The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-07-19
WESTERN.

A terrible tragedy was enacted at
Dwight, Ill Andrew White, q wealthy and
well-known farmer, butchered in cold
blood his wife and two children, and then
blew his own brains out A number
of years ago Andrew White was one o
the most prominent property-holders Of
Chicago. and made for himself an i'm
mense fortune with which he retired to q
stock farm near Dwight, where he has lived
most OF the time since His steady atten-
ton to business and the consequent mental
that he lad to be carefully watched by his
family He grew steadily worse and worse,
until his strange freaks were SO un-
bearable that lie had to b. sent to q
private asylum. Here he acquired the
strange and fatal hallucination that his i'm
prisonment was due to desire on the part
of his wife and children to get hold of his
fortune and spendit. Recently, he managed
to secure his rc!ease. through the careless
ness OF his custodians, and speedily. made
his way home. Reaching the house in
the middle OF the night, he watched till
morning when he advanced to the front
stoop and called out to his wife to come down
and welcome him The family. consisting
OF the wife and two children. aged 10 and Is
years, rushed at once towards the porch, re-
ioced to hear the familiar voice. and sup
posing that the husband and father had been
released from the asylum in
the possession OF his faculties.
He allowed each member OF the family to
caress him, and moment after. without the
least agitation. drew from his pocket the re-
volver. and. looking his wife in the face,
said: @You want my money. my fortune,
damn you Take that and he sent q bullet
crashing through her. brain. and she fell
dead on the porch, as he turned and buried
bullets in the brains Of his boy and girl
When he had done this he laid down the re-
volver and gazed upon the fearful deed he
had perpetrated. For a moment the horror
of the act seemed to restore his reason.
and with desperate cry he fell upon the
corpse Of his wife. k ssing it and weeping
over it His hallucination returning
however, he dragged the bodies of the dead
into the dining room and laid them out OH
the table. the wife first the boy next. and
the girl last lie then fired shot into his
own brain
It transpires that Bishop Elder, who
for three years has been Coadjutor Of the
Archdiocese OF Cincinnati, was made admin
istrator ut the request Of Archbishop Pur-
cell, aud by the law OF the church succeed
ed the latter at the moment of his death
He will be invested with the pallium.
A wide section of the West was
visited by fierce storm accompanied by
wind, rain, hail and thunder on the 18th
and 18th Of July. In some localities the
disturbance assumed the proportions Of u
tornado and inflicted immense losses One
wing Of the storm swept down the Missouri
valley, doing much damage ut Kansas
City, st. Joseph and Moberly, Mo- At
4cPaul Iowa, many houses were blown
down and ten persons injured, but fort
unately no one was killed Hail fell as large
~ hens eggs killing live stock. and
cutting the wheat, corn and grass to
pieces At Hamburg. Iowa, brick church
and several frame buildings were
wrecked The front walls of several
business houses fell out into the street Al
Westboro. No ten houses were demolished
and one child killed At Burlington juno
Iion, No.. not . house was left uninjured
and several persons We're injured Mary
ville Maiden and Trenton, Mo-, suffered
severely. churches. public buildings, store
houses and dwellings being demolished OF
unroofed. Near Browning, No, the bag.
gage-car and coach OF Burlington train
were blown completely over by cyclone
Six passengers injured, two of them fatally
The section about lincoln, Neb, suffered
severely by hail, especially the crops, and
some buildings were demolished Contra
and Western Illinois lost considerably 0,
damaged buildings and ruined crops, es
pecial havoc being created about Cordoya
Paxton, Clinton, Carlinville. Gibson
City, and points In Mercer, Logan
and Dewitt counties Scott and Ere
mont counties, in Iowa. suffered great dam
age, the hail in these sections falling Is larg,
ashens' eggs, and laying vegetation nat A
Alton . Methodist Church was unroofed ans
the streets blockaded b, fallen trees Heay,
rain in st. Louis flooded cellars, while tn
wind unroofed structures and release,
river craft from their mooringa