Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 5, 1896, Page 6

Che Herald. BY E. C. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA When floods get on the rampage or the Pacific coast they mean devasta- tion, indeed, as Washington and Brit- ish Columbia bear costly testimony. It is now becoming more evident every day that those who wish to bring reforms into Turkey will have to carry them out. Thomas A. Edison keeps on getting more than his quota of free advertis- ing. His “latest” is that, by the aid of X rays he has enabled a blind man to see through an inch plank. Mrs. Scott-Siddons died on the eve of the unveiling of a statue in London to her illustrious grandam,, whom Sir Joshua Reynolds called “The Tragic Muse.” Brussels’ town council is gravely de- liberating how an official order com- pelling ladies to take off their hats in a theater, and so afford other spectat- air view of the stage. It has again been demonstrated that ‘Am n juries are slow to convict Cuban filibusters. If the facts are against the offenders, so much the worse for the facts, ors a For paying his respects to the dow- ger emperor before calling on the em- peror, on returning to China, Li Hung Chang has been fiued a year’s salary. Now, if he were only here, we could ask him whether it was this year’s sal- ary or last years. One of the results of the war in Cuba has been the increase of the su- gar industry elsewhere, and when the Cubans return to work again they will find the market for their crops has been taken by other people. A medical paper prints statistics showing that in tight of our largest Southern cities the proportion of deaths from consumption amcng the colored race, as compared with the total mor- tality, is more than 50 per cent greater than that of the white population. ‘The attempt to defend military brut- ality met with unmitigated failure, re- cently, in the reichstag at Berlin. However proud Germans may be of their nation’s glory, they have no sort of notion of being terrorized by uni- formed autocrats in time of peace. Maryland has fallen into line with several other states in the matter of institutes for the education of farm- ers. The work is to begin this winter with a legislative appropriation of $3,000, which is regarded as snfiicient | to provide for the holding of one or | more institutes ju each county in the PITH us THE NEWS. — EVENTS UF THE PAST WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORM, A General Resume of the Most Im- portant News of the Week, From all Parts of the Globe, Boiled Down and Arranged in Con- venient Form for Rapid Per- usal by Busy People. “ot Washington Talk. Secretary of War Lamont’s annual report is out. ‘The civil service commission has be- gun an inyestigation of political as- sessments. Consul General Lee has proposed that the independence of Cuba be ob- tained by purchase, the United States guaranteeing the payment of the debt. The United States monitor Terror has finished the sea trial of her pneu- matic gun appliances, and went to the navy yard, where a few repairs will be made. The inter-state commerce commis- sion has issued an order in the matter of the position of the railway compa- nies doing business between common points in Colorado and terminal points in California, for a hearing on the 18th of December next. faced, People in Print, The late ex-Speaker Crisp will be succeeded in congress by his son. John E. Redmond, the Irish Nation- alist, visits America. George Emenheiser, a stable-hand in Omaha, has inherited a fortune from a distant relative. Isaac Tucker, who came to Jefferson before Iowa was a state, is dead. He was ninety-six. After several months’ illness, W. A. Mestayer, the well known actor, died of Bright's disease in New York, Charles M. Bowen, generally known in Methodist circles as “Hallelujah, Amen!” Bowen, died in Chicago, aged ninety. Senator Joe Blackburn of Kentucky says that he is not out of the senatori- al fight, all reports to the contrary not- withstanding. R Ruth, the young daughter of William Jennings Bryan, is ill with diphtheria, and the family residence has been placed under quarantine. Col. Franklin Tenny, for thirty-five years proprietor of the National hotel to retire from the stage. He is eighty- nine. C. W. Couldock, one of the oldest English-speaking actors, has decided to retire from the stage. Heis eighty- one. There is said to be a likelihood of Bishop Kean being made cardinal and head of the Catholic church in Ameri- ca, Edward Eddy of Denver, multi-mill- ionaire and one of the best-known min- ing experts in the world, died of pneu- monia, aged fifty-seven