LATE TELEGRAPHIC TICKS
FROM MANY POINTS.
Important Newt Itcmt Received aa Wi
3o to Pre.
IMsaatrra, ArrltleTits and I atallilrs.
(Inlvi, a town In Henry comity, 111., was
wre eked by a cyclone. Several persons are
known to lie killed, ami many building
were destroyed.
At Chicago the steamer Viola with a party
of 07 ladies and gentlemen from toe North
western university is reported lost with all
on board.
A Ch'cago and (irand Trunk locomotive
exploited one mile east of climax, Mich.,
fatally Injuring Knglnecr Wood, Fireman
Smith and llrakeman I'urkcr, all residents
of Battle Creek. Mich.
What remained of the village of Rock
dale, near Dubuque, la., since the disaster
of 1870, was wiped out by a itorm Friday
evening. No lives were lst.
Riotous miners have Mopped operations
at the Minnesota mines, at Tower, Minn.,
and the shafts are filling with water
Twenty-one trains are tied up.
While two men were fighting in a yard in
Chicago, four women went on a high porch
to see what was going on. The porch fell,
nd three of the w omen were fatally injur
ed. Edward W. (iould, a member of the New
Vork stock exchange, and conspicuous In
Wall street, was killed Saturday while par
ticipating In the amateur Wild west show
got up by the Stnten Island Athletic club.
The accident occurred in the presence of his
family and a thousand of his friends.
Capital, I.abnr and Indnatrlnt,
Two hundred employes of the John Por
ter Company, firebrick manufacturers of
New Cumberland, W. Va., went out on a
strike for an advance of from 11.33 to H M)
day.
One thousand dockers at Bilboa,
Spain have struck for an increase of wages.
The police, fearing disturbances, have ar
rested three agitators. Six hundred w ork
men in the Malacspera and Ollargan mines
have struck.
The International Typographical Vnion
- in tesdon at Phllapelphia repealed the !
hour law by a majorit j of 1 to 48 votes, it
being found impossible tor nforce its pro
visions uniformly.
The Columbia rolling mill at Columbia,
ra has shut down for an indefinite period.
About 200 men arc thrown out of work.
The Eclipse Bicycle Works, of Indian
apolis, will be removed to Beaver Falls, I'a.,
and capitalized at 1Y,000 Employment
will be given to 2S0 hands.
C'anventlen News
At Lansing, Mich., at the People's party
convention resolution was passed against
fusion, and Captain 11. 8. Osborn was nom
inated for Secretary of State.
The Kansas People's party convention at
Wichita nominated candidates for the state
ticket and W. A. Harris fos congressman-at-large,
a victory for the fusionists. A
woman suffrage plank was adopted, and
Mrs. M. E. lase of Wichita was elected one
of the delegates-at-large to the Omaha con
vention. As soon as the convention met
Levi Dumbnld, chairman of the People's
central committee, made a plea for money
to conduct the coming campaign. "I am for
free silver," shouted a delegate from the
Seventh district, and threw on the platform
a silver dollar. The action was contagious,
and money was rained on the stage by spec
tators and delegates, over (3,000 bclin, real
ised. PI res
At Cleveland, O., the cooper shop of the
Standard Oil Company, Loss, f V),000,
At Jamestown, N. Y., th Pearl Furniture
Company' factory. Loss, 130,000; insur
ance, $11,000.
At Rich Hill, Mo., five large btHiness.
bouses, the losses aggregating 140,000.
At Elizabethport, N. J., a large store and
six frame buildings.
At Jamestown, N. Y., the Pearl Furniture
wmpany'i factory. Loss, 130,000; insur
ance, (11,000.
At Elizabeth, N. J., damage of (00,000 re
sulted from the burning of a business block.
At Alexandria. La., a square of buildings
including the bank and hotel were burned.
Loss, 175,000; insurance unknown.
Two spans of the Northern Pacific bridge
over Clark's Fork river. Idaho, burned.
This is the largest bridge on the Northern
Pacific. It is thought the fire caught from a
passenger locomotive.
Waaklnne News,
Mr. E. B. Laeey, controller of the cur
rency, has resigned.
The sundry civil appropriation bill as it
passed the House appropriated (00,000 for
the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion
act. Mr. Felton yesterday in the Senate
proposed an amendment increasing the
amount to 1130,000.
The House committee on military affairs
has taken favorable action on the Senate
bill to furnish the Gettysburg Battlefield
Memorial Association with specimens of
arms, accoutrements, etc., used by the
armies in the buttle of Oettysburg.
Mr. Chauncey M. Depew left here Sunday
(or New York. Mr. Depew dined with the
President Saturday and there were rumors
that be had been offered the vacant cabinet
portfolio, but he refused to talk about the
natter.
Political.
