Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1891 — Page 4

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TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY' MORNING. FEBRUARY 25. 1891-TWELYE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS. President.

llntercd at the Potmca at Indianapolis M Moond d it alter. TERMS rEU TKARi Ffrg erpT (InTartably la Advanoe.) .S1 00 VTf a;k if ie ot rat to bear In wind and sclrrl thtir evrn rtate paper when they couoe to take eubecripticm and make np clubs. gctits making np club aend for anv information Ceaired. AduriaTliE l'bLAlArOLlS SENTIN EL IndianapoIIa. Jnd, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 25. TWELVE PAGES. DON'T TRUST SPROULE. It has come to the knowledge of this paper that a man known as one F. E. Sproule has been traveling in the southern part of Indiana representing himself as an authorized agent of Trie Sentinel. This patcr has no such t gent or employe and will not be responsible for any liabilities or contracts made by him, and all parties are warned not to trust him on the credit of The Skxtixel. Any persons who may have made contracts of any kind with luch a man will do us a favor by notifying us at once. Stand Up and Be Counted. The failure of the legislature to take any action regarding the claim of the stato against the Terre Haute & Indianapolis railroad is inexplicable. As we said when we recently published the "shameful hi-tory" of this claim, we have no idea that the slate will ever get a penny of it. This powerful railroad corporation, with the genial Riley McKeax at its head, is a pood deal bigger institution apparently than tho state of Indiana. Mr. Cul'op's resolution, providing for an investigation of this matter, has been reported to the house. It oubt to be brought to a vote at once. The representatives and senators should be compelled to s:o on record on it. If the resofluticnis passed a committee should be appointed to make the investigation, composed of men absolutely abore tutpicioru Speaker NiblacV can, of course, be depended upon to appoint such men in behalf of the house. We don't inow whether or not the railroad company will get the privilege of naming the senate members of the committee. Either the railroad company owes the I tate a vast sum of money or does not, If it does it should be made to pay up. If it does not it should welcome an opportunity to show, in the courts, that the claim is without merit. The fact that it is now, as it has been for many years, using every effort to prevent even an investigation of the matter, is the best evidence that could be desired that tho claim is a valid one. We hope the pending resolution will be passed in the house and sent to the senate without delay. Let those who aro opposed to it stand up and be counted. The eubee-fj-ient proceedings may be interesting, or they mny not. But it will not be the fault of The Sentinel if they are wholly witiiout interest. A Quibble Exposed. The Alliance AroraW takes exception to fome recent remarks of The .Sentinel concert ing the farmers' alliance, and especially to th3 following: (1) That the fanners' alliance wu organized in this state to defeat the democratic party ; (2) that the farmers' alliance has asserted itself as a political party. By way of premise, we would gay for the benefit of those who have paid no attention to farmers' organizations that many peisous confound the alliance with other eocities which are entireiy distinct from it. There are in this state several organizations, euch cs the wheel, the sheaf, the F. M. B. A. and the patrons of industry, which are non-political societies, formed for"tho educational and social advancement of their members. So tar as we are informed these bodies have not become identified with the third party movement, and the majority of their members are oppoeed to it. The alliance is a horse of another color, as will readily be seen from a brief recapitulation of its connection with the last campaign. On Sept. 23, 1S0O, there was held at Indianapolis a convention of w hat was called the people's party. It was held during the state fair, and every effort was made to bring farmers into harmony with it. Concerning its character wo submit the following extract from the account given at the time in the 2'eut: The fourth and, from present indications, thj last political state convention for this year, met at Indianapolis todav. The visitors ths time are tho greenbackerr, union labor, farmers' alliance, etc., representatives pleaded to bo called "independents." The report (of the commiLteo on resolutions) recommended as the party's plat'orm the declaration of principles st forth by the farmers' &1. iar.ee convention held in St. Louis last Decern her. The platform was awJopt'.'tl without any discussion. Concerning this convention The Sentinel said at the time, and we think with the approval of the democrats of Indiana: The affair was manipulated by the republican managers, but it is probable that most of thoe who partic;pa'ed, when they wake up to the fact that they are being nsed to pud the monopoly chestnut out of tha fire, wid turn in and support the only Tarty which can help the farmers and wag-earners to their rights the party of democracy. We are well aware that tho state farmers' alliance and industrial union as a society did not abandon its constitution and go into this party, as also that the national alliance in its convention at Oeala refused to organize as a political party, notwithstanding the efforts of the Kansas representatives and others to bring about that result. The fart remains that the al.iance m tho backbone of the people's party in this state. Many withdrew from it as we predicted. Lerot Temtleton, who headed their ticket, withdrew, and the republicans who controlled the movement put in bis place the republican candidate for the same position Mr. Milton Tuisler. But

