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ENTOMBED IN A HIE
Appalling Disaster in a Colliery
at Pont-y-Pridd, Wales.
A Spark From an Engine Causes a
Death-Dealing Explosion,
A frightful mining accident ocsnrred a
few days ago at Pont-y-Pridd, Wales. A
spark from an engine ignited the gas in a
coal pit and causei an explosion. Two
hundred miners were at work at the time,
aod the explosion caused terrible havoc.
The rescuers who went down were driven
back without being able to bring up more
than live of the dead, and the fate of the
other miners was for some time in doubt.
The most agonizing scenes were witnessed,
and throngs of men, women and children,
relatives of those below, were crowded
about the mouth of tba coal pit.
" The pit was worked in sections, one seam
above another. Tne fire resulting from tne
exolosion broke out in the eastern section.
From this section seventy men succeeded in
reaching the surface through the main dip
working, led bv a miner who knew the
road5. They bad a terrible struggle to get
oat, forcing their way through the fire and
moke. Many of them were scorched, and
all were terribly exhausted when they came
out. They expressed their dread that all
those in the mine had perished.
Flames and smoke gave to the f200 men at
work in the seam the first warning of approaching
danger. All ran toward the landing.
Many were overtaken by the fire and
moke, fell and were left to their fate by
their comrades in advance of them.
A rescue jmrty was formed by the pit
turveyor. They got as far as t&e landing at i
the seam where the fire started, but were |
driven back almost immediately by the
dense smoke issuing from the seam. After
a half hour's rest they went dowa again and
forced their way ten yards into the workings.
They found four dead bodies, which
they brought back with them.
Attempts to go further into the workings
were vain, as the woodwork was burning
and masses of ruins were falling incessantly
from the roof. One of the rescuing party
who ventured too far was killed.
Hand grenades, barreis ot water and pipes
attached to fire engines on the surface were
used to extinguish the flames in the mine.
In two sections of the mine the tire was put
out.
Another attempt to enter the seam in
which the fire started has proved resultless.
Although the rescue party saw six dead
bodies they were prevented by smoke and
beat from reaching them.
The latest news was to the effect that the
fire in tbe mine was put out about 10 o'clock
next day. The fumes of gas were, however,
till so noxious as to drive out those who
* undertook to exolore the mine in search of
the dead and for the rescue of those who
mtebt be living.
The bodies of eleven men were found huddled
behind a door, as if they had sought
shelter there from a hurricane of fiery
sparKs sweepmz by. Other bodies were
lound in the return airways, where the victims
were caught while trying to escape. A
doctor who has examined the bodies reports
that all of the victims died of suffocation.
At 11 o'clock in the evening the pit had
become so cool that three exploring parties
were able to go some distance into the seams.
They found three dead men, but discovered
no trace of the main body of miners who
were cut off by the fl imes from escape.
Up to 2 o'clock in the morning flftv-three
corpses had been taken from the Pont-yPridd
pit The searching parties had found
no signs that any of the missing .miners
were still alive
TfiE LABOB WOBLD.
Lokdoit has 9000 sailors.
Farm hands are organizing.
This* are 6000 anion barbers;
England has 1,000,000 anion men.
'Thkbs are said to be 30,000 union baker*
/ Chicago has 3000 Brotherhood locomotive
engineers.
Uwclx Sax employs 25,000 clerks in
^Washington.
' Tax machinists have 365 unions and 10, 00
members.
Nnr Engla.itd has gained 500 union carpenters
in a month.
Thx State of Washington is to hold an
" annual labor congress.
Lorooir clothing houses are engaging
many Polish Hebrews.
Thx latest edict is that all White House
employes must wear uniforms.
Employment is scarce and laborers are
over-plentiful in South Australia.
1h New Mexico the Atlantic and Pacific
Bail road has discharged all union hands.
Ths railroad service of the United States
gives employment to abont 1,000,000 people.
British miners, by a vote of 133,000 to
117,000, killed tbe project for a general shut
down.
Ovxr 10,000 miners are out of employment
owing to depression in the English
coal trade.
Kentucky coal miners are charged 142 a
year rental for houses that cost only |40
wheu built.
Nzwb from South Australia shows tbat
employment is scarca there and the number
of unemployed great
Thxre are 140C German union printers
and $125,000 has been disbursed by the organisation
in eight year.'.
All idle men who are willing to work, in
Seattle, Washington, are supplied with tools
and set at wood chopping, for the city, at
fair wages.
During last year 25,000 men were employed
in tbe Krupp foundries. These,
with their families, formed a community of
87.9C0 persons.
Professor Lucy M. Salmon, of Vassar
College, has just completed an admirable
atudy of the domestic labor problem, which
is soon to be Issued in book form.
BxnJians has been a passenger conductor
on the Great Western Railway of En_j.-,4
i j i-i * a
gjAuu iui iu.\,y jreara, i/raveiea in &ua&
time 3,494,40'.' miles and has never met with .
an accident
There are 45,000 union bricklayers in the
United States and Canada. Union men say
there are only 4Q00 non union men in both
countries. They have I2S3.000 in treasury.
The Minnesota Legislature has passed a
trill declaring It a misdemeanor on the part
cf employers to require as a condition of
employment the surrender of any right of
citizenship.
Ths employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad
have raised $15,000 towards tua erection
of a building for their exclusive usa in
Philadelphia, Penn. The building is to be a
model one and will contain reading, reception,
bath roomj and a gymnasium, and
otherwise will be nicely and comfortably
furnished.
KBUPP'S BIGGEST GUN.
It . Took Thirty Minutes to Get the
124-ton Weapon on Shore.
The monster Krupp Run was taken from
the bold of tae Longuiel and p'.aueri on the
trucks at Sparrow's Point, Md., ready tor
shipment to Chicago. The worlc of raising
the 124-ton mass was dono in thirty minutes.
