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THE 1ED CLOUD CHEF.
A. C. HOSMEK, Fabllsher.
BED CLOUD.
NEBRASKA.
CURRENT COMMENT.
France lias recognized the Brazilian
Republic.
Askkious strike is on among the
cigarmukers in Havana.
Neakly 87,000 reward has been of
ered for the conviction of the persons
who fired into the Jewish stores at Lake
Providence, La.
Henry M. Stanley has sold his
forthcoming lwok outright to Sampson,
Low & Co., the Loudon publishers, for
the sum of 40,000.
Navy officials are not satisfied with
the results of the trials of the dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius. The contractors
may be required to run the vessel an
hour at 3,200-horse power.
Indications of another invasion of
Egypt by Dervishes multiply. Travel
ers from Khartoum arriving at Wady
Halii report the Mahdi collecting a
great army to avenge the defeat at
Toski.
Tiie commission of Virgil P. Clayton
a's postmaster at Columbia, S. C, has
leen forwarded to him. This is the
csise about which Senator Hampton
wrote an open letter to the Postmaster
General. TnE last of the Northern Pacific
whaling fleet arrived at San Francisco
on the 26th. The catch this year was
the poorest in ten years and comprises
12,000 barrels of oil and 217,000 pounds
of bone.
Baitiste Peynaud, the famous
tower jumper, while giving an exhibi
tion at New Orleans the other day,
struck the net with his head and in
jured his spine. His lower extremities
were paralyzed.
The Scotch Weekly will shortly pub
lish a love story written by the Mar
ijuis of Lome. The scenes of the nar
rative are laid in Canada, and the plot
is said to be stirring, the incidents pa
thetic and interesting.
The Canadian Minister of Agricult
ure has rendered a decision dismissing
the petition of the Royal Electric Com
pany, of Canada, for the cancellation
of the patent for the Edison incandes
cent lamp owned by the Edison Elec
tric Light Company.
Dukino a recent session of the lower
house of the Hungarian Diet Baron
Kass informed the chamber that the
opposition had discovered a plot to as
sassinate Hen Tisza, the Hungarian
Prime Minister, by the use of dyna
mite. They had, however, succeeded
in frustrating it.
TnE Russian Government has abol
ished the provincial council of nobles
of the Baltic provinces and substituted
ordinary assemblies, colleges and pri
vate committees, whereby the aris
tocracy, which has hitherto ruled the
populace independently of the Govern
ment, will be suppressed.
The general international committee
provided for by the silver convention
lias elected General A. J. Warner, of
Ohio, chairman, and Lee Crandall, of
Virginia, secretary. The chairman
was authorized to name the time and
place for holding the next convention
and to appoint an executive committee
of nine members to conduct the silver
campaign.
Francis D. Gunnell, ex-Surgeon-Geueral
of the navy, and recently pres
ident of the medical examining board,
has been detached from the latter duty,
and will be placed on the retired list of
the navy on account of age. This will
cause the promotion of Medical In
spector Edward F. Bogert, Surgeon
George I. Brush and Assistant Surgeon
John Hancock Hall.
Ik his speech at the opening of Par
liament, the Governor of New South
Wales referring to the subject of co
lonial federation said that while there
was an cxected difference of opinion
regarding modes of procedure, all the
colonies had shown the friendliest dis
position and there was every likelihood
that the cordial discussion now being
carried on would lead to a patriotic
agreement on the question.
Advices by mail from Cuba indicate
that the recent disturbances there were
confined in the main to the San Cristo
bal election riots. A street fight oc
curred between two Spanish regiments
at Matanzas and some slight difficult
ies happened with Government inspect
ors in tobacco-growing regions. One
of the latter -was shot iile oh an offi
cial tour through the tobacco nurseries
district He will probably die.
A German resident in Paris (Heir
Krohne) has offered the German Gov
ernment a sura of 5,000 for the cre
ation of a German academy in Berlin
on the model of the Frenck academy.
It is to consist of forty members and
its duty would be to preserve the Ger
man language from corruption or de
cay. The Chancellor of the Empire
would be ex-officio president of the
academy- The French papers rather
deride the scheme.
