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THE- BISHOI'S JiETIRED. I SWEPT BY. CYCLONES.
Methodist .Conference Adopts the
Committee's Recommendations.
EL2GTJ0N OF BISHOPS KQW OK
d3r))OT, Undarsall, One Price to All.
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Ar cuttm" ine prices on an lines oi ury uooas wnion even :
these hard. times must keep trie .store -thronged, 'with eager ;
wa ,Wr want to make the impression that we are doiripr ;
jsiness for fun and your special benefit. We are working
3 an'(l giving the best values possible for the money.
- IVopV we are offering extra values in Holland
Ob CGlv shades, Lace Curtains and Dra-
WQS. ue navt- - guuu nuiidiiu ona.uc, wiui spring ruuer
:25c. Lace Curtains, zy2 yards long, lor bUC. 1 insel,
)rap3ry for I3c, sold elsewhere for 25c.
11 can only appreciate the value
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J. M. LE ATH M gr.
kNash and Goldsboro Streets.
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A Failure to Elect on the First Five Bal-
lots Chaplain IMcCHbeleads.ljut Is Still
Over a Hundred Votes Short of the Re
quired Number. . :
Cleveland, May 15. Yesterday's ses
sion of the Methodist Episcopal conference
was the most important that has been
held yet. The long expected report of the
committee ; on episcopacy was presented
and adopted after an animated debate,
which was interspersed with incidents, of
dramatic and pathetic .interest. Thei re
port provided for the retirement of Tthe
venerable 'Bishops Bowman and Foster on
the ground of non-effectiveries-?, declared
that the time is opportune for the election
of a bishop of African descent, and also
provided for tho election of but two bish
ops to take the place of those who were re
tired. The three propositions in the re
port were agreed to by a large majority,
iChe two retired bishops will be supported
by the book concern. Bishop Bovmf.n is
SO years old, and Bishop Foster 76.
Cleveland, May 16. The Methodist
ganeral conference took three ballots yes-
Lo3S of Life and Property in Tezas,
Kansas and Kentucky.
Big Forgers Lnler Arrest.
ARK,N.,T., May 14 Two men al
to,be noted check raisers, forgers and
iflers were arrested here yesterday.
Tare two of a gang of four, the other
'members being under arrest -in San
fflcisco. The two arrested yesterday
James Cregan and Charles Becker, the
charge against them being that
raised a check for $22 to call for $22,
n conjunction with Forger A. H.
another now in custody. They
the money, Cregan and Becker
yheir escape. This was in Decem-
nr orla
F confession
plnnocent Victims of Train Wreckers.
$K Bay. Vi at.'. t-1 a
pontheChic:)
(ilS;lTlir.c!;,y evening, two miles
t. 1 V)tU(!oin whir h t1n.lwi i-tion -n-f
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vnv','-ori,,u1.'' injured. The
imi .La span, a brakeman ; John
vhrh train, wreckers had ob
.iiv! ' tn:CK' tkMn,liluacr-tho engine
- m.st i :t ho irs. I ho wreck
t -iiv-t tiu : company.
rations- w- V U5 ifuowin:?
rtobpT-: 1,Ll.:,-i;Lochren-of Minhe-
fen !l)i,'ra.;vice Re
JU reir.-.-..,i t
uumm ..t. t' , , .
' :rpU.V, .of.PcMl.
ion : U('Plity commissioner
Mce Ar-n" ''.'iiius-uoner of pen-
rJ.n ! V ItJClircrb resigned;
4iT. . a t XewH !i.ni nch 1 no 1
Hinil .wussiondr; of pensions,
onp. r urPhy. nominated for
1 U1 Pensions... -
ly.,"'
fl T " ":"veon Negroes.
! uis; net -mdre for
ce Rensselaer
retired on full
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eral nr-
n?ht jresterday after-
P .K ,-ton .wllege, resulting
821 cut with an ax,
111 Ulp ""-i
iJtSt ttri)- t e n:unes are: James.
Mtotnn:. Ue' fatally. San.1v Florr,.
e, with8- Ms filtilllv; Charles
Two Voars.
!W r.m VonKotze, for-
in? c milH'nt a fortress
fcWhe P1 der, master
o? nlssian court- The
fehiil nymous
r'sfcv' . wirs ago con-
ASSAILED BY ITALIANS.
The r Charge Upon Players and Spectators
at a Baseball Game. j
Hazlfton, Pa., May 18. Six persons
were sh -it and a number of others seriously
Injured during a riot' at MacAdoo, a town
Ifour miles from here, yesterday afternoon,
j The injured are: Joseph Ward, shot, jn
; knee; Thomas Kiiirns, shot in arm; James
Muldowney, finger blown off; Burke
Brennan, shot in shoulder; James Bren
nan, shot in arm; Mary; Burke, shot; jin
back; Antonio Rtzzo, nos3 "broken; Mrs.
