THE NLWS,
The city of 8t. Louis was swept by a tor-
nado, which demolished a number «
and other substantial buildings, and
some excursion boats, The number f det
and injured is estimated at one th
Six persons were
Dunham
weician bark
mile from Whistle, N. 8,
murderad by James
Jose, Cal I'he Nor
near St
Brodrene was wrecked half no
and flve of the
crew was drowned, I'he Lutheran (
Hoge
for the Southern States will be
lotte, N C, At Victoria, B, C,,
ear fell through a bridge, It is belle
one hundred people were Kill
were found Che trinl was
adelph a of Herman Keck,
The authorities
Lake have not yet succeeded in le
ted of
linmonds,
ghog
Fran
The third biennial congress
is Hermans,
guspe
Federation of Women's Clubs
Fire at Sherman, Texas,
15.000 At
Sanborne, thought to be
beat his
Louisville,
ed a lo sof #1 Philadelphia
insane, flied
Henry
{the
and fatally wife
yn, banker and president «
I.) Telephone C y
mh pai
with
Ik. Va,
wae
floods which
ty at Chesterfiel
Taggart, superintendent
Coal and Ir
were Kiliad
works, at
Addi
Del. de
aries for
K8 Reg }
aged fifty-six
bis ninets
FIFTY-FOURTE
Cal, was a
1320 Dax
eration
rx ’t
existing
Lari
r the repeal
viding
al i need is arts or ¢
compounds, J wnend ment was
to the bill pr fo join I
to consist of members fr
to examine ag report on ail
{ating to free alcohol in the next session.
13471 Day —The Ho
entire day discussing
to the general deficiency bill app
$1,027,000 for the payment of about 700
French spoiliation claims, $548,000 for 3%
war claims found to be due under the Bow.
man act and $174,000 for the payment of
what is known as the Chautean claim for the
construction of an iron-clad steam battery in
1864,
the «
ise 81 simost the
pent
I
the 8
laims carried the day.
EERATE
181% Day.—The day in the Benate was
consumed by the “Filled Cheese’ bill, md
the second installment of the speech of Mr
authority of Congress,
tire, several amendmenes to raise revenue
ware offered, but ali failed,
1320 Das.—The general deficiency appro-
priation bill, the last of the supply bills, was
passed by the Senate Amendments cover
ing French spoilation claims aggregating
£1,098 000 and claims under the Boawman
act aggregating #548 000 were added to the
bill,
1334 Dav.—In the Benate Mr. Sherman
sueoseded In having the fliled-cheese Lill
taken up, whereupon Mr. Dubois offered an
amendment adding 75 cents per barrel to the
tax on beer. On the question of adopting
the amendment the debate became general,
Senators Mills and Gray supporting, and
Nelsen, Aldrich and Vilas opposing it.
18418 Day ~The Senate defeated the
proposition to increase the beer tax 75 cents
er barrel by the vote of Bd to 27, The de-
te on the bond bili proceeded after two
o'clock, Mr. Hansborough and Mr. Daniel
spoke in favor of and Mr, Elkins, of West
irginia, agalas: the bill,
AWFUL STORM
The City of St. Louis Wrecked
By a Tornado.
1,000 DEAD AND INJURED.
The Storm Almost Without
Warning, and Completaly Demol~=
Many of
Most Substantial Bulldings, BEury-
Beneath the
Morgue Full of Un~
identified Dead and the Hospitals
Crowded With the Injdred-The
Grand Stand ut the Falr Grounds
Came
ished the Largest and
ing the Occupants
Debris—The
Blown Down During the Progress
of the Races,
of the greatest disasts
cverwhelmed the
Ithoug!
