“HURRICANES OF FIRE’ SFVERAL VILLAGES DESTROYED. SEVERAL PERSONS FATALLY BURNED ~—~RAILROAD TRAVEL IMPEDED BY THE WIND AND SAND MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. April 4.— During the past two days South Dakota and Minnesota have been swept by a series of wind storms, which have caused hundreds of thousands of dollars damage to property, and several lives have been lost, The storm started Monday night and swept over a large area South of the Northern Pacific Road in Dakota, and extending into the Southern tlers of counties in this State. The greatest damage has not been caused by the wind alone, but In many places fires, fanned into fury by the storms, have wiped out of existence several small vil lages and hundreds of farmers’ houses, The towns almost completely destroyed are Volin, Olivet, Pukawana, Lester- ville and Mount Vernon and three or four other villages were badly dam- aged. At Volin every house In the place, except three, is demolished, and 100 people are houseless. Was familtes are without a roof, bie gale of wind struck Mount Vernon, and a fire started from a small that was blown over early night. No human power stop the flames, and in an the business portion of the was one great raging fire, Nearly 200 families are homeless, and Lhe loss will foot up $200,000, it is reported that several persons lost their lives in this fire, but no confirmation has yet been received. Four large elevators and the Milwaukee depot were destroyed. Neal ! Blunt one man lost 500 head of sheep, which were caught in a prairie fre Saveral head of horses were saved by swimming the river. In many places the crops were covered by the loosa sand and dust and will have to be re- planted. Travel 1 last could The clouds of dust from sessing the force of the wind, prevented engineers track. A report from Gary says the sun was almcst totally obscured, and the super- stitious thought the end of the world bad come, Farm houses and barns were swept away, and horses tle were burned to death by fires, Near Milbank 50 head of live stock are reported lost, and the fire has swept over twenty miles of the country, causing immense loss, The storm has abated somewhat, but the wind is yet jercely, and almost certain, nesota is much less than In Dakota, as the force of the storm was pietlty well spent before it had reached the boundary. A Jackson, Minn., special says: The prairie fires prove more general than at first believed, Addilional losses are reported from all directions, and mes- sengers bring news of stubborn fights to save endangered property. Fires were raging In every direclion, and each seemed to pursue a distinct course of its own. The fire which would have swept this village from the face of the earth has been traced to its origin. The search culminated in the arrest of James Travnick. When arranged Le pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay $25 and costs, or in default thereof, 60 days in jail. Much dissatisfaction is expressed about this sentence, Pab- highly tempered with mercy. The Miller, Dakota, correspondent of the Pioneer Press telegraphs: **Pral- rie fires Tuesday night destroyed about 40 houses, many barns, a large number of horses and cattle, and left about 40 families destitute in the southern part of this county. A terrible gale of wind added to the terrors of the situa. tion. The loss is estimated at $50,000, sion and will see that no one suffers for the necessaries of life,” From Huron, Dakota, comes the following: No prairie fire in the history of this part of Dakota equals that of Tuesday. In this county the losses are much less than in the counties west, Half a dozen houses were burned and many settlers lost their barns, some stock and a large quantity of hay and grain. The wind was from 50 to 80 miles an hour and sent burning embers over the plowed ground and fire breaks several rods wide, setting fre to everything in their course, The fire came up so rapidly that settlers had only time to save themselves, leaving their property to the mercy of the flames, In Sully and Hughes counties $200,000 worth of property has been destroyed. Near Highmore St. Lawrence Mr. Babcock perished in the dames, and hurling it high in the air, carry it ahead of the surface fire, alighting on barns and Houses and prairie surface fire, Houses and barns were burned where the fire was carried over 100 yards across the new broken ground, The losses are estimated at $200,000 in this vicinity. LOSSES BY FARMERS, Yankton, Dak,, April 4. The sto- ries of the terrible lossses by the hurricanes of fire that swept over the country north of bere continue to ¢ome in. Columns might be written of the horrors of the last few days and the heroic struggle to save home and prop srty that the farmers have worked so bard to secure, Violin village has only three buildings standing. In