hz lis
EIYERS ARE BASING
NO FATALITIES HAVE AS YET
BEEN REPORTED
ParLs of Towns Inundated and the
Inhabitant Driven from Their
Homes Electric Ijitfht Plants
Waterworks and Mills C3osed by
the Water Much Damage Has
Been Done to Railroad and
TVagon Bridges
The Spring Thaw
The rivers of the northwest have caused
losses tins spring that when the amounts
arc known will figure up into the
thousands ol dollars Railroad and wagon
uridges fences and other property have
been carried away South Dakota Iowa
and Xebraska seem to have had their share
of grief
The Missouri at Yermillion has
carried away three wagon bridges and half
the piles of the railroad bridge west of
the city The Vermillion River rose two
feet Saturday afternoon and was over its
banks in many places Advices from this
city state that a terrible flood can only be
averted by the speedy clearing of the river
The ice in the Missouri at Yankton began
going out late Saturday afternoon and
Sunday there was a gorge above city twelve
feet high The Jim River was full from
bank to bank and the ice solid Acres of
water are seen in all direction at
Huron Farmers along the Jim River
have removed their sheds and stock to
higher ground and anchored more perma
nent buildings Passengers on the North
western for points beyond Salem were
brought back to Huron Saturday night and
no tickets were sold to stations south of
Hurley on this date The Big Sioux is a
mile wide in places in the vicinity of
Flandreau A great deal of damage has
been done to small bridges and to hay on
the bottoms
Intense excitement prevailed at Rock
Valley Saturday on account of the flood
L II Dearborn rescued eighteen persons
from an island in the Rock River in a
small boat Three men at this point
ventured out to a partially wrecked rail
road bridge The water carried out a
section of the bridge cutting off
their retreat and leaving them
in midstream After four hours of
anxious waiting they were rescued by ropes
The waterworks and electric light plant
at Sioux Rapids were both under water
Saturday The wagon bridge and ap
proaches at this point are gone People
living on the lowlands at Cherokee have
been compelled to move Several bridges
have been carried away and the city pump
ing station is flooded The river at Des
Moines was fourteen feet above nor
mal on the 20lh and the situa
tion is much worse than at any
previous time The sudden rise in the
Des Moines flooded many houses in the
north part of the city and people were
taken out in boats Mayor MacVicar has
been called upon for aid The great gorge
in the Iowa River went out at Iowa Falls
Saturday Aside from damage to the mill
and dam at Alden no harm was done The
dam of the Northern Milling Company
at Humboldt was carried out but
no other serious damage resulted
iAt Sioux City the Missouri River is full of
iice but is not gorging The lower part of
fthe city was flooded b the Floyd and hun
dreds of families driven from their homes
The river had receded to such an extent
Saturday that people were beginning again
to inhabit their homes A number of rail
road and wagon bridges have been de
stroyed in this vicinity
The Missouri has reached the danger
line at Omaha with the flood from the
north yet to come No serious damage has
as yet been done The north fork of the
Elkhorn is several miles wide in places in
the vicinity of Norfolk Part of the city is
Inundated to a depth of from one to three
feet and includes many residences and
some business houses The C St P M
O yards were tinder water and pas
sengers had to be ferried into the city
Saturday No fatalities have occurred but
the property damage will behigh
Fitzsimmons in Frisco
Bob Fitzsimmons the retired champion
of all champions is at San Francisco
The quarters engaged for him at the Bald
win Hotel had been decorated with floral
horseshoes boxing gloves formed of white
violets and other appropriate devices
I do not think said Fitzsimmons that
Corbett or any one else is smart enough to
get me to accept another challenge I pro
pose to quit while my star is in its ascend
ancy I have made enough money to live
on comfortabty and I propose to spend it
for my wife and baby and take my ease
for I have licked the man claiming to be
champion of the world and have downed
over 300 men
For a Beet Sugar Bounty
Representative Maxwell of Nebraska
has introduced a bill in congress to en
courage the erection of mills for the manu
facture of sugar and syrup from beets
The bill provides that for every ton of
sugar made from beets there shall be paid
a bounty for a period of nine years the
amount for the first three years to be 75
cents a ton for the second three years 50
cents and the last three 25 cents
Chimay Coming to America
The Princess de Chimay and the gypsy
musician Rigo will leave Paris for Spain
lin a fortnight and from there will go to
New York The princess and Rigo dine
Jevery night in Paris at the restaurant
