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VOL. VI, NO. 2,121.
PREPARE FOR CRISP
And Let Five Thousand Enthusiastic Peo
ple Greet Him In Rome.
CRISP, MADDOX, CLAY AND BERNER.
They Will All Speak in Rome
Next Saturday.
CRISP AND MADDOX IN MARIETTA.
A Great Crowd Enthusiastically Cheered
Their Speeches—Fully Three Thousand
People Present.
Speaker Crisp will be in Rome next
Saturday.
Five thousand people at the lowest es]
timate should hear him.
At Marietta 3,000 'people
were preseat to hear him and Judge
Maddox. Rome ought to have twice
that big a crowd and with the proper
exertion in the way of advertisement
will certainly do so.
Judge Maddox in talking of it last
night, said:
“The people of Rome and Floyd, have
always shown a liking (for Mr. Crisp,
and executive committee should not al
low auy lack of advertisement to lessen
the crowd that should hear him next
Saturday. He is the third highest offi
cial of the United States,a convincing
speaker and a splendid man. I shall
be disappointed if Rome does not greet
him with 5,000. ”
The Judge suggests that committees
be appointed to see aft< r the details of
the day,and be sure that it be proper
ly advertised over the county.
Let all the democrats get together and
make a day they can all be proud of.
There isn’t a man in the party, who
doesn’t sincerely admire the speaker,
and they should show it by a rousing
reception.
And then there will be Congressman
Maddox to give some solid democratic
food. And Steve Clay will be here to
delight old friends and make new ones.
And Bob Berner, the brilliant orator,
will arouse enthusiasm in all.
No city in the state has had or will
have a more brilliant aggregation of
speakers, and Rome must turn out in
force to hear them. Tell your country
friends and.bring them to town—no
matter whether they be democrats or
populists.
Our Congressman’s Dates.
Judge Maddox is doing splendid work
for the party. Always a clear and
earnest speaker be has done much to
convince the people of the good of dem
ocracy. His dates for the coming week
are as follows:
Monday, at Dallas; Tuesday, Fair
mont and Senoraville; Wednesday, Red
Bud and Resaca; Thursday, Carters
ville; Saturday, Rome; Monday, Octo
ber 1, Kingston; Tuesday, October 2,
Spring Place.
THREE THOUSAND
Eutliu.ia.tic People Hear Speaker Crisp
and Congressman Maddox.
Marietta, Ga., September 22.—Three
thousand people heard Speaker Crisp
and Judge Maddox here today, and a
more enthusiastic crowd never gathered
in Marietta. Never has democracy seen
such a day, and the two distingnished
speakers are being praised on all sides.
Mr. Crisp was introduced at 10 o’clock
by Monroe Neal in an eloquent manner.
Mr. Crisp then delivered one of the
most masterly efforts ever heard in this
section. In his calm,deliberate manner
he proved that democracy had done
much to better the condition of the peo
ple, and that while all had not been ac
complished that they desired, yet genu
ine relief was the result of democratic
rule.
He was loudly applauded, and every
man , woman and child who heard him
is his ardent admirer.
Judge Maddox was introduced at a
little after 12 o’clock by D. M. Blair in
a graceful and pleasing manner. “Our
John” is very popular in Cobb county,
and he added to his friends today. The
earnest, impressive manner and sound
arguments told, ano every one present
felt that the cause of democracy was
greatly strengthened by the speech. It
was a masterly effort, and his roast of
Dr. Felton was loudly cheered.
PULSE OF THE TRADE.
A General Revival of Business Reported
From Washington.
Washington, Sept. 22.—A general,
but gradual, revival of business is mak
ing itself felt in the treasury by the
heavy demand for small notes of the de
nominations of ones and twos. Money
of this class is in "Teat demand in the
south and southeast especially.
While the treasury is doing its utmos
to accommodate all who ask for small
money, it cannot always supply all or
ders as promptly as desired. Prefer
ence is given to orders when gold is de
posited for small notes, as it is the poli
cy of the treasury to build up its gold
reserve by all legitimate means.
