St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 46, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 June 1892 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA GIRLS MUST BEHAVE. HOW A JERSEY TOWN LOOKS AFTER THEM. A Missing New York Contractor Found Drowned —Nonuiuent to Cliicf Hennessey Unveiled at New Orleans—Close Guard Kept Upon the Southern Levees. Some Levees Stand Up Well. At Greenville. Miss., the gauge reads 44.20 and rising. This is the highest stage ever recorded at that point. But the levees are not as usual watersoaked, but are strong and firm. An alert and watchful guard is maintained both night and day over the precious embankments, and there is every probability that 1892, unparalleled by previous floods, will pass without a break to flood the Mississippi delta. When the Protection levee at Gibson’s Landing, La., broke two negroes who were riding along behind it were drowned by the sudden flood which surrounded them. The river is falling, but slowly, and there are no bad reports from either the Mississippi or I ouisiana levees. Shooting Affray In a Saloon. At Brazil, Ind., a shooting affray occurred at Haverly’s saloon. Thomas Crayton, puddler at the rolling mill, became infuriated by strong drink, secured a revolver, went into the saloon, and ordered th? crowd to throw up their hands. The assembly immediately commenced dispersing, when Craytor began firing right and left. The proprietor of the saloon opened fire on the aggressor, as did Thomas Cassidy, and eight shots were fired in a short time. Crayton fell out of the back door and was quickly concealed, to hide the trime. He is believed to be dead, and the police aro searching for his body. Girls FJected from a Public Dance. On petition of many Elizabeth, N. J., women, the City Council recently passed an ordinance which prohibits girls under 16 from attending public dances without their parents or guardians. The penalties of fines and imprisonment are imposed on offending girls and societies holding picnics permitting violations. At the opening picnic of the season the police raided several public gardens, ejecting girls. Many willingly went out, but others used all sorts of subterfuges. Their names were taken for investigation. One association appointed a committee to assist the police. D. W. Carey’s Body Found in the Ohio. . The body of D. W. Carey, of the firm of Paige, Carey & Co., the contractors, of New York, whose recent failure in connection with the Painesville, Ohio, bank scandal created such a sensation some weeks ago, was found in the Ohio River at Moundsville, twelve miles below Wheeling, W. Va. Mr. Carey was accidentally drowned in Wheeling Creek last February, while superintending the building of a stone viaduct, and the search for his body was conducted ever since. Hennessy Monument Unveiled. The monument erected by the people of New Orleans, La., to the memory of Superintendent o£Poliee David C. Heur ..j ll1 ..—J the ’ Mafia in October, 1890, was unveiled at Metarie Cemetery. Addresses were made by Mayor Fitzpatrick and ex« Mayor Shakespeare. NEWS NUGGETS. All preliminaries have been perfected through agents in Cincinnati, Ohio, for transforming the Barney & Smith car factory at Dayton, Ohio, into a stock company capitalized at $4,500,090. Edward Speers, who murdered S. C. Hunt near Camden July 1, 1891, was executed at Magnolia, Columbia County, Ark. His neck was broken by the fall. Speers is the first white man ever executed in Columbia County. Nearly 1,000 people were assembled near the railway station in Roxbury, Mass., when a runaway horse dashed among the crowd, injuring six persons, three probably fatally. The horse was frightened by a steam-roller. John C. New denies the published statement that he has a letter in his possession from Minister Lincoln refusing to allow his name to be used as a Presidential candidate, but says that he is authorized by Mr. Lincoln to say that he is not and will not be a candidate. President Frenzel of the Indianapolis Citizens’ Street Railway Company objected to giving way for the memorial parade, but cleared his tracks for the Barnum circus parade. The old soldiers caused a stoppage by their parade of street ear travel to the circus just at the time when cars were most needed. Charles P. Woodbury, a banker at Ashland, Kan., had a mortgage on George Hall’s farm which was long overdue. He made a final demand a few weeks ago for the interest, and Hall refused to pay. Woodbury then began foreclosure proceedings. Hall met Woodbury on the street and knocked him down and kicked him brutally. The "7; banker was picked up unconscious andmay die. TnEyPSbrvance of Memorial Day, despiteethe very unfavorable weather in many localities, was general. At Chicago, in a pouring rain, a procession over a mile long marched through the principal streets. At the cemeteries in th^ morning, no rain fell, and the serv- * ^^fces were most imposing. Gen. -Grant’s tomb at Riverside Park-on-the-Hud.- >n, was buried under floral offerings, many I of which came from across the sea. ’ While riding horseback in Somer- ” ville, Mass.. John A. Ashworth, New J ’ England manager of the Delaware Fire j? Insurance Company, fell from his horse, which became unmanageable, and struck t £ on the back of his head. Ue died in j twenty minutes. h aci Because her fathei was about to irtic marr y again Nettie M oltyn, a W ichita ims c (Kan-) Germa© girl, aged 14, committed suicide bv shying herself through the body with a revolver. Her mother had been dead several years, but she had a strong antipathy to stepmothers.