The conference committees of the divided
Louisiana Democrats bave reached a mutu
ally satisfactory agreement for the tending
of a single delegation oninstructed to
Chicago. The Foster faction has been recog
nised as the bead of the party In the State.
Uninstructed delegates-at-large to the
Chicago convention were elected.
The returns, wbich are practically com
plete.in the election held In the Ninth Texas
congressional district (Mill's old district),
how that Antony (Dem.) baa majority of
A6U over Barber (Third party.)
Per
The Rev. T. PeWltt Tnlmage and Mrs
Talmage sailed from New York City for
Liverpool, nr. Talmage will be absent un.
til about the middle of September. He will
visit St. Petersburg and Moscow, and will
assist In the distribution of the stores
that have been contributed for the relief of
the famine-stricken people of Russia.
In New York City there was an Increase
In the death rate Wednesday dun to the ex
cessive hcut. Tuesday there were 77 deuths,
and Wednesday ltm were recorded.
Mnrl.ary.
Fmtnons lllnlne. son of ex-Hem tnry
.tames (). Maine, died at his residence in
Chicago, Saturday morning. Mr. Maine had
been 111 several days. His deatn was the re
sult orhlootl poisoning, originating In a
disorder of the bowels.
Emmons Maine at the time of his death
was Mce I resident of the Unit i more ami
Obin Railroad, and had until unite recently
resided at Baltimore, cnmini: t Chicago to
tttkechurge of tun western interests of the
company. Ills wedding to Miss Anita .Me
Corinick. daughter ol 'the treat reaper man
ufacturer, was a social event of the first
nisgnitude. Thev have had only one child,
w ho was at the bed side when the father
died. Before becoming connected with the
Baltimore and hio h served in less eon
stiicnons places than the vice orc-ddencv.
Mr. Blaine was at different times in the
service of the West ngiiiM Central, the
Chicago and Northwestern and the Atchi
son, To cka and Santa I e.
Crime nnil Penalties,
Judge J. B. Morgan, an l'.'x-l ongressman,
was killed at Memphis by Henry Foster, a
lawyer, during a politic.il ijuarrel.
The stage from Valley Springs to San An
dreas, Cel., ws stopped on the Road near
North Branch Friday by one masked high
wayman. The bandit got one treasure box,
but missed the imi't valuable booty.
Hie Weather.
Thursday was the hottest day of the sea
son in Pittsburg, !2 degrees was the highest
official record, but many of the thermometers
along the streets marked over degrees.
A cloud burst deluged Chat-worth, Ills.
Small structures were leveled to the ground
I onsrcsslnnnl Nnmlnatlmia.
Congressman John '. Otlis, of the Fourth
Kansas ditriet, was defeated for nomina
tion by F. V. Wharton, who was a Peinn
erat before be Joined the Farmers' Alli
ance. Crops.
Wheat harvesting is in full blast in
Southern Kansas. The quality is excel
lent, and In the extreme western counties
the yield is reported to be simply mitgnfi
cent. The wheat yield in Franco will be vnstly
superior to that of 18.11, but barley and oats
have suffered severely.
Financial and Comtncrrlnt.
The Lancaster (I'a.) and Aurorn (111.)
watch factories have been consolidated und
the machinery of the latter will be trans
ferred to Lancaster. The new coiupuny will
have a capital of (.VXO.orn).
Judicial.
The Michigan Supreme Court to-day ren
dered a decision sustuining the constitution
ality of the Miner Electoral law.
.!llceltnnenus.
Otto Trager, the young newspaper re
porter who left San Antonio on April 3 for
the City of Mexico on a bicycle, succeeded
fter a hazardous journey through the de s
ert of Coahuulit ami the Sierra Mojadu
Mountains in reaching Durango .May 10. On
May 10 he set out for Mnztlau, on the Pa
cific coast, 300 miles distant, since which
time no tidings of him bare been received.
(Jreat uneasiness is felt for safety.
Ed. Alson, a Norwegian hardware mer
chant of North field, Minn., for twenty years,
died with old-fashioned leprosy. The corpse
was a most horrible sight, the flesh dropping
ofl his body. The Alsons have all died iu
the month of June.
The body of William Westing was recov
ered from the wreck of the Newport, Ky.,
bridge disaster. This makes twenty-!.:
lead. John Phillips, one of the wounded,
is thought to be (lying. One man, William
Barton, is still misting and is doubtless in
ine wreck. The evidence adduced before the
coroner's Jury indicates that the Buirda
were careless in driving the piles.
ncroMi i it iioi:iEit.
Eleven persons took shelter from a storm
by the side wall of a church at Prndoluen
co, Spain. The wall collapsed and injured
all of them.
England's appropriation to the World'!
Fair w as increased to 00,000 to-day, by a
vote of the House of Commons.
The Pope has enjoined Archbishop
Vaughn, of Westminister, England, to avoid
mixing up in party strife and especially not
to oppose Irish national aspirations.
