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50000 COPIES Of the Greet Hr Id re Celebration Edition donated to the Adrertta-lnr end Printing Committee by the "Old Be liable i THE OFFICIil KD1TI0B I On tb Great Bridge Cr le brat ton will -be published by the Ap- -peal-Avalanche See pax- Ji -71 THE ESTABLISHED 1S40 A ALAN ESTABLISHED 1837 'MEMPHIS TENX SATURDAY APPEL 2 1892 vcm ILII-NO 5 -i SWEAR THEY WILL FIGHT A CHALLENGE TO GHOVE DIRE DESTRUCTION! I TUe Wind Itisesonlts Wrath Ulster People are Bellicose The Prospect of Speedy Home RulcS Makes Them Rage An Irish Parliament They Say Means Civil War Three Hundred Thousand Mon are Ready To Fight Liberals Ridicule the Threats of the Ulster Unionists The Radicals In the IIou3e of Commons Indulged In Numerous Jibes at the Royal Eamily When the Estimates Were Under A Cotton Crisis On In England don They came here in connection with tho suit of one Sturgis who is also here claiming $1500000 -for servies in floating a Texas company Jt is doubted whether Mr Sturgis will persist in the suit but it is known that Air Farweli will contest HEREDITARY INSANITY rr That la What Dr Comstock Says Allie Mitchell Has Depositions taken by counsel for -Alice Alitchell to prove tthLut ehe is insane are being received by the Criminal Court clerk anT itakon possession of by Alias Mitchell's lawyers as fast us tthey arrive The deposition': received are those of experts on insanity and their testimony' consists principally on export cpiuloas on a hypothetical case prepared by the defense The question embracing vjhe hypothetical case gives a fujti history of the mental troubles of Alice 'Mitchell's mdi her before her birth at tileuft time and subsequently also a description of AILss peculiarities of temperament-her masculine tastes hfr strange love for Freda AVa'rd and -the murder of that uiffortuuftte girl The question covers 13 closely type-written pages of leg il cap paper and some of the onsrprs are nearly as voluminous of the experts have gone into the question of homosexuality with grent cnird and advanced sundry learned and scientific theories in regard to It bit abnormal condition Among fhe depositions received is that of Dr Comstock of St Louis of which The subjoined Associated Press dispatch trouts: i St Louis April 1 The- Alitcliell-Ward care has led to the issuing of a subpena to a St Louis physician Dr Comstock formerly physician the Alitchell family Air Georpe IVLirtehell tho fathof o-f was in business in this city in 18(50 Dr I Gmswold Comstock wusrihe attend ng pnj'sicm of Mrs JUtciiell iu hor first cm-111101110111 At blurt time Airs Alitchell had puerperal finaanlty and film 11- upo i the ad- nee of Dr Comstock was sept to an Insane nsj lum where she remained some months and then seemingly recovered She was however Insane suliwquently and -was uffected at the time of the birth Alice Counsel for Alice Alitchell sent an attorney from Aleniphis with a commission to examine Dr Comstock and presented to him a hypothetical case representing the rase of Alice Alitchell In a deposition made by Dr Comstock a history of the first confinement of the mother was given and his decision in the hypothetical ease is that the murderess is a sexual per--vert of unsound mind and the mental trouble is hereditary insanity PARIS ANARCHISTS StlLL ACTIVE was toppled) over necessitating the suspension of tralho There has been no loss of life The greatest damage was suffered by the telegraph companies The Western Union reports no commuaicatio whatweB with points west of it be center of the State of Kansas and 'has but a few workable wires east 1 At Olathe Kas the general store of Mariner Marvel was partially wrecked by the- 6torm Farm houses arid stables in the city were unroofed but no one was injured At Marshall M5 considerable damage was done the cupola of the Methodist church which was blown down Mate glass windows were blown in and roofs carried away All Were Injured At Snlina Kas the house of A Brather was earned from its foundation and wrecked The family were at supper at the time and all were more or less injured One daughter had a leg broken and was internally injured Another was hurt in the back and also sustained internal injuries Neither are likely to recover A young son was badly iujnred and bruised about the head but not fatally The house of Samuel Buckholder was demolished but the family escaped injury Mrs Zimmerman took refuge in the cellar of her house The bouse was demolished and Mrs Zimmerman was fatally injured At Ottawa-the tower of the water com-' building was blown away and sidewalks turricil lover Much damage was done to orchards At AVaxrvttsUurg QUr Methodist Church was unroofed and the cupola blown down At Chillicothe Mo alto the cupola of the Methodist Church was blown down and the building unroofed No oao wus hurt At Kansas City Ivan Am Connors aged 5 years was thrown violently to the ground by the wind and had liis crushed Niel Marsh ft girl aged 11 was struck by a piece of flying sidewalk and sustained injuries that may prove fatal 'The great Peavy elevator was wrecked being unroofed und severely strained at its angles At Chill ieorthc many houses wore unroofed and the house of Jtaeos Potlie at the edge of was demolished but the ocfupants escaped uninjured Tlie storm in Tenekrii and vieln'ty rated w'rth more or loss fury all Thursday night aawl Friday This city (suffered some loss but not to any greatoextent Tlie city is in darkness tonight b-'Ci-me of the damage done to the el-tv trie 1 ght points The wires west otf tills pleee are all down and no word can be hid from nearby