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See | NEATH AND RUIN IN STORM. 1 a shorter} One of the boy's legs was! another son were ¢ distance. Yen Persons Killed by a Mad torn off at the knee 1 found a! Yornado in Kansas. iqmarter of a mile from his body. Six Members of One Family Fall Vic-! Wind—A Small tion Near Williamstown Swept Ovyer—The tims of the Sec- Storm Visits Missouri Also. Perryville, Kan, June 22 —Ten} persons were dashed to death, seven} more badly injured, thirty farm) houses destroyed and other damage! done by a terrific tornado near Wil-} liamstown just night. The storm developed at 6:30 o'clock last night 3 miles southwest of Wil liamstown, a village near here, swept rapidly to the northeast over a path about four miles long and from 200 to 500 feet wide and then disappear | ed. Only one farm house in the path of the storm was left. poultry, colts and other farm ani- mals were killed, fences destroyed and the bark even blown off fruit trees. The storm passed through a cem- etery about a mile north of Williams- town and blew down many tomb stones and even carried one out into the prairie three quarters of a mile away. Every member of tne Kincaid fam ily, father, mother and four children was killed. The body of Mrs. Kin caid was found ina cemetery where it had fallen after it had been carried a half mile by the storm. All of the twelve bodies of the dead were recovered before 2 o'clock last night excepting that of the in- fant child of Mr. aud Mrs. Kincaid, which was picked up on the prairie Calves, hogs, by Dr. Levi Horner of Lawrence, | The bodies of the dead were badly mangled. One leg had been torn from the body of Mrs. John Hutchinson. As soon as tne report of the disas- ter reached here Drs. E. D. S. Phil ips, Levi Horner, F. D. Morse and W. 5S. Bunn went to the se ne of the disaster and rendered valuable assistance to the injured. THE WORK OF this morning. RUIN COMPLETE. The storm came from the west and | first struck, this side of Perryville, the handsome home of Wm. Gophert and totally destroyed it Mr.G was badly bruised and Walter Mc Cracken was carried several yards, but not seriously hurt. Two chil dren were badly injured and will not recover. One leg of the boy was broken in several places. Joseph Baker’s house was next destroyed and Mr. Baker carried 100 yards and badly hurt. His wife and two boys were in the cellar. Near the village of Williamstown, Mrs. Lansdown’s house was wrecked. Isaac Knapp’s house was destroyed but the family of six escaped. Zeeke Michael's house was destroyed but none of the family were injured. East of the village the storm was more furious, skirting along in a narrow path and following the hills. The few farm houses in its path were wiped from the earth, nothing but the foundation being left to show that they ever existed. Their timbers and contents were twisted and broken into small bits and ear- ried far away, the roads and fields} for miles being filled with the debris. | Trees were uprooted and those left! standing were stripped of leaves and in many cases bark, and stand guant and bare as in winter. Zack Evans" house, a stone struc-| ture, was demolished. Evans escap-| ed tothe cellar but his wife was| fatally injured. The dead bodies of | his son and a hired man were found | 400 yards away. ‘The house of Horace Graves was destroyed, Mr. and Mrs. Graves be- ing carried forty feet and landed in a ditch with only slight injuries. | John Evans and wife escaped to a cyclone cellar, but their house was wrecked. THE KINCAID HOUSE OF DEATH. Anether house on the same farm was occupied by Samuel Kincaid and family. All were killed except a little child anda hired man. When the storm came he picked up the baby and in a second was stunned. He came to consciousness in a field fifty yards distant. The child was} Speaker, Catawba, O., had five large | still in his arms and neither was se-| fever sores on his leg, doctors said riously hurt. Kincaid’s body with that of his son, Ernest, was found 100 yards away. |formalities were observed. | fires in the timber will continue until Mrs. Kincaid and/ly. Sold by H L Tucker, druggist. The bodies of tl ral Will and Sadie, mile from the ho At the ak track of the the Hutcl a f n close together. Ol L | Mrs. Hutchinson with a son Robert, | three “s 1 three