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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-14
Anrora to Madison.

Rising Sun is comparatively high and dry
but the property between Decatur and Rising
Sun is fearful, the whole country being
inundated. A part of Rising Sun proper,
however, is covered with water
Hamilton, KY, is badly submerged, and
the water is within one foot of Garnet's
Hotel.
Patriot is in a fair condition compared with
her more unfortunate neighbors. The water
is up to the curb-stone in front of bowes
store, but the back part of town is eatirely
submerged.
Warsaw, Ky. in the lower bottoms is
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Damage at Milton. Ky.

MADISON, Ind, Feb. 13.-Milton, KY, this
morning was entirely under water Several
houses floated off during the night, and this
morning, among the number, Ben. Morris's
warehouse, w. Cassidy's wagon shop, Vaw-
ter's grocery store and Mrs. Given's dwelling.
Nearly all the inhabitants have been re-
moved to places of safety. DIR. Wiley was in
the city this morning TO get a supply of
medicine for the sick few of whom are still
in the town, being too sick to be moved, but
the Doctor says they will be removed to the
hills to-day.
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scenes and Incidents.

Collated from Cincinnati Papers.
Like the huge elbow of some great inland
sea- the river sweeps majestcally around the
bend which is crested by the hills of Eden
Park. From the crown of that hill the
grandest view OF the scene of desolation can
be obtained At the foot of the HILL moving
in yards which were yielding inch by inch to
the treacherous embraces of the mad river,
three or four of the engines of the Little
Miami railroad were moving, seemingly upon
the very edge Of the torrent. Anchored all
along the new shore were coal-barges, some
empty, the majority we'll filled with black
diamonds. As the writer looked down upon
the wild waste tug-boat steamed out into
the widened stream and cut her way through
the floating drift onward toward the Ken
lucky shore. II looked desolate over
there. The pretty little suburb of Day
ton, with its wealth of houses built
close to the rivers bank, seemed to be
more than quarter buried in the murky
depths. Away out from the dry landmark
there appeared three or four advertising
boards utilized by Cincinnati firms. The
lettering stood forth prominently and could
1e distinguished a mile distant These
signs looked like sentinels standing before
the gates of a dismanted city, and very many
of the houses were covered to the caves, and
of some of the lower ones only the roofs re-
manned to be seen. 1t was a sorry sight, and
one that was duplicated on the Ohio side of
the deep. Sweeping down through the
broad valley, the hills of the Commonwealth
IN one side and the Buckeye cliffs on the
other, the sight of waste and the knowledge
Of positive want that that waste must be
oocasioning was one which could not help
appealing TO the sympathy of the spectator.
C2aM.Is, Tpsculum, Fulton, all have taken
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EVANSVILLE.
A Great Flood Expected, and Due Prepare
lions Made.


lions Made.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, Feb. 13.-At 6 o'clock this
evening the river attained the highest point
of last winters flood, and showed forty -four
feet on the guage. 1t is still rising, and rain
has been falling steadily since noon. At
least four feet more are expected, and will
prove very destructive in both the Indiana
and Kentucky bottoms where a good deal OF
corn is exposed. The people, though, are
safe having deserted their homes and driven
their live stock to the hills. Nothing is in
danger here. Three of the saw mills have
boon obliged to stop work, and the others
are above any probable food. Tho Louis
vile and the coast packets have laid up, and
the transfer of freight on the L. e. N. rail
road will be suspended tonight
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New York, Feb. 13.--An action has been
commenced in the Superior Court by Josiah
c. Ref, stakeholder in the Western Union
Telegraph Company, to restrain the con-
summation of the lease Of the Mutual Union
Company by the former. A bond was filed
this morning in the case by the plaintiff.
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Indications.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
lFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OEEfCRR.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,
WASHINGTON. Feb. IA, l A. NJ.
For Tennessee and Ohio Valley Partly
cloudy, warm weather, occasional rain, southeast
to southwest winds, lower barometer
Lower Lake Notwithstanding cloudness
withsn or rain. east TO south Winds becoming
variable, stationary or slight rise of Temperature,
lower barometer
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Eorsford's Acid Phosphate
FOR WOMEN AND cHILpEN.

DR.. JOS Holt, New Orleans, La. save: "T
have frequently found 1t of excellent service in
cases of debility, loss of appetite, and In conva-
lescence from exhaustive illness, and particularly
OF service In treatment OF women and childeru.
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MADISON.
The Devastation on the Kentucky River
Relief Meeting.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
MADISON, Ind, Feb. 13,-The steamer Lit
tie Harry arrived at 5 o'clock
this afternoon, from the Kentucky
river. She reports the destruction along that
stream as fearful in the extreme. Whole
farms are covered, houses ruined and crops
swept away.
Tonight the rise at Madison continues,
and it is raining. A meeting of citizens was
held in the City Hall, and relief committees
Organized.
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The Telegraph Leasa.

