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The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-11
81. 90 PER YEAR.
ADyERTrsHNa RATES.

For single insertion: Display matter, 20 cent
peF line, Ia lines to tho inch. Reading notices
20 cents per line. Discount for longtime con-
tracts.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14
AS THE WORLD WAGS
EVENT. OF EVERYDAY &C.
CURRENCE.
MORE HELP NEEDED.
A STATEMENT SETTING FORTH
THE NEEDS.
Much Has Been Done But Much More
Help Is Nccded-A Careful Estimate Of
the Loss Mt Pomcroy IL Placed 1T $780,
VOO-Ovcr $4,000 Has Been Received
nv the Mayor Of Pomeroy.

Pomcroy special: The following was is
sned by the Mayor Of pomeroy.
m a.. p.,,,l. - r,w.. Tho torr ado
arh,r.l.v liz ,.t,.ct, vi.,tea ,,,cn this
tnwn ,u.oss nnna,.I,a,ad d.st rmctI,r nj
itya 81 ,,rra..v 49, Iar. TIC cl,iyons NJ
reso,,rcc ax,.ant ~ .nro,I ~ tho mi iIiro
esunrnsitv ~ I,wa Mora ,h,,, ..vnntv-
ave Nv. d..I IA a, ,hIs tir,a ,,nra ,,..n
90 i,,.a..I No. a., az ...i. ,.a..a..
her.. t,nr "nnle have hnrieI the ieud'
"a .n, ,,,n I'LL .sst.nna ~, ,at,nlnan'
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14
THE LAND OFFICES.
TO CHANGE LAND OFFICES IN
SOUTH DAKOTA.
n Proposition to Change United States
Land Offices IL Not Pleasing to the PEG.
pie In Towns Where the District Offices
Are LOcated-Other State News.
Land Offices That win be Affected.

Land Ofnces That viii be Affected.
The proposition to change United
States land offices in South Dakota is
not pleasing to people in towns where
the district offices are located. and adj
vices from Washington touching the
changes only strengthen the belief
that they will be soon made. A late
dispatch says that the changes in
South Dakota will be as follows:
The land office at Yankton will be
abolished and that district attached to
the Mitchell district. The Huron and
Aberdeen offices will be closed, and
Beadle, Sphinx and Brown Counties will
be made q part Of the Watertown dis
trict. Hyde and Hand Counties. now
in the Huron district, will be- to
Pierce. Col. J. J.. S. HasS[ kthe
newly appointed chief clerk OF Tine In
terror Department, is making q strong
effort to have an Office located at For
est City, which is being developed
largely by eastern capitalists; should
this he accomplished, the new district
will probably be made up of Potter and
Faulk Counties from the Huron district
and Walworth, Edmunds, Campbell
and Mcpherson Counties from the
Aberdeen district. Should the Colonel
fail in his undertaking these counties
will go to Pierre.
This arrangement is not at all pleas
ing to the people of Aberdeen and HUI
ron, as they desire to hold on to the
benefits and business brought by hav-
ing these institutions located where
theyare. 1t is understood that petitions
will be circulated asking that the
change be not made.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14
BUSINESS TONE IMPROVING.
A More Confident Feeling Developing In
Commercial Circles.

A More Confident Feeling Developing In
Commercial Circles.
New York speci"l: L. @. Dun 4 Co. =
Weekly Trade Rcricc says: The tone in
business circles precep.f Nv Improves. On
tho whole there has been u little better
distribution OF goods 10 consumer rs, ana
perhaps countermandinG Of orders given
some montss ago was not ute rs frequent
as 1t was las. wees, The more lopefIl
symptoms are gladly noted. but while
the causes OF depression remain 1t
would be rash to calculate that the diff
cuities will not reappear. As soon as large
sums OF mo..ey will be required to move the
crops, in the present state OF the money
maj ket, some stringency Is not improba-
Die
Al Chicago the borrowing demand is still
heavy and bankers are conservative. There
Is much complained OF in collection. Re
ceipts OF most products show u decrease
compared with last year. Ea-tbound ship
ments have decreased II por cent. and
clcaring- IL per cent, At st. Louis trade
Is quiet bat collections are very fair, while
banks are most cautious. At Kansas City
trade Is very fair for the season. COLLEGE
tions below the average and receipts OF
cattle liberal, but OF hogs light. Omaha
reports Il good grocery trade.
Produce markets are higher than O week
ago. In spite of more favorable crop re-
ports. money being easier. Wheat has adj
vanced 3 cents, but though there are some
gloomy reports from the Dakotas, the geu-
etai outlook is better.
The mercantile failures during the week
number 32i In the United States, and
twenty-three In Canada. Last week the
failures In the United States numbered
3ar
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14
BAD PLIGHT OF KANSAS FARMERS