The gun is forty-seven feet long, ^ six
IWt SIX 1QCQ63 2tX fJiam*3c?V IQ ii?f tuiui^cau 1
part, ani has a inch oore. It can
arod a conical-shapiu shell Wdi^hin? ^2'X) I
pounds a di?tancj of twelve tniies with ef- |
lect. Soio.cele-s pow ler is used, aud the
piece can be a 1 or low->rd4 on the carriage
by hy.lrau.is or elec:ric power. With
?sixty-two-ton gun and a forcv-tbree-ton
gun it has b3en sol i to th? Itaiian Govern
ment. The sixty-two aud forty-three-ton
guns started f >r C'lrci^o. mikin? a train of
tbree cars. Xh-j l-4-tou suu went torwarJ
ext night in a train by itself.
There are now ?3,ooo miles of tele;rra:>M
Vices in Mexico. In the last six montns 25J
miles of rBi. way have been construct au l
there are iow 6!,0C0 miles all together.
Flans hav* been made for Ave new railway
ompanie-. It is hoped that the Tehuaut*wer&lln..vviU
soon be com:;ie?aHXjOWDON
Uid on the last day of last month
100,775 pt>u >ers, and on that day 919 va
? - . ?Th? latast census.
re.i-raid the population at 4,811,03d. I
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Five inches of snow fell in the Mohawk
Valley. New York, a few days ago.
George Inora3am Senet, banker, phil.
anthropist and art lover, died at the Grand
Hotel in New York City. Heart failure was
the immediate causa of death. He was Dora
in 18'2f>.
The President, Secretary Gresham and
Senator White spent a quiet day at Wilmington,
Del., tha home of Ambassador
Bayard.
The annual banquet o? the New York
Board of Trade and Transportation was
given at Delmonico's. Over one hundred
and fifty members and guests attended.
Soeeches were made by Governor Stone, o?
Missouri; ex-Secretary Fairchild, H. W. J.
Ham, the Georgia humorist, and others.
Governor Flower signed Senator
Parker's bdl making Apnl 27. 1893, the day
of the naval parade in New York Harbor, a
legal holiday throughout tha State.
Satisfactory trials of the United States
cruiser Detroit were made off Newport,
R. L
Manz houses were unroofed and several
persons hurt by a tornado near Scrantou,
Penn.
Ellie Brishtew, aged eleven, of Weitherly,
Penn., skipped rope 330 times and then
died.
Johit Rrxn and David Freer were
drowned in Eondont Creek, at Kingston, N.
Y. They backed their team over the bank
in turning around iu the dark.
Colon'el Elliott F. Shepard'8 will was
filed in New York City; his bequests for
religious purposes aggregated $250,030.
South and West.
Three small children of J. Nance were
burned to death at Cumming, Ga., while
their parents were ac a neighbor'9.
The Right Rav. William Ingraham Zip,
Bishop of California, is dead. He had beeu
identified with the Episcopal Church since
1853. Of late yean the aged Bishop had
been infirm ana almost blind. He was born
in New York City October 3, 1811.
The Northwestern State Bank of Sibley.
Iowa, has closed its doors with liabilities of
$150,000.
Near Owensboro, Kr., the Glenmore
warehouses, with 15,000 barrels of whisky,
were burned.
Damage was done by wini storms in several
Western States; there was a tidal wave
in the Chicago River; a World's Fair hotel
and the "Panorama" building in Chicago
collapsed.
The Texas House voted for impeachment
of Land Commissioner McCaughey.
Prairie fires have been raging in Nebraska.
Whitefaosd Horse, the Sioux Indian
Chief who accompanied Two Strike in his
raid on Humphrey's ranch, in which four
cowboys were killed, committed suicide at a
camp on White River, Iowa, by shooting
himself through the head.
A TOURisa rain quenched the fires that
had been devastating the country near
Portsmouth, Ohio. Over 1300,000 worth of
timber bad been burned.
c i upnri r a arnll.knrtwn farmer
Dear Bangor, Mich., shot and killed his divorced
wife and then toot his own life. The
couple had been living in the same house
ani became involved in a quarrel, which
terminated in Campbell's desperate act
The first of the visitra? foreign war vessels
entered the Roads, Fortresj Monroe,
Va., and droppsd anchor beside the White
Squadron. She is a Russian cruiser and her
name when translated into English is the
General Admiral. Calls of ceremony were
exchanged by the officers of the American
and Russian ship3. *
Nichola.3 Stkueb ami his wife were
killed by a train at Cumminsville, Ohio.
The Russian cruiser Rynla arrival at
Hampton Roads, Va., the American fleet,
except the Philadelphia, decided to ex*:ute
additional manoeuvres beyond the Capes.
Four thousand workmen at the World's
Fair, Chicago, ill, went out on strike; the
difficulty was settled in the evening.
Most of the American fljet left Hampton
dnaria v? fop a. short nractica cruise at
seaJ.
Jkffc jate, a farmer, living el?ht
miles west of Pickem, Miss., was lynched
by a mob for killing bis wife. The body
was then riddled with bullets.
Washington.
The President withdrew the nomination
of William T. Townes to be Consul at Rio
Janeiro becausa Mr. Townees name should
have been sent in as Consul-General and not
dmply as Consul.
M. Pateicotre, the French Minister to
the United States, has received the credentials
promoting him to the grade of Ambassador
and raising the legation to the rank
of an Embassy. A copy of these credentials
has been furnished to Secretary (iresham.
The President made the following nominations:
Caleb D. West, of Utah, to be
Governor of Utah; Dominic I. Murphy, of
Washington, D. C., to be First Deputy Commissioner
of Pensions.
The United States has taken vigorous
action in regard to the outrages on American
citizens at Marsivan, in the Turkish
dominions, anl the violating of the mails
of the United States legation. Secretary
Greeham has cabled to Minister Thompson
at Constantinople a strong expression of the
President's views on the outrage, demanding
not only prompt reparation for the
burned seminary, but the punishment of all
parties found guilty in the matter.
A new rapid-fire gun, the invention of
Charles W. Sponsel, an employe of Pratt <Sfc
Whitney, Hartford, Conn., was officially
tested at the Naval proving grounds, Indian
Head, near Washington. The testa were
satis factory.
