St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 45, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 May 1892 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKEBTON, - - - INDIANA ACCOMMODATED HIM. COLONEL PHILLIPS BECOMES AN EXECUTIONER. Rapid Removal of Atlanta's Tough Ele-ment—Small-Pox In the Palmer House —Sioux City Neeiis Aid—Joseph Hum Will Work tor the State. Congressional. The 23d, Mr. Cullom occupied the chair in the Senate. The following bills passed: Authorizing the Secretary of War to procure and present suitable medals to the survivors of the “forlorn hope storming party,” of Fort Hudson, on June 15, 18113; appropriating 515,000 for the introduction of domesticated leindeer into Alaska; referring to the Court of Claims the claim of the Citizens’ Bank of Louisiana for specie taken from the bank by Major General Butler. Passed (with an amendment excluding allowance of interest). For a commission of three to examine and report relative to the employment of the pneumatic tube system, or other process for the rapid dispatch of mails in large cities. (Appropriating $20,030). Appropriating 815.000 for the purchase of the Travis oil painting of Abraham Lincoln to be hung in the Capitol. Appropriating $20,000 for a statute of the late Robert Dale Owen, of Indiana. In the House the Senate bill granting a pension to ex- Senator George W. Jones, of lowa, was passed. The river and harbor appropriation bill with the Senate amendments was referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. They Kill Three Men an Hour There. The water-works at Atlanta, Ga., was the scene Monday night of three tragedies, two of which have resulted fatally, and the victim of the third will die. Owing to the stringent liquor laws, the people around the water-works lay in supplies by the quantity Saturday. A large number of men got up an impromptu dance on the hill near by. They were half drunk and hilarious. Kid Sandford stepped upon the toes of Mack Mathews. The latter drew a revolver and shot Sandford dead. This scattered the danders, angering them at the same time. In one of the groups which was discussing the tragedy later, Bob Taylor and John Johnson disagreed. They fired simultaneously. One ball went through Taylor’s breast, leaving no hope of life. Within the next half hour John Kennedy and “Kicking” Bill Taylor came together. Taylor wiu shot in the abdomen and died from its effects. Nonp of the guilty men had been caught. A Negoro 'Wished to Be Hanged. An extraordinary murder and lynching occurred at Bastrop, La. One man committed the murder and one man did the lynching, with the assistance of the murderer. S. Chambliss Brigham was manager for Col. George C. Phillips, who owns a plantation on Island de Siard. Mr. Brigham was 25 years of age. While he was in the field he was shot from ambush by an old negro, who fired three shot with a Winchester rifle, killing Mr. , Brigham instantly. The negro then walked to the plantation residence, sum- ( he had killeußrigham and wanted to be hanged for it. Col. Phillips put a rope ( around the negro’s neck, pulled the rope over the limb of a tree, and the negro ! was soon swinging in a death struggle. ■ Sioux City Cries for Help. The pressure of public opinion compelled the Sioux City relief committee to change its course. The committee has issued an official statement saying that it had been mistaken in early estimates saying that all outside offerings would be thankfully received. The fact is that less than $12,000 has been paid into relief treasury, including the $5,000 appropriated by the City Council, whereas $150,000 could be used for the benefit of the poor sufferers. To the Pest House. A genvine case of small-pox was discovered at the Palmer House, Chicago, Monday, and forty minutes later the victim was on his way to the pesthouse in charge of a health officer, his room was filled with sulphurous fumes, and a score of protesting chambermaids and recalcitrant bell-boys and porters had been vaccinated. T. S. Meek. 34 years old, a traveling salesman for Hubbard Bros., No. 406 Race street, Philadelphia, is the person affected. BREVITIES, The steamer Aurania has a case of small-pox on board, and is detained at quarantine in New York. Fire destroyed the Binghamton (N. Y.) Woolen Manufacturing Company's building, causing a loss of $50,000. The Hirsch Committee has agreed to supply every destitute Jew emigrating from Russia with 500 rubles in cash. The street-car men at Youngstown, Ohio, have gone on a strike on account of the refusal of a demand for more pay. The Missouri River is falling at St. Louis and business will be resumed in certain of the flooded portions of the town in a few days. Charles Bailey, of Red Bluff, Cal., and James Lynn, of San Francisco, perished in Joyce’s Hotel, at Fairfield, Solano County, Cal., which burned Saturday night. At Ottawa, 111., Joseph Huzo was convicted of shooting Paul Grassat in a saloon fight last December, and was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The buildings on Coaster’s Harbor Island, near Newport, R. 1., which are designed for the navy training station, are ready to be turned over to the Government. At present there are 340 boys there, and on the ships Jamestown, Portsmouth and Monongahela 450 more. Poison in his beer caused the death of John T. Rouse, a prominent stockman of Waco, Texas. Suspicion rests on three men and a woman. William Hostetter and William Miller, notorious horse thieves, were killed by United States Marshal E. L. Drake, fifty miles east of Guthrie, Oklahoma. Henry Morris, aged 65, wanted to marry Lena Williams, aged 15, of Martin’s Ferry, Ohio. The father of the girl objected, whereupon Morris shot him fatally in the stomach.

