FURIES OF THE CYCLONE, Three Hundred Houses in Ohio | and West Virginia Wrecked. iy Et rN AE { MANY PEOPLE AND MAIMED WaneeLinag, W. The first ! Va,, April 15. | genuine cyclone ever wit. | essed in this immediate vicinity was | xperienced this py m., and wrought ievastation over a section of country sxtending from St. Clairsville, Ohio, | en miles west, to a point as far east as city, Little damage was done were, the high hills on both sides of the iver sheltering the but the ommotion in the upper air was noticed end afew roofs were damaged. The rtorm was fast felt at St, Clairsville at 3.15 puny It appeared to be travelling from the and in the shape of a funnel- ihaped mass of cloud resembling in ap- pearance dense black smoke. Thecone was downward, and could be plainly traced over its track by the des: ruction it left. Houses were demolished, trees | snapped off like pipe stems, horses and | attle prostiated and carried bodily | Ireds of yards by the gale, and the with the of storm and its effects | his houses, west, tHE sky was darkened ving I'he 13 tii { louds | deb iS, | 11 the he Western ey } Hew te Lid 3 stinguishing chara e- | NEWS OF THE WEEK —Two earthquake shocks were felt Burlington, Vermont, about half-past 2 o'clock, minutes later, “The the first at hing the concussion from a large gun, followed by a jar of fifteen seconds’ duration. Doors and windows rattled and those living in the third story of blocks say the buildings seemed to sway to and fro. People ran into the streets in a panic, wany supposing that a terrific explosion had occurred near by." — Terrible prairie fires, doing great damage to property and causing loss of human life, are reported in Da- kota, Near Madison twenty-five farmers Jost houses, barns, stock and grain, and Francis Keller was burned to death on the evening of the Sth. Several dweliings near Huron were destroyed the same night. In one of them Edward Maloney and Annie Marine were burned to death, and Kate Maloney so badly burned that her recovery is doubtful, The build- ings of the J. Walker Brewing (om- fire on the Oth to the extent ef 850,000, —There is a freshet in the Mohawk river, at Polatine Bridge on the 10th a Central Railroad culvert was washed and the damage was discovered ~The Maumee Rolling Mills, on the east side of Maumee, Ohio, were on the 10th destroyed by fire. The loss is esti- mated at $300,000 by the President of the while the insurance is said to $50,000, About 200 men were oved i but arrange- to increase the of incendiary 1 x destroyed a company, be only in the made ire is were being to 600. 10th large lland between Setauket Island. was subdued.’ a ‘family Penna. , — During Meadville, Oth, Mrs. Jobn A lighted lamp at husband's head, lamp exploded and enveloped both in Buckholz dragged his wife from the burning bouse, but she was 80 badly Injured that she died on the on : +%1 ' Buckholz } er ames, Droste approa allies LO Lake refuie Benjamin Parkhurst's fine south of hed WORE | A | tin's Fer rive suffered even mu aH 1 vb ists § } direction to ti st. Clairsvil fave h Heked up fores 8 ¥ cattered fences in hollow, widening » little city, and everywhere, “Ison g had one brick | uilding blown down on the hill, The | ick residence of J. H. Drennen. he News, was so badly used up th e brick was left on another. I. yailey’s fine concrete residence was levelled to the ground, H ling’s eight houses, barns and « were all destroyed. in the town proper 75 ta were more or less damaged, 08s will reach $165,000, Ww a ine ASS WOrks i Life eq iLon enry heds 1 y 100 houses i and the Ailitl (irove, of the three i —A violent wind storm passed over Hastings, Nebraska, on the Oth, doing 0 property. The opera and the F National Bank were unroofed. ~— A terrible accident happened at St, Clair, Penna., on the afternoon of the 11*h. Miss Berlesta Shaul, of Sharon Springs, New York, a Vassar College was visiting Miss Minnie Keether, a fellow student. The two young ladies, in company with a young man named Harry Short and Edwin Thompson, one of the operators of t Chamberlain colliery, entered the m for the purpose of giving Miss Shan pporta inspect the oj on of mining coal. The mine not been working for } ther house rst