towns Reports none of which are verified say that there has been soime loss of life and great damage to property to1 several of these towns 'Father and Child Killed South Haven suffered severely from the storm both in way of material damage and in the number of lives lost The house of John Moorhouto was levelled to the ground and Moorhouse fund one dslld were killed other members of the family eseap'rig John house was crushed like an eggshell mid the whole family were killed in an ins: tan fa Tliey ore John Bunnaster wife and three children Airs Frank Shep-liercl wus billed by Hying timbers saistavn-ing a fracture of the skull A score of other mishaps occurred but it is belipved no more dealt hs occurred Eight miles northeast of AVeTlington the house qf Joseph II Walters was demolished and the whole family of 13 members were injured none however serously A little further north the house of AVillam Iattle wais blown down upon the family within an 1 they were terribly mangled and crushed William little aiwl four of Ins eli ldrcn were k'lled outright atnd Aire Lt-tle was so terribly injured that she survived but a- short Onto A ittle to the west of farrn lived Svmuel Butterworth a fenner with this widowed daughter and two children Butterworth and the two children were htitllv Injured and may not recover Air daughter escaped with slight injuries BLOWN HtOJl TUE TRACK jr by I-fact there is no appearance of poliis to terference with gambling houses hoy'es of prostltion and the keepers who violate the excise law From such facts the grand jury say that the best reasons for cohdemuing the inactivity of the police aye presented They are either incompetent to do '-what" citizens have done or else they are open to charges of cor nipt ion The general efficiency of fhp-police and their nbilitv to cope with crime is second to that of no other city and therefore the theory of corruption as the reason for their inactivity in the matter mentioned The grand jury also recommend that the owners of houses be held reqxmsible for the business carried on there if it be immoral illegal and charges that the clerk of the Tombs court was in some measure responsible for the Information given to one Davis that a warrant was out for a raid on his gambling place Recorder Smythe said that he would call the attention of the proper authorities to the presentments without delay MORE ROTTENNESS IN LONDON SOCIETY A Case Resembling 1 hat of Mrs Osborne 1 the Pearl Stealer About To Be Exposed London April 1 Society in Tendon 'has hardly recovered from the excitement attending £he trial eon intion and nine sentence of Airs Florence Ethel Osborne for the theft of the famous pearls that belonged to her cousin and intimate friend Airis Hargreaves and for her subsequent perjury in attempting to clear her reputation by moans of libel suit when it is thrown into another spasm by a rumor that another is threatened The matter is being widely ami great curiosity is expressed to learn who the parties concerned are but thus far those who discuss the affair are very chary about mentioning -names The facts of the- case are that aiveilSytown society lady the wife of an Affieer in (he army some time ago missedn very valuable broych Just prior to misWig the piece of jewelry the lady was picking a trunk or handbag and she thought for a time tliat the brooch had been misplaced It never entered her head that It had been stolen Some little time later the lady was visiting a jewelry store aud was greatly surprised to see for sale a brooch that resembled hers in every respect She soon found that it the one she had lost She asked tlie jewelers where they had got it from and they told her it had lven sold to them by a certain lady mentioning the name of her bosom friend Then tho wife recalled that this friend had helped Tier at the tone she was doing her packing nml she was left no other option than to believe that her friend had stolen the brooch The wife at once wrote her telling of her discovery and charging her with the theft The result was that her bosom friend at onee communicated with her-solicitors laid the letter before them and instructed them to Immediately begin action for libel against her accuser rHREE MEN OVERCOME BY CAS Narrow Escape From Death of Three WnM -Ington Einpl'ive "Washington! April 1 Henry Taylor Lawrence Alills and Nedford Fitzsimmons employes at the Capitol building were nearly asphyxiated today by escaping gas Fitzsimmons and AUlls bail gone into a cavity lieffiw 'a flight of stairs leading" to the to ooj nect a lateral gas pipe with the main pipe They neglected to turn off the gis at the stopcock ofxthe main pipe before unscrewing it as a re-snlt lien the cap came off tlie gas rushed out jn such volume ns to entirely overcome I-tzsimmous Alills who vitas further away from the p'pe than Fitzsimmons was not badly affected as he rush-d out into a corridor of the building aud gave tho alarm MTeUry AV Taylor Ihe i'ls-sij-fant engineer of tho House and of tho capito and 0 Glinn hoard cries and rushed into the liple to rescue Fitzsimmons Taylor reached the man 11 ret He had carried Fitzs'mmons but a sliort distance however before be too fell almost helpless Just about the eit where the two men fell is an iron grating and Taylor retained buiiick-nt consciousness to rap on it to attract attention The grating wps quickly broken and the two men were taken out There were in a verv bad condition but by' the use of stimulant they gradually regained consciousness aud were sent liora" Al lis also required co modern file attention be foie lie was restored to his normal