Dr. Wolfred Nelson, of New
York, formerly a resident of Panama,
-who has male a special study of yellow
fever, said in an interview recently that
the investigations and experiments of
Dr. Domingos Freiere, of Rio de
Janeiro, had demonstrated that the
human system could be protected
against the dread disease by mocula
tin. Dr. Freiere's investigations were
carried on under the direct encourage- J
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gleaned by Telegraph and IfaiL
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Albert C. Ridoway, of Illinois, has
been appointed confidential clerk to the
Commissioner of Pensisns, vice Miss
Ada Tanner, resigned.
TnE Guthrie News publishes a pri
vate letter from Secretary Noble, in
which he says he considers his course
towards the cattlemen in the Strip a
public duty, and that he hopes the
present Cherokee Commission will be
successful in its negotiations.
Hon. George H. Pendleton, ex
Minister to Germany and a well known
figure in American political life, died
at Brussels on the 24th of apoplexy.
He had been ill for several weeks.
Lieutenant Scd:roeder, one of the
inventors of the Driggs-Schroedergun,
denies that his invention has been sold
to England and also that it is unappre
ciated in America. The navy is already
using it.
The National silver convention as
sembled at St. Louis on the 2Gth. Nine
teen States and Territories were repre
sented. Secretary Blaine and the mem
bers of the Pan-American Congress
are having some trouble keeping out
men accredited as delegates by careless
Governors of States. South Dakota
gave the most trouble.
The Spanish Cabinet is to be recon
structed as soon as Premier Sagasta
shall have conciliated the dissident
Liberals.
TnE Pan-American Congress has re
ceived a formal notice from Delegate
Feirera, of Brazil, declining to serve as
a delegate in the conference. The con
ference proceeded to the consideration
of the report of the committee on rules,
but without reaching final action on the
rules, adjourned.
King Carlos, of Portugal, has had
the Necessidades Palace, Lisbon, pre
pared for his great uncle, Dom Pedro,
ex-Emperor of Brazil.
TnE Governor of South Carolina, in
his annual message to the Legislature,
recommended separate accommoda
tion on railroads for whites and blacks;
the amendment of the civil rights laws
passed by the Republicans in 1876, and
the collection and preservation by the
State of all Confederate flags.
Senor Fernando Cruz, Guate
mala's delegate to the AU-American
Congress, has written to the State De
partment his thanks for the late excur
sion. All he saw surpassed his dreams,
and the affection of the people was
more gratifying than all else. Dr. Cruz
is a poet of reputation in his country
The Cherokee Nation gave a Thanks
giving dinner to the United States
Commission, all the Senators and Coun
cilmen being present. General Fair
child, in response to the toast, "The
United States," said that the Govern
ment desired nothing detrimental to
the best interest of the Cherokees.
Secretary Blaine is reported to be
engaged in negotiations foran interna
tional copyright treaty with France
with Count de Keratry, representative
of that country.
Mr. Terry, brother of ex-Judge
Terry of California, who was recently
shot by Neagle, a United States deputy
marshal, intends to lay his side of the
case before the Department of Justice
at Washington.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A passenger train was wrecked on
a heavy down grade curve west of
Greenville, Tenn., the other morning
and the engineer fatally and express
messenger and four passengers badly
injured. The postal car was burned.
A DisPATcn from Emin Pasha, dated
at Molala August 23, has been re
ceived by Sir William Mackinnon. It
says: "Thanks to all subscribers to the
committee for their generous help,
which has saved a handful of forlorn
men from destruction."
TnE Court of Appeals in New York
has decided the United States Express
Company must pay taxes to that State
under the corporation tax law.
At a meeting in Philadelphia resolu
tions looking to the betterment of Rus
sian exiles in Siberia were passed, and
steps will be taken to reach the Russian
Government through the approaching
prison convention in St. Petersburg.
The United States championship
skating contest will occur at Newburg,
on the Hudson, January 18.
The North River Sugar Refining
Company, of New York, has appealed
from the Supreme Court decision dis
solving the firm
Landlord Leland, of the Chicago
hotel which bears his name, and other
property owners of Michigan avenue,
Chicago, propose to push the fight for
the clearing of the lake front of the
Exposition and other buildings.
TnE Commissioner of Indian Affairs
has directed Indian agents at the Kiowa
and Comanche agency in the Indian
Territory to promptly remove cattle
found grazing on the reservation with
out the consent of the Indians. It is
learned that several herds, aggregating
about 30,000 head, are trespassing on
the reservation.
