Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 12, 1884, Page 1

§ i i = men perfectly willing to ge. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE MY ¥ axs £ wawsws T P — ¥ - - T NC I T PR THIRTEENTH YEAR OMAHA, NEB. TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12, 1884, THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. A Long Discussion in the House Over a Distress Bill. An Approvriation of $300,000 Made for the Flood Sufferers. Pendleton Performs a Payneful . Duty in the Senate. A Raft of Bills and Resolutions Introduced. Van Wyck Looking After the Balti- more & Ohio Telegraph Co, FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. SENATE. WasniNaron, February 11.—In the senate this morning Mr. Pendleton (dem. O.) presented the credentials of Henry B. Payne, senator-olect from Ohio, whose term begins March 4, 1835. Read, or- dered filed. Mr. Plumb (rep. Ks.) presented a peti- tion from the late commission of volun- teer officers of the Union army complain- ing of discrimination against them in the difference between the amount of their pensions and pay and oflicers on the re- tired list, the latter class, the petitioners say, were in many instances disabled by the same class of wounds and in the same actions, but having had the good fortunes or influence to obtain an appointment in the regular army secured a great advant- age over their fellows not so fortunate. The petitioners pray congress to remove the discrimination, Mr. Miller, (rep. Cal.), from the com- mittee on naval affairs, reported formally a bill for the relief of the survivors of the Jeannetto expedition. Mr. Sherman (rep. O.) had a dispatch from Richard Smith, of Cincinnati, read, which says congress should make an im- mediate appropriation of $500,000 for the relief of sufferers in the flooded towns between Pittsburg and Cairo, add- ing -that Cincinnati needs nothing, but the other places are almost helpless. * Mr. Voorhees (dem. Ind.) stated that' himself and colleague had similar tele- grams from other places. Mr. Sherman said he would not ask im- mediate action on the subject, deeming it better to await the action of the house of representatives, and wished the tele- grams referred to the committee on ap- propriations, which was done.’ These bills were reported from com- mittees and placed on the calendar: By Mr. Hoar (rep., Mass.), from the judiciary—Fixing salaries of judgesof the United States district courts from July 1st next. In the northwest salaries were fixed as follows: Northern and southern districts of Illinois, $5,000. By Mc. Mahone (ind., Va.), from the public grounds and buildings—Authoriz- ing the purchase of additional grounds for a United States court house and post- office building at Springfield, 11, Billssintroduced and referred: By Mr. Hoar (rep., Mass.)—To author- ize a preliminary survey of passes be- tween the upper Mississippi and Colum- Dia rivers for the purpose of ascertaining the distance between the navigable waters. By Mr. Blair (rep., N. H.)—To pro- vide for the study of the physiology and effects of intoxicating, narcotic and poi- sonous substances upon life and health in the public schools of the territoriesand district of Columbia. By Mr.: McMillan (rep., Minn.)—To authorize a bridge across tho Mississippi at St. Paul. By Mr. Hale (rep., Me.)—For relief of the officers and crews of the steamer Monitor, who took part in the action with the rebel iron-clad Merrimac in 1862, By Mr. Harrison (rep., Ind.)—To de- fine the powers of the Mississippi River commission, authorizing an appropriation for improvement of the river and naviga- ble tributaries, etc. Mr. Harrison said the commission had in some cases met with obstruction from from obstinate land owners, who refused the works. By Mr. Miller (rep., Cal.)—A resolu- more & Ohio Telegraph company have made or received any proposals within a year or taken action toward consolidation ‘with the Western Union, Agreed to, The chair laid before the senate Mr. Riddleberger’s (ind: V.) resolution for a joint committee of the senate and house on the question of discharges and ap- pointments of subordinates. Mr. Vest (dem. Mo.) moved to extend the inquiry to what orders have been given by the executive department in Virginia for the past three years. Mr. Riddleberger said he could see no profit to come of the amendment, but ‘was prepared to substantiate his own statements. Mr. Vest said he favored civil service reform, but theact as applied by the re- publicans was made a farce as shown in the course pursued in relation to the senate employes. M. Conger (rep. Mich.) replied that he had never seen a democrat in the sen- ate supportiug any action in aid of civil service except when it would result in turning out republicans and putting in democrats. Mr. Van Wyck's resolution, presented some weeks ago, directing the judiciary committee to examine and report legisla- tioa to restrict the appointment of spe- cial assistant attorneys, etc., passed. The bill amending the