EASTERN. The train-robber, Oliver Curtis Perry, pleaded guilty at Lyons, New York, and was sentenced to forty-nine years and three months on four indictments. Warner’s Intitute, in Brooklyn, N. Y., which contained the Zollner Maennerchor rooms, postal sub-station, etc., burned Monday, involving a loss of $250,000. Albert L. Stanton, an employe of a ' New York jewely firm, suddenly became ' Insane while traveling on a New York • Central train and cut his throat with a pocket-knife. Nealy & Co., dry goods dealers, of Haverhill, Mass., have made an assignment. Their liabilities are estimated at $30,000; assets unknown. C. E. Appletkin, a shoe dealer, of Boston, has gone into insolvency, with liabilities amounting to $30,000. A terrific explosion, a shock that was felt throughout the business section, a great cloud of smoke rolling upward, and the booming of the large fire alarm bell a moment later, were the initial features of the worst disaster Hartford (Conn.) has experienced since the memorable Park Central Hotel boiler explosion three years ago. The /Etna Pyrotechnic Works exploded, and five people were crushed and burned into almost unrecognizable masses and bones, and three were injured. At Oswego, N. Y., a great fire started In the big Washington mills. The lumber district was doomed. The fire backed up and destroyed the Corn Exchange and the Continental elevators on the south. The Merchants’ elevators on the north burned and Oswego’s elevator I interests were practically wiped out. j Not an elevator is left on the east side The loss is fully $500,000. Syracuse I firemen attended by special train. A I number of firemen who were fighting the | the fire on the top of the Continental Elevator were suddenly cut off by the flames and had a narrow escape from death. They had to be rescued by means of a rope. Six elevators have been destroyed. A dozen fires were burning at once on the west side of the river with no streams playing on them. WESTERN. There has been a hard snowstorm in Northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas. Gov. McKinley will make the opening address at the dedication of the convention hall in Minneapolis. Maurice Shea and Michael Burns were killed by falling down a chute on the dump at the Anaconda mine in Montana. Thirty-six persons are now known ! to have lost their lives in the ■ floods at i Sioux City, and the list is believed to be far from complete. The heavy rains have caused a rise in the Des Moines River and the Little Sioux Yalley is under water. Railroad traffic in lowa is greatly impeded by the floods. Mrs. Alice Beverly Crane, of New York, obtained a Sioux Falls divorce decree on Wednesday and on Thursday was married to Henry T. H. Hewiston of Aughnady House, County Kilkenny. - 1 ’ ■ : A fisherman named Beirnhoff was , carried over the dam at Crete, Neb., , and drowned. Nelson Packard and Martin Woodward, who tried to go to ; his assistance in another rowboat, | shared his fate. The Western railroads which have ' suffered from floods are getting their ; tracks again in order. The trains are to | some extent late, but the officials ex- j pect little more trouble unless the wa- j ters continue to rise. The baggage of Countess Margery, i the midget, who was the wife of "Gen- ’ eral Tom Thumb,” has been seized for ■ debts at Ogden, Utah. Tom Thumb and his wife were in their day great money ■ makers; the General, however, was improvident, and now his widow is in her old age on the verge of penury. Mrs. Clara H. Palmer of Glenville, Minn., died a day or two ago, the result of starvation. Several months ago her husband, the Rev. Frank W. Palmer, resolved not to eat, and in due course of time died. Shortly after hl# death his wife decided to quit eating, and could i not be coaxed or cajoled into taking food. She survived this regime several weeks, but at last succumbed. The loss by flood to growing crops and property in St. Louis County, Mo., is placed at $3,000,000; In St. Charles County, $1,000,000; in the city of St. , Louis, $1,000,000; and in the American । Bottom, $5,000,000. There was a meeting at the Merchants’ Exchange, St. Louis, and a large fund for the relief of the flood sufferers, to be known as the "Merchants’ Exchange Relief Fund," started. At Webb City, Mo., the Troupe Reduction Works, consisting of pumps, elevators and engines, were destroyed by fire; loss, $20,000; insurance, $10,600. The plant