the vicinity of Jamesville, 12 miles north of Yankton, eight farmers sustained losses running from $1000 to $3000 each. One man lost $1000 in money which he had in his eoat on a plece of plowed ground, 300 feet from the grass, Two new Sragons were burned 100 feet from the Bixty “ miles’ of Western Union wires were Huron. \ a ih LEOLA DESTROYED, ABERDEEN, DAK., April 4~The terrible story of the complete destruc- tion of Leola, the county seat of Mc Pherson county, has been brought in by couriers, Leola was a fine little town of 300 inhabitants, and the country for miles around was well settled with an industrious and thrifty people. It is 256 miles from railroad and tele- graph facilities, and it is difficult to get complete information, Out of thirty places of business, including two banks, two newspapers, two churches, three or four hotels and all lines of business, but four are left standing, and out of from thirty to torty resi- dences, less than a dozen remsin, The loss is practically complete and will reach $150,000, The in- surance was very light, C, W. Old and Thomas Wardell were terribly burned, and the couriers say they cannot llve., Parties who across the country to Westport, the surrounding tated, Hundreds of farm houses are road, tinues to come in slowly and shows the details of a great disaster, It is proba. ble that not one-tenth of the damage is NEWS OF THE WEEK. - A still at the Empire Oil Works at New York, exploded on the 30th ult. The extende sheds and bins, and then Island Foundry, the Nuter the New York Iron and Works, . E. Bulwer's and flower-pot i 5 t TT %Iy ore nf SOE Hi i i 2ore ol $ asm Lin the spread to storage shed wale- ground was Larned 8 Nolan, 24 years of ag large quantity of blazing oll falling upon him, The aggregate The Ameri- Hotel and Church, In g, New York, were burned early ¢ evening of the 30th ult Los The Presbyterian Chureh Flanders, Morris county, New Jersey, was destroyed by fire on the 30th ult. A fire at Camden, Arkansas, on the 20th ult, destroyed business prope 4 valued at 3oU,I80, A { 5 ivy ¥ IO088¢8 Can on U $90.000, freight train on io Rallioad broke through a Hart's Creek, 54 ling, on the merning locomotive and 14 through, and were burned, g ignited by the burning timbers, The engineer, fireman and a brakeman by jumpmg off in the Baltimore and the of burned to death. the track Wis not was on fire until The tramps to have been from Their mwames are not wreck and were caboose remained on the crew escaped, It that the bridge The are said Philadelphia. Known. —Three cars loaded with logs jumped going at Two young men, Smith, who were riding on the first car, were killed by logs. whieh struck them. Michael Huff, 45 years old, was fatally injured at Hellertown, Pa, on the 24, by falling under a train. Harry le. Hogue, Superintendent of the electric light plant in Fostoria, Obio, was !n- stantly killed on the evening of the lst eurrent Richard Thornton, a well-knowsg boat captain, in the Pennsylvania Canal, at Beach Haven. —A man of respeciable appearance to steal 8 box of horseshoes Boston, on the 24, and was He gave his name as Charles in the theft, He had an unconlroiiable He had the feeling before. While speaking, the man suddenly fell to the floor, having been stricken with paralysis. Ie was removed a bos number of laborers on the leading Rallroad, at seized with $y to ght on the 2d, and several of ths men at- tempted to escape running on a high trestle, Cusk Dulski lost his and was dashed to pieces on the ground seventy feet below, -The public debt statement, issued by Mareh, Total cash in - Investigation of the accounts of Thieves entered old State House in New Haven, Connecticut, on the evening of the 1st, and, entering the rooms of the New Haven Historical Soctety, carried away the sword of Admiral Foote, held by the society as a relic, It isa presentation sword, studded $6000, —A big land slide occurred on Sec- the 24, opposite Pride street, and siipped down, covering the Baltimore Nearly half of DBiufl street slipped away, and it is thought some of the property along that thoroughfare is in danger. The debris covered the rall- road and Second avenue to the depth of several feel, and reaching for wany rods along the tracks, The telegraph wires were broken and travel was stopped entirely, No one was injured, ~Mrs, Margaret Kinlein and her three children were burned to death in their home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the morning ot the lst. There was every Indication that the mother had deliberately burned herself and her children. ‘They all occupied the same bed, and the smoke from the fire, built it, smothered them all, The ounce and a half of muriatic acid and zine. It 18 thought Calhoun and his wife will die, and that the daughter will recover. It is supposed that Calhoun became Iusane over financial