Woodruff County news., 1901-07-04
CONDENSED TELEoRAMs.

at his home in Indianapolis, Ind. A tornado struck La Crosse, Wis, about seven o'clock on the evening of | the 2Sth, doing thousands of dollars worth of damage. The new Norwegian | hospital, in course of erection, was | wrecked.
 It is claimed that there is an "In- | sanity trust" ill Indianapolis, Ind. the
 members of which stand ready to tes-
 tify to any patients insanity for a | consideration. Great indignation has
 been aroused by the exposure. MT. Samuel Gompers, president of
 the American Federation of Labor, is
 dangerously i'll at his home in Wash
 ington, as a result of fall from a
 trolley car as he was returning home
 from ride with his daughters. | Senator Patterson, of Ohio, one of | the states Pan-American commission
 CTS, who is arranging for the dedica
 tion of the state building on July IS,
 says that President Mckinley will vis-
 it the exposition on that occasion.
 A terrific storm swept over St.
 Paul and Minneapolis, Minn., on the
 afternoon of the 2Sth doing an i'm
 mense amount of damage. Duluth, | New Richmond, Star Prairie and other points in the state felt the force of | the storm.
 1 Fire Commissioner John J. Scannell
 of New York city, Boss Croler's right hand man, was indicted by the grand jury, on the 2Sth, for malfeasance in l off Ho oIc inI; i@;,
 with William l.. Marks for conspiracy. l St.~Mary's Catholic church at Hun
 ington, Ind, Was struck by lightning
 and destroyed on the 28th. It was
 valued at $5oooo. At Velpin, Pike
 county, ten buildings were unroofed
 and one stone building demolished.
 No lives were lost so far as known. While seated under tree during
 sharp thunderstorm at Meriden,
 Conn.,, on the 2Sth, Fred Lee, of South
 ington, and his young bride were
 struck by lightning. Mir. Lee was in
 stantly killed and his wife was so
 stunned, that her life is despaired of. | The Louisiana Purchase World
 Fair national commission, on the 2Sth, l approved the selection of the Forest park site for the Worlds fair at St.
 Louis, adopted a report of the judi
 ciary committee defining iu detail the powers and duties of the commission
 under the law creating the body, and
 adjourned, subject to the call of the
 chairman.
 Lansing, Ia., bids fair to become fa. nous for the many fine pearls found
 there. One recently sold for $1,S00. It
 was found by an old Swede named
 Benson on a ciam bed which produced
 the famous Queen Marie about q
 month ago, and although weighing
 less, 66 grains, is a much finer and
 more valuable gem.
 | Marquis Tseng, at Shanghai, re-
 ceived a dispatch. on the 30th, from
 Sian Flu to the effect that the empress
 dowager of China, fearing trap to
 capture ner, declines to return 70
 Pekin, and has notified the grand
 council that the future capital will be Kai-Feng-Fu, in the Province of Ho Nan.
 l The United States training ship
 Hartford, Commander J. H. Hawley,
 arrived at Copenhagen on the 3oth.
 The navy department reserved for
 her the best berth during her two
 weeks visit. The crown prince regent | entertained the officers of the Hart l ford at dinner.
 | During a severe rain and electric storm at Winona, Minn., on the 30th, lightning struck the Young Ladies' seminary, damaging the roof; the | Lake street bridge was set on fire, but was saved; some cows were killed, and the boy herdsman stunned. He will recover.
 | Mrs. Eliza Rogers Potter, wife of Rt. Rev. Henry c. Potter, Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, died | suddenly, on the 3oth, at the family residence in New orl city. Mrs. Pos | ter's death was due to heart failure superinluced by the intensely hot l weather.
 | According to the Vienna corre- | spondent of the London Daily Tele- | graph, a conflict has occurred between | singe, on the Albaman-Montenegr frontier, ten Christians being killed l and many others wounded. | Rev. Dr.. Ryron Sunderland, of l Washington, D. C., died at Catskill, N. | Y, on the 30th, from a blood clot on l the brain. His demise occurred at the home of his son-in-law, Orrin Day, | president of the Tanners national bank.
 It is asserted in St. Petersburg that l NJ. De Wirte, the Russian finance minis- ter, will leave that capital for Ma0- l churia during July.
 l The Meteor, with Emperor William ! on board, won the yacht race in Lu-
 breck bay on the Soth.