The New York grand jury has re
turned an indictment for murder in the
first degree against Mrs. Hannah B.
Soutbworth, who shot and killed Ste
phen Pettus. Later she was arraigned
and pleaded not guilty.
Jonxr McCarty, the conviet who in
the Rhode Island State prison murder
ously assaulted murderer LaCoste,
hanged himself in a dark cell. LaCoste
will recover.
A decision has been rendered in the
Illinois Supreme Court adverse to the
Chicago gas trust. The parties inter
ested were endeavoring to reorganize a
new trust on lines that it was thought
might stand.
Protracted rains and floods have
disheartened Virginia farmers. Cot
ton is rotting in the fields and the
ground is so wet it can not be hauled
TnE Mexican Senate has passed a
bill for the coinage of $300,000 worth of
copper cents.
LEEcnouno, Pa., was visited by a
fire on the 26th which rendered twenty
families homeless and destroyed $100,
000 worth of property.
The safe of the Pacific Express Com
pany at Fort Worth, Tex., was opened
the other night by some one who knew
the combination and $6,800 taken.
TnE National silver convention ad
journed sine die at St. Louis on the
2Sth. The delegates were given a
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flagration on the 2Sth, commencing in
the granite building owned by Jordan,
Marsh & Co., Bedford and Kingston
streets, adjacent to where the great fire
of 1872 started. Two acres of build
ings were burned over. The loss was
put at $4,000,000; insurance, $2,600,000.
Seven or eig4it persons were seriously
injured during the progress of the
flames.
New manufactories in the State of
Nuevo Leon, Mexico, are to be guaran
teed twenty years' exemption from con
tributions and taxes.
Taylor and Duren, Americans un
der sentence of death at Guaymas,
Mexico, for train robbery, escaped re-
cently, but Taylor was recaptured.
The dock workers of Bristol, En
gland, struck recently because the mer
chants threatened to discharge the tim
ber runners who refused to work with
foreign crews.
Emin Pasha has sent to the Anti
Slavery Society a communication, in
which he thanked the society for its
sympathy and expressed regie ror Hie
loss of the Equatorial provinces. He
says that notwithstanding his unfor
tunate experiences he still hopes to be
able to do effective work against the
slave trade.
M. Gautier, chief of the detectives
of Belgium, has been dismissed for em
ploying men to induce striking miners
to commit outrages.
By an explosion in a colliery at
Bochum, Germany, the other day four
teen persons were killed and four in
jured. By a landslide at the entrance to the
tunnel near Pattenburg, N. J., recent
ly an engine house was destroyed, the
engineer iuueuauuiuBniiirouuuiuch.t:ufron, taking what is left. No one
lor twelve nours.
The great foot-ball match between
x ate anu rrinceton iook piace at uere-
ley Oval, New York, on Thanksgiving
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finally resulted in favor of Princeton by
a score of 10 to 0. There were about
30,000 persons present on the ground
and the enthusiasm and excitement
was something tremendous. One of
the players named George, of Prince
ton, was quite seriously injured, the
ligament of his left ankle being broken.
Business failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended November 28,
numbered 249, compared with 277 the
previous week and 232 the correspond
ing week of last year.
A farty of American engineers is
examining the Guanajato mines, in
Mexico, with a view to purchasing
them. They report the mines to be in
excellent condition.
Fire broke out in one of the mills of
the Hartford Carpet Company at
Thompsonville, Conn., the other night.
The building burned was a brick, five
stories high and 300 feet long.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHEH.
A grand charity ball was given in
the City of Mexico the other night for
the benefit of the American Hospital.
It was a great success.
Judge Collins, of the Chicago cir
cuit court, has refused to order the ar
rest of Mayor Cregier fcr contempt of
court for occupying the lake front in
defiance of injunctions.
A lone highwayman robbed the
stage a few miles from Redding, Cal.,
the other night. The treasure box con
tained little, but several registered let
ters were secured.
Secretary Blaine has been con
fined to his home in Washington by an
attack of lumbago.
King Leopold, of Belgium, has sent
a message to Henry M. Stanley, invit
ing him to visit Brussels to receive per
sonal congratulations on the completion
of his task.
Four little girls, children of Hugh
Dunn, found a keg of powder recently
at Elliottsville, W. Va., and in some
way set it off. All four were blown to
pieces. The mother has gone crazy.