condition ip'aklng a cake for the family fit the time of the accident James McGowan his invalid wife and Mary Walsh Mrs nurse are believed to be burled in the ruins of their house which was demolished Up to this hour 11 pm no trace of- them has been discovered by the diligent searchers and it is feared all are dead An unknown man employed as a watchman in the ruined budding is missing and is supposeiF to be buried in the ruins The loss from he destruction of the building is abput $35000 LEFT CORPSESIN ITS WAKE narrowing Details of the Work in Kansas Kansas City Mo Aprd 1 A tornado of mad i destruction swept over Kansas last night Bugler County- seems to have been the scene o-f the grenJtost havoc The town of Towanxla was entirely wiped off the face of the' earth and Augusta a few miles distant was buffeted out of all semblance to its former self Not a house or building was left standing at Tciw-aiiida The town was asleep when the storm- swept down razing everything in its Four dead bodies have been recovered from the ruins already searched Twenty persons are fatally hurt and 4U more seriously Injured besides a large number more or less maimed Towanda ia a small village of 1300 inhabitants situated 10 miles west of El Dorado The storm laid the whole town flat with the earth and left not a single house standing Of the 80 families compels ng the population there is not one tonight that is not either for a dead or dying member or sorrowing with the suffering Four persons were killed outright aud several tare so badly injured that they cannot Lve The killed are: Ilersdhel Cupp William Blu-tlcy Dr Godfrey and an infant child of John Blake Fatally wounded: Little girl blown from the second story of the hotel a distance of 150 feet badly crushed Mrs A Robinson skull fractured by flying debr-s Elmer llaines internally injured Mrs Walter Mooey side crashed Alice Thornton George Cornelius and wife badly crushed Among those seriously wounded are A Roche Mrs Te-no Clivey Airs John Kerr II IL Gibbs and wife West luls Petty Laugh Mr and Mrs Sorter Frank Chanel and wife George Maxwell and three chhlrcn William Mitchell and wife and child Mrs Horton and young son Postmaster Gordon Many others were less seriously hurt Physicians are attending the wounded They Vume from El Dorado o-n the first train and but for their timely assistance many more of those injured must have died At Strong City Kas the storm raged fearfully- The house of Joseph Classen was completely demolished Classen and his 'wife and child were killed outright Sevr oral others were injured by the fatalities At Augusta three were killed outright Hannon Iloskius James Barnes and the infant child of Will Ithoads which was hi nvn out of its arms and dashed against a brick wall Rhoads hinsel is fauill injured as is also the wife of Harmon Iloskius Fifteen others were hurt niifi-o or lqss seriously according to present niportiS but all wires are down and if is impossible to get any detailed account of either place 'Apparently the same storm touched at Iviow a and Wellington In Kiowa the Msn airii Pacific depot and a rnmdier of dwell ngs and buildings were demolished and though no loss of life is known several minor mishaps are reported Piie damage to property is said to be great Wellington and vicinity suffered considerable anil several people wore killed William Iff house south of elbng-ton fare blown to splinters and Little aud Ids children were killed Joe house was picked up and 13 of the occupants were more or less m- jurbd Sam house and Its occupants were carried 300 yards in the air and some of them were badly hurt The storm so far as can be- determined swept across the country from Indian territory in the south west part of Barber comity Kansas taking the little town of Kiowa iu its path In a northeasterly L-reetion it passed through 1 razier county and through the center of Sumner county Lull Dtstructiou In Its Wake Bending with a bow It passed almost directly north through the remainder of Sumner county -and along the western part of liutler counity Vilfcujes and iurni houses were carried tiway as it swept along The tornado continued iu Kansas and the northwestern part of Missouri today but was less destructive A dispatch from Ft fecott states Southwestern Kansas was last night by one of the strongest wind storms tor many years Mauy buildiugs were destroyed At Atchison the gale began at midn0h last night bat no damage was done speak of until nearly noon tods tornado struck the city and demolished several large builditu tevel signs and awnings in ever The Santa-Fe depot was unroof (convent demolished The wart tlie Thrall Ice Company was dest the grocery of the Suyler Oompi ruins The county prison was ca ami a portion of the buildmghA Hoavy damage In the country was fruit trees No one -has been injure The wind at Ieavenworth at not become hurrirtme and blew awuj of the Great Western Stove Works work was suspended for the day roof of the Great Western Machine was lifted several feet at once and dro again Men were put to work to sts and anchor the roof The tin roof Opera-House and the roof tlie tkaldwell building on Delaware stn were blown away at noon At St Joseph nearly every telegraph nt telephone wire in the city has been tor Awn numerous small bouses dculaUslnt id many large ones unroofed Thousand of- dollars worth of damage was caused by the breakage of plate glass in store windows In the eastern part of the oity a brick house was blown down burying' Tillie BuslvniGl aged 7 years and seriously injuring her At tlie factory of -ootie Huosier Co there was a stampede of