New YORK. Feb. 13.-Between / and 2
o'clock to-day the whole matter of the nego-
tiatons between the Western and Mutual
Union Telegraph Companies was settled, the
lease and other papers signed, and the prop
erty of the latter turned over TO the former
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wounded.


LONDON, Feb. 13.-The Times published an
unconfrmed report that Archbishop Nc
Cabe, of Dublin, is dead and leader deplores
mis- death. 1t says the cause of order and
loyalty in Ireland has lost an unfiinching
supporter, who, unhappily, never exercised
thai power over his coreligionists
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Death of Ex-Governor Smith, of Wisconsin.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 13-Ex-Governor William
f. Smith died at 11:30 tonight, surrounded
by his family and friends. He was twice
elected Governor of Wisconsin, first in 1877,
and reelected in 1879, He had previously
served as State Treasurer, and held other
off es
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FOREIGN NEWS.
Fight with Mountaineers-Twenty Turkish
Soldiers Killed.

ScUTARI, Feb ia party of mountaineers
attacked the Turkish guard-house here in re-
venge for the death of two of their comrades
They were repulsed after an obstinate street
fight. Twenty Turks were killed and
wounded
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LAwRrNoEBURG AND AURORA
\ Scene of Desolation-The People Suffering
for Bread.

Cincinnati News. Yesterday.
A special reporter for the News made the
trip from Rising Sun to Cincinnati to-day,
distance of forty miles, on the steam yacht
Little Queen, stopping at all the towns be-
tween these places The state of affairs at
this place is simply terrible, and the suffer
ings of the people from cold and hunger are
almost beyond endurance. Hundreds of
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NEW ALBANY.
The Inundation Expected to Cause a Loss
of Quarter of a Million.

of Quarter of a Million.
Special to tho Indianapolis Journal.
New ALBANY, Feb. 13.-The water has
.crept up into the city, and many people are
compelled to fly. DePauw's glass-works are
flooded, and cannot resume work for four
months. Other manufactures are inundated
No loss of life reported. Everything posi-
Bile is being done to relieve sufferers. To-
night there is no communication between
the falls cities except by wire.
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Ex-Governor MORGAN,

New York, Feb. 14.-Ex-Governor Morgan
continues to grow weaker, and the indica-
tions are that he cannot last long
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The Approach of the Flood.

Louisville Commercial. Yesterday.
The resistless tide coming down the Ohio
reached the height attained by the food of
last March at noon yesterday, and was still
rising at the rate of one and a half inches an
hour. This began to alarm the people, and
many began to realize that the food would
soon sweep over the greater portion of the
city. The low slough from Barmores ship
yard, which filed Sunday night, rapidly ex-
tended its waste of waters, and by night the
district extending from Market, above Canal
street, to Walnut street. and out to Maple
and Locust street, wos enoroaohed upon Tho
tide was still coming IN, and by morning
will spread over a vast portion OF territory
and out to the low flats about the Ninth
street depot. Along old Market street, in
the low points, the water is no in the first
floors of a number of houses. At Barmore's
yard the lumber was all afloat, and the water
was coming up into the office. The marshal
went down to the flood-gate in the afternoon,
and found that eighteen inches would bring
it over the railroad embankment, which
would flood large district in the rear of and
beyond the prison. By the time the water
rises to that height the head-water will have
filled all the valley below Ninth-street depot
to the railroad junction. The people do not
seem to realize the fact that only foot more
rise at dark last night would bring the water
on Spring street. from Chestnut to Ninth. 1t
is not all improbable that skiffs will be able
to navigate Spring street this morn
ing and before the rise reaches
its climax there will be two or
three feet of water on the street. Mr..
Joseph Guernsey yesterday afternoon ar
rived at the conclusion that he was going to
be flooded and commenced the work of re-
moving 900 bushels of feed from the lower
to the upper floor of his building, on Spring
street. The damage to the glass-works will
be very serious. The floods commenced
pouring into the furnaces yesterday after
noon, and before night the ruin was accom-
plished. The loss to the works will be fully
$4,000 Every furnace will have to be re-
built. 1t is altogether probable that the j..
NJ. q l. Short-line railroad will not be able
to send any trains to New Albany and Louis
vile after last night or this morning At
several points between this city and the
Silver-creek bridge two feet of water will
cover the tracks and render travel dangerous
Should the water break over the embank-
ments at the flood gate there is danger of Il
big washout and bad break In that case
the rush of water up the slough to the north
west part of the city will cause great damage
to property along the low ground.
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JEFFERSONVILLE.
The City Inundated, Involving a loss of a
Half a Million Dollars.
SDeciaI o the Iudfananolis TournaJ

