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Show A DESOLATE REGION. Illinois Tlsllcd br a Berostalln? Hood: llrldscj CarrinI Awr bf the lVaUrs. SIX THOUSAND CUTTERS COON STRIKE. X Father's Inhuman Conduct To- Tfard Ills Eleren-jrar-oM Son In IVnnsjlrania. 1 APPROACHING MARRIAGE OF MARY ANDERSON. Killed hi Llghtnln? In Kfntnckjv- A Ltaltoonlst ratallj Injured. A Pioneer llle. By Tclecraph lo lilMiri I rciiittri. 1 Loons. Jollrt anil Itorkford, Illlaols, la. ler Mater; Aeriie,oriralntlon. Joi.irT, IHt June 14 The heaviest heavi-est 'mil moot damaging rain ever known hire fell etcaJtlj all last night, conimeniliii; with awater-fpout, awater-fpout, which coniiiktely inundated the nortlicm, eastern and Koutliern portions of the citj. At an early hour this morning the Jwonlc in the southern part o( the city wete compelled com-pelled to move out in boats, rjmall outbuildings are floating arouudand mennud boys arc Balling around on rafts and iu boats picking uii attUcs of houKboId furniture. The utrtrtt car tracks in many places are three feet under waUr, and the electric road fa stopped. Great damage to lences and gardens has been done. Many railroad bridges in this viiinl-ty viiinl-ty were washed out and trains delayed. de-layed. The Hood began subsiding this afternoon. WATER KVERVWIintE. ItociCFOKD, Ills., JuneH Never since lixW, wli-ii the waters rove and overu helmed nearly all of Rotkford, hasmcli a dla.trouilood Mlted this Mrcliou as Li't evening. It is estimated that the damagu lo proi'erty will reach half a million dollar. The rain fell in torn.ntsfor three hour, accompanied by viid lightning and deafening thunder Iu a short time eery street as a rivir, and soon devastating flowls were sweeping through the Kent and Keith creek valleys. Down Keith creek district came the flood, 8eepingeverythlngtforelL The Tater spread o er the low lands filling fill-ing cellars, creeping up Into the first stories of houses and driving tbe people- from their beds. The baemtiit stories of tho operative Hud Forest City furniture faitorles were flooded many feet deep. IiUiu ler piles beside the factories wire picked up arI carried along, the planks and heavy timbers proving battering rams which took down the bridges spanning the creek. The fire dtpattmeut and police worked bard all night conveying people from tho flooded di-trlctn to pLtces of sheltir. Many fled Irom their houses when, tho water began to run in their cellars, fearing that they would be tarried away, bo far as Itarned, no lives were lost. The city this morning pretnted a scene of desolation. The entire lower portion was a lake, covired hi tli floating dibris. The Illinois Central and Milwaukee Mil-waukee Itallroad companies are the heaviest losers. Many cattle and sheep were drowned and considerable con-siderable damage done to the residences, resi-dences, nhicn were flooded. The waters receded today almost as iulekly as they had riieii. Klx Tlioiiaml Inltera Onl. Jtrw'YoKK, June 14. At noon about six thousand cutters, cloak and suit makers w ere locked out by the different cloak and tult firms throughout the city. The trouble arose uterthe nfusal of the union cutters to turu their work over to non union mm The employers, to ao!d greater trouble, eleeided to lock eut every man until the matter is eettled, A Ilriilal lather. WIIKJ3BARRE, 18-, Juno 14. On Friday Jacob Ackerman became angered ut his 11-JearoId son, Jacob, Ja-cob, took him into the cellar and etrapjied him to a framework of boards nailed together in the shaj ofatnns. The father then droe the family out of the bouse and stood guanl oter the child with a hatihet, threatening to kill an) body who came near. ruard evening his little daughter came home ana beard gtuaus iu the cellar, fche found her brother In awful agon). For seven hours lie had been suspended sus-pended dntlielrimework. He was rexe-ued more dead than alit e, and it is believed that bo ill