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STEAM YACHTS ALL TIE FASHION
Some Costly Boats Plying Between
New York and southern Places.

From the Net0 York Sun.
Il. NJ. Flagler's steam yacht Alicia is one
of the most costly and handsomely fur
nished boats OF her class in the world. She
is white boat. l72 feet long. She is fitted
with triple expansion engines and is very
fast. She is said to have cost $4,000 Mr..
Fiagler has delightful summer home on
Orienta Point, just above the Larchmont
Yacht club house. He comes into town
every morning on his yacht and
returns in the afternoon. A few
minutes before O'Clock in the morni &.
rain or shine, the launch leaves the Alicia
and goes over to the dock just by Mr.. Flag
ler's house Mr.. Fiagler is taken out to the
big steamer; her anchor is weighed im-
mediately, and she starts for the city. Some
times Mr.. Flagler is alone, and at other
times he is accompanied by Mrs. Flagler or
friends. Anchor Is dropped again of East
Twenty-sixth street. aud the launch lands
the passengers at the float Of the New York
Yacht Club. AT 4 O'Clock in the afternoon
the return trip Is made, LRrchmont being
reached shortly after o'clock.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-08

BoB--Is there anything that your father
d0esn't hnow3
sam -; he doesn't know where / hid bis
slipp rs last niRht.-A arBef's fOuaG PeODie.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-08
A Prominent Odd Fellow.

LOUISVILLE, Aug. William White,
aged 76, grand secretary of the Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows, died this morn-
ing OF heart disease in this city.
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VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE,

9Th Year. State Military Scientific and Technical
School. Thorough Courses in general and aDpiied
Chemistry, and 10 Engineering. Confers desres Of
graduate N Academic Course also degrees Of Bache-
Courses. All expenses. including clothing and moi
dentas provided at the rate of $s so per month as
an average for the four years eciSire ri onISt No.
Cadets report Sept LIST. GEN SCOTT SHIPP. SUIT
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01
SOME ODD STORIES.
INTERESTING INCIDENTS RELATED BY
MAJOR ALFRED r. CALHOUN.

| Tale or the Libby Tunnel Escape.
In a Manner That Would Have Done
Credit to Ward Politicians.
| Copyright, 1892, by American Press Associa-
ton.
"Of all my war experience" said the
old colonel, as he set down his glass and
settled back in his chair, 81 think my i'm
prisonment was the worst, but even that
had some bright lights to contrast with its
many black shadows. One of the brightest
of the former was the immediate sequel to
the escape from the famous tunnel out of
Libby Let me see; yes, that was in early
February, 1854
mo, must resist the temptation to de-
scribe the tunnel and the escape, for to do
SO would take all night. l had no hand in
the digging nor did escape not that was
not more than eager to do both, but an old
and still open wound incapacitated me for
such service.
ut was n night of intense. anxiety to the
hundreds who knew that they must remain
back as we'll as to the other hundreds who
were eager to crawl out through that sub
terraEcan passage to freedom.
During the long hours of that cold,
black night stood at Il barred window Of
the upper east room watching my COM
rades us they came up from the hole be-
hind the protecting fence and made their
way toward the canal. where n lamp that
exposed them to the view of the drowsy
guards burned.
II was still standing there when daylight
came, and the tramping of the guards COM
ing up to count the prisoners, as was their
early morning custom. aroused me to
sense Of my situation.
at may be we'll to explain here that the
method of roll call adopted by Turner, the
commandant of Libby, was to drive all the
prisoners into the upper east room, or up
per Potomac room, rs it was most often
called, because the officers confined there
were captured in Virginia. Through a
door, barred up at other times, the men
were counted into the upper middle or
upper Chickamauga room, after which and
till o'clock at night they had the free
dom of the two upper floors Of the wretched
old building.
when free, the 1,cQ0 men literally
swarmed in the six rooms in which they
slept and lived, and so you can form some
idea OF how densely we were packed into
that one room, when hurried in at the
point of the bayonet for roll call
Sat the door, through which we passed,
stood Little Ross Turner's clerk, who
kept the tally of the men as they passed
through, and subsequently reported the
number present or ,'unaccounted for to
the commandant.
''There We're glassless skylights through
the roof over the upper west and upper
east rooms, which were used by the man
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01
Graves VIII Run,