The President nominated ex-Senator
East is, of Louisiana, to be Ambassador to
Prance. Mr. Eustis was nominated to be
Minister to Prance before France raised
bar legation at Washington to the dignity of
an Embassy.
Secretary Hoke Smith has given notice
to the law clerks and otner high-?rada employes
of the Interior Dspirtment that an
expression of opinion to an outsider as to
the probable solution of any question pending
before tha Department will be deemed
sufficient causa for dismissal.
Secretary Carlisle has appointed
Herman Van Sanden, editor of tha Paiucah
(Ky.) Standard, his private secretary.
Mr. Van Ssnden is thirty years of age.
The Senate recoived the nominations of
Edward H. Strobel for Tnir.l Assistant Secratiu-y
of State, Daniel N. Morgan for
Treasurer of the United State?, Conrai N.
Jordan for Assistant Treasurer at New
York, Daniel M. Browning tor Commissioner
of Iniian Affiirs and Frank C. Arm
BUlULig LKJL AOlUbaUV Ul/Jl UIMWU??(
Foreign.
THKravo'tia ths Province of Catamarca,
Ar^entim, i# spreading ani g lining
power. Several" enoo int?rs between government
troms and insurgent? have b*e:i
reportefi. M*ny were killei ia the field on
each side, and all the prisoners were sbot.
Is East Sumatra there has been fighting
between the Dutchmen and the natives.
Tin Dutch were victorious. They captured
eight forts ani many guns. They
lo3t six killed ani forty-ilva wounded.
Sixty-three Achinese were killed.
Striking dock laborers in Hull. England,
attached non-union men an i the offices of the
Shipping Federation; they were dispersed
by the police.
A severk earthquake was felt in many
parts or Servla. Tue village of Veliki Popovitch
was tumbled into ruinu and several inhabitants
were killed. Ddaths in w rectal
houses were also reported from other villages.
Thk caravel Sanca. Maria arrived at
Havana, Cuba, from Porto Rica. She was
nralrnmurl bv cneerin? crowds at the docks.
Ths Viking ship for the World's Fair
sailed frotn Christiania, Sweden. She will
cruise along the coast in or Jer that the
people may have an opportunity to see her,
and early in May will sail from Bergen to
th- United States.
Thr French Government has apologized
to the German Ambassador in Paris for the
detention ot letters addresse 1 to him by a
German while in a French prison.
There were three deaths from cholera at
Lorienc. Francs; sixteen casas of the disease
were reported in Gaticia.
Osman Dio.ya. the Dervish leader has
mode another raid in upper Egypt. He was
repulsed by the Egyptian cavalry. The
cavalry pursued Diana's forces and killed
twelve of the Dervishes.
A British cruiser has seized a dhow carrying
French oolors, having on board sixty
children which had been kidnapped from
Zanzibar, Africa, by Arabs.
Workmen in Belgium went on strike because
the Chamber of Deputies voted against
universal suffrage.
William Waldorf Astor has bought
the splendid estate of Cliveden, on the banks
of the Thames, England, from the Duke of
Westminster. The sum paid is said to be
$1,250,000.
THotmNDS of persons, including the highest
official?, visited the Columbus caravel
Santa Maria at Havana, Cuba. A banquet
?riffloiala e\f t.hft
w) cue '' ir'i tun linn] OUU iuo ?Santa
Maria was given at the town hall.
A terrible mine explosion occurred at
Pont-y-Pridd, Wales, and on the dav after,
many lives were believed to have been losU
PENSION COMMISSIONER.
Judge William Lochren, of Minnesota,
Successor to General ftaum
WTLLIAM LOOHHEW.
Judge William Lochreo, oC Minnesota,
named to succeed General Raum as CVtmrnis.
sioner of Pensions, is widely known in the
Northwest, and popular. He is fifty-seven
years of age, and was born in Vermont,
where he was educated in the public schools
and admitted to the bar. He went to Minnesota
in 1857 and practised his profession,
but when the war broke out he wa~ one of
the first men in the State to abandon his
civil pursuits, and enlisted in the First
Minnesota Regiment. His service during the
war was severe, culminating at Gettysburg,
where his regiment made the famous charge
that checkea Pickett's onslaught. Of the
300 men who made that charge only forty
came out whole, and young Lochren, who
started on the rush as a First Lieutenant
of Company E, came out in command
of the regimen^ every officer above his
grade having been killed or wounded. When
the war was over Mr. Lochren returned to
Minnesota and resumed the practice of law.
He was popular and was twice the Democratic
caucus nominee for a seat in the
United States Senate. In 1833 he was appointed
by a Rapu'olicin Governor to a
Judgeship on tbe circuit bench, and at the
expiration of his appointment was twice
re-elected to the same place without opposition.
He has never sought office and nis
popularity is attested by the fact that, although
he is a Democrat, his candidacy for
the place for wnich he is nominated was indorsed
by the unanimous vote of the Republican
Legislature of Minnesota.
FIERCE TORNADO.
It halt a Trail of Destruction
Through Western New York.
Western New York was tornado-swept a
few days since. The storm spread ovei
Springville, Westfield, BrocktoD, Angola,
Maysville, Dunkirk and the adjoining
country. It did not last much over an hour,
but the daman to croos, cattle and buildings
will reach many thousands of dollars.
It swept over the grape countrr. ,
At SpringviUe a barn bslong&g to Vedder
Hempstreet was blown down, and
Hempstreet ani his hired man were huried
in the ruins, Hempstreet being crushed to
death. The hired man was caught between
two cows and was saved from death, while
the four oows around him were killed.
At Westfield trees a foot in diameter were
uprooted, many building} were unroofed
and several smaller structures were blown
from their foundations. Many greenhouses
were destroyed, the roofs being scooped out
clean. A water tower and windmill on E.
H. Dickerman's place was lifted bodily and
moved six feet from its site.
At Brockton, the heart of the grape country,
the orchards and vin9yar<ls ware badly
torn up. A new stord belonging ta Thomas
Moss was blown down.