In the west gold is being freely de
posited for such money as the banks
derfire, and no delay is experienced in
filling orders promptly. In the west,
however, very little money of denomi
nations lower than fives and tens are
wanted, and this class of money can be
readily supplied.
For the past six weeks the amount of
money sent to the treasury for redemp
tion has been unusually heavy, averag
ing $750,000 a day since Sept. 1.
An Amorloun*. Dswtli Abroad.
The department of state has been no
tified of the death of George Albert
Liernur, a citizen of these United
States, at Carlsbad. Aug. 20. Liernur
THE ROME TRIBUNE.
noa our a ill jnOune, Ai». t on years ngo*
and for the past 14 years h‘4d an impor
tant position under the Egyptian gov
ernment as director of works on barrage
with the rank and title of Bay.
He, however, retained his American
citizenship and his personal affairs are
now being oared for by our deputy con
sul general at Cairo.
All the Egyptian papers published
long obituary notices, referring to Lier
nur Bey in the highest terms. At the
time of his death he was absent from
his poet on leave granted by the khe
dive.
MERELY FORMAL.
The Committee Meet* to Declare the Elec
tion of Owen* Over Breckinridge.
Frankfort, Ky., Sept. 22.—A1l the
members of the Democratic congres
sional district committee have arrived
and the meeting will be held at noon at
the Capitol hdtel to canvass the returns
and declare who is nominated. Hon. W.
O. Owens is here with a big delegation
of friends, and Colonel Breckinridge's
interests will be looked after by his TaW
partner. Colonel John T. Shelby, and a
large delegation of prominent men.
Among the prominent men in the city
are Hon. E. M. Dickson, John T. Hin
ton ana Charles B. Butler, of Paris,
Editor Baxter, of the Lexingtoh Trans
script, Hon. James T. Askew, of George
town, and Editor Orr, of the Owen
News.
The air is full of rumors; one is to the
effect that if the committee goes behind
the returns an injunction will immedi
ately be gotten out by the Owens men
before Judge Gartrell, who is holding
his circuit court here now.
Another is that the Breckinridge men
on the committee will probably, if voted
down by a majority, issue a protest to
the people of the district with a view of
producing disaffection enough to defeat
Owens in the race between him and the
Republican nominee.
One of the best known Breckinridge
adherents, however, denies that there
will be anything of the kind done.
Owens’ friends say that at th« urgent
appeal to the district committee by
some of the Breckinridge men,
they found that they could only
count on a few, viz-: Johnston, of Fay
ette; Welsh, of Langton; Vincent, of
Oldham and Gaines, of Franklin, and
that for this reason they concluded to
make no contest.
AGAINST FREE COINAGE.
Secretary Smith Doe* Not Mince Word*
on That Subject,
Atlanta, Sept. 23.—Secretary Smith
spoke to an audience of 5,000 people in
Thomasville, Ga., and addressed an au
dience of similar proportions in Way
cross, Ga., in Representative Turner’s
district.
. In these two meetings he has spoken
to an audience representing every coun
ty in southern Georgia. Secretary
Smith follows the line of his Atlanta
speech, directing his remarks almost
entirely to the financial question, and
coming out unequivocally against the
free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16
to 1, or any other ratio, unless absolute
parity of the two metals could be main
tained.
He dwells on every phase of the ques
tion and it is conceded that he draws
much larger audiences wherever he
goes than any other speaker in the cam
paign. At Waycross Hon. Fleming G.
Dubignon, of Savannah, also spoke. He
followed the same line on tne silver
question as Secretary Smith and created
considerable enthusiasm.
At the conclusion of the speaking
7,000 people sat down to an oldfashioned
Georgia barbecue.
WOOD WITHDRAWS.
Alabama Democrats will Have to Make
Another Selection on the Fourth.
Selma, Ala., Sept. 22.—Mardis L.
Wood, Democratic nominee for congress
of the Fourth district, in a letter ad
dressed to the chairman of the district
cmmittee, withdraws from the race and
requests that another convention be
called to name a Democratic candidate.
He states that his withdrawal is prompt
ed by purely personal reasons.
Mr. Wood is the foremost Democrat
in this section of the state, and his elec
tion was an absolute certainty. The
announcement that he had withdrawn
came as a great surprise to his friends.
