Alton Review (Newspaper) - August 31, 1883, Alton, Iowa S. W. Publisher to the let the They PER VOL. SIOUX AUGUST 31, 1883. NO. 15. Many of the striking telegraphers are being by the Western Uniori Company at Now but the applications of all the striking for reinstatement are Messrs. T. P. Thorn and M. Healy visit the United States after the adjournment of in the interest of the may como but it is not probable that he IT cost 21.22 bushel to send wheat from Chicago to Liverpool in 187ft, last year it cost 7.74 cents per and this year the average cost 9.08 The freight changes grain to Now rail have fallen oft since 1.8(58 on an average of per cent. It has turned out that the farmer's daughter in Cass whose supposed abduction caused much excitement in that region last ran away from She has been found a few miles working in a family as a A St. Joseph hotel keeper has been fined for keeping his barroom open lie has taken an with the intention of testing the Downing License under which he was has been Mr. a New York is now Some months ago his good steed Boston was beaten in the race to Stony Creek by a ( the other day he tried it once jii and this time It would be no disgrace to equine speed to be distanced by any ordinary but o be by anything known by such an outlandish name as a catamaran was too The people of Texas have a great dread of In consequence of the report of a case of yellow-fever in New Gov. Ireland ordered the quarantine physi ciau at not to permit any of the ships of the Morgan Lino of New Orleans to enter until the report referred to had been investigated and proved It turns out that the reports had no foundation in That Cattaraugus County Captain insists that he will yet shoot although poor Webb never came back to answer Carlyle's The authorities ought to The Canadians will not let him leap in from their and iu New York attempting to commit suicide is a Rhodes ought to be prosecuted if he persists in his insane and deadly LATEST The Knights or rather those who have been attracted by their presence in San Francisco to that are beginning to experience some of the discomforts of those who visited Chicago on a similar occasion three years There was a terrible crush at the pavillion on the occasion of the religious services Many persons were taken out The weather is very and with the exception of the there have not been many causes of The remark that tragedies in real life excel those of Action in picturesque sin d terrible receives further illustrations in the case of a woman living near Marsh who had been ill for some A few days a neighbor followed by a dog went to the and before any one could interfere the strange brute and one belonging to the house engaged in a savage fight in the and finally to the horror of all present and the terror of 'the the dogs leaped upon the bed and continued the The excitement was too much for tne sick woman's overstrained and with one shriek she The strike at the Iron where three thousand men have been out for six owing to the action of the resulted in their returning to work i n a on after first renouncing their connection witli the Amalgamated The Bethlehem members complain that tho Pittsburg whose delegates to the general convention number nearly or two-thirds of the whole have controlled the organization in the Pittsburg and that tho Bethlehem strikers did not get the funds they were entitled to to enable them to hold out in the They say that during the strike of 1882 at the strikers were assisted by a contribution from tho west end of the and hat when the time came to return the favor it was not The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints for the week ended Aug. 18 was for tho corresponding period lust year The treasury department bos received bequeathed by the late J. B. of to aid in paying the national A noted of named Jenkins has again been disbarred from practice for from pensioners by letters by express calling for on Major of the railway mail division of has been removed by Postmaster General on suspicion that he made The commissioner internal revenue has decided that bitters sold in good faith need not pay a special tax as a One specimen which he caused to be contained 82 per of ordinary J. A. the pension agent recently disbarred from practicing before the Interior will be no longer recognized as an attorney of the Treasury A Washington correspondent has it that Col. B. United States District Attorney at who is a is soon to be married to Clara Louise who is aged 45 and worth a quarter of a million In an exciting twenty mile bicycle race at H. W. the English won in 1 hour 0 minutes 5J John S. of Boston O. J. - Passed Assistant Surgeon D. M. now on board the United States steamer lias volunteered for duty at the Pensacola Navy He will be immediately transferred to that if he can be detached before the sailing of the Swatara from New Lieut. A. E. 4th now on leave of absence in has been designated by the United States government to attend