or » he ne no oo IDILY LO persons anol Person The ls wind of ng t ras the Messrs, HDSOn an found St ’ $ 1 3 te y the two ladies Iyi were frightfall A Miss Ke ei iY i . the catastrophe was cau naked lamp. Three men were lon the 11th at shaft No. 10 of ct 1 Now York, tplosions ocourred afternoon the 10th works at Plattshu New York, but no person was kill It is thought that the heat sun raised the temperature of the sub- was mixed The first explosion scat- the stove and of six nitro-giycerine, the large brick bumiding as a factory but an immense in the ground. Windows were i iildings in Plattsburg, and was felt in Barlington, # Of outside ot caused hundred Nothing second explosion shock ~The on high water the morning his the in Hudson of the 11th car- Fane J down down, and ) ANCOLsCIous ile, Here the i P.M. without wy lerful that more 10t done, Besides Mrs, Reilly, the only eagual- ies reported are; James Reilly, her hus- and, a saloon keeper, both legs broken: | Mrs. Wilhelm, ecllar bone broken: Mark Davis, of the Martin Ferry Stove Works, wobably fatally injured; a German lady. whose name could not be learned. dan- rerously injured, When the storm struck the ris er, the water shot up in a perpendicular wall tbout 20 feet and then fell back in a frothy, seething foam and simultane. ously a shower of fence boards, shingles, posts and timbers with some large sec- tions of houses fell in a sheet on the turbulent waters, The river for miles is strewn with wreckage, The Fair View school house one mile west, was totally wrecked and Miss White, the school teacher, badly hurt. Several families are rendered homeless, The Lafayette Rink was engaged b the city authorities as a temporary her ter for the homeless, and a meeting of citizens is called for 1 P, M, to-morrow 10 devise measures of relief, Every few minutes news comes of additional dam- age in the Zountry, and it is safe to say the aggregate loss will exceed a million dollars, According to Professor Langley the inberent temperture of the moon 1s below that of melting ice. m0 damage has been done. The Por- near Hartford have been carried away. and the New York Central Railroad tracks are submerged at va- Teiegraphic communi- cation is also interrupted, The flood Is the highest since 1865. ~A riot occurred In Denver, Colo- rado, onthe evening of the 10th, be- tween Swedish, Polish and Hungarian colonies, growing out of an encounter between drunken parties, One man was fatally shot and several others were dangerously wounded, Nearly thirty arrests were made, ~~ While a French detachment of the Salvation Army was parading the streets of Quebec on the 10th it was attacked by a “howling mob,” and pelted with large lumps of snow and ice, One of the female salvationists was knocked senseless and dangerously injured, and all the drums were smashed, No arrests wers made. ~The charter election in Trenton, New 1 , Was heig on the 11th. rank A. Magowan, Republican, was elected Mayor by 200 majority, being the first Republican elected Mayor for over 20 years, The Republicans alse elected the School Superintendent, six out of seven Aldermen, five out of seven Trustees, three out of five Li. cense Commissioners, and all the Free. holders. em ~ At Ripley, Mississippi, on the 11th, an armed mob of twenty-five men stormed the jail and shot dead **Bud” Williamson, charged with having com- mittted a murder a year ago. James Christian, a wealthy cattleman of Idaho, on the 10th arrested a man named Hodge, charged with stealing cattle, While onthe way to Tishomingo with the prisoner, Christian and a ompanion were shot from ambush Rid iustantly killed. The prisoner remained with the murdered men until assistance arrived, and, It is said, he has given the authorities the names of the assassins. Edward Flanagan, re- eently shot by Dr. Albrecht, in a gaming house in Boston, died on the 12th, It will be remembered that Albrecht, according to his own story, was being fleeced by Lanaban and Flanagan, and while endeavoring to recover his money was assaulted by the gamblers, whereupon he shot them both in self defence. Lanahan was shot dead. — Governor Hill, of New York, on the evening of the 12th, sent to the Assembly a veto of the