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Groyer Cleveland Takes the Oath cf
Office as President.
were all hete waiting to fall in line, but to the service, I am sure my gratitude
at the last moment many of the organi- can make no better return than the
zatfons were compelled to desist from pledge I now give before God and these-
participation. Nevertheless,, the occa- witnesses of my unreserved and colli
sion was made memorable by the vasl plete devotion to the interests and wel-
attendance. ] fare of those who have honored me and
It Was shprtly after 11 o’clock when I deem it fitting on this -occasion while
President-elect Cleveland and Vice- : indicating the opinions I hold concern-
President Stevenson, accompanied by I ing public questions of present irnpor-
the senate committee on arrangements, j tance, to also briefly refer to the exist-
THE DAY IN WASHINGTON.
Thousands March to the Inspiring
Music of Bands.
GROVER’S PATRIOTIC SPEECH.
Washington, March 4.—Democracy
has been installed in the person of Gro
ver Cleveland. Republicanism once
more give place to its victorious oppo
nent and retires in the person of Benja
min Harrison.
To have seen the wild enthusiasm
which has prevailed in the city for the
past few days and have noted the thou
sands upon thousands of shouting and
cheering Democrats who have had full
sway in the city, the question would
naturally arise: Was there ever any
other than a Democratic party?
£>uch an intermingling of sections and
friendly greetings between citizens of
all quarters of the Union has never been
seen in Washington.
The man from way down east meets
the brother from the sunny south, and,
if they do not quite embrace, the warm
clasp of the hands and hearty congratu
lations you will observe between them
makes you forget that there ever existed
auv differences, and feel if there had,
they were entirely obliterated and
buried forever and eternally.
Two Hundred Thousand Visitors.
- This is a fair estimate to place upon
the number who saw the sights in
Washington and honored the president
upon the occasion of his second inaugu
ration.
Governors with their gay plumaged
staff officers, representatives, state leg
islators, members of the judiciary with
thousands of other lesser lights were
here in force, while capitalists and pau
pers mingled together in the great
throng that surged through the streets
and around the public buildings and
wound up the day by shouting them
selves hoarse over the great event of the
hour. Among the great leaders of. the
party are Governor Pattison and his
staff, Governor Flower, of New York;
Governor Altgeld, who led the Hlinois
Democracy to triumph; Governor Peck,
of Wisconsin; the gallant Fitzhugh Lee.
of Virginia; Governor Northen, of Geor
gia,; Governor Russell, of Massachusetts.
Badges and ribbons decorated the per
son of nearly every visitor, designating
the society or club to which he belonged
and they range all the way from the
Democratic club of “Ben Smith’s dis
trict,", to the insignia of the Tammanv-
ites of New York.
The Arrangements Perfected.
Perhaps no event, even of much less
magnitude was ever more perfectly
planned or more accurately executed.
entered the executive mansion.
They were received by President Har
rison in the blue ?room. Five ■ minutes
later the president and his successoi
reappeared an entered an open carriage
and the march of the procession to the
capitol begun.
President Harrison wore an overcoat
with fur collar and cuffs. Cleveland’s
overcoat had a plain collar.
Both of course wore silk hats. They
rode in President Harrison’s carriage,
drawn by four hay horses. William
Willis, who has driven the president’s
carriage for three years, handled the
reins.
There was no abatement of the storm,
and the ride to the capitol was through
a fast falling snow, whirled in frequent
gusts of high wind. ’ -
Notwithstanding the inclemency of
the weather, Mr. Cleveland’s hat was
off frequently in response to the enthus
iastic cheers of the “unterrified,” who
swarmed the sidewalks, unmindful of
the discomfort.
The presidential party with their
military escort came in sight of the
eastern entrance of the Capitol a few
minutes after 12 o’clock.
A large crowd' had assembled at the
east front and cheered loudly as Mr.
Cleveland approached. He went in by
the basement entrance in order to avoid
the somewhat slippery steps ontside.
