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'i00KQL'TTl>IW(w7 resistless waters, clinging tenaciously to their few belongings, and loth to leave the old spots which have become endeared to them. "Hundreds of others view with indiffer­ ence the rising waters, .and remove from first floors to second floors, and at last to floating rafts and slowly withdraw to PLAINDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. CELL ON A STEAMER, MURDERER BUTLER SAILS AUSTRALIA. FOR Extraordinary Precautions to Prevent Bis Escape--Andrew D, White for Ambassador to Germany--Blizzard Does Great Damage in Wyoming;. Guarded by Three Officers. A first-class stateroom in the cabin of the steamer Mariposa has been turned Into a prison cell and in^ Murderer But-, Ier was taken from San Francisco to ihe scenes of his crimes in^^aistralia. Its us­ ual fittings were removed, and all that remained was the lower of the three bunks, in which the murderer will sleep. Close to the floor a strong steel ring was r.ivet-e&yjfe> which the prisoner could be should he show a surly disposi- n. Three Australian detective's will take tilrns. in sitting in the room with the prisoner until he leaves the vessel at Syd­ ney. The prisoner will be given some ex­ ercise on the deck and in the fresh air, at night, or in tihe early morning, when the other passenger's.rfre iti;their bunks. He will then be ehaiaed to two of his captors. The Mariposa sailed Thursday. ;; v;, • Nb^ainated-by MeRiatey. The President Thursday sent»to the Sen­ ate, the-following nominations :s Andrew D.^White:, of New York, to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States to. Germany; William F. Draper, of Massachusetts, to be ambassa­ dor extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States to Italy; Chandler.Hale, of Maine, to be secretary of the embassy of the United States -at Rome, Italy; Samuel L. Gracey, of Massachusetts, con­ sul at'Fuchan, China; Anson Burlingame Johnson, of Colorado, consul at Amoy, China. Mr. Johnson's nomination to be consul at Fuchan was withdrawn; Ben­ jamin Butterworth, of Ohio, to be commis­ sioner of patents; Oliver L. Spaulding, of Michigan, to be assistant secretary of the treasury; William B. Howell, ofjJNew Jer­ sey, to be assistant secretary of the treas­ ury; Capt. Robert Craig, signal corps, to be major. Colonel Fred Grant, of New York, son of Gen. U. S. Grant, was offer­ ed the position of assistant secretary of war and has the offer under consideration. Sheep Perish in Snowdrifts. The most severe snowstorm in that sec­ tion in twenty years struck Laramie, Wyo.,^ doing immense damage to cattle and sheep. Business there was practical­ ly suspended, and Wednesday even the daily, papers were not issued. ^On the main streets the snow in places was ten feet deep, while residences on the out­ skirts of the city were in some instances completely buried by drifts. Several buildings collapsed in consequence of the weight of snow which covered their roofs. The storm extended from Medicine Bow to Pine Bluffs, Wyo., a distance of 175 miles. Laramie and Sherman Hill ap­ pear to have been the very center of the storm belt. All freight trains on the Union Pacific were suspended. Sheep are scattered all over the plains and it is ex­ pected the loss will reach into the thou­ sands. Several herders reached town, having deserted their herds and only with the greatest difficulty escaping from be­ ing frozen to death. flay morning, causing a loss of over $300, 000; insurance, $75,000. Thirty thousand dollars' worth of jewelry' was also de­ stroyed. • The death of Lyman Ephs occurred at North Elba, N. Y, Wednesday. Ephs was'amoiig the negroes brought from the South by old John BroWn before t,he war. He was a music teacher of rare natural ability. One of the interesting and char­ acteristic features of the burial service of John Brown at the grave at North Elba, Dec. 8, 1859, was the singing of Mr. Ephs' family^ An attempt was made Monday night and early Tuesday morning to destroy Altoona, Pa., four incendiary fires being kindled in different parts of the city, be­ tween the hours of 12 and 1:30 o'clock. Prompt work by the fire department alone saved the town from destruction. The entire loss, however, was not more than $60,000. The fires were evidently incen­ diary, as they started in widely separated sections of the town and in each case among buildings of a dangerously inflam­ mable character. Airs. Margaret J. Preston, the well- known writer of Southern war poetry, died at Baltimore, Md., Sunday, at the residence of he'r son, Dr. George S. Pres­ ton. Mrs. Preston was the daughter of the Rev. Dr. George Junken4 founder of Lafayette College, and was born in Penn­ sylvania. In 1S57 she. married Prof. ,7. T. S„ Preston of .the Virginia Military Institute, who afterwards served on Gen. Stonewall Jackson's staff with rank of Colonel. Her sister. Eleanor, was Gen. Jackson's first wife. Among her best known works are "Beechenbrobk," "Old Songs and New," "Colonial Ballads," and "Aunt Dorothy." Mrs. Preston was known throughout the South as the "Mi­ mosa of Southern literature." -Her re­ mains were taken to Lexington, Va., for interment. •' WESTERN. NEWS NUGGETS. Andrew Carnegie has an heir. The little stranger is a girl. Mother and child are doing well. At Berlin Prince Otto von Bismarck on Thursday celebrated the eighty-second anniversary of his birth. A special dispatch from Bombay says that the plague has broken out among the British troops at Calaba. C. M. Carter, a wealthy merchant of Boston, died at San Francisco from pneu­ monia and heart failure, aged 60 years. The Weymouth Old Bank, one of the oldest in Dorsetshire, Eng., has sus­ pended, The liabilities amount to $2,500,- 000. > At Ottawa, Ont., the Postmaster Gen­ eral has introduced in the House of Com­ mons a bill abolishing the civil service superannuation system and establishing instead a retiring allowance fund. The bill provides that a certain per cent, will be deducted from the officials' salaries, and this amount, with interest I- alf-year-' ly at 5 per cent, per annum, will be given to the official when he retires' or to his relatives should he die in the service. According to the officia' list published Wednesday the total numoer of deaths in Bombay for the week ending Friday was 1,111. Of these, 455 were due to the bubonic plague. The returns show a light increase in mortality at Poona. There has been a considerable increase in the districts of Surat, Sukhur. Thana and Hyderabad. The number of fatal cases at Karachi during the week was 185. Dur­ ing the last fortnight five case^ of Eu ropeans attacked by the disease have been Officially reported. Two of these proved fatal. I--. The Secretary of Agriculture an nounces that the world's wheat crop for , 180(5 is 2,428,393,000 bushels. It is the smallest for six years. All sections re port an exceptionally small percentage on hand, the general average being 20.6, against 26.3 last year, and showing but : 88,000,000 bushels in farmers' hands on March 1. Unusually little of the crop of 1895 remains--but 3 per cent., against 4.7 per cent, of the 1894 crop so held a year - ago. A larger proportion thaf usual must be retained for heme c^-.,umption. The average percep+z0e so retained is 48.3, against 41.5 last vear,. when the induce­ ments to export were weaker. The towbo'at Raymond Horner passed Cincinnati with the largest tow of coal ever floated on the Ohio--perhaps the largest fLc*> v«n any river. It con­ tained sixty barges, loaded with 600,000 bushels of coal, or 21,000 tons. This wcmld freight 1,080 railway cars with tweuty tons each, and would require forty- seven trains of forty cars each to haul it. Mrs. J. T. Harahan, wife of the Vice President and general., manager of the Illinois Central Railroad system, died in Memphis, Tenn, Wednesday morning at •the residence of her son-in-law, A. N. Dale. She had been ill many months. The first Quaker church ever establish­ ed in Denver was opened Sunday. The services were conducted by Rev. William S. Wooton, who organized the society and is its pastor. A tornado at Chandler, forty miles east of Guthrie, O. T., at dusk Tuesday night, destroyed three-fourths of the town of 1,500 people, and the report is that 200 are badly hurt and forty-five persons killed. The ruins quickly took fire, and many of the injured people were burned to death. Six persons in one building were pinned down by wreckage and met a slow death by fire. Only one physician in Chandler escaped injury, and he did what he could to relieve the distress of the wounded and dying. It is reported that only two buildings were left stand­ ing--the Mitchell Hotel and the Grand Island grocery store. Recent information from Washington is that the Wichita country, owned and oc­ cupied by the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indians, will be opened by May 1. The gold and silver excitement in the Wichita Mountains has dx-awn hundreds to the border of this new country. The allotting to the Indian families is pro­ gressing rapidly. Miners are still pros­ pecting in the mountains, and not a day passes without a conflict between pros­ pectors and