is within a few feet of where the great cave-in occurred, in which ■ three lives were lost, and the water is ■ rising in the mines so that the recovery j of the bodies will be greatly delayed, i and the probabilities are that they are [ in their final resting-place. In the Minnesota Supreme Court ! Judge Mitchell sustained the v. dity of । the laws relating to the manufacture j and sale of lard compounds. The court i held that the laws were valid as legiti- ‘ mate exercise of the powers of the State, j The suits were appealed from the Mu- j nicipal Court of Minneapolis, where Knute Aslesen was convicted of selling ■ cotolene, and C. M. Bassett of selling ; food prepared with this article without I furnishing the purchaser with a card ' containing notice of that fact. For the last ten or twelve years the : Grand Rapids (Mich.) Board of Police ' Commissioners has been in the habit of । holding secret sessions, the reporter and public being compelled to rely upon such scraps of news and modified reports as the commission chose to give out through i its secretary. Friday afternoon reporters ; representing each of the morning papers walked into the board room when the ses- • sion opened and began taking reports of ; the proceedings. The board ordered 1 them to leave. The reporters declined ? to go and informed the commission that if they were removed by force they would act on the advice of the City At- : torney and have the members of the board arrested for assault and battery. ; The commission saw no way out of the ! difficulty, and therefore adjourned the ■

meeting. The newspapers intend to pursue the same line of policy at each meeting and force the question of secret sessions to an issue. Together ■with news of tremendous floods in different parts of the State, a dispatch from Sioux City says: Rl ver rose from lts Janks at Sioux City, and a wall of water three feet nigli swept upon the lower portions of the residents lie dead ■ Leneath the flood, and the city i Th«° POr f y dama 8e over I ^-,009,000. The loss O s life is । not definitely known, being estimated at from twenty-five to one hundred with the strong probability that the latter figures are correct The first note of warning was a telegram received from Hinton twelve miles up the valley, to the effect that a fourteen-foot rise was coming. Intelligence was sent to the police station. Chief lluwm&n was notified and sent at once for an engine, loaded a boat, and starteel up the Illinois Central track for Leeds. The wave stuck when but a short distance up, and the Imat was launched at once. From otic house three children were taken, but the mother could not be rescued and perished. The party narrowly escaped being overturned by a second wave six feet In height The angry waves nearly made way with the tout From another house seven people were taketi who had crawled into the attic. Eight minutes after the bouse toppled over and swept down the stream. Five people were taken from a tree at Springdale. When the warning came Captain of Police Wickles and a posse made haste for the flat and warned as many as could be , reached before the flood came. Many i ■would not listen to the words of warning, i saving they had seen high water before, a d Stayed and were drowned. ’ SOUTHERN. The color-line dispute has resulted in ‘ ; the relinquishment of its charter by i ! the Grand Army of the Republic De- j I partment of Mississippi and Louisiana. I Sam Leflere, colored, who murdered i an inoffensive colored barber, Ike Wil- I ; kinson, in January, 1891, was hanged at ' Yicksburg, Miss., in the county jail ■ yard. Four women were murdered in Den- । nison, Texas, Tuesday night and it is ; supposed that one man, whose identity ! is at present unknown, was the author ' of all the crimes. Rev. Stephen Talbott, of Louis- I ville, Ky., has been sent to the peniten- ; tiary for two years for forgery, obtain- , ing money by false pretenses and ' perjury, to all of which he pleaded guilty. A drunken man placed the muzzle of his pistol against the abdomen of Police ! Officer Haley at Lexington Ky., and dis- i charged the weapon. Instead of killing the officer the bullet fell harmless to the gound. Because Mrs. Funk of Newoort. Ky., ! ■ was to take a second husband after a j ' period of widowhood extending over only three weeks, a crowd of women mobbed the house wherein the wedding ceremony was about to be performed. At