VIII appeal Tor Ala.
Topeka, Kansas. special: Unless the
people OF Western Kansas receive aid in the
very near future that entire section VIII
be entirely depopulated. The County
Commissioners Of Wichita, Lane, Scott aud
Greedy aud other counties met at Leoti and
issued a call for n convention at some CEN
trail point. ut which an appeal Is to be
made to Governor Lewelling to Immediate
ly call the legislature together 10 appropri-
ate funds for provisions, feed, and seed
wheat. The call runs as follows:
Petitions are being circulated over Wes-
tern Kansas asking the Governor to call u
special session of the legislature To provide
some means for the farmers OF the Nest
ern counties OF the State to get seed
wheat to SOW this fall. Our farmer-, en-
couraged by the good crops of 1891 aud
1892. sewed every acre they possibly could
to wheat last fall. every grain Of which has
been lost on account of the most severe
and long continued drought ever known IN
this country. The wheat. rye. oats, bar
ley and In fact everything planted up Il
this date Is Il failure. 80 severe has beer
the drought that the grass has not ye'
started only In very few places, and stocl
has suffered for food. This condition o
affairs exists to a greater or less degree
over the Western part OF the State. Out
farmers are not beggars. but simply ask 8
loan. which Is made necessary by circum.
stances over which they have no control,
aud TO be paid back next harvest with in
tcrest.
Thousands OF people win be forced Il
leave that section unless aid Is given them
at once. Many have already abandoned
their claims and gone to Oklahoma.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14

The Homestead Cases,

Pittsbur- specisl: The Homestead cases
that Is, the Indictment for riot, conspi-
racy, treason and murder-against the ex-
strikers will not be nolle pressed. AS
were the indictments against the Carnegie
officials and the Piukertons, but the coun.
sci for the prosecution inc defense have
agreed to allow them to 60 over to the Sep
TENDER term OF court for final disposition.
1t is understood that pleas of nolie con-
t,ndere will be entered. A suspension OF
sentence Will he asked by the defense and
will not be opposed by the pro ecution. 1t
will likely be granted In the cons piracy
ind treason cases. When this has been done
District Attorney Burleish will bring the
murder and treason charges to the atten-
ton OF the court and will say that the
common wealth has In vestig ated the charges
thoroughly and Is satisfied that no convic-
tion can be Had under them. lie will ask
the court to make an order directing the
district attorney to take no action In the
matter OF prosecuting them until further
order Of the court. This will finally end
the famous cases.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14
Was Probably INNOCENT.

Cairo, ILL.,, special: 1t Is now pretty gen
orally conceded that q. J. Miller, the
Springfield. Ill.,. mulatto who was ham .ed,
shot, and cremated at Bardwell. Ky, VS.
executed upon the fimsiest circumsta ntial
evidence, or probably no evidence, for
there was not ono tangible thing that con-
nected him with the assault and murder OF
the Ray sisters.
Information from a trustworthy source
Mt Wicklife is that kilograms have been
received confirming Miller's statements as
TO where he was July 1 and 5 Milier's
story was that he was at Bismarck, Mo-,
the morning OF July 8, and no one has
brought forward any evidence to the con-
trary. Careful inquiry has failed TO dis
close Il single person who will say positive
Iy that he saw Miller In Bardwell or even
In Carlisle County,,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14

