DAMAGE CAUSED BY LIGHTNING AND FLOOD. REPORTS FROM THE NORTH WEST. Easton, Pa., June 5.—The rain storm here last night caused $6000 dam- age to goods in the basements of stores by the water overflowing the pavements where new sewers are being construct- ed. Lightning damaged three houses in South Easton, snd considerable damage was done in the surrounding country by lightning. Clewell’s un- dertaking establishment at Nazareth was destroyed, and the residence of Mrs, John Altemus, at the same place, was damaged, Thomas Altemus’ barn, in Ross township, Monroe county, with some live stock, was destroyed. T.e barn was insured for $6,600, Lockport, N. Y., June 5.—The storm here last night was noted for a rainfall that fairly came in sheets of water, overflowing all the sewers of the city and flooding many cellars. Water in the canal rose 2} feet above its level above the locks and for the first time ran over the locks in a flood, stopping the locking of boats for several hours this morning, During the storm the play of lightning and roll of thunder were almost continuous. In the towa of Newfane the ample barns of Wood- ward and Jaques were struck by light- ning and burned, involving a loss of $5000 to $6,000, and as claimed by the owners, $2,000 more than the insurance, DES Moines, Iowa, June 5 —Re- ports received at the railroad oitlces in this city say that the Milwaukee and Rock Island Railroad sustain severe losses at Weston, Underwood and Per- sia. and all trains are suspended on both roads. A fast stock traln on the 1llinois Central plunged into a wash- out at Ackley yesterday with seven carloads of cattle, over 100 head being killed. The storm about Adair was the worst ever known there, Heavy clouds rolled up from the Northwest in the evening, and by 10 o'clock the wind was blowing a hurricane, and the rain fell in blinding sheets, Corn was badly washed eut and orchards and gardens ruined in many places. A barn, near Anita, was struck by lightoing and a valuable Lorse consumed, Uns farmer pear there loses eight head of large pigs by their being washed out of a pen into a creek, A German farmer, northwest of Adair, whose residence and outbulild- ings are located on the lowlands, lost 60 bead of hogs by drowning. His barn, corn-crib, bay stack and fences were carried away, and three feet of water stood in his residence, driving the fam- ily to the upper story. John Cook, living east of Casey, had a §2000 stallion drowned in the Middle river, and came near losing his own lite. No lives were lost in this vicin- ity. St. Paul, Minn. June §5.—Uver one inch of rain fell in this city yesterday. the city receiving the most thorough drenching in many months. The Mil waukee trains were all delayed several hours by washouts, and other roads also suffered. Two fatalities are re- ported from near Janesville, Mino, E. T. Taylor and son, Henry, farmers of Medo, were Instautly killed by light. ning about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. They were standing in the door of a a large stock barn, and the barn was totally consumed by fire, including a large amount of hay and aloe horses, A TENEMENT HOUSE FIRE A BUILDING IN ST. LOUIS BURNING WHILE THE INMATES SLEEP. ONE LIFE LOST AND SIX BADLY BURNED, St. Lous, June 2 —The building Xo. 1633 Franklin avenue, the second floor of which is occupied as a tene- ment by several families, and the lower floor as a paint shop, was discovered to be on fire at about 3 o’clock this wmorn- ing. The fire started on the second fioor, and burned for about half an hour before it was discovered. When the alarm was turned in the fire was well under way. As soon 8s the fire. men armved a stream of water was turned on the burning building, but no effort was made to rescue the occu pants, until loud screams from the sec- ond story indicated that there were helpless people inside, The firemen entered and found the family of Geo, Schiothman struggliog in ths smoke and flames in the two front rooms, Mr. Sechlothman was frightfully burned and was lying helpless on the floor. His wife and two children were also burned, and his father, an old man neazly 70 years of age, had been sinothered to death in his bed, Charles Hauss, who occupied the rear apart ments with his wife and child, had just left to go to work, and his wife and little son were caught in the flames, Mrs. Haoss could have escaped, bat her little boy was so frightened that he ran under the bed, and in the frantic mother’s efforts to save her child she was dangerously burned, The child was found in an unconscious condition, but the mother is able to speak, The injured were all taken to the dis- pensary. Schiothman is not expected to live. The recovery of hus two children is also though Mrs. Schlothman George 32 years, burned; Annie "Soblothioan, his or badly burned about the head, neck, PERSONS BRADSHAW, IN NEBRASKA, STRUCK BY A TORNADO. TWELVE KILLED AND TWENTY-NINE INJURED, EIGHT MORTALLY. LINCOLN, Neb,, June 4.