DULUTH, May 30.-Colonel G. Ell.
Graves has published a letter accepting
the call to make the run for congress in
the Sixth congressional district. This
was in response to a call signed by
about $50 Republican politicians, promi-
nent citizens, newspaper aen and others,
who asked him to be candidate.
The A. NJ E. and the A. M. Zion
churches OF America have voted to con-
solidate under the name of the African
and Zion Methodist Episcopal church.
1t is definitely settled that w. w.
Finley, ex-chairman of the Western
Passenger association, becomes general
traffic manager of the Great Northern.
A special cable dispatch to the New
York Herald from Montevideo says the
military prisoners who were concerned
IN the late emeute have been liberated.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers has reelected Past Master
Arthur grand chief engineer for four
years. He has already served eighteen
years.
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01
FURTHER DETAILS

OF the Cyclones Work at Wellington and
Harper, Kan.
WELLINGTON, Kan, May 30.-It is
now known to certainty that twenty
lives were lost in Friday nights cyclone
in this city and the fatally injured list
Is adding hourly to the list of dead.
There are lots of persons known to be
missing, but no trace of their bodies can
be found until the wreckage Of the
Phillips House and the stores ON Wash
ington avenue have been removed. The
Phillips House register cannot be found
and the clerk, Henry Adams, is uncon-
scious from injuries. so he cannot tell
who was in the building. Following is
a list of dead so far identifed:
LEONARD ADAMsoN, cut in two by plate
glass.
JESSE BOWERS, colored barber.
Kan.
JAMES CoRRIsoN.
FRANK CAMPBELL.
MATILDA CARSON.
CAROLINE DIILARD, colored.
WILLIAM FRENCH, barber
JAMES HASTE, crushed into an almost
unrecognizable mass
. JAMES HENDRICKS, killed by falling
beam.
HENRY JAMES, boy tramp, killed in a
box car.
IDA JONES, waitress at the Phillips
House, died from fright.
WILLIAM JONES, struck on the head by
flying brick.
WHARTON MASON.
JAMES MAYER, Kansas City.
MRS. J. K. SAsHER, bride of three
months, burned to death. Her husband
is insane from grief and was placed under
restraint.
MAMIE STRAIN, burned to death.
HART UPsON, supposed to be under the
ruins of his home.
JAMES WEAVER, tailor, crushed at the
Phillips House.
In addition to the above about twenty
five were seriously injured, many
fatally. .. - =.-..
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01
s. ]. StebbinS \ Go.

Have largely increased stock of Staple and
Fancy Groceries, Crockery, Glassware, etc.
Their stock Of canned and evaporated
Fruits, Preserves and Bottled Goods was
never as large and choice as now. Fresh
Fruits and Vegetables always on hand.
Choice Tobaccos and Cigars specially
Eggs, Good Butter and all kinds of Veget-
ables always wanted at the highest market
price. All kinds Of goods will be sold very
low for Cash. Remember, S. J. STEBBINS
& co are always glad to see you, and will
do their best to serve you.
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01
AT HARPER.

Thirteen People Are Known to Have Per
ished and Thirty Others Are Missing.
HARPER, Kan, May 30.-The cyclone
that devastated the city Of Wellington
at o'clock Friday night reached this
town about three hours later. The de-
pot was blown away and all means of
communication with the outer world cut
off. AT present thirteen people are
dead and thirty others unaccounted for.
The list of known dead is as as follows
Mrs. F. A. BEATTY and child
MRS. JAMES B. GALLAGHER and child.
o. \. HUFELL.
CHARLES MALLORY
MCHENRY, crushed at the Rothschild
block.
HENRY STIvERs, killed by flying bricks.
J. H. STRAIHAN, banker, crushed to
death.
WILLIAM STEVENSON, neck broken.
Mrs. JOHN NJ. ToMLIN, baby and child.
The scene at the devastated town is
one of ruin and destruction. Hardly a
building in the entire town escaped de-
struction and the place is strewn with
debris from end to end. 1t is almost a
miracle that more lives were not lost,
In the Tebbett hotel there were at least
thirty guests and many of these cannot
be accounted for. The cyclone came
without any warning whatever. There
was small cloud i'll the southwest but
no one noticed it particularly.
All of a sudden, with a mighty roar, the
work of destruction was begun. The
Rothsclild's building, just completed,
was torn to pieces in an instant. Fifty
dwellings were smashed into kindling
wood and most of them were piled in
one spot near the opera house, which
was lifted bodily and dropped within a
block of its site where it fell all to
pieces Of its own weight. The force of
the cyclone was inestimable. 1t took a
locomotive that stood near the depot and
deposited it, still stealning, in a creek
half mile away. Hundreds of families
are homeless and without food or shelter.
Relief committees have arrived here
from Hutchinson and Kingman every
thing possible is being done to relieve
the destitute and care for the injured.
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01
Russia and Germany Negotiating.