many remained, and they claim today that the people's party is the farmers' alliance. If any person doubts our statement he will perhaps be satisSed from the following declaration of the Leader tho organ of that party on Jan. 17, 1891, in response to a question 'whether it favored "independent action and voting within the old twin parties, or for independents voting in a third party on the St. Louis platform of 1SS0." It says: The farmers' alliance the people's party Is our party and so long as it continues to advocate its present principles and so long as it opposes the corruption and the falsity of the old parties just so long will it be our party. That there are rare times when fusion with one or the other old parties ffr the furtherance of some particular object is alvisablo even imperative we do not deny, but th people's party is a remarkably heulihy infant and earnest work on the part of its members will make such times of combination beautifully scarce. We trust that our readers will realize that The Sentinel understands perfectly what it has been discussing. We have no criticism whatever to make of the farmers' alliance or any other organization as a social and educational affair. Neither Lave we any objection to what we have shown to be the farmers' alliance or people's party as a political organization. We do object to that political organization's atterapting to control the democratic party's policy in matters when the two do not agree. For example their platform declares We are in favor of the stato furnishing school-books at cost to the townships to be given free to all pupils. The democratic party is committed against this project of the school-book trust, and we do not believe that any democrat who is loyal to his party would support it. The Value of an Assessor's Oath. Text book writers on taxa'.ion and tax commissioners in general agree that oaths with penalties for perjury aliixed are not enough to secure from tax payers a full listing of invisible personal property nor from assessors a fair valuation. The temptation, they say, mast be in great part at least removed. The Howard bill still retains the oath, but hopes to mako it rcore effectual by making it more specific. This is possibly the beet that can be done, but tho experience of Michigan would seem to show that it should be more specific still, and that a penalty should be attached for making any omission or variation in the form of the assessor's oath. The Michigan law prescribes that an assessor should take oath that he had assessed the property "at its true rash value and notut wl at it would bring at a forced or auction sale'

On examination of the assessor's books in two counties, made some years after the law had been in operation, revealed the fact that a large proportion of the assessors in signing their returns omitcd the word'', "and not at what it would bring at a forced or auction sale." Their consciences would permit them to use the words, "at its true catdi value," but not the defining word. tht followed. The supremo court of the state, in deciding a tax-title case, linaily declared that all taxes made on the basis of an assessment roll from which the assessor in his dec'aration had omitted the words, "and not at what it would bring at a forced or auction sale," were invaiid, and tax-titles to land secured by payment of such taxes were worthless. The importance of buch a declaration is, it is seen, too great to permit any question as to it form or any laxity of any kind in filling out the form. Would it not be weli, iu the various places in which refcrtnee is made in the assessors oaths to tho provisions of eee. o4 of the bill, to insert those provisions in fuli? If an assessor were inclined to undervalue, and did not have in mind the provisions of that section, he would be careful not to learn them. Such men are seekirjg methods of evasion. Again, would it not bo well in sec. 214 to provide a penalty for a variation or omission in the form of the oath taken? It is difficult practically impossible to convict a man of "willfully assessing any property at more or less than what he- believes to be its true cash value." It is hard to prove a man's belief. But it is easy to show whether a man has written a declaration in the form prescribed by law ; and the experience in Michigan has shown tbat assessors do regard the form' of oath taken. The success of the new law proposed will depend in no slight degree upon the slight chance of strengthening the bill to be raising of assessments to their proper amount. The bill is drafted with this evidently in the minds of itsframers. The task is too difficult a one to permit even a passed by. The assessor's oath should be made of as much value as is possible. A General Itoail Law, The legislature it seems, from present indications, will be able to lookback upon good work done. The appellate court bill, a much-needed measure for the good of tho poorer litigants especially, will probably pass. The committees of both houses have practically agreed upon a revision of our tax laws that will put tho state iu a position to begin to pay its debts. The fee and salary bill, while not yet in satisfactory shape, is still well along, and is likely to prove satisfactory to the people. One other very important reform that tho farmers particularly need is a general road law that will make the road work systematic, thorough and telling in its effects. The outlines of such a system have already been drawn in these columns. Provision must be made for the pdirect superintendence of the work by men wno are more than unskilled laborers. Tiling cannot be laid in a level country . .. without very careful grading under the direction of an engineer; otherwise tho work will prove an Injury instead of a benefit. The laying out of a road so as to make it most efficient at the lesst expense cannot be done to the best advantage by untrained viewers unless tht y have the counsel of a man who has made a special study of the subject. No two counties, no two roads even, need the same treatment, and no one who has. not mado such work his business ran tell just what is best in each case. Give us. engineers to personally oversee the work and -make specifications for contracts; pive us also the means to make the minor repairs when they are needed, and the problem is solved. It would be well to have a state engineer also, to harmonize the work, to publish accounts of work done and the results of work on different soil, of the expense in