where he used to lead the band She ap
pears as fond of the gypsy as ever
Billy Birch Paralyzed
Dilly Birch the old time minstrel was
stricken with paralysis in New York city
while attending a meeting of the Elks
lodge
The Guild Hall Library in London
has refused to accept a bust of the late
Joseph Whitaker whose Almanack
is thought by some to be one of the
most useful books ever printed
INVENTIONS PATENTED
A new pocket case for use in writing
has a holder for pen and pencil a bot
tle of ink and a pouch for holding post
age stamps
One of Edisons latest patents is a
two pointed receiver for the phonor
graph which will give two records at
once from the same cylinder
To aia in filing saw teeth straight a
new file holder has a frame with two
parallel guides between which the file
is fastened to make it run true
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KNOCKS OUT CORBETT IN A
LIVELY BATTLE
Cornishinan Is Iondly Cheered Bic
Crowd Is Present -Estimated that
nt Least 500000 Was Staked on
the Keault of the Contest
Foueht Fourteen Kounds
Robert Fitzsimmons defeated James J
Corbett in the fourteenth round in the
contest at Carson City New for the pu
gilistic championship of the world The
decisive blow was a left swing on the
pit of Corbetts stomach He fell on his
face in the center of the ring and was un
able to regain his feet in the specified ten
seconds The Californian seemed to have
a shade the better of the battle up to the
last round He had Fitzsimmons weak
in the sixth round but failed to finish him
Pour thousand people were present The
day was clear and beautiful and just right
for the kinetoscope
The result of the battle came like a bolt
of lightning to Corbetts friends who
deemed him literally invincible The
kinetoscope should net 100000 to each
pugilist in addition to which Fitzsimmons
receives the purse of 10000 and Cor
betts side bet of 5000 There were
about twenty women present Fitzsim
mons weighed 167 and Corbett 183
pounds
Time was called at 1207 The lanky
pugilist refused to shake hands with Cor
bett The opening sparring was cautious
but the Cornishinan soon began to force
Corbett trying n left swing
For thirteen rounds the two men sway
ed and shifted pythonlike around the
white rosined floor watching each other
like two great eagles Then the bell clang
ed for the fourteenth and up they came
again light footed wary and aggressive
Fitzsimmons was bleeding badly at the
mouth Four thousand spectators roared
around the ringside like a troop of lions
Hundreds of men became hoarse and hys
terical with howling
Fitzsimmons small ferrety eyes twin
kled in his pink and apelike face like little
bits of shiny glass as he swayed up to
Corbett for the final round
Champion Is Fallen
Corbett darted forward and drove his
long left in Fitzsimmons stomach The
latter grunted and swung back with three
hard raps on the Californians jaw The
finish followed like a thunderbolt Fitz
simmons sprang forward with a great
right handed smash over Corbetts heart
The blow would have finished an ordi
nary man It only staggered the tremen
dously muscular fighter That momen
tary stagger however was sufficient
Fitzsimmons rushed in with a left flush
in the pit of the Californians stomach
Down went the big fellow on all fours
like a stricken beef All his grand
strength had vanished Fitzsimmons
with his face still contorted in that red
and featureless smile stepped away at
the order of the referee wbs sprang be
tween them With a roar like lliat of a
whirlwind 4000 spectators sprang to their
feet turning over chairs crashing over
boxes and pouring flood like down the
yellow pine slope stoward the ringside
It is estimated that not less than 500
000 changed hands all over the country on
the result of the fight Most of this money
was wagered at Carson City New York
and San Francisco Corbett wagered
nearly 5000 on himself in addition to the
stake of 10000 a side Fitzsimmons did
not bet any money for the reason that he
had none to bet- His stake money even
was deposited by two New York and one
Detroit sporting men Martin Julian his
manager is financially as bad off as his
brother-in-law
The fight was for a purse of 15000 and
a wager of 10000 a side the winner to
take all It was announced for the cham
pionship of the world but as the cham
pionship of the world has never been tech
nically held by one man the title is not
generally looked upon as settled by the
fight
GRANTS TOMB READY
Mausoleum Vie- in Grandeur with
Those of Great Kinijs of Old
In Riverside Park New York will he
witnessed on Tuesday April 27 one of
the greatest civil and military displays in
the history of the world The demonstra
tion onland will be accentuated by a
naval display on the river 130 feet below
the like of which has seldom been seen in
any part of the world
On that day the seventy fifth anniver
sary of the birth of Ulysses S Grant the
jnagnificent mausoleum erected to perpet
