Piqua Morning Call, The (Newspaper) - April 3, 1884, Piqua, Ohio VOL II PIQUA OHIO 1884 THE INDIANA CYCLONE Further Details ot the Great Dis- aster Terrible of Property and Many tion or the Terrible Senate The Chair laid before the Senate from tho Seci of copies of contracts with England for armor plates lor thu new niah The suggested in the communication that something had bolter IKS dono to the manufacture of j armor plates in this country Credentials ot Payne of wore and filed Mi- Cull ti resolution which referred to the Committee on Ind April Tuesday I requesting to lling while wo secure in our homes with Spain so as to refer though not altogether certain of our ton all arising under ity the little villago of eight j treaty of miles soutli this city was being almost amending Section of the instantly converted into confusion and j Revised Statutes to giving bris barns ity in cases on or of error was and nro scattered hero and yon Tim for promoting beyond repair TJie wind came from the in General Land by northwest and persons who saw on- salary of tho Commissioner to a proach of the it as peculiar year an Commissioner in color and movement within two at year raisins tho salaries of miles of tin it camo to ground clerks of tlie Bureau was passed It TMw Chicago Postmaster Booming Logan MEDIUM MAULED of a Seance Churned That lie to Work IN r I thu Views April 3 attention of Postmaster General was called to the statements published iu New York and Chicago that tho employes of the i Iu tho latter city wero being bulldozed anil i y intimidated by tho Postmaster ami his begin in Qj April itinerant calling himself A R Ackerly and lering Detroit appeared in this city Saturday last and arranged with ot I spiritualistic citizens to giro a in at a I evening at an admission fee of SI At the time and appointed a goodly number of and gentlemen Mr Ackerly with all his paraphernalia of cab musical instruments etc was promptly on hand and ready to go ahead with his ghostly Placing in front of his cabinet between a gentleman and to n l a would doubtless have gone on although its force was spent in i inscriptions etc was passed It from throe to five minutes out of jates for tho payment of live or forty buddings of all lands but sons sUall be appointed five stand as monuments to marl the wrk of the villago of a few At consideration of tho I hoads of divisions into supporting j lo a Logan lor the fo n llm Aly attention was first to this I about in this mutter said the IIS General but it j Postmaster il Chicago in of positive proof lo that tho charges aro true and ho has practices that are and his subordinates lint if they aro tho indicated by had it not Imp CANADA'S LATE ALARM CONDENSED NEWS Detectives Still Prowling About the Dominion i Tlie 111 Oilier for- eign Gladstone iu the was athletic and at to the j unobserved y medium around and entered the cabinet for the purpose of taking ob- A dim light was burning in tlie and when tho medium having hold of tho crossed ii those sitting him their conduct s highly reprehensible ifc to hands engaged slyly released of i them and it through tho curlain for tho purpose of playing u banjo lying ou a small inside tlie cabinet Mr Out April private lectivo liwo on business connected with tho says that although wero being to tho public mind ot there reason for tho recent dynamite scare it was well-known that Government in possession ox information which justified tho ary steps taken on 10th of Ho bad moil en duty about tho Building whilo Detective Agency sent one man hero who it must and shall bo tho nor bis will by allowed tlie political action of their subordinates and no man shall be removed because ho to obey his and ilUs Himes a about sixteen years of ago daughter of a mother One ot the two children tilled found livo house while that of Johnson thrown into a loU yards from the wrecked house and was not found until two hours after the storm had passed It was then picked up in tho darkness of the night and carried to its was also found house clothing whipped from her body tho force or tho wind Mrs was found dead under her The wounded are numerous seriously hurt are Turner Johnson tho son ot C C Johnson skull crushed and otherwise injured and Mr Coke replied briefly urging that his objections ta the had not boon met any fair or impartial way by tho Senator Jtr Van the tenor of thu bate ought to convince everybody that the till should In abandoned as a peace havo no authority j will said your i pondi-nb that it is stated that tho heads j of departments in thu office issued verbal orders und sent printed I to their subordinates j them ID attend in the esc of a particular candidate under j dismissal for failure to so l II this is I such heads ol dismissed from the Such conduct i fail to Mr Blair admitted that was a deficiency i their relations to their subordinates and to j in the but said he had boon j the public and if they ara tlw 1 by the friends of education that intrusted to them they are imf ing to the Therefore the should come down to details for tho of the children of thu try One defeat in