LONDON, May S0.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent of The Daily Chronicle
says: 1t is reported officially here that
strenuous efforts are being made to re-
store the modus yivendi between Russia
and Germany. It is said that the latter
country demands the duties on German
manufactures be reduced, and that
Russia is willing to grant this demand
if Germany will agree not to attack
France and not to oppose Russia's efforts
to restore in Bulgaria the status quo
ante.
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01
ANOTHER DEcLINATlON.

The Assertion Made that Blaine Will Re-
itorato His Former Statement.
WASHINGTON, May 30.-There is a
general expectancy here that Secretary
Blaine will give out for publication an
other letter reiterating, in even stronger
terms, his position taken by the letter of
Feb. 6. 1t is stated on very good au-
thority that Blaine is ready to write
such letter if the president desired it.
AS the president is out of the city it is
doubtful if Secretary Blaine will state
any more definitely his position at pres
ont
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01
TWO HUNDRED HOUSES
Leveled by the Cyclone at Wellingtol


Leveled by the Cyclone at Wellington
loss Half IA Million.
ST. LOUIS, May 2S.-The Globe-Demo-
Gratis Wellington special says that the
loss by the cyclone will aggregate $780,
900. Two hundred brick and wooden
buildings were destroyed. Editor Luke
Herring of The Monitor was caught in
his falling building and badly in
jured Hundreds of men are work
ing in the ruins in the hope of res
cuing the imprisoned people. The house
of Esquire Smith was levelled and sew
eral members of the household mangled
two probably fatally. The fire is still
raging.
The streets are impossible and moth
ing but ruin exists everywhere. At
least twelve bodies have already been
taken out of the ruins, and something
less than seventy-five are injured. Men
are working everywhere trying to rescue
imprisoned ones. No one now can real
iZe the extent af the catastrophe.
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01
A KANSAS CYCLONE
TOWN OF WELLINGTON VISITED
BY THE STORM KING.

Hundreds of Buildings Wrecked and the
Damage to Property Very Heavy-Num-
ber of Dead VIII Probably Reach Fifty,
: While Scores Are Injured-Ruined
Structures Take Fire and Add to the
Horror OF the Scene.
WELLINGTON, Kan, May Pa ter
rible cyclone struck this town shortly
after 9 p. M, sweeping everything in its
path. Great loss of life is reported. The
nulu>.:C Of dead will probably reach
fifty while hundreds of others are in
jured. To add to the horror of the sit
uation fIc i'yoke out among the ruins
and many of the injured are supposed to
have been burned to death.
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01
State Land Sales.

ST. PAUL, May 30.-State Auditor
Bierman has returned from the land
sales in Norman, Polk and Marshall
counties. He sold 900 acres in Norman
county, 4,o00 in Polk and 76O in Mar
shall. The competition was so light as
to amount to almost none at all, and the
lands, with rare exceptions, sold for S.
per acre. The farmers were too busy to
come to town, and besides the present
crop prospects up there are such as to
discourage them from purchasing any
more land
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01
More officers came up, bringing with them

More officers came up bringing with them
more guards,
"The prisoners were driven down to the
ground floor, and counted up the steps one
at time.
"Turner and all his friends were keeping
tally. The last man was counted. The
tallies were added up and compared They
agreed with each other, as they did with
the first tally made by Ross. One hundred
and ten men had left Libby for liberty and
Richmond, for Gods land as we called
the north"
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01
THE BOAT UPSET.

