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OLD SOLDIERS HAPPY JtECAVSE OF Tn E PASSAGE OF THE ' DEPEXDEXT PEXSIOX HILL. Full Text of »lie Ult'uiure a» It Went Through the Upper llnutr ........ Who Will Be Benetitteiland to IVhal Extent—Dastardly Outrage» Upon the Bodies of Tornado Yletim». The Dependent Pension Bill. • Washington', April 3.—The full text of the dependent pension bill as it passed the senate is as follows: That in con sidering the pension claims of dependent parents tinder the provisions of this act, the fact of the death of the soldier or sailor and the fact that he left no widow -or minor child or children having been •shown as required by law, it shall be necessary only to show by competent .and sufficient evidence that such parent •or parents are without other means of support than their own labor or the con tributions of others not legally bound for their support; provided that all pen sions allowed to dependent parents tinder this act shall commence from the date of the filing of the application here under, and shall continue no longer than the existence of their dependence. !8ec. 2. That all persons who served three months or more in the military or naval service of the United States dur ing the late war of the rebellion and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, and who are now or may hereafter ho suffering from mental or physical disability, not the result of their own vicious habits, which incapaci tates them from the performance of labor In such a degree as to render them unable to earn a support, and who are dependent on their daily labor or on tlie contributions of others uut legally bound thereto, for their support, shall, upon making due proof of the fact, according to such rules and regu lations as the secretary of the interior may provide, be placed upon the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, -and be entitled t> receive §12 per month; and such pensions shall com mence from the date of the filing of the application in the pension office, af ter the passage of this act. upon the proof that the disability then existed, and shall continue during the existence •of the same. Provided, that persons who are now receiving pensions under -existing laws, or whose claims are pend ing in the pension office, may, by appli •cation to the commissioner of pensions, in such form a< ho may proscribe, show ing themselves entitled thereto, receive the benefits of this acts; and nothing 'herein contained shall bo so construed as to prevent any pensioner thereunder from proscuting h s claim and receiving his pension under any other general or special act; provided, however, that no person shall receive more than one pen sion for the same period; and provided further, that rank in the service shall not be considered in applications filed under this act. Sec. 3. That if any officer or enlisted man who served three months or more in the army or navy of the United States <iuring the late war of the rebellion and w ho was honorably discharged, has died, •or shall hereafter die, leaving a widow, minor child or children under 1(5 years •of age, or in caso there shall be no widow or minor child or children, a de pendent mother or father, as such de pendency is defined under section 1 of this act, such widow, minor child or children, or mother or father, shall be placed upon the pension roll at the rate •established for them by law. without re gard to the cause of deatli of such officer or enlisted man; provided, that the •cause of death of such officer or enlisted man was not, or is not, duo to violation of the civil or military laws or the result ■of vicious habits, and that said widow was married to tho decea»od pensioner prior to tho passage of this act. All pensions granted to widows under this net shall take effect from the date of tho -•death of the husbands of such widows, -but not dating back of tho passage of this act. Sec. 4. That from the date of the pass age of this act the increaso of pensions for minor children shall beat the rate of §4 per month, instead of 82 per month as now provided by law, and in case a minor ■child is insane, idiot or otherwise help less, tho pension shall continue during ■the life of said child or during the period ■of sucli disability. See. 3. That no agent, attorney or other person engaged in preparing, pre senting or prosecuting any claim under the provisions of this act, shall directly ■or Indirectly, contract for, demand, re ceive or retain for such services in pre paring. presenting or prosecuting such •claim, a sum greater than S10, which sum shall be payable only upon the •order of the commissioner tof pen sions by the pension agent making payment of the pension allowed, and any person who shall violate any of tho provisions of this section, or who shall wrongfully withhold from a pen sioner, or claimant, the whole or any part of a pension or claim allowed or due such pensioner or claimant under this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thcro ■of shall, for each and every offenso, be fined not exceeding 8500 or bo impris oned at hard labor not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court. Bobbing of Tornado the Bodies Victims. Louisville, Ky., April 1.