The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 15, 1897, Page 2

i } t AID FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS. Congress Makes an Appropri- ation of $200,000. A MESSAGE FROM M’KINLEY. The President Explained the Need of Govern- ment Help and Congress Acted Quickly. Washington, D. C., April 7.—The President to-day sent the following message to the Senate and House of Representatives: Information which has recently come to me from the Governors of Arkansas, Mississippi and Louieiana and from prominent citizens of these states and Tennessee warrants the conclusion that widespread distress, involving the destruction of a large amount of property and loss of hu- man life, bas resulted from the flocds which have been submerging that eection of the country. These are stated on reliable authority to be the most destructiye floods that have ever devastated the Mississippi Val ley, the water being much higher than the highest stage it has reach ed before. From Marion, Ark. north of Memphis, to Greenville, Miss., a distance of more than 250 miles by river, it is reported there are now at least fifty towns and villages under water; and a territory extending 100 miles north of Memphis to 2C0 miles south and from fiye to forty miles wide is submerged. Hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivated soil with growing crops are included in the submerged terri tory. In this section alone there are from 50,000 to 60,000 people whose property has been destroyed, and whose business bas been suspended. Growing crops have been ruined, thousands of cattle drowned and the inhabitants of certain areas are threatened with starvation. As a great majority of the sufferers are small farmers, they have thus been . left entirely destitute, and will be unprepared for work even after the floods have subsided. The entire Mississippi Valley in Arkansas is flooded, and communica tion with many pointe cut off. In Mississippi a like condition exists. The levees in Louisiana, with a single exception, have held; but the water is rising, and the situation there is reported as being extremely critical. Under such circumstances the citi- zens of these states look for the co operation and support of the Na tional Government. in relieving the pressing cases of destitution for food, clothing and shelter which are beyond the reach of local efforts. The authorities who have communi cation with the executive, recognize that their first and most energetic duty is to provide as far as possible the means of caring for their own citizens; but nearly all of them agree in the opinion that after their re- sources have been exhausted, a sum aggregating at least $150,000, and possibly $200,000, will be required for immediate use. Precedents are not wanting that in such emergencies as this Con gress has taken prompt, generous and intelligent action, involving the expenditure of considerable sums of money with satisfactory results. In 1874 $590,000 was appropriated and in 1882 $350,000 was also appropri ated for relief in the same direction, besides Jarge sums in other years. The Citizens’ Relief Committee of Memphis, which has taken prompt action, has already cared for from 6,000 to 7,000 refugees from the flooded districts and they are still arriving in that city in large num- bers daily. Supplies and provisions have been sent to the various points in Arkansas and Mississippi by this committee, but the most that can be done by these efforts is to partly re- lieve the most acute cases of suffer- ing. No action has yet been taken for the great majority of the inhabi- tants living in the interior, whose condition hasalready been deseribed. | Under these conditions and having | exerted themselves to the fullest e€X-! Springfield in the closing days of | my cough, and it is the best selier I} tent the local authorities have reluc-! tantly confessed their inability to, further cope with this distressing situation unaided by relief from the! Government. It has therefore seemed to me| that the represeatatives of the peo.| ple should be promptly informed of | jthe remainer of the term. Keyes | Dis ' | was appointed by Cleveland to suc.} 2. tis, | erat, removed for “offensive partisan- | Deacon | Hardware and Cutlery, lacksmiths chinery, Barb wire, Salt, Buggy Pumps, Corn shellers, Chicken Groceries, Fruits, Nuts. Cigars C000 ENOUCH SULKY PLOW, supplies, Iron, Stee), Nails, Wagon wood work, Guns and emmunition, Buggies, Wagons and Farm ma- paints, Machine cils, Garden seeds, netting, Screen wire, Screen doors, and tobacco, confectionary, Tinware and Stoves, Steel ranges. Rope and Twine, Fishing Tackle. JNE Plow VO RD CO. Moline and Rock Island plows, Cultivators, Planters, Har- rows, etc. for the money in Bates BRING US Your Butter and eggs The best line of Top Buggies and Road Wagons county. in exchange for goods. We give you full measure and down weight. We are now prepared to give you lowest prices on tinware of kinds. all DEACON BROS. & CO. LOW PRICE HARDWARE AND GROCERY HOUSE. the nature and extent of the suffer ing and needs of these stricken peo- ple, and I have communicated these facts in the hope and belief that the legislative branch of the Government will promptly reinferce the work of the local authcritiss in the States named. Wittus McKrsuey. Executive Mansion, April 7, 1897. Washington, April 7.