Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1899 — Page 2

1' cUStO* R- MARSHALL, Hubllsncr* I IkNSSELAEr! ] - INDIANA.

INDIANS ON WARPATH

I PpHilkats looking for trqu- | ; SgfcßLE IN ALASKA. I pßucfca Armed with Rifles Drive Away I Workmen Who Are Blasting Out a I - WniilMtwo Killed in a Fight with I IfThe Chilkat Indians in Alaska are on I RF warpath. Twenty bucks armed with I Hies gathered from their several villages I; Along the Chilkat river and marched to 1 Point, eight miles from Haines’ 1 where eight white men were I Misting rock for a trail to Klukwan, a disI ifjjtnce bf twenty-five miles. The Indians 1 PNve the whites away. Word was imme--1 Kffliately teent to the United States marshal I land commissioner at Skaguay and to I MfjSapt. Cheatman, in command of the I Hpoops at' Dyea. Sixteen soldiers, under 1 Of a sergeant, were at once sent I *|s : Haittes’ Mission. It is understood that I I||jarties who are opposed to the construcI gPon of the new trail have incited the InI Hokos to make trouble. 1 ilfW sß WHIL,E fighting fire. i Eflne Fireman Crushed to Death and Six I Badly Hurt at Dayton, Ohio. I I A fire which broke out from incendiary I causes in the big lumber yard of the A. I IGrebhart Lumber Company at Dayton, 0., 1 in the death of Thomas Lawler, a 1 and the severe injury of six other 1 jKpremen. A high wind carried blazing 1 IMArks from the burning lumber to the 1 mot of St. John’s Lutheran Church on I -Hkst Third street, setting that building on I Hire. Lawler was standing in the church I Hfektibule when the belfry timbers fell on I Bpim. The other men were hurt by the I Hones and bv falling. The material loss | Aggregates s7s,<X*o. 1 Hp BliCE kattek with robbers. I Hbaptain of tlie Ogden Police Force 1 ;C_»l»d One Desperado Are Killed, i ipPwo desperadoes held up several men j Spear Brigham City, Utah. The sheriff of yßox Elder County and a posse pursued the I Bobbers and came up with them eight 1 X miles from Ogden. The robbers fired on i ithe posse and a number of shots were ex--1 The robbers then escaped to the I hills. Captain Brown of the Ogden police , force went to the assistance of the Box I Elder County sheriff and the robbers were fijtgain located in the hills and another batII ISe took place, in which Capt. Brown and I Wo*' ot t * le r °bbers were killed. The other I. I robber was captured. I . IS. Race for the Pennant. I IpThe standing of the clubs in the Nafilonal League race is as follows: I W. L. W. L. I wjjjk. Louis . ..10 2Boston 7 7 | .10 4 Louisville .... 6 6 1 »Oliieago ..... 9 6 New York.... 4 8 1 IjPCißeinnati ... 7 sWashington ..4 10 C I rooklyn .... 8 OCleveland .... 2 8 i ... 8 6Pittsburg .... 1 8 1 Hplßowing is the standing of the clubs i Mm-the Western League: I W. L. W. L. |Buffalo>.... 4 1 St. Paul 2 2 I Kansas City. 3 1 Columbus .... 2 3 1 IpDetroit ..... 3 2Minneapolis ..1 3 I Iplflwaukee .. 2 2 Indianapolis . 1 4 I L Killed for Revenge. I f News has been received at Little Rock, I §“Ark., of the assassination in Yan Buren 1 of the son of Hugh Patterson, I Hfrbo was murdered in December, 1897, by 1 Jlrfe Mills and Will Hardin. Mills was I Kanged a few days ago and Hardin was I SWhot to death in jail. It is believed that I Ipoong Patterson was murdered by friends 1 |of Hardin for revenge. I Bjfefany Hnrt in Railway Wreck. I PTwo persons were killed, eighteen seriI jßjrlT injured and fifty others badly hurt 1 HU the result of a wreck which occurred on 8 Rochester and Lake Ontario Rail--8 Mfcwad about one-half mile north of RochesI K***! N. Y. Two cars on an excursion train I Mped with passengers left the track while > Bounding a curve at full speed flhd were 8 Mmfiirely demolished. 1 Bp Not Ready for Statehood. 1 Epen. Henry, the American military gov--1 ,yeTnor Of Porto Rico, has informed the in--1 Mplar committee recently sent there from 1 that he does not believe the j < PortO Ricans should be encouraged to look f§ Iferward to statehood in the American | ipJliion. He thinks they will do better ungfpfcyr « territorial form of government. 1 E.: Anglo*Russian Agreement. !' KiSreat Britain and Russia have come to 1 mim Agreement on their spheres of influence If Ht China. Dispatches from St. PetersI MBp-'fi* London, which are generally $ jKjfedited. state that an international pact I HK'Bie subject has been signed. 1 Killed by a Railway Train. 1 gjigtfl. Hugh D. Greer, a well-known exE ' ffrolMllljrktr soldier, who served through 1 the civil war under Geu. Forrest’s comI pknd, was accidentally killed by a South|J < Mjptt*ilway train at Buntyn station, TenMfilii 11, j, States Shaken Up. » p- Several towns in southern Illinois and Hjttdian* and northern Kentucky were E ifhaßen by earthquake shocks. No loss of I but several persons were K|Spred and many buildings rendered unl g# , ® pffgriorer Claims Self-Defense. pglftiry Gannaway, a well-known saw- » ■> F-lman, was stabbed to death near llflKj, T., by William Wathen. surrendered and claims self-de- — •< mf'- by Flames. HU than 250 persons were left homere in Chicago,which started in