He will take the stump for the next
nominee, whoever he may be.
John M. Caldwell, of Calhoun, has
announced himself as a candidate.
Congressman Robbins will also be be
fore the convention.
MEXICANS OBJECT.
Domain*—Kilin’ Scheme.
They Don’t Want Cuft'< • Colonized in Their
San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 22.—Wil
liam H. Ellis, a prominent negro of this
city, who obtained a concession from
the Mexican government for the colo
nisation of rich lands in the northern
part of Mexico with negro families from
the United States, is now in Mbxioo ar
ranging the details for the carrying out
of the terms of his contract with the
Mexican government.
Strong opposition among the people
of Mexico has developed to the coloniza
tion scheme, and an effort will be made
to prevent Ellis from putting his project
into effect.
A syndicate of eastern capitalists are
back of the enterprise, and they expect
to profit by selling the laud, which they
have bought in Mexico to the negroes
for a good price.
Whiil* to nipt aiavTii.
London, Sept. 22.—An Australian pu
gilist named Owen Sullivan, who is now
at Port Natal, has sent a challenge to
Frank Slavin to light for a stake of
1,500 pounds. Slavin has replied that
he will accept if allowed 100 pounds to
cover his expenses.
HOME, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1894.—TWELVE PAGES.
THE LATEST PHASE
Os The Crowley Murder in Atlanta is a
Most Sensational One.
NOW SAID THAT CROWLEY IS ALLEN,
And That He is the Man Who
Did the Killing.
CONSIDERS MEYER’S STORY FISHY.
Chief Detective Wright, of Atlanta, Does
Not Believe It—Chief Connolly's
Heavy IGuard.
Atlanta,September 22. J. W. Conley,
one of the men charged with the mur
der of Forest Crowley, is in Atanta.
Myers, the one upon whom the bur
den of the crime is placed, is being
brought here. He will arrive early to
morrow morning.
The police are making a vigorous
search for Brown Allen, whom Myers,
in his confession,charges,with the crime.
fcThe most sensational of all rumors in
this connection, however, is that J. W.
Conley and Brown Allen are one and
the same.
It is claimed that Brown Allen was
seen in Chattanooga by the detectives.
J. W. Cooley is under arrest there on
a charge of murder. Putting two and
two together has developed this rumor.
“I don’t think that is a fact,” said
Ch es Wright this morning,” though it
my be. I am doing my best to catch
Ben Allen, nevertheless.
‘ But you may let that fellow Meyers
get up and swear that two of the worse
characters known in Atlanta were with
him that day, and after the killing,
drove back through the woods to the
city, and nobody would believe it.
“As to Brown Al
len are identical of course we don’t
know, that the whole story sounds fishy
in the extreme
At five minutes after eight o’clock
this morning Chief of Police Connolly,
Sergant Slaughter,Seargeant White and
Patrolman Whitley with Detective Ca
son, left for Chatanooga by theWestern
and Atlantic railroad.
They constitute a quintette of the
coolest and most courageous men con
nected with the police department, and
were armed with Winchester rifles
The mystery conected with the Allens
appears to be the hardest of solution.
Bill Betts, a barber on Alabama
street, said this morning: “The Allen
that was sent to the penitentiary was
Brown Allen. He was sent four or five
months ago. I am confident of this.
Ben Allen was in here for a shave last
week, but he is not the man sent to the
chaingang. ’ ’
"Brown Allen; was an alias of Ben
Alien’s,” said Turkey Cooper at the
station house. “About the last of March,
Allen and Abe Seigel, who had been
mixed up in a gaming spree at Griffin,
were arretsed and locked up.
“After that they went down about
Covington, and were mixed up in an
affair concerning the stealing of a ring,
and they were again locked up with
Charlie Allen and Will Stone. Final
ly this Brown or Ben Allen was sent to
the chaingang, as stated in yesterday’s
Journal.
“I knew him. He is an old offender,
and the two are one and the same
man. ”
“1 think the right name of Allen is
Will,” said Detective Mehaffey, ■
“though he evidently used the two
names, Brown and Ben, as aliases.
