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SWEPT BY FEARFUL f US. Tornadoes Play Havoc in Five Western States. Towns Demolished, Lives Lost and a Train Blown Away. Destructive storms swept over several Western States, killing and injuring many people. A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo., ?yh. The tornado destroved Towanda, Kan., killing six people; wrecked Augusta, Killing four and injuring many others; did great damage at Wellington, killing several and demolished several buildinjs at Kiowa. The town of Towanda was asleen when the storm swept down, razing everything in its path and leaving: d >ad bodies lying in its wake. Four bodies have been recovered from the ruins already searched. Twenty J persons are fatally hurt and forty more are aariously injured, besides a large number aore or less maimed. I The fatally injured wert: A little girl blown from the set-ond story of the hotel a ' r>f i so f?et. badlv crushed; Mrs. G. A- Robbins. skull fractured by flying timbers: Elmer Gain, internally injured; Mrs. Walter Mooney,head crushed; Alice Thorn* I too and Mr. and Mrs. George Cornelius, j Ten were seriously injured. At Augusta, Ksn., three were killed out- I right?Harmon Hosteins, James Barnes and J the infant child of Will Rhodes. The child was blown out of his mother's arms and dashed against a brick wall. Rhodes himself is fatally injured, as is also the wife of Harmon Hoskins. Fifteen others were more r Ips? seriously nurt. a* (Smith Ramn T^an the house of John Moorhouse was leveled to the ground and Moorebouae and one child were killed. John Burmaster's house was crushed Mke an eggshell and the whole, lamily (Mr. and Mrs. Burmaster and tbree children) were killed. Mrs. Frank fihepard was killed by flying timbers. A ?>ra of others were injured, but it is beved no more fatalities occurred. At Strong City, Kan., the house of James ?lasron was demolished, and his wife, son and little child were killed outright. Several ethers were injured. At Salina, Kan., the house of M. A. Brather was carried from its foundation and wrecked. The family were at upper at the time and all were lore or less injured. One daughter had a limb broken and was internally injured. Another was hurt about the back anrl internally. Neither is likely to recover. A young son was badly injured and bruised about the head. The house of Samuel Buckholder was demolished, but the family escaped injury. Mrs. Zimmerman took refuge in the cellar at her house, which was demolished, and she was fatally injured. Wellington and vicinity suffered con derably and several people were killed. William Little's house, south of Wellington, was blown to splinters, u?4. Little and his foar children were killed. Joe Walton's house was picked ap and thirteen of the occupants were more m leas injured. Sam Butterworth's house nod its occupants were carried tbroe Hundred yards ia the air, and some of the family were fatally hurt. At Atohiaon, Kan..the gale began at midsright, but no damage was done to speak of, ntil nearly noon, when a tornado visited the city and unroofed and demolished severed huge buildings and scattered signs, awnings, wtc^ in every direction. The Santa Fe depot mi unroofed and the Scholastic Convent demolished. In Kansas City the wind reached a velocity wt sixty-four miles an hour. The damage insisted principally of roofs blown away ad plateplass windows broken. The storm in St. Joseph, Mo., began at, ddnighc. There is hardly a house in the city not damaged more or less, and many barm, outhouses and fences are leveled. The large trotting barn of the King Hill stock tarzn was destroyed, but all the valuable stock was removed before the building was wept awaj In the river the steamboats Yazel and - * ?- -i- B-ll- -M Savannah and tne rerryooac r>?ue, ui Browne villa, are swamped ashore. Despatches from Hiawatha, Kan., Seneca, Oneida, Horton, Lawrence, Bolckow ana Maryville. Mo., report great loss. At about 6:30 in the evening at Chicago, HI., the sky. which had been threatening all the afternooD, became black as ni?ht, and in another minute a cloudburst occurred. The wind blew at a hurricane rate and drove the rain in sheets along the streets, sweeping every movable object before it. At HaJstead and Pierce streets the wind Mew down a house and killed three people. The building was a seven-story bridk structure. It was surrounded by one and twostory frame and brick buildings, the homes ?f humble laborers, and crashing upon them iaatantly crushed out the lives of three unfortunates and fatally or seriously injured uy others. Those instantly killed are David Hulett, ged six months; Horace Mott, aged five years, and "Eddie" Mott, aged two years. The fatally injured were Alice Hulett, aged eight, crushed about the bead and boolders; Mrs. Ada Keown, buried beneath a mass of bricks, which crushed her through the chair in which she was sitting ; Horace VVigant, whole body fearfully bruised: Mary Wigant, arms, haad and body bacuj crushed; James Mott, head crashed; Mrs. James Mott, head and shoulders crushed; James Mott. Jr., back strained and injured internally; Mamie Mott, badly wounded about the head and shoulders. A storm prevailed in Burlington, Iowa, ami vicinity all day. A train on the Burlington and Northwestern narrow gauge was blown from the track, lorty miles from there while rawing at full speed. Two passenger?, a mail clerk and a baggagemaster were reported to be seriously hurt, while others were badly bruised. The storm prostrated wires all over Nebraska. Reports received show that the town of Kelson, Neb., the county seat of Nuckolls County, was laid waste, and many buildI uga, including two churches, were wrecked kt Norfolk. Reports from other points indicate that the storm swept northward and eastward from Ne'soa with great fury. The storm included in its track the town of Edgar and other places in Clay County, continuing on to Norfolk. j Later Details. ' The great storm, according to later di? patches, swept over Kansas, Colorado, Ifebraslia, Iowa. Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Texas and Indiana. The wind no where fell below the danger line of velocity. e "Tornado State " loads th? list in the matter of fatalities. The storm scourged that commonwealth in all its length nd breadth. In Texas the towns of Bangs and Santa Anna were heavily visited. Throughout Iowa a hurricane prevailed a greater part of the dav and night, and tho property damage will probably be heavier than in any other State. Missouri seems to have been lightly Tinted, and Minnesota and Wisconsin felc only the dyins: breath of the giant gale. In Illinois the rain, wind and hiul were heavy, but cnly in Chicago and it* suburbs was there any loss ot life. The fall of the sevengtorv brick building on Pearce street is responsible for the death of eight persons and the injury of a dozen others. In the subnros of Grand Crossing four person* were injured by the collapse of a house, and t Woodlawn four others were hurt in a irnilar manner. ' A careful estimate of the number of killed and wounded throughout Kansas by the storm makes it nearly ICO killed and between 200 and 390 injured. The tornado came from the southwest and went across the western part of .the State, spreading deShe was blowu through the side ofa wrecked turn, and left on the back of a horse unhurt. S??v*n people were killed and a dozen ?ther3 badly injured by the tornado in the little town of V> annego, Kmsas. The killed ah rr-?i? I ait?; l->uaric5 iayiviy r>nc auu v_uii *, xius. | Albert E?pers and two children, aged three and five yars respectively; Joseph Johnson, . ne storm struck J. C. Lamb's house at Banta Anna. Texas, wiping it oat of existtnce. Next .vir. Heath's house fedthedemon, an<t in a tew moments it was torn to pieces and stivwn all over the prairie. J. W, Hail's bouse was next struck and demolished Then it attached Mr. Basse's hou*e. Here Mr. Story had died only about five minutes before. The storm struck this house with great fury, killing a boy and wounding eleven of the inmates. . .The house of L. L. Woodward was demot ! gtructfon clear ap into the Nebraska line. In addition to this principal storm, there was a second, of Jess intensity, which went I across the eastern part of the State, not taking so many lives, but doing great damage to crops, trees and farm buildings. The following is the estimate placed on the dead and wounded: South Haven, eight dead and thirty-two injured. Wellington, four dead and twenty three injured. On farms between these two townf, five dead 1 TntxronHo ooronroan HftaH a LIU lilUO UlJUiW. *V" - VM-WWM v. and forty-flve wounded. Augusta, seven dead and nineteen injured. Hojiestead, five dead and seven injured. Strong; City, two dead and eight wounded. Salina, iifteen injured, three fatally. Among the strange stories told of the queer antics of the wmd is that of Mis3 Ella Thornton,of Towanda, who was blown away by the storm half a mile. ca.rrv\n - a oillow. ^ cuvi a. oreea s nouse was entirely destroyed, and all of the family of five wera injured. At Trickham, Texas, the houses were driven into each other, demolishing them, but no one was hurt. At Bangs four persons were killed and ten injured Telegraph poles were pulled out of the ground.and wires twisted up. The St. Joseph (Mo.) mills andtheConnett packing house were leveled to the earth and the gas and elqcfcric light plants are bad wrecks by reason of the storm. The wires of the telegraph and telephone companies ware prostrated, and the operation of trains upon the railroads centring here has been almost completely suspended. The storm was not in the nature of a tor nado. It was a terrifflc gale continuing for fifteen hours. The damage done to property in St. Joseph, Mo., will reach $200,000. The town of Bigeiow, Mo., forty miles north of there was almost entirely destroyed. FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. In the Senate. 65th Day.?Mr. Morgan introduced a series of resolutions to precipitate a silrer debate fhe Army aeent provision in the [ Indian Appropriation bill was adopted. 66th Dat.?Mr' Morgan asked that consideration of his silver resolution be postj poned??The Indian Appropriation bill was debated Mr. Felton, by request, in[ troduced a bill appropriating $503,000 to promote the fibre industry of the United State and to enable the Secretary or Agricuituro to make a display of fibrous plants, etc., at at the World's Fair. 67th Day.?Mr. Morgan, in speaking on his silver resolutions, criticised th9 act oc July, 1890; Mr. Sherman made a reply on the pare of the Republicans?Sir. Hoar | reported a bill providing for the appoint[ uient of two additional judges for the Court of Claims, in order to facilitate the disposition of causes in that court. 68th Day.?The discussion of the Indian Appropriation bill (the clause requiring Army officers to act as agents) was continued??The Senate, having referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations the House Chinese Exclusion bill, adjourned. 69th Day.?The Senate passe:i the Indian Appropriation bill. Another vote was taken on the motion to strike out the House amendment authorizing the President to detail army officers to act as Indian agents. The motion was lost? twenty-five to twentyeight?and the amendment is retained in the bill Mr. Wolcott spoke on the silver question. In the House. 72d Day.?The House went into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Blount, of Georgia, in the chair) on the Free Wool bill. Speeches were made by Messrs. Brosius, wheeler, Johnson, Stocxdale, Kyle, Norton, Grant, Herman, Youmans and Stout. Less than a dozen members were present when the House reassembled at 8 o'clock p. at., and again went into Committee of the Whole on the Free Wool bill. After speeches by Messrs. Parret, of Indiana; Milliken. of Maine; Greenleaf, of New York, and Pendleton, of West Virginia, the House adjourned. 73d Day.?Debate on the Wool bill was continued by Messrs. Dalzell, Cox, Watson. 74th Day.?The debate on the Free W ool Tariff bill was closed for the Democrats by Mr. Cummings, of New York. Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, closed the debate on the Republican side Mr O'Ferrall reported the contested election case ot Noyes against Rockwell from the Twenty-eighth New York District, with the recommendation tbat Rockwell (Democrat), the sitting member, be unseated and the seat be given to Noyes (Republican) ilr. Fithian reported with a recommenlation that it pass his bill for the free admission to American registry to ships built in foreign countries Mr. Hatch reported with a recommendation that it pass a bill prepared by the committee as a substitute for the Hatch Anti-Option bill and other measures of this character pending before the committee. 