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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
STRIKE STATISTICS,
results OF Close Enumeration nm
'"e Number Out of Employment.
TO" twenty-five Cities-I4s.ooo
Me" "r"nted Shorter Hours Within
AWeek.

NfN YORK, May There are rcnor,oa
to Bradstreet's from twantv.t,,, ,i,i.'
iii'"" men to whom shorter hours hav.
been granted within a week witbopt tho
ehort OF striking, The largest total is q,
oo'oo" Chicago packing house emnlovas
Inc clgar-makers aggregate alone 10 5OO il,
number, OF whom 1900 are in Nav VorI,
800 IN Detroit, and 800 i, Cb;r.,,, T,1
building trades, including brick-layers. car
pehteis, painters, plumbers, stope-cutters
etc', furnish a total of % 600 to whom short
er hours have been conce,; d. Wash
lhgton, New York, Chicago and Baltimore
quotas accounting for 1900. In the orouo
including miscellaneous there are over II
wv smaller totals to whom shorter hours
were conceded, without striking, are; Tn.
pacco factory workers, 500 5000 AT Balt,
mofe); furnlture-makerS, 33O0 f3Ooo n,
urands Rapids, and 1900 machinists q OOO
at Chicago and 800 at st. IouiS) Tho total
number reported striking for shorter boprs
is loo,oo0 at various cities, as follovs.
Chicago, $4,000; New York, 30 600; Cinc,n
hat, 32,W0; Milwaukee, 1000; Baltimor.
o,"Di Boston, 400; Pittsburgh, 425O. De
trolt, 5000; st. Louis, 1000; WASHINGTON
i'ooo; Newark, l,200, and eleven other cities
with fewer than 1000 each. The total
number striking among the building trades
Is @3,ooo Cincinnati, 5000; Boston. 4. 700:
llttsburgh, 3,lOO, and Washington, L5OOO
Pattern makers, 10000, (20,0OO New York
brooklyn and Jersey City; $500 Gin,
cinnati, and 5000 at Chicago 0l5, 900 furni.
ture-makers, 7000 at Chicago and 4 O0o nj
olnclnnatD 1900 cabinet-makers and 3 900
piano makers, (both at New York. and
e,ooo iaborers, 5000 at CincinnatD
The total number of employees to whom
shorter hours have been granted after
striking is 5000, one half of whom are
classified as miscellaneous and probably
lo,ooo (of the 1900 are in Cincinnati
There are 5000 among the building trades
u,OoO at New York and 900 at Newark :.
LOCO piano makers New York; 1920 ma
chinists 5000 at New York;, and 1900
agricultural implement makers Summar-
lzlng the results Total reported striking
Tor shorter hours, 10000; total report
ed last week, 5000. Total, $4,000 Total
securing shorter hours without striking,
lll,oo; total reported last week. S32 600.
Total $4,000. Total number engaged in
the short-bour movement, $4,000, total to
whom shorter hours granted after striking,
5000 It's more than likely that, with all
Union strikes included, the grand total on
strikes will prove to be nearly 10000,
which, in all probability, the 10000 to
whom the demands were granted without
any strike, will bring up the total of those
actively engaged in the short-hour move
ment to 325OOO workingmen.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
Killed and Devoured by Gnats.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 1O-For several
days past the buffalo gnats, the pest of the
Lower Mississippi Valley, have been doing
their work Of destruction among the stocF
of this section, Reports of horses, cattle
and mules having been goaded to death by
these insects are received daily. Yesterday
information was received here that Bill
Sness, colored tenant on President Had
den's plantation in Crittenden County,
Ark, had been stung and choked to death
by the pests. He was found dead on the
Mcdaniel place Friday, evidently a victim
to the gnats which swarmed about
the corpse. Gnats were crawling in and
out of his ears and nose. His mouth and
nostrils were filed with gnats, Swarms of
gnats had settled in his wide stretched
eyes and were feeding on the sightless
orbs His clothing was filled with gnats
and a halo of gnats lowered around the
dead man. Sneiss had been in the Ian
guile swamps, and it is supposed that he
tried to run away from the gnats. The in
sects were SO thick, however, that they
drove him wild, and finally, becoming sx-
hausted, he fell PROSTATE, then was smoth-
cred by the swarms of gnats.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15