That’s Jhow the two names became
mixed up in the reports. ’ ’
There was much speculation in regard
to the result of and attempt to bring
Myers through last night, and the pub
lic was on the lookout for an additional
series of sensations connected with the
affair.
But on account of some misconnect
ions the officers decided not to start un
til this morning, thereby averting any
attempt to lynch the prisoner en route
by the enraged friends of the murdered
man.
STABBED TO DEATH,
An Escaping ’Negro ’ Cuts a Western and
Atlantic Engineer.
Atlanta, Ga. .September 22.—Joe Ren
ard, an engineer on the Western & At
lantic railroad was dangerously stabbed
by a negro tonight.
The negro was escaping from a police
man and Renard was oiling his engine,
pieparatory to starting for Cattanooga.
As the negro ran past, Renard tried to
stop him. The negro stabbed him cut
ting an artery. He is in a critical con
dition.)
BObION POLITICS.
The Aiifttrnlbin Bolhit Uw in Force—Con.
, grcMHlonal Nomination**
Boston, Sept. 22. State Serxitor
John F. Fitzgerald will be the Demo
cratic nominee for congress in the Ninth
district and Congressman McEttrick
will not be the regular nominee in the
Tenth. These are two features of the
Boston caucuses just held by the Dem
ocratic party. These were the first pri
maries held by the party under the new
caucus act requiring the use of tne Aus
tralian ballot system.
This act and an immense vote brought
out by excitement in the congressional
fight made the counting of votes a tre
mendous task and not until morning
was it possible to get definite informa
tion.
In the Ninth district Fitzgerald will
have 87 delegates to the convention and
O’Neil 76.
In the Tenth enough information has
been received to show that Congressman
McEttrick has been defeated for the
regular nomination by McNary. Con
gressman McEttrick will therefore run
as an idependent candidate, as he has
aheadv announced he would do.
MRS. ANNIE ABBOTT
Better Known as the Little Georgia Mag
net is in New York
AND IS BATTLING THE BIG DOCTORS.
She Excited Much Wonder In
Rome Last Winter.
AND MANY PEOPLE REMEMBER HER
As a Mystery They Could Not Solve New
York Papers Are Full of the Subject.
Some Interesting Tests.
New York, Sept. 22.—A little slip of
a woman, who weighs 98 pounds, stood
in a parlor of the Sturtevant House and
played the very mischief with the law
of weights and several other laws, to the
consternation of many distinguished
physicians, who were as completely at a
loss to explain the exhibition as were the
laymen who saw it.
Mrs. Annie Abbott is so small in ap
pearance that it seemed that any able
bodied man could lift her from the floor
but if Mrs. Abbott doesn’t •wish to be
lifted she is harder to raise than a car
window. This strange and inexplicable
power which she possesses has made her
famous in other parts of the ■world, but
it has never before been seen in New
York.
In Germany she has stirred up a fine
row among wise professors, and she has
sailed for Europe to help some of the
firofessors out, for they have gone to
aw over a book written about her. She
intended starting sooner, but her de
parture was delayed by a nervous at
tack, and Dr. Thomas H. Bailey was
called to attend her. He was so com
pletely flabbergasted by Mrs. Abbott
that he decided, in the interest of sci
ence, to make it pleasant for his learned
friends, who laughed at him when he
told them about the strange woman.
So he arranged for the exhibition just
passed. »
Mrs. Abbott made a little speech to
begin with. She said she wouldn't call
it anything; she would make some tests,
and those who saw it could call the
power what they liked. And if they
could explain to her just what it was
she would be very much obliged. She
didn’t know anything about magnet
ism nor hypnotism nor electricity nor
occultism. She was an ignorant coun
try girl, born in Georgia, who had mar
ried when she was 13, and all the edu
cation she had she had picked up her
self. She explained the board platform
which had been placed in the room by
saying that she could not work on car
pets or metals.
Then Mrs. Abbott started right in.
She called her daughter, who is 12 years
old, and who wore a yellow dress, and
asked the doctor to lift the little girl.
The doctor, who came forward, was a
big man. He picked up the child with
out difficulty.