Lexington, Ky., drunken John V. Edwards placed his revolver tightly against Officer Thomas Haley’s stomash and pulled the trigger. There was a report, but the bullet dropped harmleesy from the muzzle. The compressed ar had formed a cushion and saved Hala' from a murk. \ j Five persona were shot were Ira Mullins, a notorious shiner, ami his wife; William Mulling . John Chapel and a boy named MoorA The Adams family of the neighbor, hood, h whom Mullins has hail nianj quam-.., are suspected of the crime, Mrs. Mullins had $l,lOO sewed up in her belt, and this was taken. The sou Ch-bound passenger train of the St. Louis Southwestern Railroad, j familiarly known as the Cotton Belt, hid orders to turn back on account of high ; water south of Rob Roy, near Fine Bluff, * Ark., and meet the local freight ut Huaiphrey, but through oversight of theerew they commenced, backing the train to Goldman, the next station. On reaching the curve at Crooked Bayou, thelo- j cal freight, coming at full speed, rau into th< eeper and coaches, turning them ' from the trestle into the deep bayou, killing eleven jn'ople outright, and ; wounding eighteen more or less stri- 1 ously. POLITICAL. Governor Foster, of Louisiana, was inaugurated at Batou Rouge, Louisiana, Monday. Delaware Democrats send an uulu- j structed delegation to Chicago, but all favor Cleveland. The Virginia delegation to the Demo- ; j cratic National Convention is equally j divided on the Presidential question be- i ; tween Cleveland and Hill. The Democratic Convention of the i Fifteenth Illinois Congressional Dis- . trict renominated Representative Bussy j in spite of his withdrawal from the field. ' Twelve of the twenty-six delegates 1 from Georgia to the Democratic National Convention are favorable to the nomination of ex-President Cleveland. The North Carolina delegation is evenly di- ; vided for and against Cleveland. The ' California delegation is instructed for j Cleveland. The Illinois State Convention of the , People’s party, held at Danville, nomi- । nated the following ticket: Governor, ? N. M. Barnett; Lieutenant .Governor, । C. G. Dixon; Secretary of State, Fred । F. Blood; State Treasurer, J. W. McEl- : roy; Attorney General, Jesse Cox; AudI it r, S. C. Hills; Congressmen-at-large, । I Jesse Harper and Lester Hubbard. v FOREIGN, The breach between Timothy Healy j and the McCarthyites is widening. Earthquakes were felt in the county of Cornwall, England, and in the island [ of Sum itra. The Spanish Government has removed , the prohibition against the importation ' of American pork. ■ The French forces in Tonquin captur< d a pirate stronghold after killing j 125 of its defenders. The death is announced of General George Klapka, who was Minister of j M ar under the Hungarian patriot Louis Kossuth. The counting of the silver currency of Austro-Hungary has shown that the stock is £15,000,000 sterling, an amount much less than has generally been ; credited to the country. Lord Salisbury's declarations in his ; Hastings speech in favor of a retaliatory

protective policy have created a furore in English political circles. , John A. Anderson, Consul General 1 of the United States at Cairo, Egypt, and formerly member of Congress from . Kansas, died at Liverpool, en route I home, Wednesday. , Three villages near the fortified i town of Erivan, in Transcaucasia, were । destroyed by earthquake recently and . twenty-seven persons killed outright, while many others were injured. j The British force which is making its j way into the interior of Africa from the Gold coast, for the purpose of punishing th; na ^ v o tribes that are interfering with trade routes, burned two towns of k* h us an ^ P ut their opponents to flight. r The greatest interest is manifested at Rice in the trial of Edmund Parker Deacon on the charge of manslaughter for shooting M. Abeille, owing to the latter s intimacy with Mrs. Deacon. The । trial began in the Assize Court and the , court-room was crowded. Among those present were the British Consul, Mr. tial, the American Vice Consul, Major Brevoort, and Mr. Deacon’s brother. London cable: As reports come in from the recent hurricane which swept the Island of Mauritius, the devastation wrought increases in magnitude. ! It is known that in the City of Port Louis I alone 600 persons were killed. In the | various country districts thus far heard from 300 persons lost their lives, and these figures are