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IF ilii-r" Wfir# (M *&& -ri :r Sag m- Pfyrtt V-*W£ *f\./3' fi'-fi: s» ||i K§?S 8^?, r/* •'41 ji-fer"-- 25% -il "Kji V% "i* P' JJ "4? ET-Ji khr*1 r. y"tS 8^ SSi^S f&VA#' tM Jv- Turner County Herald W. 0. BBOWN, Publlshor. HURLEY. SOUTH DAKOTA* Sullivan and Corbott have put up $10,000 a side for a flglit to a* finish. ,-.„{The country at large will double the .jjjpurse if they will agree to flglit with axes. 5 llillli The little word "obey" has been Ipstricken out of the Methodist mar Pgriagc service and brides will hereafter |§|have no prejudice against being iSmarried by ministers of that ^denomination. The great Treasury vault at Wasli 5X yi'ui jVington covers more than a quarter of (tpan acre and is twelve feet deep. ^Recently there was $90,000,000 in silver "^"V y.- '^stored there—an amount that weighed •4,000 tons and would load 17a freight 5 cars. '**'z*u'' Frank Taggett, a former member of the Nebraska legislature, has been arrested in Cheyenne for aiding prisoner to escape. The fact that lie once belonged to the Nebraska legis lature will be strong circumstantial evidence against him. John Jacob Astor has imitated William Waldorf in giving the New York Press club a check for $6,000. The club will do well to have the check cashed before any of its mem bers put more of those unpleasant paragraphs into the papers. A few days ago a switchman in Denver snatched a little child from before an advancing locomotive. He succeeded in his heroic purpose but was killed. Already the Denver News has raised over $700 for the widow and child of this unknown man of the people, Lee Dunham, and about $100 for a monument. New York has not done as well for the nation's Grant. The editor of an exchange in the throes of crazed inspiration writes thusly: "You may hive the stars in a nail keg, hang the ocean on a rail to dry, put the sky to soak in a gourd and unbuckle the beliyb'and of eter nity, and let the sun and moon out, but don't think you can escape the place that lies on the other side of purgatory if you don't support your local paper." Some time ago President Harrison expressed a'wish to Uncle Jerry Rusk for two good 'possums as soon as frost set in, and the other morning two line young 'possums were received at the White House. These were deliv ered by Adams Express Company, and were in a box marked: "To the President: Two citizcns of Maryland —Mr. Protection and Mr. Reciprocity —with the compliments of John R. Howlett, No. 1411 N street northwest." Each of the animals had a red, white, and blue, ribbon round his neck, one marked "protection" and the other "reciprocity." This fall all the offices in South Dakota to be filled run from governor down to road supervisor. Nothing is omitted from constable to the highest in the land,-national electors for the electoral college. In consequence of this the ticket will be the size of a barn door. It is estimated that the ticket will be six feet long, if all the names were run in a single column, "or three feet in a double width. As to ballot boxes, sugar barrels will have to be used in some of the large wards. Already some of the county commissioners are making arrange ments for large steel ballot boxes to hold the tickets. The election will be fraught with difficulties and sur prises seem certain. Of the twenty-three presidents, seven were re-elected, namely—Wash ington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln and Grant. Two were renominated and failed of elec tion—Martin Van Buren, who was beaten by Harrison, and Mr. Cleveland who wasbeat.cn by the republican grandson of the great whig leader. This gives nine presidential renomi nations, seven of which were approved by the people. Six presidents who lived out their terms of office failed to get a renomination. They are the two Adamses, Polk, Pierce, Bucliaman and Hayes. Three presidents died (luring their first terms, namely— Harrison, Taylor and Garfield. The four vice presidents who became presidents—Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson and Arthur—were all beaten for the regular nomination. Robbed by Monto Sharks. The police of DesMoines are on the lookout for three men who swindled a Dallas county farmer out of $2,500. Several days ago a stranger appeared at the farm house of Peter Gardner, near Adel, and engaged board for an indefinite period, being, he said, in pursuit of health. In the course of time he became familiar with the old farmer, explaining to him, among other things, the beauties of three card monte, in which the farmer won a considerable sum and was happy. Yesterday two more strangers appeared in Adel, hired spanking livery turnout and went to Garner's place to buy his farm. The three men and the farmer became engaged in three card monte, in which, of course, the farmer was allowed to win. The two newcomers advised the farmer to get some money and break the monte man. They all went to town and the farmer drew $2,500 from the bank. One of the three disappeared while in town and as the others were returning to the farmer's home he reappeared on the road with a big revolver in each hand and robbed the whole outfit' making good his escape. The others went on with the farmer, and to console him for his loss gave him a check for $2, 600 on a Cedar Rapids bank, which, of course, is utterly worthless aud is all the old farmer lias to show for his exciting experience. The mayor and city clerk of Huron have been enjoined against signing a warrant for $2,370 