“It is easy to lift her,” said the wise
man.
“Now we will try the experiment,”
said Mrs. Abbott, smiling. “I’ll place
one hand on her spine, between the
shoulders. Place your hands under
neath the little girl’s arms, so that your
flesh will come m contact with hers. I
will place my other hand on yours.
Now then!”
The doctor drew a long breath and
began to lift. The child was slightly
raised and then sank back again. The
man tugged and pulled harder than
ever. “Lemme get a better hold,” he
said, breathlessly. Then he clasped the
girl about the waist and pulled harder
than ever. Suddenly ths child shot
intothe air.
“The doctor's hands came in con
tact,” explained Mrs. Abbott. “When
that occurs I no longer have any con
trol.”
They tried this experiment and de
monstrated its truth. Three soiled,
grinning urchins from the street were
brought upon the platform. They and
the little girl elapsed hands ana four
strong men gathered behind them. The
men made individual attempts to lift
the youngsters, and, each failed.
“Now, then, all together,” said Mrs.
Abbott, and the four men began to tug
away at the children who had elapsed
hands. Not one little foot left the floor,
although the men tugged . until then
faces looked like lobsters.
Mrs. Abbott said she wanted 15 or 18
men to come on the platform. So Dr.
Bailey and his wise brethren, some of
whom weighed more than 250 pounds,
stood up. She arranged them in a line,
one man grasping the front man by the
coat collar, while the other hand was
placed in the small of the back. Mrs.
Abbott placed herself at the head of the
line, which looked as if it was about to
break into the lockstep. She placed her
hands on a physician’s.
“Now, push me through the wall, if
you can,” she said.
They did their level best and it seemed
that she must be driven clear through
into the street. But the line collapsed
like a jackknife. Mrs. Abbott scarcely
budged. The physician upon whom she
placed her hands said he felt no pressure
Whatever.
When this was over every one gath
ered about Mrs. Abbott and looked upon
her with open mouths. It was a trifle
uncanny, but it was nothing compared
with what followed. A pair of ordinary
platform scales was brought in from the
storeroom of the hotel. The storekeeper
came along to do the weighing.
“We’ll have my weight the first
thing,” said Mrs. Abbott, briefly.
She stepped on the scales, the store
keeper began to fuss with the weight.
He moved it back and forth in the most
eccentric fashion. Ho became nervous
and the perspiration dripped from his
brow. .
“What does she weigh?” asked an ini-
■•• j. aou t Know," was tne reply.
“Can’t you weigh her?”
* ‘She weighs any tiling from 70 pounds
up. She can weigh anything she wants
to,” declared the storekeeper, and Mrs.
Abbott laughed.
Dr- Townsend came forth to assist in
the test. He was found to weigh 195
pounds. A board placed over the
scales. The doctor was told to place
his bare hands on Mrs. Abbott’s neck
and then bear upon her with all his
weight while she stood on the scales.
He aid so and the combined weight of
the two was less than 100 pounds. A
man took Mrs. Abbott's place and then
the weight was 280 pounds. Dr. Town
send climbed upon Mrs. Abbott’s back
while she was on the scales. The com
bined weight was 140 pounds. Now,
how in the world can a woman who
weighs 98 pounds and a man who
weighs 195 get on an ordinary pair of
scales and weigh only 140 pounds?
That’s just what everyone who saw the
test wants to know.
Then another man, who was also big
and powerful, tried to lift Mrs. Abbott
while she stood on the scales. He
couldn’t budge her, although he lifted
hard enough to burst a blood vessel and
did sacrifice several buttons. The more
he lifted the more Mrs. Abbott weighed.
With the man lifting at least 150 pounds
the scales showed that Mrs. Abbott
weighed 186 pounds. Later on Mrs.
Abbott placed Dr. Townsend on the
scales and told him to lay his palms on
hers. She made his weight 210 pounds.
Then without moving her position she
made him weigh 180 pounds. At least
four sceptical men did the weighing.
Then came her last test. A little
chap weighing about 30 pounds was
S laced at the other end of the room, a
istance of about 80 feet. The boy’s
sleeves were rolled up, and he was told
to grasp a chair with his hands.
