Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 16, 1884, Page 1

| i HIRTEENTH YEAR. THE OmMmAHA DAILY BEE OMAHA, NEB. SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16, 1884, NO. 205 F 5 "] RO AR SAI CURES Positive Cure for Every Form of Skin and Blood Diseases, from Pimples to Serofula, HOUSANDS OF LETTERS 'IN OUR POSSE- slon repeat this story: I have been a ter | sufforer for yoars witn Blood and Skin Hu- # have been obliged to shun publio places by on of my disfiguring humors; have had the hest yicians; Kl\'c spent hundreds of dollars and got no Follef 1ntil 1 used the Cutioura Resolvent, the Blood Purifier, internally, and Cotioura and the Great Skin- Cures and Skin Beau- which have cured me, and loft my pure as & child's. Imost Incredible, mes E. shardson, Custom House, New Orleans, ath, says: In 1870 Berofulons Ulcers broke out 4y Body until 1 was amass of corruption. Every- & known to the medical facnity wastried in vain. Mame a more wreck. At times I could not lift my As to my head, could not turn in bed; was in con. & pain, and looked upon life as a curse. No relief are in ton years, In 1880 I heard of the Cuticura lodies, used them and was perfectly eured. {worn to before U. 8. Com. J D, CRAWFORD. Stilr More So. 11l MeDonald, 2542 Dearborn t, Chicago, stully acknowledges a curo of Eczems, or Salt 1im, on head face neck, arms and logs for soven- Eyears- not able to move, except hands and knees Bne ysar; not able to holp myself for eighs years; 1 hundrods of remedies; doctors pronounced his ¢ hopeless, permanently cured by the Cuticura Tedios. More Wonderful VYet, | E. Carpenter, Henderson, N. Y., cured of Peor- for Leprosy, of twenty years’ standing, by Cuti- 4 Remedies. The most wonderful cu astpan full of scales fell from him dai G@and his frionds thought he must di ien to bofore » justice of the peace and Hender- # most prominent citizens- ~ Dont Wait irite to us for these testimonials in fuil or send «t to the parties. All aro absolutely true and dn without our knowledge or solicitation. Don t Y. Now is the time to cure every species of Itch- i Scaley, Pimply, Serofulovs, Inherited, Conta- Js,and Copper colored Diseases of the Blood, Skin, 4Salp with Loss of Hair Jld every where. Price: Cuticura, 50 cents. Dlvent, §1. Soap, 25 cents. ~ PorTER DRUG AND IMICAL CO., BOSTON, MASS. EAUTY For Rongh, Chapved aud Oily Skin, Blackheads, and 8kin Blew e, use Cutisnva €oan THE MERCHANTS {alonal Bak! OF OMAEIA. thorized Capital, - $1,000,000 id-up Capital, - - 100,000. .‘I‘rplus Fund, - - - 70,000 ‘ura Soap, #s, extern 1and blood BANKING OFFICE 4 W. Cor, Farnam ana 13th St. OFFICFRS: ¥k Moeny, Prosident. | SAX LE. Roanns, V-Pres. . B. Woop, Cashior. | Lurnxa DrAks, A. Cash. | DIRECTORS: ink Murphy, Samuel E. Rogers, Ben. B. Wood, utfiu C. Housol, Alf. D. Jones, Luthor Drako. ansact o General Banking' Businoss. All who Yo any Banking business ta tranmact are invited to st No matier how large or small tho transaction, fill receive our careful attention, and we promise A courteous treatment. y8 particular attention to business for partios Ing outside the city. Exhange on all the prin- I citios of the United States at very lowest rates. lcoounta of Banks and Bankers received on tavor- a) torma. jucs Cartiicato of Daposlt bearlng 5 per coat t. 8 uysand sells Forelgn Exchange, County, City a{Governmcent securition ‘fiited States Lepository frst National Bank, —UF OMAHA— {or. 18th and Farnam 8ts. e Oldest Banking Establishment n Omaoha, BUCCESSORS TO KOUNTZE BROTHERS, Organized in 1868, (rganized as a National Bank In GAPITAL - - - - + . + $200,000 SURPLUS AND PROFITS . $150,000 OYFicRRS DIRNOTORM 8 Kouxrzn, President. e, ChmoTon, Vice President. & ovarua Koustzu, 2d Vice President. A. J. POPPLETON. F. H. DAvS, Cashler W 1. ¥soquina, Assistant Cashicr. cta & genora banking bustness. Iseucs Hime ortilates bearin nterest. — Draws drafts on Ban Fraucsoo and prinoipal cities in the Unitod States ‘Atso loodon . Dublin, Edinburgh and the princips itiagol tha eontinant of Kura . #. R. RISDON, Gon' nsirance Agent REPRESENTS! Yuwnix Assurauce Co., of uondon, A ‘wav lorchants, of Newark, N3, Gracd Pirs, Philadelphis, Capltal. Piromen's Fund, Capltal,.... OFFICE ~Roow 19, Omaus Nutiwna Bawk Buila w._T+lephone No. 815 " B. VOLEMEYER, THE PIDNEOEFRMMAHT DEALER His many friends are invited to call at his new eat market, 2618 Cuming 8t.. where they will find, of yore, all te choice cuts in Beef, Muttou and ork, 8t 10west market prices, DREXEL & MAUL, SUCCKSSORS TO JOHN G. JACOBS) UNDERTAKERS, 4t the old stand 1417 Farnam stroct. Orde @ ant prowptly attended to, by tal ==THE MILD POWER CURES — EYS’ 'C e SPECIFICS. 18 use 0 yoars.