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THE DALLES, WASCO. COUNTY, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 31. 1897.
VOL. VII.
NUMBER 18.
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FLOODS IN ILLINOIS
Waters Show No Signs of
Abatement as Yet, ,
STILL HIGHER WATER EXPECTED
Weather Bureau Warn, People to Pre
' 1 para for it--Suspension of Traffic
Threatened
' 1 1 Virginia, 111 , March 26. The Sanga
mon and Illinois rivers continue to
rise, having risen two or three inches
daily for the past two weeks. The high
-water marks of former years are passed
and the situation grows alarming.
Many families have vacated their homes
on the lowlands, going to the bluff for
safety. Toe Illinois is still below the
high water mark six inches. .
The mayor of Beardstown has called a
meeting, to devise some way and means
to protect the Beardstown-Frederlck
road, which ia now threatened with de
struction. ' '. .
further It Is To Come. ' '
Qcisct, 111., March 26.- The Mississip
pi river here re, isters 13 feet 5 inches in
24 hours. The lowlands are submerged,
and many farmers can not get into the
"citv. The government weather bureau
has sent out warning that the river will
be 14 feet by Saturday, .
So far the water has offered the rail
road no interference, but it ia probable
that it will in a few days. The track of
the St. Louis, Keokuk, & Northwestern
. between here and Keokuk, is being rais
ed in low places. The officials say the
track will stand a rise of eighteen inches
more before their trains will have to be
taken off.
- The Flood at Metropolis.
' Metropolis, 111., March 26. This city
presented a sorry appearance' today in
consequence of the flood. . The river is a
vast sea. There are not to exceed' 25
dwellinz-honses along the river front
where the occupants have not been flnv
. en out bv the water a. , Fences and out-
: houses are all gone. The Southern hotel
and a dozen other houses are wrecks.
The overflow extends from Fillmore
Btreet to Belmont bayou, on Calhoun
street, from Second street to Ferry,
where the water spreads to Market
Then it goes farther nntil it reaches
Third street.
KNOCKS AT OCR DOOR.
Hawaii Wants to Be Annexed
to the
United States.
Washington, March 26, It is said
that formal application for annexation
to the United States probably will be
made soon by the government of Hawaii
throught its minister to the' United
.States. The application will be present
ed to the state departement, and it is
expected will be transmitted to congress.
Ex-Minister Thurston, Attorney-General
Smith and General Harwell, of
New York, have been here since the in
auguration in the interests of annexa
tion. Mr. Match, the Hawaiian min
ister, and Mr. Smith saw the . president
yesterday, and he listened attentively to
- the arguments they had to present.
Meesers. Hatch and Smith also have
seen Secretary Sherman in regard tq the
question of annexation, and presented
to him arguments in its favor. . They
decline to discuss the attitude of the
president or his premier on the subject,
except to say the situation is - encourag
ing. Everything, said Minister Hatch,
is as yet in a tentative shape, and noth
ing formal has been done.
Attorney-General Smith,- who . has
, been in the city several weeks, will start
. next week on his return to the island.
FRIGHTENED TO DEATH.
. The Strange Case of a Tonus; Woman in
Chicago
Chicago, March 26. Elizabeth Paul
son, aged 18 years, is dead from the ef-
- fects of fright. Such is the opinion of
the attending physician, and the coroner
bo found after listening to his testimony
and that of the family. Miss Paulson
was the dadgbter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Paulson, respected German people. She
, was a comely young woman, and was the
anjwi.l Mm nf rnr maranfa ' althnnah
r - - i e
there were other sons and dan?htera in
their household.
Last Friday evening Elizabeth and a
younger sister, Thora, were alone with
t fitkir mnt.hfir- W hftn thft tvn trivia vAnf.
to their rooms to retire they took no can
dle with them, for their chamber was
but-a step from -the living rooms.
Thora fonnd occasion to go back to the
other part of the house and left her sisr
ter alone for a ' moment. . An instant
later a frightful scream came from the
room and Elizabeth rushed out, calling
piteously for help. Mrs. Paulson came
to her assistance, bat it was some time
before the girl could speak plainly
enough for her mother to understand the
cause of her sudden terror. At length
she was able to say there was a strange
man in her room. To everybody's sur
prise, hoWever, nothing was found that
approached the likeness of a man more
nearlv than a woman's cloak and hat
which hung on the 'wall in a position
where the light from a neighboring gas
lamp cast a strange shadow about it.