From the moment he descended from
the carriage he was received with lusty
cheers, and when he entered the senate
wing .the cheers from the outside gave
way to an ovation.
Mr. Harrison entered the president’s
room, where he spent some time signing
bills. Messrs. Cleveland and Stevenson
in the meantime were entertained at
buffet lunch in the vice-president’s
room.
When the senate clock indicated 11:50,
hut when the actual time was 12:50, the
vice-president elect was announced, and
Mr. Stevenson, escorted by Senator
McPherson, took his chair to the right
of Vice-President Morton. Immedi-
etely afterwards the president of the
United States and his cabinet were an
nounced and President Harrison and
the members of his cabinet entered the
chamber.
Mr. Harrison was escorted to one of
the scarlet chairs in front of the clerk’s
desk.
Immediately afterwards, the presi
dent-elect was announced, and Mr.
Cleveland, escorted by Senator Ransom,
took the chair next to Mr. Harrison.
His entrance into the chamber was
greeted with applause.
Then Vice President Morton admin
istered the oath of office tojiis successor,
and yielded to him the Chair of presi
ding officer.
A special session of the senate of the
fifty-third congress was then formally
opened with prayer by Chaplain Butler.
Vice President Stevenson rose and
addressed tbe senate. He said:
Senators: Deeply impressed with a
sense of its responsibilities and of its
dignity, I now, enter upon the discharge
of the duties of the high office to which
I have been called. I am not unmind
ful of the fact that among the occu
pants of this chair during the one hun
dred and four years of our con-
euce of certain conditions and tenden
cies amon£ our people, which seem to
menace the integrity and usefulness of
their government. f. •
While every American citizen must
contemplate with utmost pride the
growth and expansion of our country,
the sufficiency of our institutions to
stand against the rudest shocks of vio
lence, the won.derful. thrift and enter
prise of our people and the demonstra
ted superiority of free government, it
behooves us to constantly watch for ev
ery symptom of insidious- infirmity that
threatens our national vigor, and the
strong man who, in the confidence of
sturdy health, courts the steriiest activ
ities of life and rejoices in the hardi
hood of constant labor, may still have
lurking near his vitals the unheeded
disease that dooms him to sudden col
lapse.
lt cannot he doubted that our stupen
dous achievements as a people, and onr
country’s robust strength, have given
rise to the heedlessness of those laws
governing our national health, which
we can no more evade than human life
can escape the laws of God and nature,
and manifestly nothing is more vital to
our supremacy as a natiou and to the
beneficent purposes of our government
than a sound and stable currency.
Its exposure to degradation should at
once arouse to activity the most enlight-
s new secre-
o; the best
•o-.inirv. He
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND SPEAKING.
THE MARCH UP PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
The minutest details were carried
through with a precision that must
have been exceedingly gratifying to
Chairman Harrity, and certainly was a
credit to himself and his corps of assist
ants.
There was bunting everywhere,, on
the buildings, around awnings, over
fences-any-where and everywhere.
These, with the bright flags and ban
ners of Societies and military organiza
tions with, their bright! armor and play
ing hands made a picture that was cal
culated. to awaken tneemotionsof every address.
stitutional history have been statesmen
eminent alike for their talents and their
tireless devotion to public duty. Adams,
Jefferson and Caihoun honored' its in-
cipiency during the early days of the
republic; while Arthur. Hendricks and
Morton have, at a later period of our
history, shed luster upon the office of
president of the most august delibera
tive assembly known to men.
I assume the duties of the great trust
confided to me with no feeling of self-
confidence, hut rather with that of
grave distrust of , my ability satisfac
torily to meet its requirements. I may
be pardoned for saying that it
shall be my earnest endeavor to dis
charge the important duties which lie
before me with no less of impartiality
and courtesy than of firmness and fidel
ity. Earnestly invoking the co-opera
tion, ’ the forbearance, the charity of
each of its members, I now enter upon
my duties as presiding officer of the
senate.