soldiers. With the exception of one range of mountains these reserva-. tions are., the finest farming country in the Indian Territory. The Indians object to being allotted until they are paid for the lands, but the allotting will be forced to completion. Duluth, Minn., dispatch: A half interest in the great Mahoning iron mine on the western Mesaba has been bought by the Cambria Iron Company of Pennsylvania. The price is not known, but is not far from $400,000. The mine will easily pro­ duce from 500,000 to 600,000 tons of ore yearly. The sale leaves but one of the great steel making firms of Pennsylvania and Ohio without a Mesaba mine. Car­ negie had an option on the Mahoning, but was induced by the Rockefeller interest to give it up and enter into the fifty-year arrangement which permits him to utilize the Mountain Iron product. It was this latter arrangement which caused the smash of the Lake Superior bessemer pool. The diversity of companies now interested in the Mesaba is counted on to maintain operation on that range even when mines on other ranges are idle. The heaviest windstorm of the winter raged at Tacoma, Wash., Thursday, blow­ ing a gale of forty-two miles an hour. Many chimneys were blown down and signs and billboards scattered promiscu­ ously about. A large portion of the cor­ nice of a three-story Pacific avenue build­ ing was blown down, bringing with it a tangle of live electric light and telegraph wires. The draw span of the Eleventh stieet bridge was blown open, temporarily stopping a funeral procession. Ill the sur­ rounding country trees were blown ton by the score, and it will be surprising if some fatalities are not reported in re­ mote localities where settlers' cabins aSj.e surrounded by tall trees. The j gale wAf}> Celt by all sound steamers, wlAich wefp more or less delayed. Where the wind got a good sweep the white ca|>s rolled very high. The British ship R euddian Castle broke away from her bi >y and drifted across the bay, where anc lorage was easily secured. J George Q. White, who was a| men. ^er of the first battery of artillery raised ii, Illi­ nois, who enlisted in Chicago as earl. July 16. 1861, died Monday at his home in St. Paul. Majo". White will be well remembered by tl/e meiy and wbmen who were active in^micag^i affairs at the be­ ginning of tlir war. /He was a native of Massachusetts, an-j/had lived in Chicago some years when We war broke out. He was one of the ve/y first of the youKg men in the city to enroll his name ampng the defenders of t^a Union. As a private^sol- dier he was mustered into Battery B, First Illinois Light Infantry, July 16, 1861. Nov. 16 of the sr.me year lie lost his good right arm in the battle of Bel­ mont, and in the January following he was discharged. But George Q. White with one arm--and that a left arm--was too good a soldier to lose, and in May, 1862, he was commissioned a captain in the ar my and assignedVto the quartermaster's department. In July he was assigned to service in the Forty-fourth Infantry and served until 186^, when he was relieved of duty, and was [carried as "unassigned" until Dec. 15, 1870. when he was retired from the army with-the rank of brevet ma­ jor. He returned, to Chicago for a time and then took up his residence in St. Paul where he at once assumed a leading posi tiou in public affairs. terrible cyclone Several large electric light t^efs were blown down, entailing a, loss of several thousand dollars. Quite a number of houses ib the residence .por­ tion of the, city were blown down and in several cases narrow escapes frotn death are reported. The small town of Clarks- ville wa^st. swept by the wind and many e killed by flying debris, ^-hile of small houses were blown fortunately/ the inmates illed, though several were bad­ ly Reports from the surround- cy are to the effect that the storm i(va§ general in this section. The small 'town of Buda near Austin^was badly handled by the storm, quite a num­ ber of houses being blown down and one or two persons killed, though their names are not obtainable, owing to the fact that most of the'telegraph wires are down and the news is very meager. This is the worst storm that has ever visited that' section and it has laid waste everything in its track, though fortunately so far the reports of deaths are few. The storm was over' in an hour and the sun came out as bright as if nothing had happened. FOREIGN. Two bills have bp^Si introduced inthe Canadian parliament to prohibit the im­ portation of labor under contract or agree­ ment. They are intended as retaliatory legislation agaif&t United States