Aged Woman and Four Small Children Are Killed in Missouri. Mrs. Jane Tettaton, an aged widow, and four children ranging in age from 6 to 12 years, were murdered and their bodies partly cremated in theJamily residence at Malden, Mo J. H. Tettaton. stepson of the woman who was killed, is under arrest. He tells conflicting stories about the tragedy. He says be was at home talking to the murdered woman when two men entered with revolvers and demanded money that he had taken to her to effect a settlement on some land matters. He says he refused to turn over the money and they opened fire; that the widow was shot at his feet, and that he ran into the yard and was there cut and clubbed into insensibility. Thirteen trifling knife wounds were found on his face. At the death of Washington Tettaton, the woman’s husband, two years ago, J, H. Tettaton was selected to administer the estate. 111-feeling sprang up and lawsuits followed. The woman agreed to settle certain claims for SSOO, and young Tettaton was to give her the money. The last seen of her alive was when she went with him to the house, supposedly to make the settlement. coiners in state prison. Colorado Convicts Make Bogus Dollars of Babbitt Metal. The discovery has been made that some very successful coiners have been operating inside the State penitentiary at Canyon City, Colo. The counterfeits are silver dollars and it is believed they are made of a combination principally of babbitt metal, which was used in setting the gratings during the construction of the prison. It is supposed they were made in plaster of paris molds. The coins were first detected by merchants who sold delicacies to the prisoners. This led to an investigation and twenty-eight of the bogus dollars were found in the possession of the prisoners, though no clew was obtained as to the identity of the coiners. The coins are well executed. HEIRESS TO HALF A MILLION. Claim of Girl Arrested at San Francisco for Vagrancy. A young woman known as Mildred Wislon, who was arrested at San Francisco on a charge of vagrancy, claims to be heiress to property valued at $500,000. Daniel Webster, an engineer at Mare Island, who raised the girl, says she was born at Burke’s Point, Butler County, Mo., and is now 16 years of age. Her father, whose name was Whittaker, owned nearly half of Butler County, and she and her sister, who is now living at Cairo, 111., were the sole heirs to the estate. The girl recently ran away from her home in Vallejo with a soldier who has gone to Manila. WINDSTORM WORKS DAMAGE. One Person Killed and Several Injnred • Near San Antonio, Tex. Several Texas towns were visited by a terrific wind and hail storm that followed a heavy rain. At Lytle the building on the “XL” ranch was demolished and a Mexican cowboy killed. At Weimer the home of City Marshal Insall was blown down and Mro. Insall and her two children injnred. The school house at Medina was overturned and the teacher, Miss Minnie Halstead, received internal injuries. Two pupils, Tom Maston and Henry Willard, were seriously injured. Military Riot at tan Francisco. What came near to being a dangerous riot occurred near the Presidio reservation, San Francisco, Cal., when a large body of white troops from the Presidio burned to tbe ground a saloon known as the Presidio Clnb case and resisted arrest by colored troops of the Twentyfourth infantry and the local police. The police fired upon the rioters to intimidate them and several hundred arrests were made. Tbe trouble grew out of injuries inflicted on C. L. King, a soldier in the Twenty-third infantry, the previous night in the saloon. The soldier was so badly beaten that his life was despaired of. Several hundred of his comrades marched on the saloon. The keeper saw them coming and fled. They bombarded the place with stones and then set it on fire. The provost guard, which happened to be drawn from the colored regiment, and a large detachment of local polfce had much trouble in quelling the rioters. All the offenders were raw recruits. Great Strike in Copper. IL is reported that the largest copper ledges ever discovered in the West have been found in the Carbon district north of Mount Ranier, and sixty miles east of Tacoma, Wash. The ore is said to be similar in character and geological situation to that found in Montana, and to be fully as rich as that of the Butte mines. Chester Thorne, president of the National Bank of Commerce of Tacoma, has had prospectors at work in the> new district for two years. It is stated that a large force of men will engage in the work of development as soon as the snow disappears. Evidences of a Murder. Hilary S. Starr, superintendent of the Oak Knoll ranch, Pasadena, Cal., has disappeared and the indications are that he was murdered. His brother Charles was assisting him about half a mile from the ranch house, and went to his cabin to put on his working clothes. When he returned twenty minutes later Hillary was nowhere 'to be fonnd. Not far from the door of the pump house there was evidence of a fearful straggle having taken place. Illinois Troops in Riot. The final night of the Second Illinois regiment’s stay in Augusta, Ga., was celebrated with a riot at midnight, in which Private James G. Gilliland was shot, probably fatally, by Lient. John Mayeski, and a lynching bee was only prevented by the strongest efforts of Col. Moalton. The soldiers had' set fira to sheds near the camp, and the lieutenant, who was officer of the day, was trying to suppress the disturbance. v - Russianizing Finland. The Governor of Finland has obtained authority from the Czar to exile all people suspected of hostility to Russia and to the work now in progress of “Russianizing” Finland. Tbe order affects thousands of Copper Trust a Fact. It is claimed that the great Anaconda mine has entered the combine. The capi- [ tfl! stock*, it il thought, will he * O'lF'b' 1 hc‘"t Qofi % '