—Each number tho rpeeial pro- gelption’of an einent phyaician Tihe only imple. Hnfeand ure Med clues (or the P onle LIST FIINC 0B, CUKES, Puic Iill\iglll::ll ll,k i Yok PEbdn violes . | 000, to be expended through the agency “|of the relief committee and assistant reports no bottom lands in sight from Cincinnati to Marysville, the river act- ually extending from hill to hill. This means vast losses to farmers, Manches- ter is wholly ruined, Aberdeen badly wrecked, its habitants destitute, and numerous villages with hundreds in want of food and clothing. SHAWNEETOWN, 111, February 15, —Up to noon the river had risen 6 inches dur- ing the past twelve hours. The telegraph oftice was invaded and communication cut off for several hours, The instruments were removed to the second story of a neighboring building, and no_similar trouble is anticipated, unless the poles wash away. One house was cartied from its foundations this morning, and floated off, Several foundations have given way, and houses are leaning and likely to fall at any moment. Should the wind rise, great damage of this char- acter will follow. There is increasing distress in the hills back of town, where many citizens are encamped. The colony is well provisioned, but fuel is scarce. Several cases of serious sickness are re- ported. All business is entirely sus- pended and must remain so for several days. About the only boats running are the Evansville and Cairo packets. A trip from Evansvile here shows a vast sea. Henderson and Mt. Vernon are out of danger, botia high and dry. The situation at Irontown grows more serious hourly. Many of the inhabitants have deserted their houses and gone to places of safety, while others remaining are living in sec- AMID THE WAVERS, Details of the Flood Disasters and the Relief Work, Ten Lives Lost by Collapse of Buildings in Oincinnati. The Swollen Rivers Continue to Recede Slowly. Urgent Need for Abundant and Speedy Aid. Great t?:\fl'crln:xp;()Am‘COI(l Weanther Among the Homeless, THE RECE RELIEF Cr: ~aAr1, February 15.—The steam- er Giranite State, chartered by the relief committee of the chamber of commerce, is now receiving a cargo of provisions and bed clothing for the relief of suffer- ors at points above the city. ~The Ohio state commissioner has turned over $15,- NG FLOODS, DISTRESS. ND BULLETS AND BALLOTS, | Another Chanter of the Bloody Work Doue at Daville. to leave them, keoping the men utnifhu londers of the party inculcated that senti ment. . publicans. The Whites Claim that They Feared a Massacre, And Only Proteoted Their Wives and Children, chair and described the ditfionlty. Hi published. Charles G. Froeman, a white police man of Danville, was called. democrat. disperse the crowd of colored men The Blacks that They Feared tTr';:{e replied that they had been mis. Bullets for Ballots. right beforo they loft. Witness ro marked: inuts \| Conflicting Stotles of the Slaughter '.':;:" ;::,"'“::: °f.;,:_"-fl Lol and Its Canses. fifteen or twenty negroes with pistols, THE DANVILLE RIOT. CONTINUED—CHAPTER 11, Wasnizaron, February 16.—The in- vestigation into the Danvillo eloction | before the riot. ~ He riots, was resumed this morning. - | protection of himself and famil, ward M. Hatehor, (white) donied that he [ 1 T KERIEOH RN 1A (R TERY BEACHR| R e iU CL R UL LTRSS viot, He saw marks of bullets on the buildings in the rear of the white people which must have been fired by negroes. declited to say whother he fired. declined for satisfactory roasons. Wit. were ostracised, their wives thrn\amnu‘l]—mulilnmd or worn shall be replaced as The womon had a lodge | now provided by law for legal tender among themselves for the purpose of [notes, the coin in the treasury, on the The white Jpxssage of the act, for redemption of The same ostracism did not oper- ato among whites when they turned re- | and such coin reserve may from time to Charles D, Noel, white, whoso quarrel [ the secretary of the treasury, but the with the negro Iawson preceded the gen- eral riot, was callod as a witneas by the | less than story did not vary from that frequently | der and treasu He was a | tionizing our whole system of finances. He described the effoct to d and were going to have their | posited “Well, you all just romain |one-half the intorest in excess of 3 per Witness saw | rejected by 7 yoas to 42 nays. Mathew P. Jordon, (white), was called | munication from the attorney-general andin reply to Senator Sherman, de-jexplaining the delay in responding to scribed the riot. Witness was armed but Jthe call for his opinion made by the He | postmaster-general regarding the adjust- nes bought his pistol two or three days | ter was received at his oftice, he says. in urchased it for the [ August last, The | When ho returned he gave it olose in- Lemon Coleman, a colored clergyman | & In?'o amount of money and a compli- of Danville, had lived in Danville about | cate 50 years; heard some one cry murder [anxious to give it caroful and deliberate and went toward the scene of the riot, " RATTLE OF THE ROADS. The Hand of Vanderbilt Clnfches the C,RIL&P Another Decision in the Famous Ovedit Mobilier, i- | legal