which the council directed to be issued to the city attorney for two month's services. Attorneys come high in Huron. ,A, itjp sC LATE NEWS SUMMAEY. Telegraphic News of the World Condensed for the Benefit of Busy Readers. |t- $1 &• Washington, Political, Foreign and General Domestic Happenings of Note GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS. 10 ip Pelfer Zinnchzizkouskekowlouski is a native of Buffalo, city's directory. $ according to that Mrs. Levi Yilas, mother of Senator Yilas, died suddenly Saturday night in Madison, Wis. Delegates from fourteen labor organizations in Boston formed a new Amalgamated Building Trade Council. Mortimer Frabitus Reynolds died In Rochester yesterday. He left $500, 000 for the building and maintaining of the Reynolds Public Library. W. Green Wait died at Vail's Mills, N. Y., Sunday, aged 75. He was a prominent Republican and held the office of Port Warden at New York for ten years. Charles Waite, an aeronaut, while giving an exhibition at Tolcliester Beach, near Baltimore yesterday fell 1,500 feet, owing to the failure of his parachute to work, and sustained fatal injuries. Drs. E. E. Nussle and C. F. Merklc of Chippewa Falls, Wis., have been arrested for manslaughter in causing the death of Mrs. Lester Dallas by an unwarranted operation for the removal of a tumor. Two hundred thousand second-hand books arc to be sold in one lot in Boston this week to the highest bidder. They belong to the estate of that famous dealer, T. O. H. P. Burnham, and are now in the dingy basement under the Old South Church. William M. Davenport, of Leyden, Mass., is blind, but notwithstanding this qualification, manages to run a 700-acre farm of his own, and not only buys his own stock, but can tell all that he wants to know about the qualities of a milch cow simply by passing his hands over it. An interesting reminder of the famous Donnelly-Pioneer Press libel suit is furnished in the suit brought by Flandrau, Squires & Cutclieon against the Pioneer Press Company for the balance of fees due for services rendered in the famous libel suit. The amount sued for is about $5,000 and the attorney for the plaintiffs is no less a personage than Cy. Wellington, who conducted Mrl Donnelly's side in the former case. Col. L. L. Polk, president of the Farmers' Alliance, died at Garfield Hospital at 11:15 Saturday morning. Col. Polk was a relative of President Polk. He was a native of North Car olina, where he was born about 55 years ago. During the war he served for a time in the confederate army and resigned to go to the legislature, to which body he had been elected. At the time of his death he was serv ing his third term as president of the body to which he has given so much of his time and attention. Col. Polk's home was at Raleigh, N. C. He leaves a wife and three children. FOREIGN GOSSIP. An electric omnibus company has been formed in London. Norway is to send a Viking ship an exhibit to the World's Fair. Foreign physicians are now ex perimenting with frog lymph as a pretentive .of hydrophobia. Louise Michel, the famous socialist agitator, seems to have tired of her tumultuous career, and has settled down to teaching school in a quiet part of London. The German emperor has conferred the order of merit in art and science upon Dr. Gould, of Cambridge, on account of the services he has ren dered astronomy. TheGerman Emperor has graciously sanctioned the election of Sir John Everett Millais, the English painter, as a Knight of the "Ordre pour le merite," the highest Prussian order for science and art. The King of Italy, attended by the court, has assisted at the inaugura tion of a monument erected at Turin in commemoration of the Italian sol diers who took part in the Crimean war. At Castle Thomery, near Font ainebleau, where Rosa Bonheur has her farm, arc horses and cows of many breeds, herds of sheep and goats, numbers of rabbits and poultry, a pair of lions, and several very rare small animals. All these are used as studies by the artist. She is now 70 years old, but is still vigorous. King Malieto of Samoa is unhappy. His stipend of $25 per week is not regularly paid from the royal excheq uer, and a number of his wives have been compelled to take in washing to eke out his scant subsistence. Unless the king business looks up a little he threatens to soil his robes by going into some plebian vocation. The marriage of Count Herbert Bismarck to the Countess Margaret Hoyos, of Fiume, will take place this weelr. Comtesse Margarethe's father is Count George Hoyos, a partnei in the celebrated firm for the manufact ure of torpedoes at Fiume, and her mother is an Englishwoman, the daughter of Mr. Whitehead, the founder of this torpedo manufactory. King Oscar of Sweden, who is now visiting in Paris, is a man of tall and spare figure, with white hair and beard that were black when he was lost in the French capital. He enjoys excellent health. When the King visited President Carnot at the Elysee he wore the medal granted lum by the French Government for throwing himself before two horses that were running away with a carriage filled with ladies. The Duke of Portland, who is one of the richest noblemen in England, has just added 20,000 acres to his shooting preserves. The Duke has now 80,000 acres, or 125 square miles, reserved solely for the use of his gun. He believes in doing things on a large scale. His town house extends along nearly the entire sido of Cavendish Square, and "Welbeck," his seat in Nottinghamshire, is said to be the