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Later Details.

In Kansas the area Of the storm was
bounded by the three tiers Of counties from
the eastern border, nearly every county
suffering more or less. Montgomery County.
in the extreme southeast portion. suffered
the most. The town Of Parker was laid
waste, every house in the place being more
or less wrecked, but no lives were lost:
and several persons injured. At
Robinson Owen Pelton was killed by
lightning. At Page four houses were
demolished and many others badly
damaged. Mrs. Ellis and two daughters
were blown out on the prairie and
killed. The bodies of three unknown
persons have been found near town.
Scarcely building remains intact The
storm came from the southwest. The start
where it touched the ground, tearing down
two schoolhouses and the dwelling OF COL
ored man named Hill and breaking his leg.
From there the storm passing over lnman is
described by those who saw it as being about
half-mile wide and turning in every con-
ceivable shape. While the storm was pass
ing overhead the atmosphere below was per-
fectly still. 1t was prece ted at this point
BY a very heavy hail. which did considera-
BILE damage. The first building struck in
town was the academy. It cost s43, 600.
Inc OullQlnS was bOrn 10 pieces.
At Salem, Mo-, about twenty barns
and dwellings were destroyed. Con-
dray, Mo-, mining town Of some 300
people, was torn to piec.s. or all the
stores, shops, barns and residences, only two
remain in shape and only one or two more
can be repaired. At this placs seven per-
sons were killed outright, and
three others have since died. The list
Of injured reaches nearly twenty.
All along the line VI the storm, which av-
eraged about a mile in width. fruit trees,
forest trees and fencing were swept away.
The tornado was preceded by hail and ac-
companied by heavy rain. The residence Of
Judge D. NJ Green in Courtois township
was blown down, and Judge Green was
killed. On Crooked Creek the house ofLouis
Key was destroyed, and Mr.. Key injured.
About 1880 o'clock in the evening, during
a heavy rainstorm, q tornado struck Ypsi-
lanti, Mich, and swept through its centre.
Twelve or fifteen Of the principal business
blocks in the city were demolished and others
had their roofs torn off and were otherwise
damaged. Several dwellings were also
wrecked. Nearly all the buildings
On Huron street. between Con-
gress and Pearl streets suffered.
Among the principal blocss blown down are
the Opera House, HAWKINS House, Union
block, Occidental Hotel, business college
and the Postoffice building. The Central
Telephone and the Western Union Tele-
graph offices suffered severely, the former
losing all Of its main wires. A box factory
was also wrecked. Quite number or
people were injured.
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LATER NEWS.

THE White Star steamer Majestic arrived
at New York from liverpool with a party
OF thirty British newspaper men, who will
visit the Worlds Fair at Chicago and Incl
dentally the leading cities Of the Union.
THE convention Of Southern Governors
opeued at Richmond, Va. The following
States were represented: Maryland, Vir-
pinia, North Carolina. South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee,
Louisiana West Virginia, Arkansas and
Mississippi The States without representa-
tiyes wers Kentucky. Florida and Texas.
EXCITEMENT caused by violent fucsua-
lions in wheat continued on the Cnica 60
Board of Trade.
A GENERAL uprising Of natives against
Christiansis threatened in Corea and prompt
steps have been taken by the State Depart
ment and Navy Department to avert blood
shed.
THERE were rioting and strikes In many
places in Belgium on account OF the rejec
ton by the Chamber Of Deputies OF the
bill for universal suffrage
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FIERCE TORNADO.
It Left q Trail OF Destruction
Through Western New York.

1t Lett q Trail or Destruction
Through Western New York.
Western New York was tornado-swept a
few days siuce. Tha storm spread over
Springville. Westaeld, Brocktop, Angola,
Maysville, Dunkirk and the adjoining
country. It did not last much over an hour,
but the damage to crops, cattle and build
ings will reach many thousands OF dollars.
1t swept over the grape country,
At Springville barn belonging to Ved-
der Hempstreet was blown down, and
Hempstreet ami his hired man were hurried
in the ruins Hempstreet being crushed to
death. The hired man was caught between
two cows and was saved from death, while
the efour COWS around him were killed.
At Westfeld trees foot in diameter were
uprooted, many buildings were unroofed
and several smaller structures were blown
from their foundations. Many greenhouses
were destroyed. the roofs being scooped out
clean. A water tower and windmill on E.
Il. Dickerman's place was lifted bodily and
moved six feet from its site.
At BrocIton, the heart of the grape coun.
try. the orchards and vineyards we're badly
torn up. A new store belonging to Thomas
Moss was blown down.
Angola had heavy rain with the wind. The
uOS0 So"CAt navy ACoo hASat "h'So "so ees
mounted by the fire bell, was blown over. 1t
carried with it al; the telephone and tals-
graph wires. Tho roof OF the Angola Hotel
was badly wrecked.
Between Angola and Farnham, the high
embankment by the side Of the Lake Shore
Railroad tracks was washed out and one
track had to be abandoned. Boat-houses
were washed away at Mayville.
Dunkirk had the Iveliest time Of all.
Trees were torn up, wires blown down, a
cupalo was swept from a residence and the
slate roof of st. Johns Church was ripped
up in many places. the building used for
general exhibits and floral hall on tie
grounds OF the Chautauqua County Agricul.
tural Association was destroyed and the
stock exhibition sheds were damaged.
The path Of the storm seems to have been
about half mile wide. It appears to have
struck just east Of Springfield and to have
Travelled In an almost straight line west,
through Dunkirk and on to the lake.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.