-—-The State Journal party returned from the scene of the tornado in Dradshaw, York county, this evening, and brought a confirmation of the worst reports re- ceived of the destructiveness of the storm of Tuesday night, Bradshaw Is a town of 600 people situated on the Nebraska railway, about 60 miles west of Lincoln. The storm struck the town at 8.30 Tuesday evening, coming from the southwest. Scarcely a moment's war- ping was given, the roar of the whirl- wind being the first notice that the terrified people heard, It struck the town fairly, and there was not left a single building. Every business house was made a total wreck and the prin- cipal street was filled with the ruins. In the extreme western part of the vil- lage a few houses are left with a sem- blance of their former appearance, but they are without windows and doors, and their contents were scattered broadcast over the prairie. The depot building was crushel into kindling wood and every car standing there was wrecked, except one that was loaded with stock, and which was blown, without leaving the track, to York,a distance of nine miles. The telegraph lines were prostrated, and | when the car arrived at York it was feared that some disaster had occurred. A messenger went up the track, and at midnight returned with the news of | the disaster. | The fire bells were rung and im a short time large numbers of the people were on their way to give assistance. At the same time a special train left Lincoln with physicians and other re- — Lightning struck a powder house owned by Tracy & Avery, near Mans- field, Ohlo, on the afternoon of the 8d, and a terride explosion followed, The dwelling of Henry Roost, just across the road, was destroyed. A 15-months- old child was killed and the mother and another child badly Injured, Four members of the family poisoned by eal- ing wild parsnips, near Lake George, Ontatlo, are now dead, and it is feared that the other three will die. A partly of young people left Leadville, Colo- rado, on the 2d, on a fishing trip dewn the Arkansas river. When they reached the Midland bridge a young man named Brennan attempted to assist Annie Berry and Laura May to eross upon a plank which was laid across the stream. When in the centre of the plank It turned, throwing all three Inte the roaring waters, After a hard struggle Brennan managed to save himself, but the girls were drowned. —Part of the ruins of an old church in Freeport, Illinois, fell on the 34, carrying down with 1t five men, all of whom were injured, Charles Rudolph and Peter Zimmerman, it tis feared, fatally. A runaway team in Clarks- ville, Iowa, on the 3d, killed Mra. Loboek and injured her daughter, —John Kane, aged 4 years, on Lhe 24, fell into a mill pond in Dedham, Massachusetts, and was swept the whole length of the covered flume, 150 feet, in a raging torrent six feet deep, He was taken out of the rack nesr the wheel in an unconscious condition, but was goon resuscitated. He was appar- ently uninjured. —A cloud burst near Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the morning of the 4th, did great damage along Mosquito creek. The little town of Underwood was partially wrecked, a number of cat- tle and hogs were drowned, and the total loss 1s estimated at $150.000, T. N. Taggett, Edward Goodehild, Wil- liam Holmes and Matthew ingle, farmers, were struck by lightning near Caro, Michigan, on the evening of the 34. Goodehild and Holmes were killed. lief. It was found that a Russlan settle- | ment near the town was struck, and | the report is that nine persons were | killed there outright, The physicians say that in all 12 are dead, 8 mortally wounded aud perhaps 21 hurt more or | less seriously. Governor Thayer to-day ordered the York militia to the scene to assist in caring for the property. He also sent sixty tents and supplies on a special train, which lert Lincoln this evening. | The State Journal has opened a sub- scription list for the sufferers, and the contributions are very liberal. ss A A VILLAGE DESTROYED FATAL HAVOC OF A CLOUD BURSTIN | IOWA. THREE LIVES KNOWN TO BE LOST — OTHERS REPORTED DROWNED, CouNcit Burrs, lowa, June 2,— A special to the Nonpareil from Mis~ souri Valley reports the almost total destruction of the village of Loveland, eight miles below that point, by a huge waterspout