Saint Teresa, offtuayamas, Mexico, bat
been sentenced to be shot for witchcraft.
Earl Aucrain, aid of the Earl of Jersey,
was accidently shot while out with a hunt
ing party. He died soon afterward.
Official reports as to the Russian harvest
prospects show that the general outlook is
much worse than it was in the early sum
mer Of 1801.
The collapse of twofuctoriesin Barcelona,
Spain, killed eight men.
Four soldier at' Magdeburg, Germany,
were killed by the bursting of a shell.
Jacob Schnitzer, otherwise Emin Pasha,
according; to dispatches received at Berlin,
is not dead as reported recently.
Mount Vesuvius, now in eruption, xha
thrown up lava that has formed itself into
bridge across a valley. The formation,
glowing with heat, presents a magnificent
spectacle at night.
A bull fight at Linares, Spain, was broken
np by dissatisfied spectators, who invaded
the arena. Then the mob got all the bull
fight they wanted, for the enraged beasts
charged upon them, tossed and injured
many of them, and killed one man outt.'gM.
The mob pelted the mayor, and when be
called out troops the soldiers refused to
obey. The Mayor fled to safety in the bar
racks, the rioters closi at his beela.
Acton, Qdibec The latest estimates of
the loss by the recent storm in this town
ship place it at (50,000, which falls chiefly
on the poor farmers. Three children were
killed and eight adults injured, some fatally,
The detestation by the storm extended over
els miles. The farm bouse were entirety
wrecked, and about 00 families ar tome-
PRESIDENTIAL BUTTLES.
THB STORY 07 A CENTURY'S XA
TIONAL CAMPAIGNS.
A Bit ef Political History That I Sap
dally Interesting Just Row,
Pastor That Have Flcursd
In President Making;.
The Philadelphia Times of last Sunday
tave up one of its pages to "a record of a
century of National contests," and from
that Is con-louse 1 what follows:
Nominating conventions were unknown
at the time of the organization of the lie
public, and at the first election of President
no candidate bad been presented by any
rty. It ws accepted by common consent
hat Washington should be President, and
as John Adams was pre-eminently the rep
resentative man of New England In the
struggle for independence, he was chosen
Vice President. Only 10 of the original
States participated In the first Presidential
election. Before the end of Washington's
first term Vermont ami Kentucky hail been
admitted into the Union, and the whole Ift
States voteil at bis second election. Wash
ington again received the unanimous vote,
b-ing I tj.and Adam received 77,which made
him Vice President for the second term.
In the middle, of Washington's second
term parties began to form, and at the be
ginning of 17l'l Jefferson resigned his place
as Secretary of State and took the leader
ship of the Republican party, In opposition
to the policy of the Administration, which
became known as Federalist. There was
then no direct vote for Vice President; esch
Elector voted for two men for President,
the one receiving the highest vote became
President and the next highest became Vice
President. In this way Jolr.i Adams,
Federalist, wss elected President, and
TIioiiihs Jefferson. Republican, was elected
Vice President. The alien and sedition laws
of the Adams administration further wid
ened the breach between Republicanism
and Federalism.
In 1WM Adam and Jefferson were again
Jilted again each other, Charles C. Pinck
ney being th" running mate with Adams,
and Aaron Burr witn Jefferson. There w as
no election by the people and the contest
went Into the House, where, after a long
struggle, in which Burr tried to win the
Presidency, Jefferson was finally elected.
February 2ft, 18IH, the first formal nomi
nation to the Presidency was made by a
t otigresHioiiai caucus, and .lefterson was
lioiinnaU'd unanimously. It was a hopeless
battle agaln-t him from the start, and he
was re-elected by an overwhelming major
ity, receiving lti'2 electoral votes to 14 for
Pinckney.
Iii lwiH the onlv rivalry was between the
two Virginians, Madison anil Monroe, and
Madison won the nomination on the first
ballot. The Federalists made no formal
nomination against him, but by general
consent presented their old ticket of Pinck
ney anil King. The campaign of 1808 did
not rise to the dignity of a contest, and Mad
ison Wf elected by 122 electoral votes to 47
for Pinckney. Tlie'election of 1812 occurred
during the War with England, and Madison
was rc-e!ectd without ditlicultv, the Feder
alist party having suffered by the hostility
of its leaders of the war.
With theeml of the war there was an end
of the Federalist party. March 111, 18111,
Monroe was nominated against Crawford.
The disappointment of the Crawford follow
ers led to an outburst against the Congres
sional caucus, and In Baltimore and several
other places public meetings were held pro
testing against the arbitrary power of Con
gressmen to select ciiiniidates for President,
but in the end the Republicans generally
united in the supsrt of Montoe, who le
ceived 182 of the 217 Electoral votes.