more than likely to be added to when news is received from the remote districts in the mountains. It is believed that when the death roll is com- ‘ pleted it will be found that over 1,200 ; persons were killed. Charles Gilbert, from Oswestry, ; England, bound for Chicago, where his sister, Mrs. Mary Ann Wright, resides, ! has been detained at Ellis Island. He ’ is a convict, having served a five-year ; sentence in England for highway rob- | bery. The authorities there paid his i passage. He will be returned. A Lon- ! den dispatch says: Inquiries at Os--1 westry show that the refusal of j the authorities to allow the emi- | grant Gibson to land in New York was amply justified by the facts in the I case. Gibson some years ago committed l an aggravated assault and highway rob- , bery. He was tried at the Stafford । Assizes, found guilty, and senteneed to five years’ imprisonment. After serv- ; ing three and a half years of his term | he was iil erated on ticket-of-leave and : returned to Oswestry, where he became । the terror of the quiet town. He was ; in constant trouble with the police and publicans and was often fined fordrunki nuess and disorderly condu -t. IN GENERAL Union Theological Seminary has graduatenl a class of forty-eight young men. Six persons were wounded and one v as killed during the riots iu the City of Mexico. The American Library Association will holds its convention next year iu Chicago. The trustees of Tufts College have decided to open the doors of the Institution to women. THERM ity .-f removal gun-carria^o factory from Watervliet to Rock Island. I Capt. J. W. Lawler, who lately navigated a small boat from Boston to Liv- | erpool, will make the trip again in even a smaller bout than the Dark SecretAn association has been incoq»orated by the millers of Canada for the pur|Kst> of extending their flour markets in Europe, ami of obtaining cheaper rates of shipment. Justice Harlan and Senator Morgan have formally notified the President i f ; th<4r willingness to sene as arbitrators on behalf of the United States in the i Behring Sea matter. Six men have been arrested >n a | ; charge of being concerm*-! in the recent ■ attempt to rob a train on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad. One of them has made a confession implicating 1 all the others. A fearful disaster has overtaken | the Brazilian warship Solimoes off the Uruguay coivst. It was dispatched from Rio Janeiro some days since to act as : convoy to the flotilla which carried ’ troops to aid in quelling the rebellion ; in the Brazilian Stat of Matto Grosso. ; Th® crew of the warship numbered 127 j men. Just as the Solimoes was off ! Polonio Island, it struck a rock violently, ■ bows on. All the crew were under ; hatches, except four sailors and the pilot, and of the whole crew, only these escaped. MARKET REPORTS CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3.50 gt 4.75 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.50 @ 5.00 Biusep—Fair to Choice 4.00 & 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Spring .85^ Corn—No. 2, new 48 .49 Oats—No. 2 81 @ .i 3 Rye—No. 2 77 & Butter—Choice Creamery 19 @ .11 i Cheese—Full Cream, flats •» .10 Eggs—Fresh U'..a .15'4 ' Potatoes—Choice old. per bu... .-iw .50 INDIANAPOLIS. j Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 450 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 eJ 4.75 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.0 C & 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 86 <g .87 | Corn—No. 1 White .45^ , Oats—No. 2 White 32 .33 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 <g 4.50 Hogs 3.50 id 4.75 i Wheat—No. 2 lied 88 @ .50 Corn—No. 2 48 & .49 Oats—No. 2 35 .36 । Hye—No. 3 70 @ .72 CINCINNAIL 1 Cattle 3.00 @ 4.50 । Hogs 3.00 & 4.7 i I Sheep 4.00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 88 @ .19 ; Corn—No. 2 48 .49 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 35 & .36 DEIROH. Cattle 5.03 @ 4.25 Hogs 3.00 @4.75 Sheep 3.00 & 5.75 WheA’ 2 Red 91^® .92 Corn— 2 iellow 51 @ .52 : Oats . 2 White .34>i TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 93 @ .94 C bn—No. 2 Whi e 4-1 @ .50 ; Oats—Ko. 2 White JU @ .32 ! Rye .81 @ .83 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle 4.00 ® 5.75 Live Hogs 3.75 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 9J yi. .92 1 Corn—No. 2 5J & .51 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 82v>@ .83^ Cohn—No. 3 47tJ@ .48'71 Oats-No. 2 White : 5 .36W Rie—No. 1 77 ® .78 Barley—No. 2 54 @ .55 PollH—Mess 9.50 @IO.OO NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 4.75 Hogs.. ............................ 3.60 @5 75 , Sheep, 5. CO m : Wheat—No. 2 Red 98 @ 1.00 1 Cohn—No 2 58 @ .60 1 Oats—Mixed Western 37 @ .88^ 1 Butter —Creamery 15 ® .21 ; Bork—" New Mess 10,75 @11.27

