The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 22, 1897, Page 2

| } | FINAL FLOOD WARNING. | People of Louisiana Told by the Weather Bureau to Flee Without Delay. Eleven Persons Drowned on Davis Island, | Near Vicksburg.—Missouri River May Make a Cut-Off 5 Miles From Kansas City—Serious Situation at Omaha. Washington, D. C.,April 15.—The crest of the flood is still above! Vicksburg, where the river roce 410} ofafoot during the past 24 hours. At Vicksburg the water is now 8-10, and at New Orleans 610ths of a foot above high water of any preyi- ous flood. If no extensive break occurs to the northward the river at New Or- leans will reach a 19-foot stage by April 20, and it is imperative that provision be made to meet a still higher stage. The danger to the threatened districts in Louisiana is daily and hourly increasing, and the warnings previously issued by the Weather Bureau to remove persons and property from regions flooded in former years are repeated and emphasized, as but few days remain in which to take advantege of them. (Signed) Moore. ELEVEN LIVES Lost. Vickeburg, Miss., April 15 —The government steamer John R Meigs and the steamer Atlanta arrived thix morning crowded with refugees from the murky waters at Davis Island. The refugees reported the drowning of eleven persons, all colored, on Davis Island last evening. Persons on the Meigs state tbat the situation below here is terrible. They could not make a landing, ex cspt at Davig Island, where the half starved and frightened negroes were picked up. Hundreds of cattle leave the island asthe fearful water ap proaches them and swim in the bope of reaching dry land. A person on the Meigs states that there were assembled in a large old gin on Davis Island several hundred people with no boats. He!p and boats are needed immediately to prevent the loss of human life, as well a3 cattle, below here. On the arrival of the Meige, Maj. Willard ordered Capt. Starr to bank bis fires and keep up steam and be ready to go at a memen’t notice if called upon. At 4p. m., the river reached 521 feet, a rise of 410ths of a foot in twenty-four hours. The water is at the floors of the Vicksburg House and in many cf the small stores and shops between Clay and Veto streets. The sidewalks have been taken up almost entirely, and the middle of the street is used for foot travel.} Tho steamers Ruth and Annie Laurie had all the people and stock they could handle when they arrived last night from Eagle Lake, Bruns wick Australia The Ruth went back to bring out more stock It is now eaid efter a very careful estimate that the destitute and dis tressed in this city from the over- Slowed secticns is not leas than 3000 or 4000. LOUISIANA LEVEES IN DANGER Baton Rouge, La, April 15.— River 36.9 feet, a rise of 2}-10ths, which is 1 foot 2-10th below the flood live of 1892. Governor Foster received telegrams from the Fifth levee district today,to the effect that the water is still rising rapidly and a desperate struggle is on hand. CONDITIONS IN THE DELTA. Memphie, Tenn, April 15.—Sta- tistics of the number of flood suffer ers in Bolivar County, which have been complied by a committee ap- pointed to look after the distribu- tion of government rations, show 22,000 people who are now, or soon will have tobe fed by the hand of ebarity, in addition to 3000 head of live stock. At Helena the situation is un- changed. Ata meeting of property | { | Deacon Bros, & Hardware and Cutlery, Blacksmiths Co, supplies, Iron, Steel. Nails, Wagon wood work, Guns and ammunition, Buggies, Wagons and Farm ma- chinery, Barb wire, Salt, Buggy Pumps, Corn shellers, Chicken Groeeries, Fruits, Nuts, Cigars and Stover, Steel ranges. Rope e SULKY PLOW, Moline and Rock Islaud plows, Cultivators, Planters, Hare rows, etc. for the money in Bates BRING US Your Butter and eggs you full measure and d paints, Machine cils, Garden seeds, netting, Screen wire, Screen doors, and tobaeco, confectionary, Tinware nd Twine, Fishing Tackle. The best Jine of Top Buggies and Road Wagons county. in exchavge for goode. We give lown 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 Short Line, across from Burl ington, entirely disappeared from view,and now only the upper portion of the trees are visible, while the back water reaches for miles back into the country. The dwellers in Illinois bottoms have given up all hope of making an early crop this season. MINNESOTA LOWLANDS INUNDATFD. Brainerd, Blinn., April 15.