A BIG BLOW IN KANSAS THE FORMATION OF A FUNNEL- SHAPED CLOUD SEEN FOR MILES. ONE PERSON KILLED AND A NUMBER INJURED, EIGHT FATALLY. Cnicaco, May 8.—A despateh from Hutchinson, Kansas, says the news reached this city yesterday that the wind storm that had been raging for the last three days had culminated in a cyclone in the northern part of Pratt county, extending over the eastern por- tion of Stafford and up into Rice county. The funnel-shaped cloud formed between 7 and 8 o'clock and could be seen for miles, The district over which it passed was sparsely settled, and but for this fact the loss of life and property would have been terrible. The cyclone first struck at a point about five miles southeast of Stafford, and for miles in a northeasterly direc. tion left nothing but a barren waste strewn with the wrecks of houses and barns, trees and fences, with here and there the bodies of stock, either killed or crippled by the wind. The only person killed outright was Willlam Crawford, whose neck was broken by the flying timbers of his house, which was totally demolished. The casual- ties as far as known are: William Crawford, neck broken. William Bolt, fatally Injured. Oliver Beard, paralyzed; cannot re- cover. Jason Beard, internally injured; will die. A. F. Gumup, internally injured. Mrs. J. Love, sericusly injured. Peter Scarlet, leg broken. Mrs. John Bartlett, shoulder blade broken and other injuries; will die, William McVeigh, internally injured; cannot recover. : Joseph Ferris, bead; will due, Mrs, Guinup and babe, the mother internally Injured and the babe’s thigh broken. Mrs, Lindley, seriously hurt. Daughter of George Davis, fatally injured. 8. 8, Crawford, fatally injured, About 20 or 30 were more or less in- Jured. A. F. Guinup’s house was totally destroycd, and himself and family badly injured. His wife and a young babe were carried a distance cof 100 feet, and the child’s thigh broken. Joseph Giles’s house was totally de- stroyed, and the contents scattered in every direction. The house belonging to Mrs. Lindley, and occupied by her- self and two stepchildren, Mand and Willlam Blue, was blown to atoms. Mrs. Lindley was seriously Injured, and is not expected to recover. Joseph Seller's fine two story house was torn to pleces and £0 scatlered that not a splinter remained on the former site. Another large house, not yet occupied, was demolished. A large number of borses and cattle were killed and crip- pled. Physicians were summoned and the people of the whole country turned out to render every assistance possible, Many other buildings were more or less damaged, and, where the cyclone crossed the Santa Fe Raliroad, between Sterling and Alden, the telegraph poles were leveled to the earth aud other damage done. There was no fatalities in that district, As soon asjthe news of the cyclone reached Stafford a mass meeling was held and committees organized to carry on the work of relieving the distress in a systematic manner. More than a hun- dred people are leit homeless and with- out food or clothing. Reports from other towns through- out the southwestern part of the State indicate heavy winds for three days past, but potting in the pature of such a tornado has visited Stafford county. A CAR BLOWN FROM THE TRACK. CRICAGO, May B.—A despatch from Sioux Falls, Dakota, says: One of the heaviest, steadiest winds ever known in this section prevalled on Monday and Monday night, culminating in rain, About midnight the wind blew a box car from the side track on to the main track of the St, Paul Road at Dell Rapids, A freight train, running at full speed, struck the car and the entire train and locomotive were wrecked. Fred, Smith, a brakeman, was instantly killed, Several others, including pas. sengers, escaped with bruises, A GALE IN MINNESOTA. CHicaco, May 8,—A despatch from St. Paul, Minn,, says that after blow- ing hard all day Monday night in the Northwest, the wind yesterday In- creased to a gale, and did considerable damage to buildings and crops, At Buffalo, this county, wheat was in many places blown out of the ground by the roots. In other places it 18 buried so deep that it will never come up. At Yanktown the wind blew a hurricane, The City Hill rocked so that the Council hastily adjourned and went Into the street, A soaking rain followed, At Hinckley, Minn., the wind aid damage to timber and shade trees, An engine running between Sandstone and Sandstone Junction was wrecked yes~ terday afternoon