EASTERN. Ralph D. Hewitt a clerk in the Mount Vernon Hotel at Washington, committed suicide at Newport, R. 1., in grief at the death of Miss Aloysia Botsford, of Elgin, Hl., with whom he was in love. t When Bryant B. Crandall, of Buffalo, N. Y., died, several insurance companies united to pay his family $20,000. N it is learned that Crandoll didn’t die; m fact, he has been arrested at Los Angeles, Cal. The decision ’against Stephen F. Sherman, manager of three Buffalo elevator companies, who was charged with grand larceny and sentenced to five years imprisonment, has been affirmed by the New York Court of Appeals. Russell Sage has been served with notice of a suit for $50,000 damages, brought by W. R. Laidlaw Jr., who alleges that Sage made a shield of him at the time of Dynamiter Norcross’* attempt upon the millionaire’s life. Fred Gebhard has become such an enthusiast on the subject of the gold cure for dipsomania that he has established a Keeley institute of his own at Babylon, L. I. Gebhard has placed his cousin, William E. D. Wyse, in charge as superintendent. A physician from Dwight, 111., has arrived in Babylon to give gold jabs to such patients as may desire them. Four children were drowned in Chartier’s Creek at Woodville, Pa. The four children started out to drive some cows to pasture. One, a boy, lost his hat in the creek and in attempting to get it-fell in. Elizabeth and Julia Coyne tried to rescue him, but were also drawn in. Mary Enfeldt, in trying to rescue the others, was also drowned. The bodies of Julia Coyne and Mary Enfelt have been recovered. The Rev. Henry Howard, a Methodist minister, 28 years old, whose home is at New York City, is a prisoner at Atlanta, Ga., at police headquarters. He was a preacher in the Northern Indiana Circuit several years ago, but failing health compelled him to abandon pastoral work and go South. He was engaged to represent the Columbia Encyclopedia Company. Howard boarded at Mrs. Lorena Allen’s house until Monday, when he went away. Mrs. Allen says he owed her $34. He was charged with cheating and swindling. The u”n was arrested at Douglasville, but his mprisohment seems not to bother him. He was anxious, though, that his arrest should not be made known in the North. Howard admits owing the money, but declares he did not intend to run away. * WESTERN. Despite the floods, Kansas expects to raise 50,090,000 bushels of wheat, and in the central and western sections the rain has proved a benefit rather than a detriment. The Armours will build a large meatpacking establishment at Kansas City, it is said. Chicago will then be no longer the greatest meat-packing center in the country. Gen. A. D. Streight, the officer who planned the scheme by which 108 men effected their escape from Libby Prison, died Friday morning at his home near Indianapolis. M. W. Fox, of San Francisco, was Thursday awarded a judgment of sl,109,000 against, the Norcross Silver Mining Company and the Nevada Alill amL Miuiiof tkwipany. At Portage, Wis., Samuel Bachman made a murderous attack upon his wife, and then went to the railway track and threw himself in front of a rapidly moving engine, which killed him. A locomotive fireman, Walter Sefert, who was injured in a wreck on the Pennsylvania Railroad, has recovered a verdict of $14,600 from the corporation. The case was tried at Pittsburg. A cloudburst at Kinsman, Trumbull County, Ohio, resulted in the drowning of J. B. Bobbins, wife and two children, and K. Stewart and wife, besides destroying much property and ruining crops. The Chippewa Indians on the White Earth Reservation have rejected the Government's proposition to allot them eighty acres of land in severalty for each man, woman and chil j. They demand 160 acres each. Harper, Kan., a town of 2,500 people, was torn to pieces by the same cyclone that devastated the city of Wellington. Th r depot was blown away, and all electric communication with the outer world cut off. At present nine people are dead, and many more not accounted for.