The Senate’s Extra Session.
As he closed his remarks Mr. Steven
son directed the secretary of the senate
to read the president’s proclamation
convening the senate in extraordinary
session. Mr. McCook read the procla
mation, and then the senators newly
elected or re-elected were invited by the
vice president to come forward and take
the oath of office. ~
They did so and each,, escorted by his
colleague, advanced and the path was
solemnly administered by the vice pres-
r ident, the senators afterwards subscrib-
S ing to the same at the clerk’s desk.
All these preliminaries having been
duly disposed of, the vice president di
rected the sergeant-at-arms to proceed
to tbe execution of tbe order of the sen
ate relative to the inauguration of . Hie
■president of tbe United States.
Tbe procession to tbe east portico of
Capitol was then begun.
When the .distinguished gathering
had taken the places assigned to them
at the east front of the senate, wing,
the president-elect took the oath of of
fice and then delivered his inaugural
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her of ladies marching or riding in_ the by the expression of confidence and pei
oned statesmanship, and the danger of
depreciation in the purchasing power of
wages paid to toil shStlld furnish .the
strongest incentive to prompt and con
servative perception.
In dealing with our present embar
rassing situation as related to this sub
ject. we will be wise if we temper our
confidence and faith in our national
strength and resources with the frank
concession that even those will not per
mit us to defy with impunity the I ine.
orahle laws of finance and trade.
At -the same li-Tnn in onr ofico-ri to
adjust the difference of opinion, we
should be free from intolerance or pas
sion, and our judgments should he
unmoved by alluring phrases and unvex
ed by selfish interest. I am. confident
that such an .approach to the subject
will result in prudent and effective rem
edial legislation.
In the meantime, so far as the execu
tive branch of the government can in
tervene, none of the powers with which
it is invested will he withheld when
their exercise is deemed necessary to
maintain onr national credit or avert
financial disaster.
Closely related to the exaggerated
confidence in onr country’s greatness,
which tends to a disregard of the rules
of national safety, another danger con
fronts ns not less dangerous.
I refer to the prevalence of a popular
disposition to expect from the opera
tion of the government especial and di
rect individual advantages.
The verdict of our voters which con
demned the injustice of maintainin]
protection for protection’s sake, enjoins
upon the people’s servants the duty of
exposing and" destroying the brood of
kindred evils which are the unwhole
some progeny of paternalism.
This is the bane of Republican insti
tutions and the constant peril of our
government by the people. It degrades
to the purposes of the wily craft a.plan
of the rule of our fathers—established
and bequeathed to us as ah object of
our love and veneration.
It perverts the-patriotic sentiment of
Our countrymen, and tempts them- to
the pitiful calculation of sordid gain to
be derived from their government’s
maintenance. It undermines the;self-
reliance of our people and substitutes in
its place dependence upon governmental
favoritism, and stupefies every enno
bling trait of American citizenship. ,
matte a brigadier general at Vicksburg.
In July, 1864, he was disabled by a
minie ball which broke his leg as he was
leading a charge. General Grant made
him United States district judge, and he
served for 12 years, during which time
not a single one of his decisions was re
versed by the United States supreme
court. Judge Gresham received many
honors at President Arthur’s hands.' He
was successively made postmaster gen
eral, secretary of the treasury and
United States judge forthe Seventeenth
judicial district at Chicago. In October,
1892, after he had refused the People’s
party nomination for president, he an
nounced that he would vote for Cleve
land and added, “I think that a Repub
lican can vote for Mr. Cleveland with
out joining the Democratic party.” In
1658 Judge Gresham married Matilda
McGrath, and they have a son ami
daughter.
John Griffin CariUl,
tary of the treasury, i.
known Democrats inf
was hern in
Kentucky 57
years ago, re
ceived a corn-
school educa :
tion and later
taught school at
Covington. He
was admitted to
the bar in 1858,
was a member
of the state
house of repre--
sentatives the
two years fol
lowing, and be
ginning in 1866 john g. Carlisle.
served two terms in the' state senate.
