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Five Persons Killed, Sixty Injured
and Nearly 800 Buildings Blown
Down in a Missouri Town.

Five Persons Killed, Sixty Injured
and Nearly 800 Buildings Blown
Down in a Missouri Town.
The city of Springfield, in Green county,
Southern Missouri, was the afternoon of
the 4th inst, visited by a destructive cy.
clone, which struck the city from the north.
west.
In less than three minutes from 100 to
2OO houses were blown down, five persons
Killed n fifty wounded, and property
to the amount of $780, 600 blown away or
storm gathered Roadway and swept towards
the east, first demolishing the wooden mills
owned by Lord e. Regain, entailing a loss of
$4,000. The building was of brick. For
tunately. the forty Or more operatives es-
capped with their lives, but several were in
lured Ivy, flying timbers and bricks. Near
me WOODEN works the residence of s. Bart
lett and w. II. Pennell were blown down,
q Mrs. Pennells hip was broken. Mrs.
Mary -. Jackson. who was in q hut, was
also dangerously injured in the back. At
this spot the houses OFF Nj. McDoling, ard
J.. T.. O.Neil were next torn down, and Miss
Sall1e Edmonson, a lady in the O'Nell
house, was instantly killed, and ]. A, Wal.
ter, a carpenter, terribly wounded on
the head. Frank Edmundson, cousin of
the dead girl, had his leg broken. The res
licences Of William Carlos, ]. B. Smith, D.
Whitworth, DR.. Wear, Louis Boland, F.
a. Heoker and Sam Core were blown down,
a. was the new brick Catholic church. Near
bell, where Mrs. Andrews Arnaauees, who
was making a call, was instantly Killed.
The wind hurled the building in all direc.
tons. Several other houses at this point
were wrecked. but fortunately no one was
killed. The cyclone was about a hundred
yards wide until it reached q point named
Brldgeton, when it seemingly spread out to
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The Criminal Record.