finest woodland domain in England. Instructions were given some time since by Secretary Blaine to our minister at Lisbon, Gen. George S. Bacheller, to make a courteous request for the return to the United States of the famous "Long Tom" gun, a 42-pounder, of the celebrated private armed brig-of-war Gen. Armstrong, which played such a heroic part in the battle of Fayal with a British squadron in 1814, says the Washing ton Post. Information has been re ceived at the department of state that the king of Portugal has most graciously expressed his consent to present the gun to the United States, it now being in the Castle of San Juan, at the Island of Fayal., WASHINGTON NEWS. The Treasury deparument has purchased 334,000 ounces of silver at $0,897. v'f".': Secretary Foster has appointed Harry M. Callison assistant inspector of boilers for New York at a salary of $2,000 per year. Eight alien contract laborers were returned one day last week from the United States to the country from which they came. Senator Davis was fifty-four years old Thursday. Congratulations were numerous and the senator, as ever, was gracious. The condition of Mrs. Harrison continues about the same. She holds up remarkably well under the fatiguing effects of the extremely warm weather. She will leave Washington some time in July for the Adirondacks. Representative Pickler made an attempt one day last week to call up his timber culture bill, but it was objected to by Mr. Holcomb on the ground that a bill of that should go over until more members were pres ent. Representative Eli Stackhouse, of the Sixth district of South Carolina, died suddenly at his residence in the city of Washington, D. C., from disease of the heart. Mr. Stack house was born in Marion c^-untv, South Carolina, in 1824. He served in the Conefderate army and became a colonel. He afterward became prominent in agricultural pursuits was president of the State Farmers1 Alliance and a member of the legis lature, and was elected to the Fi fty second congress as a Democrat. Both branches of congress, on the announce ment of Mr. Stackhouse's death, appointed committees to attend the funeral. Senator Kyle and Mr. Jolley of South Dakote arc members of the committees. There is not the slightest probabil ity of one of the regular appropriation bills becoming a law before the end of the fiscal year, and, in order to con tinue the work of the departments, 'it will be necessary to pass a joint reso lution after the members of the Sen ate and House return from Chicago extending the provisions of existing appropriation bills until the middle of July. The friends of the river and harbor bill are in great fear that its passage may be retarded for weeks if it is not eventually defeated. It, too, must wait the return of all the mem bers before action even can be had on the proposed new conference. The demands already made upon the treas ury by the increased amount required for the payment of pensions has given the advocates of lower appropriations greater hope of ultimately defeating the river and harbor bill. EMIN PASHA IS DEAD. The Governor of Equatorial ^frlca Sue. cumbfl to Smallpox. The Tagebatt confirms the recent rumors of the death in the interior of Africa of Emin Pasha. If it is true that Emin is dead the natural sup position is that he has fall a victim to smallpox, from which reports in April stated he was suffering. In 1878 Dr. Emin Bey was sent by Gordon to the equatorial province of Africa as governor. When he took the post there was annual deficit of $90,000 in 1881 he sent down $18,000 surplus revenue. In 1882 he was in Khartoum and offered to the authori ties to try and make peace witli the malidi. They refused his help and told him to go back to his province, develop it and protect its frontiers. From that time nothing was heard of Emin Bey for several years. It was understood that he was hemmed in by hostile natives in equatorial Africa and prevented from reaching the coast or commuuicating with the outside world. In 1885 the various geographical societies, of Europe began to agitate the question of send ing an expedition to the relief of the brave explorer. About the same time Stanley wrote to some friends in England offering to lead a government expedition for the relief of Emin. Hisservices were offered gratuitously, and he also said that should another leader be chosen he would give 500 pounds to the ex pedition. The British government considered the different memorials and were forced to take action by events at Cairo. Unknown to them Dr. Schweinfurth, the African travel er and a friend of Emin, brought great pressure to bear upon the Egyptian government. They raised Emin Bey to the rank of pasha, thus recognizing his position and their responsibility. They also voted $40, 000 to any relief expedition. The British government then accepted the offer of certain private individuals to equip a relief expedi tion, with Stanley as the leader, the Egyption grant to be given to that expeditions. Stanley's expedition to central Africa, the finding of Emin and that doughbly explorer's refusal to be rescued are all matters of such recent date as to be fresh in the minds of all readers of the newspapers. A few months ago it was reported that Emin had become blind. SLINEY 18 GUILTY. Afterbeing out nearly five hours the jury in the case of Michael T. Sliney re-entered the court with a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Most of the friends of the young man and those of his victim, Bob Lyons, whom he