several hundred girls About 10 a violent gust of wind tore a portion of the roof off the fdtory No one was iujurod however A dispatch from Lawrence Kas says: The wiud btis been blowing a gales' here since midnight Observations show that the wind at times attained a velocity of bi miles an hour Many buildings were unroofed and outhouses destroyed Tlie roof of the Haskell Hospital was blown away and it was necessary to anchor the building with cables to prevent them blowing over No one was injured and the patients at the hospital ure being cared for la Kansas City In this city Kansas City) the wind readied a velocity of 04 miles The damage consisted pijmclptally' of roofs blown away and glass windows broken The roof of the High School at Locust and Twelfth streets was blown off There was no panic but sohool was dismissed it being feared that the building wtis unsafe Examinations however proved that the structure had been uninjured The roof of en apartment house at Tenth and Charlotte Greets was blown away and grocery store corner of NSAh street and Troost avenue lorit its roof sod a portion of its front Signs were blown down all Over tlie city some of them crashing through costly plate glass windows in the center of the biwinnss portion of the city Windows were crushed In by the fioroe of the wind1 Telephone wires throughout the city were prostrated The smoke stack of the power-lhouse on the Northeast Elec trio Line Gall of Kadical Th3y Want Cleveland to Meet KInley In Debate Then They Ask Campbell to Mq ExCzar Reed Thus They Would Evade Plttir McKinley Against Campbell i Of Course the Democrats Refuse tl Republican Terms he Democrats JIo we ver' Tell the Repabi cans That Ex-tiov Campbell Ia Ready 1 to Meet GovJMcKlnley on the Hustings MpRInley and Keed Are Kfw In Rhode Island Providence I April 1 The resu of a conference Gov AIcKinley is apparent in the following tiwu between tor Aldrich and Gnairman Goodwin oumnitmiei- lion Qwen Chairman Democrat fetate Committee Providence It I Dear Sir I have your favor of this dab suggesting a joati discusdpU betwet-u Go McKinley mid -x-Gov Campbdl iff th a city Saturday evening April 2 You hutjc observed tluit the Republicans luive already arranged tor tw4 rallies in tlris city Saturday evening to be addressed by Gov Al -IGnley and ex-Spoaker ltcud boOii to sisnik at the miHiHings 1 Lave observed that j'eu have also arranged on 'the Iart of tlie Dcmoc-ratic party for a rally Saturday afternoon to be addressed by ex -President Cleveland and ex-Gov Camp- bell Anxious to accept your prcq8sitlii a joint debate we suggest that at 4 Saturday afternoon ex-1 Cleveland and ex Gov- Camplx-ll oa yoxtr side and Gov AIcKinley and exSpeaker Rred in ours mqt in the debate you suggest and for this puriiose we fender Jn-lantry Mail the largest hall in the citri Your communleatkm suggests the tariff is the sole question of delmte lieg tp eug- 1 that all questions of diiTerence between the two parties including silver lie tho subjects of d-scussiou I shall lie glad to I meet you at once to make full arrange- ments for tlie proposed meeting 1 1 am respectfully youri I Almon Goolwin Chairman of State Central Committee ItriJCCIftl aV litV 1 This lus- been reject 1 by the Democrats in the following eoinmui cutiou: Ilea Almon Goodwin Cliuinfian if the Renuhiican State CciiKral Gommittii: 1 am jiret in receipt of your replyjito tile invltatom of thu DeuiwTKlc State remrfl eomnittee to a jouit d-bite out tlid' tariff nnction between Gov AIcKinley tilul ex-Gov It is to be regreCloU that your reply consists of an evasve projiosi-tion and suhtun tiilly ignores the inviig- toin to a joint d'lxi'te between Goy AJLc-Kinley aul cx-Gov Giuipheil at the same time meutioneL the invitation lor any other time Your exceediuglv ingenious suggrttioa that ex President Cleft-lind alxuulovii tlie mooting and rectptioa prepared for him and debate his well-known views on the lv auesion with Gov Alb-Kinley and ex-Hpeaker Reed rtiises the bb-rous question at the headquarters as Jo whether you hare anv authority to jfiCe these djstingurelied gentlemen of your party iu to iex-Prasidont Clowlt'al a tin biiver qmvtiqn As your only reply to our distinct proposition is a sugg btinn tto absurd for serious notice I will say that' if you see fit to reconsider ex-Gov Ct mi-bell will be rci-ly to meet Gov 'AIcKinley on SadurtLiy evening qur invitation is atv-euted bV 4 on Saturtlay afternoon Franklin II Owen iimi Deniocratlc State Central Con Providence It I pril 1- Mi'Kii Ivy Ht I'dMturkrt At Pawtucket Senator Aldrich tonight iA-tiMducisl Gov AIcKinley to a big audience Air AreKinloy said: here to' upon differcuces between the Democratic aiil Republican parties on national issues-These ure two of them one Ls money and tile other relati-s to methods of ttixalion It 19 true tint in New England rihe Dennlcrats an in favor of smml money tbe great majority of the Democratic sire in faver of the free and unlauitol coiimge df bilter 1 Gov AleKinley then turned tolie tviT -question Democrats say they weije always in favor of fret sugar Tliey 'nevcjr were When I introduced this bll making sugar free every IKvnocmt ia tile House voted against it They votR to tax sugar aud for free wool Hug votis -the Democratic ticket iu Ixvut i-iaua and wool -von-s the iti-publicafi iff Ohio Protection Ls for all or it is fojr 4 At the conelu'on of Tlie address he wig cheered to aho echo and when it lvyl fuilM sided a number of men in the gaUerii shoirled a line cheers for awl they were given Republ cum Club nt TYooitfocklt held it nvisa-meeting in thfft city rowghje