The Methodist Conference at Omaha adjourned after voting to allow conferences to decide to admit women as delegates. It resolved also to reduce the representation in future conferences to one minister and one lay delegate to every ninety ministers represented in the annual conferences. At Niles, Ohio, a westbound local freight train on the Pittsburg and Western Road ran into an open switch and collided with eight cars laden with cinders. Five cars went over a fifty-foot embankment and seventeen were totally demolished. Four men were tiding on a flat-car and two escaped injury by jumping. The other two were caught in the wreck. The damage is estimated at $25,000. The Kokonax^wtr^TTandle’’ passenger - 4r«fTr'collided two miles north of Indianapolis, Ind. The ptWsertger train was rm.ning about forty-five miles an hour, and as a sharp curve was made Engineer Sullivan discovered a freight train a few hundred feet ahead. The two locomotives were badly damaged. The passenger locomotive tender was raised in the air, and the express and mail cars were telescoped. Seven passengers were hurt. The new “monitor” steamer Andaste has brought down her first cargo of oil and abundantly justified the expectations of the builders of the new type, says a dispatch from Cleveland. She is a compromrte between the “whaleback” and the ordinary type, and carried 2,300 gross tons on a draught of 1-1 feet 10 forward and 15 feet 2 aft This is 150 tons bettei than a steamer of exactly the same dimensions of the old type carried on the same draught, which means an extra margin of over SIOO per trip profit. As her cost is about 10 per cent, less than that of a steamer of ordinary type, this margin means that a “monitor” steamer can make a profit of 15 ner cent- or more on the investment

I when the ordinary type of steamer is I paying expenses. e 1 After a three days’ trial at Milwaul» kee, Emil Barthel, charged with murn der, was acquitted. The jury was out - but twenty minutes. Barthel is the a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Company s switchman whose negligence in leaving a switch open on March 1 res suited in the death of seven shop men through a collision of the shop train and x ; a passenger train. Barthel was a wit- _ ness in his own behalf, and while his testimony developed no particulars additional to those published at the time ol the accident, the straightforward r manner with which he gave it made a 1 strong impression with the iurv He - candidly admitted that he had forgotten 5 Ju 5;1 080 the switch. Several of Barthel s companions as well as railroad j officials, testified to the excellence of , J 11 ® character in general ami to the - ”! manner in which he performed lus duties. Wellington, Kansas, had a visitation Friday night from a cyclone which plowed its way through ’the business [ part of the town, with immense destruetu n of property ami heavy loss of life A . St 7 I m Wind P^^eded the cyclone about half an hour. A few minutes after J o clock the cyclone struck the *itv - coming from the southwest. There were [ no premonitory signs. Everybody was indoors. Jefferson avenue, the principal business street, is lined on I oth sides for blocks with ruins, and the number of ■ dead is placed at over fifty. The prop- • erty loss will exceed half a million. The ’ “Pimlling scene was that at the i Ihi Hips House, where a ball was in I progress. As the building began sway- > mg in the force of the terrific gale, the I people in the crowded ball-room made a > । frantic rush for the doors. With the crash > । ot the walls about and over them there , ■ arose a great wail of despair from the imprisoned and doomed multitude .As the timbers crushed down upon the struggling merrymakers their hoarse cries were throttled in their throats bv the weight of the mass of timbers above , them. Then camo the silence of death and insensibility, only to be followed a moment later by the shrill blasts of the [ tempest as it rushed on to other de- । st motive work, ami the agonized shrieks , of the injured or dying who were pinned I I down in the mass of debris. SOUTHERN. Street car’traffic at New Orleans is practically suspended owing to the I drivers’ strike. A Mormon colony has been granted a tract of 100,903 aer<<s in the state of i Chihuahua, Mexico. I he Louisville Foundry and Machine I Morks has made an assignment, with liabilities of $126,000; assets, $149,00 