by a tree falling across the engine while in motion. Engineer Dore escaped uninjured, while Fireman Elmer Miller was badly bruised, 1X CARRIAGES BLOWN OVER, raripavrr, Mion,, May 8. —Yes- terday’s storm raged here with ter. rific force all day. Parties who started for East Prairie to sitend a funeral met with much difficulty. Six earri- ages were blown over. Fire started in the timber near Walcott Mills, and spread rapidly over the wooded coun- try betweeu there and Faribault, destroying Immense quantities of wood, hay, fences and outbuild- ings on the farms, The farmers abandoned their houses and removed their families and household goods to open fields for greater safety, The amount of damage done Is estimated at over $60,000, were uprooted and thrown across the roadside In every direction. A house belonging to e man named Hoyt between here and Medford was blown to pieces. There were severe! persons in 1 at (he lime, but they vaca «Jd pei U0 Infusion injured about the TEN MEN KILLED. A DREADFUL COLLIERY DISASTER AT MIDDLEPORT. ————————— CAR THROWN DOWN THE SHAFT SHATTERS THE ASCENDING CAGE AND KILLS THE OCCUPANTS. POTTSVILLE, Pa., May 0.—At Kaska Willlam Colliery, near Middleport, this evening, the cage containing ten miners was ascending the shaft, and had reached a height of about 106 feet from the bottom, when an empty car was pushed over the top of the shaft by two Hunganan laborers. The car struck the ascending cage with awtul momentum, shattering it to splinters, and instantly killing every one of its occupants, The names of the victims are as follows: Michael Boyle, assistant and inside foreman; Hugh Carin, Patrick Mec- Donald, George Bendel, John FPotto- visch, Frank Stratkovisch, John Moore, Albert Dwyer, Edward Kutz, Stephen Matson. The cage with the ten victims was hurled info the **sump,’ a hole at the bottom of tho shaft ghere the water from the workings accumulates, and the mangled bodies were not recovered for some time, The mine is operated by the Alliance Coal Company, It is an old working and the shaft is 500 feet deep. Boyle leaves a wife and seven chil. dren. It was not his turn to ascend, but he exchanged with a young man named Hoolthan, Putllavisch leaves a wife bot no children. He was a brother-in-law of Mrs, Putlavisch, who, with Agnes Kateh, was murdered about a year ago by Peter Baranaviski, now awaiting execution here, and was the intended husband of Miss Katch, All the other victims of the accident were single men, The colliery employs about 500 hands. It Is the colliery at which the murderer Baranousk! was employed, and 1s also known as *‘Blg Vein.” There 18 Intense indignation over the employment of a stupld Hungarian in a position of such responsibility as at the mouth of the shaft, The appalling accident is unprece- dented in the history of miving in this coal region, no case of similar charac- ter ever having occurred before, There is 35 feet of water In the ‘sump,’ and the work of recovering the bodies is very diffeult, At 7 o'clock this evening only one body has been recovered, but it was thought then that all would be brought out during the evening. No report bas reached here from the scene of the disaster since that hour, A a — SIX WOMEN KILLED. SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT A CROSSING. A STREET CAR WRECKED IY ENGINE. Mich., May 8B. — A AN KALAMAZOO, o'clock this evening at the West Main Railroad, A street car, seven ladies and two gentlemen, was east at a high rate of speed, and the our gers were hurled to a terrible death. It was but the work of a moment and the fearful catastrophe was over, The street car was carried almost to Academy streets, being mangled In a frightful manner, Those in the car were Mrs, Alexander Haddock, Mra M. E. Wallea, Gertrude Tillotson, Mrs, George Smi- ley, Mrs. Middleton, Mrs. Van werp, Mrs, 8, A, Gibson, Mrs. Jona- than Bernes, Mr. IL. C. Lull, Dr, Sutton. being found dead In the cattie-guard, one in the creek near by, two on the track, and Mrs, Middleton died an hour later. She was thrown in the roadway. Mia Gibson was injured in the head and side and Mrs, Barnes was bruised badly, The male passen- gers both escaped. The driver of the car escaped by jumping. The switch engine was running at a high rate of speed, The gates at the crossing where the accident occurred are pot used between 5.30 and 6.58 P, M., the gatekeeper going home at that time. This custom probably deceived the driver of the street car, who