—Thieves «nd robbers have been at work since tho night after the tornado swept through Shis city. Numerous bodies havo been robbed, although but fow have been re ported to the police. On Saturday morn ing two ladies of Mr. Barnwell's church went to the parsonage to sec if some sil verware could not be found. The ladies found that the chest in which the silver ware was kept was undamaged, but the »silver was gone. When the body of Mr. Barnwell was recovered It was found «that his watch and chain had been taken *nd his large ring had been taken from the little finger of his left hand. The ■body of John Hamilton was another that was robbed. When found his pockets were turned inside out and his watch nnd chain were gone. Mrs. Hamilton says her husband had -825 in gold when ho left the house. ■One attempt to rob was frustrated ktj the prompt action of John Buckley. The body is that of a boautifui young woman which waa taken Into Buckley's saloon to await identification. Remnant* of wliat hail mco been a hund-imii! lire» limu; in tatters about her burn d and mangled body. A- her tnroat «th. fa 'te tied a boautifui diamond eri s*. Tho tiiief suddenly a pin loose and sta lev, wiio had ru>hed forwaro. promptly knoek her leaped to I and made good •oped and wre ! e I for the on witnessed th net him ;.t ;hi 1 him down, s f' et. droppt ;s OSfilpe. ■d ih Hi. di or The : I the (OM.IU NsniN VI, IMtOl I I IMM.S. In the sciinto on t: e 2»t!i tho hou bill to amend the census act of March was passed. Tho amendment allows specials S3 a day for subsistence when traveling. Mr. Hawley, from the com mittee on military affairs, reported back the house bill authorizing the purchase of 2,500 tents bv tho secretary of war for the use of people driven from their homes in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana by the present floods, and ap propriating §25,000 for tho purpose. The bill passed after some debate. The anti-trust bill was considered but not finally disposed of. The House bill ad mitting Wyoming was ordered printed. In tho house the Wyoming admission biil was again taken up for consideration. Mr. Uuthwaitc of Ohio opposed tho bill, basing bis opposition upon the insuffi ciency of population In the proposed state. At 1 (,'clock the previous ques tion was ordered. Mr. Springer offered three amendmenis which wero all de feated. They provided for another con vention called under authority of the act of congress, providing that there shall be an election in Wyoming on the first Monday in November next for represen tatives to congress and for state and judicial officers, and if the vote is against female suffrage t liât feature shall be eliminated from the constitution, and one strinking out that clause of the con stitution providing for female suffrage inserted. Mr. Breckinridge of Kentucky moved to recommit the bill. Lost. The vote was then taken on the. biil, result ing in Its passage—yeas. 139; nays, 127. Tills was a strict party vote, except that of Mr. Bunnell of Minnesota, who voted with the democrats. Air. Balter of New Y'ork moved to reconsider, and moved to lay that motion on the table. The mo tion to reconsider was tabled by a party vote. In the senate on the 29th the senate bill appropriating S3,738,000 for the im provement of St. Mary's river in Michi] gan and §1,684,000 for the improvement of tho Hay Lake channel, Michigan, passed. The senate bill for the com pletion of the entrance to Galveston harbor (appropriating §6,200.000 in the aggregate, but the expenditures any year are not to exceed § 1 , 000 , 000 ) passed. On motion of VoorUees the senate bill appropriating §14.675 for the purchase of the Capron collection of Japanese works of art, now in the na tional museum, passed. In the discus sion Mr. Halo satirized Mr. Voorhees for bis advocacy of the measure as if it were one in behalf of the farmers whoso depressed condition ha pictured last week. In the house tho army appropriation bill was considered. Air. Morse said the provi sion appropriating §100,000 for the can teens at army posts showed that among tho things to be sold at these canteens wero beer and light wines, and the