Newspaper Page Text
DEADLY WORK OF DISASTROUS CYCLONES
Towns In Wisconsin and Nebraska Are Almost
Completely Swept Out of Existence.
LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY IN STORM’S PATH WAS FEARFUL
Not a Mouse Now Stands Where Once Was Two Prosperous
Northwestern Villages.
A special from St. Paul, Minn.,
says: 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 flames
added to the horrible conditions, the
survivors being unable to rescue the
bodies of hundreds of victims from
the ruins being swept into ashes by
the angry flames.
New Richmond Devastated*
The worst destruction was at New
Richmond. Wis., where a frightful
tornado struck just before 6 o’clock
Sunday night. Fully 100 corpses,
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 boards,
smouldering fires 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 more
material for destruction in their path
than this small village could afford.
There never was a cyclone that made
a cleaner sweep of that which lay in
its path than the one of Sunday even¬
ing.
In the business portion of the town
absolutely not one 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 plane.
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 were 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.
Belief trains were sent from Chip¬
pewa Falls and Stevens Point, and
doctors 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 Bichmond is on the Wisconsin
line and on the Duluth, Superior
branch of the Omaha road It is 86
miles east of St. Paul, and in the
heart of the riok faiuning section of
St. Croix county. It is near Willow
river, on which are several large saw
and grist mills, and is quite a business
eenter.
It is one of the oldest towns of
western Wisconsin, and had many
handsome residences. There wore two
principal streets crossing each other
at right angles, the more important
ones running east and west. It was
through this street the storm passed.
The thoroughfare was three miles
long, lined with trees, and made a fine
driveway.
Other Towns Damaged.
Next to New Richmond, the most
severe damage done by the storm was
at Hudson, 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 in seventeen years.
Nealy five inches of water fell. The
river rose so rapidly that 400 people
living in the lower portion of the city
were driven from their homes.
MEDALS FOR NEGROES.
Four Members of Tenth Cavalry Re¬
warded For Bravery.
George II. Wanton, Fitz Lee, William
H. Tompkins and Dennis Bell, all
members of the Tenth cavalry, a negro
regiment, have been awarded medals
of honor for distinguished gallantry at
Tayabacoa,Guba, June 30, 1898, where,
after a force had succeeded in landing
and had been compelled to withdraw
to the boats, leaving a number of
killed and wounded ashore, they vol¬
untarily went ashore iu the face of the
enemy and aided in the rescue of the
wounded comrades, who would other¬
wise have fallen into the hands of the
enemv.
vVatterson To Call Conference.
It is said that Henry Watterson has
telegraphed leading gold democrats
who remained with the party to meet
in New York June 14-17 for confer-
ence. M is added that the meeting
will be of importance.
Oalnesvlll* Gets Bryan.
Hon. W. J. Bryan has consented to
speak at the Gainesville, Ga., ohau-
tanqna on the 5th day of July at 11
o’clock. His subject will be "Pending
Problems.”
A special from Omaha Bays: A tor¬
nado struck the town ot Herman in
Washington county, Nebraska, Mon¬
day evening and wiped the place out
of existence. Herman is a town of
about 300 inhabitants, in the extreme
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 bodies
lying in the streets.
The fatalities will undoubtedly run
up to a hundred, if not higher. A
special train left Blair, the county seat,
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
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 was
fearful.
Advices received by The Bee (Oma¬
ha) np to 11 o’clock Tuesday night
stated that every dwelling in the town
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 was
one of destruction. Wrecked build¬
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 received 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 u been , killed, :il ■, and -i
, i: . ;n i , I „
r J x J
, , . ,
111 P \
Supermtendent c , ^ . , Jaynes, T of £ Li the Oma*
, ha road, , -was at .mi Tekamah i when i 1 he
heard , of the disaster and Jeffc at , once
for p TT Herman -i band i taking . , . two ,
on a car,
physic.ans along with him to assist in
succoring the injured.
The moans of he 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 hands did what
they could to help the injured, and in
the course of an hour the train pulled
cdt for Blair with ninety-five 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 AND RAMON KILLED.
Insurgent General Assassinated By
Aguinaldo’s Body Guard.
Information, believed to be reliable,
has reached Manila of the assassination
of General Luna and his aid-de-camp,
Lieutenant Pasco Ramon, June 8th, by
Aguinaldo’s guard at the headquarters
of Aguinaldo.
Luna and Ramon, it appears, went
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 Luna and Ramon with their
bayonets.
LESS WHEAT SOWN.
Fourteen States Show Big Decrease
Compared With Usual Amount.