was a new man, and probably supposed that the gates would of course be down if an engine were coming. -The dwelling house of Watson Bownes, in Westchester, New York, was burned on the morning of the 7th. His mother, his two children, aged 3 and 5 years, and Kate Dunn, a servant, and her sister perished in the ames, Mr. Bownes and his wife, with one child, escaped, although the parents were badly burned, The business por. tion of Waldron, Michigan, was de. stroyed by fire on the 6th. Loss, $60, 000 ; partially Insured. The woods all around the city of Wausau, Wiscousn, are on fire, Hay meadows, crops and bridges have been destroyed. Forest Fires are also reported from Ishpeming and East Tawas, Miclagan, lo North. ern Michigan no rain has fallen for several months, and as a result forest fires are raging In every direction, threatening destruction to property and heavy losses to lumbermen and farmers «lara Graham, aged 18 years, was convicted of horse stealing in the Crim. inal Court in Kansas City, Missouri, on the 6th, and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. When placed on the stand she confessed that February 18th, while out she met Frank MeGoy, on horseback, and he joined her and pro- posed an elopement, she 16 go to St, Joseph, She went there, when he did not come, she drove to H Kacsas, and Getig dub of money, she sold (he horse and buggy. NEWS OF THE WEEK. | — A terrible wind storm began at St. Cloud, Minnesota, on the evening of the Oth, and continued on the 7th, The air was (illed with blinding clouds of dust. In the surrounding country a number of houses and barns were un roofed or moved from their foundation, Forest fires are raging near Kimball Prairie. A cyclone swept across Fargo, Dakcta, on the 6th, and unroofed nur- erous dwellings, The storm moved from South to North, and was preceded by a blinding sand storm and rearing sounds, A wind storm passed over Buffalo, Dakota, on the 6th, damaging crops and buildings. Rain fell in Da- kota, on the 7th. It was the firs? rain of the season, and farmers on the Mis sour: slope now think the crops are saved. The rain exiended pretty much all over Dakota and Northern Minne- sota. The Signal Service officer at Chicago reports that storm southeast signals have been ordered hoisted on Lake Michigan, and that a severe storm Is coming from the West, Three men entered McGovern's Rotel, in Cadillac, Michigan, on the evening of the 6th, and, overpowering the proprietor, took $1300 from the safe and escaped, — While out driving at Florida, on the 7th, Mr, and Mrs, J, M, Charebill, of Iowa, apd Mr, and Mrs, J. D. Burdette, were thrown from the carriage against a barbed wire fence by the horees runuing away. Mr. Bur- dette was killed, Mrs, Churchill was badly mangled, and her left side aud legs were paralyzed. Mis. Dur- dette’s left shoulder was wrenched out of place and an eye was almost torn out, Mr. Churchill escaped with sligh injuries, A portable boller at Teasle's saw-mill, nesr Freedom, Va,, exploded on the 6th, killing Frederick Davidson and severely injuring his father, John Oleson was killed and Nelson Johnson fatally injured by a blast at the Minnesota Mine, Tower, Minne- sota, on the 6th, Both men were at the bottom of the pit. Lawley, $ i ~— While workmen were drilling holes in rock in a tunnel near Ashland, Pa. on the 7th, for the purpose of Liasting, one of the drills struck some dynamite which had falled to explode io u pra vious blast. An explesion followed, klll'ng James Keutzler, of New York, and injuring seven others —~—Cieorge Lynn and his wife were arrested at Youngstown, Ohio, on the 7th, charged with inhumanly treating their 1l-year-old daughter, lizzie, her brutal and bad teen held the by fe, The mother had child's throat,” - Three masked men robbed the postmaster at Florisant, Colorado, ou | As given and a party wa The robbers were Tbe rob- Another fight ensued, when one of the robbers was kiiled and | another wounded. At last accounts behind a barricade, and it was not ex- his ammunition was exhausted, ~ AS 8 passenger train on the Valley the smoker Jeft the track ard collided with a car loaded with coal (n a mde track, E. D. Obert, of Akron, Ohio, and George J. Kempl, of Cleve. land, were killed, and Lawrence O'Con- New York, and James (, Taylor, of ~Matthew Rast and Augustus tions of a train atl Champion, Michi gan, on the Tth. A passenger and take of orders by the train despatcher, Fireman Burchett waa fatally, and