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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-05-15
TORE THROUGH A CITY.
Arkon, Ohio, Visited by Tornado
of Terrible Power.

AKRON, Ohio, Special-At $50 this
evening, in the midst of a most terrific
cloud-burst, this city was struck by the
worst tornado, beyond comparison. which
has eve r been known here abouts. except
ting perhaps the Sharon cyclone of just
month ago. The storm struck the southern
part of the city doing damage which cannot
be estimated at this writing, but fully 100
buildings are completely demolished. Hun
dreds more are badly damaged and stretch
two miles long is razed of trees and build
ings of all sorts The full force of the tor
nado developed just west of Main street,
following northeasterly course through
the Wolf creek valley. The house
of Dominick Greader, at Cross and
Washington streets, was unroo!ed and
Mrs. Greader Was slightly injured.
The wind struck Gebhart Herman's house.
down to supper. The tornado struck the
house in all its fury and hurled the dining
room like flying top, landing it fifty feet
away. All the occupants were more or less
bruised. Mr.. Herman was pinned down
in the debris, and only the energy of de-
spair, when he smelt the Odor of the fire
near him, enabled him to extricatc himself
Recovering, he found
HIS IsE GIRE~BURNTSG - 49,
by the overturned stove, and before tGe
flames could be extinguished she was fright
fully burned about the back and limbs. At
the corner of Brown and Exchange streets
y. Z. Bakers grocery was torn to pieces.
His wife and daughter were in the build
ing at the time but they made good
their escape to the cellar and were saved,
but Mr.. Baker is missing, and it is feared
that he is dead in the ruins. The family of
Melvin Irish had just seated themselves at
supper when Mrs. Irish, warned by some
intuition, cried run to the cellar; a cyclone
is coming" She and her two children
managed to reach the cellar before the
crash, but Mr.. Irish was caught by heavy
timber and his spine was seriously injured.
Mr.. Irirh was probably fatally injured. The
extent of the tornado is at this time unex-
plored, and the damage cannot be stated.
All descriptions of the story show that it
was rotary in its motion, and this is shown
by 9he ths skeWng OF the hqildinss it struck
path. The track was between fifty and one
hundred and fifty feet wide,
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of rain fell. AT 11:3O last night q magnifi-
cent electrical display began, Terrible
lightning flashes and peals of thunder fol-
lowed each other at intervals. Just at
quarter to midnight came fash and report
which awoke half the inhabitants of
the city from sound sleep.
The sound was terrific Every
telephone bell in the city was
set to ringing violently and telephones in
the city were burnt out and made utterly
useless by the fash. This great flash wa
accompanied by an amazing electrical dis
play. Operators at the main Western Union
office say huge ball of fire, reddish in
color, floated across the room when the
great lightning flash came. Several wires
were burnt out. At the Illinois Central
dispatcher's office a similar phenomenon
was observed. The lightning struck the
tower of the depot and followed the wires
through the building to the operators s
room. Here it burned out the instruments,
set the train sheets on fire and splintered
the floor. Operator l.. b. Hull, who was
seated at the desk, was
KNOCKED TO THE FLOOR.
He got up an put out the fire in the tiool
with the assistance of the depot master.
Operator Hull declares that balls OF hre
PLAYED around the instruments us the flash
came Police and others who were on the
streets at the time say huge meteor naSneu
across the sky. They describe ball OF
greenish fire as big as a nail keg. Directly
over Main street it burst with sound like
the explosion of a cannon. Pieces flew i'll
every direction and Jets of many colored
fire filled the air. Ten minutes after this
flash the western horizon was lit up with
glare of fire. The department was called
out, but the fire was found to be several
miles outside the city limits. Balls of fire
struck the residence of Thomas Alsop at
Center Grove, tearing off the chimneys and
ripping up the shingles. A large barn be-
longing to Thomas Cootes at Center Grove
was struck by lightning and burned to the
ground, together with two horses and sew
eral head of cattle. The building burned
almost instantly, and the heat was so in
tense that no one could approach it. About
1:30 o'clock huge water way draining the
northwestern part of the city burst its stone
covering, and tore a great hole in the flag
stone paved street. At 2 O'Clock two young
ladies and three gentlemen returning from
party in double closed carriage drove
into the abyss. The team went down, but
the carriage stopped just at the edge of the
torrent. The driver and one of the gentle
men were swept out into the flood, but
managed to climb out One of the horses
was swept away by the torrent, carried
through the sewer several blocks, and
thrown out at the foot of Fourteenth street.
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Work of United Workmen,