Ihi Butchers Natioiuvl Protective ■ Association has decided to build a {lacking house and stock pens at Dallas, Texas, at a cost of $500,000. Gov. Brown of Kentucky signed the 1 ' Separate Coach bill. The law provides ■ that every passenger railway train shall ■ J be provided with a separate coach for ; negroes. At Atlnnta, Ga., the Brotherhood of : Locomotive Engineers re-elected I’. M. Arthur, Grand Chief Engineer. Hu de- [ sired to retire, but the convention in- ' I sisted upon hie taking another terra Vice President Spencer, of the Merchants and Miners’ Bank at Tallapoosa, Ga., has been arrested on a charge of violating the State l>aukia»ou I law. The batik has been placed in the I hand of a receiver. Two of the gang who held up a rail- 1 way train at Monroe Station, Fla., and killed Express Messenger Saunders May i 21, were killed in a tight with a posse at 1 Buffalo Bluff. One of them was Jim [ Williams; the name of the other is un- ' known. One <f the posse. Dr. B. E. Morgan, was wounded by a shot from the pistol of one of the des; enuioes. ■ WASHINGTON Tur House Committee favorably reported the bill in regard to army officers in connection with the World's Fair President Harrison gave a reception, Thursday afternoon, to about seven hundred delegates to the Home Missionary Society of the Congregational [ ; Church. President Harrison has re, ailed i i from the Senate the nomination of । Frederic A. Bancroft, late Librarian of j - i the State Department, to the Brunswick [ , Consulate. Mu. Mitchell, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, has reported ■ to the Senate a joint resolution propos- > 1 i ing a constitutional amendment provid- i

ing for the election of Tnited States ' Senator by popular vote. The advocates of Sunday closing of the World’s Fair met with defeat in the ; House. The clause in the sundry civil bill governing the matter, which was adopted, provides simply that the Gov- > ernment exhibit shall be closed Sunday. ■ The Postmaster General discussed i the arrangements to be made for new ■ postal facilities during the World’s Fair with members of the Illinois delegation । Wednesday. He thinks $283,000 enough j to pay the extra clerks and carriers that ! will manage the Exposition Postofllce. j POLITICAL. The Tennessee delegation to the ; Democratic National Convention is in- [ structed for ex-President Cleveland. j Ohio prohibitionists at their State j convention nominated a straight ticket, having declined all offers of alliance. Miss Anna Dickinson lost her suit against members of the Republican National Committee of 1888. Judge Truax deciiled that the contract upon which the suit was based was void. The Democratic delegation of Kentucky is uninstructed, those of Washington and Idaho have not positive instructions, but the conventions strongly indorsed Cleveland. That of New J er- : sey is bound to him by unanimous vote. FOREIGN. Deeming made a confession that he had no intention of killing his last wife, but that the deed was done in anger dur- ; ing a quarrel. By a decree of the King of Belgium I Parliament is dissolved, and the country 1 will now vote on the proposed constitu- I tional revision. Spanish authorities are satisfied with j

American inspection of bacon, and will ’ allow its import into Spain without ex- ! amination in that country. The steamship City of New York arrived at Liverpool six days and twenty minutes from New York. This is the best eastward record ever made. The speech of the new Italian Pre- . mier, Signor Giolitti, outlining his policy, id so unsatisfactory that it is believed his Ministry will not hold together. Gladstone made a brilliant speech in parliament in opposition to the conservative Irish local government bill, which he declared to be unworthy of support. The golden wedding celebration of the King and Queen of Denmark closed with a special performance at the theater, w’here the royal couple were received with the greatest enthusiasm. United States Minister Lincoln and wife will soon sail from Liverpool. Mr. Lincoln says he will lie at home until October, when he will return to London to await the expiration of his term of office. I he celebration of the anniversary of the Queen’s birthday took place in L< ndon. The weather was splendid. There was a parade of the horse guards and a trooping of the colors by the footguards. This ceremony was witnessed