Plattsmouth weekly journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1881-1901, August 02, 1894, Image 4
I. Peterson! fog the action. jplattsmonth gaimwl C W. 8UF.RM1.V Pabll.her. rLATTSMOUTIU "NEBRASKA The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. Thb senate was not In session on the 21st.... In the house a resolution proposing an amend merit to the constitution providing for the elec tion of senators by the direct vote of the peo ple was passed by a two-thirds majority. The somite amendments to the Indian appropria tion bills were disagreed to and conferrees ap pointed. A pctitloa from residents of Des Moines. Ia.. asking for the Impeachment ot At torney General Olney was presented. Senator Gorman (dem.. Md.) in a speech In the senate on the 23d which occupied three hours in delivering, charged the president with duplicity in connection with the tariff bill and three of his associates testified to the truth of his charges In the house no quorum was present and no business was transacted. Discussion of the conference report on the tariff bill was resumed in the senate on the V4th and Senator Hill N. Y.) devoted more than two hours to a defense of the president in reply to Senator Gorman's attack of the previous day In the house a bill was passed lor the reinstatement of clerks dismissed from the railway mail service between March 15 and Moy 1. lSStt. Mr. Hurter (O.) introduced acorn- promise tariff bill. On the 25th the senate agreed to the con ference report on Uie legislative, executive and Judicial appropriation bill and further dis cussed the conference report on the tariff bill In the house bills were passed placing the widow of Gen. John M. Corse on'the pen sion list at $100 per month, and (.permitting fourth-class postmasters to administer oaths to pensioners In remote districts. Sknatok Vilas (Wis.) replied at great length to Senator Gorman's attack upon the president when the tariff bill was called up in the senate on the 26th. A motion to place coal and iron on the free list was defeated. A reso lution calling on the attorney general for copies f all correspondence with railroad officials in connection with the recent Chicago strike was adopted In the house the conference report on the fortifications bill was agreed to and Mime twenty interstate and foreign commerce bills were passed. DOMESTIC Mr. and Mrs J. W. Edwards and son and a book agent whose name was unknown were drowned in Otsego lake near Cooperstown, N. Y., by the capsizing' of a boat. Michael L. Doyi.e, dry goods dealer in New York, failed for SIOO.OOO. Ei'oenk V. Debs and nine other mem bers of the American Railway union were held for trial on charge of con spiracy by Commissioner Bloodgood at Milwaukee. A fourteex-y ear-old girl, 7 feet and 3 inches tall, died of consumption at her home near Fort Wayne, Ind. The gold reserve in the treasury on the 23d was $60,000,000, the lowest on record. The Rosebud mill at Cripple Creek, Col., one of the most complete gold ore reduction plants in the country, was destro3'ed by fire. Loss, S150.000. Three persons were killed and fifteen injured in a collision on the Big Four at Griffiths Station, O., due to an engi neer's forgetfulness. Polish commonwealers demanded food in Clyde, O., and were driven from town by the local military com pany. George Hudson, a striking miner at Coalburg, Ala., shot and killed Charles Cole, James Smith and N. 11. Gay, dep uty sheriffs, and fatally wounded an other. At Luraville, Fla., John Thomas fired upon a mob of would-be-lynchers, killing the leader and fatally wound ing four others. Three men and a boy were killed by the caving walls of a cesspool they were cleaning at Winona, Minn. Three men were killed and two others seriously injured by the break ing of an elevator drum in a New York brewery. Is discussing the Hawaiian question the president's cabinet concluded that the new government must be recog nized. Fou women while bathing in the San Joaquin river near Fort Washing ton, Cal., were caught in an eddy and drowned. Incendiaries saturated thirty resi dences in Jeffersonville, lnd., with oil and set fire to one of them in an at tempt to burn the city. According to government reports corn in Iowa, Minnesota and the Da kotas was perishing owing to the lack of rain. Armed bodies of coke strikers who have been terrorizing workmen in Pennsylvania are to be suppressed by the state militia. Frank Matchicz, Michael Delenneg and Charles Drewiacz were drowned in the Susquehanna river at Plymouth, Pa., by a boat capsizing. Fire started from a locomotive spark, destroyed the business portion of Chenoa, 111., entailing a loss of 8500,000. Samuel Mills, of Johnstown, N. Y., Khot his wife in a fit of jealousy and then