—The Miseiseippi River at this point has overflowed its banks, and all the low land on each side are covered with water 3 to 10 feet deep. The river rose 7 inches last night, and 13 still rising fast. It is within a foot of high-water mark of last year, the highest on record. There is atill considerable snow in the woods. Davis at the mouth of Swan River are being broken into the stream and will come dowa with a rush with the flood. BEAVER ISBAND COMPLETLY FLOODED. Clinton, Io., April, 15—The Miss issippi has reached 16.4 feet. The ground near the city is covered. Beaver Island is completely flooded, and residents have had to remove all live stock to the mainland. A fur- ther rise will interfera with manu- facturing interests. still rising. The water is A Voice From Canton. Post-Dispatch. The 50,000,000 feet of | logs on the landing of Wright &! classes are not mutuel so far as republican rule is concerned. This causes the falling off in the republican vote from last fall and the general democratic victories throughout the country. People now believe that a change of condi- tions can be accomplished only by restoration of bimetallism. This explanation is not only true of Canton but of most of the other | cities and towns in which elections | were he'd last week, and in which the republican majorities last No ; yember were completely reversed. And it is a noteworthy fact that wherever the issues of the national campaiga were made most promi- nent—that is to say, wherever the voters were given an opportunity to administer a direct rebuke to the plutocratic combine that bunkoed them last fall—there the democratic victories were most decisive and the republican losses most marked. | Win on “local issues,” as in St Louis. {they failed The people are still | thinking about the issues formulated jin the Chleago platform, acd their | thinking is bringing forth fruit You ;cannot interest voters now in local jissues. The troubles they are con | froaoted with and that absorb their | attention are not confined to lceali water is invading cellars and all low | ties, but are national in their scope j and bearing. | Until bimetallism is restored, ev ery so called local contest will be but a segment ot the national campaign. | And wherever the democrats recog | size this they will wia. rising | “Going into a decline’, How of jten do we hear this expression | What does it mean? | wasting. Wherever the democrats tried to; The tide of | popular feeling is with them and is It means that: ae - i 1, sing flesh,e i i Cantoz, Obio, is President Me. | beohis are losing Heal growing thir, OPPOSED TO THE DINGLEY BILL. | Hide and Leather Traders Against the Pro- | posed Tariff. / WILL FIGHT IT AT WASHINGTON. | It is Claimed That $20,000,000 Worth of | Bussiness Will be Destroyed by the Bill. | New York, April 10 —Members of the hide, leather, shoe and kindred trades oppose to a duty on hides; and skins met today to protest against the clause of the Dingley bill taking hides and like articles from the free list,and Charles A. Schieren | ex Mayor of Brooklyn, was elected permanent chairman. Mr. Schieren said that the trade} had learned that it was proposed to} put a duty of 2 cents a pound on hides and skins. If this were done, the export trade in leather, shoes, etc, would be destroyed. Since 1871, when hides were placed on the free list, a great export trade had been built up, which now amounts to more than $20,000,000 annually, and gives employment to 100,000 men, all this trade would, he said, revert back to England and Germany if this government placed a duty on raw material. Resolutions of protest were adopt- ed, and several severe speeches were made, in which it was charged that the action of Congress was caused by a desire to buy Western senti- ment, which only desire the down fall of the East. A committee to go} to Washington was then named. Boston, Mass, April 10.—At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the New Engiand Shoe and Leath er Association a committee was ap pointed to go to Washington to protest against the Dingley bill. This committee will co-operate with similar committees from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Newark and other cities having large hide and leather interests. It is stated that the tariff on hides would kill the ex port leather business. BRYAN THINKS IT IS USELESS. He Has No Hope That a Monetary Confer- ence Will Do Any Good. Washington, D. C, April 15 — Speaking of the President's appoint- ment of commissiors to visit foreign countries in the interest of an inter national monetary conference, Wm J. Bryan to day eaid he thought the personnel of the committee was ex cellent, so far as Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Wolcott were concerned. Mr. Payne he did not know. “Mr. Wolcott's visit abroad last | Repubiicans elected their city ticket summer,” said he,“especially fits him | here yesterday by majorities ranging for service as one of the commission ere,and Mr. Stevenson's conspicuous Ralictuahachive iaaehuse position in the democratic party and | good work. the nation makes his appointment entirely appropriats. The fact that| publican, elected a Democratic Su- be is a bimetallist and actively sup an argument against him will