killed on November 25th last, with a blow from a butch er's cleaver, remained hovering about the corridors of the big white build ing until late. When it was announced about 11:10 o'clock that the jury had come to a decision there was a general scurry for seats, and the court was soon filled. Some disappointment was evinced when it came out that the jury chad returned for instructions only. BROAD HINT OF TROUBLE FOR JAMES. The foreman asked if they could find Sliney guilty as an accessory. Judge Ingraham promptly replied that by the new addition to the code an accessory was always ranked equally guilty with a principal in such cases. This seemed to satisfy the jurors, and they retired again. The question might have had some bearing on the case of Jim Lyons, now in custody, and the audience kept chatting on this topic until the return of the jury, five minutes after. There was a deep silence as the prisoner took his seat between two court officers, and the roll calling of the jurors seemed tedious. To the usual question Foreman Byron H. Page replied: "We find the prisoner guilty—guilty of murder in the first degree." Sliney, who stood facing the panel, displayed little emotion save winking his eyes rapidly half a dozen timerf, with a sort of sneer on his face, when the words escaped the foreman's lips. His mother and sister Lizzie, who occupied seats in the audience, were terribly affected. Lizzie turned as pale as death, while the mother almost swooned. Some women friends tried to soothe them. Sliney was hurried away to the Tombs. The verdict was received with no other display of feeling. THE LAST DAY'S TRIAL. The incidents of the trial yesterday were highly dramatic. The whole force of the testimony seemed to favor Sliney and go against James Lyons. Assistant District Attorney Wcllman was absent owing to the death of his wife, and his place was taken by Mr. Nicoll. The prisoner's mother testified that Mike called at her house at 4:10 o'clock in the afternoon, and at 4:30 m., hearing that something had happened at Bob Lyons,' she and Mrs. Bridget Brooks went there and saw Bob Lyons dead. Jim Lyons was there. Mrs. Brooks corroborated this testimony. This goes against the alibi set up by James Lyons. Mrs Mary O'Brien testified that at 4:10 m. she saw Mickey Sliney leave the butcher store. Lawyer F. B. House, Sliney's coun sel, testified that he had examined the premises, and it was evident the murder occured in the hallway, "so HELP ME OOD, I DIDN'T!" There was a hush as Mike Sliney took the stand. He said he was in Lyons' store the evening before the murder, and told of Bob Lyons' quar rel with his mother.' On the day of the murder he went to the store about 4:15 o'clock to borrow a dress coat of Bob Lyons. He saw Bob .Lyons with his hand to his neck, which was bleeding, and James Lyon stood near with a cleaver in his hand. Old Mrs. Lyons and red faced man were also present. The man shouted, "Cheese it, Jim, there's Mickey Sliney." Sliney ran away without saying anything. At Cath arine street lie was overtaken by James Lyons, who told him "to say nothing about what he had seen and he would give him $5,000. "Now, Mickey," said Mr. House, picking up the cleaver, "did you strike the 'blow which caused Bob Lyons' death?" "Sohelp me God, I didn't," replied Sliney. MICKEY'S WONDROUS NERVE. Mr. House gave the cleaver to Sli ney and told him to explain how he had been handling it when the little girl, Nellie Burke, saw him a short time before the murder. Sliney ran his hand over the edge of the cleaver and placed it on the stenographer's desk tin the position he held it in Lyon's store. His hand never trem bled. Sliney said that the first confession lie made to Inspector Byrnes, in which he accused James Lyons of the murder, was true. The second was false, and was made on the promise of Jim Lyon that he would see that Sliney got out of prison and that his lawyers should be paid. He thought his neighbors would despise liim if lie told what he had seen. Cross examination by Mr. Nicoll did not shake liis testimony. Several days ago George Perdue, residing nine miles south of Munice, Ind., found a complete set of dies for making counterfeit ten-dollar gold pieces. As no gold of this denomina tion has been put in circulation in this locality it is supposed the finding of the outfit caused the gang to seek pastures new, but today another far mer living on an adjoining farm to Perdue's, by the name of Turner, found under his corn crib a peck measure of nickels, that were made principally of lead and another soft alloy. As counterfeit nickels have been freely circulated here recently it is supposed the manufacture of them has been carried on quite extensively near where the dies were found. Wf SPSS' safe Convicted of Murder in the First Degree After Fire Long Hours. He Killed Bob Lyons With Blow From a Butcher's Sharp Cleaver. sS% "So Help Me God, I Didn't," He Cries From the ..Witness Box. *S.