matters. Betty Shay, a white domestic, 21 years of age, was found murdered in her room alt her employer’s house in Lexington, Ken- tucky, on the morning of the lst Thomas O'Brien, who was engaged Lo marry Miss Shay, has been arrested. ()’ Brien shot and killed Henry Metcalfe about a year ago, Henry Bell stabbed and killed Wick Whiteliff, in Curds- ville, Kentucky, on the 31st ult. They worked in a tobacco factory aud had a M. M. Marshal, an old was struck and killed mn a saloon, In Milwaukee, Wis, by Thomas Egan, a hack driver, on the morning of the 1st. Eagan was abus- prisoners In the workhouse in I.ex- ington, Kentucky, attacked and fatally A despatch rom Hancock, Dakota, says that old SQUAW from Washing- contract by his squaw wife, He She tried to leave him several vith 8 younger man, but Ed- Green, a lin pl crippled vi fatally 3 i injure Asi} Ah mob of by a people itz, a farmer, Michigan L Saginaw, nan Le found In his barn on the } Detective binson and Wallace » Charleston, Wes! the 2d, to Tug river, to arres erado and moons! Moran, A was killed, no badly woundue tix ives, of ~-Mrs, Christian Welck, and two maid servants were coal gas in their near belble- hem, Penna., on the evening of the 24, and were found unconscious the worning of the 34. Mrs. Weick is dy- t others recovering. A Baltimore anda a Clncmnatl 3 r son house, on he rain are on the ran ioto and 5t, Louis express near Rockville, Maryland, on the 3d, and a number of cars were badly damaged. No person was injo except Walter A, Cox, hit engiveer, who bad a Jeg broken ght and was badly bruised. ing; 1 t freight fred — Every business house and fl the dwellings in ML, Pleasant, ta, were destroved by fire on the 24, i $300,000, with ihe ke It was caused by nearly Da. Ko a . 31% - ye ms will be abont «% Jitels but little wd vd prairie | insurance, Tes, Emma T. Day, aged 19 years, and ber sister, Henrietta Frances, aged 16, have been arrested In Summit, New Jersey for incendiarism, I'bey con- fessed thal they only caused the recent fire In Summit, but had also caused those at Plainfield, for which William Van Ness 15 now serving a sentence in the penitentiary. —The southwest portion of Clark's sausage factory, in Montreal, three stories high, was crushed in on the 3 by the weight of snow upon the roof. Eliza Harding and Kate Byrne were buried in the rum under two large iron tanks, and were unconscious when Both were dangerously, if not fatally injured, ' NOs ~Burglars blew open the safe of the on the morning of the 3d, and secured — Berpard Blume has been arrested in Jersey City, New Jersey, on the charge of arson. Itis alleged that he and Frederick Feight, insurance The fleecing companiea insurance on the stock and fixtures. When preparations were made for the incendiary blaze a lamp would broken. fiiled with bladder a ariel lite benzine, sircle of gunpowder, A like a flash, the piace would be ablaze, insurance people, The occupants of store would of course be absent the night of the fire, attending a social gathering at the home of one of the conspirators, to prove an alibi. with having two fires in Brooklyn, and Culef Murphy believes they have been — Biward Dietz, a laborer in Pitts. burg, on the evening of the 34 killed committed suicide. The cause of the tradegy was the refusal of Mrs, Dietz to send for ber eldest daughter, lena, who was living out as a domestic, to come home, Dietz wanted his wife to live out and the daughter to take her place. After driving Mrs. Dietz and all the children but the baby from the house, Dietz sent a message to Lena that if she was pot home In an hour he woul? kill every one in the family, She Aid not obey him, and the refusal of the others to return probably alone prevented the monster from putt! his threat into execution, Sher Greenlee, of Granger county, Tennes- see, was shot and killed on the evening of the 24, while attemptiug to arrest hn Wolfenbarges, an eseaped con. «Two freight trains on the Naah- ville and Decatur Railroad collided ILVA TO HER LOVER, An Ingenuous Maiden's Speech in “The Witness of the San.” “I seem to have belonged to you always,” she sald, with her beautiful candor, *‘I seem only to have a right to myself through you. Your love makes me glad to be myself, because If great or good, you would not have loved me and your love 18 best, No, no; you must not speak; you must not contradict me, Just let me say what is in my heart. I feel that what is there must run Into your heart like a stream into the great sea. It is won derful to think that I have your love — 1 out of the word! It is as though a all on some little flower and will shine only for this flower that 1 love.” It is as though high one in heaven were to vf some fuse to sing in the great choir, that Lis v heard only in the '» dreams of some poor on earth whom be loved and Ab, do not in my he wWolnan