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I. H. JULIA Editor.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY.
TUB RICHMOND CYCLONE.
A Local Paper! Aeoount of the Disaster.
The following particulars regarding
the recent terrible disaster at Richmond
Ray County Mo. is from an extra edi-
tion of the Conservator of that eity :
A cyclone struck our city yesterday
at 4 :05 p. m. and in the short space of
five minutes totally destroyed one-third
of the place its path being nearly three
squares wide and extending for over a
mile in the city limits. It originated on
the farm of Wm. II. Fitch Si miles
south of the city and prostrated fenoes
and crops in its path and injured the
premises of John C. Laforge where it
lifted and struck again at Col. Warren-
staff's destroying his stable fences
etc. ; then lifted again passing over the
residences of Capt. J. L. Farris and
James Hughes and struck with full
force the residence of William Jackson
and then continued with unabated fury
LEVELING EVERT THING IN ITS PATH.
We noticed its approach from our
office balcony our attention being at-
tracted by its peculiar shape that of a
funnel the small end down the color of
steam. At times it would break emit-
ting volumes of what appeared to be
black smoke then gather together again
and assume its funnel-like proportions
the wind all the while being attracted
toward it. It came on slowly Hot
much faster than a man could walk
destroying 'every thing by its infernal
whirl producing a sound like the roar
of Niagara creating a panic and many
sought shelter in cellars and rushed out
into their yards and gardens. Where it
struck with its most terrific force it
peeled off the bark of trees leveled the
grass and shrubbery as if it had been
rolled by a large roller or been swept
by a torrent. Trees and outhouses were
carried bodily away and the debris of
the city fell miles from the city.
TAE FIRST VICTIMS.
George Hughes and C. J.Hughes
Jr. and their families were on their
way to Camden when the cyclone
struck them and aompletely destroyed
their vehicle ; their trunks were instant-
ly carried out of sight and George
Hughes swept over a hundred yards
and thrown under a tree. C. J. Hughes
Jr. had his .leg broken and bis wife
and child caught under one of the
mules but escaped with a number of
severe bruises ; Miss Mary Hughes had
her collar-bone broken and Miss Belle
Hughes was severely injured.
Those in the city were not so for-
tunate as many were struck down by
the flying debris and caught by the fall-
ing buildings killing many outright
and maiming others' so severely that a
number died and others are now linger-
ing on the verge of eternity. No city
was ever more totally wrecked or sus-
tained a more fearful loss; filling our
dwellings with injured and homeless
people and causing much physical and
mental suffering. Physicians were tel-
egraphed for and Lexington sentDrs.
J. B. Alexander P. S. Fulkerson L.
Watson C. Watson W. A. Gordon J.
G. Russell T. S. Smith and J. F. At-
kinson who proceeded at once to assist
our city physicians with their skill.
Drs. Gordon Palmer and others came
from Vibbard and Lawson accom-
panied by a number of citizens and all
went to work to aid and assist. For a
time
A PERFECT PANIC PREVAILED
but soon all turned out and assisted in
removing the killed and wounded which
was done amidst the waitings of women
and children the groans of the dying;
strong men shed tears to witness the de-
struction of their houses and the death
and maiming of their relatives and
friends. At first the most exaggerated
rumors prevailed but after a time or-
der prevailed and as it was found that
many were buried beneath the falling
walls willing hands went to work and
several bodies were found.
So great was the power of the wind
that James Duncan was
BLOWN OVER THREE HOUSES
and instantly killed. Miss Couch who
had just came into the city on a visit
stopping at the residence of William
Marshall was badly torn and instantly
killed. Mr. Donaldson was on his way
home when he was struck down within
a few yards of his gate and had his
skull mashed in and received internal
injuries. About the worst wreck was
the residence of the Messrs. Burgess
the whole family six in number being
badly injured and several of them are
now lying in a critical condition. Old
Mrs. Joy mother of Fred Joy was kill-
ed instantly and Fred had both legs
broken and his wife received severe in-
juries. Mr. Casey was also killed in-
stantly and Mrs. Mary Sheets badly in-
jured. The residence of Thomas Mo
Ginnis was entirely destroyed
and caught the whole family in the
ruins all of whom were injured exeept
his daughter Annie who succeeded in
saving them from the ruins his wife be-
ing badly hurt and it Is feared that one
of his children's skull is fractured. Two
of Robt. Asbury's children were caught
by the falling walls of his shop and
Charlie has his skull fractured and the
other a thigh brokon. Mr. A. made a
narrow escape and had his foot mashed
the walls and timber completely cover-
ing him up. We have space for but few
of the leading particulars. Mr. Alvin
Childs was
BLOWN A HUNDRED TARDS
and was picked up dying. Miss Mattie
Holman was killed by a falling beam.