There were 151 piople present arullllon Thuins Reol of Ar iine ioke Tle speaker said the Denlncr'Ms are tt of framing a row tariff buy aui tliev content t'lientKelves with ehoiVdng lit holes in the AfcKinler frill lie to the inconsistencies of the party REPUBLICAN lslEiT ON TIIE TARlr Ex-Gov Ames Denounces Ills Tarty IJecau of Bill Boston April Ex-Governor Amis 11 be a candidate for delegate it large before the Republican convention -lie says: understand that my name was trod by the' State central committee it was rejected because' in the opinion of tlo committee I was not Mound on the) tarl question As that statement-liaa gone foiffh am willing to go before the 8 late coji- vention as a candidate thfft may ascertain how large a i pr porition of the delegates agree 1 wit left the Republican party on the tariff issije have said to me that if the party should endorse pty stand on the question thy would be pleased to leave their Denjocrntlc associations and join the Republican party 1 believe in making the party ginallfr than it is If a man is to be read tout tf the party because he doe iiot believe in every liue xf the McKinley bill because he believes in free iron ore and ample duties on pig-iron and is opposed to -pro ltd itive duties then the Republican puyy will soon be small FUSION IN KANSAS Demoo ats and the Fart AVlll Fobl Their Issues Ivansas City AIo April 1 The commit-tee appointed by til in Democratic ogd piu-ty congress tonal committees jbf tilie seixxnd Kansas -district met here toly to convfder the question of fusion After! a' harm! onions of the question at issue it was docfflod tliat the tAvolpartips yhoaild combine their strength in theccod carigresslonai district In tlie effort td debut Air Funston the presemt intautnJbonjS The Deimodrats will be allowed to tiiomtaate the candidate who will be Indorsed iby tjie prty Tho eentinent of til mcifb ing was fmvoraible tin Xuaio-n nil tlie line I Over "Bleeding It Sweeps With Resistless Force In Its Wake Are Left the Dead and Dtfing Into the Hundreds Its Mangled Victims Will Reach Damage to Property Cannot Be Calculated From Kansas It Sweeps On to the Far Northwest In Michigan and Nebraska It Riots i Most Destructively On the Windy City It Swoops In Its Rage Massive Houses -Topple in Ruins Burying Their Inmates A Besom of Deathj It Sweeps All Before Tt At Kansas City the Storm Rngd Most Fiercely Destroying: Several Strongly Built Kansas Seems to Have Suffered Most-Erom Nearly Everiy Town in TliatState Come' Reports of Keideucea Sy(ept Away and Inmates Mangled Already the Death LLt Is Appalling and the Reports Are In- complete With the Restoration of the Wire Service Feare ful Stories May lie Expected I Chicago April 1 That the storm of last night and today lyas been -one of the most far reaching and I destructive on re cord is borne out as fragmentary scraps of information are borne in from the Northwest the far West and Southwest over the badly crippled almost unworkable wires which escaped the fury of the warring elements The justly famous Kansas cyclone seemsdn this instance to hare-comprehended Vast expanse of territory upon which to wreak its fury and any es-titnate approximating the amount of dam- age doue to property' or the number of livs lost is out of jhe question The Western officials at 10 :30 tonight re- port that of their hundreds of wires west northwest and southwest they have hot one upon wb'eh to receive or transmit the Associated Press dispa tjehes- North of Milwaukee a swath has been mowed through the flimsy 'metalie lines to the Twin Cities and iutermejLate points Omaha is left off The Pacific coast is as inaccessible by telegraph as the Dark Unknown ami two ml Kaunas City havoc reigns supreme The area of low barometric pressure which has lasted over the lake region so long seems' to- have invited this onward rush of ligh pressure the weather map indicating two distinct storms branching from I a point apparently in Northwestern Texas -like a huge and tfaklng their course on6 notheriy and aifd one northeast In the onward march norhwurd -in swirling shrieking eddies till eedi tig first fell under its mighty power Death and destruction marked its baneful progress from the moment it left the rolling prairies of the Indian Territory GraspiT in its pitiless clutch the pretty a little city of Towanda Kas4 it bounded "on With increasing 'volume leaving a path of shattered mangled corpses and a hundred torn and bleeding v'ctlms Caldwell Augusta and Tioga furnished their quota -i to the death harvest Passing north through Kansas Nebraska the Dakotas and Mnuesota a track of desolation miles in width marks its passage and feeble wailst straggle through the fag ends of prostrate Wires from interior tdwus anxious to tell their tale of woe All tjie lrot l)uv From Omaha and Council Bluffs the tale is but a repetition of that from-the Soutli-west-crippled Wires buildings unroofed fences and trees laid waste chimneys signs and glass fronts) smashed and scab- tered Minneapolis and St anl have no outlet and thoir story is yet untold and only a cessation of the awful visitation will admit of a summary of its results Following the northeast prong of tin's atmospheric outburst the south aud east portions of Kansas are shown to have luvn attacked with the same irresistible force tliat characterized the! movement of the disturbance in tha northward tangent Kansas City was again forcibly reminded of tlve Laltbrop sehoolhouse horror of 1880 in which many little children were crushed and numerous homes Were wrecked mil imfcle desolate by the heavy muid of death when the