gov ernment beer saloon was to be connected with the library and reading room, lie protested against this as an outrage against temperaco and tho Christian peo ple of this country. Mr. Morse's amend ment that no alcoholic liquors shall be sold to enlisted men in any canteen was adopted—yeas. 62; nays, 45, many demo crats who wero opposed to the proposi tion voting for it in order that there may be a yea and nay vote. In tho senate on the 31st the depend ent pension bill was taken up, the first question being on Plumb's amendment removing limitations as to arrears of pensions. It was rejected—yeas 9, nays 49. The amendment by Call to include thoso who served in tho Indian wars prior to 1870 was rejocted. Tho amend ment by Vest providing money to meet the appropriation under tho bill be raised by income tax was laid on the table. The amendment by Plumb to pay a pension of §8 per month to all who served ninety days in tlio late war, who aro 62 years old or as they attain that age, was rejected—19 to 39, The bill then passed—yeas 42, nays 12; Intlio house a resolution was adopt ed, calling on the secretary of state for information showing what changes havo been made by foreign countries since 1879 in rates of duties impo-ed on bread stuffs, and what laws have been enacted or regulations made in such countries since that date,obstructing, prohibiting, or in any manner interfering with the importation or sale of such articles. Henderson of Iowa presented a confer ence report on the urgent deficiency bill, and it was agreed to. The army appropriation bill was considered. The action of tho committee in adopting tho amendment providing no intoxicat ing liquors can be sold in any "can teen." was reversed by tho house. The bill then passed. In the senate on tho 1st tho house bill authorizing tho Mississippi river com mission to purchase or hire such boats as may be immediately necessary to res cue the inhabitants of the overflowed districts and to use tho boats for that purpose was laid before tho senate and passed immediately. Among the bills reported from committees aud placed on the calondar was one directing tho sec retary of agriculture to cause to be made all the necessary Held examinations, sur veys and experiments with reference to irrigation by the overflow waters between 97 deg. west longitude and the foot bills of the Rocky mountains. In the house On motion of Mr. Payson of Illinois, the senate bill was passed, creating the offices of surveyor-general in North and South Dakota. The bill passed exempt ing from the provisions Of tho law re quiring steamers to carry lifelines, stoutners plying in waters of the United Slates, The bill passed authorizing the construction of a bridge across tho Iowa river at or near Wapello. Iowa. Also a bill transferring from Galena, Ills., to Dubuque, la., the office of inspector of hulls and boilers. The national zoolog ical park bill, providing for a park in the District of CBumbia, passed. The naval appropriations bill was reported and placed on the calendar. Nicholas Cadtwcll,vicar-general of the archdiocese of Philddelphla, has been Invested with his robes of rank as a monsignor of the first rank, or domestic prelate of the pope's household, to which digulty be was recently raised by Popo Leo XilL TORN BY A TORNADO • nrii.mxiis /;//. ,iv/).svi/ l. v nr.MOLisni: I ■• s r I v : - a Lo-.ilisvlllr VnflV-i-» OiiimiI til" t|„»s I)!-., »»troll» Monn» in Iler lii-tnr) tu tlimdriwl People Killed and a» Ylanj .'lore Wounded, Sonic of 'I lient Tloi— tally- .Billion» ot Dollar» Worth of Property Utterly Wiped Out The Fearful Stormelotid. Denfh ami De»trHetlon In Lori'Yii.i.K. Kv.. March ■.". .nnisvllle, nado which »irn entered the mi K ighteenth >lr i blocks diagonal! line to Seventh building in its ia-t rk tins cit tvheastc ru ■i and s\m y reach in street, leveling 1 ath. probabiy a patu live in a ragged 500 a houses, Rough estimates put the killed at 500, with thousands injured. Tho city is tilled with a crazed mass of people wildly seeking friends. A large force of men is at work on the ruins and about a hundred bodies have been recovered. The building on Main street from Eighth to Fourteenth streets are in ruins, not one of the handsome wholesale houses being left, and all tho tobacco warehouses wero swept away on M arket street. Falls City Hal!, a 4-story building, was blown down while several Masonic and Knights of Honor lodges wero in session, and 100men ami women wero buried in tho ruins. Every other house on Market.,lefferson and Walnut steeets, from Tenth to Sixteenth streets, is in ruins. Parkland, a suburb, is swept away. At the foot of Seventh street, the Chesnpsako & Ohio train for Washing