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VOL. XXXVIII NO. -'T4.
OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1900 TWENTY PAGES.
SINGLE COI'V TWO CENTS.
M'C UMBER FOR
FREELUMBER
North Dakota Senator Makes Speech
Which Provokes Extended
Controversy.
Bandits Hold Up
an Idaho Train
Bee '
WAR AT LINCOLN
INSANEASYLUM
Superintendent Woodward Discharges
Miss Beatrice McGinnis, the
Matron.
LATTER REFUSES TO BE FIRED
Depends on Her Relative, Arthur
Mullen, to Keep Her in Place.
GREAT STORM IN
MIDDLE WEST
Fourteen Persons Are 1'illed in
Illinois and Missouri and
Many Are Injured.
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE IN CHICAGO
Three Men Killed by Collapse of
Factory at Grand Crossing.
Drove Off Trainmen with Guns and
Cut Open Six Sacks of
Mail.
REVISION SHOULD BE DOWNWARD
Objects to Duty on Coal. Lumber, Iron
Ore and Oil.
NECESSITY FOR CONSERVATISM
Quotes Figures to Prove that These
Resources Are Being Exhausted.
SHOT AT SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS
He rnalnrn from Thru
lain rr Demanding Mure
Protection 'Ifaan Old Mae
Republican.
WASHINGTON. April 30. An . extended
pceih by Senator McCumhcr favoring free
lumber occupied several hour In the senate
today. His remark provoked (In extended
controversy imoni advocates of a tariff
on lumber. Mr. McCumber said, while he
was a thorough protectionist, he would not
agree to a tariff on product such aa coaj,
Iron ore, lumber and oil, that are being
oxhnnsted and cannot be replnced.
Semitor Aldrlch retried from the com
mittee on finance additional amondment 1 1
the tariff bill nnd the aennte adopted a
motion mode by him tliut until further
notle the senate shall meet at U o'clock
daUy.
Scnntor Johnson of North Dakota made
hi maiden speech In reply to a statement
during the campaign by V. J. Rryan, who,
ha aald, reid been "fouled" by the counter
vailing clause In the. petroleum schedule
by which petroleum brought Into this coun
try paya the ditty levied on American oil
Imported Into Russia.
"I had to alt and take It then." be said,
referrlne; to Mr. Rryan's nddrrss, "but to
dny Is my inning."
Mr. Johnson severely criticised Mr. Bryan
aa having hei-n larirely responsible for auch
a clause remaining In the WlUon bill.
Speech of Mr. Mi-Camber.
"No rvsourcea of the country which, when
once utilised, cannot be reproduced, and
vw'iiMi nro certain of exhaustion In a com
I'Uiutively few years, should be protected
r-iialiiHt Importation," declared Senator Mc
Cumber of North Dnkntu, a member of the
iiiii. niltlen on finance, who followed Mr.
Johnson. "No turiff," he added, "should
l It vied upon lion, coal, oil or lumber,"
Except (or these, ho snld, he was aa strong
an advocate of American protection aa any
peimtor.
Mr. McCumber said that tariff revision
this year is universally understood to mean
reviHion downward. Ife asserted that lum
ber iirriH-d tie protcctjon and that no other
1 1 1 1 u i r v h.iil prtMiuccd mow millionaires fo.
the ninouiit Invested than the lumber In
dustry. Mi. Met 'uniher ml. led. however, that he
billewd on tlie whole thai the bill "does
fur the most purl meet the Just demands
Vf the people."
lie remarked thit the southern demo
irals are milking si confer apiM-al for pro
tection than the ri'piililli-.niK of the old
school, snd Senator Tillninn Interrupted
him to say:
"We are getting so I sdly mixed that It
Is hard to tell the heep from the goats,
and I am afraid that before we get through
there won't be trough enough for all tho
hops to got their art-op."
ftenatora Badly Mixed.
Senator Tillman said some republican
members were making speeches In accord
ance with democratic principles, while some
democratic members were delivering ex
cellent republican speeches.
Mr. Tillman argued that the rutted
States can compete In the open market of
the. world for steel rails and other atcel
manufactures, "yet Carnrgle and Schwab
and Corey and Gary and that crowd have
Influence enough to have high rates of duty
retained."