Three Young Men Drowned in the NIissis-
sippi at Red Wing.
RED Wing, Mimi, May 31.-Three
young men met death by drowning in
the river here. They are Gustaf Hall
gren, Swan Soderlind and John A. Ben
son.. In company with Sam johnson,
they went out On the river for pleasure
trip in a small boat. The cable ferry
was crossing at the time, and in attempt
ing to cross the cable the boat was up
set. johnson clung to the .upturned
boat and was saved, but the others were
drowned. All were young men about
20 years of age.
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01

New YORK, May 31.-The fund for
the erection of the Grant monument has
been completed. That was the an
nouncement made amid the cheers of
the multitude at the Memorial Day ex-
ercises in front of the tomb of the de-
ceased general.
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01

The certificate of Incorporation of the
National Lead company of New Jersey.
which has bought all the lead works in
the country, has been filed in Buffalo,
N. Y. The capital stock is $50, 600, 900.
General H. T. siokles, a cousin of
General Daniel E. Sickles, and who
served with Sherman and was after
wards military governor of South Caro-
ina, died in Monte Vista, Colo, Monday
aged 72.
William Walter Phelps, the Ameri-
gan minister at Berlin, who has been for
twenty years one OF the alumni repre-
sentativcs in the Yale corporation, has
reiterated his determination not to serve
any longer.
w. w. Finley, it is officially an
nounced, is general traffic manager of
the Great Northern. j. N. Faithorn
will probably succeed Mr.. Finley as
chairman of the Western Passenger as
,ociation.
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Wll be open as follows: Wednesday after
noon from to and Saturday evening from
2 TO o'clock.
j. d. GILLEsPIE. Librarian.
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01
Thursday.

WASHINGTON. May 26-In the house, in
committee of the whole. amendments to
the worlds fair bill prohibiting lotteries
or games of chance within one mile of the
grounds, closing the fair on Sunday and
prohibiting the sale of Intoxicating liquors
on the grounds were voted down. The
provision to close the government exhibit
on Sunday was adopted. Also that no
liquor should be sold in any government
building.
In the senate: after debate of some
length on Mr.. Morgan's silver resolution,
Mr.. Stewart moved, in order to afford
senators the opportunity to have a test
vote, to take up the bill introduced by
him, and reported adversely from the
committee on finance ito provide for the
free coinage Of gold and silver.' The yeas
and nays were called for. The vote was
thereupon taken and the result was an
nounced as yeas, 2S; nays, 60
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01


WASHINGTON, May 27.-After the morn
| ing hour the house went into committee
Of the whole on the sundry civil bill
| After some minor amendments the bill
was reported to the house and passed
The house then went into committee of
the whole on the postoffice appropriation
bill, Mr.. Buchanan of Virginia in the
chair.
The senate transacted routine business
until 2 o'clock when the free coinage bill
was taken up for discussion. After q
short debate Mr. Stewart asked unani-
nous consent that the bill be taken up
from day to day after the disposition of
routine business until disposed of.
Agreed to. Mr.. Allison, at 2;45 D. M.
moved an executive session, and after
few minutes passed behind closed doors
the senate adjourned until Tuesday next.
Saturday.
WASHINGTON, May 2S In the house the
legislative appropriation bill was reported
by Mr.. Forney, of Arkansas, and referred
to the committee of the whole, The house
then went into committee of the whole,
Mr.. Buchanan, of Virginia, in the chair.
on the postofflce appropriation bills.
The senate was not in session.
Morris tribune., 1892-06-01
CONGRESSIONAL.
TUESDAY.

