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sher.S (LLINOta. » BcvfriL towns in southern Illinois and ........iMlIntta and northern Kentucky were k #•*V, v* *i^a1rfrn by earthquake shock*. No lows of * * " |s reported, but several persons were and wanj buildings rendered un- . >-^t*jrr?«t Britain and Russia haw come to «a> * •* Hn agreement bii their spheres of influence I'v |n China. Dispatches from St. Peters- . ISurg via London, which are generally I* Credited, stat«> that an intenMUiooM ipict /*»fbn the" subject has been signed' Seventeen farmers of Pemiscot Comity, f- In southeast Missouri, have been lodged in the city |ail at St. Loots by United States laifel̂ bonis C. Btfhle on a federal In- IV ;^8k'tinent, charging them "with cutting the levee. No denial is made by the farmers. ?yjj Tie Shah of Persia has gtanted a 20- o:r§rear concession to a Russian mining com- |̂>any covering the*provinee of Osorbaijan, •rvjthe mi^st northerly province of Persia, caving an area of 30,300 square miles, 'ffhe province contains rich copper depes- Gefttan were buried ^elNfOrrtoiC'ttt.: A third j fMfiffrtrli^nt in twk1' Pittsburg Commercial Gasette It authority for a story that negotiations at* on for ihe merging of the National Steel Company, rapitallsed at $^00®,000rthe American tin Plate Company, 18,000,000, an«J Ihe American Steel Hoop Company, 138,000.600, into a sitigle stoclt-companf. _ath. M the a fatt, was ̂ he direct - < • ; ' d e s p e r a d o e s h e l d u p s e v e r a l m r y i*- ; %ear Brisrfaam City, Utah. Captain B' ^ - * • <of the Ogden police force joined a io , %+$*pursuit. A bajtje^took place^tt Which Captain Brown and one robbers >*§?': *"epp killed. ; The, ether was cap- tuted. IS?" U ^ The Or*<envcT)od County, .South Caro- • ^ilina, me4i charged with having entered . -into a^ conspiracy to drive away or kill Jam«s W. Tolbert. the Republican ussist- \ ; 'ant t>ostmaster at McCormick, S. C., have , |! been discharged from custody, the jury re- taming a verdict of not guilty. ;;"*y f The trouble between union .pod non- " ^ union miners"it' Wardner, Idaho, which I has been brewing there some time, culmi­ nated in 600 men attacking the Banker Hill and Sullivan mine and mill, blowing np the mill with dynamite, killing ode man | and -woomdilvp -'ngimjc others. Property .siworth $rafl,000 was destroyed. | Gen. Henry, th*t<iiYi origan military gov- Jernor of PdHo RiKtr has informed the in- • < <f su"ar committee recently sent there from Washin?ton that he does not believe the should fae-e»eo«paged to look V !i#4*e*vu'1 in the American ttefca^^lpiytwpa ihey will do better un- £ der a, material form of government. Ia fi.<hJ^|EUl. president of the Variety ' Itob W()ik» Company and one of the best of Cleveland, was rtjj atebek and instantly killed by the west- Lake Shore flyer at Coite, a suburb. $ £ * % - ^ The bods was thrown forty,feet intothe, £fnch s^Cat* •SB!**** ̂air iinrt tt«« n„,i Delaraar. The consTderadon is belleved to f • „fc? y* ̂ air and was crushed and mangled in a ter- , rible manner. Mr. Pitkin was 70 years ^ of age. f"-\ *^wo Persons were killed, eighteen seri­ ously injured and fifty others badly hurt <'#•\ ' *s resn't of a wreck which occurred on ^"5^, the Rochester and Lake Ontario Rail- ^ ,•4 '" road, about one-half mile north of Roehes- ter, X. Y. Two cars on an excursion train filled with passengers left the track while rounding a carve at full speed and were entirety demolished. The standing of the dobs in the Na­ tional League race la asffollowa: l. V mu ~*k « jBt. Louis.... 9 2Baltimore ... t 6 Sjjfc#,;- Philadelphia. 10" 4Louisville .... 5 Chicago ..... •'X C New, York... 4 Cincinnati .. 7 .5Washington.. 4 Boston .i... 7^6Pittsburg ...J ft- - r. Brooklyn.... I^ OClevdUind % Fallowing is^the standing of the dfolw ' .in the Western League: ( ^ 1 W. L. | W. L. Bnffalo ...... 4 ODetrolt ...... % 2 ,.. Kansas City. 2 1 Minneapolis.. 1 2 vMilwaukee... 2 _ 1 St. Paul..... J- 2 Columbus ... 2 ' 2Indianapolis.. 0 4 " Br ads tree t's view of the business situa- tion is thus 'sammarized: ' "Favorable' , weather conditions find reflection in re- ports of good retail distribution of spring and summer goods, and in fair fillrng-in At . ̂ orders from jobbers. Demand from first m ; hands for general merchandise is, if any- •W«S, ometer, 'n keepins with tb<> 'h*- tween season' period now at hand. In- dust rial activity continues speeially mark- - } >. *d, a pleasing feature this week being the Jv r practical absence of the unrest, particular- J' ly in the building trades, noted for many years past about May 1. While favoring retail distribution, the springlike weather conditions, however, have been the reverse of stimulating as regards quotations of two of the countries' greatest staples, wheat and cotton. In these and in hog products the tendency of values has been toward a lower range. Winter wheat crop advices have continued irregularly unfav­ orable. Cotton has weakened on better reports. The strength of the lumber mar­ kets shows little impairment. Wool as a whole is quiet and steady. Wheat, in­ cluding flour, shipments for the week ag­ gregated 3,028.283 bushels, against 2,932,- 950 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,615,079 bushels, •gainst 3,001,940 bushels last week." ' WESTERN.