«i & j^s ft dfe 'mm AFTER AN HEIRESS. Mr. Megler's proposals of marriage to women all over the country have been, without exception, mailed from Portland, Ore. Monday he returned to New York, his native city and, while he has abandoned fortune hunt ing, he thinks that he lias not been treated quite right by Mrs. W. H. Vanderbi.lt, one of whose eighteen grandchildren he was ambitious to marry. In speaking of his unprofitable cor respondence with Mrs. Vanderbilt Megler told me that he considered that he stood as good a chance as any body to wed one of the eighteen grandchildren, and that on account of being a New Yorker he was entitled to considerable attention. Megler fished out of his trunk an account book in which was written in pencil copies of letters he had addressed to wealthy men and women, informing them that he was in the field hunting for a rich wife. This is what HE WROTE TO HELEN GOULD. oDear Miss I have gone into the matrimoni.il market and have your name in my catalogue. Should this information commend your fancy, write me at once. Yours [Signed.] JosErn M. MEOLER. Megler wrote to Miss Jennie Flood, daughter of the late James C. Flood, in a similar vein and also made inquiry from John Jacob Astor and Charles Crocker, the San Francisco millionaire, if they had any unmar ried daughters. Megler told me that Mr. Crocker, while on a visit to Port land, made inquiry about him at the store where he was employed. Another letter in Megler's book was directed to Miss Clothilde Palms, daughter of the late Francis Palms, a Detroit millionaire. Megler told me in conclusion that he used to believe that he was destined to be wealthy, because many years ago before he went west Jay Gould winked at him one night in the Grand opera house. Although Megler has abandoned his fortune hunting, he reads the news papers carefully every day in the hope of getting information about the object of his former epistolary pursuits. "Fresh I'opcorn Hero." Chicago Times: Popcorn is expected to yield a revenue to the Exposition company of $217,000. This estimate may seem exorbitant, but it is made by Secretary Crawford, of the ways and means committee, and is doubt less correct. Mr. Crawford has based his figures on the receipts .from this concession of the centennial.' In 1876 there were over 8,000,000 admissions to the grounds at Philadelphia. Of those who entered the gates one in four purchased popcorn. The gross receipts were about $100,000. The popcorn habit lias grown upon the public as the years have gone past, and more than one in four will purchase next year. But in order that no overestimate may be made, Mr. Crawford has clung to the old figures. It is estimated that .at least 28,000,000 individuals will enter the world's fair gates next year, and that 7,000,000 will spend 5 cents each for popcorn. If these figures are correct, $350,000 will be expended for popcorn by those who visit the fair. Yesterday the privilege of selling popcorn was voted to the firms of E. R. Nichols & Co. and J. M. Martin & Co., who promise to pay 62 per cent, of the gross receipts. This will net the Exposition company $217,000. A New Railroad. Information has been received at Yankton that Norman W. Gifford, of Chicago, the promoter, who has been to work upon the project of the con struction of a railroad from Yankton, to Norfolk, Neb., has let the contract for grading 30 miles of the road to Michigan railroad contractors. This road will probably be completed and in operation before snow flies. It will afford a southern outlet for all the grain and live stock in the great James river valley and will develop a section of country now traversed only by cast and west lines. The counties and precincts, with Yankton and Norfolk, have raised a bonus of $1,300, 000 and are awaiting eagerly the com pletion of the road. The Rainmaker Made It Rain. The G. A. R. association of south west Minnesota had a most success ful day at their annual encampment held at Fulda. About 200 veterans, 200 sons of veterans and a large number of members of the W. R. C. are in Camp Aldrich, located near the lake alongside a fine grove, where they had about 100 tents. Ex-Gov. McGill delivered an address at the camp (ire. W. A. Ward ascended in a balloon at 7 P. M. and descended by parachute. He gave an exhibition at rainmaking and in less than twenty minutes a heavy shower came .up which lasted two hours and shortened the evening programme for the even ing camp fire. Peter Schaub, a well-to-do gardener of Emerichsville, who has been ill for several weeks, persuaded his wife to make a trip to market. He then went to liis smoke-house, heavily chargcd a double-barreled shotgun, placed the butt end on a barrel, and, lying down upon the floor, he held the business end to his mouth and pulled the trigger with a string. The entire head was blown away from the chin upward. Fragments of his skull and brains were scattered in every direction-. Schaub was aged 57. l3V •"Vt t} -l J\ Luck A Portland, Oregon. Man Has Poor in His Ilont for a Wife. Joseph P. Megler lists tried for seven years to become the husband of some rich woman and has ignominiously failed. Perhaps no other man in the United States has been as persistent in this direction as Mr. Megler has been if so he is entitled to distinct ion in the great army of ecentric per sons. Mx. Megler put his schemes of fortune hunting into operation In 1885 and lias not up to now ceased in his endeavors. "I could not go through the mill again/' he said, sadly, yesterday. "It has ruined my health and has been expensive. I. was prosperous before. I set out to marry for money, and through my persistent endeavors to wed an heiress I have become poor." THE MADff:.WINDS. Southern Minnesota Visited by a Most Destructive and Ter-. rible Storm. Funnel Shaped [Clouds Haze Plainly Seen Those in Its Path. son and iy The Cyclone Started Near Jack Causing Death and Destruction, One of the worst disasters that ever visited southern Minnesota occurred between 5 and 6 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The funnel shaped tornado