The grand lodge of the Minnesot A. O. o.
W. has been in session at st. Paul, an after
the transaction of the usual routine business
Joseph A. Eckstein of New Ulm was reelected
grand master workman. 1t was decided to
pay him $3.50 for his services during the past
year. g. NJ Lang OF Window was reelected
grand foreman, and E. Southworth of Sha-
kopee was chosen as grand overseer. For
the office OF recorder there were three con-
testants; J. W. Soule of Roche ester, J, News
alt ofOwatonna, and Oloff Olson of Willmar.
It was quite generally supposed that Mr..
Newsalt had 0, "cinch" on the position, but
on the fifth grand ballot Mr.. Olson carried
off the prize. p"
J. J. McCardy of st. Paul was reelected
grand receiver without opposition. The 9TH
er officers elected were W W. Hubbard of
Minneapolis, grand guide; James Frost of
st, Paul, grand inside watchmul; J. Gillipsie
of Morris outside watchman; J. Town of
Minneapolis and Joseph@4geicht OF Winona,
trustees; j. A. Eckstein, A. FL. Taisey and J.
NJ, Nye were elected representatives to the
Supreme Lodge.
1t was decided that the next meeting of the
grand lodge should be held ut Red Wing on
the first Tuesday in May 1891.
The growth of the order during the last
year has been very encouraging, there hauing
been added 1.200 new members in Minnesota.
These is a total OF 900 members now in the
state. The remarkable growth during the
past year has been due largely to the efforts
OfGrand Master Workman Eckstein. The
financial condition OF the order was never
better All death losses are PROMPTLY paid
within thirty days after decease of members.
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DESERVED CONSIDERATION
Rapid Development NecessItates
More Surveys in Washington

state.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram.
Representative Wilson of Washington
appeared before the subcommittee on ap-
preparations and was heard in reference to
needed increase of appropriations for sur
veys in his state. The commissioner of the
general land office was present, and SUBJ
stantiated the statements made by Mr.
Wilson. Chairman Cannon, when Wash
ihgton was reached, stated that the State of
Washington was deserving the fullest con-
sideration. Mr.. Wilson stated that money
should be appropriated for the survey of
the 100000 acres set aside in the enabling
act for state institutions, so that the state
might make its selections. During the
years 1886, 1887 and 1883 only 400 600 acres
the country has left enl 600 eco e9 acres of
refuse of the 100000 " acres sns
surveyed. The quantity now SURVEYED is
not large enough to allow the surveyor gen.
eral to select lands for the state He re-
ferred to the town site OF Port Angelus.
which had been set aside by the govern.
ment twenty-one years ago, and all lots sur
Veyed and plated had been sold, and rec
commended that the additional 1000 acres
be at once plated. AS it was more likely
that the government would get more than
the cost OF survey the committee decided to
recommend 5000 for the survey of Port
Angeles The committee instructed the
commissioner to give pro rata statement
6t the amount lie would allow each state
Mr.. Cannon said there was no doubt but
Washington had been neglected, and its
rapid development necessitated large APP
preparation. Mr.. Wilson prefers to have
the amout fixed in the sundry civil bill now
under preparation, as it is then sure of pas
sage. The withdrawal OF arid lands will
no doubt leave many states with small APP
Preparations, and the deserving states win
this year get increased AMOUNTS.
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eoMPELLEDTo sUcoUMB.

s, 8. Floyd & Co.'s Bucket Shop
Concerns Forced to Quit Busl-
ness.
CHICAGO, Special The bucket shop system
of S. s. Floyd & Co., with headquarters in
this CITY, has ceased to vex the soul of Presi-
dent Baker, of the board of trade The con-
Germ is now in process of being wound up.
The stoppage of grain quotations and the
rise in wheat and stocks were too powerful
combination to contend against Tkc
system embraces agencies through the en-
tire South and West covering every impor-
stands Mr.. Floyd is at present very busy
trying to find out. He says the losses to his
customers he hopes will be small. but his
own haye been enormous. A Louisville
KY, dispatch announces the suspension OF
Charles Jeffers, the Louisville correspond
ent of Floyd & Co., as result of the Chi,
cago failure.
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Where Wild Fowl Go.