“Can you see me?” she asked. “Very
well; I can’t see you. Now don’t you
let that man raise you from the floor.
Keep your toes down.”
That man tugged until the blood
seemed about to burst from his veins.
He could raise the child on his toes, but
the toes would not leave the floor. Dr.
Frauenthal tried. He could do no bet
ter. No man there could lift the little
chap free of the floor.
After It was all over the doctors gath
ered about Mrs. Abbott and talked it
over. When they were asked their
opinion they spoke as did Dr. Bailey:
“I can’t explain it. There isn’t any
explanation. Yon can’t doubt the evi
dence of your own senses, but you can’t
explain it in any way. It simply is,
and that is all any one can say.”
LIKE WHEEL SPOKES.
Eight Petrified Skeleton* Found In a Shell
Mound Ifjsr Middle River in Florida.
New River, Fla., Sept. 22.—An inter
esting though startling discovery has
just been made near here by Mr. John
Davit, of the little dredge tender, Eth
el, and Mr. Collier, who lived at Middle
Riven. They started out to tap one of
the Indian mounds at Middle River, sim
ply from curiosity.
They dug down about three feet
when, to their horror, they struck a
human skeleton, perfect ip every par
ticular, except that the bones had been
petrified. It was so heavy that they
Concluded not to try dislodge it until
they should have procured help; but
thev kept on digging until eight of these
skeletons had been uncovered and plain
ly disclosed to view.
The bodies had been buried in the
shell mound in a perfect circle, one with
the head pointing outward and the next
with the feet outward, the whole pre
senting the appearance of the spokes of
a wheel. The bones have been careful
ly covered and an agent of the Smith
sonian institution has been notified and
asked to come here.
NO WAR ON WOMAN.
Secretary Carlisle Says They Will Bo
Treated Like the Males.
Washington, Sept. 22.—1 tis said,
at the treasury, department, that
Secretary Carlisle has no intention of
discriminating against women clerks in
reducing the treasury force to its legal
limits, under the operations of the
Dockery law, cutting down the force
over 150 persons, and that the recent re
moval of the two women of the SI,BOO
class does not indicate a policy hostile to
the sex. It is said that where female
clerks are rendering unsatisfactory ser
vice they will be treated the same as in
efficient clerks of the other sex, and as a
general proposition, the question of sex
does not enter into the matter at all, ex
cept in cases where the nature of the
services required calls for it. It is said
also that the removals already made
have been equally divided "between
male and female clerks, although that
question was not considered at the
time.
A WOMAN WHIPPED. ’
She Died Soon After the Flogging and Her
Asaaftlant Was Arrested.
Chattanooga, Sept. 22.—0 n Monday
Mrs. L. P. Elliott and her son attacked
and brutally beat tip a woman named
Callie Ferguson, of Knoxville, who was
in this city. The Ferguson woman had
employed Captain L. P. Elliott as coun
sel in a lawsuit, ana he had been visit
ing her pretty regularly.
Mrs. Elliott became jealous and whip
ped her. She was taken back to Knox
ville, and a special dispatch to The
Times says she has just died there. Mrs.
Elliott will be arrested for murder.
Tho.. Mavemeyar Indictment*.
Washington, Sept. 22.—Owing to
delays in the preparation of the indict-1
ments against Messrs. Havemeyer,
Searles and Seymour, in connection
with the investigation of witnesses by
the senate sugar investigation commit- ;
tee, it is said at the district attorney’s
office that indictments will not be re
turned by the grand jury for several
rhivfl.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
JA TERRIBLE CYCLONE
B ,
Sweeps Through the West and Destroys
J Many Villages.
9
’ MORE THAN TWENTY PEOPLE KILLED.
I
f Seven Dead In One Town, and
i Many Wounded.
i .
i DESMOINES HAD A VERY CLOSE CALL.
' Many People are Missing Who, It Is Be
-1 lioved, Will Be Found Under the
[ Ruins—Awful Catastrophe.