Angola had heavy rain with the wind. The
hose tower, fifty feet high, which was surmounted
by the fire bell, was blown over. It
carried with it all the telephone and talegraph
wires. The roof of the Angola Hotel
was badly wrecked,
Between Angola and Farnham, the high
embankment by the side of the Lake Shore
Railroad tracks was washed out and one
track had to be abandoned. Boat-houses
wore washed away at Mavville.
Dunkirk had the liveliest time of all.
Trees were torn up, wires blown down, a
cupalo was swept from a residence and the
slate roof of St. John's Church was rioped
up in many places. Tne building used' for
general exhibits and floral hall on the
grounds of the Chautauqua County Agricultural
Association was destroyed and the
tock exhibition sheds were damaged.
The path of the storm ssems to have been
about half a mile wide. It appears to have
struck just east of Springfield and to have
traveled in an almost straight line west,
through Dunkirk and on to the lake.
OUTRAGE IN PERU.
United Stated Consulate Invaded and
Consular Agent Shot.
Minister John Hteks cables the State Department
from Lima, Peru, as follows:
Gresham, Washington: At (place omitted)
mob attacked Masonic Lodge, tacked buildi
ing and burned fixtures in the street. Incidentally
United States Consulate was invaded.
furnishings destroyed aud Acting
Consular Agent shot in foot Archives
saved intact. Squad of Peruvian police
looked on while tne mob performei work
without interference. The mail brings the
particulars. Hicks.
Whether the outrage complained of occurred
at one of these smaller places or at
Callao no one at the Department could determine
from the telegram, but inasmuch
as it came from Lima, the impression prevailed
that the scene of the outr age was one
of the interior points.
After consultation with President Cleveland,
Secretary Gresham ssnt the following
telegram to the Minister:
"DeDartment of State,
"Washington, 1893.
"Sinks, Minister, Lima.
"Protest against failure of authorities to
afford protection to consu late, and if facts
are well established uk expression of regret
prompt prosecution of the guilty
rartioum) r?nnration for iniurv to Amen
caa pVoperty or person. * ..GrzshaM.it
wa3 believed at the DapartmenS thaw
a satisfactory explanation o? the affair
wouta shortly be made.
OFFICIALS IMPEACHED.
Secretary of State, Attorney-GoneraA
and kx-Treasurer to be Tried.
A joint session of the Nebraska Legiala'
tore at Lincoln adopte 1 articles of impeachment
against Secretary of State Allen, Attorney-General
Hastings and Commissioner
Humphrey.
The articles against er-State Treasurer
John E. Hill were adopted in the afternoon.
The cases will now go to the Supreme Court.
/
CYCLONES SWEEP THE WEST. [
Great Wind Storms and Cloud,
bursts in Five States.
Towns Badly Damaged in Nebraska,
Iowa and Kansas.
One of the most disastrom storms ia th9
history of the Missouri Valley passed eastward
through Nebraska and Iowa late a few
afternoons ago, carrying death and destruction
in its path.
Page, a small town of 100 people, in the
extreme northern portion of Nebraska was
the first place struck by the hurricane. Mrs.
Harry Ellis and two children ware blown
" 1 int-A fha
trom tna doorway suuio uuhuvd
prairie. The mother was killed and the two
children fatally injured. Many other people
in the town were Injured by the fifing
debris, and nearly all of the houses were
more or less damaged.
The inhabitants reported the tornado cirrying
with it many articles of household
furniture and pieces of houses, indicating
that some towns further west suffered in a
greater or less degree.
For a hundred miles the tornado passe 1
down a valley occupied by farmhouses. The
damage in this district was great.
When the storm crossed ths Missouri
River it struck the town of Akron, Iowa, on
the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul Road, which has a population of about
1000 people. It was devastated by the tornado.
It oegan to grow dark in the town, and in
half an hour it was necessary to have
lights. About 6 o'clock the storm struck
the place with scarcely a minute's warning.
Jt was a regular whirlwind. Several men
and one woman were killed
Houses were thrown from their foundations
and overturned, and many of them
blown to pieces. A double-span wagon
bridge across the Sioux River was wrenched
from the piers and dashed against the river
bank. The iron rod3 were twisted and bent.
A large elevator was demolished, and the
debris carried across the railroad tracks to
where a lumber yard was and deposited,
while the lumber yard and buildings were
carried fcackand deposited where the eleva
tor stood, (jars loaaea wun stoae woia
standing on the railroad tracks were picked
up by the wind and turned completely over.
Nearly every building in the town was
more or less damaged. Many roofs were
blown off and carried far from the houses.
The storm then moyed to the southwest,
from Akron to West field. Farmhouses ana
barns, which were in the path of the storm,
were either wholly demolished or badly
damaged.
From Westfleld the storm crossed over
the Missouri River into Nebraska, where it
gradually subsided.
A very severe electric storm, accompanied
by a heavy fall of rain, swept over central
Illinois. A cloudburst in C?ntralia, III.,
caused tha entire city to ba submerged, doing
thousands of dollars' damages.
St. Louis, Mo., was also visited by a
terrific cloudburst, which was accompanied
by a wind of nearly the proportions of a
tornado.
Kansas City, Mo , was visited by one of
the heaviest rain an i hatl storms known for
year?. The hail stones were as large as
hen's eggs. The bail lasted about five
minutes, and was followed by a heavy fall
of rain.
The storm was reported to have been unusually
heavy throughout Kansac, especially
along the Santa Fe Railroad. A number of
small bridges were washed out, delaying
trains.
Later Detail?
In Kansas th9 area of the storm was i
bounded by the three tiers of counties from '
the ?astern border, nearly everr county I
suffering more or les-. Montgomery County,
in the extreme southeast portion, suffered
the most. The town of Parker was laid
waste, every house in the place being more
or lees wrecked, but no lives were lost.
At Walnut many houses were wrecked
and several persons injured. At
Robinson Owen Pelton wa3 killed by
lightning. At Page four houses were
demolished and many others badly
damaged. Mrs. Ellis and two daughters
were blown out on the prairie and
killed. The bodies of three unknown
persons have been foand near town.
