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Show HiVID. Ea1, FIRE! i : y. Xter Ucttmclite Csruado la eb-VkiiDo-rrEpoorS In tlieorlh- )westc SjUlcs. ' , '.! 5 PANIC AND DEATH IN A DALL- v room: Two Tfinalcs Losetheir llres and TUIrtrrn Ollicr'l In a t'rltl- " ' cl,i"oadltion. I f .i ti i .PBESlOENJHAYES ANDTHE , ,.. "-NEGROES - Zmt. i! j t Pr GcrmaaTXatbtrap? in Contention Pass Besolotloji Against the ' 11 j- TcUrni h to the J xsrs J V DAY'S C111ALTII.S. Another lleslrnetlve t loniltittrst In Io-ra.-l Ire Inn IIxllrtKiiUvste Lincoln, Xtb, Juiio4. A party returned from tho scene of the tornado tor-nado in Bradshaw, York County, this evening, and brought confirmations confirm-ations of thu worst retorts received. Thu storm struck the tow n at b 10 Tuesday evening, (he roar of the whirlwind h-jiug the first notice tho trirlfied o lo liad. ot a singlu building is left. Kvery busbietH Inius-vvtaii made n total wnck, and the principal street is filled with ru-i... ru-i... A special train wosdispatelieil from Lincoln, witlii physicians and other reliefs. A Ituwiau settl-nient near the tow ii was also rtrugk and thu reort is that nice were killed there outright out-right The physicians say that in all twelve are dead, eight mortally wounded and jierhatn twenty are hurt Itbssericusly.- The killed nro John Miller, achiUof J. Romsey, wlfu and child of Issac Peuuer, n child of Mr. Cliaplu, two members of Mr. Bradshaw "a family, wife and child of Mi nke antLa hired man. Governor Tliayer has sent tents and oilier supplies to the suOlrers. H-VDVII.I.K AGAJ.N. I.I-vuviILl, Colo, Juno 4. Scarcely had this city recovired from the shock ot,thu accident at Arkansas Junction by w hlcii two young La ilea wire drowned, when news was received tonight that Engineer En-gineer Folk, wlnja rtirtlrlug a ump in thu Galisherslialt of ihe Mikado Conqiany "i mine, fell -QJ fett to thelottom rpd was crushed Into a horrible masi No sooner had thscoroner brought thu n mains to the '"lty than he was called to go to the Autioch Mine, wh re Thomas Flannigau was blow n (o atoms by n premature tx filisluii, mil James O'Donntll so ally injured tliatrecovtry Is doubt-ftil. doubt-ftil. IOWA HAS VrsOTHFJl CLOUDnCIUTr. CoCClL BLCm, June 4. A devastatiiv cloudburst early this morning ioiistituli the third ter I rifle storm that hasjrfsltcd this see-1 tlnit this wtrisf ."lie Aoiirxirtsf; 1 about - o'clock this morning tin re was a tloudlsirst some miles north or there, nearly ovtr .Mosquito .Mos-quito Creek. When day broke tlie lower aud western hair or thu tovu I resented a 1 Itiable plighL A score of duellings wen. totally wieeked, while others were twisted from their foundations At noon the waters of Mo-quilo Creek registered twtiity frttabovelitgli water mark. Ill the liwer jiart of this city thu bouses stood Iu t u feet of w iter. -cviral washout oetuirrd on the railroads and many bridges were sweit away. There were many n.irrou escapes from drowning. A largu numbtr of cattle and hogs were drouiieii. The total loss ill Undtrwcod aud vicinity aggregates $100,0X10 At Wislon, njvillage seven milts Iielow Underwood, aud on Mosquito Creek, the damage U not less greaL The best (art cf thu town Is under fn m live lo tight feet of water. A lino or corn eriln, containing ltV 000 hushclvire uudi r u ateraud will probably bu a total loss. Heavy losses or cattle aud sheep aru re-iwrted re-iwrted The tobal lossnliout Weston w ill reaclilSIIl,000. Further a Ivlces to the A'onpartil fioni further up tint valley at Neula and as far as 1'irry show that thu storm ragesl with savagetirect. The Hood on Mosquito Creek, which einj ties into the Missouri at this iiolnt, rt ached Council lllutls at noon today. Tho river is tight feet above high wattr mark tonight and is still rising. Tlie valley is under water lo an averagu depth or fifteen feat, Tho Indications are that this valley , for 1 distance of thirty mile, Is submerged. It will be five days before trains can leave or enter the city, as tlie roads are washed out for a distance of twinty mlle. Tiie entire damage Is estimated at $300,-000. $300,-000. Xo loss of life has betii repotted. re-potted. TUBMEN UOCS 1LVIMALL. St. Paul, Juno 4 Over an Inch of rain fell in tills city today, and the city is rectlving the inct thorough drenching for many mouths. No serious damage is retorted re-torted in the city limits, rhu railroads, rail-roads, howivir, are su'Icring Ihe Milwauktc trains aru nil deliyed several henry tonight by washouts and the other roads also sjflercd. bpecial from Minnesota and North nnJ South Dakota are to the samu llect. TlieO'ofcs' correspun-dintsajs correspun-dintsajs tho Jll's-juri river Is raging, rag-ing, two sections of thu Pierru )ii-toon )ii-toon t ridgu having been washed