Baggage Master Farrell, Mail Agents King and Corwin, Express Messenger Dunn and Fireman Warner, badiy In- jured. An Itallan, supposed to be Luig!l Onona, was killed on the 7th by being struck by a train while walking upon the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore tracks near Back river. ~~ Fierce forest fires are burning in Northern Wisconsin, east of Gogebie Lake, Several railway stations have bean burned and reports from the Vere milion Range state that all the towns in that vicinity are surrounded by flames, Great damage has been done to timber, All the telegraph wires from there into Duluth have been down for two days. Forest fires have de- stroyed the villages of Bruee Crossing and O'Brien, In Ontonagon county, and half of the villages of Spaulding and Stambaugh, in Menominee county, Michigan. A forest {ire is in progress in the lumber woods, five miles west of Kane, Pa, and 1 working its way toward Porter Station. Half of the village of Elta, near Winona, Minne sota, has been destroyed by fire. It started from the prairie fires. Several buildings in Shrub Oak, Westchester county, New York, were burned on the evening of the 8th, Waiter T, Logan, a member of the stock firm of A, L.. Morrison Sons & Logan, was found dead at the ranche of the (irm in Apache county, Arizona, on the 6th, He had been suffering from a felon, and on the evening of the 4th, took morphine to alleviate the pain. It is supposed that he inadver- tently took an overdose. He was a son of Thomas A. Logan, of the Cincin- natl bar, The Legislature, on the oth, ad- journed finally, the General Appropria- tion bill having | been agreed upon as Senate, for William McAleer. Natural Music, B1ide up thy silver sands, O booming sea. Tho pines that skirt thee eatch thy min- strelsy, And over all the forest swells a tone That echoes but the music of thine own, Half silent, rivers glide, save murmuring WAVES laves, Whispering among the pebbles, low and sweet; 80 low, so sweet, wild birds the strain re peat, green moss, Long, glittering chains, rents Loss, Shivering and darting ‘neath the arching trees, The wandering winds keys Bing their love songs above the waves and rocks In harmony that every heart unlocks, ARISE RTI the slipping tor- in mystic minor Many years ago while making a tou through that beautiful tract of moun- tain scenery in the south of Bavaria for a fortnight for grayling and in talking to the cham- visit, I used often to sit for hours lis tening to their hunting stories, and on one occasion I hunted with them. The mountains {immediately around Berchtesgaden are as a chamois preserve, and as the king was kept majesty’s own jaegers were allowed, during the time I was there, to disturl the chamois, I was, however, very anxious to have at least one day's sport, and arranged with old Siegel and Franz, hunters whom Known for some th depend, to have a row, Slegel persuaded Gotling, a friend of his, to come with us, We started early Is after for several hours through the woods, became more scant and scrubby the higher we went, emerged at last on the open snow felds, We now his son chamois I had whom 1 could ‘“fagd’” on the mor- avid ne, and on " A 3 the morning, and toiling up dark pine which separated; Franz and Got. a long detur t Siegel and 1 ow : 1: : ing made Oo the left, while hastened on to reach some bove in case any After an halted on the , ry er i is . & ¥ commanaing position a chamois were driven up. hours’ more climbing we top of a precipice, which, the shaped form of a crescent, made % A sac for any chamois driven up by our friends below, We had hardly been watching minutes when two chamois appeared in sight, bounding side and coming directly toward When the foremost range 1 fired and would have done, firing as 1 small an object from a height al perpendicularly above it, The beasts turned, and springing with wonderful speed over the sharp rocks, were soon out of sight, fired a second shot just as they were disap- pearing, think 1 struck one of them, but it contrived to get away and We never saw it again, Siegel and 1, somewhat crestfallen, trudged on up the mountain keeping a sharp lookout on all sides and halling now and then to give the others time to overtake us, Suddenly we heard, far down below us, a shot, and then all was silent, We were much surprised, as it is one of the first rules in this kind of hunting never, except when absolutely necessary, even raise the Voice, much less, of course, to