Violent Storms

Detboit, Mich., Maren. 31 -The sudden meltlng of six inches of snow and the heavy rains of the past week have caused the overflow of the seyeral streams In thta connty. Sixty Dridges have been woshed away and about 700 acres ol land flooded, destroying many acres of wheat Wakben, Ark., April 2.- Duringf a storm here Saturday the colored Baptist church was demolished. and great damage was done In the surrounding country, Eochesteb, N. Y., April 2.- During a snow-storm Saturday flashes of forked lightning were notloed, each followed by peals of thnnder. The eleotrlcal display lasted about fifteen minuten. Jackson, Miss., April 3.- Recent heavy rains have oaused the rear walls of the MisBlsBippi capítol building to sink, and it 1 estimated that f 100,000 wül be necesgary to make it Raí e. Elk Poist, 1). T., AprU 3.- Ths ice-gorga in the Sioux rlver above here broke yesterday, and the high water flooded all the low country for twenty miles. No losa of llfe ia reported, but the loas of stock and damage to property will ba large. Nine milea of the track of the Milwaukee road are washed away. Decatub, Ala., AprU 3.- All unprotected Windows In thls city were wrecked by a hall and wind-storm yesterday, and one building was blown down and man named Eckford Cooper was killed. London, April 2.- Chinese ad vlees say the BritiBh steamer Bwallow was wrecked olí Namoa Island, and thirty-one persona lost their lives. Iondon, April 2.- Ad vlees say the bark Britlsh Princesa has been wrecked off Camlnha, Portugal, and twenty-three persons were drowned, Bkbijh, April 4. - Seventy-nlne Tillares, with a populaüon ot 30,000, are submerged by floods, and it wlll requtre months ot labor to draln the flooded dlstrieta, Tho waters of the Vistula are still spreadlng, and cover an area of 400 square miles. There wlll be no haryest in the rlehest land In Germany, spring cultlvatlon belng lmpossible