lend weight to his influence as one of the commissioners. All independent bi metallists favor international bimet allism if that is posible, but do not believe in waiting for other nations te act. The six and a half millions who supported the demand for inde pendent bimetallism will hesrhly rejoice if the commissien is able to bring about a restoration of interna- tonal bimetsllism. Buta large ma jority, if not a'l independent bimet allists, regacd bimetallism a3 a very remote possibility. If the commis- sioners fail to eesnre an international confereace, or if successful snd ao interaoational conference dce3 not secure foreiga co operation for the restoration of bimetallism, the cause of fre> silyer will be stronger in 1900 than in 1896, because many who ported the democratic party in the for Supervisor demand for independent action by|the remainder of the United States instead of being | ticket. | { |The House was in session but ten} ip in iS pt Label and our aclka > pacrage. TRADE-MARK. MORE VICTORIES. A Democratic Landslide Strikes New Jersey. —Several Big Surprises—Carried G. A. Hobart’s Town by About 800. New York, April 14.—The results| of the local elections in New Jersey | yesterday were continuations of the | democratic succssses that have been gained recently in several states. | The greatest interest wes felt in the results ia Newark and Jersey City. In the latter city the oppon- ents of Mayor Wanzer made a vigor- ous campaign, and elected Edward Hoos for Mayor against Judge) Potts, republican, by -about 3,000} plurality | The democrats geised a notable | victory in Newark. They elected Herr, member of the Board of Puke lic Works, eight of the fifteen alder. | six of the nine school com | men at missioners. They obtained a majority in the Common Council, now having 16 of the 30 members. also control the Board of Education | and the Beard of Public Works. Paterson furnished one of the greatest surprises of the day It} elected John Hichliffs (dem ) for Mayor by 800 plurality. Garrett A Hobart last fall carried the city for the republican prasidential ticket by 3,200 plurality, a'though that phe nominal vote was more an evidence of his popularity at home than of the +trength ot the republicans there. The republicans won in Aldermanic contests, however,electing six of the ten members of the board. The republicans won their most substantial victory in Trenton,where they elected Welling G. Sickel by| 2,100 plurahty. In Bayonne, Egbert Seymour (dem.) was elected Mayor. Lambert ville went republican, electing Wm E. Wagg Mayor. This is the first republican Mayor e'ected in eight years. IN NEW YORK, TOO. Lockport. N. Y., April 14—The from 300 to 325 and will control the new Common Council. The Myers d, and did The town of Niagara, usually Re- Wiison Democratic by 142 majority but elected nearly all the Republican perviscr by 80 mejority. went A TEN MINUTES’ SESSION. Long Enough, However, for DeArmond and | Bailey to Cross Swords. | Washington, D ©, April 15 —| minutes today and then adjourned | cntil Saturday without trensacting avy business The session was long | enough, however to furnieh occasion | for a display of the division among the Democratic members which the recent caucus had not been able to hea’. In this division Mr. DeAr- mond of Missouri appeared as the! leader of the oposition to the leader- | ship of Mr Bailey | As soon as the journal had been | read Mr. Dingleo made a motion} that when tha Hous adjourned it! would be until Saturday. Mr. De | Armoud and Mr. Simpson immediate. | ly demanded a division The yote | on the motion wes 131 to 38. Mr. i Bailey and his followers voted with | have been inclined to rely on foreigo|the Republicans, while Mr DeAr-| All work in my line is guaranteed: rated for more than a century Sy he Trade-Mark WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass, Office, front room over They will | store. eases. Office over McKibben etore. Residence, M. church parsonage, corner Ohio & Havenaah streets. TT, £: BOULWARE, Physician ant e Surgeon. en aspecialtv. Kinley’s home town. A wuaicipal! The way to correct this condition | election was held there last Monday, | is to improve the digestion. The and Mr. James A. Rice, a free silver | CoUdition arises from an inability to democrat, was elected Mayor. Hav Prccpadlg-ceo — In wo food 3 2 ss Sas e herm than goo cause ing been asked by the New York it ferments and putrefies in the! | | owners of the city today it was de- cided to begin the erection of new levee around the city. At Memphis the river ross 1-10 of & foot inthe 24 hours ending tonight. | An additional slight rise is looked for. ILLINOIS BOTTOMS FLOODED. Burlington, Io.. April 15.—The river rose 4} inches here today, and is still coming up rapidly. The Guage now reads 11 feet 43 inches. 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