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TARIFF PROGRAM NOT SATISFAC¬
TORY TO DEMOCRATS.
NEW RULES CRUSE J RUMPUS.
Republicans. Determined to Pass Tariff
Dili Without Delay and Outline
the program Therefor.
A Washington dispatch says; The
republicans of the house have cleared
the decks for the great tariff light.
There was a preliminary skirmish
Friday in the fight over the rule pro¬
viding the manner of the consideration
of the tariff bill, which indicates tho
treatment which the measure itself
will receive, but the rule was adopted
by a strict party vote.
The democrats were formed into a
com pact body by the program adopted
by the republicans.
democrats Party linos were at once drawn and
rallied as one man against
tho tariff. The debate brought out the
fact that the democrats stood ready to
forget all other questions, for the pres¬
ent at least, and unite on the tariff as
the great issue.
The administration program is be¬
ing followed to the letter. The rule
admits of comparatively little debate
considering the magnitude of the meas¬
ure and eliminates even chance for
amendment.
While on its face it seems to give
amendments opportunity for the consideration of
members, proposed by individual
that provision is rendered a
nullity by the rule which gives amend¬
ments proposed by the committee the
right of way at all times.
The rules of tho house are absolutely
superceded by this special rule, which
gives the committee the power to force
the consideration of its amendments
and its amendments alone, no matter
what may be pending.
democratic Mr. Bailey, of Texas, set forth tho
position in his short speech
against that rule. He declared it his
belief that tho sooner the republican
program was put into legislation
the better it would be for the demo¬
cratic parly, for that much sooner
would the futility of tho proposition
that, prosperity can bo brought about
by taxing the people be demonstrated.
He protested against tho arbitrary
action of the majority as embodied in
this rule, but declared the democracy
was willing to abide the test of the
tariff bill as a prosperity restorer.
Speaking for the minority, Mr. Dai¬
ly said: “The passage of tho bill will
not he antagonized by filibustering
opposition. Knowing that we cannot
prevent its passage, we feel it to be
the best policy, from our standpoint,
that you should pass it speedily. If
it shall accomplish what you claim for
it, the president should not bo de¬
prived of the benefits that are to flow
from it. If it should not prove to be
what is anticipated for it, the sooner
it will be repealed and the people re¬
lieved of its unjust exactions.
“I never was more confident of any
event of the future than I am that
this bill shall demonstrate the futility
of the pretenses on which it is based,
and I firmly believe that you won’t
live long enough to get a patient hear¬
ing from (ho people or. the absurd pro¬
position that you can make them pros¬
perous by taxing them. (Applause.)
“We challenge you to pass the bill
because nothing can more certainly
prove to the people that you are un-
worthy of the trust now reposed in
you.” (Applause.)
HEAVY WIND STORM
Goes Considerable Damage in Texas
Friday Night.
A heavy wind storm, which in some
places assumed the appearance of a
cyclone, passed over a j art of Texas
Friday night.
At Plano the gale leveled the sheds
of the Cotton Belt and Central road,
blew over freight ears and unroofed
several residences. A number of per¬
sons were injured at Plano, but none
were killed. Considerable damage was
done by the storm near Itasca and
Hutchinson. Telegraph and telephone
wires are prostrated and it is difficult
to learn the extent of the damage.
The worst damage reported so far
occurred at Denton, where over one
hundred houses were struck by the
storm and all more or less damaged.
AWAITS GOVERNOR’S APPROVAL.
Tennessee Constitutional Jtlll Has Passed
Both Houses of Legislature.
Both houses of tho’Tennessee legis¬
lature adopted, Friday, the report of
the conference committee on the con¬
stitutional convention bills, and those
measures now go to the governor for
his approval.
As agreed on, this question will he
voted on the first Tuesday in August.
If a convention is called ninety-nine
delegates not less than twenty-seven
years of age will be elected the first
Tuesday jmOctober, election officers to
serve witfLiut pay. The delegates will
receive only $2 per diem and sit only
seventy-five days.
B. AND L. RECEIVERS.
it (.port of .Special Master in a Knoxville,
Temi., Concern,
Special Master J. W. Caldwell made
his report Friday morning to Judge
Clark, of the United States court, at
Knoxville, Tenn., in the matter of
receivership prayed for the Southern
Building and Loan association.
The report is to the effect that the
association is technically solvent, the
assets being about $2,500,009, but be
recommends the appointment of a per¬
manent receiver.