years. John E. Redmond, M. P. for Water- ford City, Ireland, and leader of the independent section of the Irish party, is in New York to lecture. Rey. J. Cummings Smith, pastor of !the Trinity Presbyterian church of | San Francisco, has accepted a call to the Tabernacle Presbyterian church, Indianapolis, —— }s state. Large numbers of Sicilian immi- granis continue to arrive at New Or- leans. From one vessel that arrived there the other day 1,235 of them were landed, and there were many pictur: | esque scenes as the excitable strangers came ashore. Many of them knelt and 1 kissed the dirty boards of the wharf. + ‘Then they arose anc made the sign of , the cross. Bearded men rushed into each other’s arms ard kissed with the abandon and vigor of long-parted loy- ers. A Spaniard ‘in Cuba says: “The Spanish cause does not need more sol- diers, but just one general.” What that cause lacks more than generals or soldiers is justice. Representing as it does injustice, oppression and cruelty, it is bound to fail. It has already had the services of two of the ablest gen- erals in Spain—Campos and Weyler— and soldiers outnumbering the Cuban patriots more than five to one. But its failure has become disgrace and may soon be peril. Accidental Happenings. The business part of Leavenworth, Wash., is almost completely burned. While passing through Spokane 1e- cently a Great Northern train encoun- tered a flock of sheep and killed 121. John Coyne of Newark, N. J., was taken with a fit on a train and jumped through the window, He was fatally injured. George F. Vail of Kokomo, Ind., was struck by a fast passenger train on the Wabash in Delphi, Ind., and was fa- tally injured. John Ten Barge, assessor of Johnson township, was accidentally killed by Postmaster Seitz of Haubadt, Ind., while out hunting. Fred Freitag, a young farmer of St. Libory, Ill., accidentally shot himself while hunting, sustaining injuries that caused his death. Mrs. Charles D. Cummings was in- stantly killed by a Michigan Central passenger train at Hammond, Ind. She was attempting to cross the tracks. . Near Rock Island, Ill., Edward Cox, aged seventeen, was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of his gun while hunting. Harry Sentman, aged twenty-three, was killed by a buzz saw at lowa City, Iowa. The saw choked on a heavy stick, flew from its bearings and struck Sentman in the face. According to the New York Journal, the up-to-date young woman is now wearing a dagger. Not for the purpose of stabbing her lover, but merely to add to the picturesqueness of her ap- parel. The dagger is large, as orna- ments go, and her favorite way to wear it thrust through the drapery of her gown at the corsage. When worn with evening gowns, the hilt of the dagger should gleam with precious stones. With these costly daggers, the Dk de is generally of gald, and the hilt studded with diamonds and sapphires ! or diamonds and emeralds. Daggers for eyening wear sre most effective with the hilt covered with fire opals. A judge of the Oldham county court, in England, has given a decision on ae subject of the cat’s intellect which , athe New York Journal thinks will be disputed by many friends of that ani- imal. He has decided that a cat is ‘a quasi-domestic animal, and that its owner is not responsible for its actions. A cooper who sued a signal man for damage sustained by the defendant's eat having killed and eaten thirteen of the plaintiff's chickens, therefore, lost his case. The judge laid down the in- teresting proposition that a “cat's in- tellect is not so extensive as to enable it to distinguish between chickens and small birds.” Judge Neeley of Chicago has decided that the Johmstown flood was an act of God and the railroad companies cannot be made to pay for baggage lost in the disaster. Later reports from that part of the Seminole nation swept by a prairie fire indicate there were no fatalities. The loss to property was considerable, but no estimate is given . Crimes and Criminals. Joseph Martin of Kankakee, Ill, com- mitted suicide by taking poison. Hy Sidney Wallace, the bigamist and burglar, broke jail at Sardusky, Ohio, and has not been captured. Four men are in jail at Hebron, Neb., charged with robbing twenty banks in Nebraska within the last forty days. J. W, Straley has been found guilty of attempting to poison the McDevitt family, living near Claytonyille, Ill. John Cheselski was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of fifteen years for arson at Crown Point, Ind. | John H. Lawrence, a well known resident of Sandusky, Ohio, committed suicide by taking poison. | ‘Thurman Rutherford of