different localities; 'also to prescribe maximum grades on roads or different daess, the width of roads and other specifications, in order that uniformity in working and a high degree cf excellence may by maintained. Such an officer would more than pay for his salary and expenses, far more ; but such an otEcer cannot take the place of a trained man in every county, who can see that proper contracts are made and who can personally train road superintendents and see that their time is well spent. Dad Work in the Senate. The democratic state tenate on Thursday dealt the democratic party of Indiana a severe blow when it defeated Senator Maker's bill to regulate the selection of employes of the benevolent institutions. It is not in the power of the republicans of Indiana to do the democratic party of the state so grievous an injury as the twenty-six democratic senators inflicted upon it when they voted down this eminently just, wise and righteous measure. It is amazing that men who profess to be sagacious politicians, who are familiar with the recent political history of the state, M ho are acquainted with the wrongs which have been perpetrated in our lenevolent institutions under shelter of the barbarous and infamous system of "patronage," which has converted them into asylums ior croes-roals bummers and ward heelers, who know how much odium the democratic party has had to carry, much of it unjustly, because of the abuses growing out of the existing syrtera it is amazing, we say, that men priding themselves upon their sagacity as politicians should, when the opportunity was offered them, decline to relieve their party of a burden so oppressive. The democratic jenators who voted against Senator M ague's excellent bill committed an act of political folly so groca as to bo almost criminal. The defeat of this measure will cost the democratic party thousands of votes at future elections. Os'o party can hope to hold its own in this stato which deliberately sets itself against the moral sentiment of the people; which plants itself across the pathway of progress and reform; which obstructs measures in whose behalf every cem-ideration cf humanity, decency and common justice demands. We say to the twenty-six democratic senators who voted down Senator Macee's bill that they have placed the democratic party in a fa'se position before the people; that the great democratic masses of Indiana do not approve their action and will cot sustain thtm in it; that the representative democratic newspapers of Indiana will not apologizo for it or defend it in any way. There is, in point of fact, no defense to be made for it. It is a manifestation of "peanut politics" in its most cruel and offensive form. That sort of politics is, thank Gon, pretty well played out in Indiana, and the politicians who practice it, and the party which tolerates it, will, sooner or later and more likely sooner than later come to grief. Wo have no d'.abt that many of the democratic senators wl.o voted to kill tho

Mogeo bill did so thoughtlessly; becauee of some prejudice against civil servir j reform, or some exaggerated idea of the political value of tho patronage of the benevolent institutions. But whatever motivo actuated them, they have shouldered an unnecessary burden upon the democratic party. Let n. one donbt that such i measure as the Magee bill will, in due time, bo placed upon the statute books of Indiana. This legislature refuses to do this righteous thiug, but the next legislature, whatever its political complexion, will do it. Mark the prediction. The people of Indiana, without regard to party, are determined tnat tho insane, the Miotic and the other helpless wards of the state shidl not continue to be the victims of the barbarism which is now practiced under the shelter of the spoils eystem in our public institutions. Democratic senators may not realize the condition of public sentiment on this question, but The Sentinel does, and as a democratic journal which believe that it serves its party bost when it serves its state best, it warns the legislature against a repetition of such serious mistakes as the senate made when it defeated the Magee bill. The Truat Company 1)111. The bill which passed the house on Tuesday, providing for the organization of trust companies, is, in a general way, a step in the right direction. It is legislation of the mofct important character. The trust companies of the country are fast outranking the banks in the extont of their transactions and financial responsibilities. They can do all that a bi;nk can do and a hundred things that a bank cannot do. They enter into confidential relations with families. They sit by tho bedside of dying husbands and fathers and promise to administer faithfully the estates left to widows and orphans. They undertako to do, and succeed remarkably well at it, a largo amount of business which it was once thought no one could do well but lawyers. In the settlement of estates, large and small, experience has proven they have been a great benefit to the heirs. They have most extraordinary powers and raro privilrges. All this being true, it follows, as a matter of course, that they should Ini institutions of the highest financial responsibility, managed by gentlemen of tho highest moral character and best-known fitness for the peculiar work. Good character and qualifications are very good things in their way, but uo law should be passed that will require people to depend solely upon these for the faithful administration of a trust. This bill provides that companies organized under it may become executors, administrators, guardians,' assignees, receivers, etc., without giving the legal bonds which are invariably required from individuals in such cases. This is clearly wrong. II we are to have a trutit company law, and The Sentinel thinks we ought to have one, let it be one that will put those institutions on the high financial plane that they occupy in other states. The company should be required, as trust companies are in Illinois, to deposit with the auditor of state, for the benefit of creditors, an amount of government and stato bonds proportionate to the amount of business it may be doing. The minimum security required ia Illinois is $200,000, and there are ample provisions for special increase of security for special trusts. In addition to this the means provided for public examination, and for examinations by courts where the funds of orphans are in question, are very