by a vast throng of people. The Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-chief of the forces, accompanied by Prince Christian, was in command. A Paris cable says: At the Theater d’ Application the wife of an obscure tenor named Peralde, who could not bear to hear her husband hissed by the audience, i died suddenly in the lobby, her husband i meanwhile continuing to sing and play his part on the stage. The body was removed to one of the boxes, and, by the manager’s orders, the play was not interrupted. When the occurrence be- i came known much indignation was ex- : pressed by the audience. - r = IN GENERAL — Farmers in the Northwest are selling I wheat more freely, and Western farm- j ers are selling corn. Hard coal prices have again been ad- • vanced 25 cents per ton to dealers by I the Reading trust. The unexpected balance of public j , moneys now in the hands of distributing i ing officers is $22,559,! | 00. The bill pensioning George W. Jones, i who was one of the first two Senators i from lowa, passed the House. i Last week Minneapolis flour mills made 173,115 barrels of flour, or 23,000 I barrels more than in the preceding week. . HRIMENTS with the submarine of the Destroyer Thurs<lay showed a marked deflection, caused by the rej sistanoo of the water. The ravages of small-pox continue in Guatemala, and the country is in an al- \ most hopeless condition, owing to law- । lessness and a feeling of political inse- ! curity. Miss Anna Dickinson’s suit against the Republican Central Committee to recover for speeches made in the earnpaign of 1888 was thrown out of court in New York. The announcement by telegraph that the Norther^ I'aciH ■ Railroad ha I at last succfedtsl m> i -i-p'-.r of j :”s«»eflHWrs bi^Ween Tacoma and Chinn and Japan i/conflrnie<l. The author of the “History of the I People of the Fnitvd States," Mr. John Bach Mi-Master, has been offered the j Presidency of tin-Univ<-rsity of Illinois, at a salary of >l9,otMt a y» ir, and will j probably accept. The National Editorial Association elected officers at S in Francis -o, Thursday. B. P. Price, of Hudson, Wls., was i chosen President; J. H. Page, of J>rseyville, 111., Corresponding Secretary; and Wm. Kennedy, of Chambersburg, Pa., Recording Secretary. Mi:. Loriie, a merchant of Montreal, displayed an American Hag in front of his place of busiiie-s on Ihe Que.-n s birthday. A company of Ca: a lian’.olunteers compelled him to take it down. Mr. Lorge has conq. aine.l to the authori iti-s, and tin- affair wili be investigated. Gen. Jose Fran< isoo G an \. who was : Commander-in-chief of the Chilian Gov- ■ eminent troops when the late insurrection first broke out. has left Lima, Peru, en route for New York. Admiral Viel, the Balmacedist Intendente of Valparaiso, who surrendered that city to the victorious Junta after the battle at Placilla, is a fellow passenger. His destination is a'so New York. MARKET REPORTS CHICAGO. Cattle-Common to Primo.... $3.53 5.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.50 & 52 > Sheep—Fair to'Choice 4.00 5, .j Wheat—No 2 Spring tsiu- 2 ' sl ^ i Cokn—No. 2, new.... €6 <5 .08 j Oats—No, 2 82 .83 I Rye—No. 2 77 ri. ,7.i . Bcttee—Choice < reamery 18 ", .2' ; Cheese—Full Cream, flats co ,09-u ! Eggs—Fresh 14 < J 5 Potatoes--Choice old, per bn... .45 .5> INDIANAPOLIS. 1 Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 4.50 ! Hogs-Choice Light,... 3.50 5.0 J : Shi EP—Common to Prime 3.0 C @4 53 j Wheat—No. 2 Red 85L>@ ,t6 ! £ - j Coß>i»-No. 1 White 49 @ .51 Oats—No. 2 White 31a.>@ .35'i ■ ST. LOLIS. Cattle 3.00 ig 4.50 H, 3.5' i«. 5.00 ■ Wheat—No. 2 Red - .8 Si i Cohn —No. 2 48^@ .49*6 ‘ i Oats—Nc. 2 33 @ .34 Rye—No. 2 74 @ .75 CINCINNATI. ; Cattle 3.00 @ 4.50 ; Hogs 3.00 ah S.UJ Sheep 4.00 @ 6.00 j W heat—No. 2 Red 87 @ .88 J Corn—No. 2 50 @ .51 I Oats —No. 2 Mixed 36 .37 DE IROIT. Cattle 3.03 @4.75 Hogs 3.1.0 & 4.75 Sheep 3.C0 & 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red .91 ; 2@ .92 2 Coax—No. 2 Yellow 51 .52?<j Oats-No. 2 White 35 @ .37 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 : 92 @ .93 C rn—No. 2 Whi e D @ .51 Oats—No. 2 White 33^@ .31'5 Rye ,80 @ .81 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle 4.00 @ 5.75 Live Hogs 3.75 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hfflrd 9! ah .91 Corn—No. 2 53 @ .51 MILWAUKEE. Wheat;-No. 2 Syring 82 @ .81 Corn—No. 3 4. @ .49 Oats—No. 2 White .35 @ ,30 Rye—No. 1 82 @ .81 Barley—No. 2 57 @ .58 Pork—Mess 10.00 @l3. 0 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.60 @4.75 Hogs .....' 3.10 @ 5 5o Sheep 5.C0 c« 6.50 M heat—No. 2 Red 9. @ .99 Corn—No 2 8 @ .59 Oats—Mixed Western 35 @ .3 Butter—Creamery 13 @ .19 i New Me 55...... JVJS6 @11.25

