Daily Citizen, The (Newspaper) - October 15, 1892, Iowa City, Iowa 2 THB TELEPHONE NO. 87 5 VOLUME I. IOWA OCTOBER 15. 18D2. NUMBER 155. FORTY FEET SOLID PLATE SQUARE FEET On First Windows in back and two in This is why one that Have the lightest and handsomest store in the Our stock is almost entirely consisting of the latest novelties as well as a full Hue of staple selected from the New York and other eastern We buy Trunks and Valises by the car load and it will pay you to get our prices before SASLeY TIE AMERICAN SNOWED IN. Effect of the Severe Storm in the All Railroad Traffic Is of Life Horses DAMAGE Oct. ly two days the severest storm ever known on the Union Pacific railroad has been raging here and as far west as In all directions tele- graphic communication was cut off until late Thursday when this dispatch sent through on a temporary All roads have been the cuts being filled with snow which in some places was piled up 18 Rotary snow plows have been liard at work between Granite and the snow being 5 feet deep on at the latter A half hound trains have been tied up hut left fitter the return of the snow Live Stock At Granite canyon Conductor erts was blown off the platform of a and hurled down a 150-foot em- the deep snow saving his Reports are being received of im- mense loss of cattle in ern Colorado and in sands of worth of these animals are knoun to have and it is estimated that almost a third of cattle and horses on the ranges have been destroyed by the storm An un- known dead man was found by the side of the railroad track near CoL He had perished from the effects of the Oct. storm in Colorado has beea the most terrible In its especially at this season of toe year At Palmer on the the snow is in places SO feet and rotary snow are to bore holes through the Trains are at a standstill and the wires arc all Accounts of fatal dents arc coming in Two occured at El MOID on the Union the result of the ing snow In the first collision tor King had both arms broken and his skull A Kio Grande train was at the same F. a could not see the train on account of the He ground under the engine and fatally An miner named Boteze into a shaft covered with snow at Central Chv and fell 90 Ho instantly killed lie leaves a widow and seven Henry Umb lost control of his horses m the storm on Mil. near Fort Col- and was thrown from his He was internally and died a few hours FATAL RAILROAD Pour Men K Iliad by of Freight Near New R. freight trains on the New London and Northern railroad came together at Harrison's 3 miles above New at o'clock a. m. Four men and three horses were The men were in the car with the horses and were bound for the fair at Conn. Two of the men were Charles Heeney and William of ton N. the others are The engineers and both trains jumped from their cabs and escaped Both locomotives were badly damaged and three cars were smashed into kindling The train dispatcher at wich is blamed for the accident Japanese Colony in CITY OF Oct ments are being made for the of a colony of Japanese in the state of This movement is the result of an extended investigation made by the commission sent here by the Japanese government several months Ago President Diaz has high regard for the Japanese as a and the commission will re- a most liberal concession from the Mexican government None but the better classes of Japanese will be mitted to become CHICAGO'S The Garden City Now Preparing to Honor Poly gam Is Oct. 15 president has granted pardons to Gustave Charles A. L. H. Warren C. Louis Andrew Peter James L Ed D. Neil P. S all of and convicted of on condition that ID the future they abstain from unlawful Hanged Himself la 15. Patrick who was sentenced to four imprisonment in the Eastern penitentiary by at for attempting to murder Thomas was found dead in the Wayne county at 7 ing hanged himself during the night Death ol Capt. Oct. Capt. Orlando Ross died hera He was a native of 0, and served in the army of the union during the He was a cousin of Grant and a member of his the last it is of that Oct. In a 10-mile race on the track an Omaha de- a silt Arrangements for the Dedication rf the Exposition Buildings The Enormous Crowd SEAT A BIG Get army of men ia at work fretting the Manufactures building ready for the The 400 carpenters who began at the first of the week to build the trum and the orchestra stand finished their after driving nails into something like a million feet at The huge stand for the orchestra ia in the south end of the central ball of The stage for the speakers and guests is in the center of the east It will take two days to sweep for there are acres of floor to be dusted When the fifty or more men went to sweeping day dozen bundles of brooms were brought in for their In the ies will be close rows of while the chairs are in the tion Immediately fronting the This section will hold 000 In all there are chairs in the The seated chairs in the main stand will be occupied by guests holding special Then there are 100 upholstered seats for dignitaries of the cabinet and supreme bench and governors of tbe Will Occupy the The each 12 feet are already These are expected to seat about Preparations are now complete for seating people outside of the orchestra and Chorus These seats occupy ly one-third of the total and there will be standing room for Those who stand will not know what Is going on at the rostrum unless they have field The hall will be lighted by 842 arc lights of Above the stand and the