citizens. It is asserted at Constantinople on what is regarded as reliable, authority, .that in consequence of the refusal of Lord Salis­ bury,to join in a blockade of "Greek ports, Germany haffi given notice to the powers of her intention to 'withdraw from the con­ cert. It is understood that; Turkey sent; her squadron through the Dardanelles on the advice of Germany, v.': ! , After .'imprisonment for. three months without .trial, for alleged disorderly .con­ duct, at Calla'o, Peru, Ramsay, an Amer­ ican sailor of the crew of the Cambrian Monarch, has been condemned to a year in jail. This is contrary to article 15 of the treaty with the United States, and Minis­ ter Mcjienzie has demanded the immedi­ ate release of Ramsay.. An English sailor arrested at Callao at the same time was Sentenced to six months' imprisonment. St. Petersburg dispatch; In the most im­ portant quarters much annoyance is felt at the signs of the vacillating policy shown by the powers at a moment when the greatest firmness is necessary. The feeling is that the other powers are trying to place Russia in the undesirable position of shedding Christian blood. The Otgo- loski publishes a very strong article on the subject, and thinks England is going to establish herself in Crete, and being there, say: "'J'y suis, J.'y reste,' and as' Crete is not what the Dardanelles is to Russia, the latter would not go to war about it. Crete can only be pacified by shedding Christian blood, but orthodox Russia cannot do so. England has done so before and can do it now." In diplo­ matic circles the position is looked upon as very embroiled, and the only solution ill be that if the Greeks insist on fight- g they should bo allowed to go on and be beaten. The ambassadors of the powers have held a meeting at Constantinople to con­ sider a dispatch from the foreign admirals in Cretan waters stating that it is daily becoming more evident that a continu­ ance of Turkish authority iu Crete is im­ possible and recommending that a Eu­ ropean governor general be appointed and that the Turkish troops be withdrawn. Fighting between the Christians and the Turks at Canea continued until midnight Thursday. During the evening the in­ surgents burned the Mussulman dwell­ ings and property of Perivolia and Friday morning they burned and abandoned the fort at Koratidi. The members of the diplomatic corps at St. Petersburg now greatly apprehend serious complications in Macedonia, which will jeopardize the peace of Europe. Although recognizing that the chief danger lies in that direction, the proposal of Great Britain to estab­ lish a neutral zone on the Greek frontier is regarded as inefficacious and imprac­ ticable. It is urged that it would be pref­ erable to accelerate the pacification of Crete by immediately blockading the coast of Greece and thus nip in the bud the de­ velopment of complications in Macedonia. An infantry regiment, 678 men strong, sailed from Vienna for the Island of Crete, being the Austrian contingent for the occupation of the principal ports of that island by forces of the toreign pow- EASTERN. The Massachusetts House of Represent­ atives has adopted a resolution providing for State representation at the Tennessee centennial by the Governor, six members of hisstaff and three specialcommission­ ers. The expense is lifnited to: $500. The original plan was for a delegation nearly three times as large and an 'expenditure of nearly $5,000. . "The Elms," the magnificent residence Oi Col. ^.. O. Tyler on Pequot avenue, New London,NConn., with all its elaborate furnishings, valuable paintings, bric-a- brac, musical instruments, and silverr was tota}ly destroyed by fire early Sun- SOUTHERN. A. Macchi, the foreign commissioner general of the Tennessee Centennial and Industrial Exposition, has returned to New York from Europe. Mr. Macchi has been abroad since last August, collecting exhibits for the exposition, and says his trip has been very successful. Every country in Europe^ will send exhibits. So far as his work is concerned, Mr. Macchi says the exhibition will be successful Amos Riggs, who murdered young Boyd and his father near Mount Gilead, Ky last week, has been captured by the Ohio authorities. Riggs was arrested at the home of a relative in Felicity, Ohio, and was taken completely by surprise. H® ^Was heavily armed, but offered no resist­ ance. He will be taken to Maysville for trial. Public sentiment is strong against Riggs. It will be two months before grand jury meets. Sunday afternoon Austin, • Texas, and the surrounding country was visited by * IN GENERAL. Obituary: At St. Louis, L. C. Baker.