SCORES ARE SLAIN.' I WELLINGTON, KAN., OVERCOME ' BY A CYCLONE. A Big Section of the Business Portion of the Town Wracked and One Hundred Priva e Residences Practically Destroyed—Ruins Take Fire. Fifty Residents Are Killed. Wellington (Kan.) special: This city has had a visitation to-night (Friday) from the funnel-shaped cloud which plowed its devastating track through the business part of the town, with immense destruction of property and heavy loss of life. A storm of wind preceded the cyclone about half an hour. A few minutes after 9 o’clock the cyclones struck the city, coming from the southwest. There were no premonitory signs. Everybody was indoors, and the cloud passed with its destructive rush and awful roar unseen. Jefferson avenue, the principal business street, is lined on both sides for bio ks with ruins. Those known to be deal are: Mrs. William Asher, Frank D. Campbell, Michael Fanning, laborer; Walter Forsyth, Janies E. Hastie, Ida Jones, diningroom girl at the Phillips house; MeAdcllßS, X. Rilvn., 6u-a.ll tjiasficr, burned; Kittie Strahn, two unk >wn men, Salvation Army soldiers. The injured whose names were learned are: Edward Forsyth, James Lawrence, candidate for Attorney General. The people were thrown into such a state of excitement and the torrent of ' rain which succeeded the cyclone fell so mercilessly that no organized search for the dead and dying was attempted for some time, and the darkness almost i baffled the efforts of the most earnest. How many may lie dead in the ruins of the Phillips House and beneath the ragged piles of broken brick and splintered timbers everywhere about there is as yet no means of estimating. As last as the injured are found they are being conveyed tx> the Grand Army Hall, which serves as a hospital, and their number is now increased to sixtythree. The number of the dead is now reported as being fifty. All of t"he finest buildings are in ruins, and every newspaper office in the city is a wreck. It is now estimated that the number of buildings destroyed exceeds 200 and the majority of them are business blocks. Wiiile the Bull Was in Progress. A ball was in progress at the Phillips Hotel, and the guests were nearly all tffere when the storm broke. Seven bodies, all unidentified, have been taken from the ruins. Beneath the ruins imprisoned occupants were calling for aid, while many others were beyond earthly assistance. Some of the guests escaped as by a miracle; how many, no one knows. The proprietor of the hotel says his house was well filled and he does not see how it was possible for many of his guests, who wer.e in their rooms in the upper stories of the structure, to have escaped. To add to the horrors of the hotel wreck Hr.' broke out in the ruins, and it is believed some who might have been taken out alive perished in the flames and smoke. Seven bodies thus far have been taken from the ruins ot the hotel. A Woman Burned to Death. Flames also followed the cyclone in the debris of the Robinson Block on Washington avenue. Mrs. Susan Asher was known to. hi the ruins. Those tv 11.»t reaelus 1 there heard her calling for help. They went to work with a will, when the flames, which had already made some progress, seemed to gain a fresh impetus. A sheet of fire swept ov t the spot where the woman was pinned down by timbers, and the rescuers were compelled to retreat,leav- ■ lug her to her fate. Farther down the street are the offices of the Monitor, Press, and Voice papers. They were ompietely wrecked. Build- ■ ings and contents are alike useless. Across the street were the fragments of a big business block. Here, under a great timl er, was found the body of Miehel Fanning, a laborer. The wreck of every business house was much like those described. All had occupants. Tlwit a large number of these are dea l Is beyond question. It was impost lie for them to escape. Among the other buildings of prominence destroyed are the Wellington f< undry and the First War.'