Mr. MoCumber replied thst he would be
glad to vote with Mr. Tillman on any
schedule, the rate of which Mr. Tillman
could prove were higher than was neces-
sary to protect t.e difference In labor cost
in America and abrond.
"I deny that there 1h any one policy that
cai make one-half of tho American people
rich and the other half pour," said Mr.
M-Cumber.
Mr. Tillman had drawn a comparison be
tween the protection of Infant Industries
and farmer 'feeding young pigs about
weaning time and stopping the feed when
there Is no longer any profit In raising
them by that method. Mr. McCumber aug
geated thst Mr. Tillman would agree that
here Is no way of feeding a pig so that
ti side Is lean and the other fat. Mr.
cCumhrr declared that the senator from
1 tilth Carolina seemed to have an Idea
hat no one could be ln.nt but himself.
Mr. Tillman took exception to this and
appealed to his colleagues whether he was
egotist leal.
Doe a hog ever get grown?" Mr. Till
man asked Mr. McCumber.
The senator from North Dakota refused
to answer this question.
Xrrrsaltr fee t'eaeervatten.
Mr. McCumber presented statistical est!
male to show that the eoul of the I'nited
Htates. at the present rate of consumption,
would last 100 years, Iron years, lumber
SO year and oil from 3u to 60 year and
maintained thst the het way to conserve
these eupidles mould lie to permit free Im
- puliation of auch produits.
Messrs. IMxon. Piles. Paae and nlllner
engHged the Nor'h Do kola senator In fre
quent discussions.
Pointing to the nr,i of New England
rosnufscturem to obtain free raw material,
Mr. McCumber disclaimed anv failure to
appreciate the needs of all Industries. He
Insisted that he would not agree to protect
ajty product which could not be produced
In less than fifty rs and under that
rule lumber was ha'-re) out.
FORT DODGE MAN DRINKS ACID
Cereeera Jary Brt.., i Verdict ef
Accidental rieah tee ef
Plusrsr.
KOItr DODGF.. la, Apr )., Special
Telegram)-H. M. ,.,,,, K y,ait o(1
- .an of flare Coin..., , plore.r, dr,nh c,r.
bolio ld at hi. hom, nigi.t Mj aM
7 "' A reroner'a jury brought
SPOKANE, 'Wasii., April 30. Safely en
sconced in some hotel or lodging house In
Fpokane the two bandits who held up
Northern Pacific passenger train No. S
neen Rathdrum. Idaho, last right are be
lieved to have found shelter shortly after
midnight, malting for the excitement to
subside. Two luckless hoboes who were
captured by a freight crew Inst night as
suspects were turned loose today, but there
Is still hope that the right men may be
landed by night.
Six sacks of mall were opened by the rob
bers, who captured the engine and mall
car soon after the train left Rathdrum at
10:5 p. m. Driving off the trainmen with
revolver shots and cutting loose from the
coaches they ran the engine about two
tnilea west of Trent, where it was aban
doned. It Is supposed one bandit raji the
engine while the other was searching the
mall sacks. How much booty they secured
is not yet known. H Is suspected they had
an automobile In waiting near Trent and
rushed at once to Spokane. Indications
are that the robbers were eaperlenced In
the holdup business, and it is thought they
may be the men who held up the same en
gineer at almost the identical spot last
ummer.
Roosevelt Speaks
at Berkeley
Ex-President Will Make First Public
Address There After Return
from Africa.
BERKELEY. Cel., April SO. The an
nouncement haa been made at the Uni
versity of California that ex-Pesldent
Roosevelt will deliver his first public
speech In this country upon his return
from tils African hunting expedition In
the Greek theater at that Institution.
Boyle Trial
is Postponed
Alleged Kidnaper of Billy Whitla to
to Face the Court on
May 5.
MERCER. Pa., April 30,-The trial of
James H. Boyle, charged with the abduc
tion of Billy Whitla, was today postponed
till Mayt6. Mr. Boyle' trial wn set for
the day following.
HOLLAND CELEBRATES EVENT
Birth ef llrtr Important t Mi
tain Independence of the
etherlaads.
In.
THE 11AG!'KV April 30 Wllhelmina.