In a disturbance at Wakefield, Va, after
the pools close, several fshots were ex.
changed, and R. W. White, a prominent
democrat, was shot fatally. Cause. political
discussion. 1t is thought that W. H. Morris
proprietor Of a hotel at Wakefield, las been
killed. At the time of the disturbance. Nor.
rls, against whom there was some ill feel.
ing, attempted to leave the crowd. when he
was pursued by a mob. Nothing has since
been learned of his whereabouts, and II Is
supposed that after being killed the BODY
wa concealed.
Mrs. Susannah Nelson of Anderson. Ind
started to Nebraska OF. Sept. 6, and has not
since been heard from. she had a large
sum Of money with her. Marshal Ceburn
recently made known to her brothers that
he had found a fire insurance policy Issued
to Mrs. Nelson. IN the woods near Terre
Haute where some time ago the badly mu.
ilated BODY OF M YVES found by 8
hunter. DE claims to have proof that Mrs,
Nelson wal murdered,
The trial Of Stephen Sprice, charged with
embezzling 1877, 900 as executor and trustee
Of the estate of Thomas Richardson, began
In Philadelphia on the 9TH inst. The de.
tense applied for a mere special bill of mar.
ticuiars. The judge said he would consfde,
the matter as the case progressed on the
prosecution. 1t is alleged the defendant
failed to file an account of the estate fl,
fourteen years.
n. Gould of Stone Prairie was assassi.
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three times that width, and thirty-eight
small houses were blown to pieces, and the
eollowing persons injured: Emma Berry,
leg broken; Mrs. Jane Hoffman, arm bro.
en-; Mrs. Atkins, hip injured.
kThes storm seemed to be at its height at
this place, and the houses in some instances
were literally torn to pieces, and in one a
child was carried 200 feet and dropped I'M
injured. In the same house Mrs. W. Dun
lap wac killed, and Mrs. Beeman danger
ously wounded. Mrs. Atkins and j. e.
J~inckenlees were visited by the wind and
blown down, and in one a servant, name
unknown, fatally injured. Passing from
the town, Brookline about ten miles dis
tant. was partially demolished, and ::ten or
fifteen houses destroyed and the inmates
injured, and in of them a Mrs. Hol-
berries was killed. About $50 buildings
were more or less injured. Twenty were
destroyed, and five persons killed during
willnumber at least sixty, the list being in
creased every hour.
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The Next Republican Committee Meeting.
ATcH1soN, Nov. 7.-Col. John A. Martin.
secretary of the National Republican commit
mittee, sent out to-day tho following call:
A meeting OF the Republican National ommitte
will be he'd at the Arlington house. Washington,
d. y: G H. Wednesday Dec; u, 1888. at - o'clock,
holding the next National Republican convention.
The committee will also elect a Chairman, vice
Gov. Marshall jewell, deceased. At a meeting Of
the committee held in Washington on the 18th OF
January last, the following resolution was
adopted:
Resolved; That the call for the next Republic
can Natlonal convention shall be SO broad and
nperal as to unite the corporation without impos-
ing any other tests Of fealty of all citizens who are
IN favor OF ~eleyating and dignifying American
labor, protecting and. extending home industries,
giving Tree popular education to the masses of the
people, securing free suffrage and honest count Of
the ballots, and efectualy protecting all human
rights IN every section Of our common country,
and who are willing to support the nominees of the
convention"
The committee also fixed a basis of representa-
ton in the next National convention. aud manner
Ing order: The Republican National convention
OF 1884 shall consist of four delegates at
large LARGE fl, from zach State, and two DELEGATES
large shall be chosen by popular delegate State
conventions. called on not less than twenty days
published notice and held not moro than sixty days
before the time fixed for the meeting of the national
convention. Republicans OF various congressional
districts shall have the option of electing their dele
gates at separate popular delegate conventions
called on similar notice and held In districts at any
time within fifteen days next prior to the meeting
of the State convention, or by subdivisions of State
conventions into district conventions; and such
delegates shall be chosen in the latter method, II
not elected previous to the meeting of the State
conventions, all district delegates to be accorded by
the officers of such district convention. Two dele
gates shall be allowed from each territory and from
tho District of Columbia, similarly chosen. Notices
OF contests shall be given to the national committee,
accompanied by full printed statements of grounds
Of contest, which also shall be made public; and
preference in the order of hearing and determining
contests shall be given by the convention according
to dates Of the reception of such notices and state
ments by the national committee. full attend.
ance Of members Is earnestly requested.
(Signed) J. A. MARTIN. Secretary.
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Ryan and slade to Fight.

Another prize fight is announced. This
time Ryan and Slade are to be the contest.
ants. The proposed fight grew out of an
offer of R. K.Fox ofNew York to back Ry-
an in a mill with the Maori. Fox has posted
$500 and proposes that the fight shall be for
So, 500 a side. at catch weights with bare
knuckles, and for the championship of
America. The present intention is to have
the battle ground within q hundred miles Of
New Orleans or Omaha. The date will be
some time in February or March. Slade
will be backed by Sullivan and AL. Smith.
Sullivan, in a private letter written to a
friend in New York, says that Ryan is moth
ing but a big blowhard, and that he (sulli.
van) is ready to whip MIN with gloves any,
where at twenty-four hours notice. Sulli-
vans opinion is the same as that formed by
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LATE MARKET REPOR T.
ST. PAUL.