FLOODS' FURY UNABATED.
Stories of Death and Disaster From Raging
Waters Still Come.
Advices from Mimphis sfato that a
half-inch rise in the Mississippi means
the devastation of property and proba-
ably a loss of life unequaled in the
Hood history of that section. The rise
is threatened because of continued
rains.
Seventeen persons are reported
drowned fifty miles below Caruthers-
viile, Mo. A stretch of country over
100 miles long from a point of seventy
miles north of Memphis to a point 50
miles south of the Tennessee metropo¬
lis is submerged in places to a depth
of ten feet. The fertile valleys of
Tennessee and Arkansas are completely
inundated and many lives have been
lost and stock drowned, fencin'; and
dwellings swept away, inhabitants des¬
titute and homeless, and left to starve
or drown by the remorselessly rising
tide.
Reports from tributary streams show
rains and rapidly rising rivers, floods
which will soon be emptied into the
Mississippi, adding to the danger when
hurled against the already weakened
levees.
The levees are patrolled hourly by
armed and desperate men, provided
with sand bags to strengthen weak
places or to close threatened crevices,
and rifles with which to shoot down any
miscreant who would venture to cut
the embankment and allow the waters
on his plantation to find vent into the
lowlands of his neighbor.
The floods now partake of the nature
of a deluge. As far as the eye can see
nothing but water meets the gaze.
MANY LIVES LOST.
Rater Reports from Arkans as Show Niim-
crons Drownings.
Dispatches from Gavan, Ark., state
that for many miles tho country is
flooded, and the water is up to the
Iron Mountain tracks. Hundreds of
section hands are striving to keep it
back with dirt bags.
At every station the negroes are
gathering, waiting to be taken away.
Many get on the trains and are carried
without pay.
The list of fatalities is said to be
long and probably never will bo known.
A mountain of household goods is
piled up at every railroad station.
Whites and negroes beg for help from
every train crew.
Houses along the road aro sub¬
merged to roofs,-and cattle standing
in the fields with only their heads
above water.
Many corpses of hogs and cows are
washed up by the water.
BKAINED HIS CHILDREN.
Horrible Deed of an Old Confederate
Veteran.
Wright Smith, a farmer living near
Harlem, in Columbia county, Ga.,
murdered two of his children and then
killed himself.
He brained the little ones with his
crutch and committed suicide by shoot¬
ing himself through the head.
Smith went to Thomson Thursday
and drew his pension, he having nerv¬
ed on the confederate side during the
late war. lie returned homo in the
afternoon in the best of spirits. He
had been in the house but a few min¬
utes when a disturbance arose between
be and his wife. Bather than fuss
with her, he gathered his crutch and
walked out to the corn crib to get corn
to feed his pigs, as was his evening
custom. In the crib were his two
boys, five and three years old.
The little fellows were enjoying
their sport in the crib, and upon the
sight of their father they ran to him
with great glee. Seizing his crutch
he dealt each of them a blow over the
head, knocking their brains out.
They fell side by side in a pile of
shucks, dead.
WILL FORM A FEDERAL UNION.
Transyaal ami Oran £<* Free State to Work
Together.
It is stated at Cape Town, Africa,
on wliat is regarded as good authority
that as a result of the visit of Presi¬
dent Kruger of tho Transvaal, to Presi¬
dent Steyn, of the Orange Free State,
a federal anion of the republics has
been decided upon.
Such union is regarded here with
much concern, as it would seriously
complicate the situation.
The result of such a union would
not only open tho whole question as to
the position of tho Transvaal republic,
in a political sense, in south African
affairs, but would probably give Pres¬
ident Kruger greater strength.
PINGREE LOSES FOR ONCE.
Supreme Court Decides Agaln»t Him as
Mayor of Detroit.
A Detroit, Mich., dispatch says:
For the first time in his political ca¬
reer, Hazen S. Pingree has received a
terrible jolt. The supreme court has
declared that he was no longer mayor
of Detroit and ordered that his suc¬
cessor be chosen at the regular election
on April 5th next.
The court held that Pingree’s elec¬
tion to the office of governor vacated
the office of mayor. The fact is, that
his gubernatorial job has not come
up to its occupant’s expectations.
The legislature has failed to pass his
pet bills.
AGAINST FIGHT PICTURES.