Preliminary reports of the spring
wheat acreage indicate a reduction of
about 470,000 acres, or 2.5 per cent.
Of the twenty states reporting 10,000
acres or upward in spring wheat, six
report an increase aggregating about
245,000 acres and fourteen a decrease
amounting to about 715,000 acres.
There is a reduction of 7 per cent in
North Dakota, five in Minnesota,eight
in Iowa, three in Wisconsin, one in
Nebraska and one in Oregon. On the
other hand there is an increase of four
per cent in South Dakota and of 6 per
cent in Washington.
BLANDJS MUCH BETTER.
Prospective Visit From W. J. Bryan
Has a Favorab e Effect.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Leba¬
non, Mo., says: Mr. Bland continues
to improve, and his condition now in¬
spires his physicians and friends to
hope for his ultimate recovery. The
announcement of the proposed visit of
Colonel W. J. Bryan on Sunday has
acted as a tonic to his spiritr-
SHE WAS A GERMAN.
AND COULD NOT TRAVEL BY
HERSELF. a
Envied the American Women — Frau
Verwittwete llad Always Wanted to
Koiuu the World but When Her
UliuncQ Came Her Nationality Interfered
This particular Mrs. Widow, as the
Germans put it, waa the relict of a
Lelpslc merchant, who had left her
well provided for," says the New York
Commercial Advertiser. She was a
short, stout, prosperous looking wom¬
an of somewhere about 60, with beau¬
tiful white hair. She bought it at that
nice place in Munich, and with it
dressed her head in a more elaborate
and French way than is common
among German women of her years.
She also eschewed the caps with which
they commonly make themselves so
unnecessarily “old lady.” in fact, so
far as looks went, the Frau Verwitt¬
wete ran the American mamma in the
pension a close second. And they ad¬
mired each other mutually—when they
were on speaking terms. The Frau
Verwittwete was on her travels, too.
To be sure she was not a dozen blocks
away from where she had always liv¬
ed, having married and settled in Leip-
slc and stayed in It right along with
only an occasional break in the way
of a “cure” at some Bad. But all
through the years when she had had
to bide at home and keep her hus¬
band’s house, as German wives are ex-
pected to do, she had nourished a se¬
cret desire to see the world, a longing
to travel. And the death of her Herr
Gemahl, which is to say her lord and
master, together with his substantial
nachlass, had set her free at last to
indulge her life-long wish. She ac¬
cordingly sold her house and estab¬
lished herself in that popular pension
through which a cosmopolitan stream
of'travel poured. It was a vicarious
way of seeing the world, but German
women, even in their 60s, are shy
about setting off on their travels alone,
especially Frau Verwittwete. The hab¬
it of being looked after and decided
for by a man keeps them down, even
after he is gone. The principle on
which all German life is based, that
the man is herr im hause as well as
in the shop, leaves its mark. That
mark lay like a clog on that Frau Ver¬
wittwete, though she was clever
enough to realize it and to rebel
against it in a spirited but impotent
way, which expressed itself in the dec¬
laration flung many times and defi¬
antly into the faces of the Germans
among her fellow-pensionaires: “If I
had my life to live over
again : my frieads ’ 1 should So
t0 Amcr ‘ Ca and marry an ^
f ican . '„ ™ ey ma! f the. , best hus-
Thl s opln ‘° n > strongest
“"tly . and „ most important ; wh.ch
the Frau Verwittwete had arrived at
in . . hjer travels, . . was all .. the .. more flatter- „ ,,
mg to that famous benedict, the Amer-
ican husband, in that it was based up- *
on the American . wife, .. ’ of . whom , the
usual , constant . . current swept . through ,.
that pension. rp> Their , •„ air of personal , in- .
‘
dependence and flnancial securit y in-
ed thaFrau verwittwete alike with
admiration, envy and dislike! In fact,
to tel th whole truth as she would
*. hep her temper gQt thfi better of ber
the Frau Verwittwete and a higher
.
opinion of the American husband
whom she did not see than of the
American wife whom she did. Just as,
sow and again, she would wax senti¬
mental and spout Schiller’s Jungfrau
like any Backfisch, so now and again
THE TOMB OF “OLD HICKORY.”