ton was just starting out, filled with passengers. The building was prostra ted, crushing in on tho train. All tho passengers wero rescued, except one newsboy, Every building, tree and tel egraph-pole in tlie district struck, was leveled. The district laid waste compri ses an area of three miles long and nearly a half milo wide. Fifteen unidentified bodies are lying in a heap at Falls City hall and other places all over the city. Many bodies were carried away by friends and are Impossible to reach. The cyclone crossed the river, striking Jeffersonville, I mi., badly wrecking Front street along the river front, but no lives were lost. Hundreds of wounded have been taken to their homes and the hospitals. AH the physicians of the city arc engaged in attending them. Probably tho greatest loss of life oc curred at Falls City hall, which was in the center of the tornado. In the lower rooms of the hall wore fifty or seventy five children with their mothers anil other relatives taking dancing lessons. There were at least 125 persons on tho lower floor and seventy-five moro among the lodge meetings on tho tipper floor when the terrible wind swooped down on the building* The entire structure, in less than five minutes was a shapeless mass of brick and mortar, burying 200 people of which number fow escaped un injured. As night closes in its folds the devas tated city of Louisville, scores of widows and orphans are bowed down with the weight of deepest grief. Wreck and ruin have settled down in its very midst and the spectres of the dead, whose fu neral-pyres are heaps of bricks and mortar, seem to rise up and enshroud in the awful halo of their presence the en tire city. Bands of brave rescuers continue to work, but rs the night comes on they seem to work more silently, though no less arduously. Each remnant of the piles of wreckage is lifted up with the anticipation of uncovering to view the lifeless form of some human victim of tho storm, but there is no time to con sider the dead, for the living may yet be buried beneath tho mountains or debris, aud they turn and delve again with re newed energy. As tho night grows darker the, work becomes more awful. Even the advant age of light and its fear dispelling quali ties are denied them, for all the eloctric light wires wero torn down by the storm and left the city enshrouded in deepest gloom. It grows so dark In the shadows of tho crumbling walls that stand still as silent sentinels over the dead that every object with tho semblance of human form must be grasped to prove it flesh or stone. Still tho untiring and strong hearted workers continue to dig in the merciless storm-mode graves of tho dead. There is no estimating the number of thoso who lie buried in the debris. Peo ple are still learning of missing members of their families and mother and fathers stand wildly gazing on the ruins and calling oil the Almighty to deliver to them at least their dead. Hardened hearts moved with deep sympathy and idle men dug into the dirt and grime. Tho streets are thronged with a mul titude of sorrowing people. They stand upon tho corners with toar-dimmed eyes solemnly discussing the dreadful catas trophe or move from one point of tho wrecked district to another gazing at tho scenes of ruin. There are at least a hundred families homeless iu the streets that wore happy yesterday in the pos session of their homes. Tonight the relief committee prepared tho following authoritative statement, which was furnished to tho associated press: "To the People—The calamity that has overtaken tho city of Louisville by tho cyclone last night, spread ovor a ter ritory covering a space of ground some 400 yares wide and three miles in length through the business and residence por tion of the city. The loss of life is in tho neighborhood, it is believed, of some 70 persons, and the loss to the city in the dantago to houses and goods is be lieved to bo § 2 , 000 , 000 . While the ca lamity is a great ono, our citizens feel able to cope with it and are not cast down, but will at once proceed to repair and resume business iu the channels now interrupted. In all other portions of the city business will be resumed." Late to-night the streets, lit onlv here and t lero >y gas »amps, present a ( lsmal appearance. At the street intersections pace to and fro armed militiamen, who keep back the crowds who otherwise would hamper tho workmen searching for the dead. The majority of these crowds, however, have dispersed, espec ially the women, wiho formed the larger number of the spectators all day. Here and there along the residence streets within the track of tho tornado or near it shine gas lights through windows front which the glass has