At the end of Monroe's term eumo the era
of pood feeling, and there was no npimeition
to his re-elect ion. He would have received
every electoral vote but for a New Hamp
shire elector, w ho said that honor should be
reserved for Washington only, and so cast
bis vote for John tjiilncy Adams.
But in 1824 opposition to the, Congress
sionul caucus svstem was renewed, with the
result that Crawford, Jackson, Clay and
Adams were candidates, and that the con
test was again thrown into the House. where
Adams was chosen by the aid of the Clay
men. Clay tjeing the lowest of the four can
didates was excluded from the House con
test, as onlv the Hi red hiirhust candidates
can be presented there.
in i2 jucksouwus nominated bv the
Legislature of Tennessee and fouid'it bis
second battle with Adams, reviving nenrly
iou.issj majority in a popular vole ot auout
l.tsKi.tmu, and 173 electoral vote to 83 for
Adams.
In 18 W the first political National Conven
tion was held bv the anti-Masons, and it ad
journed until September 211, 1831, when it
reassembled in Bultimore and nominated
William Wist for l'reidcnt, and Amos Ell
maker for Vice President. The next Na
tional Convention was held bv the friends
of Clay under the titleof National Republi
cans on the 12th of December. 1831, and
nominated i lay lor rrcsiucnt and John Ser
geant for Vice President. The National
ileinocrats, a the friends of Jackson then
railed themselves, called a National Conven
tion to meet in Baltimore on the 21st of
May, 18.12. only to nominate a candidate for
Vice President, as Jackson wuHiinuiiimouslv
accepted for re election und won.
men came tne nomination ot .Martin Van
Ruren bribe Democratic National Conven
tion at Baltimore, which had no platform,
Van Buren was elected. At the end of his
term the Whig ft Hurrisburg nomination
Willium Henry Harrison In 1839and elected
him. This was the hard cider and Ioj cabin
turppuign. Harrison died In otllce ami John
lyler become the first accidental President.
here was a serious dispute as lo the tul
the Vice President should assume, but while
'lie suDject wus under discission in the
Houweatid members were disntitini? whutlic?
the title should be "Acting President," a
message was received from "John Tyler,
President," and that ended debuto and es
tablished a precedent thut lias bejn main
tained until now.
In 1K44 both Whirs and Democrats met in
Baltimore, the former nominating tiny
snd the latter, under the two. third s rule,
nominating Polk, who wus elected.
In 1848 the Whiirs at Philadelnbla nnml.
nated Zachary Taylor, and 'he Democrats at
Baltimore Lewis Cass. Taylor died in-18.v
iiul Fillmore became the second accidental
President. During Fillmore's time the
fugitive slave law wa passed and the Whig
durtv was disrupted.
In 1852 the Whigs at Baltimore nominated
Liiupr.' K....4 tl.c 1 In... ...... 1.. -
?ily nominated Pierce, und the Free Soil
flemocruev io IHllHhnr,!, sinttiiuutsl Ini...
P. Hale. Pierce hud things prttty much his
3WII WllV.
The first Republican National convention
was he d in Philadelphia in 18AU, which
nominated Freemont. The National Coun
cil of Ameiirans hud previously in the
tame city nominated Fillmore. The Demo.
cats at Cincinnati nominated Buchanan,
who was to see tDe beginning of the civil
war under his administration.
7hen cornea the fuiudiur siorv of Lincoln
and Johnson, and after them the nomina
tion of Grant at Chicago iu 1808, his election
and re-election: the election of Hayes; then
of (Jurfield, his assassination ana the ad-
niimsmiion oi Arthur as the third accidental
president: the election of Cleveland luulihun
of Harrison. Eight ballot were rein-Jred to
uuiuiiiuic iur. jiurr.suil.
The Cholera Spreading.
Advices from Teheran, Periia, state that
th cholera, which baa been raging at
Incshed for some lima, 1 decreasing in se
verity in Uiat locality, but 1 spreading in
the Nishapux district. A plague, which U
thought to b th cholera, traveling east
ward, bai broken out in Mesopotamia,
WHAT CLEVELAND CLAIMS. '
An Estimate by (Mate of HI Btrfnjrth ia
th Chloaao Convention.
Nsw York, June IS. Th New York cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Isiiirrr tele
graphs that lie lias obtained two Cleveland
estimates of the standing of the delegates.
One of these comes from one of Mr. Clere
lands most intimate lriends.Heclnims57rdel
egates for Cleveland and declares that there
are only 22." delegntes opposed to him. This
leaves Cleveland only aft votes less than the
necessary two-thirds, with 100 doubtful del
egates. This would mean Cleveland's nomi
nation. The other es'linale cojne from one
of the ex-President's most active and confi
dential manngers.Jand Is slill morel favora
ble. He claims IW8 votes for Cleveland 38
more than the necessary two-thirds leav
ing 2i2 opposed ami doubtful. The more
conservative of the two estimates is as fol
io s :
?! Sf I
l r ? i
: t : :
22 22
ill W
18 18
8 8
12 12
tl 0
8 .... 8 ....