-- At Boston, Charles Eliot, 36.--At Green Bay, Wis., Rev. James Gauche, 73. The world's wheat crop for 1896 was ,428,393,000 bushels, of which the Unit­ ed Stjutes raised 428,684,000 busheJs. In the'^ame year the yield of Corn in the United States was 1.936.206,000 bushels. Mrs. Emma Moss Booth-Tucker, wife of Frederick Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army, has formally declared her intention to become a citizen of the United States. Her husband has already taken out his first papers. There was an increase of $14,711 in the gross earnings of the Big Four road for the, month of February and the net earn­ ings for the month increased $7,159. Eastern Illinois earnings for the third week in March show a decrease of $5,700. From July 1, 1896, up to this time earn­ ings of this road have decreased $152,450. HE central Mississippi region, em­ bracing some of the richest farm i,; lands of Illinois, Missp«Fir -4.rkan- sas and Tennessee* has been transformed into a. great inland sea. rSix thousand square mile;s Qf territory . ar|. under water, forming a monster and dreaVy panorama of ruin and misery. Farms; plages and even small cities are completely submerg- sea that 'adds new territory to its cruel waste hour by hour until the entire sur­ plus waters of the north have gone to join the salty waves of the southern seas. A few weeks ago the snows began to melt in the Alleghany and Rocky mountains, and this, with the spring raihs, caused the little mountain streams to pour great vol­ umes of water into the Missouri, Ohio nd Cumberland rivers. These, in turn, swelled the Mississippi' into a turbulent to%ent, and the waters br^tft through the lev<$%\between Cairo amtTYlemphis and causeo^Na flood greater than has been known fesNfive years. As sooii ffs the reports, reached Memphis, and othor ^ints, relief boats were sent e half-drowned people to Government boats were War Department. Thus ved who might have and cold. Nearly bring safet out to places of ordered out thousands wereN perished from 10,000 persons. were\arried to Memphis alone. Not all the villages, however, are deserted. Froria some of them, which stand on high ground, and where the water runs through the streets at a depth of frilly a few feet, none of the residents have departed, but make the best of the situa- tion^by plying about in small boats. Somiiv of the scenes are graphically de- hTgher points, only to be* again pushed back. The apparent indifference ofJsome of these people'is astounding. They have always lived in the same spot, and when offers are made to remove them to places of safety, they shake their heads and re­ fuse to be aided. With sacks of corn carefully preserved,v and with an occasion­ al rabbit Or bird, they eke out a scant ex­ istence. To them a place of safety is a strange land in which they have no kin­ dred, and where exis^eh^e can only be se­ cured by exertion. They have passed through other periods of flood and manag­ ed to 'live through it somehow,' and the most graphic description of the horrors to, come fails to move them. "The water will drap bitneby,' they say. • "The situation is-worst about fifty miles above Memphis. There the water stretches as far as the eye can see. It is nearly forty miles across at this point. Little settlements are indicated by the tops of rough board roofs, which protrude from the water, and which the boat passes slowly. On some higher points, men, IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF PADUCAH. women and children, cows, pigs, chick­ ens, and even horses are to be seen hud­ dled together and clustered about stoves, which have been carried out on roofs. A dugout canoe or two is usually pulled up be^de these roofs, ai)d the former occu­ pants lie basking in the sun, some blessing God for its warmth, while others grumble and curse nature for the abundance of THE THE COMING RELIEF BOAT. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5-75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2, 24c to 2">c; oats, No. 2, 16c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 32c to 34c; butter,, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 8c to 9c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common growth to choice green hurl, $20 to $80 per ton. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs/choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to.