tender notes to be also applicable for vodemptien of these treasury notos, time be incroased in the discretion of total amount of such coin shall never be per cent nor more than 30 s [ per con$ of the total amount of legal ten- notes outstanding, Mz, Jomes (dem Fla.) characterized - | Mr. Plumb's preposition ae one revolu- Virtually Against Oakes Ames A voto was then_taken on the amend- RESV et meont heretofore submitted by Mr. Sher- man, providing tha¥ if any bonds de- ited bore imterest higher "than 3 per - | cent, additional notes be issued equal to Trying to Reovganize she 01d Tewa Asgaoiation, Burns, of Counc® Bluffs, the New Trafiie Boss, - | cent accruing before maturity, and it was The chair laid before the senate a com- RAILROAD WATTEKS, A CREDIT MOBILIMR DECISION, Beosrox, February 15:—An opinion was filed in the United Stedes circuit court to-day by Judges Lowell and Nelson which 1s practically in favor of the Credit Mobilier as agairst Oakes Ames and the Union Pacific contmct. The cases were those of Rowland, commissioner, ve. Thomas €. Durant and' others, same vs, same. Defondant filo’demurers but - | ment of postmasters’ saleries, The mat- while on his vacatin. spection and as it was a matter involving and intricato question and he was consideration, his opinion whon drawn commissary. General Beckwith, U. S. A., | § will gend on this steamer the amount of 810,000, to be in_ charge of an officer de- tailed for that purpose. The steamer will be under the charge of Hon. J. L. Keck, representing the relief committee of the chamber of commerce. Major John B. Yene, member of the Ohio state relief commission, was given a loco- metive on the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore road to go to Galliopolis,Ohio, where he will organize relief parties to go up and down the Ohio, and then will go to Ironton and do the same there, robably joining the Granite State at F’ortsmouu\. Before leaving to-day he brought from Columbus and sent to the river front in the vicinity of New Rich- mond a car load ef blankets. He author- ized P. J. Nichols, of Batavia, to expend $1,500 along the river in the vicinity of New Richmond. Judge Loudon, of Georgetown, will distribute $500 along the river in his locality for immediate re- lief. At 3:40 this morning, an alarm of fire was sounded for the box at Ludlow and Pearl streets, where the water surround- ed the houses, and when the engines reached the place it was discovered that the rear part of two brick buildings on the south side of Pearl near Ludlow, had fallen and ten persons buried in the ruins or drowned. The occupants from the other portion had given the alarm and before the real cause could be ascertained a fire alarm sound ed. The firemen in conjunction which the police used superhuman eiforts to rescue the livingand dead. The buildings were occupied s a boarding houses and had twenty to thirty occu- pants, The living were soon brought out. Four members of a family named Burk, Mr. and Mrs. Coulter, Maud Ellis, Lydia Ellis, Willie Kyle and another name not known are supposed to be crushed or drowned. Mrs. Webb, an occupant of a room in the part that fell was awakened by the cracking of the walls and tried to awaken others, but fell with the ruins and yet escaped with- out injury. The buildings were occupied as a boarding houses by Robt. Kyle and Geo. Oyester. There were about 35 people in the buildings at the time. The follow- ing are known to have been killed, either by falling timber or drowning: Jno. W. Kyle, son of the proprietor; Mary E. Col- ter, Maud Ellis, Jas. Ogden, Barney Winkler, Mrs. Winkler, Thomas Burk, Mrs. Lena Burk and two children, Wil- liam and Louis Burk, making ten lives 8o far known to have been lost. The rescued women were conveyed in the patrol wagon to the fire engine house in the vicinity were they were made com- fortable by the firemen. Mrs. Kyle, whose son was lost in the ruins, is incon- solable. She imagined her boy was alive and struggling for his freedom, then she gave him up for lost and her agony was heartrending. Mrs. Webb, who oceu- pied a room in the part that fell, says she could not sleep for the cracking of the walls. She thoughtat first it was puper affected by the water but after- ward supposed it was something worse, “1 got up at last,” she said; ‘“‘wakened Mary Colter, and told her we must get out, something was going to happen, T went to the door of the next room, where Maud Ellis was sleeping, and tried to awaken her. Then I called to Mary Colter again to hurry. She was sitting in bed. ~ I was near the door, and 1 felt the house going. 1 could have stepped through the door to the front part. but I turned to get Mary. I couldn't see and felt all around for her then. We all went down together. 