himself. They leave six small children. Seven of the eight children of Mr. and Mrs. Kruse, of Humboldt, S. D.. died of diphtheria. After hearing all the arguments ad vanced by both sides Judges Woods and Grosscup decided in Chicago that the contempt proceedings against E. V. Debs and others of the American Railway union were in the nature of proceedings in equity and that there fore the defendants could not be dis charged on their denial of the charges, but must stand trial. The village of Colon a, 111., was al most wiped off the map by a fire, the origin of which was a mystery. William Melville, correspondence clerk of the Bank of California at San Francisco, confessed that during the last thirteen years he had stolen 35, 000 of the bank's funds. Fire destroyed the business portion of Great Bend, N. Y., a village of 3,000 inhabitants. Threr Forks and Watson, prosper ous towns in British Columbia, have been completely destroyed by forest fires. Capt. Erskine Carson died at Hills boro. O.. from a bullet wound received at the Crst battle of Bull Run. strange Mistaking his father and sister for thieves. William Collins, of Birming ham, Ala,, killed both of them by shooting. Forest fires along the line of the Northern Pacific in Wisconsin were dying out, there being nothing more to burn. Three firemen were killed, several persons injured and 205 horses burned to death in a fire at Washington. Wilson Socle, a millionaire at Roch ester, N. Y., was dragged over stone pavements by runaway horses until life was extinct. John Craig, an ex-police officer at Los Angeles. Cal., shot and killed his father-in-law and his mother-in-law. and fatally wounded his brother-in-law, George Hunter. The recent labor troubles cost the state of Ohio $150,000. Further action in the case of Eu gene V. Debs and his associates was discontinued in Chicago until Septem ber 5 and the defendants were released on bail. Owing to a grudge masked men at Meeker, Col., scabbed and clubbed to death 350 sheep belonging to Gen. S. Allsebrook. General managers predict that within five years railroads will own all of their equipment except sleeping cars. What was supposed to have been an incendiary fire destroyed the busi ness portion of Griggsville, 111. Henry Romanna, of Chicago, fired eight shots at Herr Zeitunjr, inventor of a bullet-proof vest, in a successful test in New York. While inspecting a mine at West Pittston, Pa., Col. Mason, superintend ent, and Foreman William Wilson fell down the shaft and were killed. The First national bank of Grant, Neb., closed its doors, depositors be ing left to the amount of about S'25,000. Six of the men who were implicated in the tarring of Adjt. Gen. Tarsney, of Colorado, have been arrested. " William Tiler (colored), charged with assault, was hanged by a mob at Carlisle, Ky. Charles Wilson (colored) was ex ecuted in the jail-yard at St. Louis for the murder of Moses Hodges on No vember 8. 1892. Reports from all western states in dicate the hottest weather ever known. Great damage to crops would result. Wallace Burt, a half-breed Indian who murdered Samuel L. Rightly and his wife, an aged couple for whom he worked, was banned at Dayton, Pa. Statistics of the recent strike show that the railroads in Chicago lost $355,000 in cars burned by the rioters. Gens. Coxey, Kelly and Frye deserted their armies in Washington, advising the commonwealers to get themselves arrested and cared for by the author ities. Mrs. Jacor Trader, an eloping woman of Calhoun county, W. Ya., hampered by her 4-year-old daughter, tied the child to a stake and burned her to death. The recent census in Michigan gives the state a population of 2,239,374, a gain of 145,485 since 1890. Revenue officers unearthed an illicit distillery in New York having a capac ity of 1,000 gallons daily. At Cleveland Alix trotted a mile in 2:08 and Ryland T. in 2:07J. Twelve heats were trotted in an average of 2:10. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Nominations for congress were made as follows: Iowa, Sixth district, John F. Lacey (rep.), renominated; Seventh, J. R. Barcroft (pop.); Ninth, A. L. Hager (rep.). Illinois, Fifteenth dis trict, Truman Plantz (dem.). Indiana, Tenth district, Yalentine Zimmerman (dem.). Kansas, Second district, H. L. Moore (dem.). Kentucky, Third district, C. A. McElroy (dem.). James R. Godefrot, the last chief of the Miami tribe of Indians, died at his home near Fort Wayne, lnd. George E. White was nominated for congress by the Fifth district repub lican convention in Chicago. Frederick F. Low, governor of Cali fornia from 1SC3 to 1807, died at San Francisco, aged 66 years. J. G. Cannon was renominated for congress by the republicans of the Twelfth Illinois district. The following