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TWO DEADLY TORNADOES One Completely Wiped Out Town of New Richmond, Wisconsin. THE OTHER DEVASTATES HERMAN, NEBRASKA Loss of Life Is Appalling--Not a House Left Stand ing In Either Town. A special from St. Paul, Minn., Kays: A terrific and long drawn out cyclone along the upper Mississippi river and its tributaries in Wisconsin and Minnesota has done enormous damage. Not less than three towns have been practically annihilated,over 250 lives have been lost and the Haines j added to the horrible conditions, the survivors beiug unable to rescue the bodies of hundreds of victims from the ruins beiug swept into ashes by' the angry flames. Nttw Richmond Devastated. The worst destruction was at Now Richmond. Wis., where a frightful tornado struck just before 0 o’clock ; Sunday night. Fully 100 corpses, j twice as many mangled people, forty acres of piles of brick,shivered planks, scattered heaps of household goods, dead horses through which the wind had driven sharp splinters of hoards, smouldering (ires where houses had stood, is what the storm wrought upon the town in the space of three minutes. There may have been cyclones which created greater devastation, some that, have occasioned larger loss of life, but it, was only because there was rhoro material for destruction in their path i Ilian this small village could afford. There never was a cyclone that made a cleaner sweep of that which lay in its path than the oue of Sunday even ing. In the business portion of the town absolutely not oue building was left, standing above the cellar windows, everything above the foundation wall was shaved as clean as though it had been cut with a piano. The town was crowded with people who had come from the surrounding country to see a circus showing there and this fact added to the destruction of life caused by the storm. All the hotels of the village weio filled with guests. Damage to railroads and telegraph and telephone lines is widespread. The running of trains was interfered with and communication with points in the path of,the storm cut off. Relief trains were sent from Chip pewa Falls and Stevens Point, and dootors and nurses were picked up along the route, as, in addition to the dead, there are hundreds of injured, many of whom are in a critical condi tion. New Richmond is on the Wisconsin line and on the Duluth, Superior j branch of the Omaha road It is 86 ! miles east of St. Paul, and in the j heart of the rich farming section of 1 St. Oroir county It is uoai Willow river, on which are several large saw j and grist mills,and is quite a business 1 center. It is oue of the oldest towns of j western Wisconsin, ami had many handsome residences. There wore two ; principal streets crossing each other at, right angles, the more important ones running east and w est. It was through this street the storm passed. The thoroughfare was three miles long, lined*with trees, aud made a tint driveway. Otltor Town* Ufttintifod. Nert to New Richmond, the most severe damage done by the storm was at Hndsou, Wis., and also at LaCrosse, Wis. In the vicinity of the first named town four people were killed, residences unroofed and barns and outbuilding all along its path demol ished. At LaCrosse it was the severest storm known iu seventeen years. Nealy five inches of water fell. The river rose so rapidly that 41)0 people living in the lower portion of the city were driven from their homes. MINERS ARE AbdRESSIYE. Tho In I>tin**rtU4 Are Joining United Mine* Worker*’ A**oclatton A Chattanooga dispatch says: The miners of East Tennessee are rapidly joiuiug the United Mine Workers’ as sociation and putting themselves in position to resist aggressions from the operators and also to secure good prices for their work. It is said that they will fully back up the miners at Soddy, who Rre looked out because they are refused recogni tion as members of the association. The movement has beeu progressing quietly for several months until now the plans are perfected. NINETEEN DIE OF HEAT. l*>Mrful RMtird of FatMlitie* For Ont* !)