been shattered, while within may be seen blazing fires heaped up to keep out the cool night air. The less fortunate ones that have no roof a • itr:> and :i The -va -I « T . : t : | * a \ : •• ». hrn — ii th«- m' un.t u il The Lime pi * ii.iar. >y., .John*: * <*hur ch n a> cc Oil p:c! « iy w r*' • ked, j the t re s in tin* p arts u •>: o«>t- *i, . The fount; tins 1; lid flat ami th i • * very mud i from the M rents ra ked l.l ) and da - • : a train *t th* ■ w ice i hou** •s and w a! Tin» t orna»; the mi* id " of the j I.ouN v i i i < • r .i 1 w ht : ; ' d ! n ir ■ - ami T Wi\ft | . - • •• - III,' « O 1 UtdlW est • >r m»r. !i •avin^ : t h** nor tii and »OUI li ends , intact . I? i noks as i f an im mens • n coot) ! had hi rmn ta ken out. * • f t he n iiddle. Tho track of th «• tornade > ended at Tw : street nil .1 oiTorson. and \vi die ill* 1 ■ de- * struct ion h<; •tween K e\ eut h ami Tw 1*1 f t li was t* *rrin » *. til«' bln* i*U 1 etw e 1 ■ n Tw elfttl | ami T hit-lei nth was i in:a* t ;. excel» : an union fe.i i K •use or two bi'Gtios tho rad way buililin ir. All sorts i of storio: s are all oat as t* n> the ! mini bur of lives ios l at Fa lis City hah. Si mu* wire saving tl »at 75 bodies w* re tak on out. Tho A ssociate «i press 1 re- 1 porteis, aft er a car efui '"a rch ton iixht, j however, can timl trace of no more than 45 bodies taken out. One of tlie most desnlated-iooking see suiut of tho (lc»o!nteil district, is Chapel street, a narrow thoroughfare, one block In length, extending from Main to Market streets, between Tenth and Eleventh streets. .Not a house front ing ou it but is torn to fragments, and the debris lies on both sides, so there is scarcely room to pass through the centre of tho street. Strange as it may seem, notwithstanding the terrili • force of the wind and the air being ikied with Hying missiles of every description, the mem bers of but one family on this street wero injured to any serious extent. : in •nre \n tl-AIullopoly ltc|iiil»llcaiiH of bra»k» Killer l , roli»l. Lincoln, N'eb., March 29.—An formal meeting of republicans, n seating various sections of tlie state, was hold here and tlie following address re ported by a committee consisting of Messrs. 1). M. Nettleton of Clay county. Charles II. Keckleyof York county, Wil liam Loose of Seward county, J. R. Sutherland ot Burt county and J. R. Bal lard of Fillmore county was unanimous ly adopted and given to tlie public press: "To tho republican voters of Ne braska: Feeling that tlie time has come when an earnest protest should be made against tho domination of corporate power in tlie republican party, wc desire to protest against tlie exorbitant freight rates now charged in our state. Our re publican platform contains pledges to the people that a reduction on local freigilt rates shall be made, which promise remains unredeemed. The railroad corporations have for years con trolled our republican conventions; our legislatures and tho oftleers'of our state. Not to specify instances, but only to illustrate our meaning, wo havo but to refer to tlie statu convention of 1889 at Hastings, where the railroad managers, by tlie aid of 286 proxies, made good their threat and defeated Judge Reese for a renomination as judge of tlie su preme court, and when tlie treasurer of the Burlington & Missouri company, tho railroad attorney,tho division-super intendents, roadmasters and sect on bosses, by passes and other means, in duced many county delegations to violate tho instructions of their county conven tions in favor of Judge Reese. A part of tlie earnings of tho railroads are be ing utilized to subsidize the public press. All of theso outrages and many more are well-known to the people of our state, and wo ask you in the name of an outraged party to rally once more fur relief and your republican caucuses and primaries, and wrest from tlie hands of tlie paid attorneys of tho corporations the powers they havo usurped and used for your oppression. As all power resides with the people, wo call upon you to cxerci.-o it through your caucuses and primaries in selecting members to the legislature who will be free from tiie control of hired lobbyists and corpora tion attorneys, to the end that these ex isting evils may be remedied and tlie masses of the republican party may have all tlie opportunity to learn tlie charac ter and examine tiie record of such per sons who may be nominated for office. \Ve demand from tlie state central com mittee an early state convention, not later than the second Tuesday in Au gust, 1890, and that no proxies be admitted, but that the members of the delegations present bo permitted to east tlie vote of absent delegates. AVe most respectfully urge upon you to send dele gates from your counties to meet in mass convention in Lincoln on the third Tuesday in May, 1890. at 7:30 p. m.. to devise the best method of giving effect to these principles.". He Arm Die In Jail. Wheeling, W. Va., April 3.