, 1881-04-29
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l03, an increase of47.
Reports from Sioux City and Yankton,
give narrowing accounts of desoIatiou
wrought by floods and consequent dis
tress of the people
A special 10 the Republican from Inter
Ocean, Wisconsin, reports that nearly all
the rivers are very high. The greatest
damage has been done at Fon Du Lac and
vicinity. Trains on all lines are more or
less delayed, but not very seriously.
The New York Herald says: We have
1t on the authority of the most eminent
physiciansof the city, and their opinion
Is sustained by the whole profession, that
New York is now OH the verge of a pesti-
lence; that in fact, prOmonitory symptoms
OF a plague have already appeared. There
are four cases of cholera in the city and
typhus Is raging.
Boiler makers at Pittsburg, numbering
800, struck for an agreement for one year
on present wages, which range from 81 25
to 50 80 per day, and for time and half
time for repair jobs, double time for night
work, triple time for Sunday work, and
quadruple time for Sunday nights. The
contest is on fixed state OF wages.
Particulars regarding the killing of her
FIVE children by Mrs. Mutt near Camien,
Ark, are that the frenzied woman called
her eldest child, a boy of u years old,
from field where he was plowing,
knocked him on the head and threw him
into a well, where she had previously
thrown her four other children. Finding
that one of the children was not drowned,
but WAS clinging TO the side of the well,
she descended into the well and tore
away its grasp and thrust it down into the
water, thus completing her diabolical
work
A Tribune reporter interviewed DR.. +.
\. Otis, of 34th street, New York, on the
18Th, who said that three cases of cholera
have recently come under his knowledge
They are in 9th, 39Ih and 9th streets.
II is very unusual to find cases of this
nature at this time of the year. He had
treated several cases of cholera during the
winter. These are the signs which have
preceded all the epidemicS in New York.
Nobody wants to be trotted out as an
alarmist, of course, but it looks 10 me as if
We should have trouble when the hot
weather comes
l.. l.. Gilbert, prominent railroad
lawyer of Pittsburg, while in closet at
hotel here. dropped package contain
ing mortgage for S20,000,000 executed
April /, by the Pennsylvania Railfoad
Co. to Wistar Morris, Edmund Smith and
Samuel J. Felton,, all of Philadelphia,
secured by 10000 bonds of $1,000 each,
and all bearing interest. The package
was swept out as waste paper and thrown
into an alley, where an Italian rag picker
threw it into bag and sold it to a rag
man. After Il long and weary search to-
day, Mr. Gilbert and police officers found
the missing document, whose existence
would have been kept secret but for this
circumstance.
Flood of Rock river Illinois, is unprece-
dented. 1t has already thrown 1900 men
out Unemployment and is still on the in
crease. The water power manufacturers
will lose thousands ofdollars rs they were
running TO full capacity and this is their
business season, they having large orders
ahead. Lowlands on either side of the
river, north and south of Rock ford are
several feet under water and occupants or
houses are obliged to leave In Leafs for
the city. knowlton's machine and wood
shops are submerged feet and the Gems
tral furniture Co.'S basement is filed up
and their large piles of lumber in danger
offioating off John p Mannis' shops are
surrounded and n c. Thompson's shops
are feet deep i'll water.
The New York Times, on the Tammany
election, says: The Kelly ticket for
sachems was elected by some fifty votes.
When Kelly supremacy i'll the party is to
be contested, some other field of action
than the Tammany Hall must be selected
As to the question of logs or weakness,
that political morality would have gained
by the substitution of say Judge DonohOe
for John Kelly, there seems to be no par
ticular reason to doubt that the Tammany
society is judge of the kind of men who
ought TO rule il. From republican
standpoint, the perpetuation of kelly's
power is anything but misfortune.
The Herald says: The manner in which
the Boss" Kelly majority was secured
adds another chapter to the disgraceful
record of the leaders of Tammany for
years past. The hall was packed by
disreputable dodge with heelers of the
Boss" who at an early hour created
Scrimmage which WAS made to serve as an
excuse for bringing in the police. con-
trary to all the usageS of the society.
The Tribune: From republican point
of view, the result of last nights election
would seem TO be fortunate inasmuch as
it insures continuance of the fierce demo-
cratic quarrels-
Gen. '.urst, a native of Mississippi and
a republican, has written letter to the
president i'll which, he asserts tina com
bination has been formed between Iepub-
Iicans and greenhackers in his state
which has for its only object The securing
offederal offices for leaders in the coali-
ton; that these leaders have no substan-
tial following among white voters of the
state; that they look only TO consolidation
of the negro vote, and that nothing OF
importance to the state or to the country
can come of the movement in its present
hands. He thinks only two courses are
open for Mississippi republicans to follow
with a fair chance of ultimate success
These he describes as follow: To attempt
no reorganization for some time TO come.
Let the freedman vote Just as he pieases,
and in this way he is sure to be protected
in his suffrage by which ever white poI-
ton he votes with. In Il year or two the
whites will naturally divide Then the
republicans can reorganiZe with honest.
respectable white and colored material
The other is 10 pnt new men forward as
leaders, Young men of nerve, character,
untried ability and untested strength;
Young men who have always been favor
able to the party but VINO have never APP
peared prominently before the public as
republicans, owing TO the fact that they
have never held nor want office and there
fore have been a little modest in asserting
their political beliefs in a state where 1t
has been no honor TO be known as a re-
publican. Such men starting ont With
clean records and backed strongly by in
fiuential white friends, would dsarm
bourbOnIsm of its worst weapon and lay
the foundation for ascendency.