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Show WAFTED ON THE WIRES. <br><br> Indianapolis, March 6. A terrible tornado passed over the city about 11 o'clock last night. A large number of houses were unroofed, chimneys blown down and tree uprooted. The Central Avenue Methodist Church was almost entirely demolished. One dwelling house was lifted from its foundation and carried five or six feet. The inmates of the house escaped with slight injury. Two or three persons were seriously injured, but so far as known no lives were lost. The damage cannot be estimated but it is quite large in the aggregate. ---- <br><br> Toledo, March 5. - During the prevalence of a heavy storm of wind and rain early this morning, the chimney of the ????? Brewery was blown down, falling on and crushing in the engine house, in which were three policemen. The men had taken refuge at the brewery, two were killed and one seriously injured. The wind attained a velocity of 72 miles an hour, doing considerable damage to roofs, freight sheds, etc. and prostrating telegraph lines in all directions. ---- <br><br> Evansville, Ind. [Indiana], March 6. - four men were drowned yesterday while rowing on the river in a yawl. They were upset by passing steamers. All were prominent citizens of Caseyville. ---- <br><br> Scranton, March 6. - A fire damp? explosion took place yesterday, at East ????. One man killed, eight were left in the mine, supposed to be killed by foul air. ---- <br><br> St. Johns, N.?., March 4. - An unsuccessful attempt to wreck the express train going north on the Inter-Colonial? was made last night, near Wohlford? where a pile of ??? and other debris had been placed on the track. Fortunately, the engineer succeeded in clearing a path through the obstruction. The miscreants, whose intention evidently was plunder, when they saw the object has failed, stoned the train, breaking several windows but doing do damage to life or limb. ---- <br><br> Washington, March 6. - The President's Inter-oceanic Canal message has been ready for a week, awaiting Evart's reports. Hayes will take ground greatly in advance of President Monroe, in the ambitious hope of historical preservation. Evarts is opposed to any canal on the Isthmus, believing the Panama ??? overland roads sufficient. --- <br><br> St. Louuis, March 6. - Walker Kilgore, 23 years old, was hanged at Mexico today for the murder of L.L. Willingham in Jan. 1879. ---- <br><br> Washington, March 8 - The Treasury Department announces the existence of counterfit [counterfeit] $100 bills on the following banks: The National Revenue Bank, Boston; Pittsfield National Bank, Pittsfield; Merchant's National Bank, New Bedford; Second National Bank, ???, Pittsburg National Bank of Commerce. The counterfeit notes on the banks mentioned are so admirably executed that they are liable to deceive even experts. ---- <br><br> San Francisco, March 8 - A Seattle dispatch reports that the engine and eighteen coal cars of a train were wrecked yesterday by the giving way of the trestle at Little Lake. A man named Stewart, from Nannimo, was killed, and several others were injured. ---- <br><br> London, March 8 - Four Mussulman villages near Philipopolis? have been set afire by order of a Prussian officer. ---- <br><br> [Unreadable line] still, and is even increasing in some parts. ---- <br><br> Thousands of Armenians are endeavoring to escape the famine in their country by flight into the neighboring Persian province. ---- <br><br> The archduke Rudolph, the Austrian crown prince, has been affianced to princess Stephanie Clotilde of Belgium. ---- <br><br> Washington, March 8 - On Saturday, the negotiations with the Utes were concluded at Washington. The Utes will surrender and assist in capturing those of their tribe who were implicated in the Meeker massacre. ---- <br><br> De ??? is the attraction of the day in Washington. He intends to take a trip to San Francisco via St. Louis and Denver, and calculates to be ready to return to England on the 31st of this month. ---- <br><br> Chicago, March 8 - Yesterday afternoon the large building of the wholesale goods firm of Auerbach, Finch, Culbertson & Co., in St. Paul, Minn., [Minnesota] was destroyed by fire. The building had cost 90,000 and with it were burned $859,000 worth of dry goods. ---- <br><br> Panama, March 8 - An explosion in artillery barracks at Santiago, Chili, killed 14 persons and destroyed a portion of the building used for the manufacture of shells, &c. Several persons are missing. ---- <br><br> Washington, March 8. - McDowell, commanding the military division on the Pacific coast, has been ordered to move all available troops to San Francisco to be posted where they can be most effectually used in case their services are required. This is a precautionary measure. ----- <br><br> Green River, Wyo., [Wyoming] March 8. - The last number of the Rocky Mountain Courier gives an account of an active volcano near Brown's Park, a crater, five feet in diameter, emitting sulphurous smoke; no lava as yet; snow in the vicinity has melted from the heat of the volcano. ---- <br><br> St. Louis, March 8. - The insane asylum at Osawatomie, containing ??? inmates was totally destroyed. Loss $40,000. The inmates were provided for. There was no loss of life. ---- <br><br> Cincinnati, March 9. - Last night J. W. Perry, member of the Kentucky legislature, registered at Hunt's Hotel for separate rooms for himself and Miss Adams. By the early train this morning, Miss Adams left for Van Wert, Ohio, when it was found she had given birth to a child, which had been wrapped in a sheet and dropped from a second story window into the area. It was taken to the hospital, and shows no signs of the fall. Miss Adams was arrested near Dayton, and Perry was arrested here and claims to have known nothing of Miss Adams condition. She has lived in his family since infancy and was on the way to visit friends at Van Wert. The case is exciting interest on account of Perry's prominence, the wonderful escape of the baby from death and the fact that the mother is only 15 years old. |