FIVE inches of snow fell In the Mohawk
Valley. New York, a few days ago.
GEORGE INaaAaAM SESEY, banker. phil.
authropist and art lover, died at the Grand
Hotel in New York City. Heart failure was
the immediate cause Of death. He was born
in 1896
THE President, Secretary Gresham and
Senator White spent quiet day at Viii.
mington, Del, the home Of Ambassador
BaYard.
THE annual banquet of the New York
Board of Trade and Transportation was
given at Delmonicos. Over one hundred
and fifty members and guests ended:
Speeches were made by Governor Stone, OF
Missouri; ex-Secretary Fairchld, Il. w. y.
Ham, the Georgia humorist, and others.
GOVERNOR FLOWER signei Senator
Parkers bill making April 81. 1893. the day
Of the naval parade in New York Harbor,
legal holiday throughout ths State.
SATISFACTORY trials Of the United States
cruiser Detroit were made of Newport,
r. l.
MANY houses were unroofed and several
persons hurt by tornado near Scranton,
Penn.
ELLIE BRIGHTEN, aged eleven, of Wealth
erly, PENN, skipped rope $50 times and then
died.
JOHN RYAN and David Freer were
drowned in Rondout Greek, at Kingston, N.
Y. They backed their team over the bank
in turning around in the dark.
COLONEL ELLIOTT F. SHEPAsD's will was
filed in New York City; his bequests Tor
religious purposes aggregated sS5o.ooo.
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South and West.

THREE small children Of J. Nance were
burned to death at Cumming, Ga., while
their parents were au neighbours.
THE Right Rev. William Iugraham Kip,
Bishop of California. is dead. He had beeu
identified with the Episcopal Church since
1853. OF late years the aged Bishop mad
been infirm and almost blind. He was born
in New York City October 8, 1911.
The Northwestern State Bank of Sibley.
Iowa. has closed its doors with liabilities OF
S150,OOo.
NEAR Owensboro, Ky. the Glenmore
warehouses with Il, 600 barrels OF whisky,
were burned.
DAMAGE was done by wind storms in sew
eral Western States; there was tidal wave
in the Chicago River; a Worlds Fair hotel
and the Panorama" building in Chicago
collapsed.
THE Texas House voted for impeachment
of Land Commissioner McCaughey.
PRAIRIE fires have been raging in Ne
braska.
WH1rgFAosD HORSE, the Sioux Indian
Chief who accompanied Two Strike in his
raid on Humphreys ranch, in which four
cowboys were killed, committed suicide at
camp on White River, Iowa, by shooting
himself through the head.
A POURING rain auenched the fires that
had been devastating the country near
Portsmouth, Ohio. Over $500, ,0O0 worth OF
timber had been burned.
ANDREW CAMPBELL, a we'll known farmer
near Bangor, Mich, shot and killed his d.
vorced wife and then took his own life. The
couple had been living in the same house
and became involved in quarrel, which
terminated in Campbslls desperate act
THE first Of the visiting foreign war YES.
sells entered the Roads Fortress Monroe,
Va, and dropped anchor beside the White
Squadron. She is a Russian cruiser and her
name when translated into English Is the
General Admiral. Calls Of ceremony were
exchanged by the officers q the American
and Russian ships.
NICHOLAS STEUER and his wife were
killed by train at Cumminsville, Ohio.
TIE Russian cruiser Rynda arrived at
Hampton Roads, Va, the American teet,
except the Philadelphia, decided to execute
additional manoeuvres beyond the Cipes.
Four THOUSAND workmen at the Worlds
Fair, Chicago, I'LL, went out on strike; the
difficulty was settled In the evening.
MOST of the American fset left Hampton
Roads, Va, for a short practice cruise at
sea.
J. JEFFc DATE, farmer, living eight
miles west Of PicAens, Miss, was ly nched
by a mob for killing his wife. The body
was then riddled with bullets.
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PROGRAMME OF PARADE
Offi cial Orders for the Naval
Reyiew in New York HarbOrr
a General Outline Of the Move
ments of Vessels.