In 1868 he was delegate at large to the
national Democratic convention at New
York, and-he served as lieutenant gov
ernor of his state from 1871 to 1875. Tlie
year following the budding young
statesman was sent to congress, where
for 17 years as congressman, speaker of
the house and senator he made a great
name for himself. He has only been in
the senate since May, 1890, hut resigned
when Mr. Cleveland called him to the
cabinet. Mr. Carlisle’s family consists
of himself, Mrs. Carlisle and two sons,
Logan and "W. K. Carlisle.
Daniel S. Lamont, secretary of war,
first achieved fame as private sec
retary to President Cleveland during
his first term.
His career has
been a very in
teresting one.
He was born in
Cortland coun
ty, N. Y., 42
years ago of
Scotch parents,
and when "only
12 years of age
be went to work
out of bis practice. Mr. Smithpurcbased
the Atlanta Journal and made it one of
the leading newspapers of the south.
He is known as the “original Qeve-
lund man from Georgia,” having es
poused the president elect’s canse when
he had need of friends in that state.
His recent political feat was to trans
form the Georgia delegation to the
presidential convention at Chicago from
a Hill to a Cleveland delegation. He is
over 6 feet tall and weighs 260 pounds.
He Was originally named Michael Hoke
Smith, but early in life he dropped the
the Michael and signed himself Hoke
Smith. Hoke was his mother’s maiden
name. Mr. Smith has a beautiful wife
and three children.
Wilson Shannon Bissell, postmaster
general, is physically the biggest man
in the cabinet, with the possible excep
tion of Mr.
Smith, hut he
is fully as well
equipped with
brain as he is
with brawn.
Mr. Bissell has
long been
known as “Bo
som Friend”
Bissell because
of his nearness
to Mr. Cleve-
■ f in a newspaper
office. His first
DANIEL S. LAMONT. public office Was
a deputy clerkship in New York, and in
1870,1871 and 1875 he was a clerk in
the New-York state assembly. The two
following years he was chief clerk in
the state department at Albany, and
during Governor Tilden’s administfa-
tion Lamont was regarded as his confi
dential man. In 1883 he was appointed
private and military secretary of Gov
ernor Grover Cleveland, and thus se
cured his title as colonel.
When Mr. Cleveland went to Wash
ington as president, Lamont accompa
nied him. He already possessed a great
reputation as a model private secretary
—alert, keen, even tempered, diplomatic
and silent—and after he had been at
CLEVELAND’S CABINET.
The Men Who Will Sit in Council with
Him Tliis Term.
Contrary to expectation, every mem
ber of Mr. Cleveland’s cabinet was pres
ent at the inauguration. It was thought
that; Mr-. Gresham would not be able to
get to Washington before about the
middle of the month, but he managed
to come earlier and arrived Friday night.
In his choice of a cabinet President
Cleveland has particularly honored the
Lgal profession. Six out of eight port
folios went to
lawyers, and old
newspaper men
secured the re-
maining two.
The legal lumi
naries areWalter
S ». Gresham,
ohn G. Carlisle,
Hilary A. Her
bert,Hoke Smith
Wilson S. Bissell
and Richard Ol-
ney. The news
paper men are
Walter Q. gresham. Daniel S. Lamont
and J. Sterling Morton, and Mr. Smith
is also prominent in the newspaper
world in the south. j
Walter Quinton Gresham, the pre
mier of the Cleveland administration, fa
now 61 years of age. March has been j
an important month in'his career, for ;
he was bom at LanesvQle, Ind., March '
17,1832, and in March, 1893, he assnm i
the office of secretary of state, the hign- !
est place in the gift of the president- !
elect. It is odd, too, that he was horn ]
in Harrison county, and that 60 years :
led a company of home guards into the ■
Washington a short time he was gener
ally regarded as the'most able private
secretary a president had ever possess
ed. His tact, shrewdness, ability %nd
popularity made him one of the most
conspicuous figures of the president’s
official family. Since the close of the
Cleveland administration he has devel
oped into a street railway magnate of
most marked ability and has been inter
ested in a dozen big enterprises. His
income is said to he about §100,000 a
year; his salary as secretary of war will
be §8,000., Mrs. Lamont is described as-
a model wife and mother. There are
three little Lamonts—Bessie, aged 11
years; Julia, aged 9, and Frances Cleve
land Lamont. aged 4.