ST. PAUL.
WHEAT-The week opens with the market steady
1t about Saturdays quotations, tie growing
strength of the outside market still encouraging
holders to maintain their extreme position. not
withstanding the freer movement of wheat in the
country. For spot No. ! hard, a buying offer Of
$l.O1 was made: for December, Sl.O2: January,
$l.O3: May. $1.O5. No. 2 hard, 96c bid.
the market is about steady: No. 2 spot. November
and December is held ct 4sc; for No. 3 47c is
asked. The sales of one car of No. 3 at dc and
one car ditto at 46 l2c were recorded.
OATS-The stock OF oats is still very limited, and
the market continues strong. Quotations.: No. 9
mixed, 27!sc was bid, and 2Slac asked: November
31l4c bid. No. . white. 2sc bid and SOC asked.
One car Of No. 2 mixed was sold at 2Siec: l car
No. 8 white at 29c and 2 cars No. 3 white at &c.
MINNEAPOLIS.
CoRN-Dull and nominal; No. 2 was bid for al
47c; year, 46c: condemned, 42946c. ~
OATs-Quiet and steady; holders asked 29c for
S s.; {: sn''s, NO. : m'A''' s'' O'a: 'S'se'so .
BARIE Ss5zG at 5sc for a No; z; extra
No =, $ a, 4s@Sos; ;, No y 3 3 ana n dt rel eet ed ss,aya :,o+,
tons: Patents. $6@6.25: straiehts. s5.25@5.so;
first bakers. $4.5o@5: second bakers, $4,000
@3.ao. Boston quotations are ssfollows Minne-
sofa patents, So O@7 20; %straights. $6.35@6 {. 20;
first bakers, SIS. G0@5. IS: red dog. S .G082.7 rs,
in bags.
MILWAUKEE MARKET-Flour. dull and dropping
Wheat. strong: 94c for November: 96lac fol-
December: 97lec for January: Corn, frmer: No
2. 5O12c; rejected, 5OAc. Oats, higher; No. 2
3O@3Ola: No. 9 white. Sic. Rye. higher; No. !,
SIC; No. 2, SEC. Barley. stronger: No. .. GOO
604c. Provisions steady; mess pork. $lO.55 fol
| November: $11.35 for January. Prime steam lard
$3.50 for November; $40 for January: Butter
firm; 27@29c for creamery; for dairy
Cheese scarce and wanted at l29121ac. Eggs
firm at 23@24c. Receipts-Flour. $4,000 bblsi
wheat, $4,000 bu: barley, 41.OOO bu. Shipments
i Flour, 10000 bbls: wheat, 1000 bu; barley
10000 bu.
CHICAGO ~MAgKET-Flour, quiet aud steady
Wheat opened dull. but closed active. strong ani
higher: November, 96c: December, 7sc;
l.O47s: No. 2 spring, 045sc: No. 8 spring, s2laa
s3c: No. 2 red winter, 81. O9l2c91 .Olle. Corn
nominal. active. and stronger, at 4S1@49c cash
47Bc January; 493a8495sc May. Oats, firm and
fairly active; 2s1sc cash and November; 2sa4e
December: 284c year; 28M@2saAc January
1 2aAc May. RYE, quiet and steady. ut 56c.
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General News GOSSIP.