Rose Viechio, scalp wound. 1
A game of baseball was in progress, when
a gang of drunken Italians charged upon
the players and spectators with revol
vers, clubs and stones. Saturday night
an Italian had been Arrested , for assault
and battery. A number of young men
took him from the constable and unmsrei
Sully beat him. The Italians, hearm jof
this, threatened revenge. They fuLUled
their threat-yesterday. The first inning
had just bean finished when there .wad a
pistol fehot. It was followed in a few min
utes by a promiscuous' discharge of fire
arms: v The crowd attempted to rin away,
but the Italians chased thani, discharging
their pistols and throwing stones. The for
eigners Avbre almost mad with rage
blazed away incessantly until the police
arrivou. .
Several of the Italians were arrested iatid
more will be taken into custody. Wa
who was catcher for the MacAdoo club,
the most seriously injured. . He is lyinj
a hospital in a critical condition.
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A.Transvaal Prisoner's Suicide.
Capetowx, Mav 18. A dispatch from
Pretoria says that Mr. Grey, one of thb'er
gently sentenced members of the reform
jommittee, has become insane in jail land
iommitted suicide.
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When j;our stomach begins to trou-
ble, you,: it needs help, lne neip it
needs, is to digest your food, and,
til it gets it, you won't have
Deace. Stomach trouble is . very
tressing, very, obstinate, very danger
ous. Many of the most dangerous dis
eases begin with simple indigestion.
The reason is that indigestion (not
digestion, NOT-nourishment) weakens
the system rand allows disease germs
to attack it. The antidote is Shaker
Digestive Cordial, strengthening, nour
ishing, curative. It curas inpigestion,
and renews strength and health. It
does this by strengthening the stomach
by helping it to digest your food, j It
nourishes you. Shaker Digestive Cor
diol is made of pure herbs, plants! and
wine, is perfectly harmlss and will cer
tainly cure all genuine stomach trouble.
Sold by druggists, price 10 . cents I to
$1.00 per Dottie.
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BISHOP BOWMAX. ...
terday for successors to Bishops Bowman
and Foster, bus none of the candidates re
ceived a sufficient number of .vot es to elect.
The ballots were secret, but the result of
the third balloc was announced ' after two
hours spent in counting. Followinrjis the
vote on the first five names: C. CM Cabe,
234; Earl Cranston, 203; J. W. E. Bo wen,
170; J. W. Hamilton, 153; Dr.'Buttz, 113;
necessary to a choice, 343. . '
Cleveland, May 18. The Methodist
Episcopal general conference spent all of
Saturday's session in a vain attempt to
elect one of the two bishops who are to be
chosen. Five ballots were taken, making
eight since the voting began. The only re
sult has been to narrow the contest down
to practically three candidates Dr. Buttz,
president of Drew. Theological seminary;
Dr. C. C, McCabe, the missionary- secre-
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tary, and Dr. Earl Cranston, the senior
agent of the Book Concern at Cincinnati.
Dr. Buttz and Dr. McCabe are now the,
leading candidates, and both .of them
might.be elected but for the feeling which
is growing that both bishops should not
come from the east. : f
,The failure of any of the leading candi
dates to receive a two-thirds vote -has in
spired talk to the effect that a motion wiU
be made to change the rules so as to pro
vide that the election shall be by a major
ity instead of a two-thirds. It is also said
that a motion will be made to elect three
instead of two bishops. It is not believed,
however that either of these motions will
prevail. The friends of Dr. Mcpabe, Dr.
Buttz and Dr. Cranston are still confident
of the success of those candidates, and
much earnest electioneering was done yes
terday, and the contest is likely to prove
very spirited.
Heavy Sentence for an JEuabeitzler.
OMAHA, May 18. Henry Bolten, the em
bezzling treasurer of Omaha,' has been sen
tenced to nineteen years in the peniten
tiary and to pay 1210,000 fine, that being
double the amount he is convicted of em
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Tto Hundred Killed by an Explosion. ?
Brass, Coast cf West Africa, May 18.
An explosion at Ida, in the Nupe country
on the Niger river, has razed to the ground
the palace of the Ernb Meleki and has
kiUed 200 TOODla.
0VEE 100 1 DEAD IE SHEEMAK.
includes a great
is quite probable
The Kansas and Kentucky Cyclones, While
Xot So Disastrous as Those Visiting: Texas,
Did Great Damage to Property and
Caused Some Loss of Life. !
SHERMAN, Tex., May 16. A most disas
trous cyclone struck Sherman at 4:33
o'clock yesterday afternoon, wiping out
the entire western end of the town.; The
loss of life is apDalliug. The number of
missing is large, and
many children, and it
that the most of them are dead. At least
fifty houses are so: ally wrecked. The
property loss will reach at least $150,030.