*> In Now York City. death /( nineteen York And vicinity HHHHHBUI, hf - Jfo -1 - were " ■ Rl. j A special from Omaha says: A tor nado struck the town of Herman in Washington county, Nebraska, Mon day eveuing aud wiped the place out :of existence. Herman is a town of 1 about 300 inhabitants, in the extreme i northern part of Washington county. , it is on the line of the Chicago, St. Paul, Mineapolis and Omaha railway. A conductor on the evening train from Sioux City passed through the place not long after the storm, and he says not a building is left standing in town. He counted twelve dead liodies lying in the streets. The fatalities will undoubtedly run up to a hundred, if not higher. A | special train left Blair, the county seat, j ten miles distant, for the scene of the disaster within an hour after the storm passed, carrying surgeons and all needed supplies. Wires are all down north of Herman j and it is not known how much further north the storm went, but reports are coming in to the effect that a large por tion of the country north of Herman is laid waste. The streets of Omaha were flooded and the play of the lightning wns fearful. Advices received by The Bee (Oma ha) tip to 11 o’clock Tuesday night | stated that every dwelling in the town I was destroyed except the public school and a small dwelling, both of which are on the outskirts. The force of the tornado was terrific, as scarcely one piece of the many structures destroyed was left intact. The scene in the streets of the once thriving and beautiful little town wns one of destruction. Wrecked buihl ' ings and broken furniture are strewn all around, while dead bodies lay in many places, the corpses badly disfig ured and some of them hardly recog nizable. Many of the injured will die, but some of them receivod but slight in juries. It was impossible at the time, on account of the confusion, to ascer tain the number of dead, but twelve were known to have been killed, and and the list will probably run up very , much higher. Superintendent Jaynes, of the Oma ha road, was at Tekamah when lie i heard of the disaster and left at once for Merman on a hand car, taking two physicians along with him to assist in succoring the injured. The moans of the injured mingled with the calls of the rescuers as they pursued the humanitarian task in the ! darkness and by the flickering gleams | of lanterns. The relief train from Blair arrived about one hour after the storm and the work of picking up the wounded ! was begun. Willing bands did what they could to help the injured, and in the course of an hour the train pulled out for Blair with ninety-tive injured ;on board. They were taken to Blair as there was absolutely no place at Herman at which treatment could be administered. All the citizens of Blair opened their houses to the wounded, and the unfortunates are be ing cared for by competent surgeons. LUNA ASSASSINATED. Report That Insurgent General Wan Killed By Guard of Aguinaldo. Information, believed to be reliable, has reached Manila of the assassination of General Luna and his aid-de-camp, Lieutenant I’asco Ramon, June Bth, by Aguinnldo’s guard at the headquarters of Aguinaldo. Luna and Ramon, it appears, weut to the Filipino headquarters to confer with Aguinaldo, got into an altercation with the captain of the guard and one of them drew a revolver. The guard killed Luua and Ramon with their bayonets. RETURN CAPTURED VESSELS. Japan Will Help China, Her Neighbor, to Protect Herself. A Seattle, Wash., special says: A well authenticated story comes from Japan to the effect that all the men-of war captured from the Chinese in the late war between the two countries are to be returned to the Chinese govern ment. This is part of the policy decided on by the Japanese to protect her neigh bor from the inroads of the powers. It is said that the only requirement to be made is that China invests so many millions iu new war vessels to be built under Japanese directions. NO NOTICE RECEIVED Bjr Governor of Maine Regarding Resig nation of Hon. T!toma<* H. Reed. A dispatch of Thursday from Au gusta, Me., says: Secretary of State Byrou H. Boyd and Private Secretary Smith say ihat Governor Powers has positively not received any notifica iou from Hon. T. B. Reed of the lat as congressman from ii vs mu mils PHILOSOPHER CONTEMPLATES AF FAIRS WITH MUCH SERENITY. BIRDS AND FLOWERS CONSOLE H!M. William Approve* Statement of Hynan Writer That "Only Man I* Vile.” Flea For Orphan Children. ! . Last midnight that same mock bird was singing—making sweet mu sic to comfort bis mate who was brood ing upon her nest. This morning he is singing again, and seems supremely happy as he makes his flights upward and returns to his perch without a break inhis song. There is a tiny wren not far away whose song is very short, but just as sweet, and he, too, is comforting his mate. Down in the pasture that fronts our grove I see the milch cows graz.ing peacefully. In