The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-04-16

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/ wofk 81 feconstruciion since the close Q
the war.
4 A f. Wayne dispstch esnys arran4e
4 nentf for the consolidation Of theI owa
Il Illin1lS and Indiana 0tvislons Of tn
/ Amlylcan Genital Railway wsre con
Anuaatld g meeting Of tho board 0
Directors OF the shove divisions In tina
/ city on Saturday. The new organiza
ton Ii to Be called the american Cen
tral RnllwAy." II extends from #
wayne, rs eastern terminus, in airline
!, dtreot.on . Omaha, distance OF about
Ave hsndssd and eighty-flve miles,
shortening the present routs from New
York to Omaha by one hundred and
forty miles. Work will be commences
immediately and pushed forward Us fast
as possible, and its completion will
make one oft greatest railway lines
In America. Judge Thompson, Of Iili-
nois, win b elected President. z.
1 The Director of the Mint Of the
United Srates ct Philadelphia gives no.
tice that he 10 now prepared to ex.
change, on demand, one and two cent
bronze and three and i've cent nickle
copper coins for United States notes OF
drafts on Philadelphia or New York
banks, payable in such notes. All re-
mittances Of notes or drafts should be
addressed 70 the Treasurer. of the
United States Midt, Philadelphia.
On Thursday morning the steamer
Sea Bird, from Manitowoc to Chicago,
with from seventy 70 eighty persons on
board, was burned to the waters edge,
and her entire human freight with two
exceptions, persisted by fire or water
The calamity happened opposite Wau-
kegan, thirty mills south Of Chicago
1t is supposed thedixsster resulted from
. porter throwing overheard bucket
Of ashes and live Goals, which blew inty
the port holes and Immediately ig-
nited the -combustible material stored
on the quarterback. In less than an
hour the boat was = complete ruin, and
all on board had persisted but two. Ma
ny, Were burned TO death in their state
rooms while Others were awakened to
find grave in the freezing waters of
Lake Michigan. Tho boat was six miles
from slore, but all attempts to reach 1t
were rendered futile by the high sea,
and the fact that the machinery soon be-
came useless. One Of the passengers
was savedby lowering himself over the
bow BY Dpe, and clinging to a project
ing timber Of the boat, where he re-
maihed for three hours, enduring the
most excruciasing tortures, when he
was rescued hya passing schooner. The
other person ssved was enabled to get
upon = gang plank and thus keeping
his lhody partly above water, to survive
until picked Hphy HE same vessel. His
hands and feet were terribly frozen
Most Of the woman and children per-
ished Oh the boat, and the men who
threw themselves into the waters OF the
lake, were chilled to desth before they
could make an effort for life. The sur
vivors spoke Of the scenes witnessed by
ti.su. as heing beyoad ali human power
Of description.
On Friday evening, while q congre-
cation OF some 1000 persons were celc-
brating Good Friday services ut st. Ma
rvs Catholic church, Chicago, one of
the supports Of he main floor gave way
causing it 70 sink several inches, yet
without doing any material harm. But
some one seeing the people rise and
not knowing she cause, started the cry
Of "firc!, and Ina moment scene Of
the widest and most inlescribable con-
fusion enssled. In vain the priests tried
to keep order. The whole mass had
become panic-sticken. They crowded
and pushed, and surged hither and
thither, Hike an angry sea. Timid wom-
en- jumped from the galleries on the
heads Of those below, while strong men
bent down and trampled their weaker
When quiet was partially
restored, In was found that three
women had been killed outright, third
fatally injured and eight or ten severely
OF the victims two were
mother and daughter and when found
were clasped in e:lch others embrace.
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nA- The blood shed by tyrants is new
er less utilized than when it is avenged.
The innocent blood Of unoffended me-
groes, and other Unionists, now SO free
~ being shed by the kuklux Kun and
other Southern Democratic rebels, is not
a single drop oft spent In vain and all
will come back in good time to avenge
itself. All such outrages but render
more inflsyiblo the determination Of the
people to have q LISTING and permanent
peace when one comes at all.
Upton NURSERY.
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