CHICAGO, MAY States Attorney Grin
nell has stated that he has obtained ample
legal evidence duplicating Spies, Fielden
and Schwab as the leaders in getting up
the terrible riot on Desplaines street, which
resulted in the destruction of several lives
and the manning of many persons. This
evidence will be very damaging TO the
three men named when they shall come
TO be tried before the criminal court.
In order to find out whether the opinion OF
other prominent members of the bar suS-
tanned or not the conclusions of the state 5
Attorney, several well-known members oil
the bar have been interviewed Tue
opinion of all of them, without any eHcep
ton, is that so far as they know what the
evidence is, it is fully sufficient to secure
the conviction of all three men They also
hold that the evidence is sufficient to Sc
cure their conviction for murder and the
infiiction of the death penalty,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
A SUGAR SUBSTITUTE
A Substance Extracted from Coal Tai
which Is Sweeter Than Sugar.

A Substance Extracted from Coal Tai
which Is sweeter Than Sugar.
Mr.. Ivan Levinstein, the> Presiden,
of the Manchester section of the Socio.
ty of Chemical Industry, calls attention
to a new substance which is extracted
from coal tar. and possesses sweeten-
ing properties far stronger than the
best cane or beet-root sugar. This SUBJ
stance, he says, seemed likely to enter
into daily consumption. According to
Mr.. Levinstein, one part of it will give
a very sweet taste to ten thousand parts
of water. for il is two hundred and
thirty times sweeter than best sugar
and taken in the quantities added to
food as swectening material, has no in
furious effects whatever on the human
system. Patients suffering from dia.
betes have been treated for the last
few months in one Of the principal hos.
pitals in Berlin with saccharin without
feeling in the least nconvenienced by
its use. The use Of saccnarin would.
therefore, Mr.. Lcvinstein said, be no,
merely = probable substitute for sugar.
but IL might oven b. applied to medici.
nal purposes where sugar was not
saruiinsik 0ninnHihn \naginnk
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15

WASHINGTON, May ll,-As it passed the
House, the river and harbor appropriation
blll makes the following division of the to
tai appropriation; Maine, 100000 New
Hampshire, 5000; Vermont $4,000 Mass
achusetts, S2l4,O00 Rhode Island S95, 900
Connecticut, S255,O0O; New York, $4,000
New Jersey, sl20,0O0, Pennsylvania, S49l,
900; Delaware, Sl05, 600; Maryland $l57,o0
Virginia, s404 600; West Virginia, $9l5, 800
North Carolina, s26, 800; South Carolina
S54l 600: Georgia, S4l0,5O0; Florida, $3l4.
0o; Alabama, S215,O00; Mississippi, SOB,
500; Louisiana, Sl63,OOO. Texas S95O.eO0
Arkansas, Sl4S.OO0; Tennessee, S4g4,5O0
Kentucky, s251, 900; Indiana, S132 800 Ohio
>a4S 900; Illinois, s265, 900; Michigan S9S,
5oO: Wisconsin, 1886 800; Minnesota, 500
600; Montana, So, 900; California $322, 800
Missouri. Sl1, 1900; Oregon, $605, 900; Wash
mgton Territory, Sl4,5OO, Ohio river, $500,
@N: Fails of OHIO, 100000; Missouri river
animation of surveys 100000,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
kEMPER'S DAUGHTER,
Mrs. W. j. Stramann, Driven Crazy Over
Her Fathers Mysterious Death,
Suicides,