$4.25; wheat, No. 2, 85c to 87c; corn, No. 2. white, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 fo $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 94c to 96c; corn. No. 2 yel­ low, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 33c to 35c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2,50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, S9<> to 91c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 36c to 38c. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 3, 22e to 23c; oats, No. 2*vwhite, 19c to 21c; barley, No. 2, 28c to 32c; rye, No. 2, 34c to 35c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, &0c to 92c; corn, 'No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 36c to 37c; clover seed, $5.10 to $5.20. • ' 'Detroit--Cattle, $2,50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4:50; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No.,2 red, 88c to 90c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye, 36c to 38<\ Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.5'); sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 89c to 91c; cori:. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 while, 22c to 23c . * • A ' - - . ; New York--Catti'fe, $3.00 to $5.b0; hogs, $3.50 to $4.75; »Leep, $3.00 to $5,50; wheat, No. -2 red, 84c to 85c; corn, No. 2, 29c -to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, We*t- ern, 9c to 11c,' ed. Several hundred human beings have probably perished in the flood. Thousands have been carried to Memphis and other places of safety by Mississippi steamboats which pick their way among the tree tops, while other thousands still cling to their homes and refuse to leave. Beds, stoves and other furniture have been carried to the roofs and there these stoical people eat and sleep and sigh as they wait for the waters to fall. In many cases, chick­ ens, pigs and cows are with them on the housetops. Should the waters rise to where they are encamped these stoics will build rafts, encamp on them and drift whither the winds and cilrrents carry them. Then, indeed, will the death list be swelled to appalling figures. But the prospect is not so dismal, for the waters are falling. Though worse may come, existing con­ ditions are bad enough. From Cairo, 111., to Memphis, a distance of nearly 250 miles, the river is over its banks and the average width of submerged land is twen­ ty-five miles. It is a long line of black­ ness and despair, with the surffice of the muddy waters covered with floating-tim­ bers, wrecked houses,, eddies of bloated dead animals, with an occasional lifeless human being mixed with the debris. Here and there is a moundcor housetop, j On some of the latter are found suffering, half-starved human beings and. on| the former small groups of shivering aniipals, wild and tame. It is not an uncommon thing to see cattle, hogs, sheep,# «»ons, rabbits, deer aisd beai*s thus heram to­ gether. If The Mississippi is a cruel strewn and never a spring passes that does nw see it leave its banks and ove flow the hulvlands. These lands are mostly devoted torahe cul­ tivation of wheat and corn in thelcentral section and cotton and sugar in Lifuisiana and Mississippi. Above Memphis there are no levees to speak of. Theile are a few, but they are as chaff when\th? big floods come. Tennessee is but littleiafffcct- ed even at the highest s tages jf the\rivet\ scribed by a writer who covered the en­ tire section when the water was at its highest, on a steamer, which made its way slowly over the vast body4 of water, and stopped wherever human beings were in sight to pick them up. He says: "In this body of water are occasional spots formed by what under normal con­ ditions are lofty bluffs and high ridges of land. On these are gathered the popula- water. Some of the queerest sights to be seen are where the settlers take to what they call the 'scaffolding plan.' Croups of four Or five houses stand among the trees, in which the stoves, rough beds and a kitchen table are raised on scaffolds so close to the roofs of the houses that the occupants are obliged -to stoop over as they stand on floating platforms leaning over the stove or table. The women and chil- SCENE ON PRESIDENT ISLAND, BELOW MEMPHIS. tion for miles about, sleeping and living in the open air or beneath the meager pro­ tection of a bit of canvas hoisted above them on strips of lumber or rough drift­ wood snatched from the encircling waters, Hunger, sickness, privation, loss of life and property abound. Hundreds of these Southern settlers remain in the inundated districts and battle stubbornly with the SCENES ALONG THE" RIVER NEAR MEMPHIS, The banks on the left are high and are supported by rocky hills that creep up al- irioSt to the river's edgoJ The volume of watjer is therefore throw!