congressional nomi nations were made: Wisconsin, First district, H. A. Cooper (rep.) renomi nated. Iowa, Seventh district, J. A. T. Hull (rep.) renominated. Missouri, Sixth district. Rev. A. B. Francisco (pop.). Maine, First district, Thomas B. Reed (rep.) renominated. Congressional nominations took place as follows: North Carolina, Third district, J. D. Shaw (dem.); Eighth, II. Bower (dem.). Indiana, Eighth dis trict, E. V. Brookshire (dem.) renom inated. Kansas, First district, U. C. Solomon (dem.); Seventh, Jeremiah Simpson (pop.) renominated. Arkansas, Sixth district, Robert Neil (dem.) re nominated. Missouri, Sixth district, D. A. De Armond (dem.) renominated. Illinois republicans in state conven tion at Springfield nominated Henry Wulff for treasurer, G. M. Inglis for superintendent of public instruction, and S. A. Bullard, Alexander McLean and Mrs. J. M. Flower for trustees of the state university. The platform favors protection to American indus tries, favors liberal pensions to sol diers, the use of gold and silver as money metals upon a parity of values, and arraigns the present democratic governor of the state as the most con spicuous case of misfit in official life. In convention at Des Moines the Iowa republicans nominated W. M. McFarland for secretary of state, C. G. McCarthy for auditor, J. S. Herriott for treasurer, Milton Remley for at torney general, C. L. Davidson for rail road commissioner, and C. T. Granger and H. K. Deemer for supreme court judges. The platform declares for a system of protective duties so adjusted that every American resource can be developed by American labor, adheres to the declaration of the national re publican party in 1892 upon its mon etary policy, favors the exclusion of pauper immigrants' and liberal pen sions tc soldiers. that the federal courts of this Candidates for congress were nomi nated as follows: Illinois, Eleventh district, William Hirchey (pop.); Four teenth, David W. McCulloch (pro.). Iowa, Third district, D. B. Henderson (rep.)., renominated. Indiana, First district, James A. Boyce (pop. ). Ohio-, Seventh district. R. S. Thompson (pro.). Maryland, First district, J. W. Mills (dem.). North Carolina, Eighth district, W. H. Brown (dem.). Penn sylvania, Nineteenth district. J. A. Stahl (rep.). Gen. A. J. Pleasanton, originator of the blue glass theory, died at his home in Philadelphia, aged 86 years. Rev. Francis A. Hoffman, aged 88 years, the oldest Evangelical preacher in the United States, died a Reading, Pa. The Wisconsin republicans in con vention at Milwaukee nominated the following ticket: Governor, W. II. Upham; lieutenant governor, Emil Baensch; secretary of state, Henry Casson; treasurer, S. A. Peterson; at torney general, W. A. Mylrea; super intendent of public instruction, John Q. Emery; railroad commissioner, Dun can McKenzie; insurance commis sioner. Dr. W. A. Frecke. The plat form favors protection to American in dustries, the use of silver as a currency to the extent only that it can be cir culated on a parity of gold, entire sep aration of church and state, free com mon schools, and recognizes the right of laborers to organize, using all hon orable measures for the purpose of dignifying' their condition and placiuer them on an equal footing with capital i to the end that both fully understand j that they are iriends and are equal to each other and to the prosperity of the people. In convention at Grand Forks. N. D., the democrats nominated Judge Tem pleton for judge of the supreme court and Budd Reeves for congress. The platform declares for bimetallism, de mands that all money be issued by the government, demands tariff for reve nue only and the speedy passage of re form tariff laws. FOREIGN. The spread of cholera was assuming alarming proportions at St. Peters burg, Russia, the deaths numbering 100 daily. Over a thousand persons are now known to have lost their lives in the recent earthquakes in Turkey. Storms and floods in Western India caused much damage to the crops and many lives were lost. Mars an Jfc Brosseau, Montreal hay shippers, failed for S200.000. Actual hostilities were reported to have been begun in the dispute be tween China and Japan. Twenty-six tenement houses in St. Jean Baptist, a village of Quebec, were dastroyed by fire and four persons were badly injured. Excessive heat was reported in Eu ropean cities, and many deaths had oc curred in Berlin and Yienna. Cholera was rapidly spreading in Galicia, especially in the western dis trict of Cracow and in the eastern dis tricts near the Russian frontier. Seventeen seamen were drowned by the wrecking of the British bark La Lacheur off Cape St. James, on Pro vost island. Mexican bandits held up the stage near Perota, Vera Cruz, and