Hilary A. Herbert, secretary of the
navy, has served several years as chair
man of the house naval committee at
Washington and
fa said to know
more about the
navy than any
other man in con
gress. He was
born at Laurens-
ville, S. C., in
March, 1834, aiid^^
moved t o Ala-,
bama when he'
was 12 years old.
He became alaw-
yer, but dropped Hilary a. Herbert.
his books at the breaking out of the war
and entered the Confederate army as
captain. He became a colonel tbrough
gallant services and was disabled at tbe
battle of the Wilderness in 1864. He
practiced his profession at Greenville,
Ala., until 1872. when he removed to
Montgomery, his present home. His
important political office was that of
congressman, and he has served as a
member of'the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,
Forty-seveDth, Forty-eighth, Forty-
ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first and Fifty-
second congresses. Mr.. Herbert is a
widower. Hfa family consists of a mar
ried daughter, an unmarried daughter
and a son at school.
later he should refuse to support for
president the grandson of the. man from
whom the county of his birth took its
name. Mr. Gresham was born on a
farm in a rather wild locality, and when
he was only 2 years old Sheriff Gresham,
his father, was killed by a desperado.
.There were six children for the widow
to support, but young Gresham man
aged to get a good education and be
came a lawyer. When the Republican
party was organized, he joined it and
took up the J utislavery cause.
When the, war broke out, Gresham
Hoke Smith, secretary of the interior,
was bom - 38 years ago in North Caro
lina. He removed to Georgia with hfa
parents, and
WILSON S. BISSELL.
land and because of the fact that he
was for some time the president’s faw
partner at Buffalo. He was bom in
Oneida county, 46 years ago and fa a
graduate of Yale. He studied law at
Buffalo with A. P. Laning, who later
formed a partnership with Grover
Cleveland and Oscar Folsom. In 1872
Mr. Bissell was admitted to the bar and
soon became a partner in the firm of
Bass, Cleveland & Bissell, composed of
Lyman K. Bass, Grover Cleveland and
Wilson S. Bissell.
In a very few years Mr. Bissell be
came a well known railroad lawyer.
Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Bissell were
very intimate friends in Buffalo. They
occupied apartments in the same build
ing, and when Mr. Cleveland was mar
ried Mr. Bissell officiated as best man.
Mrs. Bissell was Miss Louise Fowler
Sturges of Geneva, N. Y., before her
marriage abont three years ago to
Bachelor Bissell, and the couple have a
little girl named Margaret, who was
horn a few days before baby Rath
Cleveland.
■ Richard Olney, attorney general, is
one of the best known corporation law
yers in. New England, and for several
years he has been
attorney for the
Boston and Maine
railroad. He is
a well known Bos
ton Democrat
and a man of
large wealth.
His income from
his practice i ,s
said to be §50,000
a year. His win
ter residence is in
the fashionable
Richard olney. part of Boston,
and he has a summer place near
Gray Gables, on Buzzard’s bay,
where he has been the friend and
companion of Presi :ent-eiect Cleveland.
Mr. Olney has twice refused the proffer
of a seat on the supreme bench of Mas
sachusetts. One year, merely to oblige
his party friends, he accepted the Dem
ocratic nomination for attorney general,
but was defeated, Tbe only time he
ever bolted the Democratic ticket was
when General Bntler ran for governor.
J. Sterling Morton, secretary of agri
culture, was bora at Adams, Jefferson
county, N. Y.. April 22, 1832. He was
graduated from
Union' college.