Tlio Massachusetts Legislature May liar
Kinetoscope Exhibitions.
Representative Sanderson, of Lynn,
introduced a petition in the Massa¬
chusetts ho us o of representatives Fri¬
day afternoon, which proposes legisla¬
tion to prevent any exhibition in the
state of Massachusetts of the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons mill at Carson City,
through the agency of the kinetoscope.
The petition has already been signed
by the majority of the leaders.
POPULATION AND DRAINAGE,
MORGAN, GA„ FRIDAY, MARCH 20. 1897.
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ADDRESSES SENT OUT BY AMER-
ICAN COTTON GROWERS.
UPPER! FOR CO-OPERRTIVE ACTION
Reduction of Cotton Acreage Advised by
Committee or Prominent Men of
The Association.
The American Cotton Growers’ Pro¬
tective association, has issued an ad¬
dress to farmers urging thorn to plant
more of the food crops and less of cot¬
ton. The document was prepared by
a committee, which included Mr. Hec¬
tor C. Lane, of Alabama, and Hon. W.
A. Broughton, of Georgia. The ad¬
dress is as follows:
“To the Cotton Growers of America: The
Cotton Growers' Protective Association of
America, in convention assembled at Augus¬
ta, Ga., on the 15th day of March, 1H!)7. again
come to you witli an urgent appeal for co¬
operative action in planting the crop for
1897. It is a matter of extreme congratula¬
tion that the appeal made lo you in 1835 and
1890 was so generally responded to and that
the crop of 1395, made upon tho diminished
acre age, did have tho effect of greatly in-
creadag the prices of cotton. The crop of
1895, though estimated to be 3,400,000 bales
short of the crop of 1891, was in tho market
of the world worth morn by nearly $3,000,-
000. Iji the face of this result to abandon tho
idea of diminishing acreage would he to sound
tho retreat in the face of victory. It is the
consensus of opinion among the best think¬
ers that if by any means the cotton crop of
America should ho held within tire limits of
8,000,000 to 9,000,000 bales per annum for
live years, the people of tlicso southern
states would bo tho richest, and most pros¬
perous How agricultural people in the world.
can this ho brought about? Tho answer
is with you. We appeal to your self-interest
and patriotism to do all in your power to
not keep down tho production of the staple. l)o
abandon the ground you have won.
Fight on upon the lines laid down, make
tho cotton states self-supporting, put moro
land in clover and grasses for your hogs to
run bavodono on, diversify your crops, and when you
all this tho area devoted to cotton
will yiold moro profitable returns than if
you While sought to Increase tho number of bales.
the reduction of the acreage to bo
planted in cotton for the sole purpose of re¬
ducing the size of the crop may be impracti¬
cable, the increase of tho area planted in
food crops must inevitably bring prosperity
to cotton growers, irrespective of tho size of
tho cotton crop. There hits never been a
timo In the history of our section of tho
country that a movement looking to tho in¬
creased production of corn, hay, oats, hogs
and other food crops was so important and
necessary.
“It is felt by (ho most thoughtful mon
that wo aro oatering upon a year of great
uncertainties, and that oven a small cotton
crop may fail to give adequate returns for
its production. The prudent man will
trim his sails to meet it. With the commerce
of tho country Interrupted by war —and war
may come—cotton would he unsaleable ex¬
cept at nominal prices. Every considera¬
tion, then, of patriotism, of self-interest and
of prudenco dictates that you adhere strictly
to tho rulo of diminished acreage. Earnest
mon guide aro earnestly working to lead you and
to you into prosperity. Do not lot
them labor la vain, but cheerfully and hope¬
fully respond to their appeal.
“In conclusion, wo desire to say to every
cotton grower, whether h is crop is ton bales
or ton thousand bales, sco to it first that
your by place is self-sustaining -and wo mean
this to be sure you grow on the farm an
abundance or corn, meat, hay, oats, peas,
place, potatoes, etc., for all tho people on the
both white and colored. If tho ten¬
ant will not produce theso articles, sell them
to him and keep tho money in your own
pocket, in place of sending It out of the
country. When you have dono this, or pro¬
vided for it, grow what cotton you can.
“If every farmer or plantor in tho cotton
growing district will make this his rulo of
action, and livo up to It conscientiously, it
will accomplish tlio result we so much desire
r-f making us all prosperous and lmppy,
whether your cotton, which will be a sur¬
plus crop, sell for a high or low price. We
would urgo you again to make sure first of
a cheap, home-grown living for all tho peo¬
ple and all the animals on tho place, and
then make what cotton you can.