DENVER, Col., May l0.-Mrs. W. J. Stra
mann committed suicide in West Denver
this morning after first making an attempt
to murder her little daughter Stella, aged
seven years. Mrs. Stramann is the wife
of the wellknown Denver grocer. and the
daughter of Henry H. Kemper, who was
mysteriously murdered in Cincinnati
last December. She had been his pet
daughter and Immediately on hearing
OF her fathers death left Denver for Gin.
cinnati to attend the funeral and comfort
her mother, The latter never recov-
cred from the shock and died the Both
OF last January. Some weeks ago she re-
mind was not right Her actlof5i 1fnt tnhtl,. Ii,
indicated it plainly, while she would refer
to the death of her parents laughingly. This
morning, while in the rear of the house.
ber husband heard three quick shots. Has
tening to her bedroom, Mr.. Stramann
found her weltering in her life blood and
her daughter bending over her "Oh, papa, {"
cried the child, "mamma shot at me and
then shot herself Little Stella had es-
capped injury, but her nght-dress bore the
powderstains of two shots II was the
third shot that killed Mrs Stramann
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15

NEw YORK, May ll.--fIerr Most, the ac-
knowledged leader of Socialists in the
United States, was arrested tonight in a
disreputable house in Allen street by In
spector Byrnes Most is under indictment
for holding an unlawful assemblage and
for calling upon his followers to burn,
plunder and ravage, He disappeared
about two weeks ago, but from his hiding
place has sent forth reams of incendiary
articles through the medium of the Frejheit
of which he is editor. The Inspector locked
Most up in police head quarters. He was
found under the bed in the house, and
groveled like a cur when arrested.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
A STRANGE CASE,
vi" man Acquitted of Murder ALLEGED
10 nave Been Committed Thirty
two Yenrs no

WV hthTs ago.
ATLANTA. GA, May s-Jesse Gaines Ed
"otus was to-day acquitted in Marion Su-
peilor court of the alleged murder of his
~ III loof' lie was at that time man
y, ,or'y years, Besides his wife and several
Snilureh, young man, Daniel Majers, and
l's sister aged sixteen We're inmates of hi,
ish'iy' In the month OF March, 1854, about
eloVen O'Clock at night Mrs. Gaines was
.ouho IN the kitchen hanging by the neck
ooau' ihe coroner's inquest said it was sui.
oiie' lew weeks after the Settlement
was started anewby the marriage of Gaines
ruWardS to pretty Miss Majers. The old
ladies' of the neighborhood raspmad Tho
oalk about THE Edwardses," and one would
wasper 10 another the belief that Gaines
,-u"arus hung his wife. Then it was al.
lesed That Mitch Blanford, who was rim
away at the time saw Edwards pull tn,
,aole from under her and let her danple in
.he ar But Mitch was a negro, a slave
neionglng to Judge Blanford, now ON the
supreme Bench. His deposition was not
good In court. And SO matters went until
seventeen years passed, and still Gaines
towards sent his children to school in
Marion County. He then moved West Az
.er elght years he again came back to
ueor8ia, and settled in Randolph County.
lhree years ago he moved to Dale County
Aia'' bis present home and still the old
people OF Marion County remembered
ABOUT the hanging of Gaines Edwards,
VIE Mitch Blanford became free, and
MS oath was good in court. A few wears
ago the matter was brought before the
grand jury. A true bill was found, charg-
ing Gaines Edwards with murder. Last
week Dick Donnan, sheriff of Marion
county, returned from Alabama with the
olu man. now seventy six years old. His
second wife is still living, and has a large
family of children and grandchildren,
Inc old man was placed in Jail, but was
allowed the freedom of the county until
the trial began, which resulted as above
utata
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
LEAP FROM A TRAIN,
IN fre'ereno" to Going to the Reform
School Young Girl Makes a
Perilous Jump in Safety