All efforts to calm the girl proved fa
tile. She seemed to be in a constant
condition of terror. Symptoms of epi
lepsy developed, the periods of uncon
sciousness grew more protracted, and
yesterday she died. Mr. Paulson, the
father, said. "I have no doubt they are
right in saying she was scared to death.'
CRETANS ARE STARTING.
The Dead Lie
Unburled
side.
by the Road
London, March 28. The Daily Mail's
correspondent eays' that Admiral Can a
viro, commanding the international fleet
in Cretan waters, has wired to the
Italian government to send immediately
a large land force, which is imperatively
necessary to cope with the Cretan in'
surgents. . - -
Admiral Canavirp, it is said, asserts
that conditions in the interior of the
island are so terrible as the result of
famine that even the lepers ere leaving
the lazar house; the inhabitants are
panic-stricken, and the dead lie by the
roadside unburied.
A Times' dispatch from Athens says
that when It became known Saturday
that. Crown Prince Constantino would
leave the city in the evening for the
Greek camp'at. Larissa, to take -command
of the Greek armies in the field,
a large crowd gathered on Constitution
square adjoining the palace. As. the
evening approached, the crowd increased
to a multitude, and the streets adjoin
ing were filled with an excited . throne,
cheering, singing patriotic songs and
firing reoief9. The populace shouted
"For nnion and war!" and cheered
continually for the crown prince and
the army.
Cornered the Onion Market.
Kansas City, March 28. James " Mo
Kinney, a produce dealer of this city1
is credited with having cprneied the .on
ion market of the country. Within the
past month the price of onions has mov
ed np from 60 and 80 cents per bushel to
$1 50 and $1 75 and the person reaping
the lion's share of the profit is said to be
McKinnev.
Germany Steps Out.
Constantinople, March b.Lt is
asserted here tonight.on wbat'is regarded
as reliable authority, that in consequence
of the refusal of Lord Salisbury to join
in a blockade of Greek ports, Germany
has given notice to the powers of her in
tention to withdraw from the concert.
The man who eats becausehe is hun
gry js, thus far, on the level with the
brutes. The man who stops eating the
moment bi hunger is appeased is the
wise man. Nature needs no more food
than be calls for. Continued excess
brings about" indigestion or dyspepsia,
with loss of flesh,' strength, sleep, am
bition and mental power, and an ac
cumulation of aches, pains - and . many
dangerous local maladies. .. '
The stomach now can do. nothing
alone. We must appeal to some artific
ially digested food which can also digest
other foods. That is to say, we must
nse the Shaker Digestive Cordial. The
effect is prompt and cheering. The
chronic pain and distress ceases.
Appetite presently revives. Flesh, and
vigor gradually comes back, and ' the
sufferer recovers. But he must be care
ful in future. A trial bottle for 10 cents.
Laxol is the best medicine for chil
dren. Doctors recommend it in place of
Castor Oil.
Drowned at a Ford.
Gainesville, Tex., March 29. Miss
Ruby Smith, daughter of Alderman
Smith, of this place, and Albert Thomp
son, a young man who was accompany
ing ber from Era to ' this city, were
drowned last night five miles west of
here in attempting to ford a creek that
bad become a raging torrent, as a result
of the unprecedented rainfall of yester
day and last night. :
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BIG GUNS FOR CUBANS
Expedition is Successfully
. Landed on the Island.
ACTIVITY OF INSURGENT FORCES
Famine in the District of Sanetl Splr-
itus. Due to the Failure of
Sugar Crops.
Havana, via Key West, Marh 27. An
expedition carrying arms, ammunition
and heavy field pieces has been landed
successfully at' Boca de Jarnco, to the
northwest of Havana. It is reported
that a well-known Havana merchant
Colin de Caidenas, was among those
landed with the expedition.
The outskirts of La Paste wore raided
by the insurgents, who Backed and burn
ed a number! of bouses, retiring after
light skirmish with the government
soldiers. Numerous insurgent forces
have been gathering at a point about
eieht miles from. Canaiuani, under di
rect orders from Maximo Gomez.