laid waste scores of homes and sent forty or fifty souls to eternity. Starting near Jackson, on the Southern Minnesota division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road, the funnel-shaped cloud swept eastward and passed four miles south of Minnesota Lake, then took a broad circle and passed away south of Wells. About 5:30 a wind sprung up and off to the west a circling black clood was seen rapidly advancing and demolish ing everything in its course. It passed near Sherburne and it is reported that it struck a district school house, in which were the teacher and eigh teen scholars, demolishing the build ing and killing sixteen, including the teacher. At Easton three buildings were destroyed and several people injured.. At Lyndon, one family, man, .wife, and child, were "killed and others injured. Four miles south of Minnesota Lake farm houses and other buildings were demolished and four people killed. The body of John Brown, one of the victims, was taken to Minne sota Lake next morning. His wife, hired man and a school teacher were aiso injured. It is reported that forty or fifty were killed south and west of Wells. It is expected that later reports will increase rather than diminish the extent of damage as well as loss of life. The house of the Bohemian family at Bowen Mills, near Minnesota Lake, was blown entirely away, and the family,man wifeand six children spent the night in the rain without shelter. At Wells a section man received a terrible injury in the breast from a flying board. The air was sojclose it was stifling and seemed like gas and everywhere was filled with a white haze. All along the line of the C. M. & St. P. R'y, from Jackson to Minnesota Lake the scene is one of devastation. Wires have been down all forenoon. On account of the debris on the tracks the train to Wells got no further than Maplcton last night and the morning train was fouf hours late. Telegraph poles and trees were blown over. Owing to a washout at Blakcly, on the Omaha road, last night's passen ger train from the Twin Cities has not yet arrived. This morning's train from Sioux City was held at Kasota to wait repairs on the track. A washout at Rochester, on the Northwestern road, delayed the morning passenger train fror^ the East. Several section hands between Wells and Minnesota Lake were in jured. A farmer named John Brown was killed, and his wife and hired man injured. MANT HEARTRENDING SCENES occurred during the cold rain that beat upon the unprotected, homeless ones throughout the night. A dispatch from Mankato says that it was the worst tornado, followed by a terrific electrical storm, that was ever witnessed. The first damage was at R. W. Sherin's. It demolished a log house, in which were Mrs. Mat Nagle and child. It took the child in a baby carriage some distance, not hurting it. Mrs. Nagle was landed in a tree some distance away also without injury. It then went west to R. Hewey's, where it took a house and completely tore it to pieces. Here it evidently split and the west wing passed to the south to Critton Sut ton's place and took the roof off his barn. It then struck northwest to Henry Adams' house, taking the kitchen about four rods south and landing it right side up. The bal ance of the house was torn to pieces. It then came directly east, passing about three-fourths of a mile north ofthiscity and unroofed T. School's house and destroyed his windmill, and then passed east and disappeared. The next heard of it was from Wells, where considerable damage was done and a number killed. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. It is thought that the storm origin ated in Jackson county, and swept cast until it divided at Easton. The most of the storm went north of Wells. A terrific wind prevailed for about fifteen minutes, but it was a straight wind. With blanched faces the people sought places of safety, the trees bowed to the ground like demons in torture. The air was filled with flying limbs, and occasionally a tree would fall to the ground. But it was soon over and but little damage was done in Wwn. Lumber was scat tered, sidewalks torn up, Burke's wind-mill blown down, John Paul Lumber Company's new buildings racked out of shape, the front of Bruder's saloon smashed, etc. Within an hour reports of death and disaster began to pour in from the country. A team brought in a young man named Herman Beammer, who lived southwest of town about a mile and a half. He was found by Henry Brandt and Max Bruder under a house which had been moved some ten rods and wrecked. His injuries were fatal and he died. In company with Drs. Gundlach and Fellows and William Domes, a correspondent drove to the residence of August Ganzkow, north of Wells. field hospital had been established there, the injured people in the immediate neighborhood having been picked up and brought there. The sight was an awful one. The doctors began work. A small boy with a ter 3S& B? ~£C Charles Melchert had a fine new house and had recently bought new furniture. It is amass of ruins, noth ing saved. Horses, cattle and other stock were killed, machinery was blown away and lodged in trees and other unheard of places. John Brown, who lived five miles northwest of town, lies dead at Min nesota Lake. He was picked up and taken to that place by the passenger train last night. It is reported that a school teacher and one of Brown's girls were picked up and carried half a mile. Both are injured, but are still alive. The Largest "Flume." Tlie flnme which convoys the water