20 20 .... 11
0
48 41
30 1ft .... 15
20 .... 211 ....
20 20
'20 2d
Id 8 .... H
12 8 .... 4
HI .... 1(1 ....
3d 27 .... 3
28 28
18 18
18 .... 18 ....
31 31
I 8
HI .... HI ....
6
8 8
21) 1
72 72
22 1ft .... 7
II (I
40 23 .... 23
8 8
(it fit
8 8
18 1 .... 17
8 8
21 21
311 HI II ....
8 8
21 12 .... 12
8 8
12 8 .... 4
24 21
(I 0
2 .... 2 ....
2 2
2 2
2 -2
2 2
2 2
!! 'fnft lint) W)
STrrs
AMI!
TtriRiToiiirs,
Alabama
A rkansiis
California
'olorndo
t 'onnecticiit
Delaware
Florida
tieorgin
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
I ouisiann
Maine
Maryland.....
Masschii-ett
Michigan
Minnesota
M ississlppi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New llauipsh're
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tenncsfce
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Wet Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Alaska
Arizona
Dis. of Columbia
New- Mexico
iklahoma
I'tab
Tola'
?ecessarv to a chob e. IKKI.
It will be observed that this gives Cleve
land 67ft votes without counting New York,
whlce sends two delegations, one of them
committed to Cleveland.
OHIO DEMOCRATIC STATE CON
VENTION. Election of Delegate to Chicago. Nomi
nation of State Tick it. Th Plat
form In Full.
diLi'MM-, O. On calling the convention
to order Chairman James A. Norton of the
mitral committee referred to the work of
convention, which was the selection of dele
pates to Chicago and which he said should
be done with the greatest fairness. His
mention of the iiuiiio of Cleveland was re
ceived with much enthusiasm, which grew
as he reuched the names of Hill, Whitney,
Gorman and others. When the speaker
teachnl the naineof iov. Campbell in the
list of Ohio candidates the convention as
sumed a wild scene ot demonstration. The
appluuse continued for several minutes, giv
ing stormy evidenco that the ex-governor
had a big following in the convention.
After routine business, the eon
vention selected four delegafes-t-large
to the Cliicugo convention. F.x-(iov-oruor
Campbell, Senator Price, Kolurt
Bice, of Cleveland, and Lawrence T. Ncal
were tboso agreed upon, the first two al
most unanimously, und the hitter after a
close contest.
The following Is the ticket nominated:
For Secretary of State, W. A. Taylor,
Franklin coiiniv: forjudge Supreme Court,
(long term I Judge John S. llriggs, Monroe;
(short term.) Judge Thomas I leers. Craw
lord; for Clerk of Supreme Court, William
II. Wolff, Fairlield county; for member
Slnto Board of Public Work's, Cuplaiii J. N.
Meyers. Hamilton; Presidential electors-at-lurge,
H. S. Steruberger, Miami; Juiue P.
Hewurd, Richland.
eOME TKSBIOH JMuURKS.
Extraordinary Increase of Case and
Enormous Sums Paid.
Oreen II. Riium, persion commissioner,
bus just issued a report wherein are
contained statistics showing th number of
iiensioners and the sums paid to them dur
ing the 11 mouths from July 1, 1M!U, toMuy
SI, 18W2, and other data, as below:
The number of pensioner on the rolls
June 30, 1801, was 70, HiO. This was in
creased during the 11 months stated to 8ftH
087, an increase of 170,027. This was due
lurgrly to the liberal act of June. 18IH), there
being in thut time granted 207,2ft5 oritiinal
cases, 71.003 increases and fn3 restorations.
The average first payment now i HM 25.
Lust yeur it was (173 70.
There is still one pension paid on account
of the Revolutionary war. It is to a widow
and wus roissucd. She gets now (;t0 month
ly. A single survivor of the war of 1812
gets f .10 a month, an increase of (22. Thirty
widows of the sume war draw monthly
(.mi. Army pensions outnumber those
paid to murine on the ratio of 10 to 0 un
der the new law, and of 11 to 7 raider th
geiicrul law.
BETTIE LEWIS WINS.
A Decision That Win Oiy th Mulatto
Girl (90,000.
The famous Betlie Thomas-Lewis case
was decided at Richmond, Va., in the Court
of Appeals, Judgs Leeke's decision in favor
of tiiedefcndaut being smtuinej. Th es
tate is value 1 at I225.0JJ, and it is s ii 1 t hat
Bettie Lewis will receive about (JO.OJJ as
her share after th expenses of the trial
bave been paid. Bettie Lew-is is a mulatto,
and is the illegitimate daughter of the lute
W. A. Thomas, who was a well known reei
dent of Richmond. The case ha been in
the courts since the spring of 1800, and ha
attracted great Interest throughout the en
tire country.