little} grandch ed into the cel-| lar just as the house was torn from } its foundation and sesattered in| | Auother son, John Hutchinson, lived in the next house He and a hired | jman, Wm. Stewart, were at the barn aud Stewart was carried 100 yards and killed straight up into the air, he says, 500 feet and came down within 20 feet} Hutchinson was carried | jof where, he was standing. Mrs Sadie Hutchinson was in the house Tier cked up 200 yards jwhich was demolished wane} gled body was jaway, one leg§ being torn from the| body and lodged ina tree near the house. The clothing of all the vic- tims was torn from their bodies. Enrolling Intruders. Fort Gibson, I. T., June George W. M. Danigle, prosecuting | attorney of Illinois county, this na tion, purpose of enrolling the intruders ot 22.—| arrived here today for the He now has} a list of 1,500 who are to be ejected | from the nation under terms of the | late action of congress buying the Cherokee strip. When the work of enrollmg is completed this county will furnish at least 2,000 persons who will all come under provisions | of this law. Fort Gibson precinct. | There are eight cther counties in| the nation each of which will ae rage as many intruders as Iinois county As scon as a correct list of each county is reported to Chief Harris the work of throwing them out will commence. The improvements of every intruder will be appraised and |value is placed upon improvements | by the board of appraisers recently appoiuted by President Cleveland. | Presented to the Queen London June 22.—Hon. Thos. F Bayrvd, the first American ambassa dor to Great Britian, proceded te day from London to Windsor eastle, | where he presented his credentials 0 the queen. with | the custom in such cases the ambas | sadot’s state carriage was furnished | by the British government to con | vey Mr. Bayard trom the hotel to| the railway station. Upon the arri-| val at the station he was received by| General Sir Christopher Teasdale, | master of ceremonies. Bayard was conducted to a special railway earri- age in waiting for him, which con- veyed him to Windsor. In accordance A special carriage awaited his coming at Wind- sor station and Bayard, who was ac- companied by Mrs. Bayard, was! driven to the castle where the usual Destructive Fires. Duluth, Minn., June 20.—Reports from the Messaba, Iron Range. fires | indicate a greater loss than was esti- | mated yesterday. At Virginia and| vicinity the loss foot up a million and half dollars. The loss to stand- ing timber can not be estimated and there is rain. From present indices | tions it will amount to at least a million dollars. It is believed that | several mining camps in the vicinity | of Virginia have been destroyed and alarge amount of machinery and other valuable property have been | lost. | Specimer cases. S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis., was troubled with neuralgia andj rheumatism, his stomach was disor- | dered, his liver was affected to an jalarming degree, appetite fell away, jaad he was terribly reduced in flesh Three bottles of jand strength. | Electric Bitters cured him. | |_ Edward Shepherd; Harrisburg, | | Ill, had a running sore on his leg} | of eight years’ standing. Used three | bottles of Electric Bitters and seven jbottles of Bucklen’s Arnica salve, | and his leg is sound and well. John he was incurable. One bottle of Electric Bitters and one box Buck- len’s Arnica salve cured him entire- | moans and groans |Springer, who will be deposed as | sold to the highest bidder, but the} nation will be liable for whateyer ; jof the lowest | clined to say anything about }drew Wasson, United States collec- | to the official hopper as the result | of reports made to Secretary Carlisle | extensive and successful conspiracies WILSUN MAY NOT GET IT. Indications ‘That Me the Ways and & mittee nD Co dt Po It is no longer conced- to b reason to suppose that Mc) ed and there begins strong Ww son is nota fighter. He is a think Tennessee will get the place. pieces. None of the family was burt. | but his voice is soft and his manners | Joyment aud methods too conciliatory to rule | and lead so turbulent a body as the! House. As time shps by the fact | begius to crowd not only on Demo |} cartic Representatives generally, but | on Cleveland. Asa matter of fact, by