The Secretary Of the Navy has decided
upon the official programme Of the review
of the United States and foreign ships OF
war, which by act Of Congress will take
placs In New York Harbor on the 27th in
slant.
The men-of.war will be anchored In two
columns, extending from Twenty-sixth
street up the North River, the foreign ships
on the Nav York side.
dent of the United States, is passing be-
tween the columns, that portion OF the
North River between ths American column
and the New York shore will be closed and
all the traffic and passage susoended. After
the Dolphin has anchored at the head OF tns
iine vessels Of all kinds may circle around
the Aeet. going up the New Jersey side OF
the river, bat tho passage between the two
columns will be closed until the President
has landed from the Dolphin and the rs-
view thereby terminated.
The President and members OF the CaodneG
will be received on board the Dolphin at
1920 a. m. of Twenty-third street. North
River. The Dolphin will then get under way,
and, followed BY the coast survey steamer
Blake and the steamer Monmouth, will pro.
ceed up the river between the columns Of
United States and foreign msn-oi-war. The
Blake will carry the members OF the dtpio'
matte corps. The Monmouth will carry the
Judges Of the Supreme Court, Senators and
Representatives Of the United States, and
Governors Of States, accompanied by one
staff officer. No other invitations Will be
issued for the review.
The Dolphin, proceeding between the col
umns, will, as she passes the various SHIPS,
be saluted with the honols laid down by
international treaties due to the Cnief o.
State, and arriving as the head OF ths col
umns will anchors between them. The Blake
will anchor at the head Of the foreigE ano
the Monmouth of the American column
The flag officers and the Captains OF tn.
men.of.wa will then be received on board
Of the Dolphin and be presented to the fres
ident OF the United States, who will enter
tain them at lunch. Lunch will at the same
time be served on the Blake and Monmouth
to the guests on board. The review VIII
terminate BY the return Of the Dolphin,
Blake and Monmouth through the lines, and
when the Presidents flag is hauled dowI
from the Dolphin it will be salutsd VIII
twenty-one guns by all the men -of'"s'
present.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

SENATOR TURPIE, Of Indiana. speaks eight
languages. ILL.,. :......
COLONEL "Tox' ocH1LTREE has arrived
from Europe. ...-.,.. -,,...-...,..
GRRMANY's Crown PRINCE will be edu-
cated In the public schools. .. E7
TIE Sultan Of Turkey is an excellent pisn-
ist, and spends hours every day practiclnS.
A. c. BKcKw1rH, the new Senator from
Wyoming, built the first frame house In
Cheyenne.
Rev. F. E. CLARK, the originator and
President of the Christian Endeavor move
ment Is Canadian by birth.
SECRETARY HERBERT is a hard worker.
He often remains at the Navy Department
until Up. m. answering letters.
GENERAL F. j. LIPPTT, of Washington.
Is the only survivor Of the few who, stand
ing at the grave, witnessed the interment OF
] Lafai ette. --
AS British Minister at Washington, Sir
Julian .Pauncefote received $50, 900 year.
As Ambassador to Washington his salary
will be $50, 900.
IT Is said that until year ago the people
of the little town Of Randolph, Mass, where
Miss Mary e. Wilkins lives, had no idsa that
she was an authoress. -.
ATTORNEY GENERAL OLNHY Is q mem:
Der of the Boston Athletic Association, and
has the reputation Of being one OF the best
tennis players In the country.
MRS. WELD declares in an article on Ten
nyson In the Contemporary Review that no
| clergyman was ever mora earnest studeus
| of the Bible than was the Late Poet Laure-
ate. |.r ...+ r... Co..
TIE King OF Greece likes to walk about
the streets OF Athens unattended by any
members Of his suite. On Sundays hs occa.
sionaly goes to the English Church OF 81
| Paul, where he occupies any pew that may
bevacant.
Nicola TESLA, whose discoveries In cleo
tricai science have lately attracted much
attention. lectures in very simple ana az.
English authority on electricity, Doctor
OliverJ. Lodge. q =.
The Duke of York, heir presumptive to
| the British Throne, is an ardent stamp col
| lector. and has Just been made honorary
| Vice-President Of the Philatelic Socisty OF
| London. The Duke Of Edinburgh Is the
honorary President. ( +.
DIETRICH R1EKE has been bass violinis!
IN the Mobile (Ala.) Theatre for ffty-threc
| wears. There he stands nightly by his Dig
| instrument. and saws calmly and as steadily
as il he were part Of the musical machin'
cry; he never misses. .lg
ONE Of the trustees Of the Brooklyn Taber'
racle has announced that the $50, 900 neces-
sary to pay part OF the floating debt OF tne
institution has been raised and that DOCTOR
Talmage will remain In Brooklyn. Ihsre
&4o, 600 more TO be raised In q few montns.
JOSEPH PULITZER, proprietor Of the New
York World, maintains Paris residence a
a cost of $2OO, 900 year. the, establishment
including dozen horses ana tnlrGY serxan.s snne
| He has also handsome new foFk resuenC ,
near m Central Park. His health still kesp
him abroad.
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PERU MAKES PREPARATION
William p. Griffith Was the United
states Agent Attacked.