—Senator Jones of Arkansas bas offered a joint resolution sppropriating $150,000 for supplies for the Missiseippi River sufferers, and it was teken up the} Senate. In the House Mr. Catchings of Mississippi offered a resolution ap- propriating $200,000 for the same | purpose. The Senate passed the Jones reso | lution and the Houee the Catchings | resolution. This would have left an | awkard situation, but the Senate | yield precedence tothe House and | recalled the resoultion, and then promptly passed the House resolu tion, which now goes to the Presi- | dent. It appropriates $200,000. After using a 10 cent trial size of Ely’s Cream Balm you wiil be sure | to buy the 50 ceut size. Cream Balm hes no equal in curing catarrh | and cold in head. Ask your drag- gist for it or send 10 cents to us. Ely Bros, 56 Warren St, N City. I suffered from Catarrh 3 years; it got so bad I could not work; I used two bottles of Ely’s Cream Balm am entirely well; I would not be with- out it.—A. C. Clarke, 341 Shawmut Ave., Boston. | A Man Withont a Party. | Post-Dispatch. } Mr. McKinley gives new evidences | of his ability as a politician. | The latest of these is his refusal te grant the request of Jchu Palmer | that Charles M. Keyes, the bojtocrat who was appointed Postmaster at | Cleveland be allowed to serve out | ceed Reddick M. Ridgeley, a Demo- | jjeggling or nize Palmer in the “mstter, and removed Keyes to make room for a Republican. Tho Presidential can. didate of the Boltocrats has no claim upon him or his consideraticn. A Presidential candidate who polled few votes than did the Prohibition ists in the late election is certainly not a political force worth consider- ing, and as for other considerations it is impossibls not to believe that Mr. McKinley must have a thcrough contempt for Palmer. His refusal to grant so emall a favor is evidence of his real feeling. Jobn M. Palmer, in his old age, is the desolate figure of a man without a party. Democrats Have Only to Wait. New York World. We haye yet to note the arrival of | that prosperity so confidently pre- dicted under the rule of McKinley and the Republican party. Nor do we see any signs of its coming though McKinley was elected five months ago. Meanwhile the Democratic party is rapidly regaining its strength. Town and county elections nearly everywhere show it. Even in old New England the change since No- vember is astonishing, nearly all the town elections there resulting in sweeping Democratic triumphs. If a new President were to be elected today we feel absolutely eure that he would be a Democrat. The Dingley Tariff bi!l and the the Republicans at Washington disgusts the country. We repeat what we said some time ago, that if things go on as they are; it will not ba worth while for the Republicans to nominate anybody in 1900. The Democrats will win by the biggest majority in our history. Stand at the Head. 1 Aug. J. Bogel, the leading druggist ot Shreveport, La., says: “Dr King’s New Discovery is the only thing that cures haye.’”? J F Campbell, merchant of Saftoud, Ariz., writes: ‘Dr King’s New Discovery is all that is claimed for it; it nd is asure cure tor con- sumption, coughs and colds. I cannot say enough for its merits.”? Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds is not an experiment. It ship” in the support of the Demo | been tried fona quarter of a century, cratic ticket. Mr. McKinley refused to recog- and to-day stand at the head. It never disappoints. Free trial bottles at H L Tucxer’s Drugstore, has | ‘Bros, & Co. BAD NEWS FOR THE BOOKIES. Governor Stephens Signs the Horse Breed- i ders’ Bill. nor Stephens, who is here today on ture to the Horse Breeders’ bill. There has been a great fight over this bill, and the influences which were brought to bear upon the Gov- ernor to try to induce him not to sign the bill wera very diverging The bill was drafted by the Mis- the fast hors3 owners of tbe State. Its enemies claimed, however, tbat the owners of the Fair grounds track in St. Louis were the men who were really behind the measure. | hotel. The bill does away with pool rooms in ths State, and also does away with winter racing of fast horses into disrepute. Ths bill also gives the State auditor the privilege of closing any race track after it has run for ninety days,but a close read- ing of the bill will show that it says that he may, and not that he shall, refuse to license boeks on the track for a longer time. The bill does not forbid the pool selling on race tracks, but provides that each book shall pay $5 a day to the State, to be set aside in a special fund and used to encourage the breeding of good horses. The bill was. of course, bitterly opposed by the pool room men and “tin horn’ gamblers, and, using the argument that it would license gawbliog, a number of preachers of the State were induced to oppose it and to petition the Governcr not to sign it. There are row about forty pool rooms in St. Louis and a number in Kansas City,and as the Supreme court has declared unconstitutional the law which forbids the selling ot pools cn outsids races, these rooms handle the Eastern races, and it would be impossible for a track to profitable run in the State as long as they sre running. The friends of the measure urged its passage on the argument that there can be no fine horses bred un less there are races; that there can be noraces without pools, and that there can not be any legitimate races with pool rooms. The bill will go into effect upon June 2, andon that.day all pool rooms will have to close, although the pocl room men will probably fight the law in the courts. No mystery about it. When the Shakers offered some time ago to give a bottle of Digestive Cordial to any one who might call at their New York office, there was a great rush and a great many people thought they were crazy. Subsequent events proved it to have been a very clever advertising transactiong.for although they gave away thousands of bottles, it was in the end profitable; nearly every ore that took a free bottle came back for more and paid for it with pleas ure, saying they had derived better results from its use than from any other medicine they had every used There is nothing so uniformly suc- cessful in the treatment of stomach troubles as the Shaker Digestive Cordial, and what is better than all it relievas at once. Laxo!l, the new form of Castor Oil is so palatable that children lick the spoon clean. : WILLIAM J. BRYAN HURT. Rendered Unconscious by a Falling Piazzi at St. Augustine. St. Augustine, Fla. April 8.