1 do not know how I escaped, but I crawled out and screamed.” This was told be- tween sobs as the poor woman bemoaned her room-mate, Mary Colter, and the rirl Maud Ellis, The occupants of the ouse say they called the attention of the owner last summer to the weakness of the rear wall, but it was not repaired. All of them think that the wooden lintel over the rear cellar dnor broke by the effects of the waterand so let the rear wall down, The body of Thomas Burke was rescued, shortly before noomn, It was crushed fearfully, The accident has spread terror among the occupants of similar old buildings n the flooded dis- trict. Many who can do so are getting out to safer quarters, By comparison of names the report was current thattwoadditional bodies had been found, making the total number of vie- tims 12, 1t was afterwards learned that two people, hitherto called Winkler in the reports, were Mr. and Mrs, Woenker. This leaves the total number of victims 80 far as known ten. The body of Maud Ellis was also recovered, The body of another woman was found fast under a partition wall, but owing to the danger of other walls falling further search was abandoned till the water falls. The chamber of commerce has appoint- ed a committee to take such steps as 10ay be necessary to inaugurate & movement to fill up the lower part of the city to a Cees e e 2222222ENEEEREEINRNENSS Physical Weakiioss. height above the present flood, The Little Miami road engineers have been tiking water levels on telegraph poles, with & view to raising that road aboyve the high water mark, The Cincinnati Commerciai's steamer, which returned from up river to-night, ond stories. The fuel problem is pre- senting itself as an embarrassing inci- dent. selves, and the cold weather of the last two days has resulted in much suffering. The river is steadily rising half an inch an hour. ter are expected. Aid is badly needed, and the same is true of Caseyville, Wes- ton, points belew here. Many neglected to provide them- At least two more feet of wa- Cove-m-Rock and two or three The situation at Shawneetown is quite as bad as has been represented. The en- tire town is submerged to an average depth of 8 foet. rising, but still lacks three feet of the highest point touched last year. current from here down is very strong, while from Paducah to Cairo it is like a mill race, 8o strong indeed that only the largest steamboats can stem it. withstanding the vast volume coming it is believed the water is running out so fast that the rate of rise here is not likely to increase. population of 2,000, not over a quarter of whom, it is estimated, remain. is the third flood in as many years, and the peopie have had such terrible experi- ence thatall who could get away left whenever the flow became inevitable. Many have gone to Evansville, Hender- son and Mt. Vernon, but the majority to The river is steadily The Not- Shawneetown has a This Bowlesville, three and a half miles dis- tant, At Bowlesville the coal mines shut down some time ago, and the homes formally occupied by the miners are now used by flood fugitives. In the same neighborhood many are living in tents furnished by the governor of Illinois. Among these latter thore is much suffer- ing on account of cold weather. Several cases of extreme distress are reported, but ag yet no deaths. LouisviLie, February 15.—Tae river reached 46 feet and 6 inches, and is now at a stand, and the flood has reached its greatest hoight. Local news of the situ- ation is mainly regarding relief measures. Of the $30,000 appropriated by the Un- ited States for the relief of sutferers $15,- 000 was put into the hands of General Rufus Saxton, of the Jefferson government depot, for distribution, and this morning the steamer Mattie Hays was chartered by the government, and in charge of Major Burke started down the the river laden with §2,500 worth of supplice. The previsiona consist of meat, bread, potatoes, hominy, onions, etc. Much more damage has resulted this year than last. People are busy moving entirely out of houses on Third and Fourth streets since the water has en- tered the second and third stories in some places. Many houses are in dan- ger of toppling over, as the water is un- dermining the foundations. One point of the worst danger is from the sudden fall which will sweep everything into the river. There is hardly sailing room in tho district from the mass of lumber and sheds that have been torn asunder and sent adrift. Along Washington street from Floyd to Jackson the water is within a few feet of the pavement and floor, The change fering among the poor and much sick- ness will be the result. New Albany has taken care of all her own sufferers, dpusitiou at New Albany is un- many houses are flooded on the first the cold has caused much suf- J. C. Reagan, (white) testified that he saw a crowd of angry negroes and went to the hardward store asked for a box of chopping axes. He told the clerk there was going to be a knock down fight. The clerk refused to give them. Witness hunted for them but could not find any and returned