die. Acker-man Acker-man w as arrested lodai . The neighbors neigh-bors were on the polut of organizing i iossk to lj uch him, when the ofll-cere ofll-cere interfered and lodged him in jail. sturUrrora klirrltr. Boo-nkville, Mo- June 14. Sheriff- Crommer as sliot and faUll woundeil this eeilug by William West, a prisoner at the Jul awaiting trial for murder. the sberifTbad taken We-t to supper, autl w hen he turned bU back West drew a revolver and fired. West escaiied, but was soon caitured. "Onr HaryV Marriage. Jfmv Yobk, Junel4 At llromp-ton llromp-ton Oratory, London, Tutslay morning next, Marj Ander.on will wed Antonio Xavarro.ol New York. The ceremony will be' performed by Cardinal Manning. The wedding will be as prhatu as possible. The only iiersons who will attend are Dr. Gnflinnnd wife, ru?ther of Uie bride, Joseph Anderson, her I rotlier, and wife, who Is a daughter of Lawrence Law-rence liarrett, Alfonse Navarro and Miss Lytton, a daughter of the present pres-ent British ambassador at Paris. The two litter w IU witness the ceremony. cere-mony. For some reason Mnie. Navarro, Na-varro, who was the cbaperoue cf Miss Anderson while traveling through tbe south of France, will not attend, bhe Is at Kome. Death by TJsIilnlnr. Taris, Ky., Juno 14. A Terrific lightning and thunderstorm passed over tho northern part of this county yesterday nfternnon. To of a fishing larty were killed and two others badly injured. When the storm .came up they took shelter shel-ter under a cattle trough. The lightning struck it, with tho result above. A rtalloonlat Fatally Hart. Kkoxville, Tenn., June 14 Kd. Hutchinson, a balloonist, while making an ascension In the outskirts out-skirts of the city today, fell from a height of seventy-five feet and was fatally injured. A Pioneer Tiles. Sa Jcsk. Cal., June 14. Capt. Wm. Warren, a prominent fruit grower, died suddenly at his residence resi-dence this morning. Captain Warren War-ren was the first white settler In Japan, and built the first European house there In ISS9. He was also Uie foundir of tbe Ant Masonic lodge in Japan. HfarreU and Tormented. Marquette, Mich, June 14 William Lowry, an aged colored resIJent of "this city, wan found by a party of woodsmen In the path near Unota, pinned to the ground by a tree, which had fallen upon him. He had barely strength to speak to his rescuers and to these he said be had lain thus four da) without food and tormented by inserts. in-serts. Portions of his body swarmed with maggots, making a sickening sight. He was brought home, where I he died this morning, death result-1 Ing from "iv -jDd starvation,as BaSBBBSaSBBBBBBBSaCaastM&SBI the internal Injuries sustained were not severe enough to be fataL The Cliarler riled. TueToS,N. J-, June H. The charter of the North American company com-pany was filed in the Secretary or (state's office, with a capital stock of 550,000. The Jirincllial rbce of busl-neeu busl-neeu or the company in this btate will be at Newark, but liiey w 11 transact business Iu all tho states and territories, in South America, Canada, LUirope and elsewhere. The oljoct or uie corporation is to form and promote the formation of railway street railway, steamship, electrical light and electrical apparatus appa-ratus companies, deal in stocks, securities, se-curities, franchises, etc; oinrato telegraph and telephone, gas and waterworks oil works, mines for all kinds of ores, carry on a tnns-porUtlon tnns-porUtlon business of every clnrae-ter, clnrae-ter, and for the transaction cf all business necessary to the accomplishment accom-plishment of th j objects set out as above. IiUIrd liy n Tralu. Denver, June 14 A Chrytnne special: Farmer John Fueston and wife, of Illg Sprit gs, Nele, were iun down and killed by a passenger passen-ger train near that place )i-tenlaj forenoon. They were driving to town and their team stoipcd dead still on the tracks with the train only a eve feet away. |