Rumors have reached Green Bay,
Wis., that the propeller Hudson has
been lost in the storm on the lake. She
had a valuable cargo.
Fire in Keyport, N. J., recently con
sumed five stores, causing $50,000 loss.
Jacob Leyrer was burned to death and
his wife and son injured.
The Caspar naehnle brewery, Jack
son, Mich., has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, $60,000; insurance, $20,000.
F. E. Ison and J. B. Feasor have
been arrested at Denver, charged with
killing Sheriff Cross and four deputies
in No-Man's-Land in July, 1888. In
that terrible battle one of the Feasors
was killed, making six in all.
"Old Hutch" has been badly
squeezed in the Chicago wheat pit.
Will Russell, sixteen years of age,
accidentally killed himself near Van
Alstyne, Tex., recently. He blew in
the muzzle of his gun, not thinking it
was loaded, when it went off, tearing
the top part of bis head to atoms.
At the Noith Star mine on Solomon
mountain near Silverton, Col., Pat
Golden and C. Baldwin, two miners,
attempted to pick out an unexploded
blast, which suddenly exploded, blow
ing them into a thousand pieces.
Tupper, the well known English
poet, died recently.
Avery destructive cyclone passed
over a portion of Beaufort County, N.
C, on the 28th, doing great damage.
Houses were blown down and trees
torn up by the roots. Three persons
were reported killed, among them a
young lady, who was carried off by the
wind, her body not being recovered.
AFTER THE FIRE.
Baafaeas Kfea of Lyaa, Maa.. Preparing e
Rebuild Rertaed Flcares aa to LoaMS.
Lynn, Mass., Nov. 29. In propor
tion to its area and population, this
citj Tuesday suffered a larger loss by
fire than any other city in Massachu
setts during the present century. It be
gan like the grr it fire in Boston in No
vember, 1S72, in buildings that ap
I parently could bo easily reached, but
' as the flames spread thev became so in
1 tense that for several hours human skill
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and structures built with all modern
safeguards against fire could not resist
the tremendous volume of flames any
more than an ordinary wooden dwell
ing, from which a thin line of smoke
would be visible at one moment while
a few minutes later a pile of ashes
marked the spot where the building
stood.
Any one who watched the progress of
the great fire in Boston in 1S72 could
not fail to notice, in many respects, a
repetition of it here, as the water line
formed one limit and the massing of
engines at another point, after the con
flagration had raged nearly six hours,
marked a line where destruction ended,
and valuable residences, which
were endangered, were saved.
In extent of territory the burnt
district of Lynn is about the same as
that of Boston in 1872 and the loss was
relatively about the same. The prin
cipal difference in the two fires was the
burning of a large number of resi
dences in Lynn, while in Boston the
loss was almost entirely confined to
warehouses, etc.
It was a pitiful sight here to witness
the breaking up of homes and the fran
tic efforts of occupants to save house
hold treasures and other effects, most
of which were doomed to destruction,
because hi many instances it was im
possible to procure teams to remove
them.
Tho city is well patrolled by
the militia, six companies 2-50 men
in all being on duty. The men
are stationed at the entrances
to the ruined streets, barring all ap
proach to the burned district. Guards
are stationed at the stores that are but
, partially cleaned out to prevent thieves
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permuieu to pass the gu;
without a termit from the citv
; cer Through the
charities many families
Associated
were fur
nished lodging in rooms hired at lodg-
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hot soup, crackers and bread are being
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vised the work of providing for desti
tute families will progress rapidly.
As yet no fatalities have been re
ported, which is a pleasing feature of
the terrible conflagration.
WOOL GROWERS.
The Ohio Annoclatloa Deaaaads Proteetloa
The Carpet ladastry Deaoaaced.
Columbus, O., Nov. 29. The Ohio
Wool Gnwwers Association held a
meeting wifhVi large attendance.
