WORLD NEWS
–The Manager of the White Star Line offered $50 each for the recovery of the bodies of the cabin passengers, and $20 each for the recovery of the bodies of the steerage passengers. It is said that the number of cabin passengers brought up from the wreck exceeded anything the oldest inhabitants had ever experienced.
(The S/S Atlantic sank in rough seas off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia on March 31, 1873. 562 people lost their lives. Interesting that there was a higher bounty for the richer passengers. –Ed.)
A TIME OF TORNADOES AND FLOODS.
The cyclone on Thursday in Iowa and Illinois, … seems to have been much worse than at first reported. In Washinton county, Iowa, ten persons were killed and twenty-four wounded, some dangerously; in Keokuk county, five persons were killed and ten injured. A flock of fifteen hundred sheep were carried off and mashed to pieces. They are said to have looked, while whirling around the air, “like a flock of birds.”
On Saturday Iowa had another visitation of the same kind, though less destructive. A dispatch from Des Moines describes it as follows: “A terrible tornado passed over a portion of Dallas County on Saturday. Houses were blown down, and stock picked up and driven through fences and injured. The hail was terrific. A waterspout ploughed up the corn lands in its path. Orchard were badly used up. Samuel Meek, plowing near Huff’s settlement, was killed by lightning, and one of the horses he was working.”
GOOD FOR COL. McKENZIE AND BAD FOR THE KICKAPOOS.
A dispatch from San Antonio, Texas, says that on the 17th Col. McKenzie with all the available cavalry at Fort Clark crossed the Rio Grande and attacked a company of Kickapoos, in the Santa Rosa mountains, capturing 19 warriors, several hundred horses and other property, which had been stolen by the Indians. Three soldiers were killed.
There is some talk as to how Mexico will like this, but it does not make much difference either way. These Indians have been a scourge to our border settlers for a long time, and the Mexican government either could not of would no restrain them. It became an absolutely necessity for the United States to take decisive measures to protect its citizens. Give us some more Col. McKenzies!
Vic. is getting along toward the “prime of life.” Last Saturday was the fifty-fourth anniversary of her birth day, and there were ‘igh hold times in Hingland.
(This refers, of course, to Queen Victoria of England. She would see 27 more birthdays. –Ed.)
LOCAL NEWS
–The second and third stories of the east and north and west walls of Broker’s Block were pulled down on Friday. The south wall is still standing, but in an unsafe condition.
–The house of the priest at Belle Prairie, Morrison county, was burned on Sunday night. It was a one-and-a-half story building, and was located near the church and college.
–We learn from Mr. Grout that a son of Capt. Young, of Coniska, McLeod county, has begun work on a new saw and grist mill at Holding’s Ford, in this county. It will be ready for work by fall.
(I have no idea where Coniska was. But I get a kick out of “Holding’s Ford.” –Ed.)
–This is the way it stuck the editor of the St. Paul Journal: The State Normal School at St. Cloud graduated ten young ladies last week–all smart, and every one beautiful.
–Mr. Geo. F. Warner, of Clearwater, brought two sacks of potatoes to town this week, and finding them slow sale, left them with Mayor Boyd to be given, a sack each, to two poor women whom the Mayor might select. They were so disposed of.
–About one hundred and twenty-five river drivers have been in this vicinity for several days past, and one-half of them, on an average, have been in the city.–They have been rather noisy part of the time, but have done no damage. From three to six extra policemen have been kept on duty.
NEEDLESSLY ALARMED.–The Chief of Police having given notice that all dogs not licensed before June 1st will be shot, a youngster from Bosting insists that “puppies” are included, and frantically calls upon the editor of this paper to get him a license, that he may not meet an untimely fate. The little creature need not be alarmed. We ahve carefully examined the Ordinance and find tha the is not yet old enough to require a license. So, the little creature can bark arround (sic) the streets in safety, only he must be careful not to get among people’s feet.
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