section of the revised statutes so as to secure to Ameri- can inventors the full term of seventeen years for patents where the foreign pat- ent expires beiore that term was passed. A message being received from the house anuouncing a continued disagree- ment by that body to the senate amend- ment to the Greeley bill. Mr. Hale moved that the senate recede from its amendment. The men who should be sent on the expedicion, he said, should They and no unwilling man should go under any circumstances. {Ir. Saulsbury (dem. Del.) hoped the senate would not recede from its amend- ment. He knew congress would do what was right in the matter if a proper bill should be brought in but here was a bill to enable the secretary of the navy to put his hand into the treasury and take money out ad libitum. Mr. Butler (dem. 8. C.) reminded the sonate that it was not the secretary of the navy but the president of the United States who received authority. Mr. Saulsbury replied that the prosi- dent acted through his secretaries. The bill if passed would be a dangerous pre- cedent as giving the president of the United States the right to take out of the treasury without proper ani definito appropriations moneys of the people. It lwuuld change the whole policy of the aw. A vote was then taken, and, by 20 yeas to 22 nays, the senate receded from ils amendment. The senate, after passing some private bills, went into executive session, and when the doors were reopened a message was received from the house announcing the passage, by that body, of a joint res- olution authorizing the secretary of war to use rations for relief of destitute per- sons in the overflowed district of the Ohio and tributaries, and making an ap- propriation of $300,000 to relieve the sufferers by such overflow. The joint resolution was read three times and passed. Adjourned. HOUSE, In the house, Mr. Townshend (dem., 11L.) offered a resolution proposing con- stitutional amnendments providing for the election of president and vico president by majority votes of the people, and the abolition of the electoral college, and regulating the method of counting votes by the two houses of congress. The following bills were introduced: By Mr. Calkins (rop., Ind.)—To en- courage Indian education in Dakota. resolution requesting the secretary of the treasury to transmit to the house the re- port of the committee of the treasury department, to investigate the charges against the management of the offico of supervising architect of the treasury, under J. G. Hill, together with the charges, evideuce and all correspondence. By Mr. Washburn (rep. Minn.)—To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi at St. Paul, By Mr. Morey (rop. O.)—A resolution calling for reports of spucial agents dur- ing 1881, having reforence to the star route investigation. By Mr. Hatch (dem. Mo.)—A bill for preservation of timber adjacent to sources of navigable rivers. By Mr. White (rep. Minn.) —Amend- ing the Pacific railroad act amendatory to the act of July 1, 1862 so as to provide that “‘such railroad company, now organ- ized, or as may be hereafter organized under state or territorial laws, shall con- struct and operate a lino of railroad and telegraph from Sioux City, Ia., west- wardly via the, Niobrara valley to such point on the Union Pacific railroad, west of the 100th meridian as such company may select, and on the same terms and conditions and with the same rights pro- vided for the construction of the Union Pacific, provided said company shall re. ceive neither bonds nor lands and be completed within five years frdm the passage of this act. By. Mr. Cox (dem. N. Y.)—To secure a more faithful delivery of mails by star route contractors. By Mr. Bingham (rep. Pa.)—Author- izing the payment of postal notes to bearer at any money order office. By Mr. Young (dem. Tenn,)—Direct- ing the secretary of state to inquire in regard to the murder of H. F. Cooper, Michael O'Brien and George Stieff Mexico, and whether or not the United States should ask redress from that gov- ernment. , By Mr. Mills (dem. Tex.)—Requiring the secrotary of tho treasury to pay $100,000,000 of 3 per cent bonds, By Mr. Holman (dem. Ind.)—Relat- ing to the qualification of voters in Utah and Idaho. It requires before registra- tion an oath that the voter does not be- long to the church of Latter Day Saints or any other secrot organization which upholds polygamy, bigamy or unlawful cohabitation, * railroads as such railroads have been to the market all lands unearned, but it than 160 acres to any one person ringer (dem. Ill.)