—A most remarkable case lias come to light in Washington county, Pa., just across tiie West Virginia line. John Gregg. an old farmer with peculiar religious opin ons, was about three years ago appointed ad ministrator of the estate of a deceased friend. A will bad boon made disposing of the real estate, and Gregg followed its provisions to tho letter. However, tho will did not cover the personal prop erty, and a near relative claimed it under tlie law. Gregg declared that he knew that tho deceased wanted tho whole of her estate to go to tlie persons named in tho will, and refused to make over tlie personal property to tho other heirs. Tlie case went against him in court, but ho was still obdurate, lie was immediately committed to jail for contempt and lias remained in prison ever since. Gregg says lie cannot con se.ientious.y obey the imirt and lie will die iu jail. Regulate* the Beer Bnelneaa. Washington, April 3.—Senator Stew art to-day introduced a bill regulating tho manufacture, sale and importation of larger beer. For tho purpose of the act lager beer is defiued to be made ex clusively from hop% malt and water. Any other fluid is designated as adulter ated beer. The bill 1 • poses a tax upou brewers and dealers in adulterated lager beer, with heavy penalties for failure to take out license. Ail packages contain ing the beverage shall be branded "adul terated." Adulterated lager beer im ported shall pay the same duty imposed on lager beer. A TUSSLE WITH WIND : m:iLi / r:\ n rtii:st / on n:nn.i: IX .1 ( yrl.ny r. Some ,,f tlie Scene» and Incident» Grow ina Out of the Great Storm in the South The \ntl-'li>ini[iiil) Itc imldli'un» In >ehra»lia I'loicsllna, Again»! (lie Kxliorliitant ltalf»ol the Itallroad» A Wyoming Jljutrrj, Sei ne» and Incident» of tlie L»lll»vll!e Dl«a»ter, I.ot isvn.T.K, Ky.. March 30.—A thrill ing experience of the disastrous st ,rm lo re was that of Mrs. Room' le. who kept a dry goods store at Col gun and Seventeenth streets. At the time of tlie stonu her nephew. Willie Kilimelr, was with her. When the walls began to shake both of them rushed to the front door ju-t as a whirlwind was passing. It gathered iu both of them and carried them into tho air a distance of forty feet. At Maple street they were both hurled against a fence and remained there unconscious until they were found by a neighbor a few minutes later. Tint lady was badly bruised and perhaps hurt internally. Klllmeir's right arm was broken, his ankle sprained and there was a deep ga-li in his throat. At tlie corner of Sixteenth and Maga zine streets one of tlie most horrible in cidents occurred. Three men were caught in the falling timbers of a two story building and burned entirely to a blackened and charred ma of the people in tlie stree: Bud Sullivan. William Be Schi dt. Nick l'hemun in full view They were tier and Ben the owner of tlie building, escaped, badly burned and bruised. It was three hours before tho tiro was stopped and tho wreck cleared ! away enough to get at the three men. | and so charred were thy that their j friends were unable to identify une ! from the other. one woman, between half stilled subs, told how that lier husband iiad paid on that very evening to tho building association the last dollar they owed upon their house and now ail that remains is a confused ina-s of brick and mortar. There are many oilier cases almost parallel to this. Not only wer« the houses dashed to the ground, hut the furniture iu many instances was en tirely destroyed. Hundreds of thou sands of dollars' worth of gi odslay upon the business streets. A thrilling experience was that of George 11. Capito, who was projent at a meeting of tiie Knights of Honor, in the ledge room on the top floor. He says. "Thh first intimation of danger were two distinct rookings of the building, about which time a window was blown from its casings and immediately after Tho plastering began to drop from the ceil ing. A wild rush was made for tho J anteroom, which carried me with it. and I I had just reached tho door when tlie I ! 