Crosby High License bill. He objects to the bill that it is special legislation, in that it applies to ouly two cities of the State ~New York and Brooklyn—and that its forfeiture clause 1s clearly uncon- stitutional, - A fire at St. Augustine, Florida, which started at a quarter past three o'clock on the morning of the 12th, destroyed the St. Augustine the Edwards House, the Cottage, the Planters’ House, the First National Bank, the old Spanish Cathedral, the Sinclair block, the old County Court House, and two smaller pull The total loss 18 estimated which the insuran $23.000, The loss on Hotel is $1] ance ! vd ju on 50 GOGO texpire idget Darry. | old cathed NA mAark Line in 1793. i near Greenville i the evening 's absence. Lied in the ning it i 12th, by No cause is sonnedecker, f mor ting himself in the assigned, Mrs Weeks mars ie hanged 3 the | farmer, i io, wealthy herss Wi MOSLEr, { “homesickness,” ' Of «th, Of An express train on the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago struck a shifting engine at City on the evening of 11t} . damaged and George Hood, | the fire sweeney, of t We Injured. At. th morning of a freight trails the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. 1 Railroad was derailed consequence of been placed ar and four cars wers SHIAL Was severely the engines were badly Hg v i MALY engineer, ti an, everely ana ® fx ny ' zs OUR ess re 4 on ¢ thes 19¢1 WEIEE LG, I on ‘aul BeAr selle, hay ing iBe an A rallroad ti of Lhe trac) gine wrecked a 3 . ¢ 1 wl Ura JIRreG., Mohawk Vall TT} 1 1 + «4 he floods in the niin and travel or tha New Y 1 Hudson River Rails siVED adic] . thousands produce and over have been consume human 100 houses and I, and, it is have the fire was is said, fteen beings ished, At last accounts sweeping northwest, in the direction of Decatur county. The losses by the prairie f{ires near Sioux Falls, Dakota. are estimated at £100,000. ~<A colored “evangelist.” named Wiliams, who has been holding revi- val ineetings among his brethren in De Soto, Missouri, was taken from his house by five masked reflans on the evening of the 12th and unmercifully flogged with hickory switches, it seems the trouble grew outof a quarrel] between his own and his neighbor's wife, A vigilance committee over. took two horse thieves near Sargent, Nebraska, on the evening of the 12th, shot and killed one of them, Joseph Arnold, and captured the other, James Bohan, One of the vigilants was dangerously shot. Dr. Out and O. D, Counor quarreled over a game of dommoes at Hearne, Texas, on the afternoon of the 12th, and shot and wounded each other mortally. ~Cajene Ayqui, a hostile Indian chief, was captured pear Guaymas, Mexico, on the 12th, on a ranche where he had been hiding for two menths, His capture, it is said, ends the war be- tween the Yaquis and Mexicans, which has raged in Sonora for two years, —=J. J. McGrath's wall paper house, a large five-story building on Wabash avenue, in Chicago, was destroyed by fire early on the morning of the 13th, The loss on stock is estimated at $400,000; on the bullding at $35,000, The latter is covered by Insurance, while the insurance on the stock does not exceed $140,000, Michael Burns, a pipeman, standing in a fourth-story window, was enveloped in a burst of flame and fell into the blazing mass inside, John Rebells, a fire lieutenant, had ns skull erushed by falling from a ladder, and another fireman had a leg broken by a falling stone. Twenty-one buildings, comprising most of the business portion of Janes. ville, Minnesota. were burned on the evening of the 12th. Loss, $20,000, An arrival from the Rappahannock river, Virginia, reports that the village per- of Farubam, baving a population of 300, was destroyed by fire on evening of the 11th. The city jail at Missoula, Montana, was burned on the morning of the 13th, and a va grant named Chambers was hurned to death, —A freight train and a construction train colllded near Lancaster, Ohio, on the evening of the 12th. loth engines were demolished and nine men were injured, two of them dangerously and one mortally, — Secretary Edge, of the State Board of Agriculture, and Veterinarian Bridge, on the 13th, killed five pleuro- pneumonia