As the Sherman court house ; is insuf
ficient to hold the dead and wounded, the
vacant Moore building, on the South
square, was u ilized. fifteen colored people,
dead , or dying, being placed ther6 at 6
o'clock last evening. All kinds of ve
hicles continued to come in with dead
bodies. Around the Moore building the
: highest excitement prevails and the great
est difficulty is experienced in getting the
names of he victims and accurate reports.
The storm, struck Sherman ; without
warniuar on the southwest corner of the
city and cleared a path 10) yards' wide
alongithe WQSt end of the town. Houses,
trees, fences and everything went before
the terrible force of the cyclone. The
negro part of the town suffered the most
severely. . There are. probably thirty
negroes killed. 'Ten bodies have -been
picked up in PostOak creek.
From the point where the cyclone seems
to have first descended to where it sud
denly arose-from, the ground, just north
of the city, not a house in its pathway es
caped, not a tree or shrub is left standing,
or that is nob twisted and torn out of
shape. The iron bridge on Houston street
is completely wrecked and blown away.
At Mound Ridge, Tex. , six persons were
injured. Samuel Bass, a farmer, will
probably" die. Tbej cyclone swtpt a path
100 yard's and eight; miles long.
At Howe, Tex;, eight persons were killed
and many injured..' Ten farm houses and
as manv barns were wrecked. Bark was
ripped from tree. i
The cyclone left four dead emd five per
haps fatally ' injured ai GriV'.bl Springs,
lex., while at Justin twelve nouses were
. blown dovyn,W. J. Evans killed and seven
teen others injured.
Sherm AN,Texl , May 18. No more bodies
have been found in1 the track of the tor
nado, although many thousands have fol
lowed it from one end to the other; Yes-
arm j and hand were
near the Washington
is believed to belong to
the badly mutilated body of one of the col
ored victims who was killed in Houston
street, four "blocks away. There have been
but two deaths at the hospitals in the- last
twenty-four hours, Miss Sophie Pierce and
Mattie Lake, colored. It is now believed
that 122 were killed in this city and imme
diate vicinity, while over a hundred are
wounded.
terday a detached
found m a ravine
aVeniie bridge. ; It
THE DAMAGE IN KANSAS.
Twenty-five
ground, and
A Number of People Injured and -Many
IluildiugTH Completely. Wrecked.
. SEXECA, Kan., May 18. A devastating
tornado passed through this city from the
southwest to the nbrtheast last evening at
6 :30 o'clock. Everything in its path was
completely wrecked. Couriers from the
country report great damage to property
and probable loss of life. In this city four
were killed and a number injured. The
killed are a boy and a girl of M. R. Con
net, a, boy of M. B. Yoorhqes and a 15-year-old
boy of Peter A isenmacher?. . The seri
ously injured are M. E. Voorhees, John
BeldshaW and Alonzo Hawley. Tha latter
will not recover. There'were many mir
aculous escapes from instant death.
The streets are i:u passible; blocked wTith
debris of buildings and fallen trees. The.
Grand Opera House is completely demol
ished. The roof and west side of the $50,000
court house are blown away and caved in,
and the roof of the; high school building is
gone.y The steeples of the new Methodist,
Universal! s't and Catholic churches were
scattered to the four-winds,
residences- are' ra;:ed to the
buildings innumeffableninroofed.The dam
age in this city is j)ver 200,000.
At Oneida several buildings were de
stroyed and three children of Janies Sher:
rard killed. The west half of the village
of Bailey ville was -swept away, but no one
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Topeka, May 18!. A funnel shaped cy
clone struck the north part of the town of
Sabetha, a small place northeast of here,
near the Nebraska line, late last evening,
destroying the Grand. Island railroad
depot and elevator, and about twenty resi
dences. Twenty j or twenty-five people
were wounded, several of whom will die.
Twenty families were rendered homeless,
losing everything they had. The cyclone
passed off towards Falls City and evidently
did great damage. '
Frankfort,. Kan., May 18. At 5o'clock
last evening a terrific cyclone swept Tiown
upon the town of Frankfort from the
southwest. Everything in the north and
west ends of the town, was completely
- wrecked. Probably three score of build
ings were razed tjo the ground. Some! of
the best residences of the town were blovn.
to atoms. Reports coming in from the
country, where heavy dadage has been
done, will materially swell the loss.
Concordia, Kan., May 18. Another cy
clone visited north central Kansas last
evening. The cyclone started in the north
ern part of Clay , county, seven or eight
miles south, of the little town of Palmer.
and passed in a northe.isceriy direction
through Riley county and into Marshall
and Nemaha counties. , The little hamlet
fcf Bodaville, in Riley county, wtvs entirely
rwept away. Several are report ed killed
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Bextox, Kv.jMay 18. A terrible cyclone
pfissed ovej the northwest corner of this
county about 1 o'clock yesterday morning.
doing damage to everything in its path.