1 IltlU JHMi rt di IHHl LIU' UUUI >> JlUll LIIC I entire Hi or gavo way and wo were preci pi taiod to tho ba-enjent, blinde! and al- | most suffocated by tho cloud of dust and crushed and jammed by the falling timbers. In some way tho door frame foil with mo and maintained an upright posi tion when it stoppod, and enabled me to extricate myself from tho debris and make my exit to tlie street through tho adjoining nouse, whose doors I kicked I at once returned over tlie ruins, with several men and extinguished tho fire that had begun. By this time tho rain was pouring in torrents. Tho lightning Hashes only gavo momentary v.ews of tho position of the ruins and blinded everybody. The entire building had collapsed in front and rear. Of the east and west sidewalis nothing was standing above tho second story. There wero nearly 100 members present at our lodge meeting. Fully two-thirds of thess were ladies. Besides our lodge, anoth ordor was holding a meeting on the same floor. Bands wore rehearsing on tlie second floor, and a party of decora tors were at work in tho large hall, pre paring for an entertainment. So far I can judge, there were less than a dozen: all told, who gotout unhurt, and tlie cries for help and groans that issued from tho broken and twisted heap was proof that scores were still there, una ble to escape." Jeffersonville was struck by ihe cy clone at S o'clock, it was very distinct ly heard two miles in tiie country where people wondered wliat it meant. Fortu nately not a person was killed in Jeffer sonville. though some wore badly hurt. Scores of business houses and residences were more or less damaged, some stores being nearly demolished. Dozens of people had marvelous escapes from in stant death. it in to A Wyoming mystery. Cheyenne, Wyo., March 31,—In De cember last tlie body of a girl was found by D. L. Enos buried under the floor of a deserted hunter's cabin in an unfre quented part of h is ranch, ou Big Horn river. The body was identified by a number of people as that of a young girl named Edna Wilson, who mysteriously disappeared from her mother's home iu tho Big Horn basin, six months before. Edna's mother, however, said the body was not tiiat of her daughter, and as no other female of the vicinity was missing the mystery of the dead body remained unsolved. There btiing some doubts as to whether tho body was found in Johnson or Fremont county, no official investigation was made of tlie ease until last week, when Coroner Feiser, of Fremont county, with a jury, tried to gain some facts in tiie case to throw some light on the matter. Fur ther digging under the floor of tlie cabin where the body was found resulted in the finding of two more bodies, one that of a white man. the other an Indian woman. The skulis of both wero broken in. An ax» and a miner's pick, evidently with rusty blood stains on them, were also found. Tlie bodies were badly de composed. and had evidently been buried a year. The cabin lias not been occu pied for a number of years. "The Shoshone Falls" are the subject of a descriptive paper by Captain John Codman in the forthcoming April Cen tury, illustrated with two largo engrav ings by Elbridgc and Kingsley. Tho Century has another paper of western scenery in preparation on the Yosemitu Valley Grant, the management aud pro posed extension of which have recently been the subject of much discussiou iu the press. ! | j ! J I Tlie Liquor Qiio.tlon In Iowa. Dks Moines, la., April 3.— Tiie anti prohibition movement within tho repub l.ean party that lias made such headway since the last election culminated in a st-atc t onfcronce here. One hundred and ninety-six delegates, representing twen ty-live counties, wero present, and they stood for several thousand republicans at homo who share their views. Go >rge M. Hubbcll, of Davenport, was elected temporary chairman. He said lie had been a prohibitionist fur a life time, a a I had dono all in his power for a prohibit.on law. lie was ready now to a.-» the legislature for some relief for commun:: ies where prohibition was a failure. Tho usual committees were ap pointed and an adjournment taken till evening. Ex-Governornor Kirkwood sent a let ter, in which lie said: "I'ersonally I atu in favor of local option and high license, with stringent regulation. I favor this policy because I believe it better than the present law. But some of our pro hibition friends say if such a change is made the republican party can never carry an eiectiou m Iowa again. Well, that looks to me very much like an at tempt at bulldozing, and republicans never took kindly to that mode of argu ment. They do not seem to be built that way. This policy has been pursued for some years by extreme prohibitionists in republican states that have not adopted prohibition, and is now threatened here. It lias nut won in tin; pa»t. Tlie letter was received with great applause. The committee on perma nent organization reported at the night session, naming Joseph Collins of Keo kuk for chairman. He uddressod the conference from tlie standpoint of an other prohibitionist who had tried