. School Building. One Hundred House* Destroyed. The width of the cyclone’s path was about two blocks. In the residence section the destruction was nearly as great as in the business jx>rtion of the town. Fully 109 residences are praetieally ruined, and, in fact, the tvhole north part ;of the city is devastated. The Presby- | terian and Luth-ran churches, the old ! stone court house, the Wellington Hol tel—all are in ruins. The streets are impassable. Where j buildings on the edge of the storm’s pat-.h withstood l's fury, great trees, twisted into fantastic shapes, are prone across the roadway, while entangled in the branches and trunks is a network of telegraph wires, the whole forming a thorough bar to progress on sidewalk or street. The work of caring for such of the injured as have been extricated from tho wreck is proceeding as rapidly as it is in the power of hundreds of the townspeople to expxlite it. All >or(* Kuinors Prevail. It is at this time utterly impossible to state with absolute certainty the loss of life. The excitement is such that it is impossible to speak with knowledge of j entire facts as to either logs of life, tn- 1 juries, or damage to property. The wildest rumors prevail, and the estimate I previously given is the most conservative possible under the circumstances. ' That the death and damage are great no one can gainsay. Wellington is the county seat of Sum- ; ner County, Kansas. It has a popula.tion of 10,090. Thrifty and enterprising, it is located in the center of a thickly populated agricultural district, and is the most prominent town in Southern Kansas. This is the first cyclone that has ever visited the town. This <HKI Til at. There are new silver watches made i heart-shaped. The earth is the greatest distance from the st^n on the morning oj July 6. Japan has no fewer than 700 earthquake observing stations scattered over the empire. A Brooklyn - inventor proposes to tap the earth’s interior for heat and thus save fuel. The household maintained by the Queen of England consists of nearly 1.000 persons.

; THE NATIONAL SOLONS. I I —— SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Our National Lawmakers and What Th«yAre Doing- for the Good of the Coun-ry— Various Measures Proposed, Discussed*, and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. On the 24th the Senate pa-sed several bills for public structures, among them one providing for a $50,000 building at Owosso, Mich. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, reported to the Senate a joint resolution prop >sfn r a Constitutional amendment providing for the election of United States Senators by popular vote. He said that the members of the committee were divided on the subject and would make separate reports. E The joint resolution was placed on the calendar. In the House, Mr. StewaiL of Texas, from the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, reported back the river and harbor appropriation bill with the Senate amendments thereto with the recommendations that the Senate amendments be nonconcurred in. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole. The balance of tho time was spent on the sundry civil appropriation bill. In the Senate, the 25th. Mr. Morgan’s resolution introduced in March. Instm tho Finance Committer* - .uroine and report uno” v-uect of the silver law of 189(3 upon the price of silver bullion, was called up. and after a lengthy debate, in w'hiffi Mr. Sherman was the principal speaker in opposition, the Senate refused by a vote of yeas 17, nays 28, to refer the resolutions to the Committee on Finance. In the House, the sundry civil bill was taken up. the first item being the Government exhibit at the World’s Fair. Mr. Houk, of Ohio, offered an amendment appropriating 8103,000 to pay the expense of collecting -statistics pertaining to the industrial advance of citizens of African descent j from 1863 to 1893. This was rule 1 out of order. Mr. Dockery offered an amendment which was adopted, reducing the salary of the Director General to SB,OOO, and that of the Secretary to $3,00>. A provision was adopted that the gates shall not be opened on Sunday, and another that no intoxicating liquors shall be sold upon the grounds. The 26th, a bill extending for two years longer the act of March 2. 