the military maneuvers of the French army near in September on the invitation of the French Maj. E. Beaumont 6th heretofore designated for this has been Some time ago the secretary of the treasury ordered the removal of Mr. keeper of the at St. and the appointment of Mr. Piatt in his Mr. Broughton has the department that he is now in full possession of the and does not propose to allow anybody to take his The officials are in a quandary as to the best means of securing possession for Mr. and it looks as though the aid of police will have to be FIRES AND Eli a pioneer citizen of formerly president of the Wisconsin Agricultural died at his home Silas of manufacturer of has made an with liabilities of Five valuable standing under a tree at were killed by the only mark upon them being melted Eleven victims of the cyclone at were buried at in the presence of three thousand A freak of the wind was the driving of a pine board through the trunk of a maple Forest fires would have destroyed the village of the other but for a at Hundreds of men fought the flames all Charles W. for many years one of the proprietors of the Fifth Avenue New died at Long of Bright's -I A collision of freight trains at Turner seven miles west of Kansas demolished both engines and several and caused a loss of to the Santa Fe In the vicinity of East forest fires are encroaching on farm and heavy losses through the destruction of crops and fences have already been Near early Saturday morning the detached sections of a freight train wrecking many cars which were loaded with in heavy ' A portion of the Lake Shore and Western at and three two tenders and a coach were burned Loss Dr. F. W. P. son of the South Carolina was thrown from his horse while riding with a lady at and then the animal fell upon causing concussion of the There is but little hope for his A cyclone nearly wrecked the city of Twenty-four persons were killed and over forty were seriously A passenger train on the Northern road was blown form the track between Rochester and and there is great loss of life M. a miller at was killed while at Five lives were lost at and horses and cattle are found dead in all Deaths from yellow fover in Havana last week numbered 82, The election in County resulted in the return to parliament of Nicholls the An American after a stay of four days in St. was recently in accordance with Brigands have captured the governor and several councilors of a Turkish for whom a ransom of is A Berlin correspondent asserts that the Chinese government is negotiating with Germany for the purchase of 100, 000 ' The French Government has informed tho British Foreign Secretary that Missionary Shaw was arrested in Madagascar as a Hova dignitary and not as a British The Mexican secretary of tho ury has called a conference of delegates from the to discuss the modes of abolishing the and devising a more equitable Parnell repeated the charges Of packing in and of the desire of the government to procure convictions for the purpose of striking terror among tho of the country by the tyrannical use of the power Of secret There has been serious rioting between the Catholics and Orangemen of Two policemen received dangerous Disturbances were when a party of Catholics armed themselves with picks and and paraded the main street in search of religious Mounted officers dispersed the mob and made twenty The Shapire to be ancient on of the Ten among nomads in the Arabian forgeries by eminent ropean archaeologists called upon to examine A decided breeze has been generated in Europe by a recent article in The North German Gazette declaring that France alone threatens the peace of the In addition to the political excitement kindled by the editorial in there was a marked fall in prices on the bourses of and C. formerly clerk of Butler who forged warrants and fled with a young leaving a wife and two children almost lies in jail at St. Paul for lack of I. M. of the Rutland was arrested signing and issuing 4,717 false shares of and gave bail in M. near finding that his wife had brought suit for a fired a shot at which made only a flesh wound on her and then killed William who served through the war as an officer of the 100th Ohio was assaulted in front of a hotel in Baltimore by Hugh and so badly beaten that he soon died of his A number of masked men at Park stopped a train and forced it to run to where they took from jail a man named Jack Murphy and hanged him to a telegraph While the ferry steamer Pope was crossing Detroit a bartender named Luke Phipps shot his wife from The passengers overpowered him and delivered him to the Canadian authorities at He had recently commenced suit for George who had been employed by the as I in a New York killed Mrs. in her rooms in Eighth and own He was lying across her It is believed the deed was committed in revenge for being Near South where convicts work in the Inman ore a led by a man named The revolt was and Blach was flogged for the part betook in