Among those present were David
Harpster, president; Hon. Columbus
Delano, president of the National Wool
Growers' Association, and Judge Wil
liam Lawrence. The association
adopted an address to the wool growers
of the United States, and adopted a
resolution asking the National associ
ation to take the proper steps to carry
out the suggestions made in the ad
dress. The essential features of the
address are:
In view of the imminent danger
which threatens all industries of our
Nation, and especially the production
and manufacture of wool, the wool
growers of Ohio urge the necessity of
unity and activity in order to avert the
peril of free trade or free wool with
which we are now menaced. The wool
growers of Ohio advocate a protective
system. A tariff for revenue will not
secure protection. The result of the last
Presidential election was an emphat
ic expression by alargemajarityof the
people in favor of a comprehensive sys
tem embracing all our industries, in
cluding the protect ion of wool byname.
If the Republican party in its legisla
tive or administrative departments
fails to comply with this expression, it
will secure the reproach of insincerity
or of inability to perform its duty.
As wool growers we ask for such
legislation and such administration of
existing laws as are required by the de
liberate promises made by the Repub
lican party prior to the last Presidential
election.
They denounce the injustice of allow
ing the carpet industry to damage the
wool industry by importing clothing
wool under the false name of carpet
wool.
The wool growers of the United
States are called upon to be fully repre
sented in the National convention of
wool growers to assemble in Washing
ton December 1, 1889. They are urged
to ask Congress to give the wool and
mutton industry protection to the full
extent of the most favored manufactur
ing industry.
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Violated Poatal Law.
Washixgtox, Nov. 28. Chief Post
office Inspector Rathbone is informed
of the arrest of A. E. Bonsall at Cleve
land, O., upon a charge of violatingthe
postal laws relative to lotteries.
Fort Worth Sold.
New York, Nov. 28. After a con
ference lasting all of yesterday between
Charles Francis Adams, president of
the Union Pacific, and Morgan S.
Jones, president of the Denver, Texas
& Fort Worth Company, it was an
nounced that the sale of the Fort Worth
road had been settled, but that the of
ficials were not ready to give out a de
tailed statement. President Adam?
left for Boston immediately after tho
meeting. No information as to the
.terms of sale could be obtained from
toe officers of the Fort Worth Company.
EVIDENCE ALL IN.
The Erldeaee la the Creala Trial All la
aad Arsameata Ceaanaeaaea Bad For
Coaghlia.
Chicago, Nov. 30. At the afternoon
session of the Cronin case yesterday a
number of Keepers and frequenters of
saloons were examined in regard to the
opening of a eertain saloon on the
night of the murder. Then the de
fense rested, and State's Attorney
Longenecker said:
"If the court please, we have some
evidence that has come to our knowl
edge, about ten o'clock or a little be
fore ten, which we have not had the
time to look into. Of course it will be
evidence in chief, probably. Not hav
ing come to our knowledge until this
morning, we feel like asking the court
to let us introduce the evidence at this
late hour."
After some objection by Mr. Forrest
the court called the State's Attorney
into a private consultation, at the close
of which Judge McConnell said:
"I take it that the evidence which
the State's Attorney has ought to go
j in the case. I have decided to allow it
to go in. It will not delay the opening
of the case to the jury. If I allow it to
go in I do not see that it ought to in
terfere with the opening of the address
to the jury, and if you, Mr. Forrest, de
sire time to answer it. I will give you
the time. It is a matter which can be
disposed of at any time.''
Police Officer Flyim was then called
to the stand, and in response to ques
tions testified as follows:
"When Daniel Coughlin was arrested
I was ordered by the lieutenant, Elli
ott, to take him to the Harrison street
.station, which I did. When we got
there I searched him in Captain Bar
tram's office. These two knives which
I have in my hand I found in his pos
session. I took the knives and a re
volver from Coughlin, took them back
to headquarters, went upstairs to El
liott's office, and then took them down
to my box in headquarters and locked
them up. They were there until the
16th or loth September, when I
took them to the Fidelity vault, where
they have since remained. Last night I
called the attention of Captain Schuet
tler to them at East avenue station. I
did not disclose the fact that I had
them to auy one prosecuting the case.
Ex-Captain Bartram knew I had the
j knives, but up to last evening I did not
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them."
This closed the direct examination,
and Mr. Forrest moved to exclude the
cwciiLcu
evidence on the ground that the knives
i had been - t, possession of the State
j ever smce Cou,ftn-3 arrest. The mo
j ti(m overruled
T. T. Conklin, the man with whom
Dr. Cronin lived, was then called to
the stand. He identified the knives as
having been carried by Dr. Cronin
when alive. The smaller one the wit-
i ness had himself carried for two years,
and he then gave it to Dr. Cronin.