Our city is in mourning at least seventy-five
buildings are totally destroyed
and a large number badly injured.
Help must be had or many of our people
will suiter. Mayor Watson telegraphed
for bread but we will need ice and pro-
visions. The citizens who were so for-
tunate as not to have their houses de-
stroyed threw them open to the suffer-
ing and the Court-house was converted
into a temporary hospital. ;
NARROW ESCAPES
were innumerable and how the poople
in the Shaw House escaped is mirac-
ulous. The residence of Mr. Wasson si
also a temporary hospital he having
there Mr. and Mrs. George Warren
Miss Florence Word supposed to be!
mortally injured Mrs. Word and three
children and two of Mrs. Childs's chil-
dren. At Judge C. J. Hughes's there
are Miss Emma Shackelford Mrs. Perry
Jacobs and child Miss Belle Hughes
Miss Pauline Shackelford (dead) and a
servant. At Thos. Woodson's there are
a number and in fact nearly every
house has one or more injured in it to
care for. At the Court-house there are
three colored persons who are bound to
die. The remains of Capt. Wm. M.
Jacobs have just been found beneath the
ruins of the Shaw House. The phy-
sicians and most of our citizens have not
closed their eyes in sleep since the ter-
rible catastrophe. During the night
Capt. Farris organized a police foree to
protect property and now some system
has been established and order pro-
duced out of chaos.
A Young Man Who Is Bound to
Succeed.
At the commencement of the present
term of the Medical College says the
Keokuk (Iowa) Constitution a young
student from the West started for Keo-
kuk to attend. Arriving at Albia he
found his means would not be sufficient
and he footed it the rest of the way to
this city. He paid in full for his tuition
and then had just $7 left. Three of
these were laid out for a quarter's rent
for a room in which was nothing but
his books. No bucket no stove no
furniture no bed not even a blanket
and only $4 to live on. In a month or
so he procured a blanket and consid-
ered himself fortunate. His money was
laid out in corn-meal and twice a week
he would go down by the pork-houses
and make up a lot of corn-bread bake
it and bring it to his room and.on corn-
bread alone he has been subsisting dur-
ing the entire term. He has worked
and earned $5 since he has been here
and on this and the seven he had left
after paying his college fees $12 in all
he has subsisted. During all this time
no one has known how he subsisted and
the only remarkable thing that has been
noticed about him is that he is one of
the brightest students in the class and
bids fair to graduate with the highest
honors. His condition would not have
been found out had it not been that a
gentleman rented a room in the same
building in which the student's wa lo-
cated andby making his acquaintance
ascertained how he had been living.
The student is a bright frank fearless
fellow who asks no favors has paid in
advance for every thing that he has got
is not afraid of difficulties and if he
proves not a bright and shining light in
his profession if he is not heard from
as an eminent physician and surgeon
ere many years roll around we lose our
guess.
The Lake Victoria Nyanza Mission
the members of which have been mur-
dered was sent out by the American
Church Missionary Society. The ex-
plorers landed on an bland in Lake
Victoria Nyanza where the people were
known to be friendly. But a gang of
natives belonging to a tribe against
whom Stanley had conducted an expe-
dition attacked and brutally murdered
them. The missionaries had resolved
to make any sacrifice of time and dis-
tance rather than shed a drop of blood.
The Roman Catholics will make an ef-
fort to establish missions at Lakes Vie-
toria and Teganyika.
Pan-situ kept to eooMesjee; ' Dr.
BoTTi B7 Frrop mtm promised relief l t I
diseases of cfcUiboid without at ooce tZatr
tnr tt- Bene the poj-alar reUaaca npoa Is. i
Fnce 23 d. a Utiie. 1
HERB AND THERE.