75th Dat.?The bill absolutely to prohibit t.)i? admission of Chinese was passed Mr. Springer closed the general debate on the Free Wool bill. Owing to his weakna39 from recent illness, bis speech wa3 read by Mr. Bryan. The general debate being closed, the committee took up the bill by paragraphs for amendment and discus-ion under the five-minute rule. 76th Day.?Mr. Bacon reported the bill to carry iato effect the recommendation of Vae International American Conference looking to the incorporation of th9 interna- j tional bank A bill reclassifying railway j postal clerks and increasing their salaries was reported The remainder of the session was consumed in filibustering on the Free Wool bill. 77th Day.?The consideration of the Free Wool bill in Committee of the Whole was finished, and the bill was reported to the House. OIBCULATION OH AMES. A Slight Net Decrease Shown by the xreasury oimeinniii, Cbe Treasury Department's monthly statement of changes in the circulation during March shows a alight net decrease in the circulation, amounting to $917,373, including $5, G72,050 in gold certificates, $792,777 in standard silver dollars and $199,033 in gold coin. On the other hand there was an increase of $1,383,857 m silver Treasury notes. $1,773,374 in United States notes, 5815,507 in National bank notes, $541,935 in silver certificates, $490,000 in currency jertifi ;ates and $238,917 in subsidiary silver. The total circulation on April I is placed at $1,6)8,041,520, $78,531,0?6 more than on April 1, 1S91. This gives a per capita circulation of $24.68. During March there was a net increase of $3,240,292 in the Treasury store of money and bullion. There was a decrease of $2,U81,152in gold bullion, $40,915 in subsidiary silver, $1,773,274 in United States notes, and $9J7.93l in National bank notes; while there was an increase of $4,319,009 in silver bullion, $1,14^,337 in standard silver dollars, $102,029 in gold coin, and $2,489,139 in silver Treasury notes. Gold certificates held in cash by the Treasury April 1 amounted to $23,673,770, an increase j during March of $5,533,630, siiver certificates held in cash amounted to $3,589,703. an inot M9se of *809.546. and currencv certificates held in cash were 11,380,U00t or $1,290,000 more than on March 1. Tho store of gold bullion in the Treasury on April 1 aggregated $8!, 11*4,377, and of silver bullion $65,730.46K. BATTLE WITH CHINS, Forty Natives of British Bnrraah Killed by Troops. Dispatches from Rangoon, Capital of British Burmah, tell of a desperate conflict between British soldiers and a native tribe I in which a number of the latter lost their I lives. The severity of the conflict was shown wh*n after the fight was ended it was found that forty of the Chins lay dead upou the battle around, and a large number of the tribe had received wounds which in many cases would probably prove fatal. The British loss is not stated in the dispatches, but it is said to be trifling. The enemy as they retreated tnrou?h the villago took a terrible revenge for the defeat they had sustained. They set tire to a number of dwellings, and these light and inflammable structures were soon all ablaze. The lire easily spread from one to another of the collection of tinder box huts which formed the p.ace,and in a comparatively short time the whole village was one moss of roaring flames, which only diod out when all the houses had been entirely burned to the ground. BIG FIRES IN NEW ORLEANS. I Sixty Thousand Bales of Cotton and Eleven Blocks Bnrned. The Total Loss of Property Estimated at $3,500,000. The two largest fires ever known in New Orleans, La., began almost simultaneously a few mornings ago, destroying eleven squares of property and 63,000 bales of cotton, and causing a loss of $3,500,000. Each fire was the result of carelessness, and the Seat destruction is due to a long ought, causing a dry condition ot houses and cotton. There was a strong breeze blowing and the Fire Department, which was reorganized in January from the volunteer to the paid system, has been cut down to about one-tenth of its former members. The Hew men had not got acoustomed thoroughly to their duties and were unable to cope with the fires. The first fire began at five minutes to 10 o'clock in some cotton stored on the pavement in front of the fireproof cotton press on the corner of Robin and Front streets. It is not usual to allow cotton to be so eforori hut th? stock on hand there ia so large?more than 500,000 bales?that the law about storing cotton on the pavement was allowed to become a dead letter. Some one in passing threw a lighted cigarette'among tbecottor. It smouldered and Anally burst into a blaze. The fire was so small that at first little attention was paid to it, and it easily might have been stopped. The cotton was so dry that it spread rapidly, and the fiamej soon attacked the press itself. There were 12,500 bales of cotton inside, and these soon ignited and made such a blaze and heat that it would have been folly for the firemen to have attempted to grapple it. They tried to prevent its spread to the neighboring presses, but the wind was blowing a stiff braeza and carried the flames over to the Shippers' press, in which there were 39,000 bales. Some of this had been removed before the fira got there, but nearly three-fourths of 1 ? J ?i it. ?? Tine cotton was ouraeu, uuu mo pi uwu was destroyed within half an hour. The Orleans press, the largest of the uptown ones and containing 25,003 bales of cotton, and the Independent press, with 8000 bales, were the next to go. The flames had spread so rapidly by this time that there was no possibility of saving any of the cotton or the presses. The firemen made a desDerate attempt to check the fire at the New Orleans press. t They were working at it when the walls fell in. burying three firemen in the ruins. Captain Dupre, Lieutenant Shaw, and Pipeman Bordeaux were seriously if not mortally hurt. By this time the fire extended for fire squares and licked up several dwellings, barrooms and store?. It produced quite a panic, and persons four and five squares away began to move their furniture. The air was filled with wisps of blazing cotton, which threatened roofs everywhere, and among others the Baldwin Agricultural Works, three squares awaf; also the Louisiana Kice