A gentleman WhO has returned to Chjca-
go from q tour through Western Minnesota
and Central Dakota, says that farmers are
selling but comparatively little wheat out
there as yet, owing to what they deem III
justice on the part of grain operators in the
matter of grading wheat. As it is at pres.
ent, the best hard wheat only grades No 2.
All other wheat grades No 3. The dissatis-
faction on the part of the farmers and the
unsatisfactory low prices affect all kinds of
mercantile business adversely.
Bad feelings has existed between City
Marshal Cannon of Hesrme, Texas and AL.
bert Bishop, a promising young lawyer.
On the morning Of the 9Th, Cannon, pistol
in hand, followed Bishop into q yard, where
the lawyer Unexpectedly produced a doub-
le-barreled shotgun anc perforated Cannon
with tw%enty-nine buckshot, killing him in
stantly. Cannon had been marshal for
four years, during which time he had
killed Two men. BE had a state reputation
lAta meeting of the governor and council
of Massachusetts, George L. Rufin, a col
Orea lawyer, was nominated for Judge of
the Charleston district court. 1t was voted
TO ask the opinion of the supreme court
as to the legality of Mrs. Clara T. Leonard's
membership in the State board OF health,
lOuhCy ouu CuhTlLy.
kellogg, Sawyer& Co., lumber manufactu.
rers OF Kalamazoo, Mich, made assignment
to Edward Byles of Dorr, Mich. Liabilities
are in the neighborhood of $272, 900, and
the assets $485, 600 besides individual prop
erty of $50, 1000 to $4,000.
The celebrated divorce case of John G,
Carpenter versus Elizabeth Carpenter, which
has be en- in the Kansas supreme court since
August, was decided recently in favor O
the plaintiff, the action of the lower cour!
being overruled.
The vote On the proposition to abolish
convict contract labor from the New York
prisons, with but few districts to hear from,
gives a majority of 234, 976 in favor of the
proposition.
Game is plenty north OF Bismarck. r. G
Causey shipped into Bismarck last week,
two Thousand pounds of mountain sheep
black and white tailed deers, aud antelope
from that region.
Muldoon and Whistler met in a wrestling
match in San Francisco on the LIST, and aft
er a fall for each man Whistler's collar bon,
was broken and the match declared a draw
The Connecticut senate will have sixteer
republicans and eight democrats, and tn,
assembly a republican majority Of fifty
seven.
The oyster crop in Long Island Sound il
failure. One firm offers beds, supposed
to be worth $4,000, for S ], 1000.
Kansas has a civil rights bill with a ST., eU
fine for keeping negroes out of cars, hotel
or schools.
The United States had 2l9 failures durins
the week, an increase of t%wenty-four.
A reward of 5000 is offered for the discoy
cry OF Henry Eisen, of Milwaukee.
Senator Morton's statue is to be unveiled
at Indianapolis next month.
Missouri's legislature will stand 100 Dem
ocrats to 25 Republicans.
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Railroad and River News.


A new Office, that of consulting freight
agent is to be created by the Chicago, Mil.
waukee & st. Paul Railway company, and o.
E. Britt, a well known wealthy Milwaukee
grain commission merchant will be APP
pointed to fill it. Mr.. Britt was formerly
connected with the st. Paul management,
and his familiarity with the freight bust
ness combined with his we'll known bust
ness sagacity and his great personal popu-
larity has caused this move by the company.
Land Commissioner Lamborn, of the
Northern Pacific, recently received official
information from thenational capital that
United States Fish Commissioner Baird
would leave in a special car within a day
or two for a trip over the Northern Pacific.
He will take with him 10000 young Ger
man carp for distributing along the road.
can do so by writing to the land department
of the Northern Pacific.
Wausau, Wis, is to have another rail
road. At a mass meeting, held recently
it was practically decided to grant the Chi
cago & Northwestern road the right-of-way
through the county and depot grounds.
to Wausau, about seventy.fv e miles, and
through a fine piece of country. The sur
vey will be made this winter.
The snnual report of the Chicago& Iowa
shows IFS capital stock to be $l,42S,O 600;
bonded debt, 81, $50, $50; floating debt, 1856,
GAL; total liabilities So, s33'246. The length
ofthe road is 104 miles. Its gross earnings
foa the past year were $535, O49; and opera.
ting expenses and taxes, 1892, FOL.
N. @. Thrall, private secretary to the late
general manager of the Northern Pacific,
Cakes during his administration as general
manager.
Two hundred and iorty-six car loads. was
the amount OF wheat shipped recently by
the Manitoba road.
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sonntmauon. Twotn,nes are eeAz1y noucsxn6s-shS
and that It developed strength 10 pr oportion to 10
mort put forth. The leaders Of the Opposition
weeks longer, sothat. they could have carfed tho
war into tho newer sections, they would have
caused the constitntion to BIO showed under. A II
u! will not be very loudly heard from at Washin0-
ton. The following are the approximate maioritiee
by c0untiNA for tho prQpQsad constitntion. -
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Bad Week or Failures.