La Lucha yesterday attacked the mil!
tarv censor at.tbe palace, claiming he
knocks out the news under any pre-
tenfee," adding that the censor's policy
of keeping the papers from printing
news will "go against him."
Famine has commenced to invade the
district of Sancti Spiritus. The failure
of the sugar crop is the principle cause.
The planters have abandoned all hope
of grinding thiB 'season.
Laurada In the Delaware.
Philadelphia, March 27. The fa
mous filibustering steamer jauraaa
passed the Delaware capes at 6 :30 to
night. The Laurada, after having had
her boilers examined and pronounced
in an unsafe condition, sailed from Bal
timore, ostensibly for Wilmington, Del.
for repairs, about Feornary 20 last. It
was reported at the time the -filibuster
had gone on another expedition, but
Captain John D. Hart, her owner de
nied the story emphatically.'
Since that time, however, the Laurada
has; been reported but once. Gurley,
which arrived here Wednesday, March
24,-from Jamaica. He stated that he
had seen the Laurada, March. 10, off
Wattling's island, one of the Bahamas
He said she had a cargo of'some kind on
board, and was heading to leeward. The
captain of the Gurley was positive in bis
identity of the Laurada, saving he was
near enough to read her name.
MISSISSIPPI FLOOD .
A Crisis Prevails at Qulncy News From
the Lower Rlrer.
Quincy, 111., March 27. A flood crisis
prevails here. At 6 o'clock,, the Mis
siesippi passed the 14-foot mark, and is
still rising at the rate of one-third of
an inch an hour, in spite of the fact
that the river is from three to eight
miles wide ' above and below here,
Ferry-boats mo red a number of families
and droves of stock from Hortdn'a
island, which is now almost covered
with water. Residents on the opposite
side of Quincy bay were forced to
abandon their homes.
Farmers have been fighting the rising
water night and day on the levees north
of town. It is feared that all the levees
will go by the board tomorrow, unless
the .rise ceases. The first break will
mean the flooding of thousands of acreB
of valuable farm lands. . .
Danger Threatened at Vicksburg-.
Vicksbubg, Miss., 'March 27. The
rise in the river threatens most serious
damage to (he levees. The latest re
ports from as far north as Greenville,
Miss., and from both sides of the river,
are that the levees are being held at all
points. . ' .
A special from Lake Province, La.
complains of lack of tools and material,
of which large quantities, however, are
now en route from this city. It istioped
they will arrive in time. The situation
is daily becoming more grave, and a
crisis seems near at hand. The people
everywhere are displaying the most de
voted, courage and endurance.; The
river here rose six-tenths in the last 24
hours. The guage at 6 p. m. reads 48.1
feet. ..' .
.The Situation at Cairo.
Cairo, 111., March .27. The situation
here continues to improve. The guage
shows a fail of about an inch. . It reads
51 feet tonight. The winds last night
were very severe on the levee in this
neighborhood. At Beard's point,- the
situation is distressing. Twenty-five or
thirty houses there have been washed
from the foundations. A. large amount
of the Cotton Belt tracks have been
washed away, and from 75 to 100 yarde
of the levee there! ia gone. This evening
however, the water stands on both sides
of the embankment.
WARNED ONCE KORE.
Powers Demand That All Troops
Recalled Trom Frontier..
Be
Athens, March 28. The Crown Prince
Cpnstatine has arrived at Voli. During
the passage of the canal EgripoB, Prince
George went on board and bade his
brother a touching adieu.
The ministers of the powers held
conference today and it is stated drew
up the terms of a collective note to the
Greek government, requesting that the
Greek troops be recalled from the fron
tier. It Is understood that a similar note
will be presented to the porte, and that
if either power refuses, ita principal
ports will be blockaded.
A meeting of the Cretan delegates will
be held shortly at Athens to draft
reply to the admiral's proclamation
autonomy. '
Alleged to Be Greek Strategy.