" 0EihkUA W a. S"o ~ S.AsS~
States Agent Attacked. o..
The Peruvian Government has taken ths
initiatory steps toward complying with the
demands of the United States that repara-
ton he made for the outrage committed on
one OF its consular agencies in Peru. 1t was
not until few days after that the name OF
the place attacked, which was omitted in
the first despatch from Minister Hicks noti.
flying Secretary Gresham OF the affair, was
made known to the State Department.
The Information was contained in cable.
gram from Minister Hicks. It states that
the consular agency attacked is at Mollendo,
Peru, and that in answer to ths demand for
satisfaction made by the Administration,
the Government Of Peru Immediately re-
moved tho sub-prerect OF the department In
which Mollendo is situated and promised to
provide suitable reparation, aud, further.
more, that the Government has expressed
its regrets for the occurrence. This intor-
nation is entirely satisfactory to the United
States Government.
The name of the consular agent at
Mollendo, which is omitted from the
dispatches received from Minister Hicks, is
William P Griffith. He was appointed
from Pennsylvania, March 80, 1889.
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BIG BANK FAILURE.
The English, Scottish and Australian
Chartered Bank Suspends.

The English, Scottish and Australian
Chartered Bank Suspends.
The English, Scottish and Australian
Chartered Bank, of London, has failed, with
liabilities amounting to s4oOoO,Oo9. The
bank was incorporated by royal charter in
In 1852, with paid.up capital Of s+,5O0, COD
and a reserve fund Of 81, $50, 900.
The suspended bank has main branches at
Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne,
and at various lesser points in the colonies
Of New South Wales, Victoria and South
Australia. It transacted banking and ex.
change business between Great Britain and
the Australian colonies. and had large de-
posits. The failure has added to the an 1iety
and CONSERVATION which previous recent
failures Of financial institutions with Aus
tralian connections have caused. The only
reason given for the failure Is that there has
been for several weeks a steadily increasin :
withdrawal Of deposits.
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A TORNADO'S PATH.
Robinsonville, Mss, Destroyed ana
Many People Killed.

Robinsonville, Mss, Destroyed and
Many People Killed.
A despatch from Robinsonville. Miss, re-
ports that tornado Of terrific force had
Just struck the town, demolishing buildings
right and left, with APPALLING loss OF life.
The operator said that twenty-five people
were killed. Ro5insonvllls is in Tunica
County. Mississippi, twenty:nine miles south
Of Memphis, on the Louisville and New Or-
leans Railroad
1t was destroyed by the tornado in the
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. The ruins caught
fire and but one house was left standing.
Mrs. LusS, wife Of telegraph operator,
was killed, and J. B. Dubbers. a merchant,
was seriously injured. A number OF colored
people were killed and many manned, While
hundreds of people wers left shelterless, e1,
posed to the pitiless storm. A colored
schoolhouse near Robinsonviile was blown
down and twenty-five people killed.
Rain and wind storms also prevailed over
West Tennessee, Eastern Arkansas and
Northern Mississippi but so Iar as learned
RobinsonviIle aud vicinity alone suffered
from tie storm.
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TIE LABOR WORLD.
LONDON has 5000 sailors.
FARM hands are organizing.
THERE are 5000 union BARRIERS.