“Wo address our argument to each indi¬
vidual farmer. Every farmer may measur-
ably control tho cost of producing his
cotton.
“Let each Individual farmer resolve in his
own mind and without regard to what oth¬
ers may do, to cut down the cost of produc¬
ing his cotton. F.y confining his area lo tho
best fields and to tho lest parts of his field
by concentrating bis skill, bis Industry and
fertilizers on a smaller area he will produce
Ills cotton ciinaper. Every farmer knows
that the better tho land, tho bettor prepara¬
tion and cultivation, the more liberal tho
amount of well balanced fertilizers he ap¬
plies per acre, tho less will be the cost per
pound of cotton.
“Tut only tho host land in cotton and corn
the poorer iandsdn rye, peas, etc. This will
certainly reduce your cotton product in the
aggregate, but It will much more reduce the
cost.
“Ho that, In any event, whatever others
may do, you will be all right.”
Livingston Speaks in Boston.
Congressman Livingston, of Geor¬
gia, addressed a large audience at Bos¬
ton, Mass., Wednesday night on trade
relations of the United States with
South America.
ST. LOUIS HEIRESS MISSING.
lS-Yeai-Old Girl lias Probably Been
Kidnapped,
Ella Burden, 12 years old, heiress
to $100,000, has been inexplicably
missing from her home at St, Louis
since Monday. She lived with her
grandmother, at 5032 Minorva street,
and left home Monday for tho Dozier
school, where she ha i been regarded
as one of tho brightest and prettiest of
the several hundred pupils.
At 3:30 o’clock in the afternoon, the
usual hour, she left tho school for her
home and wont part of the way with
several othor girls, to a point where
she usually took tho car for home.
Nothing has been heard of hor since.
SENATE MOULD NOT AGREE.
Conference Committee A«k-i It to Iteoodo
from Amendment.*.
The conference committee on the
constitutional convention bills in the
Tennessee legislature recommended
the senate recede from its amendments
providing that the convention not sit
more than seventy-five days and dele¬
gates not receive more than $2 per day.
The senate rejected tho report, how¬
ever, and a new committee was ap¬
pointed.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
The attorney for L. J. Guilmartin
ami other bondholders of the Eaton ton
Branch railroad, has filed another suit
at Savannah for a receiver for the bonds
of the Central railroad, which, accord¬
ing to tho contract, were to be deliver¬
ed to tlio Middle Georgia and Atlantic
Railroad Company as tho purchase
money for their properly.
The annual meeting of the Georgia
Teachers’ association will ho held at
Warm Springs, Ga., Juno 27th, 28th,
29th and 30th. Tire annual sermon
will ho on Sunday, June 27(h. Tho
railroad fare will be one rate from any
point in the state. Hotel rate, $1.50 a
day or $5) a week. There is excellent
accommodation for 500 teachers.
Tlio hearing on the petition of
Thomas & Ilyan and ’.lie Louisville
and Nashville railroad, relative to the
tease of the Georgia railroad, did not
take place at Macon ou the 18th in¬
stant, as was originally assigned.
Judgo Speer, of the United States
court, has postponed Ihe heaving until
some day next month, but the exact
dale has not yet been fixed.
The case of W. M. Bridges, ex-coun-
iy school commissioner of Floyd, has
been postponed until March 25th.
Quite a little sensation was sprung
by Bridges not being in court when his
caso was called, and his bond was de¬
clared forfeited by Judge Harris, who
issued a warrant for his arrest. Bridges
was unable to reach Rome in timo on
account of the high creeks rendering
the roads impassable. He at once made
a new bond.
The fifteenth annual convention of
the Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union of Georgia will be opened in
Sandersville April 25tli and will con¬
tinue in session five days. The con¬
vention will he composed of represen¬
tatives from all the temperance organ¬
izations in the state. The convention
will not only be composed of Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union dele¬
gates, hut will include representatives
from tho Young Men’s Christian Asso¬
ciation, the Society of Christian En¬
deavor, Epworth League, King’s
Daughters and all the various church
auxiliaries.