the He refused to work and made an assault on the who shot him in the Black was then placed under the influence of and his leg was but when they tried to revive him they found he was GENERAL THE AIR the Scene of 4 Twenty-four Persons Forty and the Number * Two Hundred girls employed in a clothing factory at Toledo are out on a strike for an advance in Potatoes throughout western Now York have been attacked by black and the entire crop of that region is in One acres of public lands are being sold at auction by the registrar at St. the average price being per Michael F. who has but one defeated Captain Williams in a swimming contest in the Ohio at and lays claim tp the Hilario a noted French swimmer has arrived in New with the intention of going through the whirlpool at Niagara or reaching a bettor De Conim tindery of Louisville were awarded first prize in the Knights Templar drill at San of got second and St. of Judge in the United States Court at gave a decision on an appeal that the Dalbear telephone was an infringement of the Bell Citizens of have been at the removal of Postmaster Conley and five of his The cause is said to be general the who appeared so indifferent to the results of a visit one of Governor Crittenden's has gathered up his and and left Independence for some unknown part. The funeral of Judge Jero S. Black was the largest ever held in and was attended by many men of distinction in law and General Hancock and Chief Justice Mercer were among the Four thousand Sir representing every state and paraded the streets of San Three fainted on the and an aide to the grand commander had both legs broken by a fall from his The board of health at Pensacola reports that city in a healthy with a cordon of seventeen protected by swamps and Thirteen arrests were made in one day for endeavoring to break the A close inspection of at Pensacola developed two cases of yellow fover in a on the wharf at The general ordered the patients removed to Santa Rosa their bedding and clothing and the building fumigated and A few miles west of the Mullen in tho tracks of tho Northern Pacific from the Mississippi to the Pacific was finished at 8 o'clock on tho 22d ton miles of rail having beon laid during the Henry Villard and Jay Cooke will drive the golden spike September 8. debility ami exhausted vitality cured by using Brown's Iron A St. Aug. 2%-The cyclone last night is been very reported killed and fifty or Vague rumors of a train disaster by being blown coming but no J Aug. 22.-At last evening a cyclone struck the north part of the city of Rochester lying north of the railroad It made a clean sweep of the railroad engine house and other property along the railroad The railroad bridge of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad company was completely Mayor Witten telegraphed that 24 persons were killed and forty The city is in need of food and Among the killed is M. the proprietor of the Zumbrota planing Superintendent of the Winona & St. Peter railroad telegraphs that the of the killed and wounded is hourly The prostration of the telegraph lines has made it difficult to get the The storm swept through the towns of Utica and St. Charles in Winona Job was killed and several others were Reports from Dodge county indicate that it did much damage with loss of No particulars are yet Mayor of with a corps of left for Rochester this St. Aug. 22.-A cyclone struck Rochester at 7 p. mi demolishing about 300 and damaged about 200 Aug. 7.-A special to the Globe from Winona A cyclone struck here at 7 o'clock last The depot was unroofed and and the engine house is. a total The covered bridge near town is gone and a number of cars in the yards are completely Holton's elevator is a total half of it obstructs the main railroad The streets are filled with trees and fragments of Five cars and an engine were derailed at of train No. 12, jumped from the cars and was buried under the A building standing ten rods from the track was blown on to it and ditched the Both of elevators are John M. Cole was killed at his as he was coming out he was struck by some The whole town north of the depot is a total Houses were blown entirely including the Methodist church also a new brick building right across the on The storm did not extend south of the Cook The creamery is a Gov. Hubbard has just received from stating that the town is in and forty persons It is impossible to learn any details as the telegraph wires are all The storm in other directions was only a severe hail and no great damage was Names of as far as in JOHN m. MRS. thomas MRS. AUGUST MRS. OSBORNE AND mrs. fred MRS. MR. HITZEL w. mrs. quick and mrs. with four have been brought to the Six others are known to have been taken care of by The destruction through Dodge and Olmsted counties is It is impossible to give an estimate as to city and The railroad bridge is blown down at not a piece was left Kon the One mile north of Viola the cyclone swept the crops and buildings clean