Bradstreet's Journal furnishes the follow.
lowing: There were 219 failures in the week
ending the 9th, twenty-four o than the
preceding week, and seventy more than the
corresponding week of 1882.
The principal feature of the week has
been the failure in the lumber trade in
Michigan, and the paper trade in illinois
and Wisconsin.
The number of failures in the western
states is the largest, with one exception, for
any single week duringthe past three years.
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PITH OF THE NEWS.
washington News Notes.

1t is understood that Secretary Lincoln
has prepared a review of the facts in regard
to the failure of the Greeley relief expedi
ton, in which he criticises somewhat severe
y the instructions of Gen. Hazen. Gen.
Hazen has also prepared a review of the
facts, in which Lieut.. Darlington is blamed
severely.
Postof6ces discontinued. Wisconsin,
Worthwhile, Marathon county. Special ser.
vice discontinued: Dakota-Cortland to
Roscoe.
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mated the other night. He was riding q
horse when he was shot twice and found
dead. His body was found in the road
the next day. He was a quafrelsome
man, very unpopular with his neighbors
many of whom he had threatened to kill
and carried a revolver in his belt for that
purpose. The person that shot him is un.
known.
DR.. s. 81. Richmond of Pittsburg, Neb.,
arrested for outraging the twelve.year.old
daughter of Ed s. Grensel, has been placed
under bonds Of s., 1000 for his appearance be.
fore the district court. He could not fur
nish bail and is now in Jail.
Stamford the American confidence opera
tor, now in Montreal, is claimed by the
British government for forgeries in ENGLAND,
A New York jeweler has been swindled out
of$2, 500 by Stamford.
Martin O'Connor was arrested in st. Paul
recently, charged with the murder of q
Fairfax, Iowa, rumseller.
George T. Plass, a well. known druggist
of 1850 Broadway, st. Louis, suicided with
morphine.
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A band of $50 horses which had been
stolen from different parties in Nevada
and Idaho, were recovered last week
near Medicine Lodge,
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He Has No Use for His.Cothn.

There is a long, black box at the custom.
house in New York which the authorities
would be very glad to be rid of. 1t is made
of metal covered with black cloth, has
heavy silver mounting, and it is altogether
quite a handsome casket. There is nothing
in it, and it is brand new. What to do with
it bothers the officials. The history of it is
this: W. g. Warnock, a passenger by the
steamer France, was in such q precsrious
condition of health when he left England,
that it was feared he would die on the voy-
age. So he prepared for it before leaving
England. He bought the casket in Liver
pool. 1t cost s24. Fortunately for Nj.
Warnock he did not die during the voyage.
On the contrary he reached New York in
greatly improved health. The casket was
landed with the rest Of Mr.. Warnock's eff
fects. The question 10 be decided is wheth-
er it was in personal use. Iersonal prop
erty which the owner has had for twelve
months mont or which he has in use, he is en-
titled TO- entry free of duty. but a coffin,
under the peculiar circumstances of the
case, is puzzling the inspectors.
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"Mr. LOWELL" wrote M thew Arnold
in 1882, describes his own nation as
"the most common-schooled aud the
least cultivated in the world" They
strike foreigners in thesame way. Smart
they are, as all the world knows; but
their smartncss is unhappily quite com.
patible with q hard intelligence"
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The majority, Tor the constitution may therefore
1erstood. however, that these fgurea am merely
s.timates carefully made from the returns that
1aye thus far come in. The counties Of Codington
,ddered 90 nearly equally divided that they have NOT
6een PIT IN either column Of the above table. It IL
lh9u z ne total vote will range between $4,000
yotes cast probably one-third opposed the cousd-
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constitution and IS against 1t. Two precincts did
not vote on the constitution.
Parker-Turner county gives 425 for the consti-
tuition and 134 against, with one very small pre-.
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WISCONSIN CAPITOL.