uate the memory of the great Union gen
eral will be dedicated The New York
Legislature already has designated it to
be a State holiday and by the plans which
are now under way it will be a national
holiday as well in fact if not in law
It has taken twelve years to bring about
the erection of a tomb for the soldier
statesman that would be accepted as a
fitting acknowledgment of a nations debt
to a nations hero The magnificence of
the pile on which the finishing touches
are now being put in Riverside Park is a
sufficient answer to the cynical One re-
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public in one instance at least has prov
ed itself not ungrateful and all the world
is expected to bear witness to the con
summation of the proof
It is expected that President McKinley
Vice President Hobart Speaker Reed the
Governor of every State in the Union the
representatives of every foreign nation at
Washington the United States Senate
the House of Representatives the State
Legislatures and the heads of the prin
cipal public organizations of every char
acter in the United States will participate
in the dedicatory ceremonies The Fed
eral troops the National Guard from a
score of States the North Atlantic Squad
ron together with many vessels from the
navies of foreign nations will join in the
demonstration Already those in charge
feel safe in predicting that more than
250000 men including thousands of sol
diers who followed Grant to victory thirty
two years ago will seek places in the
parade
FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO
Carter Harrison II Is the Candidate
on the Democratic Ticket
Carter Harrison the Democratic nom
inee for Mayor of Chicago is 37 years old
He was born in the Harrison homestead
at Clark and Harrison streets He attend
ed the public schools He was taken to
Germany and put into the gymnasium of
Altenburg This preparatory course fit
ted him for college and he graduated from
St Ignatius Chicago in 1881 He studied
law two years at Yale He practiced five
years after 1883 and formed a real estate
partnership with his brother until his
father bought the Chicago Times in 1891
He filled nearly all the managing positions
on the paper until the sale in 1894 His
family consists of Mrs Harrison Carter
III who is Oj romping boy and Edith the
baby
Long Distance Rider
Fred Schinneer the winner of the six
day bicycle race in Chicago
A robbery of 5000 sovereigns was com
mitted on board the steamship Oceanic
by which the last shipment of gold to the
United States from Australia was made
BISHOP B W ARNETT
Presented McKinley with the BibJe
on Which He Took the Oath
Bishop B W Arnett of Wilberforce
College Ohio who presented President
McKinley with the beautiful morocco
bound Bible which he kissed on taking the
oath of office is one of the leading lights
of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church in America The bishops son
Henry Y Arnett took a leading part in
the late campaign He was chairman of
the Afro American League of Ohio and
did splendid work among the colored peo
ple of his State The Bible was given to
President McKinley by the
cans of Ohio It is bound in crushed blue
leather the covers lined with satin and
the edges gilded There is a gold plate
on the first cover with an appropriate in
scription The book was opened and as
the new President kissed it his lips met
this verse Give me now wisdom and
knowledge that I may go out and come in
before this people for who can judge this
Thy people that is so great It is the
tenth verse of the first chapter of Second
Chronicles and contained certainly a
very fitting sentiment for the occasion
The volume was opened by Clerk McKen
ney without reference to any especial
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BISnOP B W AHNETT
place and the providential or accidental
selection of the verse in question was as
happy as any that ever befell Haroun al
Raschid and his Koran It is the custom
for the Supreme Court to furnish the Bible
for the presidential swearing in and this
Bible and the one used by ex President
Cleveland have been the only exceptions
to rule The little red Bible used by Mr
Cleveland was given him by his mother
when he was a boy The book used by
President McKinley will be valuable to
him as a souvenir
AMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND
Col John Hay Chosen by President
McKinley to Succeed Mr Bayard
Col John Hay who will go to Eng
land as United States ambassador for the
McKinley administration is already well
known in that country by his famous
books Pike County Ballads Little
Breeches and other works from his pen
But although his chief claim is as a writ
er the colonel is a pretty good statesman
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COL JOHN BAY
and an excellent diplomat For four
years he was President Lincolns secre
tary except for the time he spent in the
army which although it was short was