uj i waited for, 8 80 big 15 3 110 one els ] g § Firestyerd were iRG BOLE through Always your mem- Y ou silence of Ory was wit tht moment, had a wrong thought, a wrong ib your face did not come to [Ne 48 clear, as clea iL was as clea that that white magnolia flower there | And your look 80 grieved, I longed eves woul moonlight, to ask say that you forgave me, | about you sometimes when 1 was awake, sometimes when When I used to fance: { you were dead, | would never sto And my hearl see VOI0H life on, on, on, a Uresome I would t but it would 1d ther seen quite stil you wh beat on! do no I eould not give him my love,” sms esses The Pot Hook Puzzle, The inventor of the pot hook puzzle, which the street “‘fakirs'’ are selling He tells that bits Atlantic City bouse painter, he discovered the diabolical double twisted the story of how and of copper wire would make a pu for the amusement of the “We use that sort of a Iu Our pains yok, a4 double pois on a ladder one, to bang we are paloting from of them got Well, as they were of no use them, 1 caught, to spent down and worked apart, I must have Ulle BO without any effort, they This seemed strange to me that 1 tried to put them and succeeded. I then some friends of mine at Atlantic City, where I live, About three months after that I was doing some work at the at noon I showed this trick to a fellow Well, what does they are turning them out at the rate of 20,000 a minute, and 1 never wade out of 1." The device has A ——— The “Glare” of Our White Skins, Nothing is more common than for Europeans to compiain of the difliculty they have in Individualizing men of dark races who to the eye of the white man seem all more or less alike, The natives of India have apparently the same dificalty with white men, Some men of the Lancashire Regiment stationed at DBenares recently broke loose and raided a liquor shop in a neighboring village. Some of the culprits were 80 drunk that the author- ities easily discovered them, but in order to spot the remainder the regi ment was paraded, and the villagers were asked to point out the guilty men, They abselutely failed to do so in a single case, whereupon a native paper, commenting on the incident, says: “Not a doubt of it, One of the.most difficult feats under the sun is to identify Europeans—they are so much alike with their loud, glaring white color, We wonder whether their friends and relations are at a lass to who's whe.” foisure Hours in Florida, The Bartow folks are having lots of fun guessing the number of oranges on a tres. ‘There were over 100 guesses about the last one selected, J. Shell. Em Me oe, 04” vi there were 1,903 orances. The other guesses ranged from 1 707 to 8,500 THE ALT OF DINING. Small Party of Six or Eight People the truest Enjoyment, “Think of ma» wi Thacke- Paris aa Lit B0VY, Sir 1 on a very slight gettied 1 In loose imeell to morning was in a deep armehalr, with a small lamp, with and fruit, beside him; on 1t a shaded This made the entertainment “with himself next known person, possibly a dull one, thought n« lacking to my Lid v ib Lo see you In eveuing rig novel. en he found prisoned for two hours an nwhing was arid and know I've escaped from wha to mjoyment of my book and Just say und ahead of vou makes me settle down you Ine cowering over Lhe ckerayv's well-known dsl} wired by many linners is sh y, ormal d ¢ : 1on of Lu bel agi l fF : . & . + Bilnsell, are a 1a ana liable to be invited because ¥ 3 . z § $ § « vi 3 ¢ are a fashion, not for the real charm of é which can never come oul ily in that tL of a company. No way of meetin nore and bias of 4 ne f x ’ ering oi Civiiiz 1s best found in the great centres LY s v ASA together 11 favoring combining i insiant percept i $ ve a execulion This Seriptures facuily nto harmonious and T is vital to social y¥, ‘all else is naught without | 3 much a lovely gift of nat artist's eye or musician’s ear, an enviable, charming gift which training geveiop, but nto give, ure as ' Lhe Constantly sees people puzzled because they are not the social success they believed inevilabl doe their unflagzing efforts in the why position or wealth, or finest way. Jis { “gotoe Lilie They can nol see ound the corner’’ succeeds house r ! : 3 atl ‘ : ath @ sgn Yay where they fall, and gathers Lhe lm- portant and c whose yy ov 5 wrming people verdict makes the law of fashion a law #istibie A — Why Organs Are Discordant, A well-known organist in Brooklyn nelimes blamed for fault Organ that he has known pitch of a certain stop to alter three-fourths of a tone in a few hours, **on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning when I rehearse I find the instrument in per- fect tune, but as soon as the furnaces “Often,” he says, the thermometer rises and the pitch of some of my pipes rise with it, he pitches them a trifle high in order to gether, “Dampness and