—A reso- lution calling on the president for the correspondence with Mexico relative to the recent military expedition under General Orook when the United States troops crossed the border; also a resolu- tion requesting the postmaster-gencral to comply with the house resolution for withhold papers the publication of whicl would be detrimental to public interes! By Mr. Follett (dem. O.) from the committee on appropriations—A joint resolution appropriating $300,000 for the relief of sufferers from the overflow of the Ohio river and its tributaries. Mr, Hiscock (rep. N. Y.) asked Mr. Follett to explain the necessity for the measure and what warrant the other side found for it in the constitution, Mr. Follett replied that necessity knew neither law nor constitution. Precedent was found in the action of the last con- gress in appropriating for the relief of the Mississippi flood sufferers, There never had been such a flood as this Families by thousands were driven from home and camping in the fopen fields, with nothing to protect them but the clothing on their backs. Replying to another question from Mr. Hiscock, Mr. Follett said the Ohio and Cincinnati chamber of commerce had made an ap- propriation, @ Mr. Hiscock said no great state like treasury. Michigan, pass around the hat of beg gery. Ohio, an empire, ought to come here when the legislature is in session and ask to have her citizens supported from the |44 le late Poor sta.es might ask assist- nished with an artificial limb by the war ance, but he did not like to see great states, like Ohio, New York, Illinois aud that Ohio was not the only state affected. There were millions of sufferers, not only in Ohio, but in Pennsylvania, West Vir- ginia and Kentucky. Mr. Taylor (rop. Ohio) thought the sum mentioned entirely inadequate; $1,000,- 000 would be needed. Mz, Belford (rep., Col.) was glad of the opportunity offered to open the vaults of the treasury so scrupulously kept closed by the secretary of the treasury from New York, Mr, Cox (dem., N. Y.) questioned the constitutionality of the measure. It should have been passed without any de- bate, and if thore was any breach of the constitution, God Almighty in his kind- ness would pardon it. Messrs. Reagan (dem., Tex.), Town- shend (dem., 11l.), Blount (dem., Ga.), Jordan (dem. ), and Warner (dem., Tenn.) spoke in favor of the measure. Mr. Eaton (dem.,Conn.) had grave doubts about the power of congress to pay out the moneys of the people even in as groat a calamity as this; but as Mr, Cox had said, though the head might doubt, the heart would act. Mr. Wilson (dem., W. Va.) offered an amendment making the amount half a million. Lost, 109 to 150, and the reso- lution passed as reported, 233 to 12, Neaarive Vore—Beach, Bennett, Cox | 8i (N. C.), Hewitt, (Ala.), Lanhan, McMil- lan, Oaks, Rauney, Tucker, Wise, Wood- | t ward, York. Adjourned. A democratic caucus will be held to- morrow afternoon. L — FROM WASHINGTON, THE PENSION EXPENDITURE. Wasn February 11.—In reply | 1 one, two and three years, respectively, in | m the Union army during the late war, the | h approximato amount required to equal- ¥ ate & communication from the adjutant | b By Mr. Stockslager (dem., Ind.)—A |general to-day, giving the number of en- |road on that and the worst of listed men who enlisted for various |ki Puriuds as follows: Three years. . S Wo years One year. Nine months. . Eight months Six months. . . Four months One hundred ‘Three month Sixty days In resp 8 pai maries to equalize bounties the adjutant general said it cannot be compiled from the record in his oftice. He calls atten- tivn to the estimates submitted to con- gress by the paymaster general. These | |/ show the total bounties paid to date to be $388,210,240. The first estimate of b the amount required for equalization of bounties: made by the pay- general is dated January 1878, and amounts to $137,- g 275,106, In March, 1872, the paymaster general estimated the amount necessary to pay bounties at the rate of $100 each to men who enlisted be- tween May 3, 1861, and July 22, 1805, and who were honorably discharged after a service of less thantwo yearsat $2,170,- 000. In April, 1874,fne estimated the cost of eqnalizing all bouuties av $8.4 per month for the term of service to date of muster out of the organizations, at $1061,5643,034. On Fobruary 18, 1880, the *paymaster general seat another communication to congress in response to a resolution ask- ing an estimate of the money required to carry out the provisions of the bill then pending to give each enlisted man who I 373 P 20,489 | © 7|q of af m [ term of service, and made the same esti- mates of $101,947,825, if no provisions were made for deducting bounties paid |, by states and if there were such provi- sions, $75,000,000. 8 GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPH LINES, appeared to-day before the house sub- propriation for & governmont line, and | favored his proposition to issue bonds for | o By Mr. Price (rep. Wis.)