Oueeis of The Netherlands, gave birth to a
daughter this morning. The condition of
her majesty is satlsfnctory, the Infant
princess Is doing well and Holland Is cele
brating the happy event from one end of
the country to the other wtlh expressions
of Joy such as seldom have been witnessed
among this placid people. The political
significance of tho occurrence lies in the
fact that there Is now an heir to the throne
of The Netherlands, a circumstance which
grestly enhances the country's chances for
cuntlnued Independence. Every town and
village In Holland Is today celebrating the
long awaited birth of a child to her
i nisjesty. who was married to Prince Henry
I of Meeklenbui B-Sch werin
I Vl.
on fphruary 7,
r
I The accouchement took place at 7 o'clock.
Owii g to the early hour the contemplated
valuta was not fired and the first persons
outside the royal pnlace to hear the new
were a party of workmen parsing the
residence of the queen on their way to
work. The cheers then raised were the
signal for general rejoicing. Flags and
bunting that had been held In readiness
were unfurlrd end the city took on holiday
attire.
Heralds accompanied by trumpeters olad
in ancient Dutch dress made the rounds
of the city proclaiming the event.
WASHINGTON. April 30. President Taft
today cabled his congrctulation on the
! birth of an heir to the throne of Holland.
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When Pot Calls Kettle Black
(World-Herald.
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 5. 1909.
To J. C. Dahltiinn, Mayor; L. H. John
son et al, Members of the City
Council of Omaha
Gentlemen: AVe note. In the pub
lic press, your letter to the Douglas
county delegates in the legislature,
though the letter itself has not
reached us. We take It for granted
that the press is correct, and we know
also that it was evidently given out for
home consumption.
Replying thereto for ourselves, we
desire to impress upon you aud the
public that there is no legislation
which we know of that "looks toward
eliminating from the Omaha charter
or the laws of Nebraska the right or
authority of the city council to regu
late public service corporations, or to
impose such an occupation tax upon
them as will in their Judgment be just
and equitable." We also desire to say
that though this power has been a part
of the Omaha charter at ail times
since you mere. elected to your present
office, we know of no one of you tak
ing any steps whatever to enact any
ordinance tinder this authority, at
least not until very recently.
We fully know why you are writing
letters to ua now. for there is an tlc
tUm to take place this spring; we un
derstand this thoroughly. Itut why
have foil not exereUed tlUs ower Im
for? Why have you let this power
la you as officers lie dormant and un
used for three jeara, and during all
STAFF GENERALLY DISORGANIZED
Governor Will Have to Settle the
Matter on His Return.
SHALLENBERGER FOR PRESIDENT
Pennsylvania Taper Trots 0t Jle
hraake Kxeeatle aa Timber from
Which (nadldate Might
Fie fler-nred.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, Neb., April 30. (Special Tele
gram.) Miss Rratrlce McCSInnls, metron,
has been dlscliarged by Superintendent
Woodward of the Lincoln splum, and Mis
Beatrice McGinnis says she will not quit.
Thus begins the disorganisation of the
Lincoln asylum under democratic rule, for
dissatisfac tion Is expressed by many of the
employe about the way things are running
and It Is even said Assistant Superintendent
Weber covet the place of hi chief, and
factionalism runs riot to uch an extent
that no man's Job Is safe.
Miss McGinnis said notice of her dis
missal was the result of a united effort to
get her out of the institution. She I a
relative of Arthur Mullen, overlord to the
governor, and he is depending upon Mr.
Mullen to hold her In her place. At the
present time Mr. Mullen Is out of the city
and so Is the governor. Mis McGinnis ex
pect to remain at the Institution until the
case is passed upon by the governor and
hi chief adviser.
This latest outbreak has- caused several
of the employe to tald, and It I reported
on good authority that the custodian of
the dlpso ward. Marshall of Franklin
count-, whose wife Is also employed at the
institution, is doing work from from satis
factory, and It Is also reported he gave
nut the information that he did not care
to coma to Lincoln to work, but to simply
hold down a Job.
Several nights ago the governor was en
tertained at dinner at the asylum and In
his honor flowers were brought from town
and the various wards decorated with them,
notwithstanding the asylum support a
greenhouse.
More Trouble for Rryaa.