in its Henry Stanchfield's nice residence and ings were leveled and slightly A man named Wells was seriously Along the railroad the people saw the clouds seething and rolling over and over with a loud roaring noise and sought places of One-third of the dwellings in Rochester are in Twenty-four persons are among them J. M. Esq. The dead are not all The storm swept through Dodge and Olmstead counties causing destruction than the cyclone 4 weeks The damage in Rochester is fully The court high school academy of Lourd and flouring ten business besides a great many dwellings arc The Methodist church is ruined and the Congregational church more than 200 dwellings are utterly cannot give the details of losses in the but they are very The following is a list of the wounded in tho Curl wife mid 3 Ole wife and Frank Anna Alto John John Milo Dim George Hanson 1\ Oscar Wm S. A. Mrs. Erwin three Nets wife and Mrs. Three unknown The cyclone was first heard of south of Dodge thence east striking Olmstead county in township where Cyrus Hall's * barn and part Baxter Little's buildings on his farm Were entirely and one child Thomas buildings were swept away and several families Much damage was done to farm property and live The storm then entered taking course through the 300 houses are and fully The Congregational church where 85 children had just returned from a picnic spire no children wore Aug. 23.-Congressman Mark Dunnell telegraphs tho following graphic picture of tho Rochester disaster to the daily The about 6:80 o'clock in the afternoon and lasted a minute and a and largely spent its forco on the north half of the All the dwelling houses but two on the north side of the embracing one entire was wholly destroyed and most of them were blown into On the same side a was demoralized another unroofed and a large foundry wholly large elevator was the depot and all adjoining buildings were wholly Destruction from the depot norih is substantially The bridge over Zumbrota river near the depot was wholly The destruction on side of the track was very but not so The court house unroofed as was also the Cook All the churches were badly the Methodist church suffering the Not less than one hundred buildings on the south side of the track were more or less The most beautifully shaded portion of the city had its streets filled with The was mainly north of the court That part suffering complete wreck was north of the and inhabited laboring Darkness set in soon after the tornado and the scene was Twenty-five dead bodies have been taken from the many of them parents with Not less than 250 buildings were wholly or partially The loss can not be less than The loss of very Twenty-five were killed and four or five have died Some seventy are now being cared for who Of those now -in the hospital some fifty were terribly cut and mangled by flying timbers and pieces of The destruction to life and property along the track of the wind is very Two persons were killed near Cattle in large numbers were Grain in shock stack was taken somewhere and generally not leaving a single straw It is not possible for me at this time to give a more detailed account of the most terrible cyclone that has ever visited our St. Paul sent to the Owatonna will tend Other cities and towns will send The poor of the city are the greatest Aug. 23.-The number killed by the of Tuesday is. now fixed at wounded of whom nine are fatally The wind swept diagonally across the covering a space a mile and three-quarters in length by three-quarters of a mile in width in which every some three hundred in were virtually accompanied by the loss of their It is now believed that the damage will reach fully half a million By the southwest quarter pf heavens assumed a sickly greenish then changed to then to Then it was noted that the decided and dreadful inverted with height seemingly immeasurable and murkiness with the speed of a ball came down the valley of Silver and when within half a mile of the city its roar could be Full three hundred feet in the air it rose and in its whirling mass were trees and animals and debris of all The dome of the court house melted from Trees were snapped and twisted and lifted bodily into the air with tons of earth clinging to their Fifteen minutes after the monster had By 8 o'clock the stars had crept out and there was calm and silence save as broken by the groans of the wounded and the All night long by the fitful of lanterns and later aided by the citizens from outside toiled to render succor to the By sunrise those of the wounded who had friends were taken to their The majority were taken to a large hall on The wounded were in a terrible generally cut and bruised about the upper part of the Childish faces are seen with wounds so ghastly that even physicians shudder as they use the sponge It is believed the cyclone formed about six miles south of Dodge a town in an adjoining A special reporter of the Pioneer Press gives tho following vivid account of