age and precedent, MeMillin | should be given the lead instead of | Wilson. MeMillian comes next to} Springer on the list. while Wilson | isfourth. Turner of Georgia is be- fore Wilson and has always raised a row at Wilson being jumped over his head. Still if Wilson bad an ideal man for the place Turner's would not have been | been heeded. But he wasn't, and of late days} Cleveland has been very busy con-| sulting with McMillian hours at a time on the subject of tariffand it is pretty good proof that a more than half determination has been arrived | at to give him the place. McMillan | is along way from a great leader, | but he is animprovement on Wilson: MeMi Jlian expects to be of the ways and tee aud also retain his place on ru'es chairman comit- the Tius would be a grea! combination if he can make it. means -o"nnittee. the lead of the ways and means} committee, will be given the chair manship of some committee like the} foreign affairs. MeMillin gave an interview to a Southern paper last night He emphasized the fact that | no one will run against Crisp for the rship | will take the Speakership | nt contest,” said MeMillin. | Then he said he favored the of the bounty on sugar; was in favor tariff bill; wanted torepeal the tax on State bank | circulation; was nst the Sher- with repeal possible RY | of lead output Missouri is without a | All About Missouri. | Treasury Lon V. Stephens the bankers the before rs esources a mudeveloped. yiof W ertile. EXX-S; oy Reed chairman of the ways and means | S8¥8 ¢ if had it committee. back east they would se t by the We offer special in- peck for seed ducements to the proper sort of em ligrants. We will come down to the -|gates and welcome them to the en-| of o boundless edvan- ur tages. Missouri contaius 40,556,355 ac Its area is 68,735 square mies of land and 670 square miles of water. | Five hundrend and sixty miles of the state borders on the Mississippi | It borders and one territory. on seven states It bas 114 coun-| ties besides the city of St. Louis. | Forty five ¢ ties are north of the Missouri the Mississippi river and 24 on the| Missouri river. Every county north of the Missouri has one or more rail river. Sixteen border on | south of Move than twenty of the cities have as many as 4,000 inhabitants. S79, 174, Fifteen counties the river have no railroads roads. Its pop- which St. vote cast of The ulation is iT Louis has 455,000. at the last presidential election was | | | 541,583. It has 6,763) miles of rail road. These are owned by 36 dif-} ferent companies and employ 30, 000 men. Iam told that it con- tains in its mines bituminous coal enough to supply the world’s de mands fora thousand years. Most mines lie south of the Tron tains a pure mass of iron 200 feet | high and 200 ground. In cereals, corn and whea of the iron Missouti river. county con covering acres are most abundantly produced. The aunual lead product of the state is 30,000,000 pounds. In the amount rivaliu the world Two thirds of the zine that is mined in the United States is mined in the state of Mis wouri. Missouri has @ jarger school fund than any other state 311,551,147 33. Her ed valu ation for 1893 is about § 000,000 The rates of taxation for state pur- poses is but 25 cents on the S100 It amounts to man law without conditions, and de- | | He said he would talk} about it latter. an come tax. GROSS FRAUDS U) JARTHED. | | United States Oficials Invelyed in! requires us to. take in 0,000 of Dark Dogs. jour debt annually. It is estimated Washington, June 20.—The offi-|tiat in less than twelve ars the cial heads of Patrick H. Winston, United States attorney: Thomas I. | Brown, United States marshal; An-| | 5 the support of the state government. | bears 6 per cent valuation, of which 10 cents vis for interest and bonded debt, 5 cents for publie schools and 10 cents. for The bonded debt of the siate is but 36,644,000, which — $5,300,000 bears 34 per cent. and $1,344,000 The constitution of entire debt will be obliterated. With such resources as Missouri | possesses I think I can safely say | that banking in Missouri, notwith | tor at Port Townsend; C. J. Mul-| standing its rapid strides to the key, United States special agent, | front in the past,islyet in its infancy. | and six special inspectors in the! The future is full of promise