stole 54,000, besides robbing the passengers of val uables. War was declared between China and Japan, and the king of Corea was imprisoned by the Japanese. Disastrous floods and hurricanes de stroyed many lives and much prop erty along the Tagus, in Spain. LATER. In the United States senate on the 27th the tariff bill was sent back to conference without amendment. Ad journed to the 30th. In the house a message was received announcing that the senate insisted on its amendments to the tariff bill and had agreed to the request of the house for a further con ference. The evening session was de voted to private bills. TnE republican state convention of Massachusetts will be held at Boston October 6. There were 249 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 27th. against 236 the week previous and 386 in the corresponding time in 1S93. Thomas R. Horton, of Fultonville, N. Y., editor of the Republican, died at the age of 72. He served in congress from the Eighteenth district of New York from 1855 to 1857. At Briceton, O., David Kline and his wife and child were killed, poison hav ing been placed in the well from which they drank. A fire that broke out in J. H. Dor sey's woodworking establishment at Tampa, Fla., caused a loss of $100,000. Wabash freight engines collided near Lafayette, Ind., and Engineer Clark and Brakeman Donohue were killed. Dick Green was hanged at Mount Pleasant, S, C, for the murder of Nan cy Drayton in April last. Both were negroes. Dun's review of trade says business is rendered uncertain by tariff delay and the blockade of traffic by strikers. The business portion of Lucksville, O., was destroyed by fire, and William Wilson, owner of a big factory, iell down an elevator shaft and was killed. Bryant Dawson and Joseph Yowell, young business men of Mount Vernon, Ind., were drowned while bathing in the Ohio ri7er. Fire of an incendiary origin swept away many business houses in Celina, O., the loss being $150,000. Harrison Duncan (colored), who murdered a policeman in St. Louis Oc tober 6, was hanged for the crime at Clayton, Mo. The northern districts of Mississippi were swept by a fierce hailstorm, caus ing great destruction of crops. Northern Wisconsin was being swept by the worst forest fires in the history of the state. The losses al-1 ready amounted to millions of dollars. The towns of Phillips, Fine Id and Ma son had been wiped out, and it was feared that several lives had been lost. tbarTfifteen different .atiinni. T B.TAr We flalne" ks. SCOURGED BY FLAMES. Wisconsin Towns Are Attacked by Forest Fires. Phillip. Fifield, Mason and Shore Cross ing Are Destroyed The Residents Fly for Safety Fears That lira Have Been Lost. ENORMOUS LOSSES. Ashland, Wis., July 28. Forest fires are producing great suffering and loss throughout this vicinity. On the Wis consin Central railroad it is impossible to move trains. Phillips, the head quarters of the John R. Davis Lumber company, a manufacturing town of 8,000 people, is totally destroyed by fire, and only a few buildings remain standing. A dispatch from Fifield, a small sta tion a few miles this side of Phillips, says that 500 women and children from Phillips are in the woods there with out shelter. They sent a request for food and supplies, as the supply at Fifield is very short. The train that started from here Friday evening was obliged to return, as bridges are totally destroyed a few miles south. Communication with Fi field is now shut off and it is feared that the town is also on fire. Along the Omaha line the fires are raging with terrible fierceness. Shores Crossing, a little village 8 miles west of Ashland, was destroyed Friday afternoon; not a building re mains standing and the homeless fam ilies were brought to Ashland. The railroad bridges near there were de stroyed and at 4 o'clock Friday after noon a fast Omaha freight and sixteen loaded cars were entirely burned. Both the engineer and fireman wera injured and the brake men are missing. Loss to cars and freight many thou sands of dollars. Mason, a small town south on the Omaha line, caught fire at 3 o'clock. The White River Lumber company's mill, with 40,000,000 feet of lumber in the yards, was destroyed, and at 6 o'clock the latest report re ceived here said the entire town was threatened. The Omaha bridge across the White river at Mason is burned. Railroad officials say the loss at Mason is fully SI, 000.000, with S250, 000 insurance. At 7 o'clock Ed Ensign, a prominent lumberman, telegraphed from Fifield for bread and meat to be sent down there at once; that there were 500 women and children between Fifield and Phillips without food and the fire raging fiercely around them. It is feared many lives are lost as with the hundreds of women