building nt Fourth and Main streets collapsed dud when the great Hatn-tiUkiI Sc St Joseph bridge was blown bod- ily from its massive stone foumlatiohs into the treacherous ALssouri for reports indicate that anotuor school house has leen wrecked houses unroofed and imtold lesser damages done though happily no loss of life is yet reported from thefe Not a wire remains from there to the South-'west the damage and (loss of life being purely conjecture though the wildest rumors are rife- Passing over AUssouri and Illinois numerous i account of the varying plumes of the storm are beginning to come in by roundabout routes aud to cap the fearful cfiWax Chicago was next attacked story of its ravages has already been told Lashing the waters of Lake Michigan Into tury as it sped onward it crossed into Canada At 12 midnight an attempt was made by the Asso- dated Press to serve Denver with their dispatches No direct wires remain and the Postal Telegraph are attempting by way of the Canadian Faemc win's through Portland Ore and down to Sam Francisco to got their dispiitches to Denver The Western Union by the Southern Pacific route is endeavoring to serve them by the May of San Antonio and El Paso Tex How It Struck Chicago At about half past this ven- tag the sky which had been threatening all the afternoon became black ahd a terrible cloud burst occurred' The wind blew at a hurricane rate and drove the rain in sheets along the streets sweeping every moveable object before it The wind was of cyclonic force anil at the corner of Halstead- aud streets tore down the Gowan house and buried three people Serious damage is reported in various parts of the city I At 10 Pierce street Thomas Allen lived with his wife his 0 year old daughter Jzzie and his 80 year old father-iu-Iaw Jacob Miss Lodeaa Koch was London April 1 The xnaager official report given to the press after privute riaucus of the Unionists of Ulster gave no idea of the warlike tone of the speakers at 'that meeting Knowing that their days are numbered as belonging to the government majority aud seeing that the Irish Parliament is tho dominant fact of the near future 'these advocates of Constitutional order unde the Tory regime mot to declliro civil war in the event of a Libaral majority altering the constitution: The war-druImVthrobbiug throughout the speeches vls h-Wever only falutly heard in (the resolution adopt'd The meeting was held at Dwanshire House the residence of Lord Arthur Ilill comptroller of the household All the Ulster members were present except three Some fiery spirits urged a plain declaration of uu immediate resort to arms when Ulster is placed under a Dublin PlarlumenT But though menace was often used publicly by Uol fcfcmdereon and others during the home rule crisis of 1880 rtlte u-tors of the group now find pruJent to ved the'r threats in more moderate language The Liboril papers treat the procediigs as buncombe and -the predict on of rebellion as mere vaporing I interviews uit'h several Ulster del-gates in the lobby today give the mi-' pression of intense antipathy to home rule even keener tin in when he movement was orguilzed AIou- ry Njwas partly subscribed to anil 000p0 men and Col Sandirsou boasted that he would respond to the call for a revolt As shrewd an observer as Lord Randolph Churchill still professes to believe that Ulster will fight No fiur of this nature will in the slightest deter or alter the Liberal policy In the meantime tlie plan of campaign will le a vigorous agitation in Ireland and Great Britain working up the constituencies to believe in tiaeir menaces An abundance of money enables the chief eornniv ts conip- s-od of Col Saunderson Ur Harland and AV Russell organize flic provincial committees the first development of whose action will be disclosed at a convention about mtsnntide Altliough the national In sh members consider the mat tor only a Subject for derision Air Sexton" tonight called Air attention to the fact that a crown mmistif tho comptroller of tho Quop'ii-s xrvAostxd rotoluticm Ln- ci ii: a section of ttie Irish members to disorder Air Balfour would make no reply and Air Sexton intimated that hr would recur to the subject Rousting noyalty Air responses In regard to the date of dissolution" of has several Important questions The Liberals were anxious to settle whether the election would take place on the voters' register of 1831 or that of The reg ister generally completed in August and comes in force January 1 Recent registers show a growTh of the Liberal vote Air Gladstone claimed that if dissolution oeeirrretl in the autumn a special bill 'ought to bo introiluced bringing the new' register into operation theti He declared that he did nOt remember a Jissolution occurring in the latter months of Ahe year upon an old register Air Balfour fenced the demand Unable to refute Air Gladstone he simply asserted the crown had full discretion to "di-al with the matter Ilis response put the opposition in a bad temper and they tilted against every vote of supply especially attacking the estimates for rovnl palaces Air A1 or to-u esaxensncally prute-tol against the vote for the Buckingham Palace rat-citohcr Air Lalboiuehere 4 a)lvlsd tint the ratcatcher be brought Parliament whore he could oa'tvh some tilling and ho wanted Kensington Palace to be used as an art gallery and llaimiptoa Court as a public reset -ve Pat urged that Ivew Palace be turned into a house for odd soldiers or for the Ixmdou peers Air Storey held that it Was unicanimoTly fiqr royal personages to talke palaces rent free and also to the public to keep them in repair I There