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VOL. X
THE DALLES, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1897
NO 59
MANY ARE DROWNED
Gre.it Loss of Life on
Jlississippi Bottoms.
the
THOUSANDS OF MILES SUBMERGED
levers aro HrnukliiK Everywhere nml
Still tlio Itlvor Itlses ntnl the
Waters Spread.
Mkmi'iiis, March 19. Sensational ru
mors are afloat today as to the breaking
of lovees above and below the city, caua
in serious damage to property and
stock. So far these reports have not
been verified in full, but sufficient is
known to warrant the the statement that
before nightfall an additional 200 square
miles of territory will be submerged.
In the territory covered by life steam
era appalling facts came to light this
morning. Drownings of negroes are
officially reported until the number now
reaches almost half a hundred.
The reliel committee thus far has run
pie funds to feed and clothe nil the
afllicted in the city, '-telegrams from
points 65 miles south of this place ask
for steamers to rescue the people left by
the last trip of the boats. "Two Bteamers
were despatched east and west, and are
expected to return at midnight with
several hundred persons.
A dispatch from Washington author
ized government engineers to lend men
to further the protection of life and prop
erty. The river is still rising.
A family of six found a watery grave
by the capsizing of a dugout while mak
ing for high land today. Two were in
fants. Along the Memphis levee for
half a mile there is a congregation of ne
groes awaiting their turns for relief. No
one is retused.
A Levee Break In Missouri.
St. Louis, March 19. The leveo on
the Mississippi, fifty miles below Caru
thersville, Mo., in the extreme south
eastern part, is reported broken and
seventeen lives are roported lost. Ef
forts are being made to verify the story.
The river continues to rise at Caruthers
ville, and the pressure on the levee is
great. All the weak spots are being
strengthened, but tlio work is handi
capped by rain. Many families living
on the river bank have abandoned their
homes and taken refuge at Oaruthers
viile. A largo amount of stock has been
lost on tho Tennessee sido of the river,
the entire bottom for miles being inun
dated. The levee near Cottonwood, about
eight miles from Caruthersvillo, is ex
pected to break and overthrow that part
of the country.
No Holier lu Sight.
Washington. March 19. The heavy
rains of the past forty-eight hours in
central valleys will cause a continued
rise of the Cumberland, Tennessee,
Lower Ohio and Mississippi rivers and in
tensify the threatened flood conditions
previously announced.
It is probable the floods in the Lower
Mississippi valley during the next ten
days or two weeks will in many places
equal or exceed any previous year.
Additional warning is given residents
m the threatened districts of Louisiana,
Arkansas and West Mississippi to re
wove from the region of danger.
Sltuatlou In Iowa.
Sioux City, la., March 19. Every
stream in this locality is out of its banks
and tho situation is hourly growing
wore serious. Leeds, Springdale and
Lynn, Sioux City suburbs, are flooded,
andtlie bottoms in the city under water.
Every bridge from Lamara to Sioux City
is out.
Tho Big Sioux is on a rampage. It9
waters are reported five feet deep in Ha
warden street. It is said the Northwest
ern has lost every bridge between
jluroii and Hawarden. The Milwaukee
bridge hero ucross tho Floyd will go
noon.
The Missouri rlvor is reported break
and nml gorging near Ouaiva, but no
etinngu U yet obsorvutle here; Trains
on nearly all roads nre abandoned.
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Royal Baking Powder Co., New Yop.k.
quirer and Commercial Tribune print
today confessions by Scott Jackson and
Aionzo Walling, sigued respectively by
their authors.
Jackson lays the blame of the con
dition of Pearl Bryan on William F.
Wood, who, he says, solicited him by
letter to give her relief from disgrace for
his Bake. He engaged Walling to find
some one who would perform the deli
cate task. On Wednesday, January
29th, Walling told him he sent Miss
Bryan to a doctor.
On Thursday Walling received word
to go out to Dr. Wagnev'B at Bellevue,
Ky., near Newport. He and Walling
both went out. They arranged to be
there again Friday night, January 31st.
They both went ; Wagner sent Jackson
to Fort Meyer's drug store for ergot and
he obtained it.
When he returned all were excited,
the girl unconscious, and it was deter
mined to take her away. Wagner ob
tained a wagon, the body was put into
it and all three got in the wagon, Wag
ner driving. On the Alexandria pike
they stopped and carried the body to
where it was afterwards found.