FARM hands are organizing.
THERE are 5000 union BARRIERS.
ENGLAND has !, 900 900 union men.
THERE are said to be 10000 union bakers
hCRIcAao has 1000 Brotherhood locomotive
engineers.
UNCLE SAN employs $4,000 clerks in
;Washingtop.
TIE machinists have 3s5 unions and 16, =
coo members.
NEW ENGLAND has gained 500 union car
penters In q month.
TIE State Of Washington is to hold an
annual labor congress.
LONDON clothing houses are engaging
many Polish Hebrews.
TIE latest edict is that all White House
employees must wear uniforms.
EMPLOYMENT Is scarce and laborers are
over-plentiful In South Australia.
In New Mexico the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad has discharged all union hands
The railroad service Of the United States
gives employment to about ], 600, 900 people.
BRITISH miners, by vote Of 1873 900 to
117.OOO. killed the project for general shut
down.
OVER 10000 miners are out Of employ
ment owing to depression in the English
coal trade.
KENTUCKY coal miners are charged az O
year rental for houses that cost only $40
when built.
NEWS from South Australia shows that
employment is scarcs there and tho number
Of unemployed great.
THERE are 140c German union printers
snd Sl25, 600 has been disbursed by the or
ganization In eight years.
ALL idle men who are willing to work, in
Beattle, Washington, are supplied with tools
and set at wood chopping, for the city, at
fair wages.
DURING last year $4,000 men were EN-.
ployed IN the Krupp foundries. These.
with their families, formed community Of
s7.9C0 persona.
PROFESSOR Lucy NJ. SALMON, Of Vassar
College. has just completed an admirable
study Of the domestic labor problem, which
Is soon TO be issued in book form.
BEN JEANS has been passenger conduc-
tor on the Great Western Railway OF En-.
gland tor fifty years. has Travelled in that
time 4H, 49, pniles and has nevac met with
an accident
THERE are As. 600 union bricklayers in the
United States and Canada. Union men say
there are only 1900 non union men in both
countries. They have s2Ss,0OO in treasury.
The Minnesota Legislature has passed a
bill declaring 1t a misdemeanor on the part
OF employers to require as condition of
employment the surrender Of any right of
citizenship.
THE employees Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road have raised Sl5,0 0o0 towards tae erec-
tion Of building for their exclusive uss in
Philadelphia, Penn. The building is to be a
model one and will contain reading, recep-
dop, bath rooms and q gymnasium, and
otherwise will be nicely and comfortably
furnished.
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Wanted n Book on Courtins.

The requests made to editors are
curious at times. One Of the frank
est ever made public was addressed
to the Scotsman recently, the envel-
one bearing request that the letter
should be handed to any bookseller
in Edinburgh. The letter ran: "Ihe
kind of a book that 1 want is a
Counting book-a book that VIII tell
me how to talk to the lass that l
love, a book that will tell me the
words to ask her when be courtlng
her, is the sort of book that l want.
No matter how few or how little the
words may be-"
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OFFICIALS IMPEACHED,

Secretary of State, Acknowledgement
and Ex-Treasurer to be Tried.
A joint session of the Nebraska Legisla,
ture at Lincoln adopte articles Of impeach-
meut against Secretary of State Allen, At.
torney-General Hastings and Commissioner
Humphrey.
The articles against ex-Stats Treasurer
John E. Hill were adopted in the afternoon.
The cases will now 60 to the Supreme Court
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Foreign.

The rsvo't in thu Province OF Catamar-
ca, Arsentins, is spreading AMI ginning
power. Several encolnters hetwean trov-
ernment troo,s and insurgents have bsea
reported. Many were kille in the field on
each side, and all the prisoners were shot.
In East Sumatra there has been lighting
between the Dutcamen and the natives.
Ths Dutch were victorious. They cap
tured eight forts AMI many guns. They
lost six killei AMI forsy-hva wounded.
Sixty-three Achinese were killed.
STRIKING dock laborers in Hull. England,
ATTACKED nnn- union men ami the offices Of the
Shipping Federation; they were dispersed
by the police.
A SEVERE earthquake was felt in many
parts OF Servla. The village of Veliki Popo-
Witch was tunbei into ruins and several in
haoitants were killed. Deaths in wrecked
houses were also reported from other vii.
lagos.
THE caravel Santa Maria arrived at
Havana, Cuba, from Porto Rico. She was
welcomed by cheering crowds at the docks.
The Viking ship for the Worlds Fair
sailed from Chrstiania, Sweden. She will
cruise along the coast in order that the
people may have an opportunity to see her,
and early in May will sail from Bergen to
the United States
The French Government has apologized
to the German Ambassador in Paris for the
detention OF letters addressed to him by a
German while in French prison.
THERE were three deaths from CHOLERA at
Lorienu. France; sixteen cases OF the dis
ease were reported in Galicla.
OsMAN DIayA. the Dervish leader has