to tio scene of the riot; was armed with a pistol. Senator Sherman—Did you hre en that occason? i Witness. question, Senator Vance—You are not required to answer that question unless you choose. Senator Sherman—I put the question to you, did you fire on that occasion ! Witness—I decline to answer that question, Witness refused to say how many times he shot into that crowd that day. He thought it necessary for the white people to fire. R. W. Glass, colored, was called and said he didn’t feel safe in telling what he knew about the riot. Senator Lapham—Why not ? Witness—I livein Danville and have got to back there. Witness had heard it said thatany negro who testified— Senator Vance—Ob, we don’t want that, Mr. Chairman. Senator Lapham—I have a right to know the grounds of his fear. Witness boing reassured, told his story. He heard a pistol fired, rushed to the scene, and found some 75 colored men and 25 whito men. The white men and olicemen were telling the negroes to eave. The negroes replied, **We arenot doing anything. Why should we leave!” He heard Hatch say: *‘This is a white man’s town, and I'mu damned if wo don't rule. You are all going to get killea if you don’t leave.” Then the white men drew pistols. Witness named Hatoh, Lee, Covington and others, whom he said had pistols. Lee gave orders to fire, and they did fire. Then the colored men began t+leave. The whites came out of the opera house. “How many?’ It looked like three or four hun- dred. They (the whites) went into the hard. ware store, and got pistols. He saw pis- tols, 25 or 30 of them, and a bag of car- tridgesin a real estate office, where he took refuge, and the white people came in and supplied themselves, When all the negroes had left, witness heard the whites going about the streets shouting, “Hurrah for the democrats!” [Laugh- ter. H]e heard some whites say, “kill every damned nigger we can see;” heard Henry Barksdale make a speech, in which he said, *‘we intend to carry this election by fair means or foul;” heard him say it was to be carried by **de point ob de gun.” At the time of the riot he saw white men riding up with guns; saw white men run- ning home after their guns; saw no col- ored men armed. George A. Lee, white, saw several pis- tols in the hands of colored people; be- lieved the first volley was fired into the crowd of negroes, but after the latter be- gan to run many shots were fired in the air. Some eight or ten pistols among tho negroes were pointed at Taylor and himself, the negroes demandingthat they came out and show their faces. ‘‘If the T don't care to answer that It is impossible to estimate the extent of but did not roach it; was met by the re-|up he had Jaid aside a treating crowd of blacks and sought|more mature consideration, safety from the flying bullets in a store. | finally completed in a fow weeks and While in there hesaw a white man raise [sent to the postmaster-general on the his pistol and fire aud another man fell, | 14th inst. He remarked to the storekeeper ‘‘Dar! a| Aftor an executive session the senate white man has shot another white man.” [adjourned until Monday. John Stone, colored, said the colored WOUSE, geopln enerally did not vote on election| Mr, Holman (dem., Ind.) from the ay. Heasked a great many to vote |committee on appropriations reported a but they refused, saying they were not | joint resolution making a further appro- oing to be slaughtered. In reply to|priation of £200,000 for the relief of suf- enator Vance witness said he was not|ferers by the Ohio flood. interfored with on election day. One| Mr, ilrowna (rep., Ind.)vead a tele- man had said something to him which he | gram from Richmond, Ind., asking en didn’t consider pleasant. Senator Sher- [ immediate appropriation for relief of the man asked what it was. Witness said a | destitute and homeless people along tha colored voters as thoy went to the bal- lot box and a white man’s dog ran under | Tho "Chalmers-Manning clection case the railing whereupon the white man re- | was then taken up. marked to his dog: “Come back on this| At 3 the previous question was side, you are not a nigger. ~Don't stay [ ordered, Then L{r. Curtin took the over there with the niggers.” floor for the purpose of withdrawing his Adjourned to Monday. resolution for recommittal, and wound Tho joint resolution passed, e — e up his recital of the reasons which led to FORTY-E1GHTH CUNGRESS, this action, with the words: “With e General Manning's full consent and ap- probation I bring him to the speaker's WastiNaToN, February 15.