the roar OF the thunder and the storm
was .d~eafening. The air was full Of
sticks, stones. mud, horses, cattle, pigs,
chickens. houses, machinery, bricks,
human beings, and everything that was
unable to resist the force of the terri
bic tempest. 1t was all over in a few
seconds. Oh. what q piteous spectacle
greeted the Dyes of the agonized sur
vivoyss, Dead people were on every side.
Husband and wife lay on the ground,
theirglassy eyes turned heavenward and
the bodies rent and torn in the most
cruel manner Mothers and their little
babies were found stark dead, with
their brains c; ling out of their crushed
skulls and their lifc blood soaking the
o beneath them. Rcscuing parties
ut once set out, ard the dead and
wounded were brought in as fast as
men could work. The telegraph and
Telephone lines were blown down, and
I'd Masterson set out on a horse to
Manson for help. He succeeded in
Tagging Vice President Haraban's
special train, which few back to Man
sen, and help from all the towns along
the LIMO was soon ON hand. Fifteen
surgeons were sOon caring for the
woandgt. The Good Templars' Hall
wasturssstsd into a. hospital, and the old
p%ostoflicc building did duty as a morgue.
The shricks Of tho wounded and the
sroans OF tho dying we're mingled with
the a2onlzing lEoans OF those SO sud
denly bereft OF their Ina" ones. 1t was
a sight that beggars description.
Sweep OF the Storm.
AS shown BY the accompanying map,
the tornado started IL short distance
west OF Cherokee and followed closely
the Illinois Contra Railroad. cutting
a sNath frt III c~ne-quartcr to one-half
milo wide and completely dcmolishing
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14
AN ALLEGED MORMON PLOT.
A Montana Minister Says the Bisamists
viii Try to Corrupt Congress.


Findlay, Ohio, special: Rev. J. Wesley
Hill, pastor OF the First Methodist Church
OF Helena, Mont, who has been for some
time past connected with the University at
Ogden, Utah. Is In the city. He is a noted
anti Mormon worker and has spent years
in u fight against the bigami,ts. Rev. MIR.
iIill disclosed a daring scheme OF the
Morrnons to bride the next Congress to give
them statehood. Said he:
l have spent years in constant warfare
against the evils OF Mormonism aud while
In Ogden | was thrown into constant con-
tact with the Mormon element and appie-
ciate the crying evils OF that belief. These
people hive for some time appreciated the
rapidly increasing power of the oppo ,ition
to them, aud also the fact that their enure
In their present location can be but tenn
poFary unless they can bring some power
ful agency to bear. aud this they have In
the shape OF money, which they are now
preparing to use upon Il gigantic scale.
During the past year they have been raising
money themselves by AN assessment upon
e oh disciple OF the belief, the sum Of ST.
900. GOA which they have raised being o.
teIl,ibly Tor the pu pose OF completing
their temple and their buildings upon
which they have already ex expended So. G0a.-
O0c. but which, Is designed for the purpose
Of buying u majority In Congress to secur,
their fixed rights to their present location
by securing the vested power OF statehood.
Will, this they would be. beyond reaci, 81
interruption and opposition In the future
Their gents are even now at wo. k in
Washington and nave been for months, aud
the money Is at their disposal to Il e With
inscriptions freedom. The scheme has
been long contemplated and they have
greet hopes OF Its success, as it has been
carried ON with great secrecy. The mass
OF the people who contributed the money
have kept in ignorance Of its object In
order that all danger Of the secret being
revealed might be removed. My informa-
ton Is obtained from the most undisputa-
bic sources. n the people should be
warned OF the daring purposes of thee
Williams that their aims may be frustrated.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14

Administration OficiAls Persist In Thei
Ideas Of Annexation.

Ideas Of Annexation.
Honolulu special: Notwithstanding the
talk OF treason and assassins and trial OF
conspirators. political peace and quiet
reign In Honolulu. The preliminary ex-
animation OF alleged cobspirators. Walker.
Crick md Sinclair. has been finished and
Judge Cayer has reserved his decision
when he will PROBABLY hold the
men for trial lefore u higher court
tn conversation with President Dole and
later with Attorney General Smith, 1t was
learned the Provisional Government In
tended to follow u waiting policy in init t.
ton OF President Cleveland. 1--WE nre
fully determined upon carrying out the
plan OF annexation" said Attorney Gen.
eral Smith, .and until We know 1t Is "A
failure we siiall not materially change the
present pol.cy Of the Government. The
occasion imperatively demands that the
present dig archy be continued until an
nexation Is secured or arrange ments with
some other foreign Government are made
to decide the stability OF Hawaiian institu.
tions.'
Sheriff StocltEENho was shot by the iepers
OF kaIalau, was bddi5ed here June %. The
Governments sent q company of regular
roops and police, amounting to abu I
eighty men,, with one krupp field piece, by
steamer on June 80. Martial law has been
proclaimed In the districts where the Iep-
crs are. Instruction. rave been issued TO
the Commander OF the expedition to re-
move the twenty-five lepers aud terrorize
the leper settlement at all hazards. They
are to be taken dead or alive. The lepers
have secured arms and II battle between
them and the troops is not unlikely. The
expedition has taken food for three weeks
and will form u camp at the mouth OF Rock
Bound Valley. In v hich the lepers are hid
Ing. There the difficulty will begin AS the
lepers must be dislodged from caves and
dense woods. The lepers have defied the
Government for the past ten years. IL is
fe red here that should the lepers resist
and be shot. as it seems probable they will,
the action OF the Government will turn the
natives q gainst II more than anything that
has yet occurred.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14
COURSE OF THE STORM,