for the) Puget Sound district; a!! in the state of Washington, have falen fine by Special Treasury Agents Wood and Lewis: These are numerous and cireumstantial as to details and tell the story of one of the most ex- | ever formed to smuggle Chinese and | opium to the United States across | the far Northwestern boundary. There has been hardly a day for the past two months that reports have not been received at the Trea-! sury {department from Wood and} Lewis and on these reports officials | ofthe Treasury department have! been summarily dismissed. The first dismissals of customs inspec- tors were made Saturday but Secre- tary Carlisle thinks the ends of jus-| tice may be defeated by making public their names. They, it charged by the reports received, had | been doing a wholesale business in| connection with private parties in| Victoria, B. C., in smuggling in} Chinese by means of fraudulent cer- | tificates, and in permitting opium} smuggling either by connivance or| otherwise. | Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, j The Best Salve inthe world for Cuts Bruises,Sores, Ulcers,SaltRheum Fever! Sores, Tetter,Chapped Hands, Chiblains | Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi- tively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction | or money refunded. Price 25 cts per box For sale by H, L. Tucker, druggist. | Ford's j Was buried | 14 28 | It'penetrates to the seat of the disease. i It will cure you. bankers of the state. Concerning Friday. N.Y. San Lincolu was shot on Friday in! by John Wilkes | Ford's theater fell down on theater Booth. Friday, injuring or killing nearly a hundred people, aud Edwin Booth Friday. Neverthe- on less, Columbus discovered America} ; on Friday and Grover Cleveland was | rated — president Fri. | day, 1893.—Brookly Eagle. | The true rule about Friday luck} is this: In the loug run a little over per cent of all the misfortunes that befall individuals or communi ties oceur on that day; and likewise} inaug ou 32 i \\\ and BUY A CAKE OF CLAIRETTE your attention to if” SOAP thank me for calling MANUFACTURED ONLY BY _N.KFAIRBANK & Co.sr.tours. A. O Welton Fancy Groceres, Feed and Provisions of all Kinds. NUEE NSWARF AND GLASSWARE CICARS AND TOBACCO, Always pay the highest market price for County Produces East Side Square. Butler, Mo- THE BOSS SADDLE, Fink's Leather Tree Saddle Solid For the money WILL— Give Satisfaction IN EVERY RESPECT. Better than any other Saddle Made ona Sole Leaiher Tree No danger of Tree breaking Also a full linefof STEEL FORK “COW BOY” SADDLES All styles and prices. Double Wagon harness from $10 to $29. Buggy Second hand harness from $3.00 to $15. Full line of Turf Goods for fast horses. Come and see us, VieFarland Bro ; T an ornamen' Like a fable, but to tell it one mui 1m ever notice! the advertisement Company, which starts out as foilews; 45 sold in '88 288 sold in '89 : 6,268 sold in’90 os ce at | 20,049 sold in'’91 a little over 14.28 per cent of all the | #2 good things of life belong to that day of the week. Newport, R. L., June 20.—Justice Blatebford of the United States su-| preme court is much weaker to-day. His family have almost given up all hope and itis thought he cannot live until the end of the week. Ballard’s Snow Liniment. 1 | ‘This invaluable remedy is one tha ought to be in every household. It w cure ur Rheumatism, N uralgia, sprains, cuts, bruises, burns, frosted teet and ears, :ore throat and sore chest. It you have a lame back it will cure it. It will cure stiff joints, aud contracted muscles after all other remedies have tailed. Those who have been crippled for years have used Ballard Snow Lini- ment and thrown away their crutches and been ableto walk as well as ever. Price soc. Sold by H LTucker drragist. they Lterally nm such great qui thes that a small profit HE DICTIONARY HOLDER BL MILER, MO. ‘ ( { C.B. LEWIS & C 6) Proprietor of Elk Horn Stables the same a number ot °B €s, and horses, I can say public that I now have the Best Livery Barn {In southwest Mo. 1e Horses :and mules | boug tandsold, or stock handled on | commission Stock bearded by the day |weekor month, With 16 years exper- lience Mr Lewis teels able’ to compete with any Livery barn in this section, | Call ard see him <#B,LEWIS & CO

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