and children in the woods and fire all around them some must surely perisli. The tannery and immense lumber ing concern at Phillips are among the ruins, so that the loss will be apalling. The Central passenger, which was due here from Milwakee Friday afternoon, is at Chelsea unable to pass Phillips. The Omaha freight train destroyed near Shores Crossing was loaded with wheat. A wrecking crew is now at work, but the en gine will be the onlj' part of the train saved. The fire came upon Shores Crossing with terrible rapidity and residents there lost everything they possessed. Not a structure of any kind remains standing there. A dozen bridges on the Omaha line have been burned and railroad men say it will take two weeks to rebuild one de stro3ed at Mason. Homesteaders in the outlying dis tricts are all fleeing into the nearest towns, leaving their homes to the fury of the flames. So far no loss of life ia reported. The fire department is care fully guarding the outside limits of Ashland, and the city is not in any immediate danger. News from Hurley states that town has been enveloped in a dense cloud of smoke all day, with fires on nearly every side. Medford, Wis., July S. What is known as Powell's mills, 8 miles west of here, sent word early Friday morn ing asking for assistance on account of forest fires. The hand engine was dispatched at once with teams and 100 men went to the rescue and arrived none too soon to save the mill residence for the time being. Small farmers in the vicinity moved their families and what little they could gather on a wagon and came to the mill site. For two hours Friday afternoon 150 men, women and children were confined on five acres of ground surrounded by a seething mass of flames and almost stifled by clouds of smoke. All comranication or means of escape was cut off. Live stock is lying by the side of the road burned to a crisp. Great fears are entertained for a dozen farmers who live northeast of Powell's mills, whose one road of exit is surrounded, by fire. Word has been received here that six families between Chelsea and Rib Lake were burned out. The Wis consin Central mail train which reached here six hours late is stopped here as a railroad bridge between here and Chelsea is burned. Grand Rapids, Wis., July 28. Ex tensive fires are running in the woods and marshes north and west of here. The cranberry marsh owned by Dr. Witter was burned and much of the extensive Spafford marsh has txten de stroyed. The fire is very near the city of Centralia. Great volumes of smoke are rising on a heavy wind. Ther mometers indicated as high as 103 de grees in the shade Friday. SENTENCES PASSED BY JUDGE. A Platonic friendship may be pos sible between women, or between men. Originality- Is the ascendency of the Individual over the preconcerted ideas of the masses. What the world gains In eveness of culture and smoothness of tone it is apt to lose in individuality and force. It is well that kind seeks kind and finds beauty and enjoyment in it well that the lowest cannot appreciate the refinement of the highest, else there would be many unmated creatures on the ear tlj . Judge. - relieved 0opied only SENT BACK. The Senate Tariff BUI Returned to the Conference Without Instruction. Washington, July 28. The senate at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon, after a week of speeches, agreed to the fur ther conference on the tariff bill asked by the house of representatives. The test of strength came on Senator Washburn's motion that the sen ate recede from that portion of the sugar amendment placing a differential of one-eighth of a cent on sugars above No. 16 Dutch stand ard. After an hour and a half of de bate on the pending points of order the president pro tern.. Senator Harris, who was in the chair in the absence of Vice President Stevenson. sus tained the point of order and ruled the motion out. The de cision was immediately appealed from and a motion made to lay the latter motion on the table. Both motions resulted in a tie vote. Senator Hill and the populists acting with the repub licans in the effort to get a direct vote of the senate on Senator Washburn's motion. Intense excitement prevailed, owing to the closeness of the vote. In case of a tie the motion is lost accord ing to parliamentary law. The failure to sustain the chair on the appeal brought the senate to the direct vote on the Washburn motion. Upon the result hinged, perhaps, the fate of the measure. But, though the republicans scored the victory in se curing the vote on the one-eighth differential, it developed that they had no reserve strength and the vote on the Washburn motion also resulted ia a tie, and conse quently was lost. All the democrats save Senators Hill and