Vigo, Ohio, drank peppermint as a substitute for whisky and died in horrible agony. | Citizens of Alexis, IIL, attempted to blow up an illegal whisky plant with ‘dynamite and shook the whole town. Miss Gertrude Fisher, alias Foster, alias Mrs. Irvin Shaw, was lodged in jail at Wilmington, Ohio, on a cuarge , of horse stealing. The five persons charged with the murder of Baroness de Valley, an aged and eccentric miser, last June, were found guilty in Paris. W. F. Smock of Decatur, Ill, was assaulted, robbed of $75 and left for dead by some tramps near the Nation- al stockyards in St. Louis. Suicide is the verdict of the covo- ner’s jury on the body of the Rev. James Miller of Bloomington, found in an alley in Decatur, Ill, recently. Mrs. Swearnier, the wife of a ranch- er, living near Tacoma, Wash., cut the throats of her three little girls, aged respectively five years, three years and nine months. Drs. J. Stoneburner and J. Cuhner, leading physicians of Berne, Ind., were arrested, charged with administering poison to Mrs. Adeline Brown, who died a few days ago. The Tyler boys, two notorious out- laws, who for a long time were a ter- ror to Colbert and Franklin counties, Alabama, were captured in Colbert county. George E. Ross, the trusted money clerk of the Pacific Express company, who iysteriously disappeared from Kansas City five days ago, is believed to have gone to Mexico. William Foley, the wealthy young farmer who has been arrested at Lib- erty, Mo., and formally charged with the murder of his aged mother and his sister, has been taken to Kansas City for safe-keeping. From Foreign Shores, Phillipine insurgents defeat Spaniards in a hard battle. Thirty persons are killed in a Polish mine explosion. Denver will be transferred to the va- cant see of St. Cloud. A Washington paper has fixed up a eabinet with Senator Davis as secre- tary of state. Russia proposes that the great wheat-growing countries unite and fix a uniform price for wheat. Two thousand Spaniards in Cuba are said to have been killed in two days’ | fighting, including 700 by a dynamite mine. The president of Nicaragua has granted amnesty to over 500 persons implicated in the revolution of last February. The only particulars obtainable at present regarding the death of Italo Campanini, the great tenor, is that he died at his own house, near Parma several days ago, after a long illness. The prosecution in the ease of the staff of the Jahannesburg Critic, ar- rested under the provisions of the new press law, having failed t oestablish the charges made, the prisoners were discharged. The first serious frontier incident in a long time occurred at Munster. when a German forest guard shot an alleged French poacher, inflicting a flesh wound. The government is inquiring into the case. Consul Germain sends word to the state department from Zurich, Switz- erland, that there is a chance to intro- duce American cattle in Switzerland as a result of the decree excluding all eattle coming from Austria-Hungary because of disease. President Diaz of Mexico has been royally welcomed in Puebla, where he has gone with a large number of dis- tinguished people. He has laid the corner stone of the new hospital and of the statue of independence. Italian emigration to South America is increasing. On Saturday and Sun- day 3,000 persons started from Genoa, Italy, for La Plata and 150 for the United States. Three-thousand will start for Argentine Republic this week the Otherwise. Nearly a famine exists in portions of Louisiana. Jowa gold Democrats have decided to maintain their organization. A St. Louis firm has received am or- der for ten tons of dynamite for Cuba. Hon. William Hamilton Dent of Le Mars, Iowa, is notified of his appoint-. ment as receiver of the First National } bank of Decorah, Iowa. Texas, at the election of Nov. 3, cast more than 550,000 votes. The plu- rality of Bryan over McKinley is 150,- 000. Andrew F. Burleigh has filed a peti- tion with the federal court asking his discharge as receiver of the Northern Pacific railway. A flowing oil well has been discoy- ered at the bottom of San Francisco bay. It is located about 500 yards to the south of Goat island. The cruiser Marblehead is lying at anchor off Lompkinsville,.8. L., having arrived in port after a cruise of nearly three years. Two months ago Henry Wescott of Forest City, N. Y., was placed under a spell by a traveling hypnotist and he cannot be aroused. Dr. Albert Byrnes of Galesburg, Mich., discovered gold bearing quartz close to the Menominee river, eight miles west of Stephenson. There is a big fight on between the Wiggins Ferry company and the Inter- state