&
3
r
V m
A
gyi-i wwm <3*
■ Hi fr tm;
m = i ■Smm J t
i
mm S! I 3
mi it nrtmUm minim um r* m
■
Hpv I * TU rs
' <rrr6
Andrew Jackson, seventh president
of the United States, was born In the
Waxhaw Settlement, North Carolina,
March 15, 1767. He died at The Hermi-
tage, near Nashville, Tenn., on June 8,
1845. The state of Tennessee pur-
chased The Hermitage and the tomb
and twenty-five surrounding acres to
Improve and preserve in lasting mem¬
ory of the hero of New Orleans. The
place was assigned to the care of the
ladles of The Hermitage Association of
she would fall back Into such conven¬
tional claptrap as that favorite among
German women. In which they vaunt
themselves as superior to American
women in wifely affection and devo¬
tion. “The German wife does not go
off roaming the world at her husband’s
expense and leaving him to shift for
himself in his deserted home. She
stays Tn it with him,” the Frau Ver-
wittwete would say at one time. At
another she would reply to the same
sentiment from another of the Ger-
man boarders, “Yes, but why does
she stay? Because she has to. Ger-
man men won’t let their wives go off
and have a good time without them.
If only one of a German pair can trav¬
el, it’s the husband always, and you
know it.” When she made such em¬
phatic remarks the Frau Verwittwete
had a way of emphasizing them with
her plump index finger at the length
of her arm. Fortunately, like the rest
of her stout person, it was short as
well as fat, and consequently only
reached half across the table. So the
eyes of her adversary were safe.
It was really a pathetic situation,
however, for all its humor, and one
could not, when that wistful look
would come into her face as the flood
of travelers with their flood of travel
talk swept by her and left her strand¬
ed in those two best rooms in the pen¬
sion which she had taken by the year
and furnished herself with her own
goods and chattels and an air of per-
manency—one could not but feel
sorry for her, and yet all she had to
do was to buy her ticket and take the
train as she %aw American, English,
Scotch, Danish and Russian women,
old and young, doing every day. That,
however, was precisely what the poor,
well-provlded-for relict couldn’t do.
After sixty years of tutelage it Isn’t
easy to be adult. As the Frau Verwitt¬
wete said herself: “If you want to do
anything well, you’ve got to begin at
it young.”
What Thick Llpa Mean.
Dr. A. Bloch, the French anthropol¬
ogist, attacks the theory that thick lips
are a denotement of sensuality, while
thin and delicate lips denote spiritual¬
ity, firmness and elevated character.
In a recent paper the scientist claims
that the shape, size and color of the
lips are purely race characteristics,
and that in the hybrid people of Eu¬
rope and America, where there has
been such a general intermingling of
races, a child may well inherit from
not very remote ancestors lips that
completely belie the actual character
of the child, as Indicated by the lip
theory. Dr. Bloch’s investigations sat¬
isfy him that really thick lips in the
white races are always anomolies or
freaks of nature.
The Hit of the Play.
First Actor (pulling the trigger of a
revolver six times)—Die, you miserable
villain? Second Actor—Your pistol has
missed fire, Sir Rudolph; but I am
smitten with remorse for my many
crimes, and will die, according to your
wish. Then he rolled on the stage in
agony, while the curtain slowly de¬
scended, amid the cheers and laughter
of the audience.
During the World’s Fair.
Miss Gush—Oh, captain, were you
ever boarded by a pirate? Capt.
Storms—Yes; he charged me $3 a day
for a bedroom on the fourth floor.
A man in Ware county, Georgia,
struck the funny bone of his arm
against a wagon tire and since then
has been speechless from paralysis.
Nashville, and has since become a
Mecca for patriotic Americans, like
Mount Vernon and other hallowed
s P ot s in cmr history. The tomb itself,
as may Pe seen fr ? m *-h« accompany¬
ing illustration, consists of a shaft,over
which isj a dome supported on pillars.
The whole structure has been sur¬
rounded by a tall iron fence to keep off
..the sacrilegious hands of the ever¬
present souvenir fiend, who would not
allow even the last resting place of
such a man to be safe from his touch.
NEW HINTS FOR GOLF LOVERS.
Suggestions Which Might Improve the
riuj'lngr of the Game.
Just at present golfing, except to a
minority composed of such cranks as
run each and every pastime to a point
of exaggeration, is at a standstill, and
the golfers of last season are looking
around for novelties for the coming
one, not only In clubs, shoes and cos¬
tumes, but in strokes and proper atti¬
tudes of body. One theory advanced
Is that of learning the proper swing.