The Georgia exhibit which is to he
sent to the Tennessee Centennial Ex¬
position is rapidly taking shape and
when the gates of the exposition are
thrown open in May, Georgia will be
represented by a display that will do
credit to any state. Commissioner of
Agriculture Nesbitt is hard at work
selecting members of the Woman’s
board which will take such an active
interest in the preparation of the ex¬
hibit. It is expected that Georgia day
will he one of tho most brilliant state
days during the entire exposition.
The Georgia military will he on hand
and hundreds of Georgians will be
present.
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There is going to be a big cotton
acreage in Georgia this year. The
American Cotton Growers’ Protective
association met in Augusta the past
week, and after tho usual resolutions,
that it was inexpedient to plant a large
acreage in cotton this year, it was
agreed that an address of the same
purport should he issued to the farm¬
ers of Georgia, Alabama and the Caro-
linas. While these proceedings wero
going on tho farmers of Georgia were
getting in their supply of fertilizers.
It is tho biggest supply that they, have
ever had, aud unless all signs fail the
cotton acreage will la: larger this year
than it has ever been. Last year 333
000 tons of fertilizers were sold in
Georgia—the largest sale on* rec¬
ord and the acreage was the largest up
to that time. This year the sale of
fertilizers have far exceeded those of
any previous year, and if the move¬
ment continues at tho present rate it
is thought tho total for the state will
reach 400,000 tons.
EJMVOKTII LEAH V K CON EE HENCE.
Great Gathering of Young MethndlslB in
Atlanta Next Month.
Local Epworth League workers are
busy preparing for the state conference
which is to be held in Atlanta next
month.
The occasion will be the fifth annual
session,and it is the intention of those
in charge of the work to make it a
grand success, The various commit¬
tees will leave nothing undone to have
everything in readiness, and the dele¬
gates will receive a warm welcome.
The program has not yet been made
public, but it will bo the very best
that can be secured, many of the most
prominent speakers address in the country
having agreod to the confer¬
ence. The music, which will be a
Rpecial feature of the sessions, is to
be conducted by an able leader and a
full orchestra.
All tho meetings of the conference
will he held in the Sam Jones taberna¬
cle, which lias been secured for the
occasion.
The railroads have granted a one-
fare rate, and this will induce many
to attend who would otherwise he de¬
prived of so doing. Between two and
three thousand delegates are expected.
All who contemplate being present
must send their names to .State Secre¬
tary John D. Walker, Sparla, Ga.,
before tho 1st of April.
I’bkss Committhh.
Baltimore Merchants Rushing.
The rush to gut goods out of bond
before the now tariff bill becomes a
law and increases the duties thereon
began at Baltimore Wednesday. The
receipts were $47,713. Nearly all of
the withdrawals consisted of tobacco.
FITZSIMMONS IS CHAMPION.
Tli© Australian Defeats Jim Corbett In
Fourteen Rounds.
The pugilistic contest between James
Corbett and Robert Fitzsimmons for
the world’s championship, took place
at resulted Carson, Nevada, Wednesday, and
in a victory for Fitzsimmons in
the l lth round.
Up to the twelfth round Corbett
seemed to have things his own way
and pounded Fitsiinmous all over the
ring.
In the fourteenth and last round
Fitz landed a terrible left hand jab on
Corbett’s stowaoh and Corbett wont to
his knees with a frightful look of ag¬
ony ou his face. The timekeeper called
the seconds. One, two, three, four,
live, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, hut
Corbett erne to his feet. He rushed to
Fitz and endeavors to strike him.
Thero was u terrible uproar.'George
Siler decided that Fitz was winner.
The blow that did the business
landed over Corbett’s heart and ho
collapsed. The last round lasted just
one minute and forty-five seconds.
The defeat nearly drovo Corbett
wild. When he was able to fee! his
font, after his seconds had helped him
to his corner, he broke away from them
and rushed at Fitz, who had not left
the ring. A scene of dreadful confu¬
sion ensued. The ring was crowded
with an excited mob, but Corbett
burst through them and struck at
Fitzsimmons.
I t was with great difficulty that. Billy
quieting Brady and the seconds succeeded in
Corbett down and getting him
back to the dressing room.
Corbett broke down and cried like a
child as he was made ready for the
street.
The battle, as predicted, was fought
on purely scientific and almost new
principles. Neither of the men took
any advantage of the privileges allowed
them under the London prize ung
rules, and there was very little hitting
in clinches.
Fitz camo from tho ring battered
and bruised.