fire a rifle, which scares the chamois completely, We knew tnat Gotting and Frauz, directly below us as they were, could not possibly have seen a chamois, our shots must have driven them quite out of reach. After a minute's anx- jety listening, we fancied we lLeard shots, and fearing we knew not what, called loudly Franz’s name, We then heard-—and this time quite distinetly-—the voice of Gotling saying, “Come down! come down! It over! Franz has shot himself!” siegel and 1 were standing together ankle deep in the snow, I glanced into his face, and think I shall never forget the look of misery I saw there, Before I knew what he was about, he had ten up the mountain Us, had come missed, as most men did at #0 1184 + os and © again 10 “as is all zie to his head, and was feeling with his foot in a frenzied manner for the trigger. I snatched the piece away just In time; be did not try to recover it, but throwing himself on the snow, burst into a most passionate, most eloquent torrent of praise of his son’s many vir- tues. He told me what a good son be had always beento him, anxious to fulfill his slightest wish, I at length succeeded in partially soothing him, and in rousing him to action, We scrambled down as fast as we could, guided by Gotting’s shouts, It was a long time before we reached them: to me it seemed an age. 1 ac- cused myself of being the author of all this misery, and my anxiety was height. ened by the reflection that we were in reality poaching, and we should very likely, in cotisequence of this misfort- une, get into trouble on our return. We found poor Frans lnng shot through the back and in grest pain WE ea “knieholz”—a plant | It ap- among stunted something like our whinbush, peared that he had, contrary to all | Jaeger rules, carried his rifle capped, | and that ir walking through the knie- | holtz he had stumbled and fallen, and | We stanched the blood a8 well ag we handker and uitation, Gotting sald i he knew of a chalet some wav off 10 ! whieh he thought we might manage to carry Franz, I lifted him up as carefully as pos- sible, and walked for some way over | the abominable knielioiz, which threat | | ened to trip one up every moment. 1 managed, I think, to go about two { hundred yards with my burden, and | | then, exhausted had to lay him down, i His father tried to carry him next, but | unnerved and half blinded by his tears, | { had also soon to give it ap. | | Golting was the only one of the party | who could carry Franz for any great | | length of time over the rough ground | we were now compelled to traverse; he | was a small man, but seemed to be all | wire and muscle, it was, however, our shiefs, evident that at the were obliged to go we even if we knew Lhe by the way, none of us did—get to the chalet before glow pace we should never, | exact direction—which, nightfall, Some other arrangement | t be made, TOPOS a tha he should the mus Gotung i stay with man, Siegel and 1 should go forward and at- te t. Golling was y had ever vears before. while wots riot WwoulLiuey rt ip { I SLE | ie ony one s party wi it was le gave us directions how to find iL, irr 13 pass to the right or left | ale % § Te pointed cut to us, ¢ were Ww riain peaks he 1 nu he said id see a large cross this we Wie ww, We were to 1 the chateau was in If a mile above and to the left, Well, started- and 1- except a few we Siegel all the provisions iches with Franz and Dre rotting. yught us to the peak to rolling, we were But there was peak rose Ing AWa) bad described. CE. § : to (20 1a f8UE ang bewildered as we now were tel 10 et back Wo hem. chance was forward, . oq 1 git + 4 furl - Tired and dispirited , round only i« uming ering themselves dark and threatening behind The wind, We determined indeed 3 “ Winco clouds us. too, began to rise, EO we were 100 much exhausted to go any to downward; higuer or waste any wore time n lool ing for the chalet, The ground seemed lower we went, mendous gusts of wind roun most danger ous, Great, spatiering raindrops n began to to get g Hd and the tre- x 3 1 which whistled re rough the 1 us made the decent OW fall and we halled on a ledge of rock, utterly worn out Ty The storm increased and i time was at its height, rain down in torrents, completely drenchin The flashes played all round, y 180): Us, agus illuminating for an instant grandeur of the scene, der pealed and crashed overhead, eac crag and wal! of rock ech wil ng the sound hundred fold, own our ri d increasing it We