| WASHINGTON, May 24-In the senate
Mr.. Mitchell, of Oregon, from the com
mittee on privileges and elections, re-
| ported back the resolution proposing q
constitutional amendment providing fo1
the election of senators by the people,
| stating that as the committee was equal :
divided on the. question he asked that
each member have leave to present his
views. 1t was so ordered. Mr. Pettigrew
reported a resolution, which was placed
on the calendar, authorizing the president
to proclaim general holiday on the 18th
day of October next to commemorate the
400th anniversary of the discovery of
America. At 4:35 the senate adjourned
In the house Mr.. Stewart, of Texas, en-
deavored to have a conference committee
appointed on the river and harbor bill,
but Mr.. Holman objected. The house
then went into committee of the whole on
the sundry civil bill, and after discussing
various items of the bill the committee
arose and the house adjourned.
Wednesday,.
WASHINGTON, May 25-The resolution
offered by Mr. Morgan March 81, direct
ing the comr ittee on finance to make an
examination and report in relation to cur
the act of July, 1890, on the prices of sill
yer bullion, was taken up in the senate
Mr.. Morgan called for the yeas and nays
on the adoption of the resolution. Mr.
Morrill, moved that the resolution be re-
ferred to the committee on finance. Mr..
Morgan demanded the yeas and nays on
the motion to refer. The motion was de-
feated- 1S to %. Mr.. Hill entered the
chamber while the vote was being taken,
but did not VOTE
There was great surprise in the house
when Representative Henderson, of Iowa,
arraigned President Harrison and the
governors of states for failure to give rep
resentation to colored people in connec-
tion with the worlds fair. He was fol-
lowed by Mr.. Johnson, of Indiana, in a
speech eulogistic of President Harrison,
denuciatory of the Democratic party in it's
treatment of the negro in the South and
strongly in favor of the force bill There
was great excitement and confusion dur
ing the delivery of Mr.. Johnson's speech.
He was finally called to order and other
business taken up.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-03-30
THE SILVER FUNERAL

The silver business has been so neatly
and expeditiously killed in congress that it
is hard to realize that it is dead. Not two
weeks ago everybody felt sure that the
Bland bill would easily pass the house.
Now almost everybody is as sure that it
will never be heard from again. And but
little attention is paid to the talk that the
silver men will try to regain in the senate
some of the ground they have 30 suddenly
and surprisingly lost in the house.
It is said that there has been very
noteworthy change of attitude on the part
of members from the South. They have
heard from their constituents, who have not
ceased to believe, in general way, in free
coinage, but who demand that their
representatives shall not do anything
rash till there has been chance for
some real discussion of the silver question
on the stump. Hitherto there has been
no discussion worthy the name of the
South. Everybody there seems to have
taken it for granted that the southern rep
resentatives spoke the truth during the
bill would surely go through the house at
the first session of the Fifty-first con-
gress; but nobody was prepared for the
desperate resistance made thereto by the
northern and eastern men, or for the warn
ing that the success of the free-coinage bill
meant the certain defeat of the Democratic
party. The force and vigor of the north
ern fight against free coinage has startled
the southern people and moved them to
call halt upon their representatives till
they can find out what it all means. One
southern member is showing to his most
intimate friends on the floor more than
twenty letters received from home in a
single mail, urging him to vote to postpone
further agitation till the question can be
regularly discussed like other issues.
All of which is encouraging. The South
cannot do better than to thoroughly discuss
the silver question. 1t has been blindly
led quite far enough.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-03-30
COMMUNICATIONS,
Electric Street Cars.

To the Editor Of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
Greedy as fire are great many of the
corporations and individuals with which
we are associated in these times, and if
they can but gain their own ends they care
not copper what becomes of other peo-
ple's property and rights, nor how many
lives are sacrificed. And if they need any
public favors or franchises at the start,
there are usually fools and culpable men
in Office sufficient for their needs-A case
in point here now is the use of electricity
on the West Haven horse railroad.
The general public who use teams are
forced from a condition of security to one
of constant danger and anxiety, with very
little benefit to any one except few grasp
ing money getters. If there were several
bad runaways caused by the use of one car
a short time last summer, what may we
expect in store for us when they are en-
ployed for the whole service of the rail
roads And who is to pay the damages'
The railroad company certainly do not OK
pect to. They could not afford to take
that risk. The city has no idea of doing
it either, although it has been held for
| damages caused by it's road roller, and
there is a general axoim of our laws that
whoever causes damage must pay for it..
| No, it is expected by all those in the
| scheme that whoever owns a horse must
take his chances and foot all the bills. 1t
| will be constant menace to all whose
| business forces them to have teams of
| their own, and reduces the value of all
such property in this vicinity. Like
| lightning, no one knows where it will
strike next. And the situation suggests
e
pany. JOHN M. HUBBARD,
| March go Woodmont, CT.