-v.t v \' . Captain George Mulimis, o«e of the old cat of the great lakes captain* died p1 « Toledo, aged 73. ̂ . „ • , • y* At Springfield, Ohio, Mother f|te* famous Christian temperance le brated her 83d birthday. ***** Richard J. Oglesby. for Illinois, died at his b near Elkhart, III. brain, resulting f cause of his d J*& A. Vandk>r?nfc», paymaster whos'- States wilitWr army, PJ. vtonwe was in Cincinnati,; died in San . ^ncisco. He was b^ra. in Vickaburg, April 13,1840. 4 - A big strike of minera ls In progress in the Coeur d'Alene country. The miners of the Bunker Hill and Sudwan mines are out. The men demand $3.50 per day and recognition of the union. Chancellor W. F. McDowell, for nine years at the head of the University of Denver, has been elected president of the Colorado State Agricultural College, to. succeed Dr. Alston Ellis, who has held that place for ten years. A negro broken out With smallpox sores and delirious from the disease ran through the streets of Kansas City, Kaft., the other evening. His capture by the police revealed the fact that the disease is epi­ demic among the negroes of that city. The discovery has been made that some •rery successful coiners have been operat­ ing inside the State penitentiary at Can­ yon City, Colo. "The counterfeits made are silver dolla'rs, and it is believed, they are of a combination principally tit "babbitt metal. Charles Williams, a colored man, who killed Laura Canafax, a negress, was put to death by men of hia own. race at Ga­ lena, Kan. Twenty-five" masked negroes battered down the jail door and fired at him through the bars of his cell, killing him instantly. • It is reported frOaa Los Angeles, CaL, that a deal has been made thereby the famous Yellow Aster mines at Randaborg will be transferred to the ownership of a the « «k« was 0 mmr HUNDREDS ^ . + { , - * < Bxlpt Jjl the StoftiV H«voc Dtvid Christy Murray hi authority tor rthn sttrtement that a council of generals under no Private cables received by, the relative* of ^Millionaife Robert Goelet, the head of that famOW New "York family, announce the death Goelet at Naples, Ttaly; of h'eart fafltfri?. ; ' Mme. i&nm«04te has ordered a tomb| stone fiom Ruech af-Paris- It represents Mme. Calve as Ophelia drawta toward the void by a phantom's voice. It will be exhibited in 1900. * * Advices |twt received from Apia, 84% ----.. -- moan Islands, report that severe fighting j death the people in the vieiuity ot has taken place between large, b^ea af town of Ute. friendly natives a^dJhe rebels. / The ca¥ XSitmn EUk Swept Throngl* Klrlc» too of :M*9 »« 5Q0Hr«(w Htm** I>MVM ii Trail of Over Twattfjr- Miles -tSeyawit 8t*aidkir:kvv.;,ii-:; "«• v •» ftroyed. DEVA8TATKD • ; " Ki#lc»'vtlle, tit* Coanty« le i» ty. ui,. there Ifii^ iisip Two cyeldnes left trails o^detfth t^hind them Thursday im, Missouri and l<m».'One a^ept through Newtowii and Kirksville, jut at nightfall, <»uain |̂iy |̂paQ ,de- Ruech ^4Pari#' ||ipitwictioti of property and ap^jfei)| loss «f The Jester storm struck fhe i^old^r river valley in western" Iowa aboul'laid- night gn Wednesday liight, wreck^f ajsSe country and 'smiting with woua»» iwil .the Li $%• ;• w ms- I : , f i-\ - V BREVITIES, tMut of Cheek, I. T., was entirely destroyed by fire. »The.loss is heavy. The Buckeye stave Vorks at Conti nental, Ohio, burned. Loss 115,000, in­ surance $5,000. The Lakeport Savings Bank, Laconia, N. H., has suspended payment a»d will probably liquidate. There is $227,000 doe to depositors. The hospital building of the State Asy luip for the Feeble Minded at Glenwood, Iowa, was destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is unknown. No lives were lost. Loss $25,000, no insurance. According to the Cincinnati Commer­ cial Tribune, the administration has in­ formation that arms and ammunition* of tsar have been sent from American manu­ factories to the Philippine insurgents. The failure is announced of the Comet Cycle Company of Toronto, Ont., one of the oldest and largest bicycle maaufac topng-firms in Canada. All tonnage records were broken on the Lake Shore Railway the other day. An east-bound coal train of sixty-five cars out of Ashtabula, Ohio, hauled by one engine carried 3,000 tons. ' An explosion of a can of oil paint at Tiffin, Ohio, caused the death of Paul Hoffman, aged 14, and seriously burned Frank Blindage, aged 12. The boys were playing with the paint anti touched ao^tch to see it barn. f EASTERN. ; v At Jamestown, N. Y.f Edward Scott *litabbed bis son, Edward