'
Prop. H. R. Palmer returned to New
York May 28 from bis European tour.
It is thought in Ireland that Lord
Leitrim was murdered by men from
America whose families had been ex-
patriated. Mrs. A. T. Stewart owns a solitaire
diamond worth f 35000 whieb is said
to be the largest in the United States.
The bark Azor which sailed recently
for Liberia took as a part of her cargo
two entire Christian churches oae Bap-
tist and one Methodist.
The usual pay of a Sepoy is about
14 shillings per month out of which he
has to buy his own food. When on ao-
tlve service his pay is about double.
The mina is a small green parrot
very common in Lndia and a great
many of them are taught to say the
first verse of the Mohammedan prayer
r creed. ""
Queen Victoria's new saloon rail-
way car Is one of the most beautiful of
its kind ever built; as may Well be im-
agined from the fact that its construc-
tion and fittings oost over f 30000.
Raise that pot and I'll raise yon"
said Johnson to Bush in the midst of a
poker game in Eureka Cal. drawing a
revolver : Bush did not heed the warn-
ing and was shot through the head.
The St. Louis law firm of Thomas ft
Thomas U composed -of twin brothers
so nearly alike that attorneys and the
Judge are puzzled to tell which; one it
is that is conducting a case.. . ;
A writer in Dr. .Foote's Health
Monthly says: I once knew an old gen-
tleman who nsed to enforce his plea for
good living by saying : should be
ashamed to show myself in Heaven and
be obliged to confess to the good God
that while He had filled the earth with
delicious foods I had been too lazy too
stingy or too: careless to enjoy His
bounty. How .can I expect to be in-
vited to partake of His good things in
the life to come if I neglect to make use
f those with which He has surrounded
me here." ; "
Thurlow Weed who knew the late
Prof. Henry when he was an appren-
tice to a silversmith in Albany says that
young Henry then showed such talent
as an amateur actor that he was offered
an engagement in a professional troupe.'
Henry thought favorably of the offer
but Dr. T. Romeyn Beck Principal of
the Albany Academy offered him a
gratuitous academio course and he
gave np the opportunity to go upon the
stage. . '"
Pedestrianism has become fashion-
able in San Francisco among both men
and women. Walking clubs are numer-
ous. The members meet on an appoint-
ed day in t suburb and start off on trips
of from 'we to fifty miles but the
" roughii g it" is generally more in fan-
cy than a fact for oarriages are taken
along f cr the tired ones to ride in. Dio
Lewis's party of 60 tourists has returned
demotalized. They intended to journey
and camp in the mountains for three
months but the Doctor fell sick at the
outset and two weeks of outdoor life
was enough for the rest. . . . . : .
Avert successful swindle is being
practiced upon the farmers of Indiana
by parties claiming to be agents for a
barb wire-fence. . One agent makes a
farmer a present of 40 rods or more
having him sign an agreement to put it
up in a conspicuous place for exhibition.
Another agent follows in his wake with
a bill for the wire and has the farmer's
order for the wire at an exorbitant
figure. They nearly always succeed in
fleecing their victims out of $25 to $60
on a compromise taking back the wire.
Texas contains an estimated popula-
tion of 2000000. It receives an annual
increase by immigration alone of 250-
000. There are produced in the State
annually about 700000 bales of cotton.
The value of this crop is $30000000.
The annual export of cotton is esti-
mated at $10000000 in value of wool
at $1500000 of hides at $1800000
of beef in barrels and cans at $2000-
000 and other productions besides
wheat at $3000000. The present wheat
crop will bring between six and seven
million dollars.
The terrible sufferings of a Tenth
Cavalry company on the Staked Plain
of Texas through thirst are described
by Surgeon King. They were four
days without water and the weather
was intensely hot. Their predicament
was caused by the death of their guide
leaving them to wander by themselves
until a spring was finally found. Their
mouths became so dry that brown sug-
ar would not melt in them. Their
voioea grew weak and strange and their
sight dim and when asleep they dream-
ed of banqueting. A sense of suffoca-
tion was extremely painful. They
drank water greedily but it did not
quench their thirst which shows the
surgeon thinks that the sense of thirst
t resides not in the stomach but in the
! general system and in this case could
not be relieved nntil the remote tissues
i were supplied.