sufficient for him to become a major and
a brevet colonel He was secretary of le
gation at Paris and at Madrid and later
was charge daffaires at Vienna He is
erudite suave polite and skilled in the
understanding of even small things qual
ities that go far toward making up the
diplomat He studied law although his
life has been mainly given to literature
Col Hay is 59 years old and lives in
Washington Col Hay has been actively
interested iu politics since 1S75 He was
assistant Secretary of State under Presi
dent Hayes
The cloth weavers employed in John
and James Dobsons big mill Philadel
phia who struck because of a 10 per cent
reduction returned to work a satisfac
tory agreement having been reached with
Mr Dobson
BOTE AEE EXECUTED
SCOTT JACKSON AND WALLING
DIE ON ONE SCAFFOLD
Former Made Another Confession De
claring His Companion Innocent
But Took It Back Justice Avcnccd
the Murder of the Hoosicr Girl
Were Stranded to Death
Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling were
hanged in Newport Ivy Saturday for
the murder of Pearl Bryan of Greencas
tle Ind Both were strangled and died
in great agony Both declared their inno
cence after the death warrant was read
On arriving at the scaffold the prisoners
stood with bowed heads while a prayer
was said At its conclusion they bid
farewell to those grouped about them
Pastor Lee was overcome after his prayer
at the final scene on the scaffold and had
to be carried away
Jackson kept up his reputation by mak
ing another alleged confession in the
morning and succeeded in delaying the
execution He said Walling was not
guilty of murder Jackson had Pastor
Lee the death watch Walling and all
stand up as he repeated that Walling is
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SCOTT JACKSOX AIOXZO WAILIXG
not guilty This proceeding stopped the
march to the gallows Sheriff Plummer
called in Waitings attorneys and they
wired Gov Bradley Jackson broke com
pletely down just as the march to the gal
lows was ordered to start and wept like
a child as he cried out that Walling was
not guilty
Gov Bradley on receipt of the dis
patch called up Circuit Judge Helm by
telephone and had an extended confer
ence with him The Governor expressed
the belief that Jacksons confession was
only intended to gain time that it meant
nothing as it simply stated that Walling
was notguilty of murder The Governor
decided to let the execution proceed and
wired the Sheriff that if Jackson made a
statement on the gallows exonerating
AValliug to suspend Wallings execution
until further directions
Would Not CeJir Wallinjr
After coming from the consultation
with the Governor Judge Helm told Jack
son that he must hang and if he allowed
Walling to hang with him he would have
to answer to his Maker for a double crime
He also impressed Jackson with the fact
that if he went before his Maker with a
lie on his lips he would be doing a double
wrong He then gave Jackson five min
utes in which to make up his mind leaving
him unattended except by the death
watch At the expiration of the time
Jackson said that he could not say that
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Walling was innocent This settled the
fate of both prisoners
Just before leaving the cell Walling
said I will tell you now at the last
noment of my life that I was not there
and I am innocent of the whole crime
Jackson has said as much but it seems it
will not save me I cannot say any morer
I will say no more on the scaffold
An immense crowd was present but
was not allowed to see the bodies after
they were taken down The funeral of
Jackson was held at Newport and that
of Walling at Hamilton Jacksons re
mains were buried at Wiscasset Me
The directors of the cemetery at Green
castle Ind where the remains of Pearl
Bryan rest refused to let Jacksons body
be buried there
The first session of the annual conven
tion of the Railway Mail Service Mutual
Benefit and Benevolent Association was
held at San Francisco the delegates and
guests numbering 200 while as many
more members and friends of the local or
ganization were present
Three farmers driving across the tracks
at Zeeland Mich were struck by a
northbound Chicago and West Michigan
passenger train Martin De Haan and
Simon Boerize were killed and Henry
Driesiugs probably fatally injured
The Sultan of Turkey is declared to be
a domestic man intensely fond of this
children for whom he has a tiny theater
wherein they play small parts for the de
lectation of their papa
About half a mans time is taken up
signing petitions and protests
Is it not violating the law to handle
the fighters without gloves Chicago
Tribune
Of course the country has a good navy
but it really should have been made water
proof Florida Times Union
When Gov Bradley begins to sass Mark
Tlanna he is talking like a man who
hankers to retire from politics Detroit
Tribune
There is one admirable thing about the