Mills, four squares away, were set on fire, but the flames war* extinguished in each case. Fortunately the section in which the cottoil presses are situated contains few large residences and many open spaces, so that atter the presses and the cotton were burned the fire died out for want of fuel. In these 63,500 bales of cotton were burned. The loss on the cotton, at $35 a bale, is $2,222,500. The presses were worth $751', COOL Other property destroyed, including eighteen horsey was worth 150,000, making the total loss 13,022,500. While the firemen were fighting this fire an alarm was sounded for another at the corner of Laurel and Third streets, about <./?nattac o txtott A \frc_ Volontina was prepariug her dinner and used coal oil in the stove. The oil tha house on fire. Like the other, it was a small affair at first and it was half an hour before the neighboring houses were ablaze. Then it swept rapidly down Laurel street. It was difficult to get engine^ for they were fighting the cotton press fire, and when ther came there they were able to do very little. The supply of water was short and the firemen fagged out. The locality in which this fire started is built up entirely with wooden cottages occupied mainly by people of small means. The flames spread lrom one to the other, so that in a couple of hours tbey had crossea Third and Second streets, finally reaching First. They spread backward also, crossing Laurel 6treet, burning up three blocks be tween that and Constance, and crossing the latter at First and Second, sweeping everying everything before it to Magazine street. The fire here was checked, although it crossed the street and destroyed several houses. It had spread from the poorer to a better residence part of the city, burning in all 185 houses and property to the amount of $500.000 to 1600,000. A large portion of the furniture and household goods in tha burnt district was saved. BURNED WITH HER CHILD. Went Into the House to Kescae It and Was Buried by Debris. Fire at Wilkesbarre, Penn., destroyed the millinery store of Kate McCarty, in South Main street, and the adjoining sporting gooos score ui o. w. ivippie. Mayor Sutton, who was one of the first on the scene, broke into the latter store and roused the family who occupied the upper floor. He carried out Willie Easby and led Mrs. Easby by the arm. On reaching tho street Mrs. Easby excitedly exclaimed: "My child! Where is my child?' She rushed into the flames and smoke and was just coming with her child wrapped in a blanket when an explosion occurred bringing down the roof and side walls and crushing trie woman and the child in the debris. A determined effort was made by the firemen to rescue them, but the whole place was in flames and it was impossible to enter. The fire spread and four other buildings were gutted before it was extinguished. The explosion was caused by the fire reaching a number of kegs of powder The bodies of Mrs. Easby and her child were found that afternoon burned to a cinder, and the child's head blown from its body. The loss was $70,000. CHINESE MUST GO. Tho Stringent Geary Exclusion Act Passed by the House. The House of Representatives at Washington passed the Geary Chinese Exclusion act by a vote of 179 to forty three. Hereafter no State court or United States court is to admit Chinese persons to citizenship, and all laws in conflict with this provision are repealed. All Chinese persons now in the United States are to apply to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue of their districts within one year after the passage of this act for certificates of residence, and any such per sons found within one year after the bill shall become a law without a certificate of residence are to be judged unlawfully in the United States and subject to tne same fines and penalties as thoucn they had come unlawfully into the country at the first instance . The provisions of all treaties now in force between tho United States Government and the Chinese empire, in so far as they, or any ot them, conflict mth thj provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby abrogated, set aside and repealed. *" ^r T*^T/Nrrnrv fUUtt LIJNUHhU, Swift Punishment tor the Murderers ot,a Peddler. News reached Alexandria, Va., that Captain Patrick Kelly, aged fifty-five, an Irish peddler, had been killed on Little River, near Fishville, by a gang of eight colored desperadoes. Four of them were caught and hanged, and a poss* went in pursuit of the rest of the gang. The murder was for the purpose of getting t.hnt~-A<n'a mni THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The Connecticut Supremo Court decided fK.f fkil nlaltn rtf Austin Rrainmvi Execu tive Secretary of the Governor, against Controller Statib for salary must be allowed Forest fires raged all over the Cape Cod district in Massachusetts for two days. Much damage was done in the magnolia woods, and several tracts of forest were destroyed. The temperature in New York City on April 4 reached the highest point scored on anv April 4 since the records nave been kept. At 3 p. k. it was eighty-three degrees in tne shade. Mrs. Mehitabel Dayton, of East Haddam, Conn., died, aged 104 years and eleven months. She is said to have been the oldest person in Connecticut. A boat containing a pleasure party of six persons was carried over a dam near Coleraine, Mass., on the Dear-field River, and five of the occupants were drowned. Mrs. Minnie Eno, aged thirty-two, was shot dead at Lawrence, Mass., by her worthless husband, Peter Eno, a Boston and Maine brakeman. The murderer fled. Governor Abbett, of New Jersey, has refused to approve the bill legalizing the Reading Railroad coal combine. He refused to sign it because of its doubtful constitutionality and also because no assurance that coal would not advance could be secured frnm thn allied railroads. While attempting to light his pipe at an electric light, as be was tola to do in a joke by a fellow-workman, a Hungarian at Johnstown, Penn., was instantly killed. A terrific cyclone struck Olean, N. Y., wrecking ten houses and a church. One woman was killed and a number of people seriously injured. There were sixteen people in the church, which was lifted from its foundation and carried twenty feet away. South and West. An explosion occurred at the Sterling Dynamite Works, at Bessemer, AJa., killing six men. The