much better than in this bill just passed. In fact, all the trust companies of which we have knowledge are mora securely guarded and held to a stricter accountability than this bill contemplates. We hope the bill may be amended in the senate in the particulars wo have named and become a law. Mr. Beasley's school book bill parsed the house Wednesday by a voto of 7S to 2. This bill is supplemental to the school book law passed by the last legislature, its purpose being to corrsct pome defects which have developed In that measure and to enlarge its scope. A better or more popular law was never put upon the statute books of Indiana. It has saved the people of the Bt&te hundreds of thousands of dollars, increased the efficiency of our common schools, and relieved them of the demoralizing influence of the corrupt school book ting, which Lad plundered our citizens for so many years. The practical unanimity with which the house yesterday paeed the Beasley bill is gratifying evidence of the popular favor with w hich our new school book system is regarded. The Bea9ley bill ought to pass the senate without opposition, and we presume it will. No reform measure before the legislature will be farther reaching in its effects than the township library bill. It will be felt in every country home. It will give the priceless treasure of good bonks to thousands of children who now lack them. It will be an incalculable aid to teachers in their work of instruction. It will give employment to idle evenings. It will save many a young man from contractine vicious habits by loafing in saloons and other places of resort. It will educate the whole people and make them better citizens. It will help to establish morality by putting good reading ia the place of tho cheap trash which is now so widely circulated. Every beiiever in education, every friend of morality, every advocate of good citizenship, ought to be a supporter of the township library bill. It ought to pass without any opposition. No better selection for trustee of ths reform echool for boys than that of Mr. William C. Ball, editor of the Terre Haute Gazette, cculd have been made. Mr. Ball is one of the ablest men in Indiana, a thoroiigh-going democrat, as modest as he is capable, and as far removed from a suspicion of self-seeking as any man could be. We hope he may 6ee his way clear to accept the appointment, and if be does we can promise tbat he will render the most faithful and efficient service. Mr. Stanton J. Peelle, who wras also nominated for trustee, is a stalwart republican partinan, but personally is entirely acceptable, being a gentleman of culture and standing. These appointments are far above thensual Ilovev standard.

Tur.rEsamstobe some little irregularity in the pious Mr. Wan am vkt.r's stamp accounts. It is always just as well to keep your eye on a man who mixes up his religion and business in the manner of our postmaster-general. A man who contributes alternate!' to missionary funds and campaign corruption funds is a legitimate object of suspicion. The av.se Of woman's suffrage seems to be gjdnir.g strength. The Kansas house of representatives: which had before voted down tho bill authorizing women to vote, reconsidered its action and passed the measure. At the ptcsent rate of progress it is possible that the women of the -twenty-first century may vote. A complicated state of affairs confronts U. S. Senator-elect Kyle of South lakota. Not only was the vote cast for him below the constitutional requirement, but now it is Mid that he is not even a resident of tho state, being son.c-what of an itinerant missionary with even now a call from tho Last under consideration. The house coinage committee has voted to 8 to report tho senate free coinage bid adversely. This will bring the matter squarely before the house, but thero can be little doubt of the result. The bill will be beaten. Free coinage is dead, at least until next winter. Can any person give a reason why a country township should not have the privilege of maintaining a free public library as well as a city or town? Tns Weekly Sentinel has a larger circulation than that of all other weeklies in the city combined. Advertisers will noto this fact with interest. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. "Democrat," Brownsburg: (1) North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington were admitted into the union in November, 1SSD. (2) President Cleveland signed the biil for their admission. (3 and 4) Idaho and Wyoming were admitted as states in July, 18!H). (."; There are eighty-eight senators and 333 representatives in tho present congress. Thomas II. Uccker, M. D, Arlington: The "free ecinsge" bill provides that any quantity of silver of approved fiueness may be taken to the mint and exchanged for silver coin at the rate of $i for 412i grains. "Srnscr.iBER," city : John D. Rockefeller, president of the Standard oil corn panyv is considered the richest man in the United States. He is worth about $200,000,000. "SrESCRiBER," Arcsdia: In case of the destruction of national bank notes the government is the gainer. VVhr Sh Kept Siill. irhUal!dhlt Tlraei. "That woman at the corner of the table is very silent, isn't she?" "She has good reason to be. Any woman under her circumstances would do the same." "Oh, what is it. James; what's the reason ?" pleaded Mrs. Botticus, who dearly loved a scandal. "Why, she's deaf and dumb." Incorporation. The Lagro eoment and manufacturing company of Wabash county filed articles of incorporation Wednesday. Its capital stock is $50,000, and the directors of the concern are.W. H. Kuipple, W. B. Russell, T. IL Torter. J. F. Bamsev, V. H. Green, J. D. Shults, A. J. Abbott, W. Hogan, J. W. Egnew. When you decide to take Hood'a Sarsaparillado not be induced to buy some substitute preparation, which clerks may claim ia "as good as Hood's." The peculiar merit of Hood's Ssrsat arilla cannot be equalled. Therefore insist upon Hood's Sarsaparilla. Beecham's Pills cure Sick lleudache.

