The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-05-06 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

BUTCHER'S SUICIDE AT GRAYS.  The latest intelligence from Oklahoma tenitory regarding destructive storms which have been experienced there states that two distinct cyclones, a terrific hailstorm, and a waterspout visited the country, causing great destruction to the new towns. Forty persons are known to have been killed, and it is reported that the fatalities number as many as 100. Several persons have been fatally injured, while hundreds have sustained less serious hurts. The damage to property is very extensive. The towns of Norman, Downs, and Keokuk Falls are almost in ruins. A terrible storm, acoonianied by a heavy downpour of rain, has also swept over the States of Illinois and Wisconsin. The velocity of the wind was 54 miles an hour, and grave anxiety was felt for the buildings of the Chicago Worlds Fair, but they have not suffered. But I hroughout both the States mentioned extensive damage has been done. The streams have overflowed their banks, numerous buildings have been destroyed and their occupants have had to lee for their lives. Ir the country, thousands of acres of wheat have been ruined, and in various towns there has been mach damage to property.  A strange story comes from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on the western shore of Lake Michigan. Somewhat more than four years ago the little son and daughter of an old resident there, Thomas Sohless, were sent out on an errand in the evening. They never returned, and although search was made for them by ths entire white population of Manitowoc for three whole days, no trace of them was ever discovered. The boy was but five yean old and the girl about twice that age. It now turns out that they were kidnapped by a party of Indians, who carried them off to their camp in a secluded part of the semi circle of hills behind the town. The children's life was a hard one; they were mercilessly whipped upon the slightest prove. cation, and were half-starved, their only mutton. ance being the scraps of broken meat and corncake flung to them by the Indians after a meal. Two years passed away and little Jamb Sohless, never a strong child, had beoome so feeble as to be unequal to the task of gathering firewood in the forest of looking after the ponies. His little s titer, worn out by stem tion and brutal treatment, sickened and died. The Indians were about to break camp in the spring, and as little Jacob was now so weak and emaciated as to be almost helpless it was determined to abandon him to his fate. Strange to say, although the desolate spot in the woods where they left him, known as Miles's Run, was 18 miles from a settlement the child managed to make his waY to a farmhouse without any assistance except the helping hand of Providence. It was with difficulty that he could make his wants kno an to the farmer's wife. He remembered but a few words of his own language, and the memory of the firmt few years of his life was almost obliterated. As kind treatment I and wholesome food gradually restored his strength, I memories of former days crowded back to him. Curiously enough, while his memory for names seemed to be entirely dormant, his memory for localities remained intact, and it was while wom. panying his adopted father on a visit to Manitowoc that the sights of the streets and houses of the town brought back to him the exact spot where his father's house was situated, and rebtored him to the parents who had long ago abandoned all hops of ever recovering him.  Some sensation has been caused at Grays by the suicide of John Newman, butcher. Deceased, who drank heavily, was subject to fits of delirium tremens, and It is supposed that he was suffering from this malady at the time of his death. He di appeared from his home suddenly and although every endeavour was made to trace him, uothrni was heard of his whereabouts until about eix &dot on Sunday evening, when a letter was received by ' a friend of his, asking for a horse and trap to meet him at West Thurrock, a village about a mile from Grays, after dusk. Nothing further was heard until Monday morning, when his body was clis• covered lying in the mud of the river near West Thurrock Church.  serge, should  at