yesterday, Loveland is lo- cated in the Beyer Valley, ia a gully. A terrific storm, amounting to a cloud burst, passed over the valley, breaking about a mile above town, sweeping down the street and leaving hardly a house in the town, The loss of life, as | far as has been heard from, includes | Mra, Sayles, an aged lady, and son, | There are olhers whose names are now | unknown. One family was taken off | the tree tops, the next morning, where | they had been swept by the flood. Oove | of the family was swept past and drowned, The search for the missing | bodies is so far unsuccessful, NEWS OF THE WEEK. —laewiz J, Haun, cashier of the National Bank in Washington, New Jersey, on the 2d, fatally injured his wife. He choked her and threw her down stalrs, breaking her back, The cause of the assault Is not stated, William .ackson on the 24 shot aod killed Ida Dean, at Fort Smith, Arkan- sas, He fired two bullets at her and | then shot himself in the heart, but not! fatally. They had lived together, and the woman, after Jeaviog him, bad re- fused to live with him again, — Mrs, Robert Morrow attempted to Hight a tire with kerosene at her home in Durango, Colorado, on the 1st. An explosion occurred which set fire to the clothes of the woman, her 4-year-old son and her young baby. They ull three perished in the house. which was burned before assistance could be rendered, — Willie and Harry Patterson, aged respectively 12 and 9 years , were drown- ed while bathing in the Brandywine, pear Wilmington. Delaware, on the afternoon of the 24, John Starr was drowned by falling out of a boat on the Christiana river on the 2d. George Hayes, a brakeman, was killed at Windsor, Ontario, on the 24, by being caught between cars, Hayes was the principal witness for the Dominion in the celebrated Birchell-Benwell mur. der case. A family named Campeanu, living in Lake George.a village 40 miles from Ottawa, Ontario, were poisoned on the lst by eating wild parsuips. Two boys diad and the doctor fears that oe grandfather and another child will A crowd of white boys In St, the river, intending to duck him, When they got him in the water his cries attracted the attention of a police man, and at Lis approach the boys fled. They left the in the water and he tramps had a row on Centralis, 1llinows, on the 2d, in w Shiite, se were ad So mally Bud Lindsay, 8 + 8. Marshal, on the 34, aid ts by allon’ of ‘he others are recovering. The large barns attached to the Warren House, in Belvidere, New Jersey, were struck by lightning on the evening of the 4th and burned to the ground, A young trotting horse valued at $800 was burned to death. Several adjoining barns were also burned, Durning a sey, on the evening of the 4in, a tree was blown across the roadway on Crescent avenue, knocking down a live Rambo, the $30 00 trotter belong to John Chandler, was being driven back from the track of the Gentlemen's Driving Park Asso- ciation by his trainer, George Sadler, when the animal shied at the fallen tree and ran against the wire. The horse was killed instantly and the trainer was hurled In the air. Rambo had a condition for the mid summer meet. ing. —A freight train on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Rallroad on the 3d struck a local freight standing on the main track at Enon, Ohio, engines and ten cars, were torn to pleces. Engineer John injured, $50, 0 1. The loss will reach Ww. (. pearly while experimenting in the laboratory on the 34, burned his hand preparation so severely Lhat probably have to be amputated, A overturned at the Allegheny Works, in Duquesne, 4th and five men were burned, Thos, Holland, fatally. culation daring the month of May, and a pet increase of $6,479.54 in money and bullion in the Treasury dur- ing the same period. — Bernard Heeny, a life convict In prison in Joliet, Illinole, who received word a few days ago that his sentence had been commuted and that he would be free next Oclober, dropped dead on the 3d while telling his good fortune to Neebs, the Anarchist, His exces sive joy, it is thought, produced heart disease, The desd man was an iron moulder at Rock Island, On his mar- riage day he and a number of his com- panions were boisterously celebrating, and in an altercation with a police captain the officer was killed, ~W. 8 Underwood, a prominent merchant, in Trinidad, Colorado, was on the 4th found lying dead behind the counter of hia store with a bullet in his head and a stiletto wound near his jugular. Everything indicated that he had been murdered, with a view of robbery. - A despatch from Amboy, Illinols, says: Grace Gridley, the 10.year-old daughter of a prominent business