Sand and Ferry company over the exclucive right of business between St. Louis and East St. Louis. J. F. J. Archibald, the ethnologist, proposes to use a balloon to reach the top of a mysterious mountain in New Mexico and investigate the tradition that a colony of Navajoes died there. The semi-centennial commission met at Salt Lake, Utah, last evening to take steps for the necessary arrange- ments for the celebration next July of the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of the pioneers in Omaha. The Streator (Ill.) street railway company has ceased operating its plant and is now in the hands of a receiver. The road was built in 1890 at a cost of $250,000. ‘The plant has not paid ex- penses the past three years. To settle a dispute as to the superi- ority of one keyboard over another a match has been arranged between four typewriters in New York and Brook- lyn, to take place in a pitch dark room and continue until 1,000 words shall have been written. ‘ The report of a probable sympa- thetic strike of miners in other camps in aid of the Leadville strikers is de- clared to be unfounded. Union officers declare no such move is contemplated at present by the Western Federation } of Miners or any of its branches. IN TIME OF PEACE THE UNITED STATES 1S PREPARING FOR POSSIBLE TROUBLE. Owing to the Chance of an Argu- ment With Spain Over Cuba, Pen- sacola, Fla, Will Be Heavily Fortified as Rapidly a sPossible— | Maceo Is Charged With Working His Prisoners Like Mules, 13 ta Pensacola, Fla., Dec. 1. — It is ru- mored in military circles that owing to possible trouble over Cuba the troops of the Frst artillery, now stationed at various points on the gulf and Atlantic coasts are to be concentrated here for practice with the modern heavy guns which will soon be in position on Santa Rosa island. The selection of a site for another battery leaves no doubt in the minds of military men that Pensa- cola is to be heavily fortified as rapid- ly as possible, and as the troops need practice in the handling of the modern guns this harbor is deemed by military men to be the best that could be se- lected for the purpose. They would have the open gulf for target practice and at least 1,000 men can be comfort- able quartered at Fort Barrancas and the navy yard. Havana, Dec. 1. — Last night a dance was given at the theater for the benefit of the Red Cross fund. The best society of Havana was present and the large house was closed in order to avoid a catastrophe. A youth named Youch, fifteen years old, who has been Maceo’s prisoner for thirty- five days, has escaped and come to Havana, where he assures the au- thorities that he and 300 other prison- ers were tied elbow to elbow and made to serve like mules in Maceo’s camp, carrying bags with cartridges from rear to front. It is impossible to secure confirmation of this assertion from any reliable source. London, Dec. 1—The Times corres- pondent in Havana dwells at length upon Capt. Gen» Weyler’s failure to cope with the rebellion. He adds: “It is said that the present issue of bank notes is to be withdrawn and a num- ber issued based on the value of silver is to be substituted for $60,600,000 in- tended for the payment of the troops. As there is no metallic reserve it is safe to predict that these notes will soon fall to a purely nominal value.” The Times says in an editorial on the above. “The gloomy outlook in Cuba makes it impossible to exclude the pos- sibility of some kind of United States intervention.” VERY SERIOUS CHARGES. Proferred in Notices of Contests Filed.at Bismarck. Bismarck, N. D., Dec. 1.—Notice of contest of the seats of State Senator- elect C. B. Little and Representative- elect Thomas Richards, of this dis- trict, were filed to-day by Judge E. C. Chase and W. O. Ward, respectively. Little and Richards were the regular Republican candidates, and Chase is a Republican, but was indorsed by the Populists and Demccrats. The charges preferred in the notice of contest were of a most sensational character, and allege that Frank Andrews, chairman of the Populist county committee, for a consideration, acted in conjunction with Republicans in the appointment of the election judges; that in the Fourth ward of this city shortly before the polls closed 100 ballots were taken out of the ballot box and 100 others substituted; also that in the Second ward the polling place was closed for thirty minutes, the ballot box in the sole possession of the Republican judges, and that 150 ballots were re- moved from the ballot box and others substituted. It is stated that the en- tire ticket in this county will be con- tested on