II The Steamer Sherlock Sinks in the Ohio In a Helpless Condition After She Strikes. Some Passengers Rescued By Boats From the Shore. Johnstown Once More Suffering From the Flood. The High Waters Doing Great Damage All Along the Valley. Cincinnati, O., Feb. 17. The steamer Sherlock.struck a Kentucky pier of the Chesepeake & Ohio bridge going down the river on a trip to New' Orleans. She had on board thirty passengers, about fifty or sixty of the boats crew. The boat went to pieces and floated down to Fifth-st. where she sank. She had on board 400 tjn of freight. Tho cabin floated down the river and at Riverside some of the crew got ashore in a skiff. Some were rescued at First-st. It is not known how many aro lost. It was after 7 o'clock tonight when tho steamer Sherlock of the Cincinnati and New Orleans line, under command ot Cap. Mclntyre, backed out from her wharf and started down the river on her last trip. She had aboard from thirty to thirty-five passengers and a crew of fifty to sixty men. The river was high, the wind was strong, and as the steamer approached tho Chesapeake s Ohio railroad bridge nearly all the passengers were on deck to see how near the boat's chimney would come to the bridge. Their curiosity was soon changed to fear as they saw the boat apparently at the mercy of the wind and the current, ant iu a moment, with a terTible crash in the darkness, the boat struck the stone pier of the bridge and it was utterly helpless. At thia wiiting no account of the accident from any one on the boat bas been eiven, but Mr, James Pickett of the Kenton county boat club w as on the Kentucky shore and observed something unusual in the boat's movements. Instead of going toward the wide renter span she moved toward the Kentucky span where the curr at is. He saw that she seemed to be unmanageable and that she was too close to the pier, and to his horror he saw her strike about tho wheel house on the Kentucky pido of the pier. She clung there for a short tirre and gave distress sitnrK Pickett manned boats with what help he could command and went to the help of the distre.-sed p:isB?ngers. He succeeded in picking off six women and seven men, following tho Moating vessel as she left the pier and floated down the angry river. He ssya ho saw some of tho crew swimming ashore. He saw two on a raft ot three boards, and ho thinks he saw many struggling in tho water. When the eteamer reached tho Fifih-st. wharf, after narrowly missing a Southern railroad bridge pier on the war, the hull sank, leaving the cabin with the passengers afloat. Here some of th people managed to get ashore. The harbor steamer A. L. Martin was hnstilv sent after the floating cabin, and caught it at Riverside, several n.iles below the city. As many as were left were hastily taken aboard and returned to the city. It is said they were remarkaby brave during their season of peril, and that, with lew exceptions, the women were more courageous than the men, even wh"n dath HeeuK-d certain. Mrs. Mclean of I'iltsburg was instantly killed by falling freight at the time of the collision. Among the saved are Pres Ellission, second clerk and his sister; Mrs. Willard and daughter of Columbus, O. ; Mrs. Connors of Columbus, O. Authony Davis and Isam Reynolds, colored deck hands, got to shore in a yawl. The Sherlocks was eighteen years old, valued at s'SO.OOO, and insured for J12,00O. She bad 400 tons of freight consisting of nails, paper, bottled beer, glassware and miscellaneous freight. There were twenty-one registered passengers rnd nine not registered. D. II. Key, wife and daughter of Cleveland were saved by Mr. Pickett, Mr. Key offered $10 to his rescuer, not knowing who be was, and was surprised to boar his offer refused. It is now known certainly tbat Mrs. McClean of Fittsbure and her grand daughter, Margery Brown of Pittsburg, were the only ones of the twent)'one registered passengers lost. Of the nine unregistered passengers, whether ad are saved is not known. It is believed every one of the official crew was 6aved. In respect to the cabin and deck crew there is a painful uncertainty. Tersone are reported as escaping to shore for quite a distance along the river in Cov ington. Many believe several are lost. Tho rescued are so scattered about on both sides of the river tonight that it is impossible to make a tally of the living and the missing. Cincinnati, Feb. IS. Mr. McLean cf Pittsburg, whose wile was killed by the accident to the steamer Sherlock last night, had the melancholy satisfaction this morning of hearing that tho body of his little granddaughter, Margery L. Brown, had been received at Riverside, where the upper work of the boat were beached last night. Beyond these two there