1889, for the correction of military records was passed by the Senate. By a vote of yeas 28, nays 20, the Senate decided to take up the Stewart free silver bill, and the measure is now jon the calendar as unfinished bnsineSs. ;In the House the World’s Fair i items in the sundry civil appropriation i bill were under discussion all day. Most of i the amendments were directed to the Sun- , day-closing question, and the matter was. i finally settled by the adoption of an ‘ amendment providing for the closing of the j Government exhibit on Sunday, which ■ leaves the larger question to be decided by ' the Exposition management. An om the bills passed by the Senate on th ■ 27th was one to reclassify and pre--1 scribe the salaries of railway postal clerks. | Mr. Stewart's free coinage bill was be'ore the Senate again, and after debate it was I agreed that the bill be taken up as the uni finished business on the 31st at 2 o'clock. , Mr. Springer appeared In the House 1 (apparently fully restored to health) and . moved, and the House pas ed, the Senate । bill to establish a bridge across the Illinois River at Havana. 111. After three weeks* , debate the House passed the sundry civil j appropriation bill. Mr. Hatch endeavored to bring the anti-option bill to the front, but the motion was defeated by a tie vote—yea®. 108; nays. I'lß. The postoffi-ee appropriation till was then taken up. | 'i he Senate was not in session the 28th, having adjourned over till the Mst. In the i House the legislative appropriation bill j was reporte 1 by Mr. Forney and appropriately referred, Tlie postofflee appropriation bill was then taken up. and aft-er debate till the 3lst. Mr. .mv* fair ' mittee in the House, reported a re-oiution authorizing the President ta make proclai mation relative to the observance of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America. Ou the Diamond. Following Is a showing of the standing of : each of the teams of the different associaI tionsi NATIONAL LEAGUE. 1 | W. L. Vc.l W. L. t?C. Boston 24 9 .727 Louisville.. .16 16 .510- : Brooklyn... .20 11 .64f [New Y0rk...15 17 .469 Chicago 19 13 .594 Washington.l3 18 .419 Cleveland.. .19 14 .57t' ! l J hUadelp’ia.l4 20 .412 ' Cincinnati...l9 15 .559 St. Louis... .11 23 .324Pittsburg... .18 17 .514 Baltimore... 8 24 .250 ILLINOIS-IOWA LEAGUE. W. L. Be. I W. L. Be. , Joliet 22 1 .957 R. 1.-Moline.lo 13 .435 I‘eoria 16 7 .6911 Quincy 8 12 .400 Rockford. ...2i 8 .60" Terre Haute. 5 16 .238 । Evansville..ll 13 .4581 Jacksonville. 5 19 .203 WESTERN ASSOCIATION. W. L. Be I W. L. Be. ' Columbus... 22 8 .73: Omaha 10 13 .435 Milwaukee. .16 8 .667|MinneapHs. 8 13 .381 Toledo 13 10 .5651 Ft. Wayne.. 7 14 .333 Kansas City.l3 11 .542Tndian’pT’s. 4 13 .235 WISCONSIN-MICHIGAN LEAGUE. W. L. Be.! W. L. BeMenominee.. 1 0 l.oooTsh.-Neg .... 1 2 .333 Oshkosh 1 0 l.oou,Marinette... 0 1 .000 Marquette... 2 1.667. Green Bay.. 0 1 .009 Men and Women. , Why are blushes like girls? Because they become women. You can easily fill the public eyes if you can only have the dust. A man is as old as he feels, but not always as big, not by a h< ap. The best time to keep away from some people is when you are in trouble. | You have found out who a man is [ when you have found out what he loves. A bachelor is a man who never has to answer questions he does not want j to answer. Wearing wigs and dying whiskers never deceives anybody but the people [ who do it. Don’t make father a bugbear to the children by threats of what he’ll do when he comes home. Put two doors side by side and the- , small b >y will be sure to go through the : one that squeaks. I “A bore,” says a witty cynic, “is theI man who talks of himself when I want. to talk of myself. * j In society it is never “good after- [ noon.” It is “good morning” up to 6 । o’clock, and after 6 it is “good evening.” A miss is as good as a mile. This is 1 proimbly why a man doesn’t feel the [ distance when he’s got a nice girl with him. A “camel” and "beautM? are synonymous in Arabic. An Arab wraow generally mourns her husband with the cry of “O, my camel!” “My daughter delicate!" exclaimed Mrs. Moneybags the j/ther day. “Who could have started that story? You just tell people she’s very indelicate, and tell ■ ’em her mother says so.” When Ui<ir daughters are infants, mothers are anxious to keep inatches out of their reach; to put matches within thou - reach is their great anxiety when । their daughters are older. I The triangular table for dinner par- ! tie- ietlie latest fashionable fad of caI pritious New York. The hostess occu- [ pies the base of the triangle, and haa j two distinguished men with her.