Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-07-15
A Little Hail, But It Is Thought
That the Crops Will Not Be
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Damaged.
Rumors of q Bloody Fight Between
Occur D'Alene Strikers and
Authorities.
III Heavens Opened.

CdGluR cdlm. WltuOuG d Iesultdut stoI",
and Monday wind and ram proved
it not the Exception which proves"
From early in the morning, the weather
prophets and wise-acres predicted all
kinds and descriptions of atmospherical
disturbances, from sun showers to
cyclones, and the storm was a happy
medium. Up to about 3 o'clock, the
SKY wal perfectly clear, its clearness
marred only here and there by a hazy
cloud, skurrying across the sky, in an
endeavor to join its kindred below the
horizon. AT about 3 o'clock, however, a
heavy cloud made its appearance in the
southeast, and, spreading, soon OBJ
scured the whole southern sky. The air
was calm, with not a breath of air
stirring, and the stiffness was intense.
| From this time, the clouds spread
rapidly, until not a speck of the sky, so
beautifully blue but a short time before
was to be seen.
At about $50, the stiffness was sud-
denly and abruptly broken. With a re.
sounding whistle and rush, the i%nitiatory
blast caught up the loose dust from the
street, and whirled it spitefully into the
faces Of pedestrians. And then was
hurrying and skurrying to get
off the street, and into some
kind of shelter. This was but
the warning of the storms approach.
Another blast, and then another of a
still greater intensity followed, and the
air was filled with a swirling dust, and
flying fragments Of paper and other
light material.
The cloud display and movement was
beautiful. In the north, a huge bank
shone black as jet, frowning and lower
ing, against the lighter colored clouds
above it. The clouds grew lighter as
they were farther from the horizon, and
a sort of a circular movement among
them was noticeable. After a lull in the
wind, it began again, with a still fercer
intensity, and was finally followed by a
rain, of extraordinary violence. This
changed to hail which lasted but a few
moments, and then turned to a steady
downpour. The lightning was brilliant,
and from the violence of the thunder
and its close following of the flash, it
was eurmised that some of it struck not
far from the center of town. Nor we're
these surmises wrong. The house of F.
H. Register was struck, the lightning
entering between the pane and casing of
the window, tearing eff plastering and
breaking things up generally, although,
luckily, no one was seriously injured,
beyond the receiving of a generous
electric shock.
1t is not thought that the hail was
heavy enough or of a sufficiently great
area of fall to do much, if any damage
to crops. The amount of rainfall was
about three-fourths of an inch, it lasting
but twenty minutes.
Another Fight.
Passengers on Mondays train were
discussing an as yet unsubstantiated
rumor that a fight Of more serious re-
suits than the Homestead calamity had
taken place at the Occur D'Alene mines,
in the vicinity of Wordner, Idaho. The
removal of regular miners, and the sub.
stitution of "scabs" is too we'll known to
be commented upon, and 1t seems that
the trouble resulted in a blood thirsty
ARRAY. These miners are generally
"tough," and are armed to the teeth
possessing the ability and incllnntlon to
make a nasty fight. "Mind, I don't
vouch for the truth of this" said the
narrator, "but an agent up the line 6
little way overheard a 400 word dispatch
gong over the wire to Kimberley, re-
garding the conflict"
The rumor has received no authentica
ton, as yet, but it is supposed there ii
some foundation for it.
Here's a Prohibition Argument,
Will Tubbs in jamestown Alert: Yor
see this piece of crash. Well, it's mad,
from homegrown fax, manufactured a
Minneapolis, by n of the new mill
that have been started in the United
States since the passage of the Nc
Kinley bill. This crash is as good 8
\ can be made in Ireland or Scotland, i
! sold for the same money-10 cents a
, any store will buy a, towel of this size
!, Before the Mckinley bill went into ei
! feet, there was but one firm in til
: United States making linen goods of
. certain kind much used. Now there ar
five big plants turning out the goods
!: The house I am travelling for says
Push this crash. 1t 10 a good articl
and cheap, and it's sale builds up an in
dustry at home"
q Old Time Bismarckers in Washingto
WASHINGTON, July Especial.
q GeorgeP. Flannery, formerly Of BIZ
march, and Frank j. Irons, formerly I