Another Insurrection has started In the
Bryan democracy. Governor Shallenbeg.
who carried Bryan to victory In the tate
last fall, I It along with a bunch of peo
ple back in Pennsylvania, from whence
ca ve tho i-overnor' "Dutch" anret"-y It
Is likely that Mr. Guffy. who It will be re
membered was the subject of a speech by
Mr. Bryan lost ummer, 1 at the bottom
of it all. Anyhow. Governor Shallenberger
ha been mentioned favorably a demo
cratic presidential timber. The mention
was made In a Pennsylvania dally paper
of some proportions, a marked copy of
which was received at the office of the
governor this morning.
With Shallenberger the presidential pos
sibility and Metcalfe the senatorial possi
bility, there I some speculation as to where
Mr. Bryan Is going to get on during the
next few year.
While the outcome of the Shallenberger
presidential Tinom 1 not much In doubt, it
Is now believed to hsve been the Inspira
tion which brought forth the humble letter
from one Colonel Charles E. Fanning, who
had an inside tip on the news.
Governor Shsllenberaar hss thonrht thst
the reason for Pennsylvania starting n
boom for his candidacy Is because he has
observed republican Minnesota has been
carried three times by a Swedish demo
crat, and perhaps this Pennsylvania paper
has hopes that republican Pennsylvania
might be carried by a Pennsylvania Dutch
man. The clipping about the governor follows:
When it comes to dolrig democratic things
(and democratic things are for the good of
the whole eountrv as well as for the state
In which they are enacted) Governor Bhal
lenherger of Nebraska has done more good
thlnns for his state sjid people In the few
months he has been governor than Gov
ernor Johnson has during his more than
two terms. Nrmsn K. Msek In his first
Issue of the National Monthly (democratic)
(out Slay 1) hss done good service for the
democratic party by printing side bv side
(Continued on Fifth Page.)
February 6, l!op)
the time you have been in office? Why
are you so exercised now as to declare
this supposed, but not contemplated,
action by us "a detrimental action
against the city administration, who
have this most vital question" before
you "for consideration. Investigation
and action?" Why have you not In
Testlgated and acted in thotte three
years you have been In office? Evi
dently you did not want to do so, but
now when an election is nearly at
hand you put in the public press, for
home consumption, your letter wherein
you state you consider such power of
vital Interest to your administration.
You need not fear it will be taken
away from you. What the public needs
to tmiteouml is that you have not
used this power, and what they need to
fear is that you are not In earnest now
since you have had the power for three
years and have not shown any desire
whatever to use it. If you had spent
your time in endeavoring to act under
this most vital power, Instead of
spending your time In trying to pre
vent the present democratic delegation
of Douglas county from redeeming its
promise to give borne rule to the city
of Omaha, you might have accom
plished soiuethlug along the line that
you claim now you intend to- accom
plish. Yours truly,
F. T. RANSOM.
E. Ev HOWELL.
J. M. TANNER.
' W. - :v J Ik ,
From the New York World.
HUNDREDS SENT TO CALLOWS
Military Court at Constantinople is
Busy with Reactionaries.
TRIAL FOR THE ADANA RIOTERS
lostlaatnrs ef Massacre Will Re
Droaght to Accoaat Before Com- '
ntlaaloner Cabinet Is
' For), aa. .
fU-LXKTIX.
LONDON. April JO. A local news agency
today publishes a dispatch from Saloniki,
European Turkey, saying It has been of
ficially announced there that Abdul Iiamid,
the deposed sultan of Turkey, Is to be tried
before a constitutional court-martial and
that It Ms generally believed sentence of
death will be passed on him.
CONST A NTfNOPt.E, April S -The con
stitutionalists have lost no time In bring
ing the conspirators in the recsit rising
to trial. The military court, sitting In the
war office today, condemned abnut 2K
prisoners to death and they were executed.
Nadir Pasha, the second eunuch of the
palace, whose sentence waa pronounced
yesterday, was hanged at dawn on the
Gal at a bridge, and his great body was
viewed by thousand in the early morning
hours.
The national assembly, which met today
under the presidency of Said Pasha, de
rided that the Sultan Mehmed V should
take the oath of the constitution within
a week. The assembly also ratified the
transportation cf Abdul Hamld to 6alon1kl.
It is not expected that the new cabinet
will be completed before Saturday. The
government has decided to send a com
mission to Adana to try by court-martial
the instigator of the massacres and the
committee Is authorized to act with the
utmost severity.