similar grounds. MANIA FOR TORTURE. Peculiar Mental Disease of a Bril- Mant Scholar. New York, Dec. 1—Dr. Charles J. Laffin was to-day committed to Belle- vue hospital for examination as to his sanity. He is, according to the story told by his wife, a pitiful wreck of a brilliant scholar, a man suffering from the peculiar and powerful disease, Af- rican fever, contracted while accom- panying Bishop Taylor on an expedi- tion to the west coast of Africa. He married Carrie Freeman of Milton, Nova Scotia, June 25 of this year. Shortly afterward in New York, Mrs. Laffin avers Dr. Laffin commenced a series of tortures which would seem to indicate his insanity. One of his freaks of fancy was to dislocate the joints of her body ard then snap them back into position. Once, she says, he took five grains of opium in one dose. Poison. however, she says, seemed to have little effect upon him. Finally, her sufterings, physical, became so in- tense, she says, that she was obliged to appeal to the authorities for pro- tection. Enforced Parricide. Stratton, Neb. Dec. 1. — J. W. Bur- ney was shot and killed by his seven- teen-year-old_ son to-day. The deed was provoked by the elder Burney, who threatened the life of the youth. The tragedy occurred at the family residence and in the presence of the wife of the victim. Burney, who had been on a spree since election, pro- cured a rifle, and, repairing to his home, demanded that Mrs. Burney call that “kid,” as the time had come when he must shoot both of them. The young man happened to be in an ad- jcining room, and, overhearing the con- versation, came out, only to be con- fronted by his father, who pointed the gun at him. Before the father could fire the son shot him. Condoled by the Emperor. Berlin, Dec. 1. — Emperor William has telegraphed his condolence to the relations of Prince Charles Egon Marie yon Fuerstenberg, the well known Ger- man sportsman whose death was an- nounced yesterday. Prince Charles died childless and his yast estate in the South of Germany will pass to an Austrian line of the house of Fuersten- berg in the person of Prince Emil Egon von Fuerstenberg, who was formerly president of the Internatioral club at Baden-Baden, where he has often en- tertained the pri Wales. _ |. ple of this country BRYAN AND SILVER. An Article on the Recent Presi- dential Election. New York, Dec. 2.—In the December number of the North American Re- view, published to-day, Mr. Bryan has an article in which he discusses the re- sult of the election as affecting the status of the silver question. The is- sue on which the election turned he describes as the “greatest issue ever submitted to the American people in time of peace.” The declaration of the Chicago convention in favor of the free coinage of silver forced upon the peo- a study of the money question in general, and within the last four months more people haye been simultaneously engaged in its consideration than ever before in the history of the world. The result of this study, Mr. Bryan declares to be “temporary defeat but permanent gain for the cause of bimetallism.” Mr. Bryan regards it as a significant fact that the silver sentiment was strongest where the question had becn longest considered; that is to say in the West and South. In Mr. Bryan's opinion the cause of bimetllism made more rapid progress than any cause ever made in such a short time. He expresses his assurance that the elec- tion can be by no means regarded as a conclusive settlement of the question at issue. The advocates of free coin- age are convinced, he says, that they are laboring in behalf of a large ma- jority of the people, not only here, but throughout the world, and, according to the writer, they rropose to continue their contest, confident that four more years of experience will convince many who have thus far resisted arguments. This confidence, Mr. Bryan says, is con- firmed by the history of recent elec- tions. Mr. Greeley was defeated in 1872 and yet Mr. Tilden was elected in 1s Mr. Blaine was defeated in 1884 but Mr. Harrison was elected in 1888. The Republican victory of 1888 was followed by the Democratic victory of 1890 and the election of President Cleveland two years later. Mr. Bryan counsels the successful party to re- member that thousands of Republicans have been held to their party this by the pledge that it will try to secure internatioral bimetailism. In reference to the gold standard Democrats Mr. Bryan feels assured that they cannot do as much in 1900 as they have done this year. They have declared their affection for Democratic principles while they spare no effort to secure the