At Elva it tore.down the house of Ander
son Jor.es and killed the entire family.
consisting jofjoiie. aged 80; his wife, aged
55; his' oldest child, a son IT years old, and
two girls, one 10 and the other 12. - Jones
was a poorjman and had only lived in that
community about six months. Five cof
fins were stat to Elva ye-ftevday, and "the
entire Jonis family we.v ' buried in the
.sjuhe gravj The tornado fcame out of
Graves county, via Sympsonia, where two
stores were-dem61ihjdr two churches and
one school hou-e were torn down, besides
barns,. 'stables, -fences tind everything elso
in its path, j There was considerable dam
age in othas parts;of tte county. The dam
age i'.dor:e it'iSympsoniii was severe, but no
lives were lost. i .
DZAR OFF FOR MOSCOW.
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ffnifico'nt Arrangements for the
Coming Coronation.
FOUK EUNDSED MILE3 OF GUAEDS.
From St. Petersburg to Moscow Is a Double
Line of Soldiers, and None but the Impe-
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St. Peterssurg, May 18. The czar and
czarina, with their infant daughter, the
Grand-Duchess Cdga Xicolaievna, accom
panied by, a numerous I suite and by tho
whole of ; thj iiiiperial j household, . took
their departure last evening for Moscow.
The august ceremony of the coronation of
the czar and czarina, and the fetes which
precede ami follow that event, will-fill up
the time constantly from now until June 7,
which is the date fixed I upon for the re
turn of the imperial party : to St. Petersburg.'-
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The Jrain which carries the imperial pair
to the ancient palace of holy Russia I was -especially
built throughout for this jour
ney, and is said to be the j finest that ever
rodeon rails.' The appointments and fin
ish of it are on a scale of j magnificence in
harmony with everything else connected
with the coronation, for jwhich . the most
lavish expenditures have tnot been spared,
even f or the minutest details.
No speed record is attempted with the
imperial train, the safety! and comfort of
the august inmates being the sole consid
erations. .j All traffic ceased over the, line
before the ' departure of the train ;frcm
here, andMio other wheels than those of
this train will run at the same time on the
tracks between here and Moscow. L
The fine between St. Petersburg and
Moscow runs almost in a straight line for
the 400 miles. It is related that when the .
engineers designated to build the line ap
pealed to the czar for his orders regarding
the route he placed a ruler upon the map
and drew a straight line between the two
cities, thus solving the engineering diffi
culties with an autocratic hand.. I
The 400 miles of the line are guarded by
a double guard of soldiers. Every detail
of the journey and of the ceremonies in
Moscow have been arranged for months, an
army of j officials having been engaged
upon the; .work in this city, amid much
stir and excitement, and also intense
anxiety. To facilitate their work wooden
models were constructed of all the various
buildings at Moscow at which the more
important ceremonies will . be enacted,
exact in every proportion and relation, so
that the j "program "of the coronation has
been precisely- arranged and gone through
with. in miniature. j j - ;
The arrival of the czar and czarina at
the Petrovsky palace outside of Moscow is
timed for this afternoon, which is tha an
niversary of his majesty's birthday.--, This
will be celebrated at the Petrovsky palace,
where their majesties will remain until
Thursday, May 21,' the date. fixed: for the
triumphal entry of tho czarinro Moscow,
which is to le one of the ri xi imposing
spectalejs in all th-j cereinonivss' attendant
upon the! coronation, j ! ! )
.Perjard Herself Tor Itevcnge. ;
WlLKESiiARRE, Pa , May IS. Mis El
len Bethel, of Georgetown, is in jail here
accused of perjury, j Tli young woman
has admitted her guilt, bat says she com
mitted the crime for revenge, against, a
former lover. Andrew Fraley. The latter
caused Miss Bethel's arrest after he; had
spent the night of his marriage in prison.
Miss Bethel claims that Fraley promised
to marry her, but jilted her for Miss Eliz
abeth Williams, to whom he was quietly
married recently. As soon as the couple
returned from the -parson's Miss Bethel
swore out a warrant for Fraley's arrest on
the charge of larceny, and he was locked
up all night. Miss Bethel now admits that
she swore falsely.; j ; j
One Tear for Too Much. Assurance.
Findlay, O.. May 14. The motion fo a
new trial in the case of Bey. Joseph Kb
ben Powell, convicted of fraudulent regis
tration, was overruled, and the preacher
was sentenced to one year in the peniten
tiary. Sentence was suspended till June
26 to allow the attorneys for the defendant
to take the case to the circuit court, j Mr.
Powell is ths unnaturalized Englishman
who, to show how lax American registra
tion laws were, had his name placedsoo
the list of voters.
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