The fault that is about the hardest to
correct in driving is to get the should¬
ers and back into the stroke, so that
the swing will be full and the club
head follow through with the ball-
The way to get the true style in driv¬
ing, according to the new idea. Is to
practice the drive with a golf ball held
firmly under the right armpit. It will
he found that when the swing is prop¬
erly made the hall will not be dis¬
lodged from its place, and, on the
other hand, that the exertion of hold¬
ing the ball in its position will teach
a fine carriage of the shoulders and
body throughout the entire stroke. All
who have tried swinging with a ball
under the armpit say that it has im¬
proved their drive. Another sugges¬
tion is that the necks or mouths of the
caddie bags should be not less than
six and a half inches across. This rec¬
ommendation is based on the expe¬
rience that the usual caddie bag mouth
of four and a half incites insures badly
frayed leather grips of the clubs, owing
to the haste of the caddie boys to push
them in and out of the bag In serving
the players during the round. The
bags, although somewhat larger to the
eye, are no heavier than those with
narrow mouths, and the caddie’s work
is thus made easier and the chafing
and scraping of clubs done away with
to a great degree. A third suggestion
is an improvement in the cups used
to fill the holes. • The usual disk cup
is of heavy galvanized tin, with two
cross pieces perforated to support the
disk staff, which, especially when the
ground is hard with frost, requires
considerable labor to bury In the earth.
The new device, which has been used
for a season in the west, is an iron
cup having a thick base in which the
staff rests, The hole need not be as
deep as with the tin cups, and as there
are no cross ■b^rs the balls never be-
come stuck beneath them.
WOMEN AND MORPHINE
Increasing Prevalance of the Narcotic
Habit.
The use of narcotics Is growing
alarmingly frequent among the rest¬
less, nervous members of the gentler
sex. “The amount of morphine used
by womdn is increasing at an alarm¬
ing rate,” said a physician. “I do not
give the drug at all, save in extreme
cases, for I believe we doctors are
largely responsible Jo r the spread of
the evil. It seems such an easy, mer¬
ciful thing to relieve acute suffering
by a dose of morphine, and it would be
all right 'if the patients couldn’t get
the drug themselves. They can get
.it. There’s the trouble. I was called
to see one of my patients last week.
She is a wealthy woman. She devel¬
oped the morphine habit two years
ago, when she had a serious illness.
Since then she has had periodical
sprees with morphine, in spite of all we
could do to prevent her. She always
says that the deplorable state she gets
into is due to other causes;-but I can
tell as soon as I see her whether she
has been taking morphine. Last week,
when I went to see her, she was a
nervous wreck and said she had been
agonizing with rheumatism. Rheuma¬
tism is a handy thing. ‘A doctor
can’t swear that a patient hasn’t got It.
I accused the woman of having been
cm a morphine spree. She denied it.
I appealed to her husband, He
searched her bureau and chiffonier and
found 200 morphine pills. She had
bought them all at one time, but
wouldn't tell who sold them to her. Of
course there’s a law against selling
morphine except on a prescription, but
a morphine fiend can always get it if
he is persistent, and generally he is so.
Any physician can tell a habitual mor¬
phine taker at a glance. So can a
druggist. The latter reads the unmis¬
takable signs in a man’s face, and if he
hasn’t a conscience will sell the mor¬
phine victim what he wants. The
druggist knows that the purchaser will
guard the secret quite as closely as he
could. But if a person with no symp¬
toms of the morphine habit wants to
buy the drug he will probably have
great difficulty in getting It. No phar¬
macist, even if not particularly reputa¬
ble, wants to take the chances of being
hauled up for a breach of the law.”
For the Hands.
When the hands are very dirty it is
better to rub them thoroughly with
cold cream before washing them. Then
wash In warm water, using pure soap
and a nail brush, rinse In cool water
and dry thoroughly on a soft towel.
Two-thirds of all women dry their
hands very imperfectly, and then won¬
der why the skin is rough. A few
drops of a good hand lotion should be
rubbed all over the hands and allowed
to dry In after they have been In wa¬
ter for some time, as so many house-
kepers’ hands must he so often, and
always at night. The hands should
not be exposed to cold air for some
time after they have been washed.
When He Had To.
“So old Yabsley is dead, eh? Well,
well! Did he leave anything?” “Yes.
It broke his heart to do it, but he left
everything.”
At Staunton, Va., for seventy-two
hours Charles Armentrout had a spell
of hiccoughing which his physicians
could not relieve.
charming restful woman.
Repose lx a Very Attractive Feminine
Quality.
The reposeful woman Is as invigorat¬
ing as a tonic in this age when women
generally “live at a pressure that ren-
ders them dizzy.” Among the most
attractive qualities that any woman
can possess Is the charm of repose.