The Second Floor aud South Wall of
the Capitol Extension at Madison
Tumble Down.-Four Men Killed
and a Score Wounded-An Arch
%itectural Blunder Evidently the
Cause.
A fiightful accident occurred on Thurs.
Cay afternoon, at Madison, Wisconsin when
nearly the entire second story of the south
wall fthe south wing of the capitol ex.
tension fell with a crash, followed immedi-
etely by the entire roof of the structure.
The wing was 100 feet long, 80 feet wide and
SO feet high, of solid stone and fire proof.
All h external work on it had been COM
pleted with the exception of small por-
ton OF lining upon the roof, a gang of men
being employed at the time of the accident
upon this work. The terrific and awful crash
was heard in the remotest portion of the
CT y and fairly made the earth tremble.
Thous .nds OF excited people Immediately
rushed to tie scene of the disaster,
from which a great cloud CT dust aross
and groans could be heard Issuing
from sn within the broken walls,
of body endeavoreo 10 call
assistance to themselves from without the
building. Two men could be seen 70 ty
feet from the ground waving their hands
wildly for aid, while they hung head down.
ward and unable to move their legs, which
were crushed securely between heavy TIM
bers. About fifty men were working upon
the wing at the time of the casualty, and
after all the dead and injured that could be
found had been removed from tie debris,
contractor Nolan got his men together and
called the roll, which showed that all were
accounted for. when the search was aban-
doned. The following is a list of the killed:
Bsri ard Higgins, laborer, fifty years old,
M alison.
William Edgar, mason, Madison; buriea
u der the debris and horribly crushed.
Micheal Zwank, mason, Madison; died
af er being taken out.
William G.. Jones, mason, milwaukee:
skull fractured; died sincs taken out.
Appearances indicate that the whole
u OF the accident is attributable to the
second story balcony pillars, which were
directly al the center of the south wing,
sinking in the wooden planks upon which
they rested. The sagging drew the upper
wall outward, and the whole thing came
down with a crash, followed Immediately
by the crashing in of the entire roof, which
was thus relieved of one of its main
supports. Another theory is that the rain
OF Tuesday ran from the roof upon the wall
which gave away, dampening and weak.
ening it to such an extent that it was un-
able 10 bear the heavy strain of the roof,
aod hence gave way TO il. Still another
theory is that the roof Was not %el!.support-
ing, and spread to such an ex'a1t as to
bulge the wall outward. Oscar Nowlan of
GAINESVILLE, and John Bentley, sheriff of
Milwaukee county, are the contractors,
while d. E Jones of Madison is the alchi-
te,t. Tie extension has been in course of
construction for nearly two years, and was
to have been completed By Jan. 1. The
neighborhood of $50, OeOs and, OF course de.
volving upon the contractor.
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A CARRIED CONSTITUTION.

YANKToN, Special. Nov. S.-The returns on the
sote for the constitution caused great surprise here.
The movers in this enterprise did not expect quite
80 much opposition, nor did they look for that de.
surprise WAS caused by the news from Sioux Falls.
Minnehaha county was considered secure for the
constitution, and the friends of the document would
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The Casualties OF the Week.

VI IN SoNs
William Finn, a brakeman on the
Northern Pacific railroad, had his head
crushed while coupling fiat cars loaded
with railroad iron, at GIyndon on the 5th.
He was dangerously hurt, but able to be
transported to the hospital at Brainerd.
His home is at Henderson.
A gale on the afternoon of the 9th blew
down a four.story building atBuffalo,N Y,
being constructed by Jacob Dodd. Twelve
men were buried in the ruins. The killed
are: Jacob Schoenthal, William Eckert,
Joseph Grodel, all carpenters. John Otto,
laborer; Charles Finter, and seven others
were seriously injured.
George easily, a brakeman on the Mani
toba road, fell from a freight train at Coon
Greek and was instantly killed the wheels
passing ever his head, smashing the top of
his skull completely off.
Abenzine explosion in st. Paul the End
blew Mrs. Hendricks out of doors, with
possibly fatal injuries, ana caused a $500
damage by fire.
Near Newark, Ohio, an engineer Nautilus
and q fireman vas killed by a collision.