was a series of s'mllar short sharp lemocratic utteraneos imlicnt'ng bad times royidty in the obmlng Radlml Tkv government tnemilers maintained Vrrect silt nee carrying the votes with the il rjoritii tt in episode idt the House of Lords this 4v was the propisal" of the ecj'cntrc Denman to Iiinit The drj'ation of fh He said he dxl not intend to 'any lellow peers be simply wished to ft flirt wiio did not speak at unnecos-jeurth A half hour was enough he ht for anybody except privy couu-who might lie allowed an hour Salisbury referring to Lord Den-usually a silent member said that aosal reminded biro of the saints of? accustomed to inflict upon es tile most frightful penance on if their sins from which they were five Peers generally he con-tcre not guilty of making lpg Lord Denman aimed at rie might as well bring in a bill to prevent too much business in the upper house or the attendance from being too large If the peers passed the bill the House of Commons might take it as covering criticisms of their long speeches ana might retaliate somehow As he desired perfect harmony between the two houses he roust oppose the proposal Lord Denman joined in the laughter at Lord fun and tried to continue the debate but was checked by cries of Tlie Cotton Crisis The long pending crisis In the cotton trade has induced spinners In Lancashire to seize tlie occasion of the dispute with the operatives to declare wholesale lockout The trade is suffering from the fall in silver and from an enormous decrease in profits on goods exported to Jndia The 0Hratives raised the trouble over a trifling claim arising from breakages in working yarn The federation of master spinners at a meeting held to arrange the minor question found unanimity on the greater question of decreased returns justifying a 10 per cent reduction in wages and today declared a lockout in all the mills ex-eepfflng those of Egyptian cotton spinners The decision includes Oldham Excepting those of Egyptian cotton opin-ners Mrs Spurgeon explaxis that lier husband died with onfy 510000 Charles Farweli ad wife are In Lon-- Copyright 1S02 by tha New York Associated Press -rt They Are Not Intimidated by tlie Arrest of Kavicliol Fans April is reported that a regular permit has been discovered at tlie lotlglngs of Ravachol the anaremst aiithor-izmg him to obtain ltO0 cart ridges from dynam'te stores near the bourse The police are inquiring as to how- he obtained the permit Al Dresoh the police commissary who arrested Ravachol and the restaurant keeper and waiter who bamyed him to the police nave received menacing letters It was thought that the arrest of Ravachol and his accomplices would put an end to tlie cowardly work of the anarchists but It appears from a discovery made tills morning that the police have not succeeded in capturing all the dangerous ineiubeis of tliat party The occupants of a house on the Boulevard Strasbourg we re startled this niorning on being informed that the concierge luid found a dvnamite cartridge in front of the house The pol'ce were at once pOtifieil and are now looking for the man who placed the cartridge whore it was found Itiivaahol ipas confronted with his rrci ooaipllccis OQrwimarfn and Beaki He persisted in- his den'al of haviug lxtl anything to do itili the recent explo tons An Anarchist was arrested qt Ruilwlx tonigLit It is expretcl tltat a nc-t of An-archlsts will be arrested at Lyoni immediately THEY RAN A BABY FARM And Tliey Allowed the Little Icnocento to Die of Nefiflecf Lynn Alass April 1 By the arrest of Annie Fisher and her daughter Alary a baby farm lias been brought to 1 ght State Officer Sliaw arrested the woman on a charge of taking to Iward more tlan two children at one 'time'Vvithout notifying the board of health A deul infant of three months appareled in a -tattered pillow slip was found Wednesday by Chief Clark in the edge of the woods near an old and squalid -farm house occupied by the Fi slier woman An iu etiga-tion of the house revealed ample ev'dein-e of the criminal occupation of its inmates Under their care was found six infants whose ages varied from three weeks to eight years The proprietor of the place re-fiseil to give fhe names of the parents of two of the children One of them Is nn idiot Jrirl If) yeara of age who lias been fii tlie place for four years It is said how ever that she has a brother mul sister In Taunton It is impossible to picture the wretched device of filth and depravity in which tha place has been carried on Officers say it is the worse cake of the kind they have' ever seen The woman refuses to talk leyond the statement that they liave done untiring crinrnal and lint tlie children in their charge have 'had good care PRINCE BIRTHDAY YcBterday tlie Man or Iron Was Seventy-Seven Years of Age Berlin April Prince Bismarck is 77 AJl'lLil' a A IOIVV years old today The day lins been nni ki d'y by the at tendance atriFriederichrulie where the Prince resides of a much larger nmn- He held a reception in the park and had a 1 earty word for all who called uion iimi lie looked remarkably well An immense number of floral gifts were sent to iron from all parts of tlie empire Numerous deputations from various parts of the country waited upon Prince Bismarck and congratulated him In thanking a deputation representing 10000 tiers in the Iioehmn district the Prnce said that coal and iron were closely associated with husbandry He lim-elf was a farmer and he never credited aspersions upon the Bochum industry The environs of Friedricksruhe were densely thronged all day-with people all desirous of honoring the great German statesman