infected cattle on the farm of John Fry, in Manor township, l.an- caster county, Penna The flood in the Mohawk Valley is subsiding, and danger of further dam- age is believed to be past, ~The drought, so long prevailing in Western Texas, is at last Lroken., A Leavy and general rain fell thoughout the section on the 12th. ~—Juila Lawton, in Jall at Utica, New York, on the charge of conplic- ity In causing the fire which burned to death Matthew Nassock and three children, at Meyers’ Point, on the night of the 28th ult., has made a con- fesslon. She says she accidently fired the barn adjacent to Massock’s dwel- ling by dropping a lighted match in the straw, after hghting her pipe. She claims she was under influence of opium and whisky when this was done and did not realize the conse Her husband, arrested on tl charge and now in be entirely mmnocent. the juences A telegram from Poltsb says that John Christie ves Christian, wi “ys AY fTREAl workmen. rs. Frederick Hepner , drowned herself tville, Niagara York, on the 13th. She bund and a large family of rumored that family , JU Years neat New in a well wounty, children. It is caused her suicide, ~ Mr. (+ .bson at lort has passed crisis of Blaine's rays hs what may be called disease, and has been improving the 10th, but he is not yet beyond dan- ger of a relapse. A telegram. on tl evening of the 14th, said that Mr dalne was up and dressed par: day. ~The Secretary of the Navy on 14th, awarded to Bethlehem Iron Works Company, of Penneylvania, the contracts for furnishing abou! tons of steel gun forgings and 43500 tons of steel armor plates, at a total of $4,512,088, physician patie the Wr oi nt i 44 of the Cost St New. ith —NeWS reached Jolns, foundland, on the afternoon of the Oth, of the safely of the sealing steamer Eagle, which had been reported lost, with 250 lives, She was seen by the steamer Aurora on the 5th instant. ~The main building of the Cocheco Print Works, at Dover, New Hamp. shire, was destroyed by fire on the a‘ternoon of the 156th, The loss 1s es. timated at $200,000, and 60 operatives will be thrown out of work for several months, The fire started in the **hot room,’ and spread so some of the op- eratives bad to run for their lives, or Jump from windows, leaving coats, vests, money and watches belund, An o0!d man named Hayes, who could not Jump, tumbled down stairs from the second story, and was picked up insen. sible and badly burned. Several fire- men were slightly Injured, The whole- sale drug store of the Charles Baume back Company in Milwaukee was burned on the morning of the 15th. The fire was started by the explosion of a barrel of varnish in the cellar, and two men were Injured, one of whom is not expected to recover. The loss on propeity Is $172,000; insurance, $90,000, he business portion of the village of Ainsworth, near Washington, a mecluding twenty stores, two hotels several dwellings, was burned on the evening of the 14th, J.oes, $40,000, A ee a ——— | Keesport, Penna... to take iB works, was called from |} voarding- house on the evening of the 14th ana severely beaten by several rufflans. He 18 sand to have since left thz zity, Aaron Hall, of Wallingford, Connec- ticut, claims to have found an infernal machine under his bed a few nights ago. He says that Alexander Hall hired Alton Fowler to place the box under the bed and touch 1t off, Fow- ler corroborates the charge, Minne Bertrand, aged 21 years, was fatally shot by her husband, Joseph Bertrand, aged 22, in Chicago on the evening of the 14th. After the shooting he at. tempted suicide by putting a bullet In his own breast. The couple had lived very unhappily. They had a ni=zsteen months old child. De Saulmers died on the 15th in Lewiston, Maine, from the effects of wine of colchicum, swal- lowed three weeks ago, Her husband died from the same cause on the Sth inst. The poison was put up by a druggist in mistake for port wine. ~ Mrs, —>urgeon General Hamilton, in Washington, on the 15th, received a telegram from Havana saying that the British steamer Ayrshire, from Buenos Ayres and Montevideo, February 1st. had salled from Havana on the 10th inst. for the Delaware Breakwater, without a bill of health. Cholera aging at those ports, New