i yet no positive assurance of loss of life, although a number of persons on and about the wreck tell of Boeing bodies in the water and of seeing them apparently sink. An accusation is made by one of the cabin-boys ttiat the mate and engineer on the boat were both druntc and that the crew was short. He will be held as a witness. It is true that the colored deckhands demanded a dollar a day instead of $25 a month, just before the boat started, and beine refused, they went ashore, a circumstance that no doubt saved t he lives of the pawner gere. Mr. Will C. Lepper, supposed to have bcn drowned, put in an appearance today. He said he had a fearful struggle in the river and had no strength to go beyond the water's edge on the Kentucky shore, where he lay until he was found by citizens, who tookhim to a house in Covington. Cleveland, Feb. 17. Fitch M. Adams, a well known business man in this citv, was drowned nt Chgrin falls today. He was in a boat inspecting damage done by tha hih water and was carried over the fails. . AT PITTSBURG. Tha Praaant Rlaa ltida Fair to Rival the Or ant Flood. Pittsburg, Ta., Feb. 17. -The present unexpected flood bids fair to rival that of 1884, when enormous damage was caused to business and railroad interests. The greatest flood come down tho Allegheny

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Used in Millions of Homes rivr, which backed"un the Mocongihela for miles. The river has risen all dnv r.t an average of six inches per honr aid at 10 o'clock tonight stinJs thlrtv feet ipht inches and rising slowly. Tho rising waters tonight causo a great deal of apprehension on the Allegheny side, as two natural gas explosions there have endangered bte and ruined property, and it is feared others may follow as meters and pipes are several feet under water and cannot be reached. All mills along the river have shut down on account of flooded fires and many thouaaud men are idling about the river bank?. On the Pittsburg side of tho AUVeheny cellars and near housed are flooded and pecpla are moving a? their Allegheny neighbor did eomo hours ago. Djiuesiie was under water in several places and Scvctith-at. residences havo water on the first floor. Considering its magnitude the flood has caused very littlo excitement, while the greatest damage has beet caused by Hooded cellars, it being estimated that 3.CO0 families in the two cities alone have been inconvenienced by w.-.ter. Any further ri-je, however, w ill do groat damage as the limit has ?er. reached and even now it is reported the exposition building and other large down-town buildings have been greatlv damaged. At Johnstown the dreaded Stony creek and Cotiemauyh were standing at their hijrhest point all lay, wtiile the famous stone bridge Mocks water up into the town, the greater portion of which is from four to fix feet underwater. Every houso in Cambria City is desci'ed and a swift current flows through the streets and all dny thousands lined the banks and the hills. The enormous lrg boom up Shade cretk still holds good and it is hoped no break will occur. A wild report Spread that the Teon'e were about to dvnaniite the stone bridge and ov me requesT ci reri.;:enue:u i iu aim placed a guard at that po;nt. Tho minor, however, is thought to be the result of senst le?s taik. Lnte tonight rivers began to fall rapidly, thouzh the people will not return to their homes till morning, many staying with friemi.s who sheltered them during the great flood. The railroads, especially, have suffered In the country districts. No trains have ?ased over the Charticrs division of the ittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis today, though the B. A O. trains are running. The narrow-gaus rond from Wavnesburg to ashtngton has been vnsi'tdon t lie. hillsides, and 'no trains will run for several days. In the Clearfield and other lumber regions heavy losses will result from broken bo mis and lumber carried away, v. hi'e great looses are reported from low-lyiug farming districts. At Kittanins, the Allegheny river has reached a hither ptsge than sines 1S7:. The water has tloode 1 the upper portion Of the town, in some Phits passing through second stones, r ord City is enPi ureiy Uii'ier w ater ani reports irom me center regions say damage hm been inflicted to railroad and mining districts, while land slide3 are generally frequent at all places. PnTsurr.c., Pa.. Feb. 20. A social from Findlay, O., says the continued rain of the past few days has swollen the Blanchard river until it is now overflowing its banks and driving all the residents of tho lower sections from thtir homes 5nd doing a gr at deal of ds.mat.e to property. A dispatch from Johnstown. Ta., says the bodies of two