Scarcely a building remains intact. The
storm came from the southwest. The starting
point was a little way beyond Inman,
where it touched the ground, tearing down
two school houses and the dwelling of a colored
man named Hill and breaking his leg.
From there the storm passing over inman is
described by those who saw it as being about
a half-mile wide and turning in every conceivable
shape. While the storm was passing
overhead the atmosphere balow was perfectly
still. It was prece led at this point
by a very heavy hail, which did considerable
damage, 'i'he first building struck in
town was the academy. It cost 143,000.
The building was torn to pieces.
At Salem, Mo., about twenty barns
and dwellings were destroyed. Condray,
Mo., a mining town of some 300
people, was torn to pieces. Of all the
stores, shops, barns and residences, only two
remain in shape and only one or two more
can be repaired. At .this placa seven persons
were killed outright, and
three others have sioc9 died. The list
of injured reaches nearly twenty.
All along the line uf the storm, which averaged
about a mile in width, fruit trees,
forest trees and fencing ware swept away.
The tornado was preceded by hail and accompanied
by heavy rain. The residencn of
Judge D. M. Green in Courtois township
was blown down, and Judge Green was
killed. On Crooked Creek the house of Lsuis
Key was destroyed, and Mr. Key injured.
About 7:30 o'clock in the eveninz, during
a heavy rainstorm, a tornado struck Ypsilanti,
Mich., and swept through its centre.
Twelve or fifteen of the principal business
blocks in the city were demolished and others
had their roofs torn off and were otherwise
damaged. Several dwellings were also
wrecked. Nearly all the buildings
on Huron street, between Congress
and Pearl streets suffered.
Among the principal blocks blown down are
the Opera House, Hawkins House, Union
block. Occidental Hotel, business college
tt%A tkA KuiMin t Tho Pont.pfll
?UU buo A UJW/tUW
Telephone and the Western Union Telegraph
offices suffered severely, the former
losing all of its main wires. A box factory
was also wrecked. Quite a number of
people were injured.
A TORNADO'S PATH.
Robinsonville, Mm?., Destroyed and
Many People Killed.
A despatch from Robinsoaville, Miss., reports
that a tornado of terrific force had
just struck the town, demolishing buildings
right and left, with apalling loss of life.
' The operator said tbat twenty-five people
were killed. Robinsonvllle is in runica
County, Miseissippi, twenty-nine miles south
of Memphis, on tue Louisville and New Orleans
Railroad.
It was destroyed by the tornado in the
at A-ao nV?lnek\ The ruins caught
Are and but one bouse was left standing.
Mrs. Lusk, wife of <i telegraph operator,
was killed, and J. B. Dubbers, a merchant,
was seriously injured. A number of colored
Cple were killed and many maimed, wuile
idreds of people wera left shelterless, exposed
to the pitiless storm. A colored
scboolhouse near Robinsonvllle was blown
down ani twenty-hve people killed.
Rain and wind storms also prevailed over
West Tennesse?, Eastern Arkansas and
Northern Mississippi, but so lar as learned
Roblnsonvitlo aud vicinity alouo ruffered
from tae storm.
STEUCK BY AN AEROLITE,
A Remarkable Accident Befalls John
Brown's Statue at Oseawatomie.
An aerolite fell near Ossawatomie, Kan s
the other afternoon, striking the monument
to John Brown, "Ossawatomie Brown," as
he was sometimes called, erected to him by
private subscription originated by Horace
Greeley in 1863. The meteor broke off the
left arm of the statue. It passed through
the dome and nave in a slightly southeasterly
direction, and through six feet of clay j
just south of the crypt, stopping only at i
bedrock. Experts say tbe aerolite is composed
of helium, metal supposed to exist j
only in the sun.
LATEE NEW?. "
, The White Star steamer Majestic arrived
at New York from Liverpool with a party
of thirty British newspaper men, who will
visit the World's Fair at Chicago and incidentally
the leading cities of the Union.
The convention of Southern Governors
opened at Richmond, Va. The following
States were represented: Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee,
Louisiana, West Virginia, Arkansas and
Mississippi. The States without representatives
wera Kentucky. Florida and Texas.
Excitement caused by violent fluctuations
in wheat continued on the Caica go
Board of Trade.
A general uprising of natives against
Christians is threatened in Corea and prompt
steps have been taken by the State Department
and Navy Department to avert blood-1
J
BU&dU
There were rioting and strikes in many
places in Belgium on account of the rejection
by the Chamber of Deputies of the
bill for universal suffrage.
GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT.
The Condition ot Winter Wheat 77.4
Against 81.2 Liast Year.
The April report of the statistician of ths
Department of Agriculture mak?s the average
condition of winter wheat on April 1,
77.4, against 81.2 last year. The average
condition of rye is placed at S5.7.
The averages of the priacioal wheat
States are: Ohio, 87; Michism, 74; Indian*,
82; Illinois, 72; Missouri, 78, ani Kansas,
62.
The average ot theaa tis States is 74.9
against 77 in April, 1392. The average is
88 in New York, 87 in Pennsylvania, 89 in
Maryland and 87 in Virginia." The Southern
States range from 83 in Tennessas to 100 in
Texas. '
The Pacific State3 show a-favorable condition
with the exception of California, where
too rauca rain is reported.
Seeding was late in the O'aio and Mississippi
valleys, because of widely prevalent
drought, causing poor condition of soil and
retarding germination, and, in some cases,
wholly preventing the same, as in Kansas
where the reports show a total failure over
considerable areas. In the Atlantic, Middle,
Southern and Pacific State3 seeding conditions
wero favorable.
The plant entered the winter in the mala
wheat producing States in a low state of vitality,
caused by parsisteot drought and
nrlycold weather.
FOEEST AND PBAIBIE FIEES.
Ohio, Kentucky, Nebraska and South
Dakota Communities Devastated.
Forest fires have been doing imcnsnse damage
to Ohio, Kentucky, Nebraska,and South
Dakota. They were fanned by high winds.