WORK OP THE FLAMES

BAD EARLY MO3NINQ FIRE IN PITTSBURG. Two Business Buildings l Destroyed and Others Badly Scorched—The Loss Will Reach $210.000-United States Gets More Space at Paris Exhibition. « ■ ' Property on Market street and Third avenue, Pittsburg, Pa., valued at $210,000, was destroyed by a fire that for a time threatened several large business blocks. The fire broke out about 3;30 a. m., and burned fiercely for three hours. J. J. Welden’s seven-story grocery and the Novelty candy works were completely destroyed, and a number of adjoining buildings were scorched, among them Kunkel’s dry good store, “The Fair.” The losses are: James J. Welden, stock, $85,000; building, $60,000; Novelty Candy Company, building and stock, $50,000; Kunkel & Co., stock, $12,000, building $3,000. The fire is believed to have been caused by an explosion of gas. BANDITS RAID CUBAN TOWNS. _______ . / I Robbers Sack Five Villages and Fight the Native Troops. Bandits sacked the villages of Saro, Huti, Peregrina, Canelon and Sama, all in the northern pant of Santiago province, Cuba, and another party of fifteen attacked San Andres, about twenty miles northwest of Holguin. The outlaws robbed the houses at each place, securing principally groceries and clothing. The Cuban general, Salazar, with seven men, pursued the bandits and overtook them in the Vijalu mountains, where a hot fight ensued. The robbers were eventually driven from behind the rocks and retreated, leaving one dead —a negro—four horses and several bundles of plunder. The dead man was identified as Domingo Martinez, a Jamaican, who had long resided near Holguin. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, military governor of Santiago de Cuba, addressed the governor general, saying that the planters in the neighborhood of Holguin have been conniving at the operations of the bandits in order that American troops might be stationed on the plantations. Gen. Wood says that the reports of outrage are exaggerated. SPACE GIVEN AT PARIS FAIR. Total of 300,000 Square Feet Allotted to American i xhibite, Ferdinand W. Peck, the United States commissioner to the Paris exposition of 1900, has been officially notified of the allotment of 56,500 square feet in the Vincennes annex, divided as follows: 21,500 square feet for railroad exhibits, 4,300 for automobiles, 8,000 for bicycles, to be housed in a building erected by the American manufacturers; 19,400 for operating machinery, 2,700 for life-saving exhibits. This makes a total of 300,000 square feet of space allotted to American exhibits, or double the amount of the original grants.