—For the for- | the construction of a system of goveru-| gsmerican Oak Leather company, has feiture of cortain lands. It confirms all | ment lines, All free delivery postoffices, | heen battling to keep the flood out, hav- to permit the commission to proceed with | grants heretofore made states and cor- | he thought, should be connected by tele- |, porations in aid of the construction of [graph, and as the land grants to railroad | wole structure, which are now_eighteen companios lines, by an act of 1866, were | inches above water and can keep safe tion asking what action should be taken | constructed notwithstanding the time |t the serviceof the guvernment, it would ( ;;,4i] goventy foet: is reached. relative to the demand of Mexico for the | may have expired before construction, | be unnecessary to construct lines beyond extradition of one Trimble. Agreed to. | All other lands are declared forfeited [ St- Paul, Omaha, Kansas City and By Mr. Van Wyck (rep, Nob )—A |and the secretary of the interior is au.|shall, Texas, the termini of those roads. |, resolution inquiring whether the Balti- | thorized within ninety days to restore|His plan, he said, would in a great de- gree prevent the postmaster generalfrom | yhich will be when the stage reaches is made unlawful for him to sell more |using the wires for partisan purposes, s | ¢,ur inches more. the lines would be extended only to those | points where postal receipts warranted the expectation that such extension would system of telegraph, to be controlled by the government, and explained the main features of his bill, INDIAN EDUCATION, sult of their observation at the Carlisle and Hampton Indian school,and declared that they intenedd to go home to devote their attentien to agriculture. DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR, The house committee on coinage, weights and measures to-day agreed to report a bill 1or the exchange of trade dollars for standard dollars or for their receipt for government dues within two ears, It provides for their rece into standard dollars. 'The action of the committee was not unanimous. STOCKSLAGER'S PENSION BILL, The bill introduced in the house by Stockslager for increasing certain pen- sions provides that soldiers and sailors who lost both eyes, both hands, or both feet, or becawms paralyzed from wounds received while on duty, shall receive $100 per month, * NEW LIMBS FOR THE VETS, Kepresentative Curtin to-day intro- duced a bill providing that any person disabled during the qlte war, and fur- department, since 1870, be entitled to receive & new limb every three years . | thereafter. The Scenes and Perils iftand About - 7] The Angry Waters Sfill Rising A Whole Village Swept Away by Suffering and Destitution Beyond Descriptions of the Wide-Spread Ruin has been one of the greatest excitoment water lst year was passed ab 1 o'olock during the greater part of the day, to- gether with reports of general rains at|This town has been cut off for six days every place where it would run into the | from the outside world except by skifls, (l)luu made it cortain that a still more | Water is in every building and hundreds dan, unfortunate people of the Ohio vailey. the population depends on outside sup- to the resolution calling for information | beld in confronting the danger they once | in 18¢ a3 to the number of soldiers who served | met and overcame, but when & new ele- | their foundations and two feet more of amount of bounty paid each, and the | ties began to appear. ize bounties of those who served in that | accumulate to-day. There war, the secretary of warsent to the sen- [ supply in the reservoir, with egreful use, 30,804 | side tributaries render it cortain that the 440 | river must continue to rise for 0 ble to give an idea of the situaf mass of people cannot seo the cut off on all streets running to.the river | the city may gain an idea .of ile extent when it is stated that the water is now Burnet house. three and four squares. [ seen is the streets inundated and boats | changed. At Jeffersonville the people suspension bridge, 100 feot above low |houses are not flooded with from one to water mark, makes a low arch above the | three feet of water. railroad bridges look like almost touch- | gloomy and grows more so hourly. ing the water. Hull in the western part of the city gives | has been rai 18i the only comprohensive outline of flood- | ness of all kinds is suspended, and citi- of the hill on the west side of the city | Chester, above here, a thousand people Mill creek spreads tu an ave) mile and she expanse reaches of sight. The backwater runs beyond |l Spring Grove cemetery a distance of |river. 3 nati, Covington and Newport houses be seen peering out of the water, while | $13,000 have been expended. The home- down the river almost from hill to hill | less are on short allowance owing to in- the valley is covered, Up to this time, | sufficient supplies. 