success of the opp ig ticket. “They cannot,” he says, “disguise themselves again.” SHARKEY AND FITZ ARE IN TRIM. Both Men Will Be Fit to Go When the Gong Rings. San Francisco, Dec. 2. — Yesterday was “doctor's” day at the quarters of Fitzsimmons and Sharkey. The same physician waited upon both men, and he was there as the representative of the National Athletic club. His ob- ject was to tap chests and test lungs and satisfy himself that the men were in sound enough condition generally to bear the brunt of as hard a contest as it is popularly believed to-morrow night’s event will prove to be. In ad- dition to being “doctor's” day, it was visitors’ day, and the camps of the ri- val heavy-weights were fairly overrun with people from town. As Sausalito is not within as easy access as the Cliff, Fitzsimmons did not have sucli crowds hanging on his heels as did the sailor man, but the Cornishman re- ceived adulation enough to satisfy any pugilist. Whenever Sharkey showed himself on the veranda of the Seal Rock house the roadway immediately in front became congested. At times there were thousands staring at him. Fitzsimmons’ normal chest measure- ment was 39 inches. Under forced ex- halations it was 37 3-4 inches, and un- der forced inspiration it measured 44 inches. The only defect in Fitzsim- mons was a slight attack of cold in the head, which wiil quickly wear off. Sharkey’s normal chest measurement is 41 inches. With forced exhalation it was 393-4 inches, and with forced in- spiration 44 inches. RUN BY YANKEES, The King of Coren Gets Good Ameri can Advice—The Ambition of Ja- pan, San Francisco, Dec. 2.—R. W. Irwin, who has been in Japan for thirty years and has represented the Hawaiian government there, first as consul and afterward as the minister during the greater part of the time, arrived from the Orient on the steamer Doric yes- y. He said the statement that ia has established a sovereignty Corea is incorrect, although the fact that the king is housed in the Rus- sian legation might lend credence to that supposition. Japan’s ambition does not extend to Corea. American influence is uppermost in the kingdom, and the king is acting entirely under the advice of three Americans, Minis- ter Sill, the secretary of the American legation and an American missionary by the name of Underwood. Irwin says that Japan’s sole ambition is now commercial and industrial advance- ment. ‘TWENTY KILLED, A Tornado Starts Thirty Pounds of Dynamite Exploding. Perry, Okla.. Dec. 2. — Later news from the tornado at Ralston indicate that the storm was much worse than at first reported. A letter from W. F. McCague, who practically owns the town, to I’. H. Kellogg, here, states that the town is wrecked. McCague’s two-story wooden building was blown bottom upward and fifteen people im- prisoned in the upper story. The building caught fire and the people were liberated by the use of an ax. Two minutes after thirty pounds of dynamite, powder and other explosives exploded. in all twenty persons were killed. Shooting in South Carolina. McCormick, S. C., Dec. 2—An alter- cation took place to-day at Bethany church, near this place, between L. J. Williams on one side and J. V. White and L. D. White on the other, in which J. V. White was instantly killed and L. D. White fatally wounded, the lat- ter dying in a few hours after the dif- ficulty. Williams was severely cut in several different places. Knives and pistols were used in the affray. All were prominent, Williams being mem- ber of the board of control of the state dispensiary. TOWNSARE IN PERIL HUGE ICE GORGE IN THE CHIPPEWA RIVER IN WISCONSIN. A Vast Amount of Damage Has, ready Been Done, and When “he Gorge Brenks Calamitous Conse- quences Will Surely Follow—It Is. Feared That Some Lives Have Al- ready Been Lost. Chippewa Falls, Wis., Dee. 2. — An immense ice gorge thirty feet high has formed across the Chippewa river be- ‘ low this city, and many farms and farm buildings of the Chippewa val- ley are under water. The flood is be- ing added to hourly at the rate of six inches, and unless the gorge breaks soon this city will be partly under water. Basements of buildings on Spring street are flooded and in some instances floors are under water. Peo- ple living in or occupying business houses in the lower part of the city are hastily removing their personal ef- fects to higher ground. In 1894 a sim- ilar flood occurred, causing a loss of many thousands of dollars. A great deal of railway property is threatened and many highway and railway bridges will probably be swept away. Below the immense gorge the river is practically dry, and when the jam breaks the body of water in the reser- voir must carry destruction to the val- iey below. Eau Claire has every reason to feel apprehension, as its danger be- gins when that of Chippewa Falls has The gorge is five miles long. ne the Wisconsin Central rail- way is under water and the electric light plant partly flooded and the town is in darkness. Possibly Loss of Life. Eau Claire, Wis., Dee. 2.