tho measure in his from tho Kith to tho 21st of March Thero are also two detectives from Scotland Yard London at present in Canada on tho track of persons who aro known to bo with the Fenian and who aro said to havo loft under circumstances The Governor sinco tho recent excitement is seldom seen on tho public streets and when lie does venture beyond the galu of Kidean Hall ho is 1 by an cort Speaker Kirkpatrick who vacated his comfortable quarters in tho Parliament building to tako up his residence where ho lio less exposed to danger bus re- turned KIRK IN April firo broke out last in tho buildings Kus and How occupied by John Charles printer nnd soon dead alUs m tuo in his some distance from her de- was that it made no provision iso with almost every of school houses iu tha In- lots who was keenly on the alert seized wrist with a grip in one hand and with tho other following up thu lead found to his indignant that tho hand instead of belonging to a spirit of health or goblin damned was a veritable attachment to Mr Ackerly himself At tin's revelation Willott in his nation ut the discovery a fraud jerked the dium from his chair and commenced pounding him most unmercifully his to printing house of Pardon Sous lists damaging him severely both in I l Court The music health and good looks Ladies screamed publishing houso of Wm Williams Co and fainted whilst men were aghast at 1 Ul Paternoster and un untoward aud sudden outcome of Court also attacked seance The company seized on his j Jv lames All the buildings for the manufacture of ghosts and wero destroyed and others more or loss refused to return it At two o'clock this I damaged The telegraph wires running afternoon Mr was on a i overhead through the streets seriously would be no lack of school houses the i of the Mr Van Wyck then criticized the clause will probably die Jefferson Hoover a j which related to the sectarian character of visiting in place fron sl Hu pointed out that tho town thigh broken iu two placed seriously ohc Church supported educational hurt internally and will Nanny Myers sixty years old arm broken and badly John Hoffman and wife badly rd Brown seriously hurt about tho Jeff hip dislocated and is wife was hurt Fred ott of Blielby stopping over night ribs broken Himes L 4 Holtzinger others more or I was cut on shoulder was aud cut The loss to property cannot bo but bs less than or are blown to the tion and do not present the appearance Of ever having residences Thuy aro scattered over fields for miles in some in- stances Tho large ami extensive mill of J Co is a perfect wreck This was one of best mills in the country and tho loss tn the is J L liad ono of the finest in tho badly tions not comu under tho op- oration of tho law and bo thought that body should be looked upon as offering something to the country as an uti'set to the or materialistic ago Mr denied having any desire to in- sult tho Church by any language in tho and as a friend of education ly are unfitted for the position they hold and re- moval themselves action will you take if evidence to sustain these charges is submitted to I have already expressed my views and my action will be consistent with them Hattou Assistant Postmaster eral The attention of the was willed to this matter yesterday by Congressman of Chicago und tho charges have been referred to the master at that city for an awl urged that tho bo disposed of evening Mr Voorhees said ho was confident from information as to what was tu follow it was impossible to get through with tho The motion was lost by n of IS to 37 nays Mr had the floor but gavo i way to a motion to proceed to the of executive business which was after tho Senate ad- bhed tile broken and damaged to j al tho amount of C A dry aud sustained a loss of perhaps whilo tho grocery of Mr Huffman is a total loss not so as an oyster can being left to tell the story In thu vicinity of thu village several hua 1 of cattle one mule anil stock grazing wero struck by living timbers i H f aud killed Many others in the country of and near by wero seriously hurt in the path House j During the progress of business in tho House Grant entered tho hall and took a seat on tho lounge the j tho rear of the Democratic side He had i been there but a short time when Mr COMMIT TEES charging him with fraud and de- ception Ho was immediately arraigned Judge and bound await the action of the Grand Jury which meets here in September the work ot tho firo brigade restaurant was one of the feu old stylo bouses in tho vicinity of the old Market site Tho loss will aggregate of the storm For live miles east and west of tho lage tho damage is equally great Not n farm was passed over but was made a fect wreck barns houses orchards forests being blown down and fences to tho ground everything presenting a scene of destruction Ou tho farm of James Kanders four miles east of town his barn and house were destroyed Jlr Sanders who is 11 merchant at but who was out on tho place nnd had taken in the barn was instantly killed At Lurny a family of eight persons had their houso blown lo splinters and tho father