The larger one, the witness said, he
had found in the street. If they were
not Dr. Cronin's knives they looked
t exactly like them. Dr. Cronin carried
the smaller knife in his vest pocket.
This ended the evidence and State's
Attorney Longenecker began his ad-
I dress to the jury.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
The Topeka Meat laapectlon Ordlaaace
j So Declared By Judge Brewer.
I Topeka, Kan., Nov. 30. Judge
j Brewer yesterday decided that the To
j peka meat inspection ordinance was
illegal.
The decision was given in a test case
brought by Swift & Co., the Kansas
City packers, whose agent was arrested,
fined $100 and sentenced to imprison
ment for thirty days, for selling a car
load of dressed beef to Topeka markets
in violation of the inspection ordi
nance. Judge Brewer delivered his opinion
orally, saying that while the ordinance
on the. face of it declared it was en
acted for the purpose of providing pure
meat for the citizens of Topeka, it was
in reality made for no other purpose
than to prohibit the sale of Kansas
City dressed meat here. This, he said,
was clearly in violation of the commerce
clause of the Constitution of the United
States.
While he conceded the right of a city
to prevent the sale of impure meat to
citizens, it could not blockade com
merce by requiring that all the meat
sold to its citizens must be slaughtered
within one mile of its city limits, as
this ordinance provides. The city could
prosecute the Kansas City packers if
impure meat was sold, and it might re
quire that all their meat be inspected
before entering the city, but it could
not refuse, as it had done in this case,
to allow the meat to be inspected and
thus bar it from the markets. v
Jartadictloa Aflrmed.
Topeka, Kan., Nov. 30. Judge
Brewer yesterday gave in his decision
on the question as to whether the Texas
United States Court had jurisdiction
over Xo-Man's-Land. He decides that
the court in Texas has full jurisdiction
in that land and that it has pewecto
try all murder cases from that section.
The arrest of the Stevens County
murderers was not resisted, the fight
between them and the law being a tech
nical case, involving the jurisdiction of
any court to try them. They will make
this same fight over in Paris, Tex.,
which will probably sustain Judge
Brewer's decision.
Harry Hall Recaptured.
Lixcolx, Neb. Nov. 30. Harry
Hall, the life prisoner who escaped
from the Nebraska penitentiary Janu
ary 5, 1888, has been captured at Provo
City, Utah, by Warden Hopkins. Hall
had been closely shadowed ever since,
but the authorities were never able to
put their hands on him previously. At
the time of the escape R. W. livers
was warden, and this led to trouble be
tween him and Governor Thayer,
which resulted in bis removal. Hall's
parents live in St. Joseph, Mo., and are
wealthy and respectable.
THAT FATAL TORNADO.
Tha North Carolina Cjrlone MTr- Tliuu
at First Reported Thirteen Killed ami
Sfaay Wounded ttk li-ti4tr.
Columbia, S. C, Dec. 1. Oncol tiie
most disastrous cyclones ever known
in the history of North Carolina p.i-. d
over a portion of ttuford Com ly Thurs
day. So far thirteen persons ,ur re
ported killed and some twenty oi tlmf
badly injured. The cyclone b'g,m it
the upper or northern portimi-. i
the county and carried away wr
thing before it like the wim!--driving
chaff. Houses wrr
blown to atoms, and trees t t
have withstood the winter blasts r
half a century gave up, and ui i
carried forseveral hundred yards I
women and children, all aloni; t!.t
path, lied when they heard its thiiMti r
ing approach, but the family oi Ve!i
Edmunds could not escape, :mI .t i
perished. They lived in a farm I h
Although they heard the noi-.e of tV
approaching eyclone, they did it t hi
siderit more than an ordinal st riu
until its crash came upon the 1iohm,
tearingit into hundreds of pni'-.. 'Vhv
family consisted of Wesley L luim.i -his
wife and children, the oMvt Ummij
a daughter not quito oat of hrrtte.-..
The youngest was a son of eiuht tur-.
Miss Elleu, the daughter, was to h.ue
been married Friday to a so-t ot .i
neighboring farmer. All anauui'iui nts
to celebrate the happy event had lit-,
completed, but the entire fani'h wir
carried away on the bosom of the t -clone.