our front yard there is a hydrant and the crystal water is al lowed to leak just enough to keep a basin full and it overflows to a little grass-hidden pool where the pigeons drink and bathe, and where the jay birds and thrushes aud English spar rows come and sip and go, and never contend. Sometimes the peacock wants a drink and the birds retire from his magnificent presence and await his lordship’s pleasure. A neighbor’s parrot Las left his cage and is cawing in on£ of our tree tops. A neighbor’s chickens are scratching in the leaves nearby. Fleecy clouds 'are passing over head and give us alter nate sun and shade. I hear the dis tant whistle of a locomotive and the trembling, rumbling sound of the train as it crosses the river bridge. I see I children dressed in their Sunday clothes going happily to the city hall | to take their part in commencement exercises. Along our garden fence the variegated eannas lift their proud heads in peaceful.beauty, and not far away is a row of flowering peas array ed in rainbow colors and exhaling sweet odors to the air. Apple, geranium and lemon verbe nas sweeten the breezes at our win dow. Looking northward from the verandah where I sit, the distant hills are piled upon each other in regular irregularity, while more distant moun tains give a back ground of cerulean blue to the beautiful picture. Here I am ruminating—calmly and serenely happy ilia big arm chair. Half a hun dred magnificent oaks stand like God’s sentinels in the grove before me, lift ing their leafy branches toward the sky in adoration of their Creator. The twining madeira vines aud Virginia creepers interlace the trellis at my hand and shelter me from while two dear little grandchildren are merrily swinging in the hammock not far away. There is nothing in sight this morning ,but peace and beauty. Innocence is in the air, the sky, the fields, the trees, the birds and flowers and children—as the good Bishop He ber wrote: “Here every prospect pleases And only man is vile.” Only man; not women or children, or beasts or birds or flowers—only man is vile. What a contrast to the view before me is found in the columns of the morning paper, which has just been handed to me. How shocking are the big head lines that tell of a single day’s misery and disaster! When, oh, when, will all these horri ble things cease to be! Only man is vile. If he wns made in the image of God, why should he be doing the deeds of the devil? The cost of crime in money is a fearful sum. The cost of courts and prisons and guards and police; the cost in loss of time and labor; but this is nothing compared with the cost in grief and misery. Here is a letter that is but a sample of what comes to me 1 in my daily mail, for the poor creatures think that I can do something: “Lkbaxon, Fla.—My Dear Sir: Will you please give the name and address of some orphan asylum in Georgia that would prob ably take three poor iittle orphan girls into their home? “Their mother is dead (died of a broken heart) and the father is in jail and has been sentenced to be hanged. “lie is much distressed about Iris helpless children, and begs that you get them into some orphan home. The family are of no kin to me, but I sympathize with the poor little orphan girls in their very sad condi tion. “Flease answer me very soon and let me know if they will be shut out because they live out of your state. C. C. Gaixes, “Postmaster at Lebanon.” Now, Mr. Hemphill and Mr. Crum ley, can’t you make room for these childreu? May the good Lord have mercy upon them! What is the world coining to? The old Mosaic law was: “I will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children,” but the new law is: “Suffer little chil dren to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” Sometimes I sigh like the poet, Cowper, and say, “Oh. for a home in some vast wilder ness, where rumor of oppression and deceit might never reach me.” When I read of murder and suicides aud bur glaries and arson and horrible outrages it makes me sad and then there is always something in the same paper to mpAt'e nit mad—some lies and slan der or some northern devilment. (governor Northern made a great speech in Boston, and 1 am glad it has heen printed in phamphlet form, and if I was the state I would order chough of them to give a copy to every cLild in the state that could read, and I hMU make every negro school teacher in the state read a page aloud every day to his pupils until he had read it all, and if he didn’t read it to them, and read it well