Immediately after the battle was
over, Warren Lewis, who sent Corbett
for up against Hullivan, challenged Fitz
another turn, backing Corbett for
$ 20 , 000 .
CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION.
A Sensation Sprung In Iowa House of
Representatives.
A tremendous sensation was'caused
in the Iowa legislature Wednesday
morning when Representative Lam¬
bert read portions of a letter said to
have been sent by a building and loan
association over the state making
wholesale charges of legislative eor-
ruptiou.
Speaker Byers demanded tho letter
ho read in its entirety. Lambert re¬
fused, saying the communication was
confidential. Tho speaker ordered
the sergeant-at-arms to procure it and
it was read in the house.
Speaker Byers then resigned and
demanded a thorough investigation of
the charges made against him and
other members.
LOAN CONCERN COLLAPSES.
Application M:ulr For licccivcr For Pacific
Association.
Beriah A. Woods, one of the stock¬
holders in the Pacific Loan and
Homestead Association, lias filed a
bill in the superior court at Chicago
asking for tho appointment of a re¬
ceiver for tho concern which ho al¬
leges is in a hopeless state of insolv¬
ency.
The bill also charges D. C. Butts,
the former secretary, with deception
and fraud, by the employment of
which lie has wrongfully converted to
his private ufle about $222,000 of
moneys The belonging to the association.
directors charges sweep in the hoard of
in general as having com¬
pounded Butt’s alleged felony.
Christian Ships Pillaged.
A dispatch received at Athens AYed
nesday from Canea says that tho Turks
have made a sortie from Itetimo and
proceeded to Utopopouios, which they
burned without opposition from the
forces of the powers. It is added that
the pillage of the Christian ships con¬
tinues and that the governor of Jiotimo
and the Turkish gendarmes aro co¬
operating in the looting.
Basing Resigns as I’ostmaster.
his Washington Hesing lias resigned
postmastership Three of the eily of Chi¬
cago. forwarded days ago he wrote and
his resignation to President
McKinley.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR MEET.
Executive Board Hold an Important Sen-
gion in Washington.
The executive board of the Knights
of Labor began its quarterly meeting
at the national capitol Wednesday.
Messrs. Sovereign, McGuire, Martin,
Best and Hayes were in attendance.
Tho board authorized a denial of pub¬
lished reports that there is dissatisfac¬
tion with the administration of Secre¬
tary-Treasurer IIayes Sovereign and that and he will
resign. Messrs. Mc¬
Guire will go to New York to speak
against the arbitration treaty at the
meeting of the Monroe League.
GOV. BRADLEY THREATENED.
Unknown Writer Warn. Him Not to I.ct
Walling Hang.
In tlio file of letters begging for
Walling and Jackson, received by
Governor Bradley, of Kentucky, Wed¬
nesday morning, was ono from Cincin¬
nati telling the executive that ho will
surely meet with a horrible death and
bo killed if ho permits Walling to
hang. The governor’s friends wanted
the letter to ho turned over to a detec¬
tive, lint ho refused.
There is not tho faintest hope of any
interference of the governor now.
T. P. GREEN, MANAGER.
HIGH WATERS WILL PROBABLY
DEMOLISH THEM.
SEVERE LIVES ALREADY LOST.
Missouri Lands Doing Rapidly Submerged.
Rescue Steamers Are Doing
Valliant Service.
A special from Memphis, Tenn.,
says: A levee near Carruthersville,
Mo., broke Thursday afternoon, but
whether any damage was done is not
yet known. Private reports are that
it was simply a break, while the
levee board declares it was tho result
of a cut.
There wero no additional drownings
reported during tho day but the ru¬
mored drowning of live from a bridge
in Arkansas was confirmed. The victims
wero a mother and four children.
It is now believed tho vast majority
of imperiled people within reach of
Memphis have been rescued. There
are about 3,000 of them in the city.
The relief committee has wired Gov¬
ernor Jones, of Arkansas, for stale aid
and urged that ho seek federal aid
through Arkansas congressmen.
He replied that there were no funds
at his disposal for that purpose, and
that he could do nothing to aid tho
refugees from his state.
The war department notified Cap¬
tain Fitch, of the United States Engi¬
neering Corps, that $10,000 had been
assigned to his order for use in inain-
laing the levees of his district.
Reports from the levees to the south
are not encouraging. From Helena
to Belief, Ark., the levees cannot pos¬
sibly stand, it is asserted, and from
there to Modoc, a distance of thirty-
six miles, thero is grave danger. In
fact, the report from Modoc is that
they cannot hold tho levee.