—Mr. Pen-[desk and ask that the oath be adminis- dleton (dem., O.) sent to the clerk’s desk | tered to him on the certificate of the gov- and had read a dispatch from Richard |ernor of Mississippi.” Suiting the ac- Smith, of Cincinnati, to Representative | tion to his words he took Mr. Manning Jordan, saying the secretary of war had | by the arm, and together they stood at done grandly in the matter of relief of |the bar of the house, where Mr. Curtin sufferers by the Ohio floods, that the red | presented him and demanded that he be tape, whose interference had been feared, [ sworn as a representative under the cer- had been all cut up and thrown away, |tificate of the governorof a loyal and and that cold weather, though better |great state. than tain, had increased the aistress,| Immediately the house woke up and that neither pen nor imagination could | Mr. Calkins (rep. Ind.) was ready with sufticiently describe the suffering, that|a point of order that the house had ro- congreas should appropriate an additianal | ferrod the case to a committee, that the million, it would haye to come and the | committee had reported to the house and more promptly the better. the report was now under consideration. Mr, ansuton said thure was no poli-| The speaker said he did not think it ties 1n the matter. Everybody was|necessary to decide the question of order, working for it as the common cause of | because the question whether or not humanity. Mr. Manning was entitled to take ths Mr. Voorhees (dem., Ind.)said he had | oath of office was the very question similar telograms, some of which he|which thehouse was now considering and read. He suid his people had not on the [ on which the house was about to take a occasion of last year’s flood asked aid of [ vote. The chair would not undertake to congress as tho Indiana logislature was [ administer the oath of oftice to a persun then in on, but would do 80 now as | claiming to be a member-elect when the the legislature could not be convened in | house itself was considering his right to time to take such immediate action as |a seat. would meot the urgent necessitios of the | Messrs. Manning and Curtin_there- occasion, upon retired to their seats amid great Tho telegrams read by Mr. Pendleton |laughter on the republican side, which and Mr. Voorhees were referred to the |was increased by the remark of Mr. Bel- committee on appropristions. ford: ‘‘Ring down the Curtain, the play Mz, Allison (rep., Ia.) from that com- | is over.” mittee reported favorably the joint resol-| The question recurred on the swbsti- ution and it was immediately “read three | tution of the minority resolutions for times and passod. those of the majority, and a division of At 1 o'clock a message was received | the resolutions being demanded, a vote from the house of representatives an-|was taken on the firat one, declaring that nouncing that that body had passed a|Manning holds perfect credentials. This joint resolution making a furthor appre- | was rojected—yens 106, nays 140. The priation of $200,000 for relief of desti-|announcement was received with ap- tute persons in districts overflowed by the | plause on the republican side. Ohio river and tributaries, The second resolution, declaring Man- Shortly afterwards a mossage was re- | ning entitled to the seat, was lost—yeas ceived from the house announcing the |92, nays 167. fixing of the speaker's signature to the| The majo.ity resolutions were then measure, whereupon the president of the |adopted—130 to 0, These discharge senate instantly affixed his own. the committee on elections from the pri- Mr. Voorhees (dem, Ind.) presented a|a facie case, and leave the seat vacated petition from 1,100 eettlers of Washing- until the case is decided on its merits. ton territory praying for protection in Adjourned until Monday. titles to their lands in controversy be- e ——rr tween them and the Northern Pacifio LATEST FOKKIGN NEWS, railroad company. THE EGYPITAN ELEPHANT. Trustees ca, guilty of willful negligence and miscon- plank railing separated the white from the | Ohio. duct in the management of their trusts, in its bank, the damage until the water is confined Jeffersonville presented a strange sight by moonlight, with the mad waters of the Ohio rushing with wonderful force through the streets, almost equal in ve. locity to the current in the middle of the whites had not used their pistols we would have been shot into smithereens, and not on'y that, but our wives and sis- houses. Yes sir, murdered in our houses. three days before by their leader.” ters would have been murdered in their 1 know this by the threats made two or Seaator Sherman—Did you hear that The senate then resumed considora- tion of the bill to provide for the issue of circulating notes to national banks and Mr, Plumb (rep. Kas.) sddressed the senate at some length, He wanted to see the national debt d.illg[.lr be- cause its disappearance would be a prac- tical resolvent of many disturbing ques- Loxno&,!February 15.