Burning wood was dropped into the town
of McKinney, Ky., from the forast threequarters
of a mile away. Bob Moore, John
Vinson, Alph Roland, Will Roland and Sam
Moore, farmers near there, lost their houses.
Reports from Liberty, Casey County, Ky..
stated that it was impossible to save the town.
At Grayson, Ky., fires are raging on all
sides. J. B. Hale's tobacco barn and three
horses were burned. Everybody was fighting
the fire.
Fires also raged near Enterprise, Haydenville,
Aubus and West Union, in Ohio,
George Washburn, in attempting to cross a
, mountain near West Union, was overtaken
1 and terribly burned. The inhabitants in
that vicinity were panic-stricken.
Dispatches from Nebraska and South Dakota
reported numerous prairie fires in those
States, devastating vast areas. Near Cham*
berlain, South Dakota, two persons were
burned to death and a large amount of
stock pertehed.
PERU MAKES REPARATION.
William P. Griffith) Was the United
I States Agent Attacked.
Tha Pjpnirian Rn?arnmint hu tiikm
Initiatory steps toward complying with the
demands of the United States that reparation
he made for the outrage committed on
one of its consular agencies in Peru. It was
not until a few days after that the name of
the place attacked, which was omitted in
the first despatch from Minister Hicks notifying
Secretary Gretham of the affair, was
made known to the State Deoartment.
The Information waB contained in a cable*
gram from Minister Hicks. It states that
tbe consular agency attacked is at Mollendo,
Peru, and that in answer to the demand for
satisfaction made by the Administration,
the Government of Para immediately removed
the sub-prefect of the department in
which Mollendo is situated and promised to
provide suitable reparation, and, furthermore,
that the Government has expressed
its regrets for the ociurrenci. This* information
is entirely satisfactory to the United
States Government.
The name of the consular a^ent at
Mollendo, which is omitted from the
despatches received from Minister Hick?, is
William P. Griffith. He was appointed
from Pennsylvania, March 30, 1889.
THE MORMON TEMPLE.
Forty Years' Work and $5,000,000
Represented in tbe stracture.
The new Mormon Temple was dedicated a
few days ago at Salt Like City, Utah., in
the presence of a multitude of people.
The site for the temple was selected on
July 38, 1847, the fifth day after the Mormon
pioneers entered Great Salt Lake Valley.
On February 0. 1853, ground was broken
and 253 men put to work on the excavation.
When Johnston's army came through in
1858 the foundation of the temple was entirely
covered with earth, and the people
moved south from Salt Lake for a time.
Four years afterwards this work was resumed.
The capstone was laid on April 6^
1893. The building is 18^ feet long and
tbircy-nine feet wide. Wicu the six towers,
it covers an area of 31,330 square feet. The
foundation wall is sixteen feet thick and
sixteen feet deep. On this tbe granite walls
are nine feet thick on the bottom, and narrow1
to six feat at the square.
BIG BANK FAILURE.
The Knjflish, Scottish and Australian
Chartered Bank Suspends.
The English, Scottish and Australian
Chartered Bank, of London, has failed, with
liabilities amounting to $40,000,000. The
bank was incorporated by royal charter in
in 1832, with a paid-up capital of $4,500, CO)
and a reserve fund of $1,550,000.
The susoended bank has main branches at
Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne,
and at various lesser points in the colonies
- " ~ Tri-i? 1
or new ooutn vy aies, vicvum auu uuum
Australia. It transacted banking and exchange
business between Great Britain and
the Australian colonies, and had large deposits.
The failure has added to the anxiety
and consternation which previous recent
failures of financial institutions with Australian
connections have caused. The only
reason Riven for the failure is that there has
oeen for several weeks a steadily increasing
withdrawal of depos.ts.
Wanted a Rook ou Courtlnj.
; The requests made to editors are
curious at times. One of the frankest
ever made public was addressed
to the Scotsman recently, the envelope
bearing a request that the letter
should be handed to any bookseller
! in Edinburgh. The letter ran: "The
kind of a book that I want is a
Courting book?a book that w'.'.l tell 1
me how to talk to the lass that I
love, a book that will tell me the
j words to ask her when i be courting
her, is the sort of book that I want.
No matter how few or how little the
words may be."
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Wft*. Wlfax.v i K9i. . v 4 V - -v1 - .; ;. *.-. / r i ? PROGRAMME
OF PARADK
Official Orders lor the Naval
Review in New York HarborA
General Ontline of the Movements
of Vessels.
The Secretary of the Nary haa decided
upon the official programme of the review
of the United States and foreign ships of
war, which by act of Congress wfll take
place in New York Harbor on the 27th instant.
The men-of-war will be anchored In two
columns, extending from Twenty-sixth
street np the North River, the foreign stupe
on the Njw York side.
While the Dolphin, carrying the President
of the United States, is passing between
the columns, that portion of the
North River between the American column
and the New York shore will be closed and
all the traffic and passage susoended. After
the Dolphin has anchored at the heal of the
Hne vessels of all kinds mar circle around
the^set, going up the New Jers?y side of
the river, rat the passage between the two
columns will be closed until the Presideat
has landed from the Dolphin ancl the review
thereby terminated.
The President and members of the Cabinet
will be received on board the Dolphin at
10:80 a. m. off Twenty-third street^ North
XUVer. ine uoiprnn win iudu uuue. .. ? Jt
and, followed by the coast survey steamer
Blake and the steamer Monmouth, will proceed
up the river batween the columns of
United States and foreign men-of-war. The
Blake will carry the members of the diplomatic
corps. The Monmouth will cirry the
Judges of the Supreme Court, Senators and,
Representatives of the United States, and
Governors of State?, accompanied bv one
staff officer. No other invitations will be
issued for the review.
The Dolphin, proceeding between the columns,
will, as she passes the various ships,
besalated with the bonou laid dowa by
international treaties due to the Cnief of
State, and arriving at the head of the col.
nmns will anchor between them. The Blake
will anchor at tbe head of the foreign and
the Monmouth of tbe American column
The flag officers and the Captains of the
men-of-war will then be received on board
of the Dolphin and be presented to the Pre?
ident of the United State?, who will eatertain
them at lunch. Lunch will at the sam?
time be served on the Blake and Monmoutb
to the guests on board. The review will
terminate by the return of the Dolphin.