explosion was in the gas reservoir and its force was tremendous, nearly every glass in the town of 5000 inhabitants being broken. In Moorehouse Parish, La., James Baker and E. P. Norsworthy quarreled over some stolen geese. They fought and both men were killed. Ohio farmers who have commenced plowing report finding myriads of grasshoppers just below the surface, and all predict a scourge. The Grand Jury, which has been investigating the boodling in the City Council of Chicago, 111., has made a final report. Accompanying the report were true bills for bribery asrainst nine Aldermen. A member of the'Board of Education was also Indicted. Three train hands were killed ia a freight wreck on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad near Ronceverte, W. Va. Severe storms were again reported from the West; washouts on the railroads interrupted traffic in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, the Dakotas and West Virginia. Dispatches report a blizzard in the Northwest. At Miller South Dakota, rain, snow and hall fell steadily for twenty-four nours, filling creeks to overflowing. At Crookston, Minn., a blizzard from the northwest blew hard. Fire inches of snow fell during the night. At Compton, Kv. Joseph M Kendall was nominated by the Democratic Congressional Convention for election to succeed his father, Representative J. W. Kendall, deceased. Raftsmen* from the head of Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River, Kentucky, have brought the news that "Captain" Hatfield, a leader in the McCoy-Hatfleld feud, was Irtllwfl a lew emmga SXU IU a tun uin a game of poker in his house among outlaws who had solemnly vowed perpetual friendship. ' The Illinois State Building at the World's Fair grounds, Chicago, was struck by a small cyclone. The tower and half of the memorial hall was wrecked. The loss is between $10,000 and $20,000. Two policemen near by were nearly kiiled. At New Orleans, La., Frank Lyons shot and killed a police officer named Hurley, who was attempting to arrest him. Lyons resisted arrest and was shot and killed. Two masked men entered the Postofflce at Boise, Idaho, and at the point of a pistol compelled Postmaster Leonard to hand over $1200 in cash. The robbers escaped. Washington. President and Mrs. Harrison gave a reception at the White House in honor of James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet, whom they have known from boyhood. Chales Daniel Drake, late Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims, was found dead in his bei at Washington. Judge Drake was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 11, 1811. Speaker Crisp has made the following appointments: Visitors to the Military Academy?Messrs. Outhwaite, of Ohio: o-oio?>nhttinRr. of New Jersev. and Hull, of Iowa. Visitors to Naval Academy?Messrs Herbert, of Alabama; Compton, of Mary land, and Wadswortb, of New York. The House Committee on Commerce reported a resolution granting Compagnie Francaise du Tel eg raphe de Paris at New Tork the right to land a cable on the shores of South Carolina aod Virginia, to be thence laid to the island of Cuba or Han Domingo, or both. ^Thx Civil Service Commission has a requisition for a female physician for the Indian service in Colorado, which cannot bo immediately filled, because there are no women physicians on the register of eligibles. The alary is $1000 a year. Sehor Mo.vrr.the Chilean Minister, called at the White House with Secretary Blaine, and took formal leave of the President. He has been elected a member of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies and must return home. Representative Springer, of Illinois, rosnnsorwi in Congress after his loner illness. 4 O v He was greeted with cheers and bouqueti on all sides. His prepared speech on the Free Wool bill was real before the House by Mr. Bryan, o? Nebraska. Henry B. James, for many years Chief of thn Customs Division ia the LJnited States Treasury, died a few days ago, aged fiftynine. Senator Mills, of Texas, was appointed a member o( the Committed on Coast Defences, Mines and Mining, Patents and Postofflcas, to fill vacancies created by the retirement of Mr. Chilton, his predecessor. Whitelaw Reid, United States Minister to France, arrived in Washington. Mr. Blaine accompanied him on a visit to the President, with whom he had a chat In regard to his diplomatic work. Foreign. Prince Bismarck's birthday was celebrated throughout Germany; he is seventyseven years old. A tornado swept a portion or queensland, Australasia, causing a great deal of j destruction. The steamship Missouri, bearing food from New York to starving Russians, was welcomed at Li bau. A Frenchman and a Portuguese were arrested in Madrid for an attempt to blow up the Spanish Cortes with dynamite. a number of railway and other bridges were carried away by floating ice in Salmon River, Quebec, Canada. * ? r* ? Ivrtrrt Vnlnarako CHllft. I A UADjjaunAA ? stated that United States Minister E?an and Consul McCreery had been granted leave of absence to return to the United States by Secretary Blaine. Fha.vce and Great Britain decided to prolong the Newfoundland fisheries modus vivendi over the present season. Thk inquest on the body of Mrs. Deeming began in Melbourne, Australia; her husban I and alleged murderer was identified by fifty-two persons, wuo hail known him under fifteen aliases. A fight occurred between Mexican troops an I Yaqui Indians at the Gabian mines in Mexico. Two Yaquis were killed and one wounded. No soldiers were hurt. O^kicals who are informed on the subject estimate the seal catch of Canadian poachers in Bering Sea last season at 28,U00 skins. This is exclusive of the number of seals killed and uot captured and the pups who starved to death on the inlands because of the (laughter of their mDtheraat sea. ,> / ' V*. - ' *. Y\ ' '*/ v : r-*i- ' 4 SHOW, HAH, RAIN, WIND. A Yariety of Storms Devastates the West and Northwest. A Train Buns Through a Shower of Mud in Kapsas. A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo., saye: When the through express train on the Union Pacific Railroad arrived here the other morning it presented a remarkable ap pearance, being covered with mud an inch thick. The headlight of the engine was entirely covered, and the car windows were so plastered over that no light could go through them. The trainmen say