—The Post's dis- patch from Berlin says: Germany has three times insisted that England should roclaim a protectorate over Egypt, but ngland appears to be afraid of irritat. ing France. Nubar Pasha, Kgyotian prime minis- ter, received the following telegram from the cries of people calling for boats could be heard, There is a feeling of despair among all citizens, About 9) one hun- dredths of the city is under water, In Indianapolis the response to appeals for river sufferers continues most gener- ous, The board of trade committee re- ceived up to to day more than $13,000 in cash and large quantities of clothing, medicines, etc, WasuiNGToN, February 15.—Secretary Lincoln was before the house committee on appropriations this morning while that committee was preparing the joint resolution subsequently passed by both houses, making an additional approgria- tion of §200,000 for the relief of suilurers by the flood. Secretary Lincoln said he thought the appropriation asked for to- day, making the total $500,000, would be sufficient for several days. ’l‘n»lofrnnn from Clara Barton indicate hat all Red Cross societies are actively at work in behalf of the flood sufferers. Chicago has sent $4,000, and societies south $7,000, Until further notice con- tributions should be rent io the National Red Cros siation at Cincinnati, Evaxsviug, Ind., February 15.—At 7 oclock fo-night the river rose three inches, and is still rising slowly, The people are hopeful. NOTES, Shawneetown, T, at 7 o'clock last night was from 0 to 30 feet under water. The people are in tents on hills surro ing the town, and much suffering is re- ported, The mayor of New York has roceived 5,000 for the destitute by the floods. a4 much mercy as ti leaders who ought to have been killed and not these poor negroes, The direct speech. The original cause was the cold mayor,” Witness spent the botter pari It was positively not true that men wen in there and armed themselves. feared for the safety of the wives of th nogroes would be murdering the wome! in their homes. the protection of colored men! negroes astray. A jury There were burnings. 1t was the ge: when not misled were inoffensive, 'I'he was 1o animosity. with, A colored man was not safe river, and the waves lashing the houses, | threat? many of which were toppling over. The| Witness—I did not hear it. scene s beyond description. Very often| Witness could not imagine how an ex- cited crowd of people could haye shown Euy (the whites) did. The general remark was that it was the cause of the excitement was Simms' blooded murder of ‘‘one of our best citi- zons” by our ‘‘readjuster, brindle-tailed of the day in the real estate office, where Witness (ilass had seen arms and cart- ridges, and saw no arms nor cartridges, Witness whites because of threats he had heard that on election day, while the white men were fighting the negroes at the polls, the Senator Sherman —Did you not know that during the war the white men left their wives, mothers and daughters under Witness—That was before a class of | the secretary of the treasury shall issue mischiovous men came there to lead the|an equivalent smount of treasury notes had passed upon his conduct |law for national bank notes, such troas- November 3, and complimented him. |ury notes to be deposited in the treasury apprehonsions of secret |and paid out s other moneys kept al opinion of | for whites in the south that the negroes|of the government, The change in the |& A - | gonduct of the negroes was attributablo ! banks and for all debls due any m@mmd to bad advices. Uualdilion rule was the | bank, shall be r»d;ufinbl{' l'l: ‘rusm 0.:‘ worst rule any poople were ever curzed { legal tender notes of tho United States 3 dred m;u mgw ara, and when redeemed into the | failures last week 208 against 278 for the being a democrat. Colored democrats’ treasury shall be reissued, and when previous year, tions. We could not consider the tariff question to-day as it ought to be con- sidered without being met by the neces- sity of providing a large sum of money in some way for the pay- ment of the interest and principal 1| of the public debt. The national bank sys em was wise at the time of ingeption, and he hoped the national banks would continue, gut if they were to continue it must be absolutely without reference to any function of providing currunc{) for thecountry. That function had net been attended ‘with any great profit to the banks, and it was not the most useful b function which banks could exercise Gen, Gordon: “I am sending down the river many women and children from Konosko, Send some kind hearted European to meet them.” Eng)nnd has rofused Gen. Sir Evelyn Woods' proposal to sanction co-operation with the lé’;ip tian army in the relief of Tokar for the reason that this army was raised for the defence of Egypt out- side of London. England approves however the dispatch of the Egyptian battalion furnishea with English ofticers to Assouan if this proves nocessary. The expedition for the relief of Tokar has ltnrwdsfur Suez. The last n'ampu:i, t ’ leaves SueZ Monday, carryin; ener 5 . Plumb's op- | 1% Yy 8 lace of bank circulations, and as it was | Pedition. 