Until the acquisition Of Alaska bv
the United States it was a matter of
wonder where certSin wild fowl went
when they migrated from temperate
chimes on the approach of summer. as
Well as snow birds and other small
species of the feathered tribe, saws the
Sitka AtaSbGn. twas aftcrward found
that their habitat in summer was the
waters of Alaska, the Yukon River and
the lakes of that hyperborean regiou-
4 reporter recently interviewed c. j.
Green, of Norton Sound. Western
Alaska, and he confirms the statement
of Dali and others. People wonder
where the wild fowl come FROM" said
he. They see the sand-hill crane,
wild goose, heron and other fowl every
spring and fall pursue their unwcaried
way, but, like the wind, they do nos
know whence they come or whether
they go. Up on Golovin Bay, on the
north shore of Norton Sound, is the
"" ''nG place of these fowl. All the
"""n1ingly, goto the&
Sluntly 10 i1es1. -Vdeese, uuCks, swans
and thousands upon thousands ofsand~
Hill cranes are swarming there all the
time. They lay their eggs in the blue
stem grass in the l0wlands. and if you
50 up the river little way from the
bay the noise of the wild fowl is almost
deafening. Myriads of swallows and
robins are there, as we'll as millions of
magnificent grouse wearing red combs
aud feathered moccaSinS. This grouse
turns white as snow in winter. You
can kill dozens of juicy teal ducks or
grouse as fat as butter-balls IN a few
moments. The wild fowl and bears
live on salmon berries. with. which all
the hills are literally eoYered.n
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-05-15
HE WOULD NOT WORK.
ARKANSAS PHILOSOPHY CARRIED IN
TO EVERYDAY LIFE.
opIe Read Describes the Theory and the
Practice of a Native Who Was Tempted
10 Labor.

W. J. Boglin, an adventurous eastern
capitalist, recently bought q large tract
of timber. land lying near Indian terri
tory. Nj. Boglin set up saw-mill,
which was easy enough, but when he
attempted to operate the mill he was
confronted by a difficulty which he had
not anticipated. He could not secure
the necessary help. The neighboring
people, either squatters in the original
or very close limitations, exhibited no in
terest in the enterprise. They would sit
about, lazily watching the work, but
when asked to help load logs or in any
way assist the head sawyer they would
silently slouch away or drawlingly make
excuses.
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CORY ARTICLE.
Jack the Ripper Letter Read Before
the Clayton-Brecfsinrl Com

Jack the Ripper Letter Read Before
the Clayton-Breclsinrl Com
mittee.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Specialize Clayton
Breckinridge investigating committee list
ened to the evidence of over one hundred
witnesses to-day, the majority of whom
were negroes, put upon the stand for the
purpose proving how they voted at The
presidential election. The most important
witness called to-day was Oliver T. Bentley !,
the man whom Clayton suspects of having
killed his brother. Bentley is the deputy
sheriff of Conway county, and claims to
have been in Morrillton on the night that
Clayton was Killed at PlummerYilie. To:
day he handed the committee papers in the
divorce case Of Luther VS.. Luther, which he
served on Lydia Luther and others Tues.
day, Jan. 20, 1883, across the river from Nor
rillton. He returned from across the river
about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. About
dark that night be served notice on John
hinkle, the attorney, to take deposition in
the case Feb. s. Hinkle appeared before
the committee and corroborated the testi
mony given on this point by Bentley. Wit
ness Is prepared to prove that after he left
attended dance. After witness had given
this testimony he was asked il he had any
objection to giving the committee aspect
men of his handwriting, to which he made
answer in the negative. Chairman Lacey
then dictated to the witness to write the fol-
lowing letter, which he did very rapidly:
State Of New Hampshire, June, 1SS9.--Town
Marshal, Morrilton, Ark: You may soon pre-
pare your coffin and bid adeu to your family,
as you shall soon take theToad thatCol. Clay
ton, took. / am q little sorry of Killing Col.
Clayton, aswe thought' it was old Powell Clay
ton. He is the one we shall kill before many
suns does set over his head, and you, yourself
Cd d-n your sould to the depths Of hell, you,
too, shah soon bite the DUST You passed O.
eteat insult to me on the streets OF Morrilton
bnce, and haye not forgot 1t, nor never shall,
till l shoot your d-n brains out. This is no
fooling, you rascal; and you needn,t doubt II.
shall kill you in spite 81 hell aud dis{lnatfan.
y9u. You seen me q while ago, aid YOU did not
knpw1f. You Wllf span see me- but it will be
fop late for YOU to live. Respectfully,
JACK THE RIPPER, No. 1.
As soon as Bentlv concluded writing the
above CORY article he handed the sheet OF
paper to Maj. -aacs7. who compared the
t. -. q
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MURDERERS MUST DIE.
CAPITAL Punishment Not to be Abol-
ished In New York.