William Lines was killed outright while the others uninjured liam Krank a painter four miles west ot Oakville whilo out on his farm was caught by the storm and instantly killed Tho condition of tho of that once happy villago is terrible to think of without homes clothing food or bedding they found standing iu the cold ing or shivering in tho few houses that yet remain Tho people more thrown open their to tho suffering and aro making ar- lo feed tho hungry until such a time as they shall bo ablo to sustain rise which was carried Sir j dall then Wo havo the honor of 1 on thu a distinguished visitor in the of Grant I think wo will do ourselves honor by taking a ro- cess of fifteen minutes to enable members I to shako him by the hand motion svas put and carried j with further applause amid a i clapping of hands on both sides of tho i lull General Grant leaning upon his crutches was escorted by Speaker Carlisle and Mr to a position iu front of tho Speaker's desk and there introduced to the individually When General Dates of Alabama was the noticed his and mndo inquiry regarding tho missing arm General Gates replied that it was lost ou tho Confederate side in front of Richmond when General Grant was in command of he Union Army Tho introductions over and tho recess having expired the Houso adjourned WASHINGTON April the Star Route investigation the Springer Committee still on thu witness stand testified that ho nover suid that the cases against tha Dorsey tion were weak I said to Mr that was Ilia head devil and that 1 was going for witness with emphasis Jlr said he charged tho j Government a day und j Sir Drowsier also employed iu the 1 cases aud also charged a day and ex- penses From Cigarette Smoking CHICAGO 111 April ing of cigarettes was shown to-day to hiu made a raving madman of a young man Pendergast in th County Court this morning listened to tho testimony Nathan Rogalsky u very emaciated Hebrew clerk of twenty-two was tho lunatic and tho evidence proved that lie had been in tho habit of smoking daily three or four bunches or sixty to eighty cigarettes of tho noxious weod For two weeks past ho lias shown takable signs of insanity Tho jury found him insane aud added that nervous de- caused by excessive smoking was tho cause friends will pay the of bis in a lunatic Opening Out April S The steamer City of Detroit passed down into Kno yesterday commencing or in JIo April was to day that somo well-known determined business men of this city luv j taken tho initiatory steps in the i of H Committee The tion has not boon completed yet bat the preliminaries have been A largo has and action will be taken within fonr hours so it is decided This committee is not formed for tho purpose of inciting lawlessness or causing bloodshed so it claimed but simply to rid the city of an element which in a timo of great excitement might become as dangerous as that fed tho mob at Cincinnati One the members of this LUW aud Order League was seen this ing and although ho refused to talk freely about tho matter lie said enough to leave no room for doubt ns to tho intentions of the committee How many aro thora in your was asked A large can't say just how tho committee will bo powerful It is to increase the membership further Of what class of is the committee men citizens and people whoso interests arc in Kansas men who deplore tho failure of tho courts to deal out impartial rigid is it to bo on the order of the nati Vigilance Xo its plans are to prevent violence I am not thoroughly advised about tho ter but my understanding is that tho whole object is to drive out of Kansas City some characters whom tho law does not seem able to reach What if tho characters will not bo driven The Committee is in earnest It means business Probably a hint will bo sufficient to those not altogether foolish What will be the method of I notices will bo sent to parties so leave the city At any rate the committee will act in a mined aggressive manner ami fruit will o borne There is on that SINGULAR RAILROAD ACCIDENT All AMUSING WITNESS lie April Danville election riot investigation which is conducted by tho Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections has lest its inter- est and an amusing witness to called but little attention is old Virginia farmer last on tho stand Ho thought it was generally understood iu that tho colored people who at- tempted to the ticket would saturated repeated Senator Sherman what do mean by Oh you knows what I means re- witness Do you mean inquired Mr Sherman Dats it exclaimed Hill and iu order to protect mv property I voted for the Did this general understanding include the white inquired Sir Vaco sah you is out o my system replied Hill I know nothing about tint That will said tho Senator amid much laughter Ocean Wrecks ild April reached the city of tho which prevailed on the Chesapeake last Saturday night tho reported aro tun A with a cargo of oysters was sunk oil Pinoy Point in the Potomac Tho crew wore saved Two barges with cargoes of ice aro ashore in Eight vessels of sixes are along tho shore of Cusfield Harbor Ths Tom