Removing t o
Nebraska, he
became the ed-
pointinent for si firs’f class mission iias
yet been determined upon, although
gossip still connects the name of ex-Sec-
retary Bayard with the mission to the
■court of St. James, and there are, hints
about that Christopher C. Baldwin and
Mr. Henry Villard, both of this city,
have been thought of for the Russian •
mission.
The name of Frederick R. Coudert
has also been ‘mentioned as a probable
minister to France, but none of these
has reached a stage beyond gossip- It
is generally assumed that Mr Van Al- ...
leu, of Rhode Island, will he nominated
comparatively early iy. the administra
tion as minister to Italy.
An open secret is that Patrick A. Col
lins of Massachuseets, will be accredited
early in the administration as consul to
London. It is doubtful, however,
whether any of the incumbents of the
other consulates general or even of the
more important -consulates have yety
determined upon.
' A good deal of pressure has been
brought in favor of the reappointment
of John H. Oberly. of IUmois, to hfa old
place as commissioner of Indian
affairs, and Congressman McKin
ney, of New Hampshire, is pushed
by hfa friends for the pension
office, hut in all these cases almost n»
serious attention has been given to the
choosing of men for them.
Qnite early in the administration the
president will have the appointment of
two circuit judges, one to succeed Jus
tice Jackson and the o-'jgr gst the suc
cessor of the new Secretary of State
Walter Q. Gresham.
Some pressure has already been
brought to bear in favor of candidates
for the latter places especially. I but
neither the president nor any of his ad
visers- have given the slightest attention
to it, and it fa pretty certain that those
who will apply first will be about the
last to get consideration.
Mr. Morgan, of Connecticut, is said
to he a candidate for the treasnryship
of the United States and Conrad N.
Jordan, of this city, will also be pre
sented by hfa friends for the office of
assistant treasurer her-.
It is certain, though, that very few of
these more important appointments
have been so much as even considered.
Tliis is not due to the fact that there
ore not plenty of men ready and
willing to take them, hut to
the other and more important
consideration that the time of the presi- •
dent has been so taken np with the
selection of a'cabinet that he has had
no opportunity whatever of considering
appointments for these places.
Among some of names mentioned for
assistants places are those of State Sen
ator McClelland, of New York, and
John P. Frenzel. of Indiana, as -aqSis*
ants to the secretary of the treasury
and William McAdoo, of New York, as
assistant to the secretary of the navy.
The appointment of assistant secre
taryships fa generally left to the heads
of * the departments themselves,
although the President /will no
doubt determine a good many of them
in his own mind and make the appoint- ■,
ments after consultation with the mem
bers of his cabinet as to their accep:a-
bility. Of the consulates very few have
thus far been settled.
itor of the-Ne
braska City
News, was
twice elected to
the territorial
legislature and
in 1858 became
the acting gov
ernor. He ran
three times for
J. STERLING MORTON,
governor of the state, but was defeated.
For years he has devoted himself to the
cultivation of trees and the preserva
tion of forests. He fa the father of
what is known as Arbor day. His wife
died twelve years ago, but he has four
bright sons—Paul, who receives §12,000
a year as vice president of a big coal
company at Chicago; Joy, Mark and
Carl. Each one of the yonng men has
already been very successful in some
branch of business.
WORK OF ORGANIZATION.
paradd, as against 25,000 in;
. — —,-BBB federal service, and for gallant services
They sonal attachment which has called me rose gradually in rank until hew.s corporations
HOKE eMITH.
The Places That Are to Be Filled Under
The New Ifcejjime.
New York, March 4.—President-elect
Cleveland will turn his attention imme
diately after his inauguration and the
confirmation of the. members of his cab
inet to the filling of important offices
in the different departments. The prin
cipal of these are, of course', the assis
tants’ places.