and tell them that it was the truth, I would turn them out —dogon him, confound him—l am tired paying tax money to educate negroes to hate people. I don’t believe there is a negro teacher in the state who tries to train the negro children in these things. Nor do I believe the negro preaeheis are any better. A most excellent Chris tian lady of our town asked her col ored maid the other day if her preacher ever preached about these horrible crimes that are now shocking the good people of the state, and she said, “No, maam; he never says anything about it.” The unwilling fact is that the negroes do not think it very much of a crime. And they believe the other side just as the yaukees do. Ida Wells made big money out of her lies yei rs ago, and now she and her partners have got up another spec ulation on the Sam Hose case, and have had hundreds of thousands of pam phlets printed that contain that lying detective story, and are selling them all over the north. They don’t care a cent if it does cause more Iynchings. And this thing has got all over En gland. A friend of mine who lives near London, sent me a late copy of The Loudon Chronicle, a paper as in fluential as The Times, and the editor copies a batch of lies taken from the United States Howard association re port that says slavery has been virtu ally re-established in the southern states, especially in Georgia and Flor da, and that all the horrors pictured in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” have been revived. Tliat the illegitimate children born in the convict camps are kept in per petual slavery, and that the female convicts are outraged by the camp offi cers at pleasure, and, that a girl of seventeen, who ran away to avoid it, was caught by bloodhounds and strip ped and flogged amid jeers. The re port says that there were 286 lynch ings of negroes last year, and forty seven up to April of this year, of whom all were negroes but eight. Of all these, thirty-two were accused (?) of murder, sixteen of assault on white women, fourteen for defending them selves, two for impudence and thirty seven for no crime, and twenty-three for being troublesome. The editor then says that the future of the colored race is the gravest prob lem that America has to face, certainlv as grave as the extension of her empire over Cuba and the Philippines, and that the United States is paying a heavy debt for the sins of her fathers. The Howard Association appeals to humanity to avert the solution by na tional disaster, and says the negro trouble has become so great that it is feared the difficulty cannot be settled but with blood. Well, now, let’s pause awhile—l must go out into my garden and let my choler down—l will pick the beans for dinner; I will throw rocks at my neighbor’s chickens; I will hire a cussin’ man. Of all the fools upon earth an English fool is the biggest. Whose fathers is that fool editor talking about? England never freed her own slaves until 1845, but that editor doesent know they ever had any. Our southern fathers never imported any; they bought them from the yankees. Traders from Eng land and Massachusetts, who kept up the slave trade in partnership until 1857. The last slaver bought was an American vessel with a mixed crew on the caost of Madagascar. A man told me he heard a Chicago drummer say not long ago that an other drummer told him he heard of a Boston banker who wrote to a Chicago broker and asked him if he didn’t want to put some more money in New England rum to ship to Africa. I ex pect they are at it yet. Why, it was a very respectable business both in En gland and Massachusetts just as long ns they could find a market for the slaves. John Newton, the poet, the sweetest of all composers of hymns, the man who wrote: “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me,” Was a slave trader, and made big money out of it. Oue thing is certain, New England rum is still made in Boston from Cuba molasses in large quanti ties, and I would like to know where they ship it to and what for. South America is still buying slaves from somebody. But, pshaw, we are all brethren now, and sectional lines are blotted out! Just so—let us have peace. How sweet aud pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity—l’m loving everybody now—except some — I’m going to love that fellow Dammers and French and old mother Julia Ward Howe by proxy if I can find the proxy. Maybe Joe Wheeler will take the job. —Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. TO REORGANIZE SERVICE. Gov. Johnston Issues Order Rehabilitat ing the State Military. Governor Johnston, of Alabama,has caused au order to be issued, assign ing the several volunteer military com panies of the state to regiments and reorganizing the service. New companies are to be formed at Dotham, Pratville, Wetumpka, Ope lika. Luverue, Tuskegee, Decatur and Jasper, aud they will meet at ouce and prepare to be ready to be mustered in on short notice. EVANS IS CRITICIZED By G. A. R. Men For Recent Action In Tension Matters. Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay Evans was severely criticized at Thursday’s session of the state en campment of the Pennsylvania G. A. R. held at Wilkesbarre, for bis recent action in the matter of pensions. A resolution was submitted requesting the national encampment to investi gate CLEARING OUT INSURGENTS. Lawton, Ovenshineand Wheaton Make Deter mined Move Against Rebels. FILIPINOS RESIST DESPERATELY BUT HOPELESSLY. Two of Otis’ Officers Killed—Four Thousand Insurgents Driven From Trenches. A special from Manila says: At day break Saturday a force of 4,500 men under Generals Lawton, Wheaton and Ovenshine advanced from San Pedro Macati, sweeping the country between the bay of Manila and Bay lake, south of Manila. By noon the country had been cleared almost to Paranque. The Americans lost two officers killed and twenty-one soldiers wounded. The rebels resisted desperately at the stronger of their positions and left fifty dead in the trenches. Many more wounded were left behind by the rebels in their retreat. The heat dur ing the day was overpowering and there were many prostrations of Amer ican soldiers from that cause. General Lawton’s force consisted of battalions each of the Twenty-first and Ninth infantry, six companies of the Colorado volunteers and a detach ment of artillery. The Nevada cavalry was under General Wheaton aud the Thirteenth and Fourteenth infantry, the Fourth cavalry ancj a detachment of light artillery were under General Ovenshine. It was scarcely dawn when the troops, in a long, silent procession, wound up the hillside behind the American trenches and- formed a skir mish line. Concealed in the jungle, the advance rebel outposts fired a few shots before being seen. The opposing forces occupied two ranges of crescent shaped hills. The artillery, the Colorado infantry and the Nevada calvary swung around the hiil top on the left and opened the battle at 6:30 o’clock. The rebels made no response from the hills, and the Colorado men cautiously advanced through the thick grass until they were confronted by a trench, from which a few weak volleys were fired. A spir ited response followed, and a charge into the trench found it to be deserted. In the meantime part of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth regimeuts formed in skirmish line, extending a mile to the right, and supported by the rest of the regiments, swept down the valley and up the hillside toward another trench. Approaching through the morass se riously hampered the Fourteenth, and the rebels taking advantage of this, poured a galling fire upon them for thirty minutes. The Fourteenth was twice compelled to withdraw for the purpose of finding a safe crossing in the swamp. Finally the trench was enfiladed on both flanks. The rebels fled to the woods and sustained se vere loss. General Lawton then pushed his entire command south, through the center of the isthmus, until a few miles south of Paranaque, when he swung around and halted on account of the heat. During the march Americans were prostrated on all sides, owing to lack of water and exposure to the sun. It is estimated that 40 per cent of the troops were exhausted. The double turreted monitor Mo nadnock and three ether vessels shell ed Paranaque, and the rebels promptly evacuated the place. A dispatch received Sunday says: The Filipino occupation of the pro vince of Cavite has been broken, and as the result of the present movement the Americans now control the import ant coast towns of Paranaque and Las Dreyfus Aboard Warship. A dispatch from Cheyenne, French Guiana, says: The French Sfax left the islands at 6:20 Saturday morning with Dreyfus on board. The latter embarked on the warship at 7 o'clock Friday m. ruing. Wood GeftK Leave of Absence. General Leonard WtJtuL., military governor of Santiago, has been ginn ed leave of absence in order that he may bring his family back to the United States. NEGROES GET MEDALS. Soldiers In tlie Tenth Cavalry Are Reward ed For Heroic Work. George