Scott, Jr., of Oil City. The father had been drinking and abusing the young man's mother, which resulted in a quarrel. Miss Victory Bateman, whose nervous system break-down was told last Novem ber, will make her reappearance on the stage in New York soon. She has been engaged as leading woman for "We'uns of Tennessee." Edward Oswold, an instrument maker "en, N. J., stabbed to death his r 8*year-old daughter." ile tirn be $3,000,000. Eight of the planing mills of Toledo have formed a combine to control prices. This included all the leading mills except one, MacClaren & Sprague, wjuch coaoera has held out, desiring to be paid is cash for the plant. The combine represents nearly $1,000,000. The Great Northern has awarded the contract for the steel superstructure of its West Snperior, Minn., $2,000,000 grain elevator to the Ititer-Conley Manufacture Ing Company of Pittsburg, Pa., for about $800,0fliO. It will require the use of 2,000,- 000 poands of steel. ! Work on the harbor at San Pedro, OaU was commenced when President McKin- ley, in his library at the White House, pressed an electric button, which effused a rock-laden barge to tilt its cargo 00 the spot where the contractors had designated file work to begin. Thomas Kain, aged 68 years, aa assist­ ant doorkeeper at a Cleveland hospital, has received word from England that he is heir to an estate valued at $100,060. Kain is a poor man and he has had bad Inck. His wife is a hopeless invalid, being speechless as the result of paralysis. Bank Examiner Pc»>e took charge of the assets of the State Bank of West St. Paul, Minn., and ordered further suspen­ sion of business. The depositors will be protected. The test statement shows the total resources to be $105,784£8, of which loans and discounts amount to $60,lfi&53; --'.fc. ^.*1^. . » ^^ k ^ y -- ^ # *•»* *••*. > II 1 - tificates. A prairie fire which started fifteen mile* south 'of Mitchell, S. D., burned over about 35,000 acres of farm land, destroy­ ing a great quantity of hay. -Two men, Frank Howard and Allie Smith, went over to a neighbor's to help fight the fire, and tied their horses in a clump of trees. The fire got into the tree claim, and in their attempt to save their horses they were caught in the flames and, with the horses, were burned to death. Two attempts were made to deatroy- Burlington trains with dynamite iaear Nodaway, a small station between St. Jo­ seph, Mo., and the Iowa line. Sticks of dynamite were laid on the track and the Denver flyer was given a shock that broke all the windows in the coaches. The Omaha express had a similar, bat more severe, shock ten minutes later. Barling- ton officials went to Nodaway on a special train three hours later. There was noth- ing ts indicate robbery was the motive. An unusual tragedy, in which an .Ital­ ian and his wife and a male boarder were actors, took place at Kauapolis, Kan. The husband and the boarder are dead. No names are given. The woman recognised the boarder as an escaped mnrderer want? ed in Italy. Learning that his identilar had become known, he determined to kill the family. He started is by shoetie0' the husband and wifo. The wounds di(T not prove serious and the boarder slashed the man about the face and neck with a razor. The woman gave the alarm. In escaping the murderer plunged headlong into a shaft at the salt works. The body w§s found i*. the bottom, 1,000 feet below. Crinfinal action was recently begun by the United States authorities in the Fed­ eral court at St. Paul against D. P. flfeosr sopoulus, proprietor of the Northwestern stamp works, for making' metal trading checks, the claim beiflgtHat their likeness and similitude to the goid and silver of the Government made their aasBafsc- ture illegal. The defendaat demorstd and the court sustains tbs demurrer, holding that the tokens are not made in lies of lawful money and that these coins are aot obligations to pay money, but the obliga­ tions expressed is* in terms solvable mer­ chandise. There are said to be millions of these checkg in use throughout ;'the mi- ^ i • SOUTHERJi, ... he rebels. unities, It was th6tiptt, would not exceed twenty, and no Baropeans or Americans were among the iajited. According to dispatches from Vienna, Uquid air, wheq,̂ ̂with silicious marl and ignited by wecfric sparks, exploded with twenty times the effect of djraatnila, ahd when used in cannon no heat Was de­ veloped, and the range of the proffectlle was considerably increased. In order to develop the agricultural re­ sources of Turkey the Sultan has consult­ ed with the United States minister, O. S. Stranss, ia regard to securing the services of two American agricultural experts, who will be attached to the ministry of mines, agriculture i|hd forests. In the Italian Senate Admiral Canevtfro, minister for foreign affiirs, replying td In terpeliatfuar regtrdlat the Nile cmvcQtiea and ita effecte^poai no dî iî ^ l̂̂ toresefafor