It is alleged that the chief author of
the recent mutiny were Abdul Hnmld's
favorite son. Prince Mehmed Kurhan Ed
dlne. Rear Admiral Bald Pasha, son of
Kiamil Pasha, the former grand' vizier,
and Nadir Pasha, whe were engaged for
a long time prior to the rising In cor
rupting tiyh troops. The two former have
fled. '
JOHN D. JRWINS CASE
Publishers of New York American
Found Uallty of Criminal
Libel.
NEW YORK. April 30. A verdict of
guilty of criminal libel was found against
the publishers of the New Tork American
by the Jury in the trial charging the pub
lication of an article libelling John P.
Rockefeller, Jr.
Are you going to
move in the spring?
Why move a lot of
things you won't
want in the new
house?
Most really wise people who
think about moving prepare for the
ordeal by looking around to see
w hat they would like to sell. Then
they write out a want-ad telling
about them and put the ad in The
Bee.
It's a sure way to flean out
the thinprs that you don't want
to move a money ranker, too.
That's one reason why there
are so many bargains on The
liee want ad page. Have you
read them yet, today !
LIGHTING THE WAY.
Cattle Rate
Hearing is On
Suit at St. Louis Affects Tariffs from
: Southwest to Omaha and Other
Central Markets.
ST. 1.0 CIS. April .-The tsklng of tes
timony in R1. lyouls in the suit of the rail
roads of t le southwest to restrain the
Interstate Commerce commission from put
ting Into effect a reduction In cattle ship
pings rates has boen completed and James
A. Seddon of St. Louis, commissioner to
take the testimony, has adojurned the
hearing to Chicago, where further testi
mony will be taken.
AH the railroads doing a cattle business
from Texas and southwestern points to 8t.
Louis, East St. Louis, Chicago, New Or
leans, Omaha, Kansas City and St. Jo
s"ph are plaintiffs In the suit. They failed
to obi a In a temporary Injunction ngainst
the commission and the testimony now be
ing taken Is in their effort to obtain a per
manent injunction.
The suit was brought In the United
States circuit court.
QUARREL LEADS TO SUICIDE
Daughter of Omaha Woman Takes
Her Ovrn Life at California
Home. -
BAN BERNARDINO. Cal.. April 30
Followlng a quarrel with her husband re
sulting because she did not want to accom
pany lilm to Columbus, O., to attend the
meeting of the Order of Railway Train
men, Mrs. C. P. Fording, wfe of a well
known conductor on the Santa Fe, shot
herself through the heart today. Tho
woman's parents live In Omaha. (
Mrs. Fording's mother, Mr. Einma T.
Edward, wife of Norrie N. Edwards, a
laborer, lives at 412 Dorcas street, Omaha,
and her father, Louis Schwer, a butcher in
the employ of Armour & Co., Jives at Thir
teenth and Polk suvets. South Omaha.
Mr. Fording never made her home In
Omaha, tt visited her mother here last
summer, spending about . four month in
the city. She had no children.
Mrs. Edward was apprised Friday morn
ing of the tragic death of her daughter by
a telegram from her daughter' husband.
HARRIMAN LOSES APPEAL
Appellate Division of Co art Refuses
to Dismiss Hie; Knit by St.
Joseph Man.
NEW YORK. April 30-The appellate di
vision of the supreme court today denied
the appeal of E. II. Harrlman for the dis
missal of , suit for 100,0110 against him,
brought by John Donovan of St. Joseph
Mo.
Aged Judge Weeps During
Plea Before Pardon Board
SPRINGFIELD, ill., April au-Abner
Smith, former . Judge of the circuit court
of Cook county, broke down under th
weight of his sorrow today In pleading be
fore the board of pardons here to keep
out of the penitentiary. The former Jurist,
sentenced to the penitentiary In connection
with the failure of the Bank of America
on a conspiracy charge, wept as he begged
th pardon board to spare him further dis
grace. Governor Ueneen cat by with Ed Snlvely
and Charlea Ecknart, member of th par
don tribunal, and waa visibly affected by
the recital. Smith voice faltered and
choking with emotion, the tear visible,
he bad to atop before he ended hU plea.
The former Judge, dressed in a suit of
black, presented a sorrowful picture aa hi
gray head bent and he told th pardon
board member how hi lif waa disgraced
already.