flood victims wero broucht here that were found along the river bank below Nin ;veh yesterday. The Flood In Pennsylvania. Altoona, Pa., Feb. 17. Although this city has escaped, there has been considerable damage done by the high water both past and west. At Tyrone, the Juniata had a fifteen feet flood and the hou-.es in th western part of the town are surrounded with water with many half submerged. At Tipton, ten miles enst, a foot of water is running over the Pennsylvania railrond tracks. At Mineral Point," thirtythree miles west, w here tho Conemangh is very high, 300 men have been taken from the Altoona shops and sent there to work on the tracks. All trains are running about on time. Ten Indira an Hoar. Massillox, O., Feb, 17. The heavy rains cf the past few days have so swollen the streams of this city that all trains on the Wheeling & Lake Krie railroad east of Bowerston have been abandoned, tho trains being unable to get within twentyfive miles of fcash other on accouat of the washouts. On the Cleveland fe Loraine railroad twenth miles south of Rkhvillo the track is washed away for a mile and tho wires are down. The Tuscarawas rose ten inches in an hour this morning, surrounding all the dwellings in the norfhern part of the city. The Hivara IlWln;. Willi amspobt. Pa., Feb. 17. -Everything now indicates a flood of not less than twenty-six feet in the Susquehanna river. The river has been rising about a foot per hour and is now over eieven teet. The advices from points up the river ere j that it is still raining and all the streams are high. Lumbermen are very uneasy, and manv merchants have commenced to remove their troods from tho lower stories of thtir establishments. The leve ls of the citv show that a twentv-six foot flood will brinsr the water up to the level of the court house square. . The riighcat 111 : n Veara West New ton, Pa., Feb. 17. The Youghiogheny river at 1 o'c'ock this afternoon had reached the highest point since August, 1SS-1. One track of the B. & Qrailway is passable, but th other is buried under twenty-five feet of water in places. Passengers on tho Pittsburg, McKeesport fc YounhiojfhenT railroad are being transerred around the slide at Cedar Creek. Trafllo Suaiiendad. Steihenville, O., Feb. 17. At noon today the gauge showed sixty-one feet in the river channel with the water rsing at tho rate of one foot per hour. Traffic on the Wheeling & Laka Erie is suspended between Steubenville and Bowerston and on the Pittsburg, Shreveport & Youarhiogheny railroad between here and Wheeling and the Cumberland branch of the Pan-Hsndle is tied up. Famlllea Irlvan Oat. McKeesport, Ta., Feb. 17. The Mononpahela and Youghiogheny rivers are both over their banks and rising at the rate of five inches per hour. Tho W. B. AVood iron works, the National rolling mill and the Sterling steed works are submerged. Much damage has been eione in the lower part of the city and many families are compelled to abandon their homes.

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THE IAIKDIEN'S MEETING AND WHAT GOOD IT ACCOMPLISHED. KTretrntatlv or Thia Industry, Corapoatnc the Stat Aacoslatton, Dltcnaa Top. lea of Intrant Intlorto tte rad. dock till Papers Bead. Wednesday norning the first annual meeting of tlnjndiana dairymen's association was hcl in the t-tate agricultural rooms. Prof. 1. S. Plumb of Purdue university, preident of the association, read his annuaaddress before tho morning session. He discussed'.he advantages to be derived from prgrization. The dairy interest was giOTng in importance each year. At the Irgicning cf the present year there were w2,324 milch cows in th'j state valued at ?12.0:' v''4. He argued that the stand.tr of da.ry cattle should be advanced, aid that the association should aim i further constant improvements in be mctho's of making butter and chi so and handling milk. It should &bo am to secure the passage of such laws as wald protect the interests of the dairy and s-ure a paid romrjiisioiier, whoso duty shuld be the enforcement of such laws. To educate the pc-oide to an understanding of dairy industries, he urged that a sef cs of meetings be hold at various point- ever the ;-taU', and instructions given by dxnpetent dairymen. Another point to le secured by the organiza tion was to sectre a sunieient re&umera.ra ift irice8 tJ mftke the work profija ble. By combr.ation railway tarills could bo reduced and various advantages secured. In the afternoon session President Plumb read thf Patton bill, which favors i the appointment of a dairy commissioner. and the -emulation of milk tests. This measure was indorsed by the association in aunnrimoas vote. Mrr. Kate M. Husick of Wabash then pave a pointed talk on the subject