0 great as the danger has been, no great | neighboring towns come in, and the com- men ave thrown out of employment, many will go without supper to-night bo- A causo the supplies are exhausted. Representatives Anderson and Sumner | Jief work in Ciucinnati is beginning to | inches above the flood of 1883, A heavy r el out press. committeo considering propositions f0r |{ioat horo for help, but at presant thore postal telegraph, and advocated bills in- |y g lack of funds, as contributions have |situation is alarming. The river is rising troduced by them, Anderson was of the [ ot heen as generous as last year. | more rapidly. opinion that the Western Union company | Fighth street, the street railroad avenue | terday. could bring suflicient influence to bear to [ hetween City and Price hill, overflowed defeat any measure making a largo ap-|to.day and access to that suburb by |The Arkansas is rising 3 inches an hour, ngbuilt barriers entirely surrounding the I AT~ | inches. tinue to go till the fires are put out, purposes. be profitable. Sumner also favored a|yyith the river » foot highor to-night than a year ago and rising at midnight an inch an honr the more and more serious, Northern is 1he only road able to take its A delegation of Apaches, Chiricahuas | trains from its depot. the papers in the star route cases and to |and Mescaleros from San Carlos Indian |all stop out of the city and convey pas- reservation called on the commissioner | sengers to and fro by ferry, of Indian affairs to-day, and expressed |sand distillery cattle now at the stock themselves much pleased with the re- |yards will have to be removed in the morning, ter Park, and Maud’s and Kittson's horses have been removed from their stables, water. advices from Pomeroy and other river towns making appeals for aid, a mecting nago | of citizens was called this evening at o PS4 RIS HEARTRENDING SCENES, Gattirorts, O., February 11.—Five thousand peoplo are camped on the hills at Pomeroy in terrible want of fo(;d and shelter. One hundred and fifty houses - Cincinati have floatod away. Boats land at the THE TOWA | court house steps. The people are hag- — T gard and worn out for sleep, food and | Mr. Babb's Divorce Resolution and shelter. Nearly overy business man is Other Matters, bankrupt. The coal mines at Syracuse - are flooded. A houso wont by Middle- | giocial Dispatch to ik e, port this morning with & woman 8oting |y e eer 1 on the gable end. Mon rowed ont and| DFS Mors, February 11.—Mr. Babb, appoaled to her to got off but she re.|of Henry county, introdaced a joint resolution and memorial in the house to- fusod saying she had four babies bolow. The glass was broken and the children |day reciting the evils arising from the laxity and differences of divorce laws in soen floating dead. A GENERAL WASHOUT, the several stat h Hurzsnono, T, February 1L.—Tharo 1,c.iovdf A8 Whoby » ayatem of have been continuous heavy rains in this Y vicinity for twenty-four hours, causing | husbands and wives, is being established, much ~ damago. Stock, fences, and [ and requesting the vovernor of this state bridges are washed away in tho bottoms. | to invite the several states and territories It is reported that the Illinois Central | \¢ 410 {ryited States to sond two repro- sentatives to attond a convention of the soveral states and territories to be held lost seven culverts on the Cairo division. The Wabash has several bid washouts in the capital city of (Des Moines) Towa on the first Wednesday of May, A.D. and its trains aro delayed. Tho Toledo, 1885, to take into consideration the sub- Cincinnati & St. Louis narrow gauge, oight miles below here, lost two bridges. jects herein contemplated and such other matters as may come before them, and Several culverts and a high embankment are in imminent danger of washing down. 1t is raining to-night with no indications to recommend to the several states and territories for adoption such laws on these subjects as to them should seem of abating. A WHOLE VILLAGE SWEPT AWAY. New Riouyon, O., February 11.— wiso and expedient tor the best and high- ost intorests of all the several states and territories and to this end heis also authorized to appoint proper delegates from this state. Unn:vrnl Pross Dispatchos, PROCEEDINGS IN DETAILS, Des Moixes, February 11.—In the house, numerous petitions were present- ed from all portions of the state asking the opening of the opera festival at mus hall to-night, The opera was “Faust,” Nilsson and Scalchi in_the cast. The onthusinsm was unbounded. THE SUBMERCED VALLEYS. WEGISLATURE, and Invading tho Streets. I'heir Furv, Present Rolief, vioted, and Distress thac Abounds. Gore ot the Wife THE FLOODED DISTRIOTS. CINCINNATI'S PERIL, CixcrsNari, February 11.—The day Kaxsas Crre ince the flood began. The stage of high Frank James and Chas, his afternoon. The steady hard rain The us flood will be upon the already | of heuses are submerged. One third of be unable to make a case. the case at Gallatin for against James would also 'he experience of last year made people [ port. The water is 23 inches higher than Thirty-five buildings are off nent of terror comes in tha form of a | water will float them away. The village eightened flood, a uew seriea of calami-| of Rural, Ky., is ontircly swept away, The gas was lost | only two of 36 houses being left. esterday and the water supply ceased to the court room. ; > REPORTS FROM VARIOUS POINTS, for woman suflrage, resolutions | S0UFt:Where a hearing was given on the There wigiite dass'| 1 wisxonnuno, Ind., February 11— |wers