4 o1 J &ilhduwn from time to time we could WEABBING ENOLAND TN THN BAGK, provide that for every dollar of circula- . The German l'ruu{ : *“The submis- tion which should bo surrendered an|sion of the tribes of Mery to Russia is 1] © n the decision involves all peints at issue, some $10,000,000 being involved. These suits grow out of the same transaction. Plaintiff in the first case is commissioner under the supreme court of' Rhode Is-- land. The allegations in the bill of De- cember 7, 1882, are in substance that Thomas and Durant and ecompany and others to. whom was assigned the contract between Oakes Ames and the Union Pacific rail- road failed to account for many millions of doilars due under_the trust to stock-. holders of the Credit Mobilier of Ameri- and that the trustees have been The opinion says: Taking the narrative bill to be true, as we are bound to do by the demurrers, the trustces: actin, jontly have received many millions of dollars in money and securities, property of stockholders, which they atill retain and refuse to aceount for under the trust agreement, and they have also been jointly guilty of gross negligence and misconduet in the management of' the trust from which the stockholders have suffered loss A REPORT DENIED. Cutcaco, February 16.—The statement that the Rock Island road had secured a controlling interest in the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern road, and that a meeting of directors of the latter road would be held in New York next weekiis denied by J. C. Peasley, second vice- president of the Burlington & Quincy, and a director of the Burlington, Cedar Rapias & Northern, and he enys there will be no meeting of directors until the regular meeting. A NEW JOINT AGENT. Semi-officially it is announced that W. H. Burns, local agent of the Union Pa- cific at Council Bluffs, has been appointed general joint agent at that poin: of all the lines in the Western Trunk Line associa- tion. Local agents of other lines, mem- bers of the Western Trunk Line associa- tion, are insatructed to report to Burns as their superior officer. VANDERBILT AFTER THE ROCK ISLAND,. New Yorx, February 15.—the Post says: There seems no doubt that Vander- bilt has been making decided progress in acquiring control of the Rock Island,. and the demand made in his interest for a view of the atock register of the com- pany it is presumed was made with a purpose of procuring proxies for the next election at which he proposes to- make a fight for the actual management of the Rock Island. TRYING TO REORGANIZE. Cu1caGo, February 16—Three of the inea composing the northwestern trafiic ciation and central Towa traffic asso- ciation, have requested commissioner Carman to call a meeting at an early day with a view to the settlement of differences and a reorganization. The general feelinyg of the petitioning lines is in favor of a reorganization of the asso- ciation on the basis of a money pool. A BOND ISSUE, Nxw York, February 16.—The Chi- cago & Northwestern railway has decided to issue $1,600,000 of Uttumwa, Cedar Falls & St Paul 5 per cent mortagns bonds. The Northwestern obik s building a road into the Iow. unal neidst will guarantee the principal .ud interes of the bonds. It is stated that the bonds have been taken. THE NEW MISSOURI RIVER LINYK, Mireues, Dak,, February 16.—Engi- neer Valentine, of the Chicago, Mil- waukeo & St. Paul road has completed the survey and location of the Missouri river line from Scotland to the southeast corner of Brulo county. Valentine will next Monday begin the survey from - | Mitchell to Scotland. THROUGH SLEEPERS, Sax Fraxcisco, February 15,—A con- tract has been signed between the Cen- tral Pacific, Union Pacific, Chicago & Northwestern and Pullman company for running through sleepers parlor cars from San Francisco to Chicago from April 1 PURIFY T BLOOD. equal amount of treasury notes should be | worso for England than the disasters in used, and then maintain the currency at Soudan. It comments upon the rema the present standard. able success of the Russian policy any national bank shall be surrendeored of the donominations now provided by | halt as in 1878, in northern India. Khe discharge of obligations |ton is between i Contral Asia, which I Mr. Plumb then offered an amendment |12 r b & b pruv‘i’diug that when tho circulation of |#lways ~directed against ~England. If the Russians should stand again before the walls of Constantinople, the English would be disabled from commanding a Russia will become the immediate neighbors of India and will be able at auy moment to croate disturbance Now only Alghanis Russis and India, petite and and: i i ios | The froutier tribes are always ready to of the government, includiing dutes i oo rich Ludia provinoes if their R P 0% ogut”tondor botween mational | Fear ia well covered, and - that tho Rus- | - esm G, LA sians can now guarantoe,” | — New Youk, wpuing, February 15,—Business | }%fi""fl' Y gt ha Sever put R g 1