J{<wu« Steamers at Work.
The work of rescuing the people in
the Hooded district is being carried on
night and day, and Thursday morning
half a dozen steamers reached Mem¬
phis with over 1,000 refugees, The
steamboat men tell some harrowing
stories of suffering and death.
One woman who was rescued
held in her arms a dead infant that
had perished from cold and hunger.
Another family of four, when res¬
cued related that two small children
were drowned in sight of their helpless
parents.
Islands Nos. 40, 37, 36 and 34 in tho
Mississippi river are completely sub¬
merged, and the inhabitants, to the
number of about six hundred, have
abandoned their homes.
BLOCKADE TO BEGIN.
Greece Will lie Forced to Withdraw Her
Warships.
A dispa cli received at Romo, Italy,
Thursday from Canea announces that
Iho blockado of tho Inland of Crete by
the fleets of tho powers will begin on
Sunday morning and that a notifica¬
tion to this affect will lie addressed to
the governments at Athens and Con¬
stantinople.
It is further stated that the powers
will also communicate tho steps taken
to the government of the neutral
states.
The limits of the blockade will be
between longitudes 23.24 and 26.31)
cast and latitude 25.48 and 34.25
north. The blockade will be goneral
against Greek vessels, but other ships
will he allowed to land goods, pro¬
vided they are not destined for tho
Greek troops or for the interior of the
island.
RUSSIA FORWARDS TROOPS.
Intended to Form Contingent for t.b© Oc¬
cupation of Crete.
Tho officials of the Russian embassy
at Constantinople have notified the
Turkish government to the effect that
a Russian transport, having on board
troops intended to form the contingent
of ltussim for tho occupation of the
island ofTheto, according to program
drawn up by the admirals, will shortly
pass through the Dardanelles.
Tho embassies of the other powers
have not raised any objections to this
proceeding, although by tho treaty the
straits aro closed to the warships of the
foreign nations.
I argo numbers of the Greek army,
tho reserve men and other volunteers
are leaving for Athens.
RANSOM’S SUCCESSOR.
Clayton, of ArkanaaM, Get* the Plum.
Other Nominations by the President.
The president Thursday sent to tho
senate the following nominations:
Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, to bo
envoy extraordinary and minister ple¬
nipotentiary of tho United States to
Mexico; William M. Osborne, of Mas¬
sachusetts, consul general of the Un¬
ited States to Loudon; John K. Gowdy,
of Indiana, consul general of the Unit¬
ed tftates at Baris; Joseph Brigham, of
Ohio, to be assistant secretary of agri¬
culture; Perry S. Heath, of Indiana,
to be first assistant postmaster gonoral;
Sylvester Peterson, of Minnesota, to
be register of tho laud office at Crook-
ston, Minn.
DEMOCRATS SELECT CANDIDATES.
Members of the Tennessee Legislature
Hold a Caucus.
Tho democratic members of tlio Ten-
nessee legislature met in joint caucus
Thursday afternoon to select candi¬
dates for state offices. William 8.
Morgan was renominated for secretary
of state, receiving 56 votes to 32 for
John W. Morton. Edward B. Craig
was renominated for treasurer by ac-
claraation.
SURVIVING BILLS REFERRED.
Tho Scnnto Tackles Work Loft Over from
Last Congress.
A largo number of hills, most of
them survivors of the last congress,
wero introduced in the senate Thurs-'
day and referred.
Correspondence of the German gov¬
ernment relating to insurance compa¬
nies was taken up and referred.
Tho constitutional amendment for
the popular election of United States
senators was reintroduced by Mr. Tur-
pio, democrat, of Indiana, who an¬
nounced his purpose to address tho
senate upon it Monday.
Mr. Grear, republican, of Ohio,
from the committee on Pacific rail¬
roads, reported the bill which was
ponding last session for the adjustment
of the government dobt through a
commission. The bill was placed on
the calendar.
Mr. Lodge, republican, of Massachu¬
setts, offered a resolution which was
agreed to, instructing tho committeo
on foreign relations to inquire and re¬
port whether tho islands of 8t. Croix,
St. John and St. Thomas, in the West
Indies, can now ho purchased from the
Danish government, as by the treaty
of 18(i7.