away. Yankton rt ports two and one-fifth inches of rain in furty -eight hours, and au assured crop. Bed Wing, Minn , nports the heaviest rain of the season, with thu streets washed out and Hooded, slde-walks slde-walks carried away and private fropetty considerably damaged, leavy rains this afternoon washed out SoO feet of Cannon Valley road five miles east of Cannon Falh, and passengers were laid up there for the night. Croia on rolling land near abasha are ladly washtal out, aud bridges and railroad tracts sullered. At Bismarck over one inch or water fell, and other riacea report heavy rain and wind. '1 wo faUlltle-s by lightning stroke aru reported from near Jancsviilc, Minn. A I1ALL1TOOM IN LAMES. London, Joe 4. During the progress or a ball at OrusLadt, Germany, Ger-many, last night, 1 1 haiid her containing con-taining a numlier or Lanqs, filled with isrtroleuni tell to thu floor in the midst or the crowd of dancers. Thclampstxploded aud a terrible seine of panic followed. Two women weru burned to deaUt aud thirteen others are In a critical condition. con-dition. AWFOL TlIUNDEKSTORU. Canton, Ohio, J jne 4. A terrific ter-rific .thunder storm parsed over this city today, doing much damage. Mrs. Mcunin, iter young daughter and Miss Francis Ilunbart were severely se-verely shocked by lightning, and a farmer named Ilandolpli, at Palmyra, Pal-myra, killed. Martini HrWores senfrnrM4 PAIuS, June I Marquis DeMores was seutenceil to two months' imprisonment im-prisonment for trying to Incite the people against the government at thu time or the May Day demonstration. demon-stration. Anarchist Vallee was sentenced to one month for the same o (Tense. THE DONE LAW. The Gerrann-Lntheran Enter n Mronc: Protest Acalust It. Milwaukee, June 4. Tlie German-Lutheran anti-Bennett com pulsory school law convention uday iiassed resolutions protesting against tlie Bennett law, because it unnecessarily un-necessarily and unjustly curtails civil and religious UU rly ; offers the School Board an opinrtunlty of determining de-termining arbitrarily that a child during the period of enforced attendance at-tendance must attend school in tlie ilty, town or district in which It resides, thus depriving the parents or tbu light to send their children to better aud more suitable schools outside out-side or tho district; compels parochial paroch-ial and other private schools to observe the time or times or attendance; at-tendance; fixes School Boards without with-out regard to rights aud customs or churches or their schools; prescribes certain studies also as the medium of Instruction tlierein;aUbrds School Boards ami Ieoiportunity to usurp lowers not given them, although the btatuatul its officers havcTno right to inttrftru with thu management of paiocliLal nud other j rivate schools. THb I.ErJLcTIONS IECLAUE that, regardless of fornur jarty affiliations, tbu Germ iii-i.uthtrans shall vote for suilt candidates only as ledge themselves to w ork for thu repeal of thu Benin tt law. Thu following resolution, offered by I'rofessor Kmc-l, was also adoi l-eai. l-eai. Hauliul, That tills convention detply regrets that the present Governor, Gov-ernor, W I). Hoard, has, according to nports iu thu organ of his own nartv. which have not vet been de nied, openly asserted iu a tiublic meitihgthatpastors and congregations congrega-tions have conspired to keep thu minds of the youth in darkness; the pastors also being charged with entering en-tering into suth conspiracy for tho sake of mammon. hosoever has any knowledge or the conduit or our chun hes is awaru or the fact that the clergy, as well as tho laymen, lay-men, havu made every effort to oiler all possible educational facilities to our youth, and thee untrue and extremely ofienslve assertions by Mr. Hoard need not bo refuted. KEsjOI.V ED, That we repel with Indignation the assertion madu npeatedly by the Milwaukee Sentinel, edited by-Mr. by-Mr. Horace ltublee, that the move-intut move-intut against the Bennett Law was instigated aud tncoumged by the iiastorx, who liad misled tl e members mem-bers of their congregation, although It Is known to every one that tho movement is particularly ono or the heads or families and or thu people. We reganl such in-inuatlons as an Insult to the lay members, who aru thereby re; rt-tnted as men without coiivitiluns and judgment, blindly following tho leadership or their clergymen. Wu 1 rand such Insinuations In-sinuations as conttmptible falsehoods false-hoods and hope that our Anglo-American Anglo-American fellow citizens will not pcrmlt themselves to bu inlluenced -uMA-lrfdUtlflr- charges. in trus. The Kriibllean (representatives at Washington U'c Is Intel's tons-prouilsr. tons-prouilsr. WAsiiiNirroN, June 4 The re-pullieati re-pullieati repn"stiitatlves