Of
London, March 28. The Daily Graph
ic understands that the British proposal
to Greece and Turkey to withdraw their
armies from the frontier actually ongi
natedat Athens. . The Turks now occupy
all the passes in the mountains, and the
best strategical positions. According to
the Daily Graphic, the Greeks proposed
a simultaneous withdrawal in order tq
be able to capture these positions by
rush attack after making a feint of com
pliance. - y
Ready to Take Constantinople-
London, March 28. A Times dispatch
from Vienna says that, owing to the
keen anxiety felt at St. Petersburg, as to
what may occur in the near future at
Constantinople, or in the vicinity, the
czar has ordered the concentration of
200,000 troops in the four governments
ot South Russia. The Russian volcnteer
fleet is now available to transport troops
when evere required.
There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all otbe diseases put
together, and until the last few years
was' supposed to be incurable. For
great many years doctors pronounced it
local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced
it incurable. Science has proven Catarrh
to be a constitutional disease, and there
fore requires constitutional treatment.
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F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
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-.Six Children Drowned.
Seneca, Kan., March 29. Six chil
dren of John McGrath, a farmer resid
ing in the western part of Nemaha coun
ty, were drowned near their home Sun
day evening while attempting to ford
Pole creek, which la running bank ' full.
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At the Greek Cabinet Meeting,
Athens, March 29. At a cabinet
meeting today, important resolutions
were adopted relative to making pro
vision against the contingency of coerc
ive measures .upon the part of the pow
ers against Greece.
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Admirals Call for More Troops.
Canea, March 29. In order to insure
the security of the occupied towns, the
admirals have telegraphed to their re
spective governments for additional men
They have decided to occupy Akrotti.
. Fatal Holler Explosion.
Augusta, Ky., March 29. The" boiler
of a sawmill exploded today, killing two
men and fatally injuring three others.
The killed are : Calvert Boone and J. D.
Tucker. : '
Hot Clam broth every day from 10
a. m. to 12 :30 p. m. and 4 to 6 p. m. at
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Tom McCoy had opened his new barber
shop opposite the Clarenden restaurant
on Second street. - m4-lm
RIVERA IS CAPTURED
Maceo's Gallant Successor
Taken Prisoner.
IT WAS A HARD-F0CGHT BATTLE
A .Colonel and a Lieutenant Fell Into
the Enemy's Hands Along With
Their Gallant Commander
Havana, March 29. General Hernah
dez Velasco, continuing operations in
the hills of Pinar del . Rio, with' the
troops under bis command, was engaged
yesterday morning at Cabazeadas, Rio
Hondo district, with an insurgent force
of .100 men under General Ruiz Rivera
The insurgents were dispersed, and
their position captured after an hour'a
fighting.
The troops .captured .a number of
prisoners, including Major General Ruiz
Rivera, his chief of staff, Colonel
Bacallao and adjutant, Lieutenant Terry,
General. Rivera' and Lieutenant Terry
were both wounded. .
Rivera, who succeeded Antonio Maceo
in command of the insurgent forces in
Pinar del Rio, is considered next in
military importance to General Maximo
Gomez.
The Insurgents left ten men killed.
The troops, pursuing the enemy, 'cap
tured a quantity of arms, ammunition,
dynamite, caps, ete. The troops had
one man killed, and Lieutenant Wol-
gesraffen . and twenty-four ' soldiers
wounded.
General Rivera and his chief of staff,
Colonel Bacallao, were brought in pris
oners at San Cristobal, Pinar del Riotf
last evening. .Lieutenant lerry, ad
jutant 'of General Rivera, who was made
prisoner at the same time died on the
way to San Cristobal. He was wounded
by the explosion of a Spanish shell dur
ing the engagement at Cabazeadas. .
OWEN MELTON IS DYING.
He Cannot jlluch Longer. 'Withstand
Prison Life in Cuba.
Havana, March 29. Owen Melton, the
American newspaper correspondent who
is confined with the Competitor crew in
Cabanas, is reported to be dying. ,
A lady who went to Cabanas recently
to see relatives incarcerated there, states
that Melton is so weak, that be is able
to speak only in a whisper. He could
not raise himself to the window without
the assistance of his companion.