"1 ui now a man of 6fi year and this
trouW ba rcauliod la taking from me aU
BLACK HAND KILLS EIGHT
Tenement House Burned in New
York Following Honey Demand.
FIVE OF VICTIMS ARE CHILDREN
Hall-mays Are Soaked with Kerosene
and Dwellers Are Trapped hj the
Rapidly Spreading Flames
Foarteea Are lnjare4.
NEW YORK, April 30. Eight persons,
five of them children, were burned to
death, and fourteen others were Injured In
an Incendiary fire In a five-story tenement
house at 87 Spring street, occupied by
twenty families, early today. The blaze
followed a demand by members of the
Blsck Ilsnd society for the payment o
tl.000 blackmail. It spread through the
building with startling rapidity, as the hall
ways were soaked with kerosene oil by
the blackmailers.
In a panic which followed the alsrm tho
tenants fought their way down the fire
esrspes or Jumped from the windows, while
babies were thrown from windows Into the
arms of policemen on the sidewalk
Six of the Injured, three of them chil
dren, are not expected to recover. Jacob
Pruck, the proprietor of the grocery store
on the main floor of the building, received
on April 1 a letter, resdlng:
"We demand tl',000 or death. Bring It in
Mott street. Petroslno Is dead, but the
Black Hand lives. (Signed),
"BLACK HAND SOCIETY."
On Monday last Bruek received another
letter, written In a similar strain. Ho
turned both letters over to the police.
Bleaching Order
is Sustained
Court Refuses to Compel Secretary
Wilson to Change Decision
to Prosecute.
WASHINGTON, April 30,-Justlce Staf
ford of the supreme court of the District
of Columbia today declined to compel Sco
retary of Agriculture Wilson to vacate his
decision lo Institute next June prosecu
tions against manufacturer and dealer
in flour made according to the bleached
process.
The question whether such bleaching vio
lates the pure food law was not before
the court. The question' decided was only
whether the Alsop Process company of St.
Louis Is entitled to mandamus to compel
the secretary to chango hi opinion that
th, Juice of nitrogen peroxide In the bleach
ing of flour render the product unwhole
some, deleterious to the consumer and a
violation of the pure food law.
that I had aa a result of a life work. My
children are all dead. If you grant me a
pardon the only thing I have left I to
resume the practice of law.
"I hd no intention of wrongdoing. I
wa convicted owing to the inflamed public
feeling exlating at the time, of my trial.
Thl waa made Intense because of the fail
ure of the Chicago National bank of which
John R. Walsh wa president. The convic
tion of Paul O. Btenland added to the feel
lng." Smith read a letter from Mayor Busse
of Chicago. In which the Chicugo city ex
ecutive declared he believed Smith to he
Innocent of any Intentional wrongdoing.
Clarence 8. Harrow of Chicago, who as
sisted In th prosecution of Smith, read to
the pardon board a statement of the facts
in the case. This was done on the request
ef the board.
The hoard Is expected to take th cue
Under adviaemenL
MISSOURI TOWN WIPED OUT
Five Are Dead at Golden and Two at
Summerville.
SCORES DEAD IN THE SOUTH
Isolated Tornadoes Fatal la Several
State and Mississippi Tows Re
ported Wiped Oat, rrlth
Twelve Killed.
CHICAGO, April SO.-Death and destruc
tion followed In the wake of aJ terrific
storm which swept over the middles west
last night. Including Chicago In it path
of devastation. Hero many buildings were
unroofed, homes blown over and scores of
people driven into the slorm, many nar
rowly escaping with their live.
Three men were killed at Grand Cross
ing, a suburb, In the collapse of a factory.
Tho victims were burled under tons of
debrl when a brick wall of the Grand
Crossing Tack company collapsed.
Homeless men, women and children
awoke today In strango beds In many parts
of the city, where the storm had held
furious carnival. Lots of hardship and peril
brought charitable response from neigh
bors who fortunately escaped the ravages
of the veritable tornado and II accom
panying torrent of rain and hall.
FleTen More Death.
In tho path of tho storm before It reached
the Great Lake region great destruction of
properly Is reported and at least eleven
are known to have been killed.
At Golden. Mo., the business section of
the town was destroyed and many homer
were wrecked. Five persons lost their
lives. The dead at Golden are1
MRS. W. H. HENSON.
MRS. CORA PRENTICE.