hospital. Every citizen OF Pomeroy
mourns the loss Of Il relative or friend.
Two hundred families are homeless,
many having lost all they owned. Hun
dreds of people poured IN on every t, ain
to view the ruins. and to every one OF
them the completeness of the havoc
wrought by the tornado was painfully
apparent. Sixty-tisc acres Of debris is
what is left of Pcmeroy now. Imagine
a gigantic pile OF lumber scattered in
every direction over a broad prai-
RE and you have a good pic
ture of this wrecked Iowa city.
Nothing but the occasional shat
tered remains of a wall or the half
destroyed gable of a dwelling rise ahoge
the level OF the ground. The
trees that surrounded the town have
been swept away so completely that it
would be difficult to believe that one
ever grew there. One hundred and
twenty-five residences. most a story
and-a-half or two-story frame: seven
churches, all frame; one brick and a
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14
Another Moslem Mi.slouarx.

New York special: Abdurrim Abdi. an
Egg ptian. Is in the city. lie Is on u mission
to propagate the Moslem faith In this coun-
try. lie will assist ex-Consul Alexander
Russeil Webb In establishing colonies OF
Egyptians in the South und In building
mosques In this and other cities. He Ia u
member OF the National pnrty In Egypt.
lie attacked the British press. alleging that
1t misrepresents the true state of affairs
in Ireland and all the English colonies. He
expressed the opinion that the
Of Egypt by tho British would be termi-
mated In a comparatively short time, and
predicted that the next great war would be
letwecn England aud France over Egypt.
"America Ii u great country. New York
Is veal named. 1t Is very new. 1t 10 breath
less. busting. In Egypt we look upon the
United States rs the prospective ruler o,
the world although our people 6nd 1t din.
cult 10 understand your system of Govern.
naankv
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14

. called the faith cura to be heresy. It's
cnnnciati0n to this effect tool the prac-
teal form, Of expelling one OF Its members
who believed In the efic cy OF prayer ac-
%.empanied by faith. to heal disease. The
,erctic was Mrs. George H. CorReld. who,
xith her husband and her son, WAS a
worker IN the church Sunday Sch DOL. She
aad q class Of girls. whot.. she often told Of
,cr miraculous cure OF q mortal disease by
means OF pr ,yer and faith. Whenever tho
occasion ;.foss she openly avowcd her be-
iefin the faith cure. The uvowcd reason
.or her expulsion was her belief In divine
~,saii;ig. When Mrs. Coraeid was dropped
rom the membership IN the Bergen
ci.urch, her ron, Edward I. Corfeld,
fave up his class in the Sunday school.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14
WINDS AWFUL WORK.
OVER SEVENTY DEAD FROM
lOWA'S STORM.
Utter DcsclAtiOn In the Devnatated Dis
trict- Homes Demolished and Crops
Ruined-G;Ov. Eoies Appeals for Aid
Death List Not Yet Complete,
Ruin In Its Wake.

More complete details from the cy-
Gle ne-swePt section Of Northwestern
Iowa do not diminish it's horrors. The
latest reports give the number " dead
at seventy-four, and it Is said at least
five more will die, while the injured
number considerably over one hun
'dred. A conservative estimate places
the whole number that we're either
killed or injured by the tornado Mt $50.
At Pomeroy alone over fifty are dead.
Five blocks OF residences were com
pletely swept away, no. more than
kindling wood being left OF them.
The disaster is the most dire one THAI
has occurred in Iowa since the Grinnell
cyclone. The loss of life at Pomeroy
is not SO great as at Grinnell, but tho
destruction Of property will he more
complete. AT 6 o'clock THURSDAY even
ing a Thousand happy people sat down
to their tea-tables chatting cheerily,
unconscious of impending danger. Fri
day morning more than half Of them
ere wandering about homeless and
half crazcd, depending u., charity for
food and drink, while strangers were
winding the ~gravc-clothes around their
dead. Every house left standing was q
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14
THE sAuLsoN CAVE. WHERE M.NTY a.yo LIVES wErE SAVER