At the close of the morning business
tho senate at 1 o’clock p m. proceeded
to the considi r ition of executive busi¬
ness, and at 3:15 o’clock adjourned un¬
til Friday.
The house reassembled at noon
Thursday pursuant to adjournment.
The speaker laid before the house the
recommendation of tho postmaster
general for an appropriation of $200.-
000 to be immediately available to en¬
able the government to defray the nec¬
essary expenses of the postal congress,
which will assemble in Washington in
May next. Mr. Henderson, republi¬
can, of Iowa, stated that tho commit¬
tee on ways and means would not be
ready to report until Friday; there¬
fore he. moved that the house adjourn,
which was agreed to.
GREEK SHIP SUNK.
A Shot From an Austrian Gunboat Sentla
Her Down. .
Advices from Oanea state that the
Austrian gunboat Hebenico has fired
upon and sunk, near Candia, n Greek
vessel loaded with previsions and mu¬
nitions of war intended for tho Greek
forces in Crete.
It appears that tho Sobeniea, while
watching tho Greek ship, was fired
upon by a parly of insurgents. To this
the Austrian warship replied by sink ' *
ing the Greek craft and driving o/‘
insurgents.
It is feared that when this nows b
comes generally known in Athens .
will serve to greatly irritate the popu¬
lace and may have influence in preeipi-
striving tating tho in crisis which possible tho powers to aro 't. /
every way ave 2
COMPLICATIONS IN HAWAII.
Customs Authorities Stops tho Landing
of Japanese Laborers.
The following advices from Honolulu
were brought by the steamer Australia
which reached Wan Francisco Thurs-
da
Serious trouble is anticipated lioro
over tho refusal of tho customs author¬
ities to permit tho landing of 537
Japanese laborers brought hero recent¬
ly by the Kobe Immigration Company’s
steamer Hhinsliu Maran.
Tho local agents of tho Japanese
company have been placed under ar-
rest charged with violation of the laws,
and Captain Mischaki, comi ref>/«;™^ -ftuder
the steamer, has been
mice papers unless he agr,« oil knovvlb
back to Japan the rejected iisto 7iH.1r.so cow.
who have been detained at life q urnisiie
tine station since their arrival in s .wing the
vos and
RIALTO BURNS AT SEA. Mnually 'l <liH-
_____
Aii KxploglJt* of Chemtcuia Caused,^- w
Death of a Sen man. ! 10011
K V |^
Tho Allan State Line steamer C.arth-
ngenian, which arrived at Now York vs
Thursday morning from Glasgow, res- f n
rued tho crew of the Wilson steamer
Rialto, which took firo and " aj.^mn-
doned March 5. ^ „e-
castle The for Rialto New was York hound loaded fronin'"jj wit«®^ uu .
end including large lf j
cargo, a v—«•
of chemicals. She left port
ary 21st, and cr-jierienced strgJJ«M»e ',* u
torly gales, which gradually wlllLliu,.^' d ’
in violence until March 3,
liable hurricane was blowin Jfc, 'iNG.
At 0 o’clock in tho mcri 3 o 9 a
rifle explosion in the foreh' av; Than
hatch covers into the ai’CURE lit.
^4 ,
seaman and injured the iinate
SENSATIONAL CON _______ damage
Alleged to Have Marti y approxi-
®" " " :cee-d $20,-
noni the Condemned HEAL' -while ad-
Tbe Cincinnati paper
editions Thursday stag 10 ' y i '
son and Walling Bellevuey^vy.
Wagner, of #fial . ,
them in part, and Dr/ Pei 11 d )'
was taken to Wagner’s K
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Wednesday night ami was mu*vL n n ^
the following murder Friday night and th’u,.
after the l)r. Wagner was co; ,
fined in tho Lexington asylum.
This is tho first evidence as to the
whereabouts of Pearl Bryan on
Wednesday night. Dr. Wagner has a
wife and two daughters. Ono of the
daughters lias frequently called on
Jackson at the jail.
CANADIAN ELECTIONS.
The Liberal Candidate of Commons. Keturned Uf* the
House ,
The election-of the Canadian houso
of commons for the county Ilonaven-
trire has resulted in tho return of
Francois Guite, the liberal candidate,
by about 7!>0 majority.
Great interest was manifested in tho
election beoauso of the efforts of Mgr.
Blais to secure a promise from Mr.
Quite to vote against Mr. Laurier’s
settlement of the school question.