Dody-SnatchingV
The event at Cincinnati recorded ia
our columns on Friday will send a thrill
of horror through the whole commu-
nity. A sensation novelist oould scarcely
invent a more ghastly lncidont than that
of a son discovering the corpse of his
father in a dissecting-room. No crimes
committed in the United Kingdom ever
excited a deeper horror than those of
the resurrectionists Burke and Hare 60
years ago. Burke was an Irish shoe-
maker who settled at Edinburgh when
the reputation of the medical -sohool
there stood exceedingly high and at-
tracted a crowd of students from all
parts of the Kingdom. Their number
thus became largely in exoessof the
"subjects" they demanded and gave
a stimulus to body-snatching. This
was found by Burke more lucrative and
attractive than the bench and awl
and having associated with himself one
Hare these two set to work " to sup-
ply a want" with much success. Soon
however the publlo grew alarmed furi-
ous threats of vengeance were leveled
against the Rnatchers and it became
evident that the business could bo no
longer safely carried on. Indeed pub-
llo feeling ran so high that even the
students inourred odium and it has
been said 1 that ' the late great
surgeon Sir 1 James Ferguson left
Scotland for England to escape
annoyance. Messrs. Burke and Hare
therefore turned about for fresh fields
and resolved to go to work in a differ-
ent manner. ; They Inveigled weak per-
sons or children to their abodes and
quietly smothered them. Two or three
years ago a doteotive in the North of
England cleverly discovered a murder
by putting his sagacious terrier on the
track and Burke and Hare were brought
to Justice by mearif of a yet. smaller ani-
mal. It was suspected that one of their
victims was a little Italian vagrant who
earned pennies by exhibiting white mice.
The detective set a trap in the murder-
er's den and sure enough a white mouse
was caught and served to complete the
chain of evidence. . Burke's body ac-
cordingly went like those of his vic-
tims in aid of anatomical science but
Hare having turned King's evidence
escaped; and in connection with him
may be mentioned a curious circum-
stance. About ten years ago an old
man was brought before a London Po-
lice Magistrate on some minor charge
when the Jailer said; "I have reason
to believe your Worship that this man
Is Hare Burke's confederate."
We regret to say that this horrid af-
fair at Cincinnati Is not the first of its
kind here by any means. So lately as
1873 there was a very similar case at
Philadelphia. : A wealthy farmer nam-
ed Munce having been found drowned
was taken to the Morgue. At the in-
quest there was no evidence as to the
name of the deceased. On the family
coining to town to institute inquiries
they found Mr. Munce's watch at a
pawnbroker's and discovered that it
had been pledged by McEwen driver
of the Coroner's wagon. Munce was
found July 8 and McEwen brought the
body to the hospital from the Morgue
July 6 though the Deputy Coroner
stated that he held a receipt for the
body from the Superintendent of the
City Burial Ground.
The question arises whether the rules
In hospitals as to the reception of bodies
are not too lax or at all events too
laxly enforced. Of course It is to be
deplored if there is a lack of material
for student" t investigate but that is a
les se.ious evil than body-snatching
lor which the punishment can scarcely
be too severe or the precautions to pre-
vent it too stringent. New York Times.
American Cattle for Europe.
The Boston 'Commercial Bulletin
states that as early as May 11 all the
available space for the transportation
oflivecattleinthesteamshipsleavingthat
port had been engaged up to the 1st of Ju-
ly. . This included 22 steamers which
would carry 6100 head of cattle. The
contract price for freight was from
$27.60 to $30 per head the contractors
being Canadian and Chicago shippers.
The same paper states that the season
for American cattle in England will
cease about the 1st of July when the
Irish and Scotch cattle come into mar-
ket and drive the American cattle out.
The prices in Liverpool and Manches-
ter In April May and June range from
$105 to $175 per head. The English
butchers not yet favoring the purchase
of stock by live weight continue to buy
by the head. Contracts have also been
made with the steamers for the trans-
portation of live hogs and sheep opto
the 1st of July. We understand also
that the steamers leaving Baltimore
have already taken oat live cattle ship-
ped from Chicago and that the ship-
ment of live stock by that line will be-
come a permanent branch of their busi-
ness. CAicao Tribune.