Wagner thought the girl was dead
and told Jackson to hold her head.
Wagner then severed the head from the
body and wrapped it up in the girl's
cloak. Walling carried the cloak to the
wagon. Jackson says when he let go of
the body the head was at the top of the
hank, but fell forward.
Wagner let them out at Newport
bridge. He and Walling went to Cin
cinnati and parted, Walling going tb
Render's hotel and Jackson to his room
with the girl's sachel, which contained
the clothing which ho threw into the
river. . The blood insido the valise came
from a sack worn by the girl, which
was put in it. Wagner took the head
with him.
Aionzo Walling's statement is that
Jackson solicited him to help the girl
out of her trouble into which she had
been brought by Will Wood. He agreed
to find some one who would perform
the abortion. On January 27th he wrote
to one of his friends, May Smith,
asking her for euch information. On
January 28th he received a letter from
her, advising him to see Dr. Wagner, of
Bellevue, saying she had written Wag
ner to call at the college. On the same
day Wagner called, inquired for Wall
ing, and agreed to perform the operation
and gave him his address.
That afternoon Walling met Pearl
Bryan at the corner of Fourth and Race
streets and directed her how to go to Dr.
Wagner. The next day, January 30th,
Wagner asked him by mail to bring
Pearl'e clothes out to him, saying she
was under his care. He and Jackson
took the clothes, but did not go inside.
The next evening, Friday, January 31st,
he and Jackson went out to Wagner's.
Walling tells the same story as Jack
son about Jackson's visit to the drug
store, Pearl Bryan's unconsciousness
Why haven't you said to
your grocer already:
"Give me a package of
Schilling's Best tea, if you
are really willing to return
my money when I don't like
it."
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and the trip to the country, ending with
the decapitation.
Dr. Wagner, who is implicated by
Jackson's and Walling's confessions, for
merly lived at Nicholasville, Ky., and is
a son-in-law of William Hendren, a
wealthy farmer. Wagnet formerly was
minister of the Reformed church at
Sulphur Well.
About the middle of January, 1S96,
Mrs. Wagner wrote her brother, Walter,
that her husband was losing his mind
and asked him to come to Bellevue.
Hendren went and says that on the 23d
of January he took Wagner with him to
the house of William Hendren, near
Nicholasville, where he remained until
February 3d. This corresponds with
the statement of the family when the
Bellevue clew was first sprung near the
time of the trial and which caused its
collapse at that time.
Tho Mount Lebanon Shakers have in
vented a great many valuable things.
They were the first to make brooms by
machinery; the first to put up seeds in
litttle packages ; the first to manufacture
cut nails.
Now they are out with a method of cur
ing dyspepsia by resting the stomach.
Their remedy is known as the Shaker
Digestive Cordial. It supplies food in
an artificially digested form and at tho
same time aids the digestion of other
foods in the stomach. In other words,
by the use of the Shaker Digestive Cor
dial, a dyspeptic virtually gets along
without the use of his stomach until it
is restored to its natural strength and
vigor. A single 10 cent bottle will oft
times give marked relief. Get a bottle
from your druggist and try it.
Laxol is the best medicine for chil
dren. Doctors recommend it in place of
Castor Oil.
Come Homo Wealthy.
VineijAnd, N. J., March 19. Twenty
years ago Captain Mobcs Lucas went
away. He was not heard from and it
was supposed he was dead. When he
went away he left behind a wife and
daughter. They have continued to work
the farm which gave them support. To
facilitate movements about the fields
and barnyard thev donned years ago a
more fitting style of dress for that work
than skirts. Since knickerbockers be
came fashionable they have modified
their dress to knickerbockers.
Lucas suddenly returned and in a
carriage was driven to the door. Mrs.
Lucas answered and in a minute she
and the stranger were clasped in each
other's arms, the man being her long
lost husband. Lucas is said ts have be
come rich.
There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all othe diseases put
together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctorB pronounced it
a local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced
it incurable. Science has proyen catarrh
to be a constitutional disease, and there
fore requires constitutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrah Cure, manufactured by
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the market.
It is taken internally in doses from ten
drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly
on the blood and mucous surfaces of the
svstem. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testmonials. Address,
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
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