Melton's cell is damp and foulsmell
ing. A fellow-occupant of. tne ..same
compartment with Melton died with
typhoid fever a few days ago. Melton
has had no medical attention, .and is
now a mere skeleton. Be told the lady
mentioned above that be felt that his
end was hear, and that he was fully
resigned in his fate, preferring death
here now to transportation in chains to
a Spanish penal station off the African
coast later on. '
An American Killed in Cuba. -
Washington, March 29. The follow
ing dispatch was received' from Consul
General Lee, dated Havana, yesterday :
rC. E. Crosby, of New York, repre-
tentative of the Chicago Record, is re
ported killed while watching, with field
glasses the combat between Spanish and
insurgent forces near Arroya Blanco,
close to the boundary of Puerto Principe,
and Santa Clara. He came to the island
January 30th, and is said to have gradu
ated at St. Cyr, France." ,
LEVEES 'ARE IN ' DANGER.
Situation Along the Mississippi Shores
Is Serious.'
Washington, March 29. Colonel Gil
lespie, president of the .Mississippi
commission, has telegraphed General
Wilson, chief of engineers, from Vicks
burg, nnder date of yesterday as fol
lows :
"The ganges along the - river from
Memphis to YickBburg give A flood read
ing varying from IK t 3 feet above any
previously recorded readings.' - The feel
ing everywhere is one of uneasiness.
all the state levee boards are battling
gainst the rising floods regardless of
cost. As yet no widely spread damage
baa ' been reported, though several
breaks in levees above Greenville, on
both banks, have occurred. The levees
are seriously strained at all points."
Crevasse at Greenville.
Greenville, Misb.,' March 29- A
crevasse occurred last night in the levee,
seven miles south of Greenville, on thai
Mississippi side, through which an im
mense volume of water -is pouring into
the Black and Steele Rayou country.
The opening is 500 feet wide. Unless it
can be stopped, which is highly Improb-
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Situation In Illinois.
Alton, III;, March 29. Conditions be
come grayer every hour. Men were put
to work this morning overhauling all the
levees protecting higher bottom lands.
The railroad companies are putting their
tracks in American and St. Charles
bottoms iq the best possible condition to
withstand the floods, for less than 12
feet more of water will bring the stage of
1892, when the tracks , of all railroada
were submerged between Alton and St.
Louis. i
The guage shows an advance of .four-
tenthB of a foot in the last twenty-four
hours. The' river is within less than feet
of the stage reached in the middle of
May, last year, and with nearly two
months ot wet weather ahead, the out
look is gloomy.
Thousands of dollars have already
been swept away in crops products, and
it is raining again , so that- the prairies,
even back from the river, look like lakes,
and the preparation of land for spring
crops is again deferred. .
' Situation at Quincy. ,
Odincy III., . March 29. The Miss
issippi keeps up its record at this point,
and other rise Js registered,' making the
stage fifteen feet above the low-water
mark. Thousands of sightseers line
the banks and bluffs to eee the
muddy water, which has submerged all
of the islands and etetched back orer the
Missouri bottoms for several miles with
only the tops of trees and partly Bub
merged houses visible here and there to
mark the former ' places of abode of
thrifty farmers.
The situation on the levee is the same
as yesterday. A large force are working
heroically to strengthen the week places,
and thereby save their homes and crops,
but it is now believed to be a hoplesa
one, aa old river men say that the river
will go beyond the mark of nine years
ago. '''.'"
Reports from the north are very dis
couraging, and tee rain storm wnicn
prevailed Sunday increased the feara of
the owners of land in the levee districts.
Minnesota Rivers Rising.
St. Pacl, March 29.-r-The rivers of
Minnesota are rising very rapidly, fol-
lowing a day of heavy thawing. The
Mississippi at this point has passed the
10-foot mark, and ia still rising steadily.
Water is flowing in from the Minnesota
in a torrent.
A telephone message from. South
Park, five miles south of here, says a
gorge of ice twenty feet high was formed
there. Aa tbe prediction is for warmer
weather, it is believed the gorge will
break without doing serious damage.
The water is now running through tbe
Bohemian flats, and the residents of
that locality are moving out. The base-
mente of many concerns on the west
Bide are full of water.
Much higher water in the Mississippi
river is reported at Little Falls, St.
Cloud and Grand Rapids. There is still
about a foot of enow on the ground.
Dangers of the Grip.
The greatest, dangers from La Grippe
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Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is taken,
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