man, has been sleeping soundly for nearly two months, She went to bed In her usual health the might of March 15, and could not be aroused from asleep the pext morning. After sleeping about a week she roused up somewhat, and, getting out of bed, walked over to a rocking chair, where she 1mmediately went to sleep, and has not awakened since, Her cheeks are rosy and breath. ing regular, and her sleep is seemingly as normal as that of an infant. All attempts to arouse her are fruitiess. She is fed regularly with liquids, Her case puzzles all the dociors -J. H. Holt, acattle dealer, arrived in Denver, Colorado, on the 5th, and gave an account of an Indian massa ore, which occureed in the upper Green river several days sgo. He says that a party of Indians that had become intoxicated with whisky furnished by ranchmen came to the camp of the Government Surveyors and demanded more “fire water.’’ It being refused, the Indians attacked the party, killing Chief Engineer Crittenden, in of the third division of the Hhamt survey, and Chaln-bearers E, W. | ~The grain elevator of James Mec- ‘ Mullin, at Mount Forest, Ontario, was struck by lightning on the morn- Ing of the Oth, ground. by lightning, on the bth, -—A two year-old ehild of A. O track at Edwardsville, near Tliinols, on the 5th, in front of an ap- prosching train. The mother seeing the child’s peril, rushed to the rescue, The mother’s arm was caught and terribly mangled. She sustaned in- doubtful, William Diemer, a carpen- ter, was overcome by the heat at Fre- mont, Ohio, on the 6th, and died at night, —1t is reported that 60 people were poisoned at a ploniec near Union Clty, Michigan, on the 84, by drinking milk from improperly cleaned cans. For a time it wus feared that seven of them would dle, but all are now reported to be recovering. - oe 61st CONG RESS.~}tirst Eession sr ——— SENATE. In the United States Senate, on the 24, a conference was ordered on the Naval Appropriation bill, Mr, Plumb introduced the Silver bill preparsd by Mr. St, Johns, of New York, and it was referred. ‘J he Stiver bill was discussed by Messrs, Morrill and Harrls, { After an execalive session the { adjourned. In the United States 34, Mr. Davis, from the Conlerence Committes on the Dependent Pension bill, reported a disagreement, On a report was withdrawn until a report shall be made to the House, The Sen- ate bill to prevent aduiteration of food on the calendar. Mr, lution for an investization { Commission { over, Bills were passed to amend the | International revenue laws in regard to fermented liquors. The Silver null Farwell, adjourned, resolution for an inquiry into the man- sgement of the Fish Commission was agreed to. The Chair announced the | select committee on the billl { Mr. Edmunds being chalrman. Toe Fortification Wil was passed, with amendments. A concurrent resolution was passed correcting an error in the Customs Administrative bill Mr. Frye offered a jolut resolution author- gion of the liquor traflic, Adjourned. In the U. &, Senate, on the 5th, the tary park on the battiefield of Chicka- | mauga was reported and placed on the by Messrs, the widows of Rear Admiral Donaison { and Commander Winslow, of the Kear- sarge. Adjourned, HOUSE. | Inthe House, on the 2d, nothing of | general importance was done, only | local bills being disposed of, | Inthe House on the 34, the entire | session was occupied with the consid. | eration of the Alabama contested case | of MeDuffie vs, Torpin, It was not | disposed of when the House adjourned. In the House, oa the 4th, the confer- ence report on the Army Appropriation bill was agreed to, A further confer- ence was ordered on the Dependent Pensions bill. The contested case of resumed; the majorily report seatiog and MeDuifle was sworn in. Mr, Kinley presented a concurrent reso’u- tion making a correction in the Cas toms Administrative bill. The Demo- crates ordered the yeas and nays and refrained from voting, but the resolu. tion was declared adopted, the Speaker counting a quorum. Adjourned, In the House, on the 6th, the Silver bill was taken up, and Mr. Conger, of Towa, offered the caucus measure &8 a substitute. Amendments were offered by Messrs. MeComas, of Maryland; Taylor, of Illinois, and O'Donnell, of Michigan-~this being all that could be offered under the rules. Mr. Bland sought recognition, but was ignored by the Speaker. Pending debate on the bill the House adjourned. ———————— I SA A One of the most marvelous features of astronomical photography is the way that a camera will register the images of stars invisible to the human eyes. The same instrument which shows to the human eyes stars