Tonight the place was brilliantly illuminated and a torchlight procession was held The birthday was celebrated in this city and other places throughout Germany A telegram of congratulations was sent to the former chancellor today on behalf of the members of the Liberal patty CORRUPTION RAMPANT IN NEW YORK Alleged That the Are Bribed by Prostitutes and Gamblers New York April The grand jnry which has- been sitting during the Alareh term and Investigating the presented by the Rev Dr Farkhurst and his agents as to existence of gambling and disorderly bouses as well as the general violation of the excise law without interference by the police brought in a presentment at 3 this afternoon It says that owing to public charges against the efficiency of the police department in suppressing and arresting lawbreakers the grand jutjf has spent considerable time in investigating the matter It is apparent to all that gambling houses bouses of prostitution and saloons are open in violation of the law and that the police are fully aware of their existence -The only raids made upon them Are made The Wind Literally Lifts a Train and Topples It Over Burlington la April Officers of the Burlington Northwestern Narrow Gauge Railroad which received the information tonight that their passenger train which arrived at 5 pm had been blown from the track 40 miles north The baggageman mail cierk and two passengers were seriously injured aud a dozen'others badly shaken up The wind has' been blowing a hurricane all dayi doing much damage to trees amlri shrubs The most seriously injured are: Alall Agent Frank Adams of Alount Pleasant la jaw broken and badly bruised Express Messenger A J8 Russell of Burlington head badly bruised Stevens a passenger of Iledriek la badly bruised internally aud cut about the body Airs llclB passenger Herrick la cut and bruised intern ST LOUIS A Br'1 r4l is i 3 ed the und four chil-to the floor Tillie Old-Ivunkel being seriously Amelia iied At Jamestown the storm has continued since Tuesday A terrific wind has been rag'ng all day nt Blunt with rain and snow and it is growing colder TUE STORM IN NEBRASKA' Wires Are Down and News Is DlJUcult to Obtain Omalin Neb April Tel 'graph wires all over the State are prostrated and it is Impossible' to obtain news of the extent of last cyclone Tbe Western Union reports nt it has only one wire in operation in Nebraska and thut Is along the line of the Elkhorn road A special from Norfolk on fhatjine in the northwestern part of the State aiys a cyclone struck that place and did severe dnxntige The storm traversed 150 miles over the richest farming section of the State Tho wind Is blowing a gale here and wires are deyn on all aides At Sedalin Mo Sedalla AIo April 1 Tho wlml-storm here was tho most severe for years All day it blew a heavy gale and the result is Continued1 on Fourth Puge FCUR MEN BLOAN TO EHREDS Dynamite Gets In Its Awful Work at Bessemer Ala -1 Special Dispatch to the Appeal-Avalancne Birmingham Ala April 1 At 3 o'clock this afternoon at Bessemer 10 miles from this city tlie plant of the Starling Dynamite was blown atoms The explos-ou came -as -a -thunderbolt froin ft Gear sky T-iere was stored in the packing-rewen about 40 toms of dynamite There were four men killed Frank Boykin Edward lloykin George llartly and Walter Like Tlieir bodies were absolutely blown into slireds The largest piece found was that of Frank Boyk'n The main trunk of his body was all that wls found that could be named the reiiui-is of a human being Walter Like and George Hartley leave wives atid child- ren 'liie scene was one beyond description The earth was torn up to a groat depth The explosion was felt in Birming-li uu and Pratt Aimes fully 10 miles a The windows of nvnrly all the buildings in Bessemer are slant tered and many buildings 1 i I 1 UUUIJ i I I -1 w-tc 1 imaged Tic- bass to tho company mil bo about 830000 CHILDREN OF KITTY The Mistress and liFo of Purnell Figures in Another Cane Ixuiklcm April The question of the prohi'ti of tlia wilt of the late Aire Wool aunt of Aire Clriries Stewart Parnell will go to tV Court of Appeals When the judge of the probate division of Her Al ij-cstds High Count of ire lice to vulrom (lie appl x-atroi for pro! Lite wus mule Friday pronounced judgment in fiavog tf tha' last wJl in uxoi-d nice wth rhe ton no nrraugrel ir niie of the defendants objected to the decision on tflie ground that they lrul tint been consulted cimceruing the cusiioly of Airs children They also questioned the -jurislition of the court The judge oveirulcd the objections the matter wll be uippctiied FORGED NAME Tho Slick Scheme of Young Scoundrel to Sccaro Money Washington April 1 Yesterday a young man presented a't the banking house of Rich Co of 11 1 city a certified chrek on the National Exchamgo Bang of Now' York for $035 drawn by Alary Morse guardian to tlie order of A He also presented a letter of introduction to the bankers from Representative Jolui Al Allen of Mississippi The check was accepted and $085 was placed to the cralit of tlie young man He received a certilre cate of deposit Tlie check certificate and letter have all been pronounced forgeries and the payment of the o-rUncato of deposit stopped lie Deiles Arrest Special Dispatch to the Appeal-Avalancha Clarksville Team Apill 1 Officers have been endeavoring to mpSure Walter Wiek-ftxicn who shot Arthur Ounulnghtum near Palmyra in this county several days ago Wockihuttir could myt be found and it is said defies arrest If Oirmmngkim recovers it is (did bo will come up for trial but if tho wounded mtun dies he will leave i-f.