ftirfu eieei»loa, ott T^C •" " * ' •• Tha T1«mm of Iod^a says it.learns f aa "uniî peachahte •l/VpR*" JpNk Bu; h»s secured aiai .J^teveati w-'A .Persian right to take possession of it whenever chooses. It is added that this information comes,direct from Teheran, Cnd it is be­ lieved the port referred to is Bunder-Ab- bassee. " ' in general. ,:vt The estimates for the financial year 189^-1900 have been presented to the Ca­ nadian parliament. The total amount asked far is $46,286,550, against $4T,- 800,487 last year. Acting Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. R. W. C. Jackson has issued a general or­ der directing comriia iAirt ofpast»bsl|a»e President Lincolu|s Gettysburg address made a feature of Memorial day exercises. Watt street reports say the g&aifc copper trust has become an accomplished fact. It is claimed that the great Anaconda ̂ nine has entered the combine. The tsl stock, it ia thought, will be $500,000,r 680. President W. G. Frost of Berea College is in receipt of a letter from D. K. Pear- sons, the>Chicago philanthropist, offering another gift of $50,000 to the endowment fund of the Berea College on the same conditions as the former gift. The control of the "Monon," officially known as the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railroad Company, has passed into the hands of J. Pierpoat Morgan & Co. The stockholders have elected a board of Rectors headed by Cjharles H. Coster, Temple Bowdofa and R. M. Gal­ loway. > .Parties arriving d<m tfjroi report ttte finding of Otto Goette, or Brown, as he was commonly known, a sheep ranqhman, who was mnrdered on his (ranch Sept. 30, 1888. The body of Goette had been buried near n stream on hiB i*anch and the spring rains had unearthed-it. A large hole in the skull corroborated the murder theory. Trouble is expected when an attempt will be made by Messrs. Stewart and Wells ef Chicago to take possession of a part of Dead Man's Island, whieh they have leased from the Canadian Govern­ ment as a iite for a sawmill. Mayor Gor­ don of Vanconver, B. C., claims the island as a city park and will resist the attempt of the Chicago men to take possession. Reports received by grain men in To* rento, indicate heavy damage to winter wheat in lections east of Toronto. In many cases the crop is a total failure, and farmers are p^oufag up the ground pre­ paratory to planting spring wheat or bar­ ley. Last year's crop of winter wheat in Ontario was estimated at 20,000,000 bush­ els, bat there wiU be a big decrease this year. . apprt town avy rai turned es of t , • . TJ»» Known I>esi4...; At Klrbsvilli. Mo. At Newto#a, Ho........... At Ute, Iowa, sad vicinity. . Some reports from the strickjei( i|| made the total number of i«m«E. 500, and^figures of the kifleer V«me8?ils but it is stnjpMsible at the tithe thftt is written tb^*e aceurate details. The sky emptied its fury igi .n; gigantic cyclone upon KirksviUe, the. town made famous by osteopathy, at 6:^bfcJock at night, while most of the inhabitants were at table. The entire east aide of the city was wiped,̂ iano. More; than 100 dwell- tch fr I'Gen. ings and stroyed. iugs took to the w< Fruta; rea wmlfee |i&ess hou^ were totally de- everal of Jro*, wrecked build- & adding (ffmciflty And danger r«f rescue. Mayor Noanan the deadi fiat would 490 b <Httea ?a*e sc SdttP^rhere beyond aad praide. In the the people who esc cue the injured and hunt the' slain. Surgeon*, gjfofessors, operati the druggists in the town, 'fot-med and hospital 'corps. Itescaim corp roofs and searched the iruihrMf hoi along the edge of the death track <&ot tirely dfmolish^d for the wound1 dying and the dead. Half a <' ed dwetllngs took fî e ihime staff an of die- THE MARKFTBI Mi': Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, 9&90 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $&0|> to $4^25; sheep, fair to choica, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72cj corn, No. 2, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2, 26c to 27c; rye, Ne. 2, 58c to 60c; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoea, choioe, 63c to 65c per bushel. indiaaapeUa--Cattle, shipping, #8.00 to $5^0; hogs, choice light. $2.75 to «4.00; •hasp, cannaKMi to dtotee ̂flMS to $4.75; wheat, N«. % red, 72c to 73e; corn. Me. 2 w*ltev 86e to 37e; <wta, N#» % 31c to 32c* ..... ,\ W; hogs, Bev. Robert Ryland, aged 94, probacy the oldest Baptist elergymaa and educator in the United States, died at Lexington, Ky. Mill A of the Cumberland Hour mills plant at Nashville, Tenn., was totally de­ stroyed by fire. The loss 1s estimated at $150,000, fully insured. At Woolsey, Ga., George W. Kerlin, a wenlthy farmer and a deacon in the Bap­ tist Church, has been found guilty of the murder ef Miss Pearl Knott. Au offef*made by Gov. Jones to arbi­ trate the differences existing between the mine owners and miners in Arkansas b4% been refused by the opwators. ̂ Gov. Candlcg ef Georgia appointed Clark Howell, editor ef the Atiaat* Coa- 8L Lea ML0frte'»4»';< wMeat,v|«.ia ye»ow,$if te rye, Ne. 2,56c to' corn,m.2 Ne. 1, 28c to 80c; $3.00 to fMN* -Aheap. fSLGO to- wheat, Ne. X Oc to 73<n cora, Me. 2 mixed, 36c to 88c; oats, No. 2 mined, 3Be to 30c; rye,m\% We* Detroit--Oattk, $2^0 to JSJ0; hogs, $3.00 to $440; sheep, $2J50to $4.75; wheat, Ne. % 75c to 77<s; corn, No. 2 pellow, 86c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 12c to 88c; rye, 00c to 62c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mi*ed, 33c<^|7c; oaifv No. 2 white, 20c to 3lc; rgt,'4m. Z, UK to 58c; clover seed, neHr, fK^K Milwaukee-Wheat^ Kb/ 2 to 72c; corn, No. 3,'iffe **-$«*;•'•#!