ALBANY, N. ,sSpecial-The senate judi
ciary committee to-day by vote of to 2
postponed indefinitely the Curtis bill to
abolish capital punishment, thus killing the
bill. This action was taken alter hearing
in which Rev. DIR. j. III. Ecob spoke in favor
of the bill on the ground that It was in line
with the advance of Christian thought and
civilization. Mr.. Powell OF New York, rep
resenting the society of Friends oithe sthtk
and Judge Arnox favored the bill. ]. Irwin
F. Brown spoke forthe bill on legal grounds.
and Rev. DIR. King opposed it on religious
grounds.
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TT WORKED FIRsr-RATH

an now you air losln' yo~r patience,
Wy, you kahn keep nothin', ken your"
Il do not wish to handy words with
you. Where is that min?'
Right down thar in the holler about
900 yards from here
Why didn't you tell me at first,
you"
IVY didn't you ask me? Come along
an asked me If you mout take that road.
an as didn't have no use fur it I said
you mout,"
When Boglin had ridden short dis
tance he looked back aud saw the old
fellow leaning against the tree, laugh
ing.-Opie P. Read, Spa Chicago Times.
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Railroad Up the Junrrrar,,

French engineers are planning for an
attack upon that hitherto virgin peak
of the Alps the Jungfrau. They
propose to continue the present line Of
railroad from lnterlaken to Lauser-
bruanen as far as Stockelherg, at the
saat OF the Jungfrau, and thence to
mount up by succession of slantina
cable roads, forming aig-xag, to u
height of same l2,00O feet. landiak
nearly al the summit of the mountain,
Whero theirs viii be hotel for the ez-
eursionists who are expected to make
the trip by thousands daily. There
will have to be i've steps to the greaE
staircase, and a separate railroad for
each step making tive changes OF ears
necessary to reach the summit.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-05-15
RECORD OF CASUALTIES

The steamer Ida Augusta. with freight from
Baltimore, owned by T. II. Lewis, was burned
at her wharf Mt ReedviIle, Va.
boat containing six fishermen capsized
in the hay at San Francisco and three of the
men-Martin Ryan, Con Downey and viii
Cosgroye-were drowned. The other three
clung to the boat, and were picked up alter
drifting five miles.
\ New Jersey Central express train ran in
10 the Lehigh Valley New York Dassen ger
train at Allentown, Pa. Two of the Lehigh
Valley passenger cars and the engine of the
New Jersey Central train were thrown on
their sides The cause of the wreck was the
failure of the air brakes on the New Jersey
Central train TO work. Emma Hall, single,
aged twenty-five OF Ithaca \. y, was in
stNntly killed and Joseph Hantler OF Wilkes
barre died rom his injuries
At Glbow. n Y. fire broke out in he Arcade
large wooden building. and the flames
quickly sprpa to adjoining buildings, which
were soon envelOppd in flames. There being
no means OF extinguishing the fire, the whole
village was at the mercy of the flames. The
entire business portion Oi the to wn was de
stroyed. % buildings in all. Not store IS
let i'll the town, and most o the stocks were
DESTROYED. The loss is estimated at from
$500 to SI75.OO0 Insurance estimated
ut about $4,000.
Bad prairie fires are raging in the Willow
Greek district. Alberta, y. W T The New
Oxley ranchmcn fonCht the fire with desper-
alton. but the wind was so strong that they
could do nothing. The fire caught the OXley
ranch outfit while they were crossing Willow
Greek with some eight thousand head OF cat
tie while summer grazing scattering the cat
tie all over the country. A district sixty
miles long and thirty wide has been burned
over Experienced cattle men say it is as
bad u prairie fire as they have ever seen.
\ portion OF the ChenangO county IN. "
luIdings were destroyed by fire and ten in
mates were burned. The buildings destroy
pd were the asylum, in which there were
about eighty inmates and the pauper house
and idiots ward in which there were about
forty inmates. Ten idiots were penned in
their cells and were roasted alive. AS the in
=, aJtnS, we're asleep and no sounds were heard
rbp.,,,i tI-r, that the smoke and gases
eAO IFE eu lHelu p"D,~ roIt the pain oft he
fire. The origin Of the fire was DLPbobIv Tho
smOuldering sparks ofthe - whist occTrrad
the day before. Deborah DibbIe y faahIa.
landed { Id woman, was smoking q pipe, anu
set her clothing and bedding on fire and was
burned fatally before the flames could be ex-
tlnguished, He9 corpse was burned with the
building
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EXCHANGED CLOTHES.
Unsuccessful Attempt to Secure a
Naw Xnrkar From laiI