--The Chip- pewa river is gorged with ice at many points between the Dells Sorting works, just above the city, and Gravel isiand, just this side of Chippewa Falls. The reports from that city, where the water is backing up and accumulating at the rate of six inches and _ hour, have caused much alarm here as to the pos- sibility of a sudden breaking of the ice packs and a rush of ice, logs and water down upon the city. Experienced men, however, claim there is no danger, though the situation is carefully watched. The river has been full of floating ice and is twelve feet above low water mark, but not rising. The following report was brought from Durand by an eye witness: The ice formed a gorge at the mouth of the Chippewa, which caused the water to back up rapidly. On the low lands be- low Durand the rise was so rapid that many families had to flee in their night robes to places of safety and leave their all behind them. The suffering among the women and children was in- tense and many are reported as hav- ing frozen feet and limbs. As a rule those who could, fied to the railroad track. There they built a fire and tried to protect themselves from the frosty winds until relief arrived. An engine and coach sent out from Du- rend gathered up about forty of fifty of these unfortunate people, but so fast was the water rising that the train had to back to Durand. It is thought that some of the people were not reached by the rescuing party, and possibly may have perished. The bottoms are all under water and the stock antl produce are a complete loss. Dead arti- mals could be seen all about the neigh- borhood frozen stiff in the water. In ™® most of the homes were stored x wate supplies, «nd these were LS lost. On account of the ficod there haye been no trains for three days on th Valley division of the Milwaukee road_ A messenger from Durend reports eight miles of track below Durand un- der water. Thirty-seven men, women and children, refugees from the low lands, are quartered in the Durand court. hotse. The Wisconsin Raging. Stevens Point, Wis., Dee. 2. — The water in the Wisconsin river at this point is the highest at present that it has ever been in the history of this city. At present the streets for several blocks are flooded and last night the people in the flooded districts carried all there goods to upper stories. A dike was built a number of years ago for the protection of a large part of the residence portion of the city, but this has now fallen into disrepair, and if the threatened flood comes hundreds: of families will be compelled to seek shelter on higher grounds. DULUTH MAN CALLED. MeXinley Sees a Business Man From the Zenith City. Canton, Dec. 2.—Maj. McKinley had many visitors to-day. Among the early arrivals was Serator Henry Ca- bot Lodge of Massachusetts. He was a guest of Maj. McKinley at lunch and@ had a long conference with him. M. H. De Young, of the Chronicle, San Fran- cisco, accompanied by Mrs. De Young, arrived during the early morning an were at the McKinley home for some time, Mrs. De Young spending nearly the whole morning witb Mrs. McKin- ley. Albert Ordean, a former Canton- ite, but now a leading business man of Duiuth, Minn., called to pay his re spects, Gen. Horace Porter of New York also called. Fintsh Fight. San Francisco, Dec. 2—Martin Julian stated to the Associated Press to-day that he had just telegraphed an ac- ceptance of Dan Stuart's offer for a finish fight between Corbett and Fitz- simmons for a $15,000 purse. He*has sent a similar telegram to Corbett. Julian says his reasons for accepting this offer in preference to offers for a larger purse is that Fitzsimjnons de- Sires to fight to a finish. in_be- lieves the fight will be broyght off at Juares. Death Pursues a Family. Davenport, Iowa, Dec. 2. — Edgar Cox, a resident of Rock Island county, was killed by the accidental discharge of a shotgun while returning from a hunt near Sears. This makes the fifth member of a family who have ears shocxing death. Joseph Cox was killed in a runaway in 1870, Jerry was killed and fearfully mangled by having a cord of wood fall upon him from a wagon ip 1884, J. B. was killed by the breaking of a fiy wheel on a wood saw in 18SS te J. was drowned in a creek, in