that at Rossville, Kan., near Topeka, the train ran into a shower of mud, which came down for some time from the clouds. The mud is supposed to have been taken up by a waterspout. A snowstorm has caused a great loss of horses and cattle in Colorado. The snow was badly drifted and all the roads blocked. The trains on the Union Pacific Railroad were behind time, caused by a train being derailed by a drift. The snowstorm also prevailed in the north and west of Nebraska. Advices from Colorado say the barometer wa3 the lowest in sixteen years. A furious blizzard raged at R9d Palls, Minn th? wind aweeoinfc over the prairie with immense velocity, "accompanied by drifting snow. More than a foot of snow felL A heavy rain set in at Decatur, HJ., and continued for three days. It was the biggest rain known there for thirty years. Cellars were flooded, the Sangamon rose out of its banks and several wagon bridges spanning it were dislodged. A very severe rain storm prevailed at Hillsboro, 111., during two days. The streams were all out of their banks and great damage was done to property in the bottoms. Trains were unable to run on account of the washouts and the unsafe condition of the bridges, and business was generally suspended. Leo Dale was instantly killed by light- , ning and his brother was probably fatally injured during a severe electric storm at Emngton, Hi. Seven washouts on the Van- t dalia line were caused by the storm. All trains were temporarily abandoned. The Wabash River was at the highest ever knowD, and a number of bridges over that | stream have been carried away. The St. Mary's River, which runs through ' the centre of St. Mary's, Ohio, rose higher r than it has been at any tim? before since 1863, , and the houses in the bottoms below were , inundated, while the wheat crop below was , flooded out, and much damage was other- ( wise done along its banks. A tornado struck Kirksvllle, Mo. It tore , ? - - " - Xt-A.* 1 D4?l. 1 off the cornice or me rirst nai/iuuai ua.ua. and the fronts out of three stores on the east side, throwing the bricks nearly across the street. It passed on east, wrecking chimneys, porches,etc., of houses,until it reached the last two houses in the row, wnich it com-1 pletely demolished. Tne storon at Cherry Valley, Mo., was terrific. A funnel-shaped cloud in the afternoon was seen approaching the town from the southwest. It was accompanied by a deep, roaring sound, and as it drew near it could be* seen turn. lng and twisting about with terrible velocity. It travelled with incredible speed, and barely missed the town. It demolished six houses of the village, killing two persons and fatally injuring another. The house of John Reeves, a farmer, was torn to pieces by the cyclone. Mrs. Reeves was killed outright, and Mr. Reeves was fatally injured. Mrs. Perry Nixon, the wife of another farmer in the vicinity, was also seriously injured in the demolition of her house. Mrs. H. W. Lawson was struck by lightning during the storm and instantly killed. Robert Reynolds, a freight conductor on the Great Northern, was instantly killed near Ojata, Minn. His train was backing up, but on account of the flares snow storm Tint, baa it Mid was struck and had his neck broken. c The storm drifted cattle in droves into tho r Platte Rif er in Nebraska, where many were { chilled to death. The loss will be heavy. The worst snow storm of the season was t reported from along the Burlington in the Black Hills. At Alliance, Neb., a trains were snowed in. Heavy snow * storms were reported raging between Valentine and Chadron, and at Seneca, in the north of the State, and in Eastern Colorado. At Blue Springs, in addition to the general havoc and dismay caused by the wind storm, a heavy rain washed out the bridge on the Union Pacific Railroad. The blizzard continued most of the night around Miller, South Dakota, and snow ' drifts eight feet deep were to be seen. Hun- 1 I dreds of head of stock wandered with the i storm and perished. ( An anparalleled storm of rain, snow and hail raged at Aberdeen, South Dakota. The fall of snow was simply tremendous, and in consequence railroads were badly tied up. While seeding will be greatly delayed, farmers and all others are well satisfied, and encouragement is felt Snow plows and shovelers were set to work west and north. The rainfall in South Dakota was the greatest ever known in April. THE SEAL POACHERS. Operations on the Canadian Fleet Along the Northern Coast, The Department of State at Washington has received detailed information of the operations of tho sealing vessels now engaged ; in killing and taking seals along the Ameri- < can coast. At latest advices the fleet was off Cape Flattery, keeping company with the herd as it moves np the coast on its way to its breeding grounds on tihe Pribyloff Islands. The American steamer , Michigan passed them and reports the water fairly alive with seals, and the vessels had tbei# boats out, busily shooting them Reports from fourteen vessels fir their catch at 2*453 seals. 1 The steamer Mystery had baen engaged at ] Victoria by the poaching fleet to meet them at Cloquet Sound, take off their skins and ' furnish tbem with a new stock of supplies, J thus enabling them to prosecute their work 1 without the loss of time necessary to put J into the port of Victoria for that purpose. 1 The same steamer is engaged to meet the fleet again later in the season at Sand Point, l on Kadiak Island, and receive their skins 1 and furnish them with fresh supplies pre- ^ paratory to the entrance of the fleet ioto 1 Bering Sea. < The Brenaa arrived at Victoria, British Columba, from Nova Scotia, being the first ^ of the thirteen sealing schooners on the way irom there, and she is now being fitted out for sea. .'Seven more British vessels are now ^ in Victoria, and four or five in process of construction, destined for this year's sealing operations, making the total British fleet aoout seventy as against fifty-one last year ^ THE PUBLIC DEBT, Both Receipts ana fc-xpenuirures rn? j duced During the Past Month. The monthly public debt statement just Issued from the Treasury Department at Washington shows a reduction in the aggre- . gate of debt last mouth amounting to $1,993,041. There was an iucrease of $550 in interest-bear ins debt, a decrease of $1,256,912 in non-interest-bearing debt and v an increase of ?736,679 iu tlie surplus cash a in the Treasury, i'be total debt, less $32,898,884 net. cash in the Treasury, and the * $100,000,000 irold. green hack-redemption ti fund, is $83.S,127,fi44. National depositary banks uold $18,788,732 of tl the Treasury surplus, a decrease of about a one-quarter of a million since March 1. tl Treasury gold coin and bullion assets w aggrega.ee $28.), 144,269, or $2,000,000 less tl than u month ago. 8ilver assets aggregate m $4H4,53U,999, an increase of nearly $5,500,000 in the last montn. p Government receipts fro:n all sources in p March aggregated $.10,04$, *506, against $29.