sdopted calling’ ‘for s¢Niate: sharge of robbing the U. 8. paymaitee e orious in. | Growing worse and worse. The mayor|ment of expenses of the fish Sravasct AU L SWal o B et it et | for tho frst, timo to-day asked help from | commission o~ date, with a view o e Alniad Jamemwill ghotiable b faies abroad. More houses have been lifted from their foundations. Peoplo are re- moving from the second floors and aban- doning their goods because of no place to take them, and the current is so swift that boating is dangerous, A family was rescued from the second story to-day abolishing the same, and for a statement of cxpenses of printing the governor's message in foreign languages. Bills were introduced fixing the terms of the prinoi- pal county officors at four years instead of two, as at present. A bill to recon- i nows what limit the flood \vir_l reach. The rising water above and in all the metime, rise aro he rate Aiken, railroad _ weighm; Tow long and how rapid oints of conjecture and fear, Prificreass Bhislattarnoontab MRk an: : vey to the government land helc in trust | with a bullet in her head, and E. W. hour; from b to 6 the rise throe- wlu‘)m the water had ru’\uhou fuurmch'u. by the state for the Sioux City & St |Feltzer, a book-keeper boarding at uarters of an inch. It is hardly possi- Evansviiig, Ind,, Fobruary 11.—The [ Paul railroad was passed. Also one pro- | Aiken's, lying across his wife’s body with river has risen three inches the past body | twenty-four hours, and is still rising slowly. The heaviest fog of the season provails, and no business is doing. The whole lower river land is a scene of deso- lation. Nearly overy town is submerged. No loss of lifo is reported, Tho destruc- ut little more than (00 feet grom the |tion of property is great. From thero to $he river | Lovisviiie, February 1L—At 11 ank proper the distance is between |o'clock to-night the river is rising 1} All that can be |inches ‘an hour, The situation is un- viding greater penalties for disposing of or voncealing mortgaged property. A joint resolution was introduced by Babb, of Henry county, asking congress to call a convention of states to secure uniform laws relative to divorce. In the Senate Hale introduced a bill to amend the constitution, prescribing the 1. mode of testing the legality of the adop- tion of constitutional amendments in the soveral stages of adoption. It provides against difliculties similar to the prohibi- tion amendment degjsion. Graves introduced a liquor bill, nearly a copy of the Harper law in 1llinois, A bill to allow defendants in criminal cases new trials on the ground of newly discovered evidence, was defeated. Ad- journed. Among the resolutions mtroduced was one by Fordyoce that committees be in- structed to recommend no appropriations for the support of institutions to educate zhorw in the learned professions; also t ling - the -committee on.the state university to report a bill to establish a theological chair in that institution. B An Entre Church Excommunicated. Cuicaao, February 11.—The Daily News' Cleveland (Ohio) special says: A two bullet wounds in his conscious Feltzer fired f the river, as approach to the®banks is t Pearl street or near it. StrAngers in But fow liding in all directions. The|are completely discouraged. doned by the president. tenced to fifteen months No damage or loss nad flood. The Newport and Southera | of life is yet reported. The outlook is and has served seven. Marysve Ky., February 11.—It g steadily all day. Busi- The view from Prices overed portion of the city. At the foot | zens are at work helping the needy. At o of a|are encamped on the hills, Several sout| houses have passed down the river, and houses at Abérdeen are tumbting in the A BIG BAG, even miles. Up the river the Cincin-| WaeenNG, February 11.—It has n | rained all day. Subscriptions in cash of depot. Appeals for aid from siderable rain has fallen during the last In Newport it is estimated that 5,000 |48 hours, Another flood which will in- 0 6,000 people are homeless and their [ undate the lower portion of Allegheny at upplies were exaausted at noon, so that | least is feared. Gavtiororts, O., February 11,—The Re- |river is at a stand now, and 8 feet and € of the diocese the parish elects four councilmen to administer the temporal affairs of the church, and the priest lects sixteen mombers of the congrega- tion from whom the councilmen must be chosen, The corigregation numbers 400 Bohemian families or 2,000 souls. At- tached to the church are several aid so- cieties, Thore has been trouble between the leaders of the societies and the church officials, culminating in the con- gregation refusing to select councilmen from the sixteen names presented by the priest. Bishop Gilmour then appointed ! it off. One of tho largest | The wires are down below here. No|four councilmen, but the congregation stablishments in Mill Creek valley, the | damage yet. refused to recognize them, and the Ganrouts, ., February 11,—The|bishop summarily excommunicated the river rose 8 inches during the last 12|entire church, Catholic circles are hours, rising half an inch an hour, Rain- | greatly aroused. ed all night with indications of more this morning. The river has fallen five feet at Belpre, 12 miles below Marietta. Telo- COnrcAco, February 11.