re- section will be twelve clusters of five lights Above the gallery are seventy-two arc one in the center of each arch between the big roof under the gallery are ninety arc lights and one at each of the four entrances Uo the There are also sixteen lights in the where the lunch will be This light is furnished from the special power plant installed for the occasion in Machinery It now seems reasonably certain that the militia of Illinois will take no part whatever in the on October 81, no money for its transportation being In answer to a tion from Gen. Gen. Fitz Simons said yesterday that there had been an agreement to refrain from calling out the national guard unless it could be represented as a Gen. Miles was still hopeful that there would be subscriptions sufficient to pay for the transportation of tbe One of the officers said there would not be sufficient time in which to mobilize the Reports from other states indicate a large representation of the national guard Gen. Miles has received positive assurance that troops will be present from the following In- and 500. The total number of regulars will be in excess of The Marine band of Washington and a marine corps of 340 men will have the place of honor in the The Mexican band is on its way to reports to date indicate that people will be in said Gen. believe it would be a most conservative estimate to say that there will be All the assistant shals for the civic parade are to meet at the world's fair headquarters day of Do Not Look for the Although no word has come from President is generally be- that he will not be here to attend ceremonies on October 31. If he should not come Vice President who was to have been the of Ft1 rd W. will become the guest of President from residence he will join the sion of cabinet officers and gentlemen shortly before 10 o'clock on dedication The Big Tickets to the dedication ball next Wednesday evening cannot be had for love or In cannot be had for the in have decided that no more tations will be A t the meeting of the committee day the list of guests bidden to the reception was gone over It was discovered that more than acceptances had ready been all we said George M. our duty to make those present as comfortable as If we invite any more the Auditorium will The committee promptly decided to send out no more DanirE Will Sot Senator John V. of will not make the dedicatory at the world's fair next IJe declined that honor in a telegram received by President of the national It is probable now the which was No. IS on the will be omitted and thut Chauncey M. Depew's bian address will hare to answer for The Court Justice Fuller told Ew ing and that he and all his except Justices Field and would go to the and that probably the wives of nil the except Justice B latch would accompany C 011 era tu lii ting Oct rison has received many friendly greetings for America from the of foreign One was from the governor of who congratulated the people of the United upon the success of this great The Spanish ambassador im the name of many and American tives of nearly all the American tions who were assembled at sent a cordial ex- pressions of deep sympathy for fare of the United President of the prior of the Convent the British consular corps at the British consul at the ical society at the municipal council at Funchal and other tions and officials sent congratulatory to all of which the president cordially ENDED IN A Honor of by at NEW Oct. 15 Columbian celebration in this city was brought to fitting close Thursday night by a grand banquet at the Lenox Several hundred of the best-known men in the country were seated at the The president of the United States was not owing to the Illness of his was represented by Vice President The hall had been decorated with excellent Promptly at 8 as the band played to the Vice President Morton and Mayor Grant were escorted to the platform of the Mayor Grant took the seat as the presiding the vice president sitting at his On the same side of the table were Secretary of State ex-President Cleveland and Baron Fava On the left were dent Gen. Horace Porter and Bishop Among the guests at the tables on the mam floor were many distinguished public The time for at length ar- rived and Mayor Grant rapped the com- pany to order The first toast was responded to by Vice-President at the conclusion of proposed a toast to the wife of the expressing a wish for her speedy Secretary of State Foster responded to the United Gov. Flower spoke on Empire President of the board of responded to the toast and was followed by Gen. Horace who spoke on C. G. F. secretary of the committee of 100, had and Its for his Other speakers were Congressman Amos 3. Cummings and William DEATH IN A DEVASTATION IN Sweep Oct. The westers half of the ranching district of the has been devastated by prairie Thousands of tons hay and many buildings have been burned and it is feared that many cattle have Ranchmen on the plains were compelled in i numbers of instances to mount their horses and ride for their swell was tbe rapidity and fierceness which the flames were swept the country by the high win Unless ranchers can Sad new ranges will scarcely able to tide stock over the winter and the loss will be Gas Explodes in a Colliery Near Five Men Lose Their and Six Others Are Heroic Work of en to a Oct All of the prisons and reformatory institutions of Michigan will furnish displays for the Michigan world's providing for this been adopted at the