— Hon. W. J. Bryau was injured here this afternoon by the caving in of the piazza from which he was epeak- ing. Nearly 400 men and women | were precipitated twenty feet to the ground, and many of them were injured, but none fatally. Mr Bryan was picked up uocon- office, where an examination revealed |that he had zeceived no injuries of a serious cheracter. It was deemed | best, however, to abandon the recep- ticn which was to have been given him this evening Mr. Bryan arrived here at 4:50 p. m. avd was greeted at the station | by several hundred people. At 8:30 he addressed fully 3,000 persons from the piazzi of the San Marco At the close of his speech bundreds cf people fiocked about him and so great was the strain that one section of the piazza, forty feet square, fell through. St. Louis, Mo, April 8 —Gover-/ his way to Hot Springs for a two| weeks’ rest, has attached his signa- souri State Hosa Breeders’ associa: | tion and was indorsed by most cf| scicus end removed toa physician’s| The Dietetic and For July, | { ( { | j ve f | | e goods, WALTER Zoeesescococcooooooooooooose: LEVEE BREAKING. | Flooding the Fine Farms Near Whitehall. Whitehall, I!!, April 8.—The, Hartwell levee troxe today, and | about 4,500 acres of the ranch are | already flooded. There is but little change in the river. The Lowen- stein-Griswold levee is holding out well, but every precaution is being taken to eave stock and property should it break. The last of last year’s corn crop was removed to high ground today. It was claim. | ed that the Lowenstein-Griswold ranch is the only one batween Beardstown and Alton not damaged by the flocd. VIDALIA SEEMS DOOMED. Vidalia, La., April 8.—Thousands of people are trying to save the town from complete devastation. Sever: | al feet have been built on top of the levees, but the water keeps pace with the work. Backwater is rapid ly filling in kehind the leyees and covering the town. A break in the levee now would wipe the entire town off the earth. Little hope is felt. Tho river is 1ising at St. Joseph, Hard Times Landing, Point Coupee and Baryou Sara. NO FAITH IN LEVEES. Natchez, Mise, Apr.l 8 —Little confidence is placed in the levees bere, on account of the unusual num- ber of breaks above. They are be- ing guarded on the other side night and day with Winchester rifles, to prevent their being cut. How tbe levees in this section have held this long is almost a miracle. The negro inhabitants are beoming supersti- tious, aad are burying their hoodoos and rabbite’ feet in the levees every three or four feet, and hclding ser- vices on the banks of th» river day and night, praying for their lives and homes to be spared them. Still No Senator Elected. Frankfort, Ky. April 8.—The Blackburn democrats and Boyls re- publicans failed to break the quorum to-day, and the twenty-seventh bal- lot for United States Senator was ordered. It resulted—Hunter, 61; Blackburn, 44; Martin, 13; Boyle, 4; Stone, 1. Necessary to elect, 64- Consequently there was no election. A second ballot resulted: Hunter, 60; Blackburn, 44; Boyle, 7; Martin, 12; Stone, 1. No election. Adjourned. Rivera Will Not Be Shet. Washington, D. C., April 7.—See- | retary Sherman stated to-night that he had assurances that Gen Rivera, | the insurgent leader, would not be executed, bat wou'd be treated as a! prisoner of war. Gen. Rivera waa captured after having been wounded in a recent! battle, and it was feared for a time that he would be executed by the Spanish authorities for his participa tion in the rebellion. Warm the joints, ease the pain and drive ont all rheumatic influence in the body by using } Lailemand’s Specific for Rheumatism. It is; one the very few old time remedies which modern medical science has been unable to improve on. Cares quickly and permanently, Price, $1 pervial. Sold by McClement & Co. Aged Couple Bound and Gagged. | Sandusky, Obic, April §.—Three masked entered early this jmorning the residence of Mr. and Mrs. James Ford, an aged couple living at Parkertown, near this city, and after binding and gagging them, | | Iden jto make them reveal the hiding |place of their money. They would _not do so, and after a long search |the robbers found $100 in money | land other valuables. Some time af-/ lterward Mrs Ford worked loose | |from the bindings and released her | |husband. He notified the neighbors | lof the outrage, aud a posse was} 'formed. Mr. eni Mrs. Ford are in! |a critical condition from the ae handling. » Warrer Baker & Company, of 10ul SSSOSOSOOTNSOISSESOLOSOOODISO SOOO CLOCC ZC. jattempted at the point of revolvers |_ Hygienic Gazatie? 1896, says: tery and sys, vereby the act cs are : world over, indorsements from the nd the intelligent house. Id ask for and be sure the made at DORCHESTER, xt they get Mass, BAKER & CO., Limited. 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