Bank Goes to the Wall. Bank Examiner Pope took charge of the assets of the State Bank of West St. Paul, Minn., and ordered further suspension of business. The depositors will be protected. The last statement shows the total resources to be $105,784.98, of which loans and discounts amount to $60,159.53; of the liabilities $35,604.26 is in time certificates. Sinking Lightship Saved. Wireless telegraphy was first put to practical use when the Goodwin Sands light ship was struck by a passing vessel, and the crew, utilizing the wireless telegraph apparatus, notified South Foreland, England, that their ship was sinking. Tugs* were thereupon dispatched to the assistance of the light ship. To Make Spurious Shillings. United States secret service men captured in Brooklyn, N. Y., a well-equipped private mint almost ready to turn out English shillings made of genuine silver and so perfectly like those made in the mints of her British majesty that experts would have been unable to detect the counterfeit. Kills Wife and Daughter. Edward Oswold, an instrument maker' at Camden, N. J., stabbed to death his wife and 8-year-old daughter. He then attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. A 6-year-old daughter escaped the fate of her sister by running into tbe street. Unknown Man Killed by Cars. The mangled remains of an unknown man were found scattered a distance of two miles along the tracks of the West Shore Railroad just east of Fairport, N. Y. The remains were those of a man of medium size and of sandy complexion. More Money for Berea College. President W. G. Frost of Berea College is in receipt of a letter from D. K., Pearsons, the Chicago philanthropist, offering another gift of $50,000 to the endowment fund of the Berea College on the same conditions as the former gift. Britain Will Aid Pacific Cable. The British Government has decided to contribute an annual subsidy, to the full amount recommended in tie report of the Pacific cable committee of 1896, for the construction of a Pacific cable from British Columbia to Australia. Railway Loop for Toledo Exposition. The Ohio Centennial Company and the representatives of the railroads entering Toledo met and made arrangements to allow all roads to enter the exposition grounds by means of a loop, tbe railroads all using .one depoL Destroyed an lowa’Asylnm. The hospital building of the State Asylum for the Feeble Minded at Glenwood, lowa, was destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is unknown. No lives were lost. Loss $25,000, no insurance. ____________ • ' f :V Looks Dark for Dreyfus. ~ David Christy Murray is authority for the statement that a council of generals held at Paris has decided that under no circumstances shall Dreyfus be liberated. Killed by a Trolley Car. J. W. Breed, president of the Central Credit Company of Cincinnati, was killed instantly in that dty by an electric car. He was 00 tear, old.