Irby, who were paired in favor of striking out the one eighth differential, stood by the caucus agreement and voted against the mo tion. The republicans presented a solid front. The three populists acted throughout with the republicans. After these votes no attempt was made to delay matters, and the resolu tion to agree to further conference was agreed to without division. The chair then appointed the conferrees, Senators Voorhees, Jones, Vest, Harris, Sherman, Allison and Aldrich, and the senate, after transacting a little routine business, adjourned till Monday. The general impression about the senate is that the conference now agreed on will not be so prolonged as the former one. Senators are of the opinion that the committee either will agree on a report within two or three days after the sittings begin or within that time decide to re port another disagreement. The pre ponderance of opinion is, however, that there will not be another report of disagreement. In fact the democratic conferrees assert that another disa greement means the defeat of the bilL The indications all point to the proba bility that the sugar schedule agaiu will be the principal point of conten tion and that but for the differences on this point an agreement would be reached after a very brief sitting. RUIN TO THE CROPS. The Long-Continued Drought Parches Western Fields. Denver, CoL, July 28. Passengers arriving here report widespread de struction of crops in Kansas and Ne braska by hot winds. Superintendent Campbell of the Burlington road says that figures will hardly express the damage that has been wrought within the last week. Two weeks ago experts estimated that Nebraska would have a big corn crop. Mr. Camp bell, whose division extends through Nebraska, declares it will be necessary to ship corn into many counties of that state in order that the farmers may live another season. Hundreds of square miles of the finest looking corn hangs dry and lifeless. Reports from the lines of the Union Pacific, Rock Island, Missouri Pacific and Santa Fe are of the same tenor. Railroad men regard the damage as more disastrous than the strike. Topeka. Kan., July 28. Railroad Commissioner John Hall, just in from the western part of the state, says that unless rain falls within forty eight hours there will be no corn in that section. In the central and west ern parts of the state the most favor able weather would not make a crop. Further east rains would save it. Mr. Hall says the hot blast has af fected all kinds of vegatation as far east as Wamego, in Pottawatomie county. Equally discouraging reports continue to come from the northwest as far east as Republic county and on the southern border of the state. It is said the corn has been burned out from the western border of Cowley county to the Colorado line, including the south half of the counties lying immediately north. BLEW HER BRAINS OUT. Grief for Her Children Causes Mrs. Wel lington to Kill Herself. Denver, July 28. Mrs. Ella Welling ton, aged SI years, committed suicide by blowing her brains out. After separating from her husband in Omaha three years ago, she opened a house on Market street in this city, which became a famous re sort for men about town. The furnishings cost $50,000, and Mrs. Wellington had S30.000 worth of diamonds. Her suicide is attributed to melancholy, caused by separation from her children, who are being educated in Boston. BAY OF FUNDY'S TIDES. There is a fall in the tide of twelve to fifteen feet at Grand Manon. At both Lubec and Eastport the tide boasts a better record, which is twenty feet. Tmt tide at St. John varies all the way from twenty-four feet to thirty feet. Seventy feet is what the tide has registered at Moncton, on the bend of the Peticodiac. The difference between high and low-water mark on the Cobequid river is twelve miles, the river being twelve mile lopger at high than at low water. -HewYortUrty. t rawntwreesano. . ns' rWTAr CoMf lrr. 77 Mukray Stkt, Kkw York Crrr mm nnir A HOT DAY. Burning Winds Sweep Over m Vast Por tion of the Northwest. St. Paul, Minn., July 28. As indi cated from various points in Minneso ta, North and South Dakota and north- . ern Iowa Thursday was one of the hot test ever recorded in the north west. From 100 to 112 in the shade is reported. The long continued heat is proving disastrous to crops. Wheat in South Dakota is reported nearly all out of the way, but corn must have rain immediately to save it. The same conditions exist in northern Minnesota. Reports from northern Iowa say corn is injured beyond the power of rain to restore. The situation is some better in North Dakota. Fol lowing are some of the records re ported. Man k a to, 102; Faribault. 108: St. James. 