had thr afraid that the lightning them, and stood walling to abate, When we resumed scent we tretobling with cold in limb, The air, which was warm | enough before, was now piercingly cold and the wind drove snow and bits of our faces with blinding al Hai flues away, strike storm would for the our de- were every ice against force, I went first, and for a long time neither of us spoke. Only when a par- ticularly dangerous place was crossed 1 gave the warning, “Look to the i right!” or “To the left!” as the case | might be, Siegel led the way when 1 was tired, | and thus we proceeded with the great- | | est caution, as a false step would have | | been almost certain death, till we got to | more level ground, Here wo again encountered thickets | of knleholz. We were already con! gratulating ourselves on having got the | worst over, when we were suddenly | stopped by a precipice or “Wand,” down which it would have been 1mpos- sible for a goat to go, It was a sheer descent of at least eighty feet. This was a dreadful disappointment, We walked along the edge for some way, but as far as we could see the Wand extended for miles, 1 had already thrown myself on the ground and had given up all hopes of life, when a shout from Siegel, who had gone ona little way, made me once more spring to my feet, I hastened to him. He was standing over a narrow hole in the rock almsst hidden Ly bushes of the knlehols, “We ure saved! wo are saved!” be He explained to me how, when I bad given up in despair, be suddenly thought that he remembered the place we were in, and had remembered, too, that if it were indeed the part of the mountain he supposed it to be, there the Wand by which the chamois bun- ters scaled the otherwise ina place, Ie had gone on, fou opening, and fearful of 1nd i bad stood over cansible the losing the spot al Re & it and call till 1 We slid sefely down this chimney like hole, which is nol nore than twenty feet in depth, and easly de- scending the lower part of the Wand, which is here much broken, arrived, famished and half frozen, at 19 o'clock at night at a woodman’s hut Siegel knew ef in the valley below. Here we Three of the woodmen immediately started up the mountain and returned in a few bours with poor Frapz, who was very much exhausted, not so much from cold—as Gotting had contrived to light a fire, and they had prov from loss of blood, I once asked Sieg if ad not found “We should,” he said struck our alpenstocks into the and bave walked rou hem all night to keep off sleep, which if § quered us would of course, have If we lived wil iS. 008 AH would that : ) ak iegel whal he have opening. done he b “have . 1 ground, i nd t the fatal, shouid her we in so doing, cold, 1 we were, the reader may judge, As for Franz, he o recs is wound unted neln- susted ri vs lat on npletels IV- and | Lave and 1 have L489 time 44 mm ginees that many a time with Lin since has orate cay. ss nd Mother. Honor Thy Father a He Lived on Diamonc An extraordi story is from the Lake of Como. A well ATS reporiec dressed 4 ssage at ¢ 3 Shia iderly gentieman 100K pa GIno Duar presented to one td } * 3 » dod white paper ROI Colico by the polics name was Le he was a Berlin diamond ve!’ he said, pay with diamonds.” proceeded to swal ypoid } 1 4s #42 3 gems which he The German consul, at whose Landauer was relegated asylum until the arrival of i{e had upon his person 162 valued at 80,000 On police communicated ¥ francs, lean away his diamonds, the people of the place in- stituted an immediate search for the treasures, i ——— AAPA Evolution of Writing Paper, Paper has changed in form consid erably during this century, Fifty years ago paper in shape like our fools. cap was generally used for correspond- ence. It was solded anccording to the skill of the writer and sealed with seals ing wax. Then came the letter size; then commercial pote. In America sealing wax has gone out of date. Not #0 in Europe. Nothing every goes out of date in Europe if the effort of arti sans or others interested in its sale can accomplish that result. So-called seals are seen in rings and attached to watch chains of American gentlemen, but they simply suggest a disused { like the rudimentary fins of some kinds of fish, In Europe wax with seals in all sorts of ingenious forms, intendod for use, are for sale every where ih such pumbers that it Is evident thelr mana. facture gives employment to mans thousard persons.
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