meeting of the central board of Out the election Gloucestershire Col. the conservative was by a majority of reduces Mr majority house of commons to Pa Oct. An sion of gas occurred nt the Sterling colliery Thursday supposed to have caused by a fall of coal breaking a miner's Five nien were und six we i-e injured to the of News the awful disaster was soon to the homes of the miners and a later the wires and mothers of unfortunate men about the mouth of the All were greatly uwet of the women were crying and wringing their hands The pit boss and tendent were awake to the of prompt and without time gathered all the miners in the and organized them into that the work of clearing away the age and rescuing the might be carried on night and day un- til it was The women were tenderly but firmly urged to stand back that they might not ID any war hinder the the Work of In less than half an hour the task The first squad of bared to the entered upon the task with a zeal unil deter in Unit ion that gave the weeping women hope that their loved ones might yet be deter in mud though the workmen thay wore frequently driven back by the poisonous black Several of the zealous workmen wore overcome by It and had to be carried out The work had beea in progress two when two miners who hud been in a new entry made their half half who were so badly overcome that they were unable to get out Greeted by a Shout ut The appearance of these men at thv entrance of the mine wus greeted with a shout of joy from the little The hysterical women had become cooler by this The pr os v rated miners were quickly cared for by the woman who a short time before were wringing their bands in An hour later the sturdy rescuers succeeded in Irvin At the time of the explosion he was with the men still entombed in the slope and it ia have been He was hardly able to speak above a Some brandy was admin tered and he was in a little time able to tell the anxious mothers and friends of the men still buried In the mine what little he knew of their con- Story a all started by a short cut for the bottom of the he I grew from inhaling the ous lost my nnd after I don't know sunk where I WHS As near as I can make out the men are in an old which in now closed by a mass of rock which fell a short tune after the explosion The last body has been reached and brought to the Many narrow escapes were made by miners working lu parts of the mine near where the explosion bat all the men are now THE VETERAN Office rn Elected nmt ul The en- of the gion Wed EI end ay's session en- tirely to business The committee to which was referred Commander address submitted u long in which the commander was and all of recommendations referred to as worthy of con- The np the the eon 1 ion by smd number of unimportant changes mended and iw I op ted W. 11. ttl commander m LYNCHED Ht v led by U la thai Wednesday u mob iif infuriated stormed the jail ttt and took Jones and his with two who werti churned with murdering Mr. L his ami burning bodies at their residence at on Alabama river lust Saturday Tho officials learned thut a mob liud been organized from tho hood of lower Beach Tree and coming to thv for the pose of four negroes at the Tbe prisoners wera at once tnm the jail and an attempt to spirit them but the into who took the four hanging them to a filled their bodies with bullets made a full while in jail and that the four men went to Johnson's for thr of bery and thu old discovered whereupon hv was murdered with an The daughter rescue of 1m r thd after assault house was then set ou to hide mil traced of the or Tlie that to have burned the expressed much dissatisfaction at being thwarted lu their KILLED WHILE Fatal Full While tlm KKW Oct. Chartos I wilder one of New York's society killed hunting with the Me lido w brook hounds Wednesday lifter waa at and Jumping is all over stiff timber and When the fences get rickety the strengthen them by stringing a from post to just above the U was this wire that killed Mr. Mr Herbert and Mr. Paga had just taken the same They aaw the wire and shouted for Die benefit of those Mr. Cot tenet struck the wire and wont He never moved after bo struck the GOOD NEWS FOR Bra fat titular Oct. Acting Com- missioner has rejected the plication of the Bruits Company to select of laud in the upper peninsular of gan and directs the register and re- at Marquette to receive entries This action will bo good news to an it from suspension a large number of stead and other en under which have been pending before the general land for many Other applications for by tha company are in process of Thrown Htf Buffer in. of 939 Went Monroe had hia brains dashed out by a runaway at Hoyne and West street early Thursday Just how the accident occurred will never but shortly afterward the horse and wens wedged between two trees at u venue and Went Monroe n rid after- ward the dead body of Armour was picked up ut the northwest corner of Monroe street and An tit by Oct. has bestowed the Cross of the Legion of Honor on Henry an who is at present a of this distinction was on in Ins literary he the of mid on tit of W plosion of the Caught in the A portion of in the m the of hns A number of miners under the falling and three of them were killed Several others baldly Coon for NKW Oct ol the Tenth New York district cti Charles E Coon for Coon was assistant treasury under President who was frauds in Money for ttM A Oct IS. re- of adopted a deal that the sors be from of to in with of