~Ao OAey AHAhudituJ AuVOiVlnS LOSS Oh u
Half a Million Dollars.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb 13.-This morning at
o'clock the Jacksonville fill, below the
prison, gave way, and the low lands were
Immediately flooded. AT daylight
the people were compelled to
move out in the nelghborhood
of the Ohio falls and the districts lying
north of the prison. By s o'clock both of
the Short Line tracks leading to New Albany
were awept away to the extent
of thirty or forty yards, near
the junction south of town, and the
trains were waterbound. The people were
moving out all day. and the number made
destitute is not now estimable The
river is breaking into the plate-glass
works, and entails a loss of $4,000
At Barmore's shpyards there has been great
loss of lumber. The car-works is the
only industry that has escaped the relent-
less ravages of the water. The government
depot is inaccessible and the employees are
very nearly all in the city Business, of
course, is suspended, and the mer-
chants on Spring street are
getting their goods on the counters and
other elevations. The city was in dark
ness last night, the gas-works having been
submerged. The loss will not be less than a
half million of dollars. The river is still
rising here.
A meeting of citizens was called and
measures adopted for immediate relief,
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LOUISVILLE.

AII6 F0'ueI oIuWIy 1ApprOachIhS Ihe HlS ilesL
Previous Mark.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 13,-The river con-
tinued to rise slowly all day, and
there are now about sixty-six and a
half feet at the foot of the canal
and forty feet at the head. The weather
is warmer, and light rain falling, with indi-
cations of an increase during the night The
rise is now an inch above the flood of 1S47,
and eight inches below 1882.
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1t was sight worth going some distance
to witness the trains come in on the Little
Miami railroad and pillow through the water
in front of the water-works. 1t was hardly
enjoyable to the switchman, however, who
stood up to his middle in the water, and,
when he was required to change the switch,
was compelled to reach under the water for
the ground-leyer until only his back was
visible The verdict of the lookers-on was
that he earned all the money he got for tie
job.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-10
Trinity M. E. Church.

Rev. pr. Hunt, OfNeVv York, on the "COm-
 pIeteness Of Chr1st''-ApOstles of Moral
 1ty.
 Rev. Dr. Albert s. Hunt, the secretary of the American Bible society of New York and an old classmate of Dr. Goodsell, preached in Trinity M. B. church yesterday. Dr. Hunt is very impressive speaker and his manner of delivery is conversational rather than ora torical. The truths he presented were given in such clear, concise language that the audience were evidently deeply interested in the sermon. The text was the words of Paul to the Chri Jtians at Colosse and re- corded in the tenth verse of the second chap ter of Pauls letter to the Colossians: "Ys are complete in him" The speaker spoke of the perfect life. There are some, said the doctor, who say that Christianity is old and threadbare and there is need of something else. That Christ's teachings should be set aside and a kind of morality gotten up in nice form, with gilt edges, to take it's place. It is mistake to suppose that the precepts of any of the great moral writers of the age can for moment take the place of Christ's teaching. The moral precepts of the age not adapted to the wants of the people. We cannot be complete without Christ. We offer moral code in the religion of Jesus Christ. I offer you Christ to-day. The life of Jesus is 8 pure pattern for anyone to follow. We find no writing in any book SO grand as Gods book. The soul has longings which cannot be satis fled unless God reveals himself to us. The soul cries out for something more than what the world eau bestow. The voice sof nature gives to us some grand thoughts, but we must not substitute it for the religion of Jesus. He who made the soul knows per fectly it's needs and has made ample provis- ion for it. Christ is a complete Saviour. | Have we burdens let us bring them to Christ, who is not only able but willing to | help us in every time of need. When we stand beside the open grave of our dead we cannot formulate the doctrine of Christ. l We do not understand it fully, it has never
 been clearly revealed to man; but we believe | it, and in our best moods we think of what is for us beyond the grave, where our soul shall live, and the longer we study the more
 eur thoughts become shadowy. John tells
 us, fit doth not yet appear what we shall be, 1 but we know that when he shall appear we 1 shall bo like him; for we shall see him as he | is." If we have faith in him we shall be trans- 1 formed into his likeness and shall be made ] comDlete in Christ
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-10
Arrest of a Thief.