SIOUX CITY IN TERROR. OVERWHELMED BY A MIGHTY FLOOD. 1 Over Thirty People Swept to an Awful Fate by a Death-Dealing Cloudburst— Fully Three Thousand Rendered Home, less—lß4,ooo,ooo Damage. A Resistless Torrent. Wednesday morning the most fearful flood ever known in lowa struck Sioux City. It was the result of a cloudbmst in the valley of the Floyd River. The loss of life is appalling, but its exact extent is not yet known. Fifteen todies have already been recovered, and it is feared the victims will be at least double that number. Reports of the missing eh w fully 160 persons are not yet accounted" for. Most of them are children, and it is thought that the ma ority of them have wandered away in the r terror and me being sheltero 1 by strangers. The valley of the Floyd, Dorn the manufacturing suburb of Leeds clown to the Missouri, is from one to two miles wide, a low flat, and includes the manufacturing and industrial distr cts of the city, the railroad yard and shops, and the houses of a large part of the laboring classes of the city. The water came down with a rush and in a<i hour the valley was a roaring sea from river to bluff. The river continued to rise, coming up Third and Fourth streets in the Missouri bottom at the rate of two blocks an hour and reaching across most of the business part of town. I he people were taken by surprise and some were so struck by terror as to be unable to make a move to escape. One rider in a sulky was met by the wave as it came up Fourth street and was drowned. Many tied but half dressed. Others were unaware of the danger and their first warning was when they were snatched by the rescuers, placed in wagons and hurried to j laces ot safetv. There were many helpers, 1 ut jnost of them, having no boats, were powerless. Early in the day a woman was seen wading in the str an, hold ng a child above her head. A rescuing party went for her in a boat, but th * current carried them by, ami the woman and child were s- en to disappear under a mass of rubbish and were drowi el. Nellie West and a man named Polly and three chil- | dn n were also dr< wihhl, and when last ! 8» en the mother was wildly waving a piece of carpet out of a second-story window as the house floated away. One old lady was found sitting astride the roof <>t a h .use up to the < aves in water and was rescued. A house containing a man, a woman, and a large family of children floated down the cuntur of the stream. It struck a bridge and went under. The rescuers made f< r the spot and the woman was rescued after four attemp t. Cheer on cheer went up from the throats of the watchers on th* road. A house with seven occupants floated down, and a largo made several unsuccessful attompts and finally saved all of the.a. One man was seen swimming ashore with a woman and a child on his back. The woman was chilled and frightened, and dropped the infant. One woman gave birth to a girl baby, and both will, survive A rescuing two mon, whose I ruim^ could not be learned, towed | h o u man, wife, and child, and started for the shore. The boat capsized in the middle of the stream and all five were drowned. Twenty-one bodies were seen to pass under the structure of the elevated railroad in a space of two hours after the floral came. To add to the horror the rising water slacked lime in the Queal & Co. luml»er yards. Pieces of this huge raft ot blazing lumber floated down the stream, setting tiro to j houses in their path. The first note of warning was a telegram rvoeivid from Hinton, twelve : miles up the valley, saying that a four- I teen-foot ri<e was coming. Intelli- j gonce was sent to the police station, ; ami Chief Hawman was notified. He I sent at once for an engine, loaded a ! lx>it, ami started up the Illinois Central | tra- ks for Leeds. The wave was stru k । when but a short distance up, and the ■ boat wa- launched at once. From one house three children were taken, but the mother could not be rescued and per shed. From another house seven pet pie were taken who had i crawled into the