A Victory for Oleo Dealer. k
FuiLADr.M'iiiA, June 20. In two rase
stated for opinion Judge Riddle decided in
favor of the defendant, who were charged
with selling oleomargarine in violation of
the Stute law, on the grounds thai where
such sale tak place it must be proved that
the oleomargarine was told as an article of
food,
DISASTERS DOUBLING UP.
TWO MORE STORM HORRORS IN
THE WEST.
A Tornado Tear Throuch Mlnnsiota,
Wreck in- Several Towns and Kill
in; Scots of Persons.
MinMr.Afous, June 18. Dispatches from
ilankuto, Minn., say that one of the worst
disasters that ever visited Southern Minne
sota occurred Friday. The terrible funnel
shaped tornado again stalked abroad over
(he land and laid waste score of happy
homes and sent 40 or ft) s-mls to eternity.
The extent of the country swept by this
awful visitation was greater tliiiu ever be
fore known In the history of the State, and
fortunate, Indeed, It Is that no town or vil
luge lay in lis destructive course.
Starting near Jackson, on the Smthern
MlimesoU division of the Chicago, Milwau
kee and St. Paul railroad, funnel-shaed
clouds swept eustward and pased four
miles south of Minnesota lake, and then
took a broad circle to the south and passed
away south nf Wells.
About ft:3ll aeircling black cloud was seen
r.ipiillv advancing ami demolishing every
thing in its course. It struck a distiict
school house, in which were the teacher ami
18 scholars. The building was demolished
ami the teacher and Ift scholars killed.
. At l.n-tiin three buildings were des roved
and several people injured. Linden was
visited, and many houses were torn from
their foundations. One family, consisting
of a man, his wife and child, were killed,
and others injured. The storm passed on
east wan), destroying farmhouses. burns, and
in fact everything in its path. Four miles
south of .Minnesota Lake five furmhouc
and other buildings were caught in the
storm and utterly demolished. Four opl
were Kineo nere.
.rttttiv heartrendlnir scenes occurred dur
iding scci
he Tiur I
ing the night. The log house of a Bohem-
Inn family, near Minnesota
Luke.
blown entirely ivnv. not one hut remain
ing. The family of a man, wife ami six
children spent the night miserably in the
ram without shelter. They huddled to
gether upon a bean of straw, and with n
piece of sheet tried to ward off the cold wind
ami never-ceasing rain Hint chilled them to
the bone.
Suis-rintcndont Earling Is in receipt of
the follow inc. telegram, dated at J.a Crus-e
coming via Miiukato:
Trnlli No. 'J!, tin llipMnnkntn line found nlitrue.
tloll on I In- ini 'k iiIhiuI folirnil c -nutlml MhmeMitn
Ijike, with tivn hHi-cN lilnwn iliovn ami ihcficcu
IiHtit- Ivliu nrtiunil tin tlv Injiireil. They clenri-il I he
riii-k. nnil pics, a uptlm wouutleJ auil to llietn Ul
Illuiiei-uiH iike.
Another reutls.
Trnlli No. -I Is tletl up at Minnesota l.nke. and So.
34 ul liieliiu. The tnr?n In thnt vlrlmty fl, verf
tll-it-lniiiM. Niinilier l foiihtl a simw fetiee, t ntls-r
anil iitlier nintcrtal un the trnek. stiil severnl fxtip
kliltt! Iu the uelKlilxirlHHMl. Many were llijuretl.
later mteoiiTs.
At Spring Valley damage aggregating
fJ.V.iKH wus done. Large, heavy clouds
came np in the west, gatlierin thick and
fast, when without warning the beaveni
broke loose with constant ightnlng and
heavy peals of thunder. The tain came
down iu torrents, spring alley i reex wus
quicKiy sweneti to us uiinosi. men tne
bursting of a heavy cloud about nine o'clock
made the little stream a rupinir torrent.
raising it Ui live or six feet above tne highest
mm it it ever irui uvu,i;ni nig very tiling ill
the way nefore it.
The first damage done was that of lifting
the house occupied by a Mr. McDuggaii and
carrying it down agiiinst the iron bridge,
dc iiiolishimr evervthiiut iu it. and Mrs. Mo
Dtiggan herself was not rescued until the
home nun anchored.
The following is a partial list of the killed
in the vicinity of Wells: Alfred Frederick,
John Brown, Mrs. John lirown, Andrew
J'letrus, Mrs. John l.alusick. Herman Krew
er; a daughter of Andrew Melehert, John
Ivorson and three children; child in the
family of Andrew Ligbtenberg; child of
John Bell; child of Maryland Stein.