Sultan He doesnt talk nor issue ulti
mata that are not ultimate Providence
Journal
The barrel organ and the peripatetic
strawberry can give the robins cards and
spades as record breakers in arriving
early New York Press
The revolutions in Brazil Uruguay Ar
gentine and Peru are doing as well as
could be expected without proper atten
tion Cincinnati Tribune
It is to be suspected that the legislators
who are endeavoring to prohibit cartoons
will instead of suppressing caricatures
furnish new material for them Washing
ton Star
The Piute Indians of Nevada are said
to have looked upon the prize fight with
contempt They evidently are too highly
civilized to take an interest in such njafr
ters Chicago Times Herald
From President pro tempore of the Uni
ted States to a reporter of prize fights
is a pretty long jump but Mr Ingalls has
taken it with agility and he will dispatch
the result Chicago Dispatch
Charges of corruption are bandied about
in both houses of the Oklahoma Legisla
ture and several Senators have resigned
Oklahoma is evidently qualifying herself
for Statehood Buffalo Express
The same theory which leads lawyers in
damage suits to place the damage claims
at several times the amount they can ex
pect to get seems to apply in the cases of
applicants for Federal offices Chicago
Record
The Sultan of Morocco is about to mar
ry again As the Moorish sovereign is
allowed 3333 arouses not much popular
interest is aroused by his present soli
tary matrimonial intention Chicago In
ter Ocean
The cruiser New York distinguished it
self and nearly extinguished itself by de
veloping a fire in its forward magazine
That is the penalty of New York for
having such a forward magazine Chi
cago Tribune
A scientist says that a diet of carrots
ameliorates harshness of character and
reduces nervous irritability The atten
tion of the chef of the German Emperor
should be called to this statement St
Louis Globe Democrat
AdminiRtration Echoes
There was never any doubt of the re
election of Speaker Reed Baltimore
American
The best thing the horde of place-hunters
in Washington can do is to start right
back home an go to w ork Cincmutfi
The medical advice to Mr McKinley to
avoid excitement is on a par with that
given the sick letter carrier to take more
exercise St Louis Post Dispatch
Could the late Samuel Jones Tilden
have looked in on the caucus of the House
Democrats Saturday afternoon he but
whats the use Washington Post
President McKinley has shown rare dis
cretion in asking for an extraordinary ses
sion of Congress The Congresses of late
have been quite ordinary Chicago
Times Herald
The only trouble with that dreadful
story about the quarrel between Mr 01
ney and Mr Cleveland was that it was
not true and that there wasnt any quar
rel Chicago Record
Office seekers seem to have forgotten
that Maj McKinley had quite a severe
attack of that tired feeling before leav
ing Canton and was obliged to unchain
the dog ami bar the doors New York
Advertiser
President McKinleys training as a pe
destrian is well tinud He will probably
have to walk the floor a good deal before
he succeeds in finding out how to controj
his Congressional team of wild horses
Louisville Courier Journal
The President and Cabinet are much
mixed as to religious affiliation The
President is a Methodist but there are
three Presbyterians a Congregationalism
an independent a Unitarian and a Roman
Catholic All are Republicans however
Indianapolis Journal
Greek Fire and Turkish Smoke
Greece has struck up quite a corre
spondence with the powers Detroit Free
Press
Greece grows warm but she is not the
kind of grease that runs when it gets hot
Boston Transcript
All quiet at Canea though they still
insist on baking Christians in the public
ovens Boston Herald
The powers seem to be realizing at
length that King George has raised the
ante New York Press
The agreement known as the European
concert is liable to be ruptured by the
overture of its own guns Chicago Inter
Ocean
The Sultan should be furnished with a
scientific frontier in Asia and placed on
his good behavior there St Louis Globe
Democrat
The indications are that before a great
while Greece her knee in suppliance bent
will tremble at the powers New York
Advertiser
The sick man of Europe seems to be
the only monarch over there just now
who is in a position to smile Chicago
Times Herald
The six big European powers will com
bine and attack little Greece it is an
nounced with absolutely no fear or trepi
dation whatever Chicago Record
Would that Greece had an army and a
navy that could defy the powers and
make both might and right do battle in a
noble cause Baltimore American
The trial of twelve women and two men
was begun at Hold Mezo Yasarhelv on
Lake Hodos Hungary The prisoners are
charged with poisoning their husbands or
others of their relatives in order to obtain
insurance money Some of the prisoners
are accused of four or five murders