Blake and Monmouth through the lines, and
when the President's flag is hauled down
from the Dolphin it will be saluted with
twenty-one guns by all the men-of-war
present.
PBOMINENT PEOPLE.
Senator Turpie, of Indiana, speaks eight
languages.
Colonel "Tom" Ochiltree has arrived
from Europe.
Germany's Crown Prince will be educated
in the public school.
The Sultan of Turkey is an excellent pianist,
and spends hours every day practicing.
A. C. Beck with, the new Senator from
Wyoming, built the first frame house in
Cheyenne.
Rev. F. E. Clark, tbe originator and
President of the Christian Endeavor move*
znent, is a Canadian by birth.
Secret art Herbert is a hard worker.
He often remains at the Navy Department
until 7p.m. answering letters.
General F. J. Lippitt, of Washington,
is the only survivor of the few who, standing
a* the grave, witnessed the Interment of
Lafai'ette.
As British Minister at Washington, Sir
Julian .Pauncefote received $30,000 a year.
As Ambassador to Washington his salary
will be <50,000.
It is said that until a year ago the people
of the little town of Randolph, Mas9., where
Miss Mary E. Wilkins lives, had no idea that
she was an authoress.
Attorney-General Olney Is a member
of the Boston Athletic Association, and
has the reputation of being one of the best
tennis players in the counter.
Mas. Weld declares In an article on Ten*'
nyson in the Contemporary Review that no
clergyman was ever a more earnest student
of the Bible than was the late Poet Laureate.
The King of Greece likes to walk about
the streets of Athens unattended by any
members of bis suite. On Sundays ho occasionally
goes to the English Church of St.
Paul, where he occupies any pew that may
be vacant.
Nikola Tssla, whose discoveries in electrical
science have lately attracted much
attention, lectures in a very simple and attractive
style, very much like that sturdy
English authority on electricity. Doctor
Oliver J. Lodge.
Tee Duke of York, heir presumptive to
the British Throne, is an ardent stamp collector
and has just been made "honorary
Vice-President of the Philatelic Sociaty of
London. The Duke of Edinburgh is the
honorarv President.
Dietrich Rieke has been bass violinist
in the Mobile (Aia.) Theatre for fifty-threo
years. There he stands nightly by his big
instrument, and saws calmly and as steadily
as If he were a part of the musidil machinery;
be never misses. ,
Oice of the trustees of the Brooklyn Tabernacle
has announced that the 20,000 necessary
to pay part of the floating debt of the
institution has been raised and that Doctor
Talmage will remain lu Brooklyn. There is
140,000more to be raise! in a tew months.
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New
York World, maintains a Paris residence a*
a cost of $200,000 a year, the' establishment
including a dozen horses and thirty servant?.
He has also a handsome New York residence
near Central ParIc. His health still keeps
him abroad.
MINISTEB TO CHILE.
Kx-Governor Porter, of Tennessee
Nominated and. Confirmed.
JA.MKS D. PORTER.
Ex-Governor James D. Porter, who bis
u.?? -nminot^ anti r^anflrmei as Minister
UCOU iiV/Ui4UU WM ?.?? ?
to Chile to succaed Patrick Egau, was bora
in 1828, at Paris, Tonn., where he now r<>
sides. He is a lawyer an I was Assist mt
Secretary of State wn-i?r
"Mrs. Dovekin's trip to Scarborough
was a great success this year."
"Indeed! Has she got rid of her old
trouble?" "No; but she has got rid
of her old daughter."?Tiu-Bits.
"Thrown jacic over, have you,
Kitty?" "Yes." "I thought you
loved him?" "I did, but I discovered
that he bought the candy he sent me
at a grocery.Buff^o Express.
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TEMPERANCE.
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W8NT DOWIf.
Twai not in old ocean's pisjion, \ '
'Twas not in the battle's din,
'Twm not in the arctic darkness,
Nor yet in the tropic sun, - >
'Twas not in a leper's prison,
'Twas not by tne cyclone's glee.
'Twas never an earthquake's horror.
That ravished my b^y from me.
Through the gates of a sinful pleasure.
Bereft of his spotless name,
With naught but a smiting conscience.
With who but hims;lf to blame?
He fought and he rol ?the tempter
fiegmled him with lauzbter and song,
Forgetting his Go i ah i mot her, '
Sly poor, weak boy w<*nt down, r
For the brand of the beast beaotted, Ha
bartered bis m*iiaood'a crown,
He broke the one hearc that loved him.
E'er its idol was razi i to the ground,
Dead, the ashes that ciimbar the altar
Wnere once the bright em ers anone,
Life's love light is sbroaded forevar, .
Since mv boy. my boy, went down. i 3
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Had the waves in pitiless frenzy
Bat swallowed bun up in the deep.
Had th? harry and tu in ult of d<iraage "
Sealed his eyelids forever in sleep,
Fd have reckoned ais early translation
Of the All Father's lovekbut a siga.
Bat to stumble ana fall through temutatiOB,
' Tarns to lifers bitter uregsalf its wine, ' v-|
Yes,
mine is the asm1 old story
That runs down tne cycleof years,
From its birthday, tilt time is noary,
There are crossed tor mothers, ana teant
And the idols we pre.* to oar bosomr,
Lie shattered in tragmeats arouaa;
And the ashes are cold on the altars
For our boy?, our'boys. have gone down.
0, the plague is more mercifol, heaves*
Than this blight oa -tae oloom of our
youth,
For the coffin-lid hides but the vesturap,
And the sou1, disenthrall**, soars aloft,
We, Niobe?, shadow and wouder,
And struzirle to bits back the taoa&i :
But the traffic ia souis is protected.
And our poor tempted boys must go down,
?Uertrude Scinhope, in the Voice.
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THE CHR05XC ISKBRIITK'S DWJKNSRAOY.
