The Newtown bee., 1893-07-14
General News.
IN THE STATE AND THE WIDE FIELD

IN THE STATE AND THE WIDE FIELD.
 The cyclone has been getting in it's work in the West again. Pomeroy, a little town in Iowa with 800 inhabitants, was practically wiped out by one, last Thursday. Nearly 100 persons were killed and 200 injured. At Alta, another town in the same state, five families were blown away and it is supposed were killed. The scene during the cy- clone were said to be terrifying in the extreme and people almost went crazy at the severity of the storm.
 At Wickliffe, Ky, colored man by and murdered Mary and Annie Roy. The people of that section were SD ex- cited at the tragedy that, they caught the murderer and burned him at the stake, the father of the children lighting the pile. It has since been learned that the mob killed the wrong man.
 Gen Chamberlain, warden of the states prison, has resigned his position, E p'iC lSSlSS GO bdhC pldCC 11d5 u6G AoL' The report of the secretary, MT Baer, at the Christian Endeavor convention at Montreal shows that there are million and half members of that organization. The attendance at the meeting was about l3,000 young people.
 They are having warm times in Paris | sS ', Eo+,x fI,A y,I fn
 mobs. It reminds one of the days of the French Revolution. The trouble l seems to be that the police are too im-
 There was n big col1iery explosion on the | Fourth of July at Thornhill, England. One hundred and thirty miners were caught in the mine and il is thought that aboat 100 were kill ed. There were narrowing scenes at the mouth ot the mine and one woman fell dead when she heard that her husband was killed. The worlds racing record is getting down to near two minutes tor the mile. The great pacer, Saladin, did a mile in 5 34, in Del
 eware on the Fourth Of July and another horse, I AyuS r, went mile in 5 l-2
 The people of western Kansas are leaving that part ofthe state, having been starved out The county commlssloners m o1 that sectlon d feed and seed wheat.
 -l The statue to F. T. Barnum was unveiled a Bridgeport on the Fourth before a crowd O ll,oo0 people. Rev Robert CoIlyer made
 one of the addresses.
 portant and the crowds too much ex cited, many broken heads are the result i Ina big squall off Chicago on Snnda, i 13 young men out on the lake were cap ], sized and drowned. Some of the build
 ings at the fair were slightly damaged
 New B1.ayen came very near having a goo : exposure to small -pox, Thursday the 9th. Tn
 { three masted schooner, Harold c. Beechel came to harbor loaded with lumber and on
 sick among the crew. Health iOffce 0 Wright boarded the vessel in thenick of tim n and found the man suffering from the sma pox. The other sailors thought he had mals !: ria. Had the patient got ashore and anon v the sailor quarters it would have made quit ;, an epidemic i'll the city.
 d President Cleveland has been i'll at Gray Gs le bles with the rheumatism in the foot and kne, - He has been obliged to shut himself in frol
 seeing people.
 d The Christian Endeavor Convention of tl E young peoples societies around the world b F gan it's session in Montreal, July 9th.
 The World $ tair is not success as all exh