anu TsCapes.
WALTHAs, MASS, May 9.-Ida Nuttinp.
OF Boston, although only nineteen sum.
mers has led wayward life. She ha,
spent one term in the Reform School,
being released a short while ago, Since
then she married man who already
had wife. The State officers hear.
ing of this unbecoming conduct,
arrested Ida, and she was sent in the charge
OF woman this afternoon, by the half
past four train on the Fitchburg railroad,
to the Lancaster Reform School. When
the train had passed the Waltham station,
Ida took advantage Of her attendants in.
attention to press through the window,
letting herself down between the tracks
from the rapidly moving train 1t is be.
lleved that she escaped serious injury, as
she was seen by the engineer of an in.
ward freight train, which was near by,
to arise from the road bed and run
into the fields and woods at the side Of the
tracks toward the town almshouse. HeI
enger train stopped, but no trace c6nlH' 6G
discovered as to her whereabouts. Two
hours later word was sent to Chief OF Police
Burlegh, of Watham, and he, with Detec'
tive McEeney, made vain search for the
missing girl. She is supposed to have con
ccaed herself in the woods until dark, and
then sought some other place of safety.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
IMPORTED LABOR.


IhhH"'ttoa-
WASHINGTON, May T. - Congressman
Kelley, of Pennsylvania, is quoted as say
ng: "These labor troubles are primarily
.aused by the capitalists, who, refusing to
pay fair wages to American laborers, have
gone abroad and brought to this country
the vlest and lowest class Of European
laborers to take the places of men who can
not and will not live the same as these
ignorant and brutal creatures do, The
thing to be done is to make eight hours n
days work and put in the pcnitentary the
capitalist who will permit his machinery
to run longer period than eight hours per
day. Then legislate to exclude from this
country the class of men who are response
ble for such outrageS as have occurred in
Chicago. | have no sympathy with An
srchists, dynamters or Communists, nor
have any sympathy with the capitalists
who will import labor of this class rather
than pay good wages to American work.
men,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15

KANSAS CITY, May 9-Edward Davis,
railroad contractor of Chanute, Kas,, en-
route to Grand Island, Neb., shot himself in
the ladies' wuitingroom of the Union
Depot between 9 and 10 o'clock last night
in the presence of his wife and six small
children. He fired three shots into his side
and died in a few minutes. Davis had been
drinking through the day, and to that his
act is ascribed He was in prosperous cir
cumstances. The affair created a grea'
commotion in the crowd about the depot.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
Playlnu on the Wires.

NATION, I'LL, May ll.-Last night the
electrical storm was remarkable at times
The telegraph wires seemed to be alive
with flame. Some people report having
seen balls of fire as large as a mans head
drop from the wires to the ground. The
residence OF William Tober was struck, the
end of it being knocked out Singularly
none Of the occupants were injured. The
display Of lightning was never before
equsled. Heavy rain accompanied The
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
A PHYSICIANS SUICIDE.
He Jumps Into the Sea with His Little
Grandson in His Arms.

Grandson in His Arms.
BosToN, Mass, May 1l--At 4 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon Dr. Frederick N. Pal
mer, one of the best known homeopathic
physicians of this city, left his residence
with his four-year-old grandson, of whom
he was very fond. This morning a tele-
gram from Portland states that the doctor
with the child, took passage on the steamer
John Brooks for Portland. During the
evening the boy played around the saloon
Nobody noticed anything out of
the ordinary in the conduct of
the white-haired, kindly faced old
gentleman When the little boy got tired
his grandfather put him to bed. At about
lOo'clock DR.. Palmer, saying that the boy
was sea sick and must have fresh air, car
rled him tenderly to the after deck. The
child complained of the cold, and the doc
tor sent waiter for blanket. A moment
later Captain Snowden, looking through
an open door, saw Dr. Palmer with the boy
IN his arms jump from the rail into the
water. The steamer was stopped and the
boat lowered, but the bodies could not be
found. After "A long search the steamer
continued her voyage. The doctor was
seyenty-three years old.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
The Senate Journal Stolen