of the fourleenth magnitude, which in theentire heavens would register about forty-four mil- lion stars, shows to the photographic eyo no less than one hundred and thir- ty-four millions, After an exposure of one hour and twenty minutes a photo. graphic negative of the whole firma- ment would display to the astonished gaze of the beholder a luminous dust of four hundred millions of stars, —AI———— Dr. Rothrock, professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, is pre- paring for the establishment in his de- partment of a museum, which promises to be of unusual industrial importance. Few steps that the institution has taken lately tend to bring it into as close con- tact with the manufacturing interests of the country as this seems likely to The collection, to be called THE VALUE OF BTIQUETTE. What Her Manifold Laws Mean Properly Observed. if PRESERVING THE VOICE, Madarne Patti Pleasantly Discusses a Very interesting Subject. How 1 have ‘‘so marvelously cou- | tain who (oes not possess the virtue of I say so far as I can, for the ob- | are the best and kindest in the world, wise heads during hundreds of years to make life run more smoothly and to make each persos more comforts able, You are in sorrow because some one dear to you has died—some friend who is loving, but Iinjudiclous, calls and wants to insist upon seeing you. Xou only reopen the old wounds; you cannot bear to be rude to her, but Madame Etiquette steps in, announces that you must not see visitors because you are in mourning, and so you are not har- assed, your friend’s feelings are not hurt, and it is the law of good society that has protected you. You have been to a large party where bouse was decorated with many flowers; you remember as you left the supper roown that it looked a ssene of confusion, and you wondered when it | would ever return to its normal con- dition. It is demanded that you shall make a call and tell your hostess the pleasure she has given you. Again, | etiquette respects comfort and claims { that your call must be made within two | weeks of the day after the dance; so that by this rule the household has time to return to its usual state before there . is an Influx of visitors, You have just told Dick i | | | i i | | thin and eracked after a very few yoars’ service, no matter what is dove for them. I mean that the first causes of the preservation of the voice lie ia nature having given from the start a perfect vocal machinery, if 1 may put it that way. Without being anstomi- sal, I may say that Heaven kindly gift- ed me with vocal organs of whose ca pacity the public has kindly judged, hardy thst they have been able to defy successfully the extraordinary changes of climate, of heat and cold, of dry air snd moist air, and the fatigue and worry incidental to the career of a world-eircling singer. In fine, nothing but a constitution hardy all through can sustain a public singer at the height of her profession. Itis the story of sli the great artists of the past as well as the present. Do not imagine on that account that [ consider myself exempt from all pre- esutions. On the contrary, no one can than I am. 1f I am not lisble to eolds, sore throats and so on, 1 do not for that reason court them by reckless expos If my voice has never failed me I do not put it to all manner of need- The diamond is bard, but 1 rocks are. dread is the giggling and staring to i which you will have to submit because in the small village in which you live Madame Etiquette, is either forgotien | or not appreciated. Now, be wise and | take some married friend into | confidence; let her give a tea or a lunch- { eon, and invite your girl friends, and at it she will say, and some great Many good voices m this way; but a voices are ruined in in ness is a proper use of the ¥ ice. A that always sings in tune—ecan not be enltivated; it JOmpass may Le voice—one s00n her bars, puts on ian all the happiness possible, because | in a very short time she is going to be married to Mr, Richard Steele.” _ the story Is told at once, and all | the embarrassing wonderment are done away with, one living, invades your home, You sacrificed; the result is ps I have heard many preity voices, and I am sure that America will be develop great singers, but it must © borne 1n mind that no good result will follow from making When the great singer the training too severe. Ones by ber physics | Sorrow or shame, because i you | will say to you, come 10 see you, you receive your i~ conscious of what has happened. is not hardheartedness; it tion. To utterly ignore a disgrace for which the innocent suffer is the kind- est lesson that Madame Etiquette ever taught, | Shes even is considera - has wise In dictating the | friends she suggests any time between tones. 