The reverse of this is so generally
true—women are nearly always so
fidgety, so nervous, so hurried, that to
find one who moves about quietly -and
assuredly, without excitement, and
with a tranquillity unshaken by the
little events of life, is as refreshing as
the quiet of the dusk after the turmoil
of the day, and gives to us something
of the same restful feeling. So many
women, in their desire to gain admira¬
tion, feel that they must be contin¬
ually doing something to attract at¬
tention to themselves. They laugh,
and giggle until we feel like crying out
with the harassed hero of Tennyson’s
poem, “Pritheet weep, May Lillian;”
they flutter about a room, they talk
ceaselessly and exclaim and ejaculate
over every trivial happening; they
fidget with a fan or their ornaments,
until they have exhausted their own
nervous force as well as ours with
meaningless movements. Nothing
could be a greater fallacy than to im¬
agine this wins admiration, especially
from men. Pettish, fussy and erratic
ways are amusing enough when a girl
is under 20, and the man very little
more, but after that the grown man
wants peace of mind and body, and he
turns to the wjjman who can rise above
the petty annoyances of life and who
does not demand too much of his en¬
thusiasm. There is a great passage
in one of Tolstoi’s novels, where the
young wife of an old man goes to her
husband with all the pent-up story of
her struggles and' temptations and
emotions. He listens to it, and then
gives her only the smile of a man anx¬
ious not to be disturbed. There are
many times when every woman feels
the same thing. We get, in time, to
dread those of our friends who are
intense, who are always either in ab¬
surdly high spirits or preternaturally
blue. They make too great drafts on
our sympathy, for they demand that
we shall feel as they do about every¬
thing, and it is a relief to turn to the
placid woman who gives us nothing
hut the sense of rest and peace. An¬
other argument, if it were needed, in
favor of cultivating purposes, is that
it does more to keep one young than
all the cosmetics ever invented. Irrita¬
bility makes wrinkles, worrying is the
sure forerunner of gray hairs, excite¬
ment shortens life. It is the quiet
woman of reposeful manners that the
years pass by without leaving a mark.
Another tiling is that the woman who
can keep calm is always the one who .
succeeds. She is always master of
herself, and any situation, and she
never knows those awful hours with
which most of us are too sadly famil¬
iar, when she has to repent in sack¬
cloth and ashes the thing she did and
said in the moment of excitement. In
nature and human nature it is the
great silent forces that are irresistible.
CLEAN MONEY.
One Woman Has All Her Currency
Washed and Ironed.
•“The demand for new bills for shop¬
ping is on the increase among wom¬
en,” said a local bank teller to a New
Orleans Times-Democrat reporter, “and
is getting to- be a nuisance. A great
many women won’t handle any cur¬
rency that is not absolutely fresh and
crisp, and in the north all the banks
that make a specialty of catering to
women’s custom keep a supply con¬
stantly on hand for that particular
purpose. Sometimes the bills are hard
to get, especially those of certain de-
i nominations, and gold is unpopular on
account of the danger of confusing the
$2.50 coin with a bright penny. It is
not generally known, but bills can be
washed and ironed as easily as a pocket
handkerchief. A wealthy woman of
my acquaintance has all her money
laundered before she uses it. She turns
the notes over to her maid, who washes
them thoroughly in hot water with or¬
dinary soapsuds and spreads them out
on a table to dry. Then she dampens
them slightly and presses them with a
medium hot smoothing iron. If the
bill is not frayed this process will
make it as bright and crisp as when it
first left the treasury. It is astonish¬
ing how dirty money gets. If one
could see the water in which a dozen
commonly circulated bills were washed
it would give them a permanent aver¬
sion to the trade of teller.”
Another Hero*
One morning recently Wallace Logan
who was an engineer on a railroad
train, died to save others. There was
a wreck near Akron, O., in which Mrs.
Frank Wilson, a Cincinnati lady, and
many others were injured. Mr. Logan
was on the engine and he could have
escaped by jumping when tne eninge
ran off the track, but he knew that if
he did so a great many people would
lose their lives, so he grasped the
throttle valve and stuck to his post of
duty, and he was the only one on all
the train that was killed. He died be¬
cause he was a brave man. Not every
one has a chance to be a hero, but
when the need for one rises there is
always some one like Wallace Logan to
fill the place. Everybody has to die
some time, and when one’s time has
come it would he grand to die as he
did—doing his.duty.
Dutch Courage.
Watts—I don’t believe this nonsense
about whisky making a man brave.
Boozefite—My friend, if it wasn’t for
the whisky I would not have the
courage to go home.—Indianapolis
fournal.