attic. I’Ve people | were removed from a tree. The debris i piled up so that it would bear the weight i of a man and greatly hindi ro 1 the work. ■ "When the word came Captain of Police Wicks un 1 a p 'Sse made haste for the flat and warned as many as could be reached before the flood came. Many would not listen to words of warning, saying they had seen high water before. They stayed and were drowned. Others were saved, with little of their belongings. The water rose four feet in one hour and a half, and from 9 o’clock continued to rise steadily, but not so rapidly. Probably 1,000 inhabitants of the city live on the low ground which is overflowed. So rapid was the rise of the tide that, great l umbers were unable to escape and the work of rescue engaged every energy of the people. At 10 o’clock the fire alarm was sounded to call out more workers. All the boats from the boat houses on the Sioux Hiver were brought iu and used to save life and property. At 1 o’clock p. m. the water had reached to Jenning’s store on Fourth street. The Hotel Fowle and the Boston Investment Company’s building were surrounded. The Union depot was cut off at 9 o’clock. It is estimated that B,ofto people have been driven from their homes. All business is suspended. Before noon the ladies had several soup and lunch houses opened for the flood sufferers. At noon 375 people had registered for relief and the applications had then only just been begun. The scenes along the verge of the waters were pitifal. There was neither gaslight nor electric light, as l oth plants were under water. The water was slowly receding at night. A citizens’ meeting at. the courthouse organized to provide several thousand people with shelter. The damage to property will reach $4,000,000. The kiss of the Sioux City and Northern Railroad will exceed $200,000. Miles of cedar block paving were washed out. Caitw of “Dora most have suffered some terribe disappointment. One never sees her smile now. "What is the matter?” “Two front teeth pulled.”—Life.

HIE SENATE AND HOUSE. 1 ■ WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives — Important Measures Discussed and Acted Upon—Gist of tho Business. The National Solons. On the 17th the Senate authorized the Washington Schuetzenverein to erect at its own expense a colossal bust of Baron von Steuben, a general of the revolutionary army, in one of the public parks or reservations of Washington city. Mr. Chandler Introduced a bill to authorize the registration of certain steamships as vessels of the United States, and it was referred to the Committee on Commerce. Senator Stanford, from the Public Buildings Committee, reported a bill appropriating 675,000 for the erection of a public building at Battle Creek. Mich. He also reported a bill increasing to $125,000 the limit of cost for the public building at Lansing, Mich., and appropriating $25,000. The naval appropriation bill occupied the balance of the time. The House devoted the en’iie session to the discussion of depredations on public timber. In the House,the 18th, the silver question was the feature of interest. The Speaker sustained the point of order raised against Mr. Bartine's tree-coinage amendment to the sundry civil bill, and the House clinched the matter by upholding Mr. Crisp’s decision. After the transaction of routine business the House then went into , committee of the whole (Mr. Lester, of Georgia, in the chair) on the sundry civil bill Mr. Smith, of Arizona, moved to increase from SIOO.00) to $400,000 the appropriation for surveying the public lands. After some debate a compromise was arrived at and the appropriation fixed at $200,0)0. The Senate resumed consideration of the vessel appropriation bill. Several amendments were agreed: the bill was passed without a division and the Senate adiourned. in the House, on the 19th, the Chairnmu of the committee of the whole sustained the point of order against Mr. Bland's amendment. Mr. Watson of Georgia sent up to the clerk’s desk and had read the terse resolution “that the Committee on Ways and Means be requested to a-eport tho subtreasury bill.” Ho asked unanimous consent for Its consideration, but Mr. Beltzhoover’s demand for the “regular order” operated as an objection. After a fruitless call of committees the House went into committer of the whole— Mr. Lester, of Georgia, in the chair—on the sundry civil bill. Mr. Bland then reoffered his amendment