—The Journal's graph communication with all up river | Platteville, Wis., special says: ' The towns except Gallipolis, Ripley and Maye- | Platteville bank has closed its doors. ville is still interrupted. %flblh‘?g-. 811;2,000; :-u-u_.uuo.:)oo. visvitik, February 11.—Rainin ho affuir creates great excitement, as heif ajmost 'oumuuu;y since sund-;j many local depositors had all their money ‘Weather moderated, still driz-|in the bank. zling. The river rose five inches last T, night. 1t is now rising three-fourths of A Veteran Gone. au inch an hour with 41 feet in the| BuruiNaron, February 11,—Gen, Jas canal, within 3} feet of last year's highest | I. Gilbert, for many years a prominent point, A flood sufferer named Adam | sitizen of this city, died of paralysis of Fink, on account of loss of property, | the heart at Topeks, Kansas, Saturday poisoned himself early this morning, night, The funeral will be held here Ca1ro, 111, February 11.—River forty- | Wednesday afternoon. The deceased six feot and rising one-half an inch an |entered the volunteor service as colonel hour, Light rain since yesterday mg'ml-l of the 27th Towa Infantry, ing, nearly seven feet below the hig] e R water of last year, It is not probable it il romsh thtd slags thin Vour, 8. Pauw, February 11.—The chamber of commerce passed resolutions of sympathy with the farmers in their fight 11,—The | against the railroad system of the North- at a | west, Resolutions were passed calling upon the Minunesota senators and rifl“"‘ bill for immediate appropriation of $300,- sentatives in congress to do all in eir 000 for sufferer; floods along the Ohio | power to secure the ]mmadube opening and tributaries he bill will be reported | of the Bioux reservation in Dakota, Res- to the house to-day. olutions were also passed praying con- e e— ruuu‘llut l;; lqlt'i(ult th’i land %:l'lll;lt of the hich $2,200 in cash was raised in The Northern Pacific in Chicago. Northern Pacific, as it would be a great Time, asnd a commitiee appointed t:)'l.::;' Cuicaao, February 11,—The petition | injustice to farmera who purchased the vass to-morrow. All bakeries are put on | for an i junction to ‘enjoin the Chicago |same. full time, and the first trainload of | & Evanston railroad to bridge the Ohica- bread, and hands will be sent down river | go river, and thus prevent the entrance Al'wr‘onlwfl Again, £ to Kerr's station in the morning, from |into the city, was denied in the superior| Ouioaco, February 11.—Th Union which point provisions will be conveyed | court to-day. The matter now goes to| Veteranclub,a political organization of to sufferers, Mansfield and surrounding | the supreme court. Ii_the upper court|1,300 members,to-night appointed a com- towns are also sending large quantities of | sustains the view it will remove all ob- mittee to investigate the alleged ques- provisions to this point to be forwarded | stacles to the roa entrance into the | tionable guathudl'n! Governor Ordway,of to the river towans scattersd all along|business heart of the city. The com- | Dakota, in organizing new counties and the H cking valley. Tolegnmn ro- | pany is supposed to represent a IFl’unwn- to report whether the rights of union ceived from stations on the Seioto valley | tive direct connection with the Northern soldiers sottling in the territory are not and Hocking valley, nearest to the inun- | Pacific. beiug interfered with by such action, also dated towns, state that the whole city of e — to report what further action, if any, the Portsmouth is under water, and the citi- A Kuusas Hal Storm, club should take zens have flod to the hills, The same| Kansas Crry, February 11.—Tele- o —— story comes from Gallopolis, where 30,- | graph advices at midnight report a se- A Newspaper Sold, 900 ‘people are driven from their homes, | vere hail storm in Western Kansas, mov-| pgyvex, February 11.—The Deaver were burned to death. to-day for opening mail. by a decoy traj Lawrenceburg to-day sent a re- | rain is falling, Aunora, Ind., February 11,—The Three deaths since yes- Lirue Rock, Ark., February 11— treot cars is cut off. —— Anunother Broken Bank. At7 to-night the water was 66 feet 11 The waterworks office reports ne engine still working and will con- dead, The weavers in Ki ‘Ii(lv:lr, Mut‘, :ltruckug nst uction yoestorday. Consumption will be topped to morrow except for domestic | 0ON. to the ; fntelloctual condition of v nations, including France, CiNciyNATI, February 12--12:80,— tuation becomes wion witl The Cincinnati insured. 