cities, he maintained, is the cause of so much idleness among workmen. Speaking of his recent boycott circular he said it was taking ‘like wild fire” and was being carried out to the letter by the Knights of Labor. Trade Circles Dull. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “It is not the season for the tide of business to rise, tut there is perceived scarcely any • shrinkage except that which comes naturally with mid--summer heat. The volume of new business is small compared with recent months, but large enough to encourage more openings of long closed works and more advances in returns to labor. Important strikes show that the advance is not enough for some, but the strikers seem not more threatening than before."