Many dead and liiiiircd in the Polish
settlement six miles of Wells, can not be
enumerate I.
An Albert Lea special gives the following
list of the dead in Freeborn county: An
drew Hansen, Michael Iverson and three
rinull children; M. Siietpiin and family: K.
Mi I artliey and family; Andrew Paulson;
Mrs. Cbristopberson and child.
I'likuown man, drowned between Hurt
laiid and Richland.
swrn off tiif. r.RTit.
At Hartlund five ieople were killed and
many wounded. When Hie center of the
cyclone approached Winnebago City, it
seemed as though Hint villuge wus fated and
the greatest consternut ion prevailed there
for a few minutes. The river seemed to
divide the tornado, and one-half turned
southeasterly unil one-half northeasterly.
The southern tunnel swept around south
vt Wells and circled in to the east.
i irrv Kii.i.t n in one vlai e.
Ten are reported killed in the neighbor
hood Muic!ton. and 20 injured. The north
ern half of thecvclone wus the more de
structive. It passed nortbeasteily about four
miles south of Minnesota lake, and not a
building In its path was loft standing, while
ninny people were killed or wounded. The
country devastated is one of the most prts
perous sections of the Stute, and the house
were thickly dotted over the prairies, score
of those houses were destroyed, and it it
estimated the loss of life will foot up to
from 30 to 50.
Wherever a building was dcrtsoyed. it
was so totally and utterly demollshtd that
not a vestige of it is left. At otie pluce where
the cyclone struck, eight houses in suc-ce-sion
were destroyed, und at another th
place was so complete y washed off the face
of the earth that no truce of it or its occu
pant could be found, though teurch wot
made.
Four miles north of Wells the s'orm raged
in unrestrained fury. At Anthony Mill
chert's, the wife and a little girl were at
home, and after the storm the wife wat
found in the grove clinging to a tree with
one hand and hanging to the little girl with
the other. Iu a ousiure a few rods from
the house were 1' dead cuttle. Here the
buildings und a grove of perhaps lou lurge
trees were literary crushed into tin
ground, und how the woman and child
escaped death is a marvel.
The devastated territory was to-day cover
ed with a flood of water, and through the
deep mud, on horseback ami in wugons.
hundreds of people searched for some trace
of their homes, some wind tossed souvenir
of their lost possess ons, or for the faces of
missing friends. It may be two or three
riavs before the full sum of the disaster is
known. i
IKIIITNINO KILUTIIHFE PfRSONS IV CniCAOO
During a thundemt rm that pwe I over
Chicago on Thursday lightning struck th
Grant monument iu Lincoln park, in the
corridors of which nearly IK) wople had
ought shelter. Three were killed and two
seriously injured. All of the others, with
the exception of three, were thrown violent
ly to the stone floor of the monument and
received some severe shocks. Th monu
ment was but slightly damaged. The killed
are: Lewis Mever, Mrs. Shelly, unknown
man, The injured are Hurry Phillips and
Un. Maggie Olsen, both of Chicago.
Oerman Wbippid by Africana.
Zanziuau, June 20. A report bus been re
ceived hero that a Herman force commanded
by Baron Billow and consisting of 11 v Eu
roans and ISO Soudanese natives, with on
gun, was severely defeated on the 10th inst.
in th Mosul territory, near Kilimanjaro.
One European and 100 of the Soudanese)
were killed. Baron Bulow and another Eu
ropean wer among th wounded.
BAD DROWNING ACCIDENTS.
Fly Children and Two Men Drowned
Near PUtabursr.
PiTTsm'Ro, Pa., June 18. Five children
were drowned at Neville Island, on th
Ohio river, eight miles from Pittsburg, Fri
day afternoon, by the turning of wheel.
From the Joy of their happy young exist
ence the five were matched by the muddy
water of the Ohio and plunged into the
abyss oT death without a moment's warning.
In the twinkling of an eye the sound of
their sweet, childish prattle gsve way lo th
roaring of the waters, which seined and
chocked them. The names of the children
drowned arc: Paul Plttock, 8 year old;
Rufo Pltfock, 0 years old; Maggie Pitlook,
12 years old; Ada Plttock, 14 year old;
Kdn Richardson, 14 years old.
The children had taken a buggy from Mr.
Plttock barn yard to the river's edge. They
played in the buggy, and in romping start
ed the buggy, and before they could pet out
It had plunged Into the river. It is feared
the mother of the Pitto-.k children will lose
her reason.
Israel Solomon, a young mill woiker, liv
ing at Linden station, was drowned while
bathing in the Moiiongahcla river, near hia
home,
Thomas Wlmlle, a machinist residing In
Allegheny, a man of 4ft years, was drowned
In the Ohio river at the foot of Island ave
nue while bathing with a number of
friends.