the Rochester The storm first camo at 7 in the evening and lasted from twelve to fifteen Not until after 0 o'clock were the residents the least which is the when it is remembered that a month ago cyclonic fury vented itself but a few miles from By 7:10 the southwest quarter had assumed that sickly greenish tint which serves as a drop curtain for such dire In a few moments tho green changed to to with whitish edges and lateral lines of Hying scud athwart it in every Next was noted that dreaded and dreadful inverted with height seemingly immeasurable and murkiness With tho speed of a cannon ball it came down the valley of insignificant Silver and when within half of tho devoted its roar could be Cellurs were rushed by al most every but a few of the hardier ones stayed at points of vantage near the edges and witnessed iTKE ATTACK OF THE RESISTLESS Full 300 feet in the air it and in its mass were trees and animals and debris of every conceivable The dome of the court from though touched merely by the hem of tho Trees snapped like or still were twisted as corkscrews in tho hands of a and lifted bodily into the air witli tons of earth clinging to their Animals were dashed stone and their backs and bones crushed to The roar of the fierce surge was like nothing ever heard The atmosphere was surcharged with lets of ram and hair were Vertically as if shot from a Fifteen minutes of this and then a By 8 o'clock the stars were shining as peacefully as if cyclones were but the silence was soon broken by the groans of the dying and the sorely The northern part of the fortunately not the larger or thickly settled had been changed from a habitable place to maze of mangled a desert with signs of woe and terror scattered Not a house stood where 300 had been at 7 Most of the dwellings were of the poorer class but many were carefully tended and decorated The citizens on the South Side quickly repaired in crowds to the scene of direst diaster and went to All night long by the fitful light of lanterns at first and later aided by the moon they SCORES OF some some were taken By sunrise the dead or wounded who had friends were speedily private The majority were taken to a large building on where cots Avere hastily prepared for the The dead were taken away by or to W. H. Seward's undertaking place on Physicians and nurses were soon to the and everything possible done to alleviate The wounded were in a horrible and a walk through the hall where they even one The cuts and bruises are generally about the upper part of the and childish faces are seen with wounds on them so ghastly that even the physician shudders as he uses sponge and Into the cuts dirt and even powdered stone were forced in many Cellars seemed or no while some of the above them blew those to the west were crushed bodily into their Think of two as late as noon SEEKING FRANTICALLY FOR LOST seeing three who corresponded in size with those they but all so marred by dirt and blood and wounds that even maternal love could not tell whether to say or The scenes around the demolished houses were women and children crying bitterly and almost bereft of An absolute doubt exists in many cases as to where tho site of their home over the dreadful uncertainty and a haunting and through it all the breeze sighing the moon smiling calmly and men working The rising sun showed the utterness of the Queer freaks there of Here stands a and on it hangs an unbroken while a heavy crushed into lies on the floor near swaying to and fro in the is the family rocking while a few feet a horse lies MANGLED AND A feather bed yonder twisted like a and touching its edge a student's with even the chimney Down near the river stands the large Cole with a cyclonic bite taken from its western To the south of it is a train of eight loaded cars turned and twisted as if of while in the race at the northern side are two more cars blown bodily from the track and into the The owner of the mill was lifted fifty feet vertically and hurled against a bank and Not a bone in his body was left as every one was a beautiful and as much on account of its trees as A score of years will not restore its pristine loveliness in this Some of the streets in the best part of the city are and looking or down them one sees nothing but a tangled mass of trunks and foliage jammed across the Scarcely a Van Dusen's is about the only has not suffered more or and in many cases heavy chimneys were crashed through the roofs and garrets into the But description is utterly unable to portray the results of a storm in the worst of its absolutely SWEPT PART OF THE EARTH leaving nothing of grass or or The relief committee is doing all and residents are subscribing all they but help is needed and Rochester cave liberally to relievo those who suffered in tho July and now feels justified in calling for aid to meet the horrors and alleviate the sufferings consequent on the worst calamity Minnesota confined in the same space New Aug. 23.