other changes affect organs, too, and it 1s distressing when you are playing smoothly to have one a round turn and you have to playing is not all play. I've seen Dudley Buck, while directing a performance in Steinway hall, writhe when the organ struck in and signal to the organist to stop playing, for the heat created by the audience and the gaslight had thrown sone entirely off, and the result was a bor rible discord.” —-—_— - Herole Cure for Fainting. “1 saw a girl cured of, or rather pre- vented from, a fainting it once,” said a gentleman recently. “We had been misguided, and a man and his daughters, with whom 1 was traveling, drove into a river that was wimming. “ As the mules began to raise a rum- pus In the water ons of the girls col- lapsed and started to go into a fant, Her father struck back and slapped her & stinging blow in the face. “The girl recovered, braced up and showed that she was angry and hurt, As we pulled out on the opposite shore the father remarked: “1 am sorry I had to slap vou, but I saw you were going to faint, and might tumble into the stream, so I slapped you to prevent your fainting.” “It was herole treatment, but nt FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Don’t be what you are, unless you are what you should be, When the bee sucks it makes honey; when the spider poison When there 183 room in the there is room in the house, ride is a good thing it is not the pleasure of Next to the originator It is manifest that action is to be go Knowledge is the only of the Jove and the liberty, ten t 4 } Prin Puilorophy triumphs £anily over triumph over it, Y our absence of mind we have bone till your presence of came fx $04 4 DOG Y vO De The man or manners will n of the worst dill The mi senses he Lasn WOoma Ber 18 4 and do om bution of 14% » is Y Eaiidl $s Moan Wr LO% Graces cease NV fr - if, by our ate 1 must assoc . Oy one, an unpitied tewmplibie struggie. Alter truths freshest. Like the Alps or the oid are the the Rockies, grandeur —every view seems new and fresh. (reat Is he who en) his earthen. Ware if it were it great is the man 10 whom all lis 12 po more than earthenware, SOTTOW 8 our por are no considerations that fort those which are tiv fromy aerri 1 LY iron scriplure, as plate, and not less 5 plate When some great there like Whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this that you are dread- fully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius {« than for originality. Frienc has a noble e upon all states and conditions, Ii relieves OUT Cares, our hopes and abates our fears, A friend who relates his success talks himself nlo a new pleas. ure, and, by opening his misfortunes, leaves part of them behind him, iT Sallleness flect raises Alas! it is pot till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the book of human life to light the fires of passion with from day to day that a man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number, It is a very indiscreet and trouble. some ambition which cares s0 much about fame; about what the world says of us: to be always looking in the faces of others for approval; to be always auxious about the effect of waat we do or say: to be always shouling, to hear the echoes of our own volces, It is almost aiways wien things are all blocked up and impassible, that a happening comes, If you ure sure you are Jooking and ready, that is all you need, God is turning the world all the time, Keep your promise to the letter, be care through life, and win you the re- Blessings on him who invented sleep } covers all human ger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that herd with the King ana the simple with Labor in its various forms is the EE Our food, our clothing, our dwellings, Yet work has other fuuctions less widely recog nized. It Is valuable for its effects upon ihe worker himself, 11 streogthe ens his muscles, develops his powers, raises his courage, exaits his character, it 1s the pith and marrow of a happy, healthy life, The pains which the farthifal teacher takes with pupll or class seems au Urifi- ing matter compared with the worth of the education itself when gained and the influence which it may exert on society and hand down to future gen- érations, Yet all these far-reaching results may be traced distinctly to the hours of patient and earnest work by teacher and pupil. The same is true of all labor. The wonderful growth of a city is due to the enterpnse of some, to the skill and ingenuity of others, to the productive toll of many, The es tabilshment of some noble institution for the benefit of mankind, of which we are justly proud, might never have taken place but for the humane feeling and the Intelligent foresight that were. happily united in some one indsvidaal, who never drestmed of the graua few.
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