Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-29
LATE EASTERN NEWS.
The Great E'lOuti in Nebrn >i~a.

points in this vicinity is becoming
hourly more critical. The river rose
all additional four inches last night,
making % fee: and s inches above low
water mark, or about 20 inches above
the previous high water mark. All
the buildings on the Omaha levee
have been abandoned, ana people
are anXiously awaiting the result.
There are few dwelling houses,
small frame houses, not more than
IS, that are imperiled, but the prin-
cipal interest IS conferred in tho Union
Pacific shops, smelling works, pack
ing houses and lumber yards. There
is between four and five feet of water
in the smelling works, which are
located close to the channel of the
river. AS yet the buildings and
brick smoke-stacks stand all right,
but considerable loss has been sus-
tanned by damage to material, prin-
cipally to large quantity of blue
vitriol and acids. A frame slaughter
house tloated down and struck the
boom this morning. near the Union
Pacific shops, and broke it, letting
loose large lot of telegraph poles.
Three large icehouses have fallen
down at Boyd's packing house.
There are twenty inches of water
there. 100000 pounds of meats
have been piled up out of danger.
Lumber yards are utterly democrat
lied, everything being atoat, but
held by booms. Nearly every single
Office, shed and other building in
the yards are floating or toppled out
of position. Union Pacific trains
arrived and departed on time to-day.
Passengers from the east who arrived
here tonight were transferred by
skiffs, which are kept running be-
tween the transfer and the depot,
and trains, which cannot come within
two miles of the transfer on each side
of tho river. The Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy. the Chicago Rock
Island and Pacific, and the Wabash,
st. Louis and Pacific trains all run
to dry spot near the deaf and dumb
asylum on the south east outskirts of
Council Bluffs, to which points skiffs
run.
Trouble Ia Quarantine.
New York, April 25.-The steam
ship Victoria of the Anchor line,
from London, arrived and is quaran-
tined with several cases of smallpox
in the steerage. The patients were
removed to hospital and the vessel
detained at quarantine.
While the ship was being fumigat-
ed, the physicians informed those on
board, nearly 1000 persons. that it
would be necessary for all who had
never been vaccinated to submit to
that operation. Cabin passengers
and a large number of steerage peo-
pie consented, but $50 of the latter,
Russians and Poles, made strenuous
objections. One Polandor said, eff
the doctors come near me 1 will
knock them down." "That's right,
that's right" exclaimed several Of
his countrymen. DR.. Smith request
ed woman to bare her arm to be
vaccinated when she knocked the
instrument out of his hand. Find
ing $50 passengers obstinate, the
doctors requested the crew of the
steamer to assist in enforcing quar-
antine regulations. For time the
scene resembled pandemonium. Men
shouted, women screamed, and to
use an expression of one of the spec
tators, "the atmosphere was blue
with profane language. The doc
tors and crew were hustled about
pretty lively by the Poles and Rus
SLAMS, and the women seemed in
clined to Join in the melee. One
woman told the officers that rather
than have her ten children vaccinat-
ed she would knock out the brains
of the doctor. The crew of the quar-
antine steamer were then called upon
to assist, and the combined crews
and doctors renewed the attack, and
every person who would not submit
to vaccination on the steamer was
taken by force on board the quaran-
tine boat and conveyed to Dix Is
land, where they will be kept until
they are vaccinated.
Washington u Good Place for Villains.
New York, April 25.-A Baltimore
correspondent of the Times affirms
positively regarding the star route
jobbers that if the conspirators are
tried in Washington they will mover
be punished, though evidence against
them should be piled mountains
high. A looker-on in Washington
for IL years, 1 have never known one
solitary case in which wrong doer
if he occupied high official position
and had money, has ever been pun
ished. l make no charges, only
state facts. If you can give me a
single instance, just one, where JUS
tice has been meted out in Washing
ton to wrong doors who have position
and money, or even to gambler
caught with the tools of his trade in
his hands within the past % years,
you will oblige an admirer of the