- o 418,33dm March, 1391. Custom receipts last t month were $ltf,415,312, or fully $1,000,000 v more than in March a year ago; and internal e revenue receipts were SI-, 133,001, an increase p of about $1,000,000 over March, 1891. u Expenditures in the last nine months of the current fiscal year were $238,119,243,or $30,- si i 000,000 less than for the three-quarters of t preceding Hscal year. a LATER MEWS. ~T A tierce forest fire raged near Halberton in Cumberland County, N. J. The fire burned over several hundred acres of young timber. The burnt territory is fully a mile in length and half aa wide. Nlvetien-teab-old Oscar Creamer,bookkeeper in New York City for the Wall street banking house of Dix & Phyfe, with the aid of Clerk Carpenter and an outsider, stole $57,000 from the firm. More than $52,000 of the plunder was found secreted in a cellar in Brooklyn. Two men were killed and three others dangerously injured by the explosion of a locomotive in Long Island City, N. Y. The Oregon State Republican Convention in session at Portland sent uninstructed delegates to the National Convention. Tex Rev. Dr. Joseph J. G. Webster, a distinguished Methodist clergyman of Baltimore, McL, committed suicide at Charleston, W. Va., by throwing himself from the window of his room on the third floor of the Hotel Ruffner. Brownsville, Texas, was wiped out by a tornado. Two persons were killed and several injured. Every house in the village was leveled. Confederate Memorial Day was observed by the South in the usual mauner. President Harrison remembered the "Arbor Day" of Maryland and the District of Columbia. With "Baby* McKee and little Mary Lodge McKee, he went out into the front garden of the White House and planted three trees. French Anarchists blew up the Police Depot in Angers, France. Allan Spiller killed his wife and two children in Belfast, Ireland. He had been oyt of work for some time and was despondent. THE BAIEiaS LAUNCHED. Another American Craiser Takes the Water at Noriolk, Va. The United States cruiser Raleigh has jeen successfully launched at the Norfolk Va.) Navy Yard. Fully 40,030 people witlessed the interesting event At twenty-four ninutes before twelve o'clock the signal raa given, and . Mrs. Alfred W. Hay. vard, of Raleigh. N. C., daughter of Governor Holt, of that State, stand* ng between Secretary of the Navy Tracy ind Ensign Hilby P. Jones, broke the bottle >n the bow of the cruiser and she began to nove off as easily as if under her own profiler. It was just three-quarters of a minlte from the time the bottle was broken ;hat the Raleigh was stopped by her anchors n mid-stream. The Raleigh, which has been officially mown as cruiser No. 8, is of 3188 tons displacement, is to have twin screws and heavy protective decks. Between her poop and 'orecastle decks is an open gun deck. Ser length in load line is 300 feet, exreme breadth forty-two feet and mean Iraught eighteen feet'. Her indicated horse x>wer is 10,000, and the contract calls for a ipeed of nineteen knots. The engines will ? triple expansion, vertical Inverted and lirect acting, the common stroke being ;hirty-flve inches. The bunking capacity 'or the coal supply is 336 tons. She will be heavily armed, her main bafcery consisting of one six-inch and ten fournch rapid tire breech loading rifles on center hr thlftt Q^AAI ;i?UU IUUUU W, ^*VWW?VM ihields, to be worked as part of the hall or nade fast to the carriage. The secondary jattery will consist of two six-pounders, two hree-pounders, one one-pounder and two ihirty-seven-millimeter revolving cannon. There will be six torpedo tubes with open? ngs about four feet above the water, worked rom the berth deck, fixed fore and aft, four >f which will be training tubes and will be )Iaced at the sides of the forward and after )srth decks. The Kaleigh is the first vessel of the new lavy whioh has been launched from a Govirnment yard to be put in commission, as he will be ready for service inside of a reac. PERISHED IN THE FIRE. Escape Cut Off by a Powder Explosion That Wrecked the Building. Shortly after midnight a terrific explosion startled Fort Madison, Iowa, and it was discovered that the frame building occupied as a meat market on the ground floor and as a dwelling above was shattered and in flames. The fire department was quickly at the scene, but so rapidly did the flames spread that nothing could be done. When it was discovered tnat "inn people were imprisoned in the burning ruins the excitement became intense, but the greatest efforts of the firemen could do no good. Two of the victims, Samuel Kitchen and Henry Meimeyer, got out of the building, but in such horrible condition that they soon died. The bodies of Mrs. Kitchen, Miss Day, and the baby were so tightly clasped in each other's arms that they were separated with dimculty. It is thought the nre was the work of an incendiary, and the explosion came from a keg of powder in the lower story. The explosion wrecked the stairways andjprevented escape. The victims werac S. V. Kitchen, aged thirty-fivej Mrs. 8. " 1 fiomnal (Tit-yhpn V. ttJicnen, luukj, twenty; three children, aged two, three and Ave; Mrs. Sydney Day. aged eighteen; August Meimeyer, boarder, aged eighteen; demy Meimeyer, boarder, aged eighteen. MEXICO'S OONflBESS OPENS. The Address of President Diaz?Prosperous Condition of the Country. The Mexican Congress convened at the City of Mexico. In his speech President Diaz referred at some length to the prosperous condition of the country's industries, -ailway improvements, and tbe progress in ;he deepening of the various harbors. A.mong tne important statements made by ;fae President in his speech were: Engineers are reestablishing the deitroyed boundary posts on the Northern rontier; the mixed boundary Commission's York has not commenced oecause to a United States has not granted funis for her Commission. Mexico will make a creditable showing at he Chicago World's Fair. Congress hat roted funds for that pVpjse, and the work ' if preparing the exhibit "X well under way. [lie War Department i?3> make a magoift- 1 ;ant exhibition at the FaL. As to Garza, the Resident says: "A band ?f outlaws, organizsd in a foreign country, lave made two incursions, but fled whes )ursued by our soldiers. To avoid a rep itition of such raids cavalry barracks will b? istabllshed on the line of the Rio Grande. 