NO TUNNEL PLANNED). ■ Great Engl nee ring: Feat Being Con* ■idered In London. Tbe project for a tunnel from England or Scotland to Ireland is very much to tbe fore just now in London. It is announced that no fewer than five separate projects are under consideration. The difficulties in the way are great, tile depth necessitating steep gradients for the distance traversed. The shallowest sounding is seven-ty-five fathoms, and the distance, according to one scheme, is forty miles. The estimates of cost vary from £7,000,000 to £16,000,000, but tbe advantages would be enormous. The journey to America would be shortened, according to the Arnold-Fos-ter map, by 950 miles. It is thought probable that the Irish railways will combine to take up one scheme or another, in the hope of obtaining a Government guaranty. BURIED ON HlB RANCH. Finding of Bheep Herder's Body Furnishes Proof of Murder. Parties arriving from Byers, Colo., report the finding of the body of Otto Goette, or Brown, as be was commonly known, a sheep ranchman, who was murdered on his ranch Sept. 30, 1898. Goette disappeared and his 2,000 sheep were afterward sold in Omaha. A draft for the receipts of the sale was cashed at the Colorado National Bank in Denver by R. H. Beeler.' It was believed that Goette was murdered and suspicion pointed to Beeler as the murderer. Efforts were made to capture him, but all trace of him was lost at Salt Lake. The body of Goette had been buried near a stream on his ranch and the spring rains had unearthed it. A large hole in the skull corroborated the murder theory. Fatal Explosion in a Factory. By an explosion of benzine in Fleer’s chemical works at Philadelphia two N men were killed, two others are unaccounted for and one woman was fatally injured. A score of persons were more or less seriously injured. The factory is a total wreck, and buildings for a distance of half a square were partially demolished. In some instances windows in structures two squares away were shattered. So far as can be learned there were but six men in the chemical works when the catastrophe took place. One of these was blown high in tbe air, and his body struck the ground twenty-five yards from tbe mill. The other was- burned almost to a crisp. Fully a hundred houses were more or less damaged, those in close proximity to the chemical works being so badly wrecked as to probably necessitate their condemnation. Poisonous Snake by Mall. An attempt to kill George E. Sterry, Jr., secretary of the firm of Weaver & Sterry, New York, was made when an asp was sent him through the mail. The address written in faded ink on the box that held the snake was in a woman’s hand. When opened the snake fell on Sterry’s bands, but by his quickness the merchant escaped injury. Mr. Sterry has put the case in the hands of detectives. Negro Killed by Negroes. Charles Williams, a colored man, who killed Laura Canafax, a negress, was pat to death by men of his own race at Galena, Kan. Twenty-five masked negroes battered down the jail door and fired at ‘ him through the bars of his cell, killing him instantly. Smallpox at Kansas City, Kan. A negro broken out with smallpox soreß and delirious from the disease ran through the streets of Kansas City, Kan., the other evening. His capture by the police revealed the fact that the disease is epidemic among the negroes of that aity. Indians Dying of Smallpox. The Sac and Fox Indians in Oklahoma are being carried off by smallpox. There are 300 full-bloods in the tribe, and since Feb. 1 132 of them have died of the disease. _ Death of Sheridan Shook. Sheridan Shook died at Red Hook, N. Y. He was 77 years old. For many years he was proprietor of the Union Square Theater and of the Morton House, New York. Eleven Victims of Fire. About 300 bouses of the town of Guta, Hungary, have been burned. The charred remains of seven women and four children have been recovered from the rains. Mine Owners Refuse Offer. An offer made by Gov. Jones to arbitrate the differences existing between the mine owners and miners in Arkansas has been refused by the operators. Bishop Watterson Dead. Rt. Rev. John Ambrose Watterson, D. D., bishop of the diocese of Columbus, Ohio, died suddenly the other day. .IAd&ET QUOTATIONS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2,33 cto 35c; oats, No. 2,26 c to 27c; rye, No. 2,58 cto 60c; batter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 55c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 white, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats. No. 2,28 cto 30c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 58c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 38c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c. to 30c; rye. No. 2,62 cto 63c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 'to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4-75; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 82c to 33c; rye, 61c to 63c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 75c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 28c to No.^^B7c good shipping steers. New York Cuttle $3*25 to $6.00* hop.