<, ®~. 2 white, 20c to 31c; rye. No. 1,58c to 50c; barter, Ne. % 45c to 47c; pork* «ess, $0.00 to $0.50. Buffalo^--Cattle, good steers, $8.00 to $6iW; hats, cmmMtim-mfoe. f8-® to f4.50; ^laap, fair weth­ ers, $3JS0 to ISJSBi; lanvba, ceaunon to extra, $4M to $«J»0. New terk-Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; begs, $8j00 to $4^0; Aeep, "$81«0 to $5.7lV; wheat,' Ne. 9 «ed^ TOc to . Jin. 2, 4ic to 4S^ onto, We. « ' ^ ' 87c; butter, creamery, 18c % Weetom, lie to 14c. the «y«M4a»#isnp _ . , The'st#BV«Siii%h8 roar and a deep maffled rumble tent thunder. There was a anctlon from both sides, and before the advancing col- irtin, while a stel̂ ^nchinK Chickling, ptnding noise wait heard distinctly above tne t^ar of the flemeats a mile from the path of the cyclone. The cyclone apprdatjfeed Kirksville from the southwest. At a î î ance It-seemed to be making for thefaihgaonnds, and people at the American Scboolo^Qsteopathy, on the west side of the towp, watdied iia coming for two minutes In fear that It was beating down upon them. Before reach­ ing the town limits it veered further east, however,! and cleared the State llormal School without touching it. Patterson's extensive nursery^Just west, was swept down to bare soil. The canto? from that on was through a well-battt-up section of the town, made up mainly, of uvuwvo, uuu fvyuiiitcJU Lf^ HCilr dents of the normal school and American School of Osteopathy. Marcus Ward's seminary for young women was a couple of hundred yards east of the storm's path. A hotel building close to it was demol­ ished. .«• A score of guests stood upon the'porti­ coes and at the dining room windows of the Still Hotel, half a mile west ef the storm's path, and saw it sweep tfypongh the. town. Roofs blew ahead of the blast like leaves, seemingly far in front of the revolving snout a full hundred yards in the sky. One horse was blown out of the shafts Of a road wagon, which lodged against the ffont of a house in the edge of the Wind's track. No one knows what becaibe Of the animal. Members of households disap­ peared with a partial demolition «f homes, while others remained unhurt among the debris. Along the edge of the storm's path holes are seen through frame houses aa if punctured by cannon balls. A second edition of the cyclone followed the first in about twenty minutes* Jt came as an ink-black cloud widely distrib­ uted and covered the whole town. ~ Many sought refuge in cellars. The tail jend bf the cyclone did not break upon KirksviUe, however, seeming to go by overhead. It is believed generally that the second cy clonic wave dropped-to the ground before traveling much further on its journey. The heavens became black for fifteeja minutes, after which a heavy rain fell for an hour and a half. By 8 o'clock the sky was clear and starry. ' ' Mayor Noonan telegraphed to every ata- tion between Bloomfield, Iowa, and Mo- berly, Mo., for surgical assistance. Un­ dertakers wired St. Louis and Chlcagp ra Adders for eel|a». lies will be rendetod;<#NMlirtafy.f>itotî te in addition to loss^s by injary and death. • Tfae reports frctor- cated that ma ay Lowe and thre^wldrAi, ffrlkj; thrw mUes north of KWeiri^ wa» cn»ah«d beneath the timbers ; their wre^ed home. Several other members #f the fam- ily escaped injury. Other fatalities are reported from the country, but It is not likely that «n accurate death list will be available for several days. The tornado destroyed telephone and telegi'apb wires out of Kirksville and not luitil'OllD o'clock Friday morning was communication with $ie outside resumed, and then only hMm litsatisfactory sort of way ifctSW® s6h|c ball. School is a], most wid^li^ America* Sefcool a, -tion has attracted"" th^'ctmntii^tti)$. growth and 0 Newtowrirliei ln the em part of'ffifellivao .west-riorth#«atjrtom manttfattoring pfl̂ t§Pg| importanee, the in f#iit«»e nnd.Rw*». efal churches aund î&ii at»d Si. Paul Railroad, '. STORM IN IOWA. SOldMti". .liver Valley, la,' Bweilt^iill. ftvertl Live* Lo«t The Soldier rivet valley in tbe «(mntiee of»QnyR^ord and Monona, Iowa, was twep! tornado about mtiui{ght, the long, while ̂iiroperty' dliimage is large. Dozens Of people scattered throughout the prospeel^to fanning country of the8ot> dler river valley were hnrt more or Ie^s by flying det^|tt«g Great quantities *»f dirt weto scooped np and car*l«i'<%btag with the force of 'gnoXbot. The pati) Of the was :eaf)y a.mile wi$e,<<.afid is fjs'.Mpy de-" "~wl from its entrance int^Mî Mifc wity along the Winding course river'for a distance of twenty If cut rat by ap ni rn taafeJlpiy an ̂s<! .... two_ feet thick Were twisted off by .