Are re
arated by
Boad at Decatur,
nd message received
tend
{ was red that the
g hie f down and that
} trailer
Ray
people were
buried
IRE STORM,
A few minutes after b o'clock the operator
of the Associated Press at 8t. Louls, who was
in the act of taking the usual report, sent
growing very and
sd for a minate’'s delay that he might
provide himself with a light. In a
{ more the wire snapped, and it was impossi-
i ble to get any further information from him
i word that it was dark
second
or out of the town,
The local weather
| unable to give any
office in the was
information regarding
| the storms as they were informed early in
{the evening by the Western Union that it
| would not be able to send the usual weather
{ bulletins from St. Louis,
| It is thought thas the storm swept over St
| Louis from the northwest to the southeast,
| as it is considered probable that the storm
| which was reported in the afternoon at Rush
{ Hill. Mo., would require several hours to
{ reach St Louis, and the storm at two points
| are reported ss having been long enough
| apart to enable the storm to cover the dis
tance between Rush Hill and Bt Louis,
The storm which tore through the country
south of Centralia is said to have ocourred
at about 6 o'clock, or an hour aller 8t. Louis
was devastated, These three points are in a
direct line from the northwest te the south]
sast, and the weather officiala are Inclined to
believe that the storm was one and the s wie,
city
THE EADS BRIDGS,
The Eads bridge, which Is reported as hav
ing been badly damaged by the storm, was
considered one of the
the world, It was
roga to an
buflt in 1873 and was
strongest arch bridges in
built without a
elevation in the centre
drawbridge and
and sloped down ti
the shore on eltner side,
There was upon it a double rallrond track,
which was used by the trains of the Wabasl
and Alton
Wagons
roads, a doutle passageway f
double pat}
and a pathway for pedes
trians, From the reports received It is not
thought that it Is so seriously damaged
lelay the train service of the roads
arose it to any large extent,
RUINS ON
FIRE,
At midnight it was reported at
rest, 111, that it wus impo
point further south than
nine miles northeast from Bt, Louls,
int
Nameoki, whicl
The operator at that px sald
walble
midnight it had been io
it was certain that fearful damage had been
He sald that
Fouls were on fire
lone.
the ruins at Ast Bt
and burning flercely, but
He had
information
could tell nothing more than that,
wt been a
t
from anny of the
$
Me to obtain any
Wabash trains that bad
passed his station since 5 in the aller
BOO.
rt
GENERAL TRADE DULL.
(ADO MAY VI
A Beper
The London Ch
n excellent anth
tem pilates a tour of
1t would be interesting to know if this
alleged projected trip of the Mikado has been
prompted by the toar of 14 Hung Chang, ‘he
Chinese Viceroy, which i= said to include on
its programme a visit to the Unite Btates,
Such an unconventional thing as a tour of
the world by a monarch of high rank would
be entirely ir keeping with the character o
the enlightened ruler of the Japanese,
whose remarkable freedom from hereditary
sonservatism and warm welcome of a. the
elvilizing influences of the age, is due the
wosderful advance of his country in ali the
aris that inake a nation great.
I ———
JOSEPH COOKING ARRAIGNED,
—
bulity, and Will Be Placed o»
Trial Next Week.
He Pleads Rot
Joseph Cocking, accused of murdering his
wife and sister-in-law at Hill Top, Md. on
April 24, was arraigned In court at La Plata,
and pi aded not guilty to indictments for
both crimes. John Grayson, of Baltimore,
fa his attorney. 1. A. Milner has boon as.
signed to assist Btate's Attorney Posey in
the prosccution.
There is po exvitement and no talk of
lynching, a manifest desire basing evident
among the people to see a fair and impartial
trial, The case will coma up for trial this
weok, Coeking feels surc of his ability to
estabileh his innocence.
BY THE SCORE.
Forty Persons Killed By Storms
in lowa.