SLAIN BY CYCLONE

Scores of People Left Dead in the Wake of the Wind. HUNDREDS HOMELESS < Awful Exteut of the Storm’s Havoc in Missouri and lowa. Clean Path Swept Through Kirksville, Mo.—Nearly 100 Dead and List of Injnred May Be 500—Fonr Hundred Houses Laid in Snlns—Tornado Leaves a Trail of Destruction for Over Twenty Miles—Several Towns Struck. Two cyclones left trails of death behind them Thursday in Missouri and lowa. One swept through Newtown and Kirksville, Mo., just at nightfall, causing immense destruction of property and appalling losb of life. The lesser storm struck the Soldier river* valley in western lowa about midnight on Wednesday night, wrecking the country and smiting with wounds and death the people in the vicinity of the town of Ute. The Known Dead. At Kirksville, Mo : 45 At Newtown, Mo 20 At Ute, lowa, and vicinity. 5 Some reports from the stricken districts made the total number of injured exceed 500, and figures of the killed varied also, but it is impossible at the time this is written to give accurate details. The sky emptied its fury jn a gigantic cyclone upon Kirksville, tiie town made famous by Osteopathy, at 6:20 o’clock at night, while most of the inhabitants were at table. The entire east side of the city was wiped clean. More than 100 dwellings and business houses wgre totally destroyed. Several of the wicked buildings took fire, adding difficulty and danger to the work of rescue. Mayor Noonan Friday morning said the death list would reach 75. The tornado approached Kirksville from the southwest, and passed only two blocks from the heart of the city. Several public institutions were just outside the storm zone, otherwise the loss of life would have been Aore appalling. A broad, dean path, nearly a quarter of a mile in width, lies through the town, as smooth as virgin prairie. Probably 400 houses are scattered as fragments somewhere beyond the town in woodland and prairie. In the heavy rain following the people who escaped turned out to rescue the injured and hunt the bodies of the slain.

Surgeons, professors, operating staff and students, men and women of the American School of Osteopathy, together with all the druggists in the town, formed rescue and hospital corps.# Rescuing corps lifted roofs and searched the ruins of houses all along the edge of the death track not entirely demolished for the wounded, tbe dying and the dead. Half a dozen wrecked dwellings took fire immediately after the cydone had passed. The storm’s coming was announced with a roar and a deep muffled rumble of distant thunder. There was a suction from both sides, and before the advandng column, While a steady crunching, crackling, grinding noise was heard distinctly above the roar of the elements a mile from the path of the cyclone. The cyclone approached Kirksville from the southwest. At a distance it seemed to be making for the fair grounds, and people at the American School of Osteopathy, on the west side of the town, watched its coming for two minutes in fear that it was bearing down upon them. Before reaching the town Bmits it veered further east, however, and cleared the State Normal School without touching it. Patterson’s extensive nursery, just west, was swept down to bare soil. The course from that on was through a well-built-up section of the town, made up mainly of low houses, and largely populated by students of the normal school and American School of Osteopathy. Marcus Ward’s seminary for young women was a couple of hundred yards east of the storm’s path. A hotel building close to it was demolished.

A score of guests stood upon the porticoes and at the dining room windows of the Still Hotel, half a mile west of the storm’s path, and saw it sweep through the town. Roofs blew ahead of the blast like leaves, seemingly far in front of the revolving snout a full hundred yards in the sky. y One horse was blown out of the shafts of a road wagon, which lodged against the front of a house in the edge of the wind’s track. No one knows what became of the animal. Members of households disappeared with a partial demolition of homes, while others remained unhurt among the debris. Along the edge of the storm’s path holes are seen through frame houses as if punctured by cannon balls. A second edition ot the cydone followed the first in about twenty minutes. It came as an ink-black cloud widely distributed and covered the whole town. Many sought refuge in cellars. The tail end of the cyclone did not break upon Kirksville, however, seeming to go by overhead. It is believed generally that the second cyclonic wave dropped to the ground before traveling mucn'further on its journey. The heavens became black for fifteen minutes, after which a heavy rain fell for an hour and a half. By 8 o’clock the sky was clear and starry. . Mayor Noonan telegraphed to every station between Bloomfield, lowa, and Moberly, Mo., for surgical assistance. Undertakers wired St Louis and Chicago rush orders for coffins. Scores of families will be rendered absolutely destitute in addition to losses by injury and death. The reports from country districts indicated that many lives were lost in the surrounding farming districts. Henry Lowe and three children, living three miles north of Kirksville,. were crushed beneath the timbers of their wrecked home. Several other members of the family escaped injury. Other fatalities are