went ''ito caucus iinmeillatcly upon adjourn ment of theilou-e till- afternoon, to consldertliesllverquettion. It had been nnnciinccil in advance- by thu leadtrs that the real purpose was a confertiice, rather than a forma! caucus It was suggested that there was no definite proposition before the caucus, so Representative Buchanan Bu-chanan submitted a motion that tlie caucus bill xiitstooe", bere-eiKlorscIj Much talk followed nil J developed a diversity of views llcprcscntallvu Walker submitted a proi'isltion, which In cflVct pre-juscdn, pre-juscdn, nfenncuorthebill baik to the-former caucus committee, with instruitions to report a bill which will pLace gold and silvir on a parity pari-ty by allowing thu issue of certificates certi-ficates to an unlimited txtmt on deposits of either metal at the mn rkt lvalue. Ittpresmtatlvo Dorty, or Nebraska, Ne-braska, submitted a substitute for thu caucus bill, thu draft of a bill which he proposed to introduce in tlie House, it provides that any holder of American silver may deposit de-posit it In the Treasury ani ltl-Cl.I E FULL LLUAL TLM1ER certificates on a basis of the market pi Ice of silver; that sufficlttit bullion bul-lion be coined to meet the needs or redemi tijn, and that the National Bank note redemption fund shall be covered Into thu treasury'. Ilepresentatlvel'crklns denounced the niono-mttalists in a vigorous stiecch aud noted his ol jections to tlie bullion redemption natureof Uio caucus bill. Finally, McKInley c-inie to tho trout with a compromise proposition, as follows y.'esofircf.Thatlt is thesenseof this caucus that tlie Coug-r bill as modified mod-ified by thespccial committee-should iwet thu House with the following amendmtiits Pir-t That the-amount or silvir bulliiu to be purchased monthly shall lie four and onc-lialf million ordollirs' wortii. Staaind That tlie bullion redemption re-demption feature oftheblllshould be stricken out. Third That tho Treasury notes should lu legal tenders for private ns well as public debts. Fourth That said notes should lie redeemable I n coin. Fifth That the funds held for the redcmttioii or National bank notes should bu covered into the Treasury. bixth Free coinage, when the ratloofsilverislGto 1. The second proposition, Was voted down, and tbu other five were adopted. When the caucus adjourned there was a good deal of confusion In the minds of the members ns to whether ornotthty wtru bound to support the caucus preposition. Thu committee on nil jt will dt-cldu dt-cldu when the bill will Its brought up in the House. (.enerat (Ionian Help CltlCAUO, June 4 The services or General G. K. Gunioa w ere accepted ac-cepted today by the Works's F ilr Kxecullve Committee iu the matter o( organizing the cattlemen throughout through-out tho country, with i view to securing se-curing a great txlnbit in the "department "de-partment or animal industry." General Gordon was recommended by Secretary J tusk and many others. (lentil nrilush Jlrllrrmnll. Nivv Youir, June 4 Hugh Fnr-rar Fnr-rar McDcrmott, journalist, editor, poet and pioneer, known In the east and west, died tonight. salnst aeeret Sorlellrs. Nrvv York, June 4 At a meet-lug meet-lug or the reformed Presbyterian Synod today, the report or LLo committee com-mittee on secret societies cau-ed some excitement ani considerable I discussion. Among others, Itev. I Dr. Johnson, of Oakland, CaL, I .arraigned the Masonic- order severe-1 ly Altera long debate a commit-1 tee was appointed to draft a set or resolutions Indicative or tho sense or the synod. Jfero Conference. Mohawk, N. Y., Juno 4 Hie negro conference opened hero this morning with a laige number or distinguished mm from all parts of the country present. Tho gathering Is the first of its kind and was called to consider the question or Christianizing Chris-tianizing and educating the colored people. Ilx-Prcsldent It. B.Hayes was elected president. The topic for the morning was "Industrial Education; what it is and what it ought to be." Gemral Hayes said the American people had a grave, indispensable duty toierform with resiiect to the mllilonsof meiiand women among the countrymen whose nncetors our fathers brought from Africa to Iw held In houdage herein America, It may lie justly said, iu tiio deepest sensu of tlie ,w onl, that we are Indeed In-deed keeptrs or "our brothers In blaik." Kducation and religion usiug thtsu words In tho broadest sense ir faithfully, wisely and persistently per-sistently brought iiome to these leoplt, would be found In good time amply adequate to lift thu African up to Ihe full stature of Amtrlcan manhood. Upon the Constitution and laws of die nation and States, and uponi their administration, the welfare of the negroes, llku that o. their fellow citizens, largely depends. |