cred in strength as it advanced
toward the town. They rccog-
nized it as q cyclone and gave the
alarm. Many sought shelter in cellars
and others mounted horses to flee from
tho path OF the coming destruction.
There was q dash Of hail. q binding
fash Of lightning and d~eafening peal
Of thunder. Men and women ran wildly
about the streets shouting and gesticu-
lating. The cyclone struck the town at
the southwest among the scattering
houses In the outskirts. Roofs and
shingles and sides OF buildings were
wrenched loose and were thrown to
one side. On to the more densely
populated district the monster OF de-
struction swept, leveling oil before IL
and leaving in its wake . cloud Of
splinters and wrecked homes. death and
decentralization. The people were panic
stricken and Aed here and there amid
the flying timbsrs until stricken down
10 the earth, mangled, torn, and dead.
While the tornado listed Il was pitch
dagk, except Tor tho vivid flashes OF
Nghtning which III The weird and lawful
scens. Tho rim esalQ doSn = torssuts,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14
railroad Laborerr M,.tre.ted.

New York special: A German named
Vol, who has just returned from the
United States OF Colombia, tolls u harrow
Ing tale OF suffering and wrong. He said
that last March be and about two undre
Germans. swedes, Irishmen, and Poles
we're engaged to go and work on the Mag
leila h Carthagena Railroad in Colombia.
Their passage there was to be paid by the
railroad. and II they worked six months the
abroad would also pay their passage back.
When they got to the place where the
:.iIroad was being built. they found the
and swampy and many OF them were soon
Ill with yellow fever and other diseases.
The company gave them no medical aid
and they had to take care OF each other.
When they asked to be sent back 70 this
country they were told that they had not
kept their contract to work six months.
Vol says th t over one hundred men died
shortly and only ~sivty-aye lived to come
north.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14
IN A CITY o. DEATH.
Awful Condition OF SantOs-Hundreds by.
Ing Daily from Yellow Fever.

ing Daily from Yellow Fever.
Philadelphia special: The brig Odorilla
has arrived here from Santos. Captain
Holland Is the only survivor OF the original
crew eight men having s~nccumbed to the
ravages OF yellow fever. Captain Hollands
description " the misery and sufferinys
from yellow faver in Santos are are heart
fending. Thousands nave been str ickrn
and numbers ave died. Anchored near
the Odorilla were fully twenty vessels.
every one OF which hai. 10 t her Captain.
The London aud Brazil Ban k closed its
doors shortly before the Odorilla left, every
one OF its employees have been carried of
by the dreadful scourge. The brazilian
and South American Bank was compelled
TO do likewise. The members OF the firm
Of Screner. Bulow 4 Co.. consignees Of the
OdoriIla. have nearly alrdied.
On March 3, Charles Wadsworth, the
American Vice Council, died. and the ves-
sci could not get any consular certificate
upon her departure from that port. Cap
tain Holland believes the entire port will
In "a short time be completely depopu-
lated. When the Odorilia lay at Santos tho
death rate daily averaged 81. Hundreds
OF corpses were afpat in the river In ali
stages Of decay. The patients die more
rapidly til IN their bodies can be disposed
of.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14
Trouble over nn Aztec Idol.

City OF Mexico special: A short time ago
the Catholic Bishop discovered that the
Indians at Xohiltepec were w%orshiping an
dol. The image represented the body OF a
man. with the head and wings Of an eagle.
1t WAS recognized by the Bishop rs being
one OF the NEUROLOGICAL figures OF the Az
tcc-. The discovery was reported to tho
Archbishop. and the Latter ordered that the
idol be confscated to the National Museum.
THIS has been lone and the Indians are
very much stirred up over the loss Of their
god. They threaten to 20 ON the warpath
and serious trouble Is feared.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14
Romance Of the West.

Tacoma. WASH. special: Hank Monley
and Jerry Woods, backwoodsmen. fought u
duel with bowie knives and played seven
up to win Mss Annie Thomas. who Is a
squauer on Government land in Rattle
snake Hills, this state, and who Is the only
woman In that section. Both men were
wounded In the fight, but Monley won al
cards. A parson was called in and Annie,
after a chat Will, him. decided to marry
him instead of Money. although she had
never seen him before. Morley kicked,
but the parsOn got the woman.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-07-14

Horne Stealiag ~ Sioax Ealls.
AT Sioux Falls thieves stole . hOrse
from the stable Of Albert Hoyer.