|t With all its ter­ rible force to the unprotected sides of Arkansas' territory, backing 1$ the small­ er rivers and streams, eaus'ng them/to dren a -e forced to lie on the bed while the het d of the house cruises about the vicinity and gathers driftwood to be dried and used for fuel." The i'.ood of 1892 destroyed growing crops aiAd property to the value of $20,- 000,000, The present cannot be even ap­ proximately estimated, but it will far ex­ ceed tha£ of fi^e years ago. From St. Louis to Cairo, all of that immense basin that was created by the earthquake fifty years ago, is d«ep enough to swim a steam­ boat. This section embraces a remarka­ bly big part of the wheat fields of south­ ern Illinois/Wid Missouri. The submerged farms may In entirely useless for grain purposes fomhe remainder of the year. It takes growing whea.t a long time! to re­ cover from' a flood, however short the period may be that it has suffered. So if the Missouri and Illinois valleys are not instantly drained the fall wheat crop there is gone. But it is south of Cairo and clear down to New Orleans where the real damage is now being done. Ihat is the part of the country that lies unpro- tected, where millions of acres of fertile fields and hundreds of homes belonging to the laboring people are absolutely at the mercy of the remorseless w aters. Sparks f»om the Wires. Fire destroyed the Buchanan building at Beaver, P.a. .Loss, $50,000. An English syndicate is trying to buy seven, breweries in Dayton, O., aud is said to have secured an option on six of th^m for $3,000,000. Gen. Julio Sanguilly, the American citi­ zen recently released from Moro castle, Cuba, was given a public reception in Philadelphia in the Academy <of Music. A bill to compel respectful treatment for the I]nited States flag was introduced in the House by Representative Howe of New York. It provides that any person in the employ of the Government who shall utter words that reflect or cast rew proach on the American flag, /thereby showing disloyalty to the flag and the Government, from which they derive tlieir livelihood, shall be immediately dismissed from the service. SENATE AND H0U8E. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW­ MAKERS. A Week'* Proceedings jn the Balls of Congress--Important Measures Dis­ cussed and Acted Upon--An Impar­ tial Resume of the Business. j The National Solons. The four-days' debate upon the tarift bill"in the House closed Thursday night, making the bill open for amendment un­ der the five-minute riile until the time set for a vote. The Senate held a half-hour session early in the day, and then, after two hours in executive session on the arbitration treaty, resumed the open ses- sion in order to go on with the bankruptcy bill. Amended credentials were present­ ed^ in behalf of John W. Henderson, ap­ pointed by the Governor of Florida to the seat vacated by Mr. Call. It brought out a statement from Mr. Hoar, acting chair­ man of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, that action on the pending'elec- tion cases was delayed by the uncertainty as to committee organization in the Sen­ ate. Ihe revised credentials were re­ ferred to the Elections Committee. -Che tariff, bill was thrown open for amendment under the five-minute rule in the House Friday, but seven weary hours of work only served/to dispose of nine of the 162 pages of the bill. Three slight committee amendments were adopt­ ed, one of which was to increase tlie dutv on white lead from 2% to 3 cents a pound, the rate in the act of 1890. The present onty is 1% cents. In the Senate Mr., Gal* linger (Rep ) of Nebraska presented sev­ eral forms issued by the civil service com­ mission to substantiate his recent state­ ment that certain applicants for office were required to hop on one foot for twelve feet. The Senator read the "hop­ ping provision and several other ques­ tions as to the weight and height of the typesetters, which he characterized as. absurd. Referring to the size and weight requirement Mr, Gallipger said "Phil! bnendan could not have served the gov­ ernment if the civil service commission) had got at him." The matter was re- ferred to the Civil Service Committee.! Adjourned to Monday. Aauth,e.House Satn^ay, only five more of the 162 pages of'the bill were disposed ot, making fourteen pages in two of the five days allowed for consideration under the five-minute rule. Only five amend­ ments were adopted, all of minor import­ ance, and each an amendment of the ways and means committee. Fully two hours were spent in the discussion of whether the foreigner or consumer