Within the pat two months, since the ,
openingof the bathing eaoii, Coroner Mo- I
Dowell has been called upon to bold in-
otiests over 27 different -rsons, principally I
children, who have lost their lives tiy c- "
eitlental drowning. This does not include
the startling number reported yesterday,
which brings the total lo 3.
CHICAGO'S BTO TORITADO.
Elrht Llvs Lost In It. A Boat-Load of
Studenta Saf j.
Ciiicaoo, June II. A tornado raged In
this city this afternoon. . The rainfall wa
terrific. The full force of the wind struck
the southwest corner of the Home Insur
ance building occupied by the Vnion Na
tionnl bank and blew In three large plat
glass windows. J. J. P. Otlcll, President of
the bunk, was struck on the thigh by a
fragment of glass and severely cut.
The great canvass canopy over the wig
wam, in which will be held the National
Democratic Convention next week, was
torn to tatters and so utterly mined that
the contractors determined to use instead a
timber roof.
Ciiicaoo, June 15 The tornado here yes
terday wus more destructive than at first
reported. Fight lives were lost and many
people injured. It will take hundreds of
thousands of dollar! to repair the dumnge.
The steamer Juliet, with the graduating
class of tho Northwestern University, which
was supposed to have been lost with all on
board, urrlved here early this morning.
An authentic list of the killed follows:
Fmma Klima, daughter of Frank and Mag
gie Klitna; William I,osca, John Icill,
Charles I. Roberts, Harvey Stewart und
three unknown men.
Jimti S. Kutan I Dead.
Fx-State Senator J. 8. Rut.nl died Patur
day morning at his home In Allegheny. Hi
death was due to nervous protrution,
brought on by bis work during a vigorous
recent political campaign.
Mr. Rutun was born in Carroll county,
Ohio. May 2", Is: IK, ami was educated in the
common schools, at Richmond college, (duo,
ami ut 1 leaver Aca lemy, I'a., to which place
be moved iu the latter fifties. He sMdiet!
lu.v with the late Sam 11. Wilson of Beaver
and was admitted to the bar in 180 i. iu isi;2
be was lectetl dist'ict attorney of IVnvor
county, mid re-elected in lKtlft. In lSiiH he
was a presidential elector for (irant. In 18(i!)
he was elected a State Senator from Heaver
and Washington counties and re-elected in
172. He was speaker of the senate in tho '
session of 1872. lie was appointed concl to
Cardiff ami Florence in 1870. but declined.
President Hayes appointed him collector of
the port of Pittsburgh in 1877. He served
until June. 1881. In May, 1882, he wii ap
pointed doted States marshal of tho
Western district of Pennsylvania, and was
removed bv President Cleveland in Novem
ber. 1 ". He was electetl to the State senate
from Allegheny county November, 188ti, and
has been prominent in politics ever emco.
IMPORTANT OLEO DECISION.
A United State Judge Say State Can
not Prohibit it Importation,
Judge Bond of the United States Court at
Baltimore, Md., discharged Charles H. Mc
Allister, who was arrested under the Mary
land law for selling oleomargarine, the court
holding iliat the arrest was illegal. In his
opinion Judge Bond said:
"A Stute may remilate the snl nl
toragc of article dangerous to the health
of the city but it cuiuiot prohibit the im
portation, ine laws or the United State
recognize oleomargurine as a mercantile
article. Being such, while a Slate may per
haps regulate its sale, it cannot prohibit it
importation. The statue in nuestinn tinea
this, and is unconstitutional iu th s respect
Concressman Elt T. Stack house Dead.
Wasiiinoton, Junt) 15 Congressman Ell
T. Stackhouse, of the Sixth South Carolina
district, died at his residence here early this
morning of heart disease. His son beard
him breathing heavily and called to hiia,
but he did not respond, and before anything
could be done he was dead. Mr. Stackhouse
wa born in Marion county, South Carolina
in 1824. He served in the Confederate army
and became a colonel. He afterward be
came prominent in agricultural pursuits,
was President of the State Fanners' Alli
ance, wo a ni-mber of the Legjluture. and
was elected to th Fifty-second Congress a
a Democrat.
FLOURS HEAVIEST WEES.
The Record of Production by th Mino-
apou HUl 1 Broken.
MlNNXAFOLlB. June 20. Tha
r Miller tay: The mills made their ban
ner run last week, grinding 214,930 barrel,
or 33,821 barrels daily. The heaviest pre
vious output wa 208.930 barrels, inula foe
th week ended October 31, 1801. for the
corresponding time last year the production
was 133.4SS barrel, and in 1800. U3.G 0 bar.
Tel.
Water. In abundance ana unaer
treat pressure baa been brought a
long dUtauce to Kaplos from tlio
mountain, and tba drain, rebuilt,
and the prospect is that tho cholera
and the fever will not toon again
appear there.