Western cyclone., 1886-09-02

steeples were blown down, and two churches
unroofed. The high school building and
Jail were considerably damaged. Altogether
about seventy-tive houses were demolished
and rs more or less damaged. Few build
ings escaped uninjured. The trees and most
of the shrubbery IN the city are blown down
and the streets are filed with debris. Bust
ness is entirely suspended. The loss is
roughly estimated at 100000.
The Nebraska state prohibition conven-
| ton met at Lincoln with over 400 delegates,
representing fOrty-hve counties. After the
adoption of a lengthy platform, which
touches every phase of the liquor question,
besides setting forth the view of the party
on labor, pensions, Sunday observance and
other questions, the following ticket was put
in nomination: For governor, II. w. Hard,
| of Lancaster county; lieutenant governor,
+. B. Grayham; secretary of state, +. J.
! O'Neil; treasurer, A. j. Leach; auditor, j. E.
! Hopper: attorney general, Martin l. Brown
commissioner Of public lands. l.. B. Palmer;
superintendent of public schools, j. A.
Smith. The delegates from the several con-
gressional districts met and placed in nOmi-
nation the following for congress: First
district, George E. Bigelow: second, Rev. G.
L. Harrison; third, W. G. Olinger.
In Stewart county, Tenn, William Vor-
haines waylaid his wife, from whom he had
recently been separated and shot her and
! her sister, Miss Keats, a they were driving
| along the road. He was arrested, but soon
escaped, but he was again captured at Hen
derson after hard fight and lodged in jail.
Here he attacked the jalior and fought him
and Waterman until the latter shot him in
the head. Though wounded he was hand
euffed and started on the train for Guthrie.
| VOrhaines seemed suffering terribly from
| his wound, and was apparently dying and
the guards released their vigilance. When
near Guthrie, when the train was running
twenty-five miles an hour, he suddenly
sprang through the window, handcuffed as
he was, and quickly recovering, made fol
| the wood and has not been retaken.
Meager dispatches to telegraph Off
Gals, in St. Louis, received from
Galveston, Tex, state that a terrific storm
of wind and rain prevailed there. 1t com
menced about O clock in the morning, and
came from the east. At 6 a. m. the city is
said to have been entirely inundated, two
feet of water being on the strand, and fifteen
on the gulf side of the city. The ground
| floor of the Beach hotel was submerged, the
water reaching to the second floor. Houses
we're floating about the streets and immense
damage has been done. All the telegraph
wires on the bay bridge were washed OF
blown away, but some of them have been
| restored, and communication with the
drowned city was renewed about 6 p. N. AT
last accounts the water was subsiding. Six
lives are reported lost.
The celebrated Richmond murder trial
was concluded at st. Joseph, Mo-, and a
verdict of "not guilty" rendered. Fully
one thousand spectators, half of them ladies
assembled at the opening of court. The
jury were sent to their room for consulta
ton and were absent exactly venty min
| ntaS An iT0nrpCGIUn GI1pnpn nVaIlpd in
the court room as the jury filed in. The
foreman handed a written verdict to the
court who read as follows: eve, the jury,
find the defendant not guilty as charged in
the indictment, on the ground of insanity:
and we further find the defendent insane
at the present time. G. Day, Foreman
Then folio we'd a scene the like of which
was never before seen in a st. Joseph court
room. A loud shout of appreciation broke
from the men, followed by tremendous ap-
pIause, while the ladies rose to their feet
and waved their handkerchiefs.
The cause of the sudden death of Martin
| Connolly, of ST. Louis, is not at all certain,
| as the statements made by the relatives OF
the deceased are conflicting. Mrs. Connolly
stated to different persons that the cause OF
| her husbands death was the result of blow
| inflicted by her nephew, William Fox, q
young man Is years of age. Young Fox she
stated, had a difficulty with his cousin early
in the morning, in regard to some buttons
which were lost or misplaced and belonged
to him. He became angry at his cousin, and
| high words ensued, in which other members
of the household joined. Mr.. Connolly
hearing the noise, and being annoyed by
the disturbance, interfered and attempted
! to act the part of peace making between the
two disputants. His nephew, became angry
at this, grappled with him, and fight took
- ~ -, coIl rnnnaI1xy raooiunC
a blow from Fox, his nephew, which felleC
him, and from the effects of this blow ht
soon died.
The Ohio republican state convention con
vened at Columbus. Some delay was causeC
by the failure of the Hamilton county dele
CATION to reach the hall, owing to fight II
the delegation. Chairman Lowry, of thu
state committee, delivered quite a length!
! address, reviewing the work of the part!
during the past year, and concluded by IN
| PRODUCING General Z. +. NOyes, tempOrar!
| chairman of the convention, who was re
| ceived with enthusiastic applause through
| out quite long speech. General James ii
| Robinson was nOmins ted for secretary o
state by reclamation. Ticket was completed
with nominations as follows: Supreme Judge
Marshall j. Williams, of Fayette county
clerk of the supreme court, y. II. Hester, o
Nanwert county; school commissioner, Ill
l.. 1aDpAus OI AdLuOlGIs AACAAOCl VI tAi
board of public works, William Hahn, o
Mansfield. The platform declares the ad
ministration of President Cleveland
failure: in favor of pensions for all disabled
soldiers: protective tariff; laws protecting
labor: in favor of diminishing and eradi
eating the evils of intoxicating liquor en-
dorsing Parnell and his advocates.
By a special dispatch to the Ell Paso Time
it is Just learned that the second chamOer o
the supreme tribunal of Chihuahua took u
the case of A. X. Cutting, and after viewln
the entire evidence the argument began
This did not last long. The attorneys ha
previously come to an agreement that IN
two months imprisonment already suttere
by Cutting he considered a complete punish
ment of his crime. This makes 1t certal
beyond doubt that the sentence which fol
lows shortly will conform to this agreement
The case was heard within closed door;
The court holds both Judge Castenada an
Judge Subia exactly right in trying and sen
fencing Cutting. but under the clrcum
stances, the court thinkshe has now, by tw
months confinement, suffered enough, an
will order bis release TO take effect probaol
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