1 This outlaw band has received too mucb >rominence from thn American nresR." HELPED HIS LYNCHERS. ! j L Mob Breaks Into Jail and Hangs a j Man to a Telegraph Pole. < Joseph Lytie, the man who hacked his ^ rife and two daughters in a horrible man- ] er, was taken from tha County Jail at 1 'imiliiy, Ohio, by a uiob of nearly 10)0 de- ] ? turtn V?n?rrr\A grilllUCU muu uuu uuu^ou. As the mob entered the jail Lytle called ( lieir attention to the cell he was occupying t s the one they ware .'ooking for. It took e iiirty minutes to batter down the c?li door, c ^hen the doomed man was dragjed out anl t li?nce to the Main Street Bridge, two quarts away. t Here Lytle was strung up to an iron cro3s- t eca of tne bridge. Just as he was being 1: ulled up a shot from a revolver ran j out h n thenignt air aud the rope w&a shot in tvo, dropping the victim to the ground. He t ras then hurriedly taken to the nearest tel? o jraph polo, where the lynching was com- a IsteJ. Twenty shots were fired into thi t ody. L) tie died without a struggle. . c Lytle left a not* asking that bis body tiould be turned over to his brother with h ue request that he be buried beside hit t lother. t *: , .1 .. _ .. .v , c. . ;: 1 ' . i EHODE ISLAND ELECTIOI The Largest Vote Polled in the HI tory of the State. D BUS S ELL BROW*. I The Rhode Island election, on which tifl eyes of the country had been directed witH an unusual degree of Interest, passed ol quietly, although, the largest vote in history of the State was polled. The returns came in with their customai^H slowness, but at midnight, with one-half tlH State heard from, it was apparent D. Russell Brown, Republican candidate Governor, had a plurality, and that thene^H Legislature would be Rapublican. H Owing to majority requirements tha^H were no elections in many Sanatoria! aiflB Assembly districts, but, at the time estimate was marie there was practically doubt that the Legislature would be publican by a reduced majority. M The city of Providence gave Wardw^B (Democrat) 10.868 and Brown (RepublicaHj 9809?a plurality of only 859, against last year ana nopes 01 luw inis year. ? W. T. C. WABDWHJ* v' H The Chairman of the Republican 8ta^| Committee said; ''The Legislatore is prtflf ably Republican, although there will ha^H to be a ^ second election to deride the exajH ^ThtTsenate will probably stand about last year. In the Assembly the Democn^H may make a net gain of a few members, t>S| as the Republicans have thirty-two majori^B in the present Assembly, and a majority fifty-one on Joint ballot, the few memb^H gained wifl make no appreciable differences A late dispatch said: 'Brown, the Rept^H 11 can candidate for Governor, hasapinrallJH| of 653 over Wardwell in seventy-two tow^H and districts. A careful estimate of t^H remaining twenty towns and district* lea^S| Brown a safe plurality. The Republic*^! have undoubtedly a plurality for ail can^H dates for State offices " jHH A fomcient namoer 01 xvopuuumma returned to the Legislature to insure the el?ction of Senator Aldrich to the Uoit^K Chilean Minister Montt was in Provido^H during the dat watching the working ofjl^H Australian ballot system. He will report its working ** bis Government. MINISTER BEIDTT"5QM He Talks Abont Treaties Negotia^H WHITELAW KKID. Whitelaw Reid, United* States MiniitJBS France, arrived in New York from Pari^HH companied by Mr3. Raid and their chil^^^J on the French steamer La ChampagneJ^H had just arrived home after an abseo^B^R nearly two years. I Many of hk personal and politicalf fri^^H had assembled at the pier to give hl^^B hearty welcome and congratulate mm od^H diplomatic achievements in the /count^^B service. Some other of his friends had down the bay the night bef/re on^Hf steamer Laura M. Starln to jiieren&de^H Champagne and her distinguished passei^Hfl on their arrival at Quarantine.) BjH Mr. Reid looked suaburned/and b?al^H| His voyage had rested him, ptvfr his and somewhat trying work i in clostagHH negotiations for the reciprocity and tradition treaties. Copies -of these im^^H tant treaties ho brought with him, The^^H tradition treaty was .signedby Mr. Reid ^Hg Mr. Ribot, the French Minister of For^^H Affairs, and a few hours afterward Reid was on his way to America. Of^BH success of his efforts to brinz about tflflfl better understandings between the counf^Hfl and to secure the extension of Amer^^H trade with France he spoke with modest^Hjfl Mr. Keld said ne ata not mow wdo be his successor At present the Jegatio^^B In charge of the secretary. BLOWN INTO AT0M8. B Wine RoMian Workmen PerUh iflH Smokeless Powder Factory. BjDH St. Petersburg, Russia, was thrown in^^H itate of the most intense excitement the ?r night by a most terrific explosion. nuch has been heard here lately of the sh work of Anarchists that for a "^EE jvery one believed that they had attemj^^H :o destroy some of the public building* It was soon learned, however, that thu^H| jlosion was due to an acci lent at the 'actory for the manufacture of smok^HH fiffa fnns e\f otin raifct/Mi IH9 ixploded. IBM The shock was tremendous. The w|HHD ity was shaken, and houses swaye 1 on ounciations as though from the effects o^^R earthquake. The building in which the :ottou had been stored was blown into Mj Nine workmen were in the building he explosion took placs and every oh^HRh hem was blown to pieces. Som9 imbs were found 250 yards away from^^H luilding. KWB Wrtncov- o mila r?H a nn-artflr HW17 be scene were made to oscillate by the f the explosion. Windows were shatte^HB d crockery and glassware were throw^HH he floor and smashed. The loss from auses alone will be quite heavy. There is no possible way of ascertairfl^^R iow the explosion occurred, as every ma^^M he gun cotton building is dead. I^HmZ bought that'it was due to carelewnaes. HMI A