The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-02-29


alone, and in a few weeks hisbride
made her appearance and was invited
to leave. She has brought suit for de-
sertion, and a hot legal battle Is In
progress.
Leading business men of Canada
gathered at Toronto to protest against
the amalgamation of the Grand Trunk
and Pacific roads. The French con-
servatives in parliament threaten to
vote against the government on the
Pacific railway issue unless the North
Shore road be subsidized to the amount
OF So, 100000. 1t is rumored that two Of
the ministers have resigned.
The miners of Colorado and the Black
Hills are represented as fiocking to the
Occur d'Alene discoveries in Idaho.
Two hundred men have wintered in
the spow-bound valley. The towns of
Eagle and Hayes have been started,
and municipal governments have been
established. No claims can be jumped
until June l. Meals cost 81 and drinks
% cents. Four saw-mills and a tele-
phone line are now under construction
The democratic national committee
met ut Washington Friday noon.
claims Of Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chica-
go, Louisville, st. Louis and Saratoga
as the place to hold the convention. On
the first ballot Chicago had Is votes
and st. Louis IA. The second ballot
gave Chicago 10 and st. Louis II, and
the third ballot brought success to
Chicago. The committee fixed July 8
as the date of the convention. Each
state will have delegates equal to twice
the number of its representatives and
senators in congress.
Neal McKeague. a butcher of Win
netka, was on Friday taken to the Pin
kerton headquarters in Chicago and de-
tanned over night. An indictment for
the murder of James l.. Wilson and
wife was found Saturday morning, and
the accused was transferred to the
county Jail. He refuses to be inter-
viewed in relation to the crime. Neal
McKeague, ST., of ThOrold, Ontario,
visited his son in the Chicago jail Sun
day, and after an interview Of an hour
expressed the utmost confidence in the
young mans innocence of the Wilson
murder
Near Uniontown, Pa, on Wednesday
occurred one of the most terrific eXplO-
sions ever known in the coal regions.
While the men were digging, suddenly,
without warning, there occurred an
explosion which convulsed the mine in
every apartment and threw the men in
to the utmost CONSERVATION. The scene
of the explosion was in one of the
apartments fully eight hundred feet
distant from the bottom of the shaft,
and therefore about twelve hun
dred feet from the surface opening,
yet the report was heard for long dis
lance on the outside, and caused such
jar that the top of the derrick, 100 feet
high, was knocked off. Two mules
were standing at the bottom of the
shaft, eight hundred feet from the
place of the explosion, and the rush of
air blew one of them through the wood
en- cage, SCATTERING it to pieces. Nine
teen miners were instantly killed.
The book of disasters of the cyclone
swept States-Alabama, Georgia, and
the Carolinas-is about made up. Full
reports have been almost impossible,
as the wires were down in all directions.
Much of the devastated section is off
the line of communication. The ex-
tent of the disaster and the appalling
loss of life and property were hardly
realized before. The cyclone, coming
from Georgia to Alabama, split before
reaching Georgia into two distinct
paths, one entering Floyd county at
Cave Spring, and passed through north
Georgia. The other entered at Column
bus on the Chattahooche. passing into
South Carolina. 1t is difficult to esti-
mate which was most damaging to life
and property. While the greatest dam
age is on the lines of these cyclones,
the storm was felt in every direction of
the State. The north Georgia cyclone
was the most destructive in the coun-
ties of Floyd, Barlow, Pickens, and
| Cherokee. The middle Georgia cy-
! nlnna 70 Mncnnnan
Heard. Hancock, and Putnam coun-
ties. The loss of life is now estimated
at between two and three hundred,
and thousands are badly wounded.
In the line of both cyclones several
towns are completely destroyed. Pick
ems county is total wreck, and at Da-
visborough. on the Central railroad,
| between Macon and Savannah, not a
! house is left standing i'm the track of
both cyclones. Many fine country resi-
dences are in ruins, and hundreds of
! farmers are without shelter. In Geor-
gia alone the damage is beyond cOmpu-
| tatiOn. The destruction of dwellings,,
outhOuses, warehouses, stores, cattle,
bridges, fences and timber will foot up
over million Of dollars. In some
! places hailstones fell to the depth of
three inches and as large as hens eggs.
Some OF these were shipped distance
OF fifty and one hundred miles as curl
osities. Remarkable reports come in
illustrating the great force of the
storm. Hogs weighing $50 and 200
| pounds were blown into ward from
neighbOring plantation. On the Geor-
gia railroad fence rail was driven
squarely through cross-tie. At Davis
borough the contents of stores were
scattered in the woods for miles. at
another place large iron safe was car
ried many yards. One man was found
! two hundred yards from where the cy-
clone struck him. He was dead. At
one place Il child was carried away by
the wind, and its body has not yet been
recovered. In Alabama and the Caro-
linas the destruction of life and prop
erty was equally great. Georgia has
fir quently during this century been