New Yorker From Jail.
MIDDLETON, N. Y, Special Ern-
est Utter was, held to awast the action of
the grand jury on the charge OF bigamy
Last night wife No. 2, heavily yelled. &C
companied by Lizzie Utter, sister, Velie
Utter brother, and Charles Clark, a
friend, entered the lookup and asked
permission to talk privately with
Utter. The privilege was accorded and
in due course of time the party passed out
', building. This morning the attenS!
... ,, the prison went to feed Utter, bu
found Wife No. seated in the cell, wear
ing Utter's clothes The conspirfng friends
were arrested and while 'Beihg arraigned
before the recorder for aiding and Auditing
the escape OF a prisoner, detective entered
court with Utter, who had been captured in
Unionyille, N. j., where he stopped to rest,
feeling secure as hethought he was across
the Jersey line.
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Asking EoR pIREcTfoS.

sn' pap begged him aR' mam begged
him, but the chips kept on flyta', aut
pap an mam went back to the house.
After while authin' come down the hill,
bookety, bookety, but the chips few so
fast that brother Zeb didn't hear the
thing that came down the hill booketY,
bookety, till all at once
Here the paTyai2T ceased speaking.
lie stroksd Aia thin yellow whiskers, took
a fresh chew of long green tobacco.
"walloped' 1t about in his mouth, and
then fixed his gazc on something far
down in the valley,
Well said the eastern man.
'Tes, very we'll; I'm bleeged to you.
Felt leetle sorter stretchy yistldy, but
I'm paaEter to-day"
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GOVERNMENT REPORT.

A Reduction Of One Point Shown In
the Condition OF Winter Wheat.
WASHINGTON, Special.-The official re-
port OF the condition of winter grain May
makes reduction of one point in wheat,
the average being S0 The rye average is
maintained, being 93.5; barley SAG. The
averages ofNcondition for the stages of
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the condition that the United States agrees
to a concession in regard to German imports.
On May 81 there will be an adjudication in
Rome, Italy, for the purchase by contract OF
n large quantity of North American tobacco.
The requirements are a bout Is, 900 hogsheads
of Kentucky. about 1000 Of Virginia and
and about 800 of Ohio and Maryland tobac
pn
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The primitive customs ofantiouitv

prevail in Spain. Grain is still cut
with o small reaping hook, and
thrashed as'in the time of the Casars,
that is, by tramping about with ass
es hitched to q stone. The p1oW is a
crooked stick, pointed with iron. In
the towns are to beseen heavy wood
en- carts drawn by oxen. Most pfthe
carrying, transferring, ETC., is done
by donkeys. Sand, brick, lumber, in
fact, almost everything that has to
be moved, is carried on their backs.
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EoREIoN cuLLINos.

4: 1t is stated that an effort will be made to
dispose of all the Canadian cotton mills to
an English syndicate, to be capitalized for
about SO 900, 900.
The London Chronicles Berlin carrespon-
dent says that Germany is not indisposed to
relax the prohibition of American pork on
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DUBUQUE SHAKEN UP.

A Mammoth Lightning Bolt Ex-
piodes Over the City.
DUBUQUE. Iowa, Special Telegram,
The most terrific storm in years visited
this section last night and this morning. 1t
Fained all day Friday and TOWARD night the
storm redopbled in intensity. The rainfall
Yas terrific. During the twenty-.four hours
ending at 8 o'clock this morning S.4 inches