106; Caledonia, 104; Bird Island, 102; Yankton, S. D., 110; Vermillion. 112; Sioux Falls, 110; Pierre, 104; Hu ron, 100; Bismarck, 110. Although the heat was almost unprecedented in the Twin Cities no cases of sunstroke are reported. Omaha. Neb., July 28. An unprece dentedly hot wind is blowing over Ne braska from the south and is doing irreparable damage to corn. The wind feels as if it came from a fur nace, and it is blasting corn as effectually as a prairie fire. At noon Thursday the thermometer registered 102 in the shade. From all parts of the territory tributary to Omaha, a strip of 300 miles north and south and 500 miles east and west, come reports of the terrible effects of the hot winds. A special from Chad ron says rain fell there just after 5 o'clock p. m. Thursday. The tempera ture there reached 108. Hastings, Neb., July 28. Thursday was the hottest day in the history of central Nebraska, 110 degrees in the shade here. The hot wind prevailing has completely ruined the prospects for corn in central Nebraska and no amount of rain would be of any avail now. Bloomington. I1L, July 28. Thurs day was the hottest day of all this un precedentedly warm summer. The mer cury was above 100 degrees most of the day, averaging one degree higher than on any previous day of the summer. Anderson, 111., July 28. Thursday was the hottest day of the summer, the thermometer registering 105 degrees in the shade. Fairbcry, 111., July 28. The ther mometer reached 105 degrees in the shade, the hottest this year. Yankton, S. D., July 28. For 6ix daj-s the temperature has been at 100 degrees. Thursday it registered 110 deyrees. The hot winds have scorched the growing crops beyond recovery. All of the wheat has been cut and is out of the way, but corn must have rain soon. Emporia, Kan., July 28. Not a drop of rain has fallen here during the last thirty-one days, and hot winds have been blowing from the south. The re sult is that the corn crop in this vicin ity is ruined beyond recovery. WHOLESALE MURDER. Bloody Record Made by John Craig at Los Angeles, Cal. Los Angeles, Cal., July 28. John Craig shot and killed his father-in-law, William Hunter, his mother-in-law, Mary Hunter, George Hunter, his brother-in-law. and his wife, Emily Hunter Craig Wednesday night. Craig drove to Glendale, five miles from this city, where his wife, from whom he has been divorced for three months, was stopping with her brother George, and deliberately shot and killed them both. He returned to this city and went to the home of his father-in-law, William Hunter, and killed him. Stepping over his body, he walked to the dining-room and shot and killed his mother-in-law. He then turned the pistol against his forehead and fired two shots, both of which failed to kill him. He was taken to the police receiving hospital. He will recover. He states that he was hounded by his wife's relatives, and wanted revenge which he got. He was sorry he had not succeeded in killing himself to complete the whole business. WHEN TROOPS MAY BE USED. Significant Orders Are Issued by the War Department. Washington, July 28. One result of the extensive use of troops during the recent strike has been the promulga tion of a general order from the war department intended to fully in form commanding officers how and when they may use troops. The order is an amendment of an existing order and its signifi cant features are found in the designation of the interstate commerce act and the acts in aid of the Pacific railroads in addition to the statute prohibiting obstructions of the mails as acts warranting army officers in using troops. GEN. PEALSANTON DIES. He Passes Away at His Home In Phila delphia. Philadelphia, July 28. Gen. Au gustus J. Pleasanton, known as "Blue Glass" Pleasanton, died Thursday night. He was a brother of Gen. Al fred Pleasanton, the famous soldier. lAugustus J. Pleasanton was born in Wash ington eigbty-sfx years ago and graduated from the United States military academy in 1824, He enlisted in the Pennsylvania militia and at the outbreak ot the civil war was m&de commander of the home guard of Philadelphia. He was the originator of the theory that the sun's rays when passed through blue glass were particularly stimulating, not only to veg etation but to the health and growth of animals. Nebraska Corn In Danger. Omaha, Neb., July 27. For more than two weeks no rain has fallen and there has been an excess of sunshine. Wednesday a hot wind from Kansas swept over the state like a blast from a furnace and corn blades are curled close. The stand that promised so well a month ago now promises a total failure unless rain comes before the end of the week. Many fields are al ready beyond salvation. The drought is unprecedented in its severity in tl. vicinity.