The inevitable a cobolic degeneration of V
the chronic inebriate is well stated by the
Quarterly Journal of Inebriety, as fouowi; .
"The chronic inebriate will be found. as a g
rule, defective in bU entire sistem, both ;~3l
moral, physical and intellectual. He is literally
switched off on the side track of progressive
degeneration. His intellectual capacity
isoaly automatic and a thin varnish ''??
of reality. His moral capacity is gone, and S
he ia nnable to appreciate between right and
wrong. His physical power is rapidly
growing weaker, anil receding into the
moat degenerate 10- "> " ^
A LiMORA LIZ [KG LAW.
It seems that a British law, which gives ' '
' retail grocers licence for the sale of wine,
beer and spirits has hsen demoralizing the
households of England. By it a woman can . :J
order these articles wicb her groceries, have
them in the bill as coffee, tea or sugar tut- ' ; .
known to paterfamilias, and tipple in the re- V, t
cesses of her hou3?. Polics and divoroe ^
courts have shown up this effect in startling I I
a Dun dance, ana it is vreuiy sur? tuai> uivusands
'of English wives and mothers, who
would not dnnk in pu >lie,, wiil sip and sip in
private till they ar? Mlf-way drunkards.
HOT A DRUNKEN MUSSEL MAN.
Mahomet's injunction against the use ot '
ardent spirits is so wail obeyed, even at this
late day, that it is an extremely rare sight
to see a drunken Mussulman. A lady who . . "
has been making a tour of Kgypt, says that
during a long stay in Cairo none of her
party saw an intoxicate! man. She saya
that she asked her dtajomin if he ever under
any provocation indulged in strong
drink, and he answere i: '*If my wife were - tidying
and the doctor ordered her to take
brandy and she oied with that brandy in
her stomach Go J would not receive her iir
heaven."
WHAl /OLT.T.
To such a length has our American habit
of treating gone ta? to decline to accompany
a friend or acquaintance into a drink'
lag resort is to insuic nim. To accompany A
friend into a salooi:, remain any length of
time and be hau>eu about, clawed all over
and slobbered on by the habitues of the place
is, to my mind, one of the most -disgusting
and obnoxious things a se1/-respecting man
can be called upon to do. The man who is
invited into a drimting den and refuses to
&ccep& uio uiviuiViua luajr vuvuw w ?u? .
friend who invites him, and that friend will
be very apt to make no secret of bis feeling*;
in fact, be believes it ro be his privilege, nay,
his duty, to openly censure the unreasonable
person who refuses to worship at the shrine
of Bacchus at bis bi< Iding. The thought that ,
the invitation in itself might be regarded as
an insult would not be likely to enter the
head of the man so accustomed to the giving
and accepting of men invitations.
If men mustdrins?mi I know of no reason
above ground wny any man should )
drink?why not traasact that business as
they transact other details of every-iay
life? If a man wisnes to bay a pound of
nails, he will not stand for half , an hour on
the street corner waiting for an acquaintance
to come along t lat h9 may invite him
in to sample nails with him. If it becomes
necessary to purchase a pair of boots or
shoe?, a friend is not invited in to try them
on or pass judgmeat 011 the quality of the
leather. It a man reals unwell and intends
dosing himself, be never lingers before the
door of the drug stor-* until some neighbor
or passer-by may be invited in to swallow
castor oil or epsom s ilts with him.
It has always pim.ed me to understand
why man, the noblest and most intelligent ,
or all animals, will accept an invitation to
take a drink when he is not thirsty without
questioning the motives of the one who _'Y?
proffers the hospitality, or the alleged hoe
pitality.
To as* that same o>an to hare a sandwich,
a bowi of mueh and milk, some por< and
beans, a plate ot soup or even a bottle of
1 castor oil would be co insinuate that he did
not have money enough to pay his own
way.
Charge a taan with bein; thirsty?even
after he has inflatM bimwlf with a half-kag
of beer?ask him to Uav<? another drink i
after the drapery of his stomach has been
strained to the utmost t j retain what has
already been committei to it, and he will
make the effort to comply with your re- ?
quest or els* decline wita thanks, if not too
full for utteranci. ?I'. V. Powderly
TK 3IPJERANCE XE'73 AND NOTES.
Temperance is a bride wht* makes her
husband rich.
One-third of the 13,000 arrests for drunkenness
in Dublin last year were women.
It is very silly to tako a drink whenever
you feel lilce it, just to show people you can
let it alone if you waue to.
Health of the body, and intelligence which
is the health of the soul, are lost by one vioe
?the vice of intemperance.
A Brooklyn liquor dealer declares that
100,0vtf) to 15 >,000 Brooklyn uien wno drink
come to New Yor* to do it.
Drunkenness has greatly increased in Ireland,
the number of convictions for the ? 4
offence being 100, (*)) in IS'JL as againit 79.000
in 1387.
Th? Nnrweeian Total Abstinence Society j ?
comprises $53 local unions, with a total of
about 100,0..M members; 42,000 men, 43,000
women and 15,000 children under sixteen
years,
A declaration as to the uss of alcohol as a
medicina is goiui tu* rounds of the British
Medical Association. It is said that over six
hundred names bava been obtained against ,
the use. *
If you have the good of society at heart
touch not the intoxicating glass, for most of
the evils we have to deplore in our social
and political life are the offspring of thia
prolific mother-vice?intemperance,
A prisoner behind the bars in the peniten**'
wwfflJ fA HrfcVfi A<2 fnllflWi* J
imrjr ui Jiiuui*on -?-w ^ .....
"L-jt cards ana liquor alone; be in bed by 9 j
p. m., and up by 6 a:m., eat regu arly, :
sleep soundly, eiircise moderately, pray ',
constantly, and you will never be behind /
the grates."
You often hear moler^to drinkin? men
say: "Drinking does not hurt me, because I
do not drink enough.'' If you reply that it
may get the better ot him aud make hi ji a
drnnkar.l, be will lau?h and say that he
knows what he's about-; he can take it or let
it alone. But it is a sure fact that about *
nine out of tea moderate drinking men die
drunkards.
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