̂reds and fn nfany casla, pulled.up ' >ts and carried mileS awAy. In many trees are found away . the twister's conrse, piled high with !«ir debris dfoptfckl' by the wind and all into a million splinters. e large residence of George Furne the first buildh .̂of %aponance de- It was right in the center of the track. TJje h^nse was cut to nke so much kindling wood. The augbters were found'ln as many dif- phices after the stormed passed who was hiniî t bfidly r was*not found until i£:' . SKa'.iMyr' beneath some of the [ home. A fence rail forced through her body. She lived aeveral hours despite her awful wounds. FILIPINO ARMY IN A PANIC. - - y.;iil)iil|«ill [I . _ Deadly Valley «<#ten AsninaMo'S Troops in I«||r Direction. Gen. Btacî rthur s division crossed the Rio 5rande Thiiradny a^d adynneed on Apatit, comftl«t*Iy routing the tower of the Filipino army. The Filipinos were very strongly in­ trenched on the river bank, near both sides of the railroad bridge. Gen. Wheaton sent ColJ Ftmston across, with two com­ panies of the Twentieth Kansas regiment, a couple of privates awimming the swift stream with a rope, under a galling fire, for the purpose of guiding the raft. The men croefeed in squads of twenty and at- tacked the left ftank of the native*, who rnhbltalnto covered wan and trenches. The rest of the regiment was [ compelled to c*ross the bridge in single file " along the strlngerk. All the woodwork and much of the ironwork had been re* moved. The First Montana regiment fol­ lowed the Kansans across the bridge. 1 The First Nebraska regiment, acting as a reserve, attacked the natives in three lines of trenches, driving tliem out, kilUttf sixteen and wounding many. In the meantime a large body of Fili­ pinos, estimated at no fewer than 3,000, led by Gen. Antonio Luna on a black charger, evidently coming to re-enforce the insurgents who were engaged with the Nebraskans, appeared in the open field about two miles to the left. Emerging from the jungle, the natives formed an open skirmish line nearly two miles in length, with very thick reserves behind. They then advanced at double quick until they were about 2,000 yards from the American line, when Gen. Wheaton or­ dered his troops to fire. The natives, who were evidently un­ aware that the Americans had crossed the river, broke and ran in the direction of Macabele. The other Filipinos fled to­ ward Apalit station. The heat in the early part of the after­ noon was terrific, but a drenching thun­ derstorm, which came later, greatly re­ freshed' the Americans. Mn«t of the nntlvoa ft««d ta Annllt sta­ tion, where two trains were awaiting them. They left hurriedly, presumably for San Fernando. The towns of San Vincente and Apalit were simultaneously burned and evacuated by the natives. Twenty prisoners were captured, includ­ ing a Spaniard. The netting listed from noon until 4 |hf defenses a*e well *> |J*>ttg •"%ea., the in rith thel the IPajk ̂ *8t'""$e-; volunteer Wheaton rriov- gw railroad ""lORtann and ffppaa regiine! gtros of ,fhe Montottt Ki_ insured cars. Col. |%h^on ... s fegiment, after swptining î# first in • the "'rebel m- Hale was separated 'hejtton by the Quinga river, . into the Bagbag. He made 1.Mmnting the river, taking »^*|'f< îand, during|henlgfat the bridge over tbe Ba»b«g river; The volun­ teers then crossed and attacked the 'Fil̂ f• ••in - the treaphee, and after a Short bnt sharp fight fore&A Die enemy in- to' '̂ ainmpit. Here Agoinaldo's a r m y fought desperately. For the first time the Filipinos em­ ployed artillery. . 1 GEN. M'AKTHUR. They brought two guns into action in tbe trenclws. before Qaliuatî firing modern engagement was hurried for theoav- ***** tomMat, held its Ute enemy |6r«F5M*ing HHght^and left a%|̂ jnWnd- ̂ imp* cavalry ' te-enfoi#j|,«» battalion f* <nider Mai. Mor- - arrive. Thisforce to drive the Insurgents \ S£75-w'̂ % Nebraska regi- jy? Tofatrteer regiment, ̂ forward. Then fottr guns of i . Col. stot*enberg, commander of the Ne- ® brwka regiment, arrived on the battiefield & «11 o cloriE and was greeted with cheers. « He i mmwliately led an ad vance on the eh- ei^J jK^ont. tod fell with his raord aloft, ftuWgg to his men to follo# hlm. the Nebraskans broke forwatd into the brush and drove th& in- «ES. HALS, with an armed Joss in waa th^eMlled and three wotinded. The Fili- |rfno toss was small, birlt they were well |>ifd»eto^ by thelir eartfi^brks. The Filipinos adopted the same tactic# as at Malolos, contesting the