He is CIeveGIy Caught by Detective
 Brewer While tn the Act Of Stealing
 from His EmPIOyer-Re&urns $57O of
 His IIl-GOtten Gains.
 For about three years Andrew F. Kegel- meyer has been in the employ of George Root & Son, bakers at 261 Grand street, as clerk. He received 8 salary of $11 per week and vas allowed such amount of bread and cake as was needed in his family. few months ago the Messrs. Root began to miss small sums from their safe, and later amounts varying from three to five dollars disappeared. The father and son were the only persons in the store that were supposed to know the combination that unlocked the safe, and a consultation between father and son revealed the fact that neither of them had taken money from the safe without making an en- try on the books of the amount so taken The money continued to mysteriously disap- pear. and Chief of Police Webster was noti- fled of the fact. He placed the matter in the hands of Detective Brewer, who after looking over the ground came to the conclusion that Kegelmeyer had in some way obtained the combination to the safe lock and was pilfering from his employers. The next thing was to catch the thief. To accomplish this the following method was adopted: A room over that part of the store where the safe is located was se- cured and the flooring for about foot was removed. Then a small hole about an eighth of an inch in diameter was made through the ceiling that would by prostrating himself on the floor and placing his head in the hole bring the knob of the safe within the ranoa of the defective'S vision Here he watched hour after hour at different times for many days and weeks, but it was not until yesterday morning that his continued watching was rewarded by the capture of the thief. Brewer took his posi- ton at the peep hole early yesterday morn ing and about S:3O he saw hand grasp the knob of the safe give it three or four turns and the door swung open. He then went down stairs and as Kegelmeyer came out he confronted him with II have got you at last. Y" Kegelmeyer appeared thunderstruck and stood like statute before the detective. He was taken up stairs and told to fork over the money he had taken from the safe and at once he produced $2.37, portion of which had previously been marked, Seeing that he was caught he acknowledged his guilt and when asked how much money he had taken altogether he said that 1t might be $500 and might be more. When asked if he had any of the money at home he said he had and Detective Brewer took him to his residence, PA Grand street, and going to trunk young Kegelmeyer prod duced $570 which he handed to the officer and he was then taken to the lookup. Later in the day Kegelmeyer's mother gave bonds for his appearance before the City court this morning. It is thought that he has taken more than he admitted. Kegelmeyer has young wife who was much prostrated when the facts were made known to her.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-10
SruruzI xIIA GOurisx.
Monday, December 10, 1888.
The Madison Murder.

Still in the Dark-The Search fer CAuSS-
 CODjectures and Theories.
 The Madison murder remains as much a mystery as 1t was a week ago when the ghastly and mutilated remains of the victim, EIbridgs Johnson, were discovered by his brother. There is much deep feeling, not only in North Madison and Madison, but in the State at large over the affair and anxiety that the murderer may be brought to the bar of justice, but it begins to look as if Connec- ticut had added another to it's tragic list of capital crimes which will have to go under the category of unsolvable mysteries. Peo- pie in Madison and in this city who knsw the murdered man speak of him as very worthy, unoffending, quiet ead respectable citizen Some say they eannot imagine what motive anyone Would have for killing him except for money. Some advance the theory that the deceased was att acked by some half out law of the locality for his money, others con- lecture that g tramp did it, and still others claim that there was spite and revenge entertained by the murderer. Coron- CT Bcllnan obtained a $5 bill which had blood spot upon it, supposed to be the DlOOQ or the mQTQST0u udu 1A0 DAlA HdS obtained at Mrs. Downes' house from silly fellow, brother of Mrs. Downes The broth CT stopped at his sisters for @ lunch and was eating it when the coroner and the Pinkerton detective found him there. They had previously met him while some distance of on the road. The coroner gave the man another $5 bill for the blood-spotted bill and will have the latter examined microscopically. It was known that the murdered man had two $5 bills on his person the last evening of his life. The Mood spot on the bill was explained by Mrs. Downes and her brother as tha blood from COW which had been killed the day before. AS to the blood on the clothing of MT. Downes, husband of Mrs. Downes, the doctors say that 1t will be rather difficult to decide whether it is human blood or chicken blood, as the corpnscles in each are much alike, or at least that It would be hard to make jury sure on the subject. As to Whipper. suspicious against him are increased in the minds of some, from the as- sertion that he was anxious to marry the younger Johnson sister and that the rest of the family, particularly the deceased, were very much opposed to it. This view of the matter is secuted at as ridiculous by the au- Fhorifina