The Retirement of the Emperor
of Germany.
" After having passed the span of years
allotted to man and after a term of 31
years spent as Regent and King of
Prussia and Emperor of Germany Wil-
liam I.p lying in his palace and suffer-
ing from the wounds of a cowardly a
sassln retires from the cares and du-
ties of the throne and appoints as Re-
gent his son the Crown Prince Freder-
ick William Nioholas Charles or " Un-
ser Fritz" as the Germans familiarly
call him. 'The old Emperor has had aa
eventful life. He was born March 22
1797 son of Frederick William III.
and Queen Louisa and as a boy march-
ed with the Allies into Paris after the
overthrow of Napoleon. Coming into
manhood as a soldier he has always re-
mained one never giving up his uni-
form and always sleeping under his
military blankets upon a rud e iron couoh.
When his brother Frederick Wil-
liam IV. ascended the throne
in 1840 be was recognized aa
the ' heir' apparent. His military
predilections gave rise to the Idea that
he was an absolutist and so general
was this idea that in the uprising of
1848 he had to leave the country. Af-
ter an absence of a few months he re-
turned put down the Republican insur-
rection and subsequently held several
mportant military positions. In 1857
his brbthef being incapacitated by ill
ness he assumed his functions and the
next year was formally installed as Re-
gent Buooeedingi as King of Prussia in
1861.: From that time until 1870 he ac-
complished a great work in giving Ger-
many her present military strength and
prestige; He organized the army as
his first step. : Ha made Bismarck Min-
ister of Foreign Affairs in 1862 ; secured
Schleswig and Lauenburg in the Sohles-wig-Holstein
war; in 1866 extinguished
Austria as a German Power and
added Schleswig-Holsteln Hanover
Hesse-Cassel Nassau and 1 Frank-
fort to Prussia and established
the North-German Confederation
arid in 1867 made Bismarck Chancellor.
The candidature of the Spanish throne
in 1870 precipitated war between France
and Germany. . The South German
States joined the Northern and the war
was marked by a succession of brilliant
viotories achieved . by ; the German
armies with which he remained from
the firing of the first shot to the final
surrender of Napoleon at Sedan. ' On
the 18th of January 1871 at the: mili-
tary headquarters at Versailles by the
request of the German States he was
crowned Jmperor of Germany and his
first proclamation incorporated Alsace
and. Lorraine in the Empire ijincethat
time he has cemented still stronger the
friendship of Germany with Russia
Austria and Italy and carried on a
prolonged and severe contest with the
Roman hierarchy during the Pontificate
of Pius IX. '
The Emperor has but one daughter
the Princess Louisa born in 1888 and
married in 1856 to the Grand Duke
Frederick of Baden; and one son
Prince Frederick William Nicholas
Charles in whose favor he has retired.
The Crown Prince now Regent was
born in 1831 and graduated from the
University of Konigsburg. In 1858 he
married Victoria Adelaide the Princess
Royal of Great Britain by whom he has
had six children. Like his father he is
a great soldier and has performed dis-
tinguished service in two important
wars. In 1866 as Commander-in-Chief
of the second Prussian army he
contributed largely to the decisive victo-
ry of Sadowa and in the Franco-German
. war he served as the com-
mander of the third army at the
head of the South . German
forces. He won the first victory of the
war at Weissenburg defeated MacMa-
hon at Worth and played a conspicu-
ous part in the catastrophe of Sedan and
the siege of Paris. The past has fur-
nished aclear and unquestionable record
of his military abilities. The future
must determine his measure of states-
manship; but so long as Bismarck re-
mains at the helm there will probably
be no change in the policy of the Em!
pire unless it be that its edicts and laws
will be more severely enforced. The
title of the Prince upon his accession to
the throne will probably be Frederick
William I. of Germany though he will
also be Frederick William V. of Prussia.
Chicago Tribune.
Charles Brown a handsome and
prepossessing young man of 19 who
had been looking vainly for work ia
Chicago St. Louis Cincinnati Colnm.
bus Cleveland and New York has at
last committed a burglary in the last-
mentioned eity so as to get food and
lodging. When asked why he had not
applied for admission to the asylum he
said that be had do desire to associate
with pan pen.
William M. Baker the novelist is
a Presbyterian minister of Boston.
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