Friday their bodies were picked
up and all were buried in .t
large partitioned coffin. On alow tn
miles farther the cyclone blew down i
factory. The hands fled, but Joscpu
Emerson and Thomas Collins were
ovei taken and killed by falling timber.
More than a dozen others were badly
hurt, and three or four will die. Mm
Mattie C. Levy, a pretty young girl,
was caught up in the c clone and ar
ried far up into the air by the angry
torrent. She was returning from ;i
neighbor's house and tailed to escape
the cyclone's path.
J. W. Mayo, who lived six miles fr mi
Aurora, was in the Held hauling It.iy.
He saw the cloud and heard the roar,
and at once unhooked his hoisc. II"
saw one of his tenant houses twined
into bits. It was occupied by nine ne
groes and six of them were killed out
right. The nearest body found to the
ruins was 200 yards away. lai t- ot the
house were carried twelve mile-..
lake disaster.
East Tawas, Mich., Dec. 1. Two
barges, Meant and Midnight, wnt
ashore off Pish Point Wedni-dav
night. The crews were taken off c.
terday. Mate Powers of the Midnight had a
leg broken, and Daniel Mowatt. a
sailor on the Mears, has died trom tin
effects of e$iosure. All the men suf
fered terribly. Both barges will be .i
total loss.
The steam barge Wilhelm, whil
12l
t-1 w
was towing them when the Imcpaitc
was badly damaged and lost mostt
her deck load of lumler. The barg
"D," "Peck" and "Wesley'" are ashore
near Whitestone Point, and the icst
named will go to pieces. The vessels
putting in here report terrible weather.
Captains of vessels arriving at Port
Huron report the storm on Lake Ilumit
the worst in years. "Sandy" Mitchell,
cook on the schooner Mary L. P.icck.
was washed overboard and drownctl
Wednesday.
REED NOMINATED.
The Republican Caucus Nouiiu.te- Hun
For the Speakership.
WAsniNGTOJJ, Dec. 1. In the Ke-
publican caucus yesterday on tlw
Speakership Hon. Thomas L5. lci, of
Maine, was nominated.
General Henderson, of Illinois, hat
ing bteu chosen chairman of the K.
publican caucus, a call of the roll w.n
begun to determine how mat: wcie
present.
After declaring the caucus open br
balloting, the first vote was "taken, re
sulting as follows: Reed, 7&, McKnt
ley, 39; Cannon, 22; Burrows. 10; Hen
derson, 16.
On the second ballot Reed reeeiu'd
86 votes, thus receiving the noun nation.
The second ballot was: Reed, &l, Mc
Kinley, 36; Cannon, IS); Burrows, IV
Henderson, 9. So Reed was declaim!
to have received the caucus nouuu i
tion. Promptly at noon the Kepublic.ei
caucus was called to order by ?e ret rv
McComas. Mr. Cannon, of IUim -.
holds over as chairman of the cane i-,
but in view of his candidacy for u
ershiphe retired and Mr. Ilemh i " .
of Illinois, was elected chairman.
The roll call developed the pu-en
of 165 members, 4 less than the e. f re
Republican strength in the IInv".
Mr. Mudd, the contestant for Mr.
.Compton's seat from the Fifth M.rv-
lana district, occupied a seat o i u:
floor, but took no part in the p rot ecl
ings. m m
Salclde or a Judge.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 1. Judge i:. 1,
Trippe committed suicide yestenl.n.
blowing out his brains with a dout -barreled
derringer. The cause ot tie
act was despondency, due to ill he:Ith.
He was thirty-five years of age and ha 1
been judge of the city court of Car' r
ville before he came to Atlanta ami was
afterward Assistant United State- I) -trict
Attorney.
- m
Saaday Unsettled.
PiTTSBURon, Pa., Dec. 1. TI."
chances are that as Sunday of tl
r-iusourgns is ieartut or the l'iaw--.
League he will be released from h -agreement
by his associates. Sundav
case is one of pure "weaken." H w e .:
into the scheme with full knowledge,
as letters from his pen will show. I -rector
Palmer O'NeiL of Pittsburgh,
tells people that Galvin, Miller. IJav.
ley, Staley, Sunday, Maul, Carroll ai.d
.
Kuehne will be with the Pittsburgh
National League team next seao
and all but Sunday have signed Br
tnernood contracts.
ment and patronage oi ahhu " i