to enforce tho law. and as a republican and a temperance man asked for pro tection against uncontrolled saloons. Hon. A. B. Cummins of Des Moines presented the report of tho committee on resolutions, which was received with great enthusiasm. Tho resolutions deelaro unswerving I allegiance to tiie principles of tho ropub ! Beau party as enunciated iu the Chicago platform, and continue: We recognize tho iiquor traffic as one which requires regulations, but insist that the object of such regulation should be to minimize intemperance and miti gate its evils. Experience in this, as well as other states, lias shown that gen eral prohibition, operating on ail com munities alike, is not adapted either to suppress intemperance or promote mor als, and the experiment should be aban doned and the law so modified that those communities which desire a change shall have the right to determine whether intoxicating liquors shall be sold as a beverage within tliir limits. We are unalterably opposed to any at tempt to introduce into the constitution the doctrine of stato prohibition. The organic law of the state ought not to be encumbered with police regulations of that character. We recognize that the republican party originally gave assent to the policy I " • 3 w # O ' * of prohibition as an experiment only. | a to in but we regret that its announcement will bear tho construction that It has be come one of the doctrines of the party. A political organization lias no just right to bring into declarations of principles new doctrhies unless ono on which sub stantially ail members agree. A largo number of republicans in Iowa aro aud always have been opposed to general prohibition, and if the republican party adheres to its present position upon this question it is manifest that by such ad herence it tends to exclude from mem bership all those who believe the policy fatal to the interests of tho state. We"recognize that there are many ab'o and faithful members of the party who sincerely believe in prohibition,and it would be unjust to defend them by tho announcement of any platform, as we have felt it unjust and unwise to make declarations of our views. Inas much as the meinbors of tlie party aro not agreed upou the subject, there is obviously but one course which tho party can honorably pursue, and that is to rigorously exclude from party plat forms every reference to it, leaving each republican member of the legislature full liberty to act with respect to it, as his judgment may dictate. Theex periment of general prohibition htfk been tried, and, in many portions of tho state, it lias lamentably failed. Tho republican party cannot justify further support, as a party measure. Thoso members of the party holding our views cannot, with favor to themselves, longer lend their aid to the perpetua tion of all tne evils of unlicensed, un restricted and unregulated liquor-sell ing. For these reasons, and in the Interest of morality, business and social order, we ask the general assembly now in ses sion to so amend tho prohibitory liquor law as as give to communities that de sire to act the power, subject to a license to be fixed by the legislature, to regu late the sale of liquors through the me dium of high license, and we insist on such a change In the platform of the re publican party as will enable us to stand upon it, and to assist in restoring the party to supremacy, and hereby pledge ourselves to so work In the future as to attain this object and secure the end sought. A number of addresses were mode, and the chair, before putting the reso lutions, advised the delegates if tho leg islature did not grant the request made to work together till the next conven tion, when they would demand the con cession referred ta A vote was taken, and everybody, del egates and visitors, voted in favor of the resolution. The committee will present the resolutions to the legislature in a few days. iu Will Consult Secretary Blaine. New Youk, April 3.—Among the pas sengers of the steamer Elbe, which ar rived from Bremen yesterday, was Mrs. Catharine McMurdo, who has come from London to have an Interview with (sec retary Blaine. Mrs. McMurdo is the widow of the late Colonel McMurdo, an American who had a contract from the government of Portugal to build a roll ratirood from Delagea to the Transvaal frontier. Portugal took (he ground that the road hod not been completed within the commet time and confiscated the entire plant. The American and British governments bave Insisted on restitution of money invested to tho stockholders and Mrs. McMurdo. The Portuguese government seem* unwilling to eoniplT, hence the widow's Journey to Wgfihlng» ton to consult the secretary st state.