with the proviso 1 attached ti it, “that the cost of this coinage shall not exceed $95,000, $5,000 of which shall be for the coinage of Subsidiary silver and $90,000 for standard silver dollars. Rejected. and the House adjourned. The Senate spent much of its time in discussing the river and harbor bill. The bill authorizing the Secretary of War to detail for special duty in connectli n with the World’s Columbian Exposition such army officers as may be required was passed. The bill exempting American coastwise vessels piloted by their licensed masters or by a United States pilot from the obligation to pay State pilots for services not rendered was passed without a division. The conference report on the hili to provide for the disposal and sale of the Klamath River Indian reservation was presented and agreed to. Mr. Aldrich offered a resolution (which was agreed to) abolishing the office of principal executive clerk of the Senate, and placing the entire clerical force of the Senate in the Secretary’s office. In the House, the 19th, in,. .1. 'it. J strike out the apLmoMl^ttGn rth^ I Mr Tex—. "^he clause In the bill appropriating $50,000 for the preparation of a site and the erection of a pedestal for a statue of Sherman In the city of Washington. Henderson of lowa and Breckinridge of Kentucky appealed to him to withdraw his point, but he declined. He said: “The rules of the House should be enforced. If the statue should be erected It should be provided for in an orderly manner.” In the Senate, after a long political discussion, the river and harbor bill was reported back to the House. All the amendments agreed J to in committee were concurred in in gross, and the bill was passed without a division. The following bills were passed: Appro- : printing $100,900 for a public building in । Joliet, Ill; to increase to $125,000 the ap- | propriation for the public building at ; Lansing, Mich.; to authorize the Illinois 1 and lowa Railway and Terminal Company 1 to build a bridge across the Mississippi I River at Moline, IIL : to authorize the con- | struction of a railroa/1 bridge across the 1 Columbia River in the State of Washing- | ton. On the Diamond. Following is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different assoclo- ; tions: NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. ^C. W. L SO. Boston - 0 7 ~jl Pittsburg.... 15 14 ^1) Brooklyn...-16 9 .640 New York. ..11 H .S.tl I Chicago 17 Jl .607 Philadelo’a.l2 15 .414 sveland...l> 11 .577 Washingt'n.D 11 -44> Cincinnati...!” 13 .552 St. Louts.... 7 21 .251 Louisville. ..14 13 .519 Baltimore •• 6 2) .21) tbß illinois-iowa league. W. L. w. L. Joliet Li 1 .9 4 Quincy....... 7 9.438 p eor i a 12 6 .667 R. 1.-Molino.. 7 Id .3oJ Bockford.’.” 7 ^33 Terre Hant«.. 5 12.294 Evansville...lo 19 .500 Jacksonville. o 13 .2.8 western league. W. L. %!o. W. L. ^c. Columbus.. .11 5 .1 • Omaha 7 10 .412 Milwaukee... 13 6 ,664 St. Paul 6 11 .353 Kansas Cltv.lo 9 .526 Minneaplis. 5 11 .313 Toledo 8 9 .47i.Indian’pT’s.. 2 11 .181 Country Boa ls, The Police Jury of St. Mary parish has made a new departure by contract- [ ing with Jules Merquet to ke.ep the pub- ■ lie roads of that parish in order for three j years for a specific sum. The result of I this experiment will be watched with some interest. —New Orleans TimesDemocrat. The road question is one of such importance that the State itself should ! take up the matter. All classes of peoI pie arc affected and interested. The j work of improvement will be vast, too ■ large to be left to couutlee or townships. . ' ' It must be made a State policy. —Keoi kuk Constitution-Democwit. On the other hand, when road-build-ing is under State supervision, and I wlu n the State bears a portion of the ! expense, it will be undertaken season- ■ ably, will be done in the summer time, ; and the roadbed will have come into i condition to resist the action of the eleI ments before the autumn rains begin to pour.—Baltim ore Herald. World** Fair The Salvation Army intends to show at the Exposition, in a complete manner, its whole echeme of moral and social reform. Fifty-five of the counties in Illinois have been organized for Exposition work by the women members of the State Worla’s Fair Board. Helena, Mont., will send to the Exposition a meteor discovered near i that city. It is composed of nickel and | magnetic iron, and is in two pieces of ninety and seventy pounds respect--1 ively.