COLUMBUS, o., May l0-Tn the Ohio Sen
ate the President ruled Mr.. Van Cleaf's
protest against the seating of the Repub
lican Senators out Of order and refused to
allow it to go on the journal. At the after
noon session, in the absence of the Presi
dent, the Senate adopted a resolution re
moving from Office President pro tenn
O'Niel, who is one Of the absent Senators,
aud elected 8, A, Courad TO the vacancy
The journal Of the Senate was stolen dur
Ing the noon recess, and was supplied by
the clerk certifying another. The war
ranh issued for the arrest Of the abssutssl
we're ordered ret. .rnsf to The Senate
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15

UrlcA, n. Y, May 9,-The new iron
bridge being built at Lyonsdale, Lewis
County, gave way yesterday, preclpitating
seven workmen and wreck OF twisted iron
into Moose river, twenty feet below Two
men escaped by jumping on pier. One
workman, W. A. Wilcox, Of Port Leyden,
in leaping to an abutment, lost his foothold
and was fatally injured. The Others swan
ashore, although some of them had sus'
tained severe injuries The accident was
caused by the giving way OF temporary
irestlp
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
Eor,-icu Notes,

SIR CHARLES dixie, in speech at Chel-
sea. said the charges of immoral conduct
against him were cruel and baseless, and
caused himself and wife many sleepless
nights, and having asked the Queens Proc
tor to intervene in the case, he would deny
on oath the unfounded charges.
THE Russian Minister Of War has gone to
Iivadia to confer with the Gar.
THREE thousand workmen held a meeting
in Vienna and adopted resolution de
manding of the Liberal Deputies that they
oppose the Socialist law.
TuE Powers have sent collective reply
70 Greece'S answer to the ultimatum de
manding positive promise of early re
duction of the army to peace footing.
A YOUNG painter named Durr, of Burg
dorf, Switzerland, while ascending th'
Mvthen Mountain. in the Canton o
Schwytz, was killed by an avalanche.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
Annihpr MinotaIIr.

LoNpoN, May ll.-Thos Gibney, gentle
man. was arraigned i'll Clerkenwell police
court to-day, charged with having violated
forty children, daughters of workingmen,
sine, last December. He was remanded for
further hearing An excited crowd, headed
by tic parents of the outraged children, as
scmhed near the Court Building and at
tempted to lynch tiibney as he was brought
out IN the custody of officers, and he was
kept ont OF their hands with considerable
difficulty, M
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
Ao.r years of Waiting.

NATION, ILL.,, May7-Years ago george
p Mcpougall was poor printer IN NAV, MAT,
toon, struggling hard to make pV." , ',So ,So
meet He then had claim against Wv, .ne
Covernment for $500 head oil c".,V c,,
furnished in an emergency 10 w."
fornia Indian Agency in iS5a lie pros pros
rcp,ed the claim patiently, Though ,a'.'', sa,'s,
fed with the justice of his case no I ,anss
much expect to win it, owing to the ,."', "pr. n'.
NJ time, In 1872 he died in poor clI,u% .ns
stances His estate still prosec,,,','eon naSS ,SS
claim The Courts at Washington ' M
NOR money goes TO McDoussll's sons ~u' "''
In iudlsnspolih.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
Incendiarism at Greenwood Mines,

LOUISVILLE KY, May l0-A Courier
Journal special reports a bad state of af
fairs still existing at Greenwood, KY
where a company of State troops protect
the convcts worked in the mines from tn,
threatened violence of the free miners
During the past few weeks eight house,
belonging to the mine owners, have beer
burned by incendiaries, and last night {
grocery and dwelling belonging to VIM
Lewis was destroyed. The free miners sr'
thought to be the ncendiaries, The troop
have been on guard for several months, a
it was thought the convicts would be sum
msrily dealt with by the infuriated miners
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
Trouble at Pittsburuh.