lost her topsail and a is ashore at Smith's The schooner Foxall is ashore at Carmo Creek April German press unanimously ilr Gladstone's incomprehensible It is that tho of General ham's forces and tho recent defeat of jral Gordon greatly encourage tho rebels The speaks of Mr stone's blood sinco tho of as mous IS LONDON April explosion curred to-day in tho Park Ship Colliery at Three persona are known lo have been killed whilo the fate of others who are imprisoned in tho mino is still uncertain IX April advices cate that is again surrounded by the rebels and that tho position of the rison a perilous one HUMILIATION FOll April German Gazette that the of Kl Mahdi to accept the of t'an from General Gordon is a humiliation England A SKIRMISH CAIRO April rebels havo cap tured a party of one hundred and loyal natives aud of a few miles of utter a con- in it is six of tlm natives killed of tho Berner jurors hiding in Sfc Louis i K K Co book at Philadelphia ties over assets unknown lias just been granted a divorce Her husband appear aud tho divorce was granted by fault THE Postmaster General lias directed cording to law a readjustment of at to take elfect lisSo THK base ball games which were to in New York at tho Polo Ground and in were postponed on account of the rain United States prisoners convicted of various committed In the Indian Territory havo been eent to tho Houso of Correction at SIfeh- is less Grand Railroad employes und it altogether Die tion of wages not IMS followed by a strike THE principal Detroit plastering firms havo acceded to the demands of tho ing plasterers for per day and will This practically closes tho strike TELLER has disbarred J G Bigelow Washington C and G H Harris City Pa from practice tho Interior Department for tion of the pension laws THK President by executive order has restored all tho Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Dakota with tho exception of two sections reserved for tho Indians to the public domain SPECIAL Agent Wiegand of the ment of Justice submitted to tho Housa Judiciary Committee a number of vits lo strengthen his report representing tho alleged irregular practices of Judge of Now Mexico THK final decision in regard to proposed concessions for the introduction into Kussin of grain elevators by Kussian French and American capitalists lias been postponed although the Council of the voted to proposition THK case of Drow vs Charles and others with reference to the play has been settled between the parties and withdrawn from court The respondents give up all rights to present the play under tho old contract afternoon ono of the lions belonging to Orlons circus ing at Korris Mich escaped from his cage while the keeper Lake was absent Lake summoned and was on tho ground where he fought nearly an hour with the huge beast before succeeding in getting the animal back in tho cage of New York presented in the Houso a memorial of the bondholders of tho Pacific praying Congress to protect their interests against the proposed forfeiture of tho Northern Pacific grant and urging the Committee on Public Lands to grant thorn hearing in regard thereto THK British steamer Salermo Captain Wilson has arrived at Boston from lingland and reports that ou 2T she passed a largo iceberg apparently about a mile long which had tho auco of an island Captain Wilson thinks that the berg will be floating all summer and he deems it very dangerous to tion WM residing on a farm in Township livo miles east of O started for that city on horseback yesterday morning A storm coming up ho took shelter in u barn of lard Jacobs where he and his horse wero both killed by lightning Ho was a ted citizen litty years of age and loaves a wife and seven children A TORONTO Out April attempt at a double murder was made yesterday FLOODS Great of In HAFNIUM JIo April Mississippi River at this point has the highest point for years and is now only three feet by Horace V Alkim an artist tha j below the high water mark of All AWFUL All RAIN IN THE SOUTH victims being his and a man named llackett formerly a street car conductor Hackett with his wife and mother visited Airs in Jarvis street aud there mot Mrs Atkins Tho party The Bad Practice of on Pa April serious accident happened on tho Lebanon Valley Railroad a short distance west of hero at last evening which resulted in s Sundays and rendered bills for That is probably tho reason you did not remarked Mi- Springer Tho Committee thou adjourned Senator Hotter April it a lato hour last night was reported by iis physician as much bettor and out of steam bargo D It Van hound for Charlotto a cargo of barloy but out a short lime the dis- and cast oil from tho Tho vessel's got jammed and J began and being unable to Charlotto sho ran for this port Wind 1 north and fresh cold with nnd Swept a Tempest April most destructive and frightful of tho year swept over North Alabama and North Georgia last night Tho full effect of the storm can only bo surmised as most of the territory traversed is miles from n railroad but enough is known to characterize it as the most fatal yet ro- In