1 love Americ nd I wish her great singers 1 f time. —Adelina Patti, 1a N, ing Journal, A Good Dog Story. A of the writes that this story of adog correspondent | up whatever you wish to do in the | morning, to have had your luncheon or | dinner, and to be busy only with book | or fancy work after three o'clock. To | your men frends, from eight to nine | is the proper hour at which to appear; { then the cares of the day are over and { you are at liberty lo entertain In the | way you think best, To shrug your shoulders at what eti- | quette demands Is simply to announce yourself very ignorant, for her laws, properly observed, mean protection for the innocent, consideration for the young, consolation for the suffering and congratulation for the happy. EE —— A Blg Eleotrical Storm. The Cunard Line steamship Aurania { recently bad a lively time when about 80 miles off Fire Island. About 8o'clock ‘a severe thunder storm came up and the Jightning lit up the heavens at short in- tervals. Suddenly the ship became a mass ‘of hqmid fire. The passengers crowded the deck, in spite of the rain which ‘was falling. For a time considerable excitement prevailed. The electrio storm, which Captain Dutton says was the most brilliant he ever saw, lasted matil 10 o'clock; then all was utter dark- ness. During the time the electricity ‘was playing its fantastio tricks on board the Aurania, the lightning struck un- vomfortably near the vessel several times. No damage, whatever, was done, ‘but the storm and the f:ight caused ‘many headaches, particularly among the ‘ladies. Washington's Largest Tree. Three miles east of Snohomish city stands what 1s said to be the largest treo in the State of Washington, It is ia dead cedar which has been hollowed ‘ont by fire, the top being broken off, so ‘that the tree is only about 60 feet high, A Seattle Press man, who stepped ine side the tree through the narrow open. Ang left by the fire, “made ten three foot paces from side to side. [Inside ‘this large trunk 1s a spacious room, inte ‘which fifty people could crowd, About ‘the tree are traces of Indian encampe ments, and It surely proved a complete shelter from the storms for very large bands of warriors. The tree Is perhaps & 5 iritish Ass { had ooo st Glascow, a friend « fe one day from mine ha that place to Hearing, wished Greenock on business. on he shortly to (age a stroll about the town, to which he was In the course of his walk into a baker's shop and As he stood at the door if the shop eating his bun, a large dog came up and begged for a share, which bought a bun. ming back for pieceafter piece. “Does the dog belong to yon?” my friend asked of the shop-woman. *‘No,” she answered; “but he spends most of his time here and begs half-pennies from the people “Half-pennies! What good can they do him?” ““Oh, he knows very well what to do with them; he into the shop and buys cakes!” This seemed rather a remarkable in- stance of cleverness, even for the clev- erest of animals; so, by the way of testing its reality, my friend went . 4 " Wa0 pass, comes he was immediately accosted by the dog, who begged for something with all eloquence of which a dog is capable, He offered him a hall- penny, and was rather surprised to see Lim accept it readily and walk with the air of a regu- lar enstomer into the shop, where he put his forepaw on the counter and held out the half penny towards the attendant. The young woman pro- duced a bun, but that did not suit the dog and he held his money fast. “Ah” said she, “I know what he wants,” and took down from a shelf a plate of short bread. This was right; the dog paid his half -penny, took his short bread, and ate it with decorous satisfaction. ‘When he bad quite finished he left the shop, and my friend, much amused, followed him, snd when be again beg- ged, found ancther half-penny for him, and saw the whole processgone through a second time, — Fvangelioal Messen. ger. The Power of Small Things. a —-in Consider the enormous power that ie wielded by even the most insignificant of inanimate objects. The slightest bit of bric-a-brac, if it is not dusted every day, will vent its spite by telling the caller a nanghty tale concerning its mistress; an old foreign coin will persecute its possessor with urgent entreaties to get other rare coins and start a collection. Plain lies ing sud high thinking will not rescue one from the despotism of things, for his library like many tongued demon, will not cease to remind him of the
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