THIRTY PERSONS DROWNED
wir Persons Killed Near Rockford,
Stock Killed
Crops Destroyed,
IHl.~- Farm and
The villages of Valeria, Mlugo and Bantl-
ago, Jasper county, « } hicago Great
Western Hallwey, between Marshalltown and
wer uri lestroyed by a tor
i waste,
vith ©« id 10 loss ( ife nnd great de-
ther property
FOURTEEX DROWNED.
oo
mpany;
holler,
house and 1
£
Hnrocie i
aRny Lrees est
At Bird's Point, Mo., opp
church and ten other U
from their foundatic
tracks, and the running of
with,
gile Cairo, a
ved
Tosa
ul dings were me
blown ac
interferad
ne, trees
traiue
I'be storm came up very suddenly from the
Northwest. The ferry boat had just started
from Cairo and was still ia the Ohlo river
shore, The
very heavy and the people were all in the
cabin with the doors shut. There
warning, the boat turned over when
squall first struck her.
The captain and the ¢ erk were both at the
wheel and were blown out of the pit of the
house into the water, and the boat turne’
over on them, They happened to be so laf
away that as she came over they caught the
guard and puiled out from beneath her. Of
those in the cabin only Dr. Ore and Joseph
Curry got out, and they were badly hurt.
and near the THliaols rain was
was no
tue
C—O
Hogs (or Chieageo's Parke,
Through John E, Rasta’; ‘ormerly of Kan.
sus, it has been devaioped that onedhird of
the childrea of one of the principal grammar
schools of Chicago bave never seen a live
shoep or hog, though all had seen Hons,
tigers and other animais of the tropics, The
matter has been taken up by the press on
the belief that the same ratio of children
throughout the city have never seen alive
shoep of hog, and the Park Commissioner
will be requested to place specimens of the
animals in the zoological departments of |
parks,
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS
News Cleaned From Varloss Parts
Epitome of
the Btlats
Depart.
the Biatle §
narier:
1 nt
ihe Vesse Fou Masu-
apital
ihe
Athens
f Athens, «
EGGER Sint
North Cs
Packs, per
TOBAC
TOBACCO-Md. Infer's.. 8
SoIhmon
LIVE STOCK.
BEEY Bost Deoves,.....8
SHEEP a aad
Hogs a 3
FURS AND REINS,
MUBKRAT.
acroon
Bed Fox ‘
Skunk Black.
Opossum
Mionk...c..s
Otter
XEW YORE
FLOUR--Soauthormn
WHEAT a. 2 Red
RYE Western
CORN-—=XNo, 2
OATS-—No, 3
BUTTE State
EGOGRRiale
CHEESE State
IMILADELYHIA
FLOU R-Bouthern.,
WHEAT No. 2 Red...
CORN-No. 3.
OATS Nav 2. civ
BUTTER State. .........
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pierves in Children,
old 1
When New An
deceased
an-about
1 was
1 nassed
iit. black
hair and
1 dida't
He
harber
x number of
his hair
look
He wiped 2
tent with a black-border
«1 ha ‘Yah, }
voost had some drubbles mit mine fam
did die on Ve's
had actually
in the
soke 10
sa
awl 10
When
whiskers
wig
as
YEArS
were You
y 3
ana
£* 1 §yy
changed I said to him
ty
from hi !
and maid
filkerchief
ily My son-in law Ix
sirid 1 am sorry * He
hiskers
day,
as od
momon
his higir a i Ww
Snake-Killing Cats.
The famous cat of ex-Mayor Eby
which goes into the neighboring fields
and captures snakes, which he dmg
house for the inspeciion of $n
has a rival in the ste block
Powell, who went trout fishitg
day at Newville amd got stack
which has alse
propensities
into tix
family,
LE
the other
in the mud
developed snake-charming
Powell was horrified to see §
snake two feet ditches
floor the other day. whi hh the family
at had captured in the cellar of tel
residences, There will bw few snake
jeft at Cottage Ridge if the two «ab
are permitied to get in their work
niolested. — Harrisburg (Pa. Telegraph
hing a oat
Ars
long on fhe
Jerusalem is 5305 miles east of
National Capital,