Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-05-11
A TERRIBLE CYCLONE PASSES OVER
KANSAS AND TEXAS.
A Great Destruction of Life and
Property.
Texas Railroads Stopped BY the Fury Of
the Storm.
Why the President Signed the Chi
nese Bill.
Some Doubt Whether the Chinese Bill Will
Be Effective.
REUNION OF THE ARMY OF
TENNESSEE.

ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
Parsons (Kan.), May 1O.-A terrible
cyclone passed over the McAllister mining
settlement in the Indian Territory on
Monday night. The destruction OF life
and property was terrible. Seven people
were killed outright, 4 fatally injured, IL
dangerously, and 80 more or less hurt.
Flfty-nine houses we're totally demolished
and 80 others badly wrecked. The cyclone
cut a path through the timber just as a
scythe would NOV through grass. The
damage to the Usage Coal Company is sx-
~tensive. The population is only 800, and
the suffering is very great.
Mound City, Mo-, was also struck by
cyclone on Monday evening, and things
were terribly torn. The storm was the
worst that over visited that section. Trees
were uprooted, fences Frustrated and crops
damaged. The steeple of the Christian
Church was blown down. Jacob McCann's
house was blown Is feet from its founda-
ions and fearfully wrecked. A carpenter
shop was also lifted from its foundations.
George Trook's house was unroofed and
capsized.
DENIsoN (Texas), May 10.-Great de-
struction is reported in the vicinity OF
Paris, Texas. Two storms met at Meal
lister, and wrought death and destruction
such as only cyclones can. Every build
ing was torn to pieces. A train with ply
s%icians, nurses, and aid generally has been
100. lN~a NIL f.11 II -, -.. ourGo
and was accompanied by a great quantity
Of hail, which fell as far north as Fort
Gibson.
A washout occurred on the NJ. K. & 7.
Railroad, near Armstrong. A locomotive
went down an embankment and the engi-
neer was killed. Travel is generally sus-
pended on most Of the Texas roads, caused
by the fury of the storm.
Marshall and its vicinity was also visited
by a cyclone. Great trees, fine houses,
farm buildings, fences, etc., were torn
dow like toys. The buildings on Tom
Craig's plantation, IL miles from Marshall,
were demoralized and the occupants seri-
ously injured. A negro was killed on
Frank Halls plantation. There were a
number injured, but none killed in Mar
shall.
The President and the Chinese Bill.
WASHINGTON, May lot is stated on
authority that the Chinese bill, by making
the term of suspension ten years, in the
place Of twenty, removed the difficulty
which compelled the President to refuse
his assent to the former measure. There
are some other provisions in the bill
which the President would have shaped
differently had he been a legislator, but
he recognizes that it is not the province
Of the Executive to dictate the form of
legislation, or to refuse assent to a meas
ure because it is not in every respect what
the President would have preferred. The
fourteenth section Of the bill effects nc i'm
portant change in the existing law upon
the subject Of naturalization, the con-
struction Of the statutes having been in
only one case reported in favor Of the ad-
mission Of the Chinese to citizenship. In
regard to section fifteenth, the words Chi.
nese laborer, wherever used in the treaty,
have been construed to mean both skilled
and unskilled labor.
There seems to be a doubt whether the
Chinese bill will be an effective law;
whether, Notwithstanding the prohibition,
the Chinese may not land in the British
possessions or in Mexico, and come in by
land, with little difficulty and little pros
pect of being sent back.
Fitz.JOhn POrter's Case.
New YORK, May lot is expected that
Fitz-John Porter's case will not be brought
up for consideration at this session OF
Congress. The programme is understood
to be to get a report favorable, or other
wise, from the Military Committee of both
Houses at this session, and then to en-
deavor to have the bill pushed through at
the first opportunity next session. Senator
Logan will be back in a few days, and as
the Senate bill is referred to the committee
Of which he is Chairman, he will be likely
to have something to say about it. Gen.
Porter, it is understood, will use the argu-
ment with the Republicans that the bill is
. Republican measure, inasmuch as Gen.
Grant approves it, and President Arthur
has done as much as the law would permit
him to do to secure Porter's restoration to
the army.
Viewers Letter t voorhees,.
CHICAGO, May 10.-Dispatches from
Washington Of the Sd instant stated that
Gen. James B. Weaver of Iowa had writ
ten to Senator Voorhees, proposing a gen.
eral coalition between the Democrats and
Greenbackers. Gen. Weaver c%ontradicts
the story in the following dispatch:
BLOOMFIELD Iowal, May 8.-The pub
lished dispatches concerning ~nnlitical ma.