-There was renewed pressure to sell at the opening and prices broko to 2 5-8, N. J. O. Stock sold down from 83 1-4 to 79 5-8, Reading and also Near 11 o'clock there was a 1-1 to 13 1-8, latter in N. J. C. A PLAGUE OP BATS AT Experience of a on a Mediterranean New York ' A passenger on one of the small steamers engaged in the fruit and touching at various ports along the tells the following story of his experiences on the voyage from Leghorn to this on board at Leghorn I was favorably impressed by the general appearance of the though somewhat surprised to find so few only five or six being For some days all went and the voyage of Italy with a glassy sea and perfect weather was all that was But my pleasure in the dreamy guor of an Italian the heat tempered by the fresh sea was soon to a at first was simply an but which finally became so intolerable that sleep became almost and safety could found at the cost of unceasing The secret of all our trouble is given in one On shore if a house is filled with these beasts there is some remedy at or at least there is tho last resort of But at sea there is no and for a person cursed with an unutterable for this class of the knowledge that he is shut up and hopelessly consigned to their tender mercies is simply we passed down the stopping at half a dozen different ports and never at sea more than a day or there was comparatively little though it was noticed that traps were continually and one of the sailors on being questioned said they had caught a great number of rats since leaving and he added that he thought the rats were increasing in more coming on board at each port. be yond occasionally hearing them at and a general feeling that ship contained far more than her fair the ladies only being included in the little notice of the and nothing serious left Then the trouble The which consisted almost entirely of oranges and was of course almost and when we were three days the becoming bolder began to make their presence known in a manner was decidedly To give some idea of the number it was not unusual for from thirty to fifty to be caught and drowned in a single and this made no perceptible difference in the At first they confined their voyages to the hold and but finally invaded the saloon and Going to one's room at night was at last a feat requiring some nerve and more so as it had generally to be done in pitch It was not at all to step down in the saloon and hear a sound as if hundreds of rats were scampering away at your Sleep became a luxury to be enjoyed only by for the staterooms were unbearable in was eaten and destroyed by this ravenous rendered wild by famine and bold by countless Several of the sailors were severely bitten in their and a good-sized dog that had shown intense hatred for the pests at the beginning of tho became shy of going below at and the last ten days before reaching New York passed his entire time on He could not be induced to go below even in the j would not be possible to estimate the number of rats on but it must have reached well into four and many of the sailors said they had never known in all their voyages a ship so overrun with many being of tho large Norwegian When we reached New York for rats were seen leaving the ship at all many hundreds escaping to the docks in this The reason for the presence of so unusual and fierce a was said to be the nature of the cargo carried out from which consisted largely of provisions and The good example set by a Chinaman in Chicago two years in becoming a bona fide citizen of by taking out naturalization has been followed by a brother Celestial in who last week laid aside his queue and his to become an under the name of Frank Ho wore a Prince Albert a silk and a with his slender made his identity as an American dude very Ho gave his age ns 27, had been in country eleven most of the time in the speaks English and is said to be Blood Infected witli Is more effectually purified by Hostetter's Stoni aeh Bitters than by any other It expels every traco of the poison from u system impregnated with nnd for the reason that it gives a vigorous impulse to ull those functions whose reg is essential to it Is a first rate preventive of malarial bilious It promotes regularity in the is best auxiliary of enfeebled enriches the and imparts to attenuated and enfeebled frames an amount of vigor which ordinary fails to Since it is known that persons of a bilious digestion and a constipated habit of body are the best subjects for the wisdom of using this flue protective agent iu time will It diffuses a genial warmth through the which counteracts the effects of damp and and defends it from causes productive of troubles ana other serious Pug dogs are going out of fashion as and young women who have these canines on and can't afford to invest in tho new will have to treat their pugs as thoy do their last year's turn let out the shirr the and brighten then up with a how of ribbon hero and There are ways than one to keep up with the 4894