PltrsHrRGn, Pa, May 1.-THE striking
ice wagon drivers and helpers are forcing
the uonunion men to quit work. One man
was assaulted on Liberty street this morn
ing and compelled to leave his wagon on
the street The companies have applied to
the authorities for protection, and "A squad
Of police has been detailed to arrest the
disurderly strikers
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
n,..Uoon Recovering,

u,vpu,s, TENN, May 9.-The trapeze i'er-
former, MilMs Leon, who, with her hu'-
md fell forty feet in Robinson's show
,.., Monday night, and was believed to be
,.t.ly hurt, is improving, and was able to
ii, nm a short time to-day. Her kindred
ns.r @ urbans, O., will be glad to hear Other
favorable condition.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
Two men were arrested in S

Louis the other day. 1t was alleged
that the men had perfected means of
taking the change out of the cash
boxes in the street cars, and upon one
or them was found an instrument for
abstracting the coins. 1t consists in a
long and moderately stiff strap split at
the end, into which are fitted two pieces
of zinc or tin, which are moderately
flexible. Pushing this down into the
boxes the coins were easily caught be,
tween the two pieces of tin and ab.
stracted. st. Louis Post.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
A Bread Famine.

PlTTsBuRGH, Pa, May l0-There is a
bread famine to-day among those who de.
pend upon the bakers. OF the 100 bakeries
in the two cities, 100, comprising nearly all
the larger establishments, are closed,
About three hundred bakers are ON strike.
The bake-shops in operation, with but one
or two exceptions, are small and can only
supply their regular customers, The de-
mands are twelve hours and all day work.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
craat Fire nj Honolulu.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9.-Advices re
ceived bv the steamer Alameda to-day
from Honolulu give an account OF disas
trous conaagration. Eight entire squares
comprising sixty acres of the mos thickly
populated portion Of the Chinese quarter
we're destroyed. About eight thousanc
people, mostly Chinese, are homeless, The
loss is estimated at $500, 600; insurance
$500 900. Only two lives were lost.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15

|is frankie FoIsom's uncle
[h,t he is talking about, it
(sm that the young lady is to
|bp President sure enough in
4 would be a relief to have the
Irer with, since there begins
\ be an overflow of literature
khicct.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
po,,,IerIy's Circular.

SCRANTON. Pa, NAV 9.-In a circular
Grand Master Workman Powderly writes
that for some time the Knights OF Labor
have been loosing ground in public opinion,
and charges the Knights TO keep jealous
ave upon the doings of labor m-o who
never labor"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
A Young man in a large compan

"A young man in a large company
was descanting very tlippantly on a
subject his knowledge of which was
evidently superficial, and a lady pres.
ent asked his name. "'Tis Scarlet, y
replied q gentleman. Indeed, said
the lady, "then am certain he bellies
his name, for / am sure he is not deep
read. IN. Y. Telegram.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15

Tn, Daily Ne,os says: Perhaps no Amer.
,,.n author though all are welcome, will
y. az welcomed in England as Holiness the
U.tri.rch Of literature. Americans are
more hospitsble than we, but sven .srdy
sospitsbls folk in England wiz Welcome
~ NJ =. Amsriaeys uasans 1sslshnsa'
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15
Work of the Wind.

LAWRENCE, KAN, May ll.-Word has just
reached here from camp meeting at a
point forty miles south, that during high
wind Sunday tent, in which were $50
people, was blown down, Three persons
were killed. Mr. and Mrs. jackson and
their small babe, which was smothered to
death, 4 great many persons were injured
Sliubfly
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-15

BURLINGTON, Ia, May 10 Yesterday af
ternoon lightning struck boarding house
in this city and killed young German car
penter named Gustave Wolf, and Knocked
down all the other inmates of the house
The dwelling of Frank Geiger in this city,
was also struck and burned, The storm
was very heavy in Southwestern Iowa.