American ad­ vance on their headquarters and then abandoning them when the capture of the place was inevitable. s The.advacce of the Aoiertchns Tuesday was tnajclEed by a stubborn re^^tanoe by the Filipinos and occasion ̂Mvere fight* ing. Gen. MacArthur's advance began at 0 o'clock in the morning. G«Tn. Wheaton, commanding the Kansas and Montana regiments, with three gun* e® the Utah battery and two troops of cavalry, marched along the£ Tailk>ad, hit'fine on the right reaehing to the Bagbag river. On the other side of the river Was wen. Hale with the Iowa, Ne­ braska and South Dakota volunteers. The left of the Amer­ ican line on the rail- road was strengthened train. For two miles the £ vance was without incident. Then the enemy's trenches, run­ ning across the 4mericaiia,atbnt, were en­ countered, and'the traW eibs moved for­ ward and sbelled the inamaeat position. The Filipinos responded In tliv^y fashion. Gen. Hale's brigade made * fbwlliant ad­ vance oVer open ground "te-fte Chlco river. They w&re exposed to a galling ifere from the enemy's trenches at the ijiweiion of The Iowa regiment made & fietoair. 4o the right to flank the trenches, and rf&en> this movement was executed tbe .'Nebsaskans and South Dakotans swam the > river, drove the enemy from their positions,: and pursued them for half a mile (before they Were recalled. Before this was Accom­ plished, however, Maj. Young, with the gto&s of the Utah artillery, dashed through a tillage that had been burned tind ?<pno- tected the Nebraskans and South "Dako­ tans as they made their way across the riter. The artillery lost one tkilled mod three wounded in making their dash. The Filipinos had the advantage of the fighting by the Chico, as they had cleared the country of everything that -wouid ap­ pear a protection to the Americans. 'The attempt to wreck the armored train of the Americans by weakening tbe bridge over the Ragbag was a failure,., J*art .<# the bridge fell in with its ownsweight "before the train reached it. * The American loss in the two days' op­ erations was twelve killed and fhirty-nine wounded. The known rebel loss is seven- ty-five killed in front of WheatonV brig­ ade Tuesday and about 200 kilted and wounded in front of Hale's Moikda?. GREAT FLOOD AT OMAHA. Alarulnsc Conditions Cantei ty BiM M1 1 ti» ' IWEN TV U AT NJtWTOWN. Kogtire Eastern Half of tbe Town Conr pletcly Demolkahed. Reports Friday mosning Arom Newtown, Mo., which was visifed by the terrible cyclone, were that twenty persons had been killed and &tween thirty aud forty injured. The entire eastern half of the town was destroyed. The path of the storm was about 500 or 000 feet wide, and hardly a dwelling in its course escaped. Frame houses were lifted from their foundation* and crashed like eggshells. The meMsafe"- iMantlal buildings were partly wrecked, and half « luradved peopls at least ma* 0"( the caBcer* and men wounded. THREATENED WJITM May Be Berloil ttebelltopi if Plans Are t arried Oat. Japan 1» in danger of a serious rebellion if three famous old generals carry out their plans. Information to that effect has been received by the Japanese colony at Seattle, Wash. Reduction of taxes is to he the cry of this army, which will be composed entirely of farmers from the in­ terior regions. Gen. Miuri, the Japanese minister at Seoul, who was charged with complicity in the coup d'etat in which the Corean queen lost her life. Js 4t the head of the movement. He has proposed an up­ rising of the farmers. OUN #LANT AT ROCK ISLANa Llcntenant Ditfltson Transferred tb Illinois Tow*. An order has been received at the Unit­ ed States armory in ̂ JHxfhgieldt Mass,, transferring to Rock Island, 111., ilient. T. C. Dickson, who has bad general over­ sight of tbe detail* of the manoftKJtnre of the Krag-Jorgebkeil rifle, ̂appropria­ tion ot $38<M»0ibW(«toes avallablefor the beginning •ef tbe wdlh at CtOcIc July 1. it is tfcsu^M: that the ef « stnall an|piiMftf at means tbe alis^rietlag. of she leaiipf ri«« plant ef tbe % w The rise of the Missouri river in tbe vicinity of Omaha caused alarming condi­ tions, and people in the lowlands and those who own property there have had reason for extreme anxiety. Watchmen, armed with shotguns, were kept guarding it the Locust street dyke, at the south end Of Cutoff lake, with the intention of shoot­ ing any person or persons they $lj$§t catch trying to cut through the dy|^il^l| 1 order to permit the escape of ^ water that is overspreading From the upper river alarming reports of the n ages. In iJhtbn County, flmik jDiakoi the river has :«vt deep, fim^liiiMiits. to* ward McCook lake, an old rivar bed. It lacks only a short distance now ef getting through, and should this happH^',A new course would be rniide acroto inJuable farm and timber land into the Sion* river. Already one w«an*n has lost 250 acres of timber land. It is simply falling Into the river, carrying trees and