H. Wanton, Fitz Lee, William H. Tompkins aud Dennis Bell, all members of the Tenth cavalry, a negro regiment, have been awarded medalf^ of honor for distinguished gallantry (t Tayabaeoa.Cuba, June 30, 1898, whe*e, after a force had succeeded in landhg and had beeu compelled to withdaw : to the boats, leaving a uumbe of killed and wounded ashore, theivol untarily went ashore iu the face ' the enemy and aided iu tne iescue J f fhe wounded comrades, >vhO woub other wise have fallen into the hane of the **iemv STRKET CAR MEN STRIK J£ntir System at Cleveland, Ohio, Is Now- Tied Up Tight. What promises to be a long and bit ter contest batween the Cleveland,O., Electric Railway company aud its9oo employes began Saturday morning by a strike which up all of the fourteen Hues operated by the company, which form the only no ans of transportation for more than a hundred thousand people. The strike is mainly for the recog nition of the union and the men have been preparing for. it lor Pinas, while a long line of insurgent trenches facing our south line has been cleared.. The insurgents have again proved their facility as dodgers, between 3,000 and 4,000 warriors who seemed des tined to be captured having disappear ed, the majority sliding away under cover of night, after fighting the Americans all day. Some others came to meet our troops with protestations of friendship. The Thirteenth infantry lost one man killed and six wounded; the Ninth infantry, one man killed and five wounded, the Fourteenth infantry, three wounded, and the First Color ado volunteer agiment, eleven wound ed. Saturday’s work was the heavi est and hardest our army has seen. Tho battlefield stretched across the entire isthmus from Laguna de Bay to the harbor. While the troops were advancing the army gunboat Eapidan, in the river near Taguig, shelled the enemy, killing several of them. The monitor Manadnock and the gunboat Helena shelled Paranaque and Las Pinas all day with the full power of their batteries. The rebel sharpshooters kept in hid ing until the American lines had pass ed, and then attempted to pot strag glers from the trees. Thanks to their poor marksmanship, this was without result. The whole country proved to be a Succession of small hills, with boggy ground between the high, thick grass and rushes in the hollows, whioh greatly added to the difficulty of the advance, but gave shelter that saved many from the enemy’s bullets. Our men threw away their blankets coats and even haversacks, stripping to the waist and trusting to luck for food. Water conld not be obtained and there was much discomfort after the canteens were emptied. At the outset the Colorados, the Ninth infantry and the Twenty-first infantry forced the line of insurgent trenches, wheeled to the left and drove the enemy toward the lake, During this maneuver, the Filipinos in con cealed trenches on the right opened an enfilading fire, but the brigade, partly owing to the high grass, had few hit. The Ninth infantry crept around to the right, flanking the trenches, driv ing out the Filipinos and killing many of them. The Americans camped for the night south of the town, aud in the midst of a heavy rain. At 6 o’clock Sunday morning Gen eral Wheaton advanced upon Las Pinas with a troop of cavalry, the Twenty-first infantry, the Colorado regiment, part of the Ninth infantry and two mountain guns, crossing two streams aud entering the town without firing a shot. He then ad vanced upon Paranaque. , The women and children, and, for that matter, mauy men remained in the town. No houses were destroyed, though many were torn by the shells from the warships. Everywhere the Americans found white flags flying. So far as can yet be ascertained, the Filippinos’ loss is about fifty killed, about 350 wounded and twenty taken prisoners. The whole country is net-worked with trenches, and the enemy scurried from shelter to shelter. DESIGNATED. By the War Dcpartnlrent For Porto Rico, Cuba and Philippines. The following in/stitutions have been designated as depositories of the war department: jm For PortoDe Ford k Cos., and the AmaanlColonial bank, bond 8500,000 j For Cuba—The North American Bond $1,500,000. Philippine Islands —The In- China and I I) U C E A G E. Fourteen Decrease In Usual Sown. Preliminary the spring vtieat acreage tibout 470,000 .Of the tw'enty 1 M 1 upward • an and ■ • to - n>>l • in one is ' i • South ■'-■nr ii; WashnigtmjflßHJHHHHHHß mis n;i 11 Tjwjv& ■ rl x ",;vr’ u I- I A . %■! ■-1-^R.V- r f. J -’ '?y'. If R ,R - V **