tho vicinity of Collinsville and iu Dado County Ga it seemed to bo at its worst Tho storm bolt was not 300 yards wide and scorned to consist of berless whirlwinds revolving with eacl other at a furious rate and moving ove the earth with rapidity The swath of the storm was like wheat before tha scythe and its track was outlined by the ruin and destruction which marked it Tho houso of Hon Clayton brother of tho State Senator wrecked aud ho his and child wero killed The family of John was also many houses throughout that tion were totally of tho in- the lower part of tho city is completely in- undated and people are moving in skiffs from their houses through which the water is four feet deep The value of tho lumber which has floated away will amount commenced drinking and on j to thousands of dollars Miles of railroad wife asking him to come homo he refused j track are under water and trains on the She thereupon went lo Atkius mid got him hit Louis Keokuk and Northwestern to conio to ilrs On entering thu between Hannibal and Quincy room where ilrs Atkins and were I are abandoned The water is now Atkins found them drinking together j one foot above tho lino endeavored to hide Angry re- j of danger A sixty milo embankment in connection with Hackett's protects probably tho richest farming dis- with Mrs Atkins look place I in Illinois and fears are entertained tween Atkins and his wife Suddenly At- j that tho levee which has been broken by kins drew n revolver and fired at his wife the ball lodging in her leg She screamed aud llackett sprang from his hiding place seized a shaker and rushed at At- kins fired in succession three shots ono taking effect in Hackett's groin A desperate struggle ensued in which Hackett gavo Atkins several severe blows with the coal shaker and succeeded the Hoods of three seasons will again away iu which case loss of many I dreds of thousands of dollars will be on- tailed Tho rise in the river has I and it is believed ho highest stago will be reached to-day Sivimllcr BALTIMORE trial of Chas wrenching the revolver from him Atkius H with defrauding was taken to the Police Station and I public in advertising by sending circulars ett and Mrs Atkins to the hospital through the United States mails in an wound is considered dangerous but aged bogus life insurance company known as the Great Eastern Insurance Company was concluded yesterday in tho i United States Circuit Court I rendered a verdict of guilty Judge Morris I sentence Mrs Atkins is not seriously injured At- kins is years of and his wiEe twenty-one Hackett is also young injuring seven repair man living in mates also being killed Trees wero Hko corks on the sea and tho tracks of tho Alabama Groat Southern which penetrate that valloy wero literally covered In Madison County Aln near villo tho destruction was terrible Tho of Wm Whilo WAS demolished his That April 3 All is known officially at the Treasury con- tho party alleged to of April what is have started from is the report Of I known as the Act tho the customs at Key st lhat i General was directed to make an this section Tho men had been at work during yesterday in tho vicinity of and at five o'clock they quit work and prepared to return hero on two small hand trucks When tho evening train for Heading reached tho men moved up tho 1 instantly killed and small truck behind tho train and his child carried several hundred yards by ten of tho working men got on j furious wind Tlie storm struck All wont well until tho tiain I of James Glover while ho was Indoors passed tho switch at siding just with n child on each knee A timber struck west of Suddenly ono of him in tho back and killed him but neither front wheels of tho front truck broke i child hurt wrecking truck Tho second truck The damage will foot up hundreds of piled tho first as both became thousands and tho losses ot life is very from tho passenger train nnd tlm treat men were thrown in all and j badly bruised and crippled Ono man was GLADSTONE will pass the Easter recess in thrown hot into a Bile of coal Prance of twenty men under nerd started from that a expedition Tho revenue cutters Dexter and havo been ordered to prevent jn of the laws hy means may required re- ports havo from tho revenue marine the State nor Navy Department havo taken any action iu the General An- ance lo under a former readjustment Having as to its scope the act was sent to tho Attorney General for his construction He has re- turned it to the Postmaster General with the opinion that it is legal nnd proper in form ft is estimated at fho De- that to carry out its provisions will require fifty millions of dollars Funeral of Minister Hunt WASHINGTON April for the funeral of the lato mains at Now York by Revival of April case of the reception of Jones for attempting to shoot Guitean through a window of tho police van while ho bouse 28 Tho District Attorney has been ro to nolle the cote B u you brownand other of being convoyed N Yard Mld tho b to tho Jail was sot for trial April tfl 8 The District Attorney has been ro- received and Interred at lery with appropriate ccj