1 H‘;N 0, (N. wanks ilnoss, The other roads Five thou- The water has reached Ches- of work, Union_ City, WASHINGTON, der water. February house committee on appropriations, meeting this morning, agreed to rugarl a Covington has neither gas nor THOUSANDS DRIVEN FROM HOME, l-rwhnmflnn asking Corvysus, Ohio, February 41,—On for two days have been sent already, Y PRSI THE OUTKAGE COMMITTEE, Pomeroy is in a similar condition, The|ing esstward. Sleet and snow are fall-| pribune, one of the leading newspapers A BAD LOT. The Cases Against Frank James iu Missouri Dismissed, He is Now to Run the Gauntlet Alabama, Two Desperadoes Cremated in a Burning Jail, The Bisbee Murderers all Con~ A Ruined Home Stained with the CRIME AND ORIMINALS, THE MISSOURT OUTEAWS, Ka Fobruary 1k—In the criminal court this morning, State’s Attor- ney Wallace dismissed the case against with the Blue Cut train robbery in 188%. attorney submitted a statement that owing to the refusal of Gov. Critten- den to pardon Dick Liddell the state is deprived of his testimony, also valuable corroborative evidence, hence he would thus vacating all indictments in Missouri. The announcement created surprise in James was immediately taken before Judge Kreckel, of the U. 8. MURDER AND SUICIDE, Cnicaco, February1l.—When Thomas home to-night after his day’s work, ho found his wife lying dead on the floor, Letters left by him indicate that he was criminally intimate with the woman and jealous of the attentions of another man. It is thought Feltzer cannot survive, He comes of a respectable family of Aledo, WASSON PARDONED. . SaN AntoNIO, Tex., February 11,—It is reported in army circles to-day, and generally circulated, that Major Wasson, the defuulting paymaster, has been par- THE BISBEE BUTCHERS, 'Tu.\llmuxl, Ariz., February 11,—The trial of the assassing who raided Bisbee and murdered several inhabitants Decem- ber 8, closed to-day, All were fownd guilty and will be sentenced Wednesday. Fm York, February 11.—A black valise containing 825,000 was stolen from the New York Transfer company to-night while being taken to the Desbrosses stroet ferry from the Grand Central TWO DESPERADOES BURNED, Cary, desperadoes confined in the jail, A MAIL THIEP, Manrsasy, Mo., February 11.—Deputy Postmaster Lyman Peters was arrested —— They Always Obeyed. Torkvo, February 11.—In answer to a letter from the editor of The Blade ask- ‘ing whether the Army of the Potomac rofused to charge the enemy a second timo at the battle of Cold Harbor when ordered, General Grant replies: nover gave any order to any army that I commanded during the rebellion to make an attack where it was disobeyed.” e TELEGRAPH NOTES3, Thos, Chenery, editor of the London Times Since 1877, a distinguished orie is Phillips mill, Fall "Tho popo has ddressed an . cyclcal loter ‘ronch bishops doploriig the moral and bishopa'to do their ubmost to remedy the evil. “The agents of the Nottinghill, lost by colli- an icobery, give the value of oanzo aa 8150,000 and stoamer §400,000. Both homaa Kinsella, editor of tho Brook- Y.) Engle, died yesterday after 12 Ruddock’s shoe factory at West Newbury, Mass,, was burned yesterday, Loss, $50,- 0.0, Fiftoon hundred persons are Tho mayor of Newport, Ky., country for aid for the people of Newport Two-thirds of Newport is uu- Governor Porter, of Indiana, ued a vontributions for the Dhio flood sufferers. Rations for 1,000 persons and Her Paramonr, Ford, charged He stated also bank robbe be dismissed, aster, reached body, and un- all the shots. He was sen- imprisonment, this Ed. ok his Toirs, 88351 m.'.m{,m}:c( “ghi' tress, however, is beginning to grow | Pirrsnura, February 11 —The rivers| g, iongtroet, was excommunicatedyester: | morning. Mike McDonald an orh , $8.33) pi or N8|, der, Manufactures are stopping and |are rising again at head waters, Con- day by Binhu’p Gilmotr, "Undar the laws e He was caught “y ental scholar, 2 10 por e re- ous Iiuropean Ho exhorts the the thrown out to the and has iss to Lawrenceburg would not be taken from the navy rolls| Messrs. Cannon, (rep. Ill.) Payne (rep. | The sub-committee charged with the | secretary of state, governor and adjutant ing here, and wires are working slowly. of the west was sold to-day to & syndi | nave been effected as they]stand, but would re-enlisted. No|Pa.) and Horr (rep. Mich.) spoke in fa- | investigation of the Danville trouble be- | general have been telegraphed to send e —— cate of Now York gentlemen for $100,- | aoubs tha in iood's difticully would be experienced in find- | vor of the measure, and could see no con- | gin work at Washingten on Wednesday. | tents to shelter the people, and the legis- Opesa tn OCincinnatl, 000, O. H. Rothacker continues as edi- mmh“h ing thy st officers in the uaval estab- | stitutional objection to it. 'hey will probably visit Danville before | lature is asked to take prompt action for| Cixcmynary, February 11.—Four thou-{ tor-in-chief and ¥, J. V, Skiff as man 1 o0 "puico $1.00,six for lishmd@tto take the place of command,| Mr, Goff (rep. W. Va.) made the point | their labors are concluded, the relief. sand and five hundred people witnessed *ager, G latdnl 20 ¥ bty 7 R poais R gy L5 o R R e S i e——— -~ m-...“..a,_ pua ooz T s