everything else with it. The river may yet feat a new course into Dakota County, Nebraska, and great alarm exists. f POWER OP LIQUEFIED *t«. It May Become tftte Bigh ExplosiveiJf the ttrfnre. According td dispatches from Vienna, liquid air ignited by electricity, exploded with twenty times the effect of dynamite, and when used in cannon no heat was de­ veloped and the range of the projectile was considerably increased. Liquir air, therefore, may bmnne the high explosive of the future. It is not known, however, whelhec the Vienna scientists have reach­ ed we marvelous results through actual experiments or have taken repdrts of what has been accomplished by Charles 22. ter of New York and repeated then. % % M m •t 'tbe^-nltoefeis^r' rere into the w, action, dhot through the heart. Tlia ball just grased the pic­ ture of a girl hutig about his neck on a ribbon. ̂The-fiellt was terrific, and the sun shining through a fog nude conditions for fighting almost intolesable. Seven men of the first battalion of the Nebms- kans were sunstruck, and Otoe died while 'yin* ̂ the trenches awaiting the arrival of the Second battalion when the charge was made. The Americans were nhder fire two hours. The cavalry lost three men killed and five wounded. The loss of the Nebraska regiment was five killed and ttore than thirty wounded. The Iowa regimpnt lossef were iUght The Nebraska regi- nmt s losses during the present campaign have been larger than ony other regiment. The loss im the side of tbe FiUpinos was C0,nLpaiStiTe,y •Ba*u- They were fighting wlm all the advantages of dense brush •nd the fog also shielded them br their flank movements. Thirteen dead Filipinoa were found in the trench. NM3ftdt£ BURNED AND HANGED. Terrible Penalties Vieited by Oe®r> •lens on Black Crlmtaals. Sam H«to, the Georgia mulatto who ten days «go "murdere ̂Alfred Cranferd and subsequently criminally asaaultod the dead man's wife, an awibl. penalty for his crime. Lasbed ̂to a Me tree, with his ears and fiftftrs cut oft Hose was toasted'*to deatt. Over twenty-five hundred white peopfe of both sexes stood •round tbe tree and watched-the horrify­ ing speetaele. Hose was captured by tbb Jones broth­ ers of Houston County at his mother's cabin. They expcot to iW of i 1,750 offered for his arrest. When first taken from the train the doomed man was marched at the head of 500 people to the jdif.>and delivered to Sheriff Brown. This,<!beWever, was simply to secure the reward <to the Jones brothers. The victim was-at once taken from the sheriff's cus­ tody.andnmarched toward en open field. He was .taken to the place where Mrs. Cranford was>stopping and îdentified by her, • En route <ex-Gov. Atkinson and Judge Freemaot̂ eaded with the crowd, but the'only anmrers to their exhortations twere: "On toPalmetto!" "fPo the stake." '.'Burn him!" "Think of hra cfimer* When the great pine tree selected for the,>place of execution was reeohed the ttegro was placed with his 'beck to ,the tree,'and he was allowed to talk. He con- ifessed killing Cranford and claimed he was ihired by Lige Strickland, the negre ifmaraher at Palmetto, to commit the Orime. Before he finished talking the Crowed tore his clothes Off > of him and wosmd a heavy chain alxHit'bis body and •the toroh was applied. His'body had been •^drenched with kerosene, aad-a pile of in- rifiammable material was' piled at his peet. The-negro gave an awful shriek when the fames* begin to shoot up over his body, «nd-a«ecepded in partly breaking away. He was pushed back to the tiree and bound W ^5i> 3 LigeSStrickland, the negro preacher whe was accused by Sam Hose of paying him to klll Farmer Cranford, was trled by a mob at Palmetto, Ga., and foand guilty. He was promptly hanged. Thi body waa ,pm m»!#ad|r.wMi tiwweil tordi: "We THREAT. Tells How Vem1 •a Kept in '• tenteed to Ciipt. Cogh- _ Club in New York, told In detail the story of Ad- mlsal Dewey's ultimatum which tdou^; ibs Gernsan admiral, Von Diedrich, to his ' immune w when he was disobeying Dewey's • I iidirii refarding the blockade In Itanila iffey. After Dewey instructed tbe qOcmt to tell Von Diedrich that the German ves­ sel mast stop when he said so, as he want­ ed the .blockade to be completot tbe Ger- m atill protested that M| ships fiew the nnan fla*. Dewey replied that Qermaa flags could be bought for 60 eents a yard «nywhere and that a whole Spanish fleet "might come upon him caorylaw thmn. He said, "The slightest infraction ef mty rule will mean only one thing, and tihat wfll be ww." Capt. Cogblan a«id that tihe Ger­ man infraction of Dewey's blockade rules ceased immediately and that they "didst dare to breathe more thau four times wî - out asking the admirars permisskm.n • 'Capt. Ceghlan msy lose his ship tfe«ough etressful n^terstion of his criticisms of lie 'Germans at|Manila. Government oflkdals regret very much what they tons C«pt. twssc aua countr>- aad Germany. . . •