There fa a considerable number of
these, ranging from one each in the
navy, war and agricultural departments
to two in tbe interior, three each in the
treasury and state departments, four in
the postoffice and six in the department
of justice. It may be said with confi
dence that the men who will take these
places have been determined upon in a
very few cases indeed.
In the department of state it is prob
able that Mr. George L. Rives of this
city, who held the place before, will
again become first assistant secretary.
Tn the treasury department it is not
likely that more than one assistant is
yet chosen, and he fa Mr. Charles L.
Hamlin of Massachusetts, who will
probably be appointed to that one of
the secretaryships entrusted with, the
.management of the customs.
The secretary of war has not yet pro
cured an assistant for himself, and; so
far as is known, neither has the secre
tary of the navy.
With the possible exception of Robert
A. Maxwell, who fa talked of pretty ex
tensively for fourth assistant postmas
ter general, Mr. Bissell has probably not
got in mind a single one of the men. who
are to be members of hfa Staff.
It is not even a certainty that Mr.
in 1876. In the ! Maxwell’s name will find favorable con-
practice of hfa j sideration for this particular place, al-
profession he j though no doubt fa expressed of his ap-
was frequently , pointment to some office of dignity and
retained in suits x importance.
against . rail-! The attorney general has the appoint-
rqads. and for j ment of a solicitor general and six as-
vears he has ’ sistants, some of the latter, however,
beeii known as are very rarely changed—one of the
a fearless ene- principal assistants having seen service
my of grasping in that department for many years.
A Georgia Town Laid in Ruins in
an Hour.
GEUiEAL 0YEE THE LAUD.
Telegraph Lines Were Blown. Down
and News Service Badly Im
paired, So That Meagre De
tails Could Be Obtained.
Washington, March 4. — Report?
from all. over the southwest state that
the storm which has swept over this
city and section last night and today
have wrought havoc in many places.
Telegraph lines are prostrated, houses
are blown down and in many places the
damage is enormous.
A report from Birmingham, Ala.,
says:
A destructive cyclone visited east
Mississippi and west Alabama last.
Three Mississippi towns, Pochnta,-
Toomsuha and Marion were destroyed.
All the wires are down and details are
meagre.
The trainmen on a delayed Queen
and Crescent train say that 50 people
were injured at Toomsuha und one kill-
ecL Every house in town was swept
away, and trees were blown aoross the
railroad track for miles.
At Marion, Ala., among the killed
was Mrs. Burton Mendon and daughter,
Myra.
One was killed at Pochnta, in. Sumter
county.
Four houses were destroyed.
The exteht is not known.
Between tiie Mississippi and the Rock
ies higlr barometic pressure is prevalent,
gradually increasing from eakt to
until near Dodge City an anticyelOnic,
center Is formed. _
after receiving
hfa education,
he studied law
and was admit
ted to the bar
A Georgia Town Destroyed.
Greenville, March 4.—A most terri
ble cyclone passed over Greenville last
night, between, eight and nine o’clo.ck.
almost completely demolishing the City.
Several are hurt and one negro killed.
Dwellings on the south side of town are
now but hugh piles of lumber.
■_ The Presbyterian churfiH, the post-
office and the college ware blown to
atoms. . .
People, are in great distress and are
without homes.
The town is one mass of ruin and is
beyond description. _
Tbe court house and’stores are demol
ished, and the damage is almost irre
parable.
Greenvilfe. the home of Editor Revill,
fa a town of about 1,000 people, and
covers an area of about 306 acres.
Having wade a fortune It fa doubtful “whether a single ap-! Away.
One Woman Killed. _
Piedmont, «Ga., March L—The heav
iest cyclone that aver passed through
the country was the One W.aiefi visited
us last night.
Sirs. Ross, a lady who liyes near this
place, lost her life ftfid ffiSny others
were badly injured, afid seme perhaps
fatally..
The cyclone did net de but very little
damage, as the mddSiaih hi’eke the
force of the wikd and Ifihs bfe’fented
the little village MM ttyjrig t3tally
destroyed. A felv Mulet v^ete blowh