has dis- trar of Hoboken, | appeared and Jersey, is saad to be a « Renny, for two ves cashier of MH, H. ( rested He } 3 been sg FT woard of Trade, Ja HATES DO. ir or hicago, was a THEry. #@ was demons, means of seed Onally companiec against ocks or bonds, In the House on the 11th, ail the bills jon the calendar passed first reading. By unanimous consent the House bil) increase the salary of the Deputs Secretary of Internal Affairs to $2500 was read a second time, i to Adjourned, In the House on the 12th, the Bil- lingsly Oil Pipe Line bill, the Homo | pathic 'barmacy bill. the Brooks High first section of the act of June 1, 1885, for the better government of cities of the first class,” were passed finally and sent to the Senate. Adjourned, In the House on the 13 h the bills to restore to the onginal amount the capi- tal stock of street railway companies in { cities of the first class, and supplemen- {tary to the Mechanics’ Lien law, were | reported favorably. The vote by which on Thursday last, thé Wholesale I'gaor License bill was defeated was reconsidared, and the bill was post. ponel for the present. In the House on the 14th the Woman Suffrage amendment was reported fa- vorably. The Benate concurrent reso- lution for adjournment of the Legisla- ture on May Oth was réported with an amendment making the date May 10th, The Congressional Apportionment hill was taken up on secon: reading and passed, The Senate bill to amend the Constitution so as to abolish the poll tax for voters was passed to third reading. The Senate bill for the further regulation of foreign insurance com. panies, and the House bill appropria- ting $300,000 for a new State library aud to improve the Capitol building were passed finally, Several appropria- tion bills were also passed and sent to the Senate, Adjourned, In the House on the 15th, the Con. spiracy bill was reported back, amen- ed by a substitute, and placed on the calendar for final sotion. The Senate bill for an additional Orphans’ Court Judge in Philadelphia, and the bill to repeal the prohibition against the sale of hquer in Fairmount Park were ~~John Vernon, a nou-umion man, who went from Huntingdon to Me- parsed to third reading. Adjourned. PATS COURTING, she’s consinted at years 1'd thocht a dale ov Nellie Me- Cusker, only I had nothin’ ov an | bye’s bouldniss to up and tel same, But yisterday, sez | ‘Pat Murky, now's niver!” “Nellie was in the the dishes, and sumt} her! She's too busy way.’ “So 1 starts on wud: Ws a bad loife fur a bye to alone.’ ““Yis,’ says she ‘Mike iyan, that prison, is in a bad way indads.’ { *‘Och,’ sez I, ‘there’s money a bye that’s lonely livin’ right wid lis friends an’ naybors, Sure an’ I'm myself.’ “How can I b’lave that ‘whin you've the fiddul?’ *“‘Fidduls,’ sez I, ‘are cheerin’, but I've got me two eyes on somethin cheeriper.’ “She forgot to ax me what that sum thin' wuz, so I trotted off by anothes road, sayin’: “Faith, Nelle, I'm goin’ the pond in Marchuary.’ “ *Indade!l’ sez she “An’ it’s a pity iast For (wo iris} your pantry ' ghoute look at wid nary a twinkle 's just bi: fint ONesOE she #14 g oi aver!’ “Xie 'nez I: { her last lether,’ ‘An who's ‘Jane se “ Ja h. Pat 1} i, Yat, h “The epalpeen! 1" give} Names ne stip-bruther rty laugh n yer warm heart fo .s wf | is . it’s Ix ited 0 **“1hin 1’ cloimb in ** *She hung her curly tag . when she I *““*1'll guy ye foive seckinds,' the hig ez YEW - Lig t . “sae peeped at me over the tor i.! ‘Dye mane what ye say, ***Yis, darlint,’ sez 1. "el here is the spoon!’ at iin The exact meaning of “‘horse-pown e is the raising of 33,000 pounds one f A putty of starch and chloride of haraens quickly and lasts as Woppe: holes in metals for months, Dechinite, or wvandate zine, has been discovered i: Ore of this nature wor pound. ead az Montana, $10,000 a of i is 4 Via THE cn MA MARKETS, PROVISIONS... Peel city fam b Pork Mess. ... Prime Mess, new, sides smoked A Shoulders spoked. ..... 0 10 SBI. sone cnrrananns Smoked Beef... . Lard Western bis... ..... . Lard loose, ..... FLOU Ree West, and Pa sup. .. .. Pa PRIBHY .cooeecsonsiininiins MIDE CHOBE. «ov 00nes cassis sss Pat. Wat Wat ae Flour. .. 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