BCD HOPKINS.
BESSIE CAMPBELL.
MRS. JAR VIS.
At Summerville, Mo., the wind cre
ated havoc and two persons were killed, a
few miles north of the town. Many were
Injured. The dead are:
MISS BELLE DELVRY.
MRS. GEORGE SMITH.
The storm was furious In the southern
part of Illinois. At Texas City, near Carnil.
four persons were killed nd many seri
ously wounded. The dead re:
EDWARD OVERTON. . .
MK8 OVERTON.
MRS OVERTON'S RABT.
A SERVANT.
Many house were destroyed nd trW.
town was wrecked.
Heavy Dnniaae la Mississippi.
Great daniHge to property , and crops wat
canard In Michigan, on the east shore of
Irfke Michigan, Benton Harbor and South
Haven being In the path of the storm.
Vessels were Imperilled on the lske. Dis
patch's from fault 8te. Mario, Mich., re
port that a steamer, believed to be the
Aurania of the Corrlgan line, wa seen to
sink yesterday tn White Fish bay by Cap
tain Boyce of the steamer Tesvey. Cor
rlgan, Mi-Klnney & Co. of Cleveland, own
ers of the steamer Aurshla, have received
no tidings of the vessel.
At Michigan City. Ind., on the southern
shore of Lake Michigan, the windstorm was
terrific and a portion of the wall of the
Northern Indiana penitentiary there was
destroyed. Militia from South Bend was
ordered to tho scene to guard the prisoners.
In Wisconsin the storm wss converted
Into a bllr.rard and for many hours there
raged one of the severest sijowstorms of
the season In msny towns, csuslng gret
damage to property.' At I .a Crosse and
Superior reports are thst traffic wss prsc
tically abandoned because of drift.
Telegraph Wires Down.
Telegraph service between the great
news center I tlll harppered and early
Improvement Is problematical. South of
Louisville conditions are particularly bad.
In the south snow has held up train serv
ice and the gx.1 on the lakes has hampered
hipping to a considerable extent.
Inquiry at the general office of the
Illinois Central aa to the report tht the
town of Horn Lake, IV Soto county, Mis
sissippi, had been wiped out by the torm,
elicited the Information that the company
had no way of ascertaining the truth or
falsity of the report, a all their wire
were prostrated. There were no wires for
tho dispatching of train early, although
hope .was expressed that a patchwork serv
ice might be restored before night.
The Chlrsgo A Alton, two of who train
were stalled last night, reported traffic,
being handled on a normal basis today,
althouc'.. thi'.r wires had suffered.
(Helghlng; In WUeoasla.
LACROSSE, Wis., April 80. One of the
heaviest snowstorms of the winter Is rag
ing today. L'p lo S o'clock four Inches of
snow had fallen and th storm seemed
likely to I'ontiiuiH all day. The snow le
now heavy enough for sleighing.
SUPERIOR, Wis., April 0. The blirxsid
which started yesterday I till raging,
snow being driven all night by a wind
ranging from forty to fifty-five mile.
Heavy hinne tn Able.
PIQl'A. O.. ApiU 30. A tornado twenty
mile wide (truck this section early this
morning and caused a property damago
estimated at $IOO,iftu. The path of destruc
tion extends over several counties and ex
treme damage was done by the . wind In
the towns of Plqua. Sidney, Houston
Fletcher, St. Paris and Klrkwood. No lots
of life I reported.
told In MiisntilD Region,
DENY KM, Colo., April Vl Temp! aturet
as low a :'S above aero are reported from
the fiult region around Grand Junction,
Colo., today and much damage ha un
doubtedly been done. Hundred of fruit
raiser ar using smudge pot to protect
their yees.
Cold weather extends all over th moun- .
tain region. At Denver It wa IS above
this mortilng and at Cheyenne, Wyo., lo
above. A high north wind prevail and the
weather bjreau predict hevy frost to
night. More than a fxt of snow ha
talk u at Tellurlde. Colo.
Frees la Panhandle,
KANSAS CJTV. Mo.. April 3li.-A twenty,
mlle-au-huur wind from tue north, with
the temperature at 40 degrees abov sere,
were the conditions that prevailed gen
erally In western Missouri and through
out Kansas today. The local weather
bureau also reyoittd a frealn( temperature
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