paid the tax.! If more progress is not made night ses­ sions may be held. Senator Warren of! Wyoming, in conference with the Re­ publican members of the Senate commit^ tee on finance , on schedules affecting Western interests, made some sugges­ tions concerning third-class wools, look­ ing more, however, to a change in adjust­ ment than a change of rates. The House Monday, without a quorum, continued debate of the tariff bill, but- made little progress. The Senate 'reso­ lution appropriating $250,000.for imme­ diate use on the Mississippi, amended so as to carry $140,000 for clerk hire for members to July 1, $20,000 for miscel­ laneous expenses of the House and $1,- 000,000 ^customs deficiencies, was adopt­ ed, and at 5:25 the House adjourned. In the Senate a bill was reported favorably to prevent kinetoscope exhibitions of prize fights. Mr. Caffery of Louisiana se­ cured favorable consideration of a joint" resolution on making immediately avail­ able $250,000 for the improvement of the Mississippi River from the head of the passes to the mouth of the Ohio River. The appropriation is to be deducted from the $2,500,000 given to the Mississippi. River by the last river and harbor appro­ priation bill. Ihe bill was passed con­ firming the Compromise made between the officers of the government and the au-' thorities of Arkansas relating to mutual claims. At 12:50 p. m. the Senate went into executive session on the arbitration treaty. Tuesday was the last day for debate of the tariff bill in the House, and 110 other business was done. A number of amend­ ments were adopted, but not one-third of the whole bill had been considered when debate closed. In the Senate Senator Allen, of Nebraska, made a long speech on the constitutionality of tariff taxes beyond those requisite for revenue. The House amendments to the Senate joint resolution appropriating $250,000 for the saving of life and property along the Mis­ sissippi River were agreed to. Among the petitions was one from the Board of Sheep Commissioners of Montana urging the most ample protection on wool, in accordance with the platform promises, and asserting that the policy of protection would not long prevail without this ade­ quate protection to the wool growing in­ terest. 0 The House Wednesday adopted the Grosvenor amendment to the Dingley tariff bill, and then by a vote of 205 to 122 passed the bill itself. The amend­ ment gives the bill immediate effect, thus making the measure retroactive upon im­ ports already here, but yet in bond. The President sent-to~~the Senate the follow­ ing, among other nominations of post­ masters: John A. Childs, Evanston, 111.; Joseph C. Weir. Rantoul, 111.; William T. Pritchard, Franklin, Ind.; John W. Beard, Converse. Ind.; Henry L. Chesley, Suth­ erland, Iowa; .Tames W. Peekinpaugh, Olivia, Minn.; F. P. Corrick, Cozad, Neb.; Clifford B. McCoy, Coshocton. Ohio; E. A. Deardorff. New Philadelphia, Ohio; William F. Bishop, P^shtigo, Wis. Notes of Current Events. The Massachusetts House defeated by a vote of 99 to 61 the resolution foy a monument in State House yard to Gen. Benjamin F. Butler. After a bitter debate and many stormy scenes, the Manitoba Legislature ratified the settlement of the Roman Catholic parochial school question. \ The claim of Edward J. Ivory, the al­ leged dynamite conspirator, for $20,000 damages against the English Government for false imprisonment, has been forward­ ed to Secretary of State Sherman. Joseph Blanther, the murderer of Mrs. Langfeldt in California, committed sui­ cide while in jail at Meridian, Miss., by taking poison. Officers were expected the same day to take him back to California. Articles of incorporation were granted in New Jersey to the Composite Typebar Company, with an authorized capital of $10,000,000. The company is to manufac­ ture machinery and objects used iu the art pf printing. r During a gale in Oregon a large sus­ pension bridge across the Willamette riv­ er at Oregon Cits' was wrenched from its piers fully eighteen inches. The bridge was afterwards moved back into position by means of hydraulic jacks. In response to notices from American importers, several of the Toronto houses are rushing to the United Siaptes all the wool they have for the American tr^de. This is done in anticipation of the jiro- posed duty of 12 cents a pound. The grand national steeplechase at Liv­ erpool -vfas won by Manifesto. Filbert was second and Ford of Fyne was third. The grand national steeplechase is of 2,000 sovereigns, the secoud horse to re­ ceive 300 sovereigns and the thihl 200 sovereigns from the stakes.