from the niouulnius to the reservoir at San Diego, Cal., is said, by those who know whereof they speak, to be the largest and longest thing of the kind in the world. It is thirty-five miles long and is composed almost wholly of redwood. In its course this monster flue crosses 215 streams and canons on trestles, the longest of which is 1,700 feet and 85 feet high. In con structing this trestle 250,000 feet of boards and timber were used. It is known as the Los Cochos trestle. The Sweetwater trestle, the second-longest, is 1,200 feet long and 85 feet high. The timbers H6ed in them were nut together on the ground and raised to their present position by horse-power. Besides its many trestles this flume passes through eight tunnels, the longest of these being 2,100 feet in length. The tunnels are each 6x6 feet in size, with convexetl roofs. Each mile of the flume required on an average 250,000 feet of lumber and timber of all kinds, that used in con structing the water-box itself being redwood two inches thick. Building a water-tight box thirty five miles long over fatnomless chasms and through the hearts of mountains is a gigantic undertaking, which many believed could never be accomplished. The result has proved different.—St. Louis Republic. Food at the North Pole. There is no trouble about living in the polar regions except lack of food supply. No danger exists that the provisions once placed would be dis turbed. Among the people who dwell in those frozen regions a cache is sa cred. Nothing short of starvation will compel a native to interfere with one, and even in such a case he leaves pay ment behind him for what he takes. Snow shoes and extra clothing are hung up in the open air in summer, and are as safe as the accoutrements which city persons "hang up" at their uncle's during the warm season. Seal oil is buried in the ground in bags of skin. Meat is heaped upon platforms built among trees, which are peeled of bark in order to keep bears from climbing up to them. Little sticks with sharp points upward are buried in the ice to distract the atten sioir of the bears from the provisions overhead. Another kind of cache is in the shape of a strong pen, the main supports of which are standing trees, with brush and longs piled on top to keep out wild animals. During the salmon catching season in arctic Al aska the heads of the fish are cut oil and put into a hole in the ground. When they are half putrefied they arc dug up and eaten, being esteemed a great delicacy. Leprosy In Spain. Leprosy is increasing at an alarming rate in Spain. From Alcanta it is re ported that several villages are afiliet ed with the terrible malady. In Heni dorm there are eight families every member of which is a leper. At Gata the number of lepers is so fjreat that a hospital is to be built for them, and at other points the plague is increasing in a frightful manner and the doctors are unable to cope with it. The oldest spoon in the world be longs to George A. Warren of Indian apolis. It is 229 years old and was brought from Ensrlaud. The average life of a tradesman about two-thirds that of a farmer. VaSW"^ Jv^-v "a V,^ .«• v5hf $* I S^V1"^ rible scalp wound several inches in length was attended to. Then came another boy with a broken leg. Both children belonged to the family of Albert Klingbeil. The injured in the family of Charles Melchert were a young lady with a broken arm, a small boy with a broken leg, and a girl aged about 14, bruised and hurt internally. The latter will probably die. Mr. Melchert was also bruised. Mrs. Henry Melchert, with her little sister, was upstairs when the storm struck. She felt the house going and grabbed her sister. They landed in the yard. The next thing Mrs. Melchert remembers she was in a grove, with a tree across her side. She crawled out and clung to a stump with one hand and to the little girl with the other. Mrs. Melchert was seriously hurt, but the little girl sus tained no injuries. But few passed through the terrible ordeal without receiving some injuries. The people seemed hardly to realize the terrible blow that had struck them. The injured moaned with pain, the women sobbed and wrsng their hands in woe, and the men seemed to be stun ned with the weight of alllction rest ing upon them. The storm in this neighborhood was of a regular cyclonic nature. It was a revolving funnel-shaped mass that moved with great rapidity. It was accompanied by rain and darkness. When it struck a house it tore it into splinters. A charge of dynamite placed under a building could not have caused a more complete wreck. What was yesterday fine, large farm buildings are todny a mass of splinters. 13 The 11-year-old son of E. M. Fitch, of Flandreau was found dead in a col lar used for the storage of gasoline. It is supposed that while drawing-the oil he was overcome by the escaping gas. The Mitchell Mail is authority for the statement that the ofiicc of the Dakota Fire and Marine Insurance company of that place is closed. It has been levied on for a judgment of $1,500 in favor of C. II. Dillon. E. A. Rccd of l'lankinton, took a photograph one evening last week at 6:30 p. m. He says in Illinois 4 o'clock was the latest pictures could be taken. Here during the longest days one can see to read as late as 9:30 without a light. Dan Woods, a young -farmer living seven miles northeast of Woonsockct, attempted suicide last week, lie slashed his throat with a razor and stabbed himself with a knife. lie is not expected to live. The cause of the act is