__ . __ • _ 1# # _ - p cycione, were that twenty persons had been killed and between thirty and forty injured. The entire eastern half of the town was destroyed. The path of the storm was About 500 or 600 feet wide, and hardly » dwelling in its course escaped. Frame houses were lifted from their foundations and crushed like eggshells. The more substantial buildings were partly wrecked, and half a hundred people at least are homeless. The storm blew down the telegraph wires In and about the dty and washed away the bridge over Medicine creek, a small stream just south of the town. A terrific electrical storm followed the tornado, and the excitement was intense. Women and children ran about the streets shrieking for their parents and loved ones, and men searched the ruins in the drenching rain, hoping to locate the bodies of victims. Houses of survivors were thrown open to those who were rendered homeless, and everything possible was done to care for the injured. Fully one-third of the business portion of the dty was destroyed. TWO DEVASTATED TOWNS, Kirksville, the County Seat of Adair County, Missouri. Kirksville is the seat of government of Adair County, and is seventy miles west of Quincy, 111. It is situated in a fertile grain, fruit and atock growing district, and there are coal mines eight miles distant. It has two railways, the Wabash and the Quincy, Omaha and Kansas Olty. There are several good hotels, an opera house seating 800 people, and a fine Masonic hall. The North Missouri Normal School is also located there. The town la most widely known as the seat of the American School of Osteopathy, teaching a new system of medicine discovered or invented by Dr. A. T. Still. This institution has attracted students from all over the country, and has added much to the growth and prosperity of the town. Newtown lies in the extreme southwestern part of Sullivan County, Mo., and west-northwest from Kirksville. It is • manufacturing point of considerable local importance, the principal industries being in furniture and lumber. There were several churches and store buildings in the place, besides the factories. The viUage is on a branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad.

STORM IN lOWA. Soldier River Valley Is Swept and Several Lives Lost. The Soldier river valley in the counties of Crawford and Monona, lowa, was Bwept by a tornado about midnight, the severest ever known in the devastated section. The list of killed and injured is long, while the property damage is large. Dozens of people scattered throughout the prosperous farming country of the Soldier river valley were hurt more or ltess by flying debris. Great quantities of dirt were scooped up and carried along with the force of gunshot. The path of the twister was nearly a mile wide, and is as clearly defined from its entrance into Monona County along the winding course of the Soldier river for a distance of twenty miles, as if cut out by an army of men with modern machinery and scoop shovels. Trees two feet thick were twisted off by the hundreds and in many cases fulled up by the roots and carried miles away. In some cases many trees are found away out of the twister’s course, piled high with other debris dropped by the wind and all torn into a million splinters. The large residence of George Furne was the first building of importance destroyed. It was right in the center of the cyclone’s track. The house was cut to pieces like so much kindling wood. The five daughters were found in as many different places after the storm had passed by their father, who was himself badly hurt. The mother was not found until daylight. She Jay beneath some of the debris of her ruined home. A fence rail was forced through her body. She lived several hours despite her awful wounds.

FILIPINO ARMY IN A PANIC.

Deadly Volley Scatters Asninaldo’s Troops in Every Direction. Gen. JlacArthur’s division crossed the Rio Grande Thursday and advanced on Apalit, completely routing' the flower of the Filipino army. The Filipinos were very strongly intrenched on the river bank, near both sides of the railroad bridge. Gen. Wheaton sent Col. Funston across, with two companies of the Twentieth Kansas regiment, a couple of privates swimming the swift stream with a rope, under a galling fire, for the purpose of guiding the raft. The men crossed in squads of twenty and attacked the left flank of the natives, who scuttled like rabbits into covered ways and trenches. The rest Of the regiment was compelled to cross the bridge in single file along the stringers. All the woodwork and much of the ironwork had been removed. The First Montana regiment followed the Kansans across the bridge. The First Nebraska regiment, acting as a reserve, attacked the natives in three lines of trenches, driving them out, killing sixteen and wounding many. In the meantime a large body of Filipinos, estimated at no fewer than 3,000, led' by Gen. Antonio Luna on a black charger, evidently coming to re-enforce the insurgents who were engaged with the Nebraskans, appeared in the open field about two miles to the left Emerging from the Jungle, the natives formed an open skirmish line nearly two miles in length, with very thick reserves behind. They then advanced at double quick until they were about 2,000 yards from the American line, when Gen. Wheaton ordered his troops to fire. The natives, were^ I ; Twoßt| prisoners w©f© €&ptnjr©& 5 Induct” I | m flfigwloWl • >