of "The Importance of the Dairy Interests to Indiana Farmers." She declared that raieine cattle for beef had become unprofitable and 'hat the dairy, by skillful management, could bj made highly successful. It took more corn to fatteu" beef etoc:-: than to keep dairy cows. She believed that cow should be tested for ouality and j quantify of milk and butter. Hogs could ! be led on skimmed milk, and all the fodi der r.nd otlu r products now wasted on the farm could be utilized as feed. AL interesting paper on vrrases mr IairT Cattle" was read by Prof. J. C. Ar tmr0( lhe i'urJue experimental etation Ile ;ave a short review of the historv of ! the cultivation of meadows end pastures. whita dates bark 011.7 00 year. He noticed the good qualities 61 varic.us grasses which he ranked in the fo'louing j oruer: Kentucky ulue grass, timothy. orchard grass and red-top. Clover was also noted as a variable forage crop, particularly the white Alsace variety. He dismissed the value and use ci commercial fertilizers on meadows, and condemned phosphates as injurious. Whether f pastures should be permanent nr ands used for restoration of crops, ho believed depended on the conditions of moisture in the soil, nature of the subsoil and underdrainage' and clitnat'c variations. For ordinary pastoral purposes a variety ef gras6es on a field pioduced the best results. Dr. C. A. Robinson of Morristown then lead a humorous paper -n "The Farmer as a Dairyman," and noted some mistaken ideas cntertaiued by city folks oi farmers' wives. He denied that the Ladles in question were sloven, as the product known as country butter offered in the Btorea would s -em to indicate. Much dirt becomes intermixed in the butter of commerce through the hucksters and middlemen. "Money in the Dairy if Well Managed." was the" subject of an interesting paper by C. B. Harris of Goshen. Dairying, if managed ou business principles, he believed could be made the raoct profitable kind of all agricultural industries. The first paper at the evening session was real by D. II. Jenkins of Indianapolis on 'The Needs of the Dairy of Indiana." The reader specified these needs as: (1) Organization in county as well as state; (2) a rigid law to prevent adulteration nd fraud; (3) education and a paper devoted wholly to dairy interests; C4) the need cf improvemtnt in fixtures and in the breeds of cattle; the best breed at present was the Jersey. "Milk Testa" was discussed by J. McClain Smith of Dayton, O. The reader believed that the phenomenal vield of butter, say four, five or six pounds a day, wculd not stand in the tests of a reputable chemiBt. The highest record j ever made according to tcientitic me thods was of a cow in England which gave 3 : pounds ;n one day s yield. An excel ent paper on "Dairy Breeds of Ca tlo" w as read by Mr. L. D. Worley of Kllettsville, the secretary of the association. She fcave the history, record and points ef the Kerry, Breton. Normandy. Swiss, Ayrshire, "Jersey, and Guernsey and Holstein cattle which were pre-eminently the dairy breeds. The reader b- . lieves that for a combination l beef, but (ter and milk the Holstein species out ranked a!l other kinds. The last paper cf the evening was read by J. W. Lagrange of Franklin, whose subject wa "The Modern Dairy Cow." II outlined the shapo and general characteristics cf the nob!e animal which should be the ideal of every dairyman. By re-quest of Secretary Baglev cf the state board of agriculture President Plumb named Messrs. Wheatcraft and Gardman as experts on Jerseja for the next htate fair. Holstein judges, Messrs. Lagrange, Stanton and Don gen ; Short horns, .Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith. The association then adjourned and the members left congratulating each other on the success of their first annual meeting. Cbangea tt Cl.mate Kill Mora peopla than ia grncrallr kaown. Particularly la this tta cae la Instance abara the confutation la delicate, and ataona: our Immigrant poi elation peeking nt homo la those portiora of th WmI, and nhrra malirlal and trphoid fera prerail at certain aeaaona cj tba yer. Tha bt preparative for a change nf cUtnat.'', or ot diet and watar which tbat change nectMitatea, i Hoatettar'a Stomach Bitter, which not inly fcrtifias the lycUm agatnit ma'aria, a variable temperature, damp, and the deiiliiating e.Tecta of tropical hit, but ia also tha leadioi tamed? tor eon-tipation, dyrpcrula, iWt complaint, bodily troutlea aprclatly ; t to attack emigrant and visitors to reSont near tha equator, mariner and tourista. Whthr uctd a a safe gcara by aea voyager, travtlera by ltnd, miners, or of agriculturist ia newly populated districts, th' fica apccUo baa elicited the mott lTon.V.e UaUatoay.