unknown, but is supposed to be disapointmcnt in seme love affair. -:%r sSpSlfi "•Hag :v '»S^ J"** /K- -V WIND AND FLOODS. Destruction by the Illinois Cy clone Far Greater Than First Accounts. Several Liives Lost at Galva and the Town Almost Com pletely Wrecked. A Church Blown Down and the Congregation Imprisoned. —Lives Lost in Chicago. George Erickson, arm broken. Mrs. Albert Erickson, injured Inter nally. Mrs. John Erickson, injured on the head. Mrs. H. Anderson, injured intern ally. Mr. and Mrs. N. Yarger, slightly injured. O. M. Hcmstead, hurt about tlw head. E. Dickenson, leg broken. A. Erickson, hurt internally. Ilulda Carlson, leg broken. Nellie Moline, hurt internally. The damage is estimated at $200, 000. Tlie path of the tornado was about four miles wide. AT CHICAGO. Here the storm was more destruc-' tive than first reports indicated. At least seven lives were lost in Chicago and vicinity and fifteen persons were more or less injured, wliiie it will probably take hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair the damage done by the tornado. Following is a correct list of killed and injured. Killed: Gustave Doering, Emma Klimma, John Miclion, Charles J. Roberts, Harvey Stewart, three unknown raeil. A LIST OF THE INJURED: Dave Burns, E. Erickson, injured internally Edward Bouseman, Max Jacobs, Anna Klimma, MagfRic Klim ma, John Lull, will die William Los sea, may die James McGinn, J. J. P, O'Dell, S. Olson, injured internally, may die: Mrs. Annie Paddy, condition critical: Mrs. M. Slattsry, Mrs. Shoal May Wesley. When the storm struck State street its violence seemed to have been at its height. Then it seems to have lost strength as it howled towards the lake. Its greatest force centered be tween Twenty-third and Twenty fifth streets, and the manner in which it twirled and destroyed objects along its path would indicate that it had a rotary motion and was a veritable, though not a highly dangerous .cyclone. It was violent enough, how ever, to tear the roofs off the build ings and send them flying through the air, and to break telegraph poles as if they were pipe stems. While it lasted its path on State street was a scene of intense terror and excite ment and the people between Twen ty-third and Thirtieth streetsevery moment dreaded death, and there was reason for their fear amid the flying bricks and signs and limbs of trees and the crashing of glass and tele graph poles. On the west side of State street every telegraph pole from the one in front of No. 2320 to the one in front of No. 2948 was snapped asunder. A seven-story brick building at 274 West Madison street, was so badly shaken up that it- is Msought it will crumble. A rumor was circulated that some world's fair buildings were damaged, but this proved untrue. Tlie telegraph and telephone poles in ,, the path of the storm were torn down and the wires completely tan gled, completely demoralizing the news service as well as the commer cial business. Not a click of the sounders was heard in the Western Union oflice for a few hours. Line men were sent out immediately, how ever, and the usual prompt ser vice was soon restored It was the worst storm Chicago has experienced in many years. The ruanufacturers'buildingatthe worlds fair was damaged $6,000. The portion of the north end of the building between the center and northwest corner pavilions was blown down and almost entirely ruined. Band Master Klein, «S, A destructive tornado struck Galva, 1 111., at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday. The rjjl storm approached so suddenly that the citizens had no time to reach places of safety. In the Methodist church there was a congregation and in the rink a committee had metto^p arrange for a Fourth of July cclebra- fg tion. The church was quickly a mass of ruins and the congregation impris oned. A number of people were injured. The rink was blown down, but the inmates fortunately escaped without injury. The roar storm was terrible and by midnight darkness carried everything before it. Nearly every business house on the main street was unroofed and much dam age done by water. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy roundhouse was totally wrecked. Barnctt's ele vator was unroofed and 10,000 bushels of grain deluged. The Rock Island elevator and part of the depot went next. The steeple of the Baptist Street church was blown off, hurled into the street and the church badly? damaged. The residence of August' Olson was blown down and Olson killed instantly. Other members of the family escaped miraculously. of thc^ft accompanied The wind ~Cr The town today is in a state of demoralization. Business is sus pended. The streets are filled with debris of every description. Nearly every building in the place is more or less damaged. Considering the wide spread damage it is remarkable that no greater loss of life occurred. The injured are as follows: of Fort passenger at that place, Meade, who is well known all over the Hills, lias been dishonorably discharged from the United States service for acts unbecoming an offlccr and for appropriating for his own use money belonging to the Fort Meade band, of which he was leader. He was also indebted to numerous merchants in Sturgis, but by going to Tilford in a buggy and boarding the 1 Ai east bound he succeeded in eluding them. Gambling was the principal cause of liis downfall. Hon. G. A. Matthews of Brookings, and Miss Bertha Yan Dusen were married at Prentice, Wis., Wednes- day, June 8. Julyl. They will be at home