>
1 Emmillsburg, la., Sept. 23.—A ter
rific cyclone passed over this section
during the evening, and many ruined
i houses and several deaths tell its sad
I truth. The Foley House, half a mile
south of this oity.was demolished. Mrs.
Foley’s arms were both broken and she
i can hardly recover; Mrs. Alix Golden,
1 living a few miles east df here, is dead,
and Mr. Golden is not expected to live.
The dead are: Miss Foley, Miss Alix
Golden.
, Injured: Mr. Foley, seriously wound
. ed; Mrs. Foley, both arms broken, will
die; Mr. Foley, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Foley, is seriously injured; Mr. Golden
is fatally hurt.
, At the little town of Cylinder, six
' miles east of here, there are two or three
houses blown down and several persons
severely injured.
Several others, whose names it has
been impossible to learn, are missing,
and many are supposed to be killed or
wounded. Gerome Morse and Oliver
Cole were in their house when it struck,
and they narrowly escaped with their
lives.
The buildings on the fair grounds,
but a few rods away, are demolished.
In Great Oak township, about five miles
southwest of here, the storm was very
severe and many buildings were blown
down. Owing to the confusion that
prevails, it is impossible to obtain accu
rate and reliable reports.
In several parts of this city the storm
was severe, but no serious damage was
done. The citizens consider it a very
close call.
Seven Known to be Dead.
Winona, Minn., Sept. 22.—Reports
from the town of Spring Valley, in the
southern part of the state, indicate that
severe damage, accompanied by loss of
life, was done by the cyclone which
swept through that part of Minnesota
during the night, Sdven persons are be
lieved to be dead in the ruins of wreck
ed buildings, while twenty are reported
injured in various ways, several them
i fatally. Without any previous warning,
the storm swooped down on the little
village at 11:80 o’clock.
The violence of the wind was terrific.
Barns and fences were swept away like
chaff and scores of houses were un
roofed. Then the wind gradually in
creased in violence until frail residences
could no longer withstand its force, and
were obliged to succumb to the fury of
the wind.
Many of the residents were in their
beds and asleep when the storm struck
the town and were forced to flee from
their houses with scarcely any clothing
on, while others not so fortunate were
caught in the ruins and killed.
Still others escaped with their lives,
but were penned down by falling tim
bers and were obliged to pass a night of
agony until daybreak, when rescuing
fiarties were organized and they were re
eased from the ruins. A few of these
escaped without permanent injuries.
Seven dead bodies are known to be in
the ruins, while other persons are miss
ing, and the list may be increased.
Three Dives Lost.
Minneapolis, Sept. 22.—At 2 o’clock
a. m. the Milwaukee telegraph office at
Minneapolis reported that the town of
Leroy, in Mower county, near the lowa
line, had been struck by a cyclone and
three persons are reported killed. The
depot and stockyards and several build
ings were destroyed. Fire also caused
considerable damage.
Leroy is about 50 miles north of Low
ther, which is also reported destroyed.
Lowthen Totally Demolished.
Oelwein, lowa, Sept. 22.—A cyclone
passed over the town of Lowthen, a
place of 100 inhabitants, located about
50 miles north of here. The Chicago
express on the Chicago Great Western
railroad, which arrived at midnight,
reports the town totally demolished.
All telegraph and telephone wires are
down and it is not known whether any
lives are lost.
On Its Path of Destruction.
Des Moines, Sept. 22.—A Daily News
special from Mason City says that at 9
o’clock p. m., a terrific cyclone burst
upon the residents of the northern part
of Cerro Gordo county. Mr. and Mrs.
Haddow and their little child are among
the dead.
caII" HIM HOME.
Germany’s Ruler Doe* Not Want Ruselane
Spying Around His Court.
Berlin, Sept. 22.—1 tis reported that
the emperor has communicated directly
with the czar, requesting the immediate
recall of M. Dubassof, naval attache to
, the Russian embassy here. This re
quest is made, the emperor is represent
ed as saying, after proofs had been sub
! mitted to him that M. Dubassof. not
only 6n certain occasions, made copious
notes and sketches of Gernjan defenses,
but that in company witn a Russian
consul, both being disguised, he recent
ly acted as a spy upon German move
ments.