Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1905 — Hogs Killed by Hailston[?]s. [ARTICLE]

Hogs Killed by Hailston[?]s.

The worst hailstorm in the history ol eastern lowa occurred recently between Tipton and Mechauiesville. The hailstones were flat in shape and were 12 inches ncross. Many hogs were killed in the pastures, and horses and cattle, blinded by the terrific pounding of the icy missiles, stampeded into wire fences, and many valuable animals were badly cut up, besides being bruised by the hail. The storm covered an area of a mile and a half. No wind accompanied it, or the damage would have been much greater. Nearly all the windows were broken in houses in its pnth. The hailstones struck the plowed fields with such force that they were buried in the earth, softened by the week’s rains. - Arrests are anticipated in New York within a short time ns the result of a seizure of cheap stogies reported by dispatches from St. Louis. The consignment taken by government agents numbered 48,000 and bore internal revenue washed s^^ps. Regarding the report in circulation that a general strike of the mine workers was imminent, President Mitchell at Scranton, Pa., said: “This rumor of a strike is so silly that I can find no possible excuse whatever for its circulation.”