The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-02-08

i ment TO the tariff All wool, bair of alpa,
s goats and other animals Of the value Of
e cents per pound or over, 80 per cent. ad VI
. lorem; under 10 cents per pound, 20 p,
e cent. ad valorem all manufactures Of wo'
. or Of which wool shall be the chief comp
3 nent, 40 per cent. ad valorem.
Mr.. Bayard proposed to amend by stril
, ing Vut the wholesch edule and substitutin
the following: "All wool, hair {
: the alpaca goat, or other lik
, animals. 25 per cent. ad volorem
all manufactures of wool, or OF which woo
shall be the chief component, 10 per cent
ad valorem." These amendments are pend
ing, and the senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
After the transaction ofsome unimportan
business. the house went into committee
the whole on the tariff bill
After the transaction OF some unlmpor
tant business the house went into commit
tee of the whole on the tariff bill. The
consideration of the metal schedule ther
entered on
Kelley, under instructions from his com
mittee, moved to increase from so to "a
cents per ton, the duty on iron ore, includ
ing manilerous iron also the dross or resi-
dium from burnt pyrites.
was unable to attend the sessions of the
house on account of sickness, obtained
leave to have printed in the Record letter
received from that gentleman, in which he
takes strong grounds in favor of free iron
ore and scrap-iron.
Pending action on Kelley's motion the
committee rose, and public business being
suspended, appropriate resolutions upon
the life and public services of late Represen-
tatives Updegraff, of Ohio, and Hawk, OF
| Illinois, were offered.
| After eulsgistic addresses, the resolution
was adopted and as further mark OF re-
spect the house adjourned.
woefuI Work of the Waters.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Feb. 5.-The apprehen-
sions which were entertained here by the
phenominal rise of the Allegheny river are
allayed, as the waters have been stationary
for several hours, up to O'Clock this after
noon. The bridge connecting Allegheny
City with Hess island was swept away this
morning, and came in contact with the
Mechanic street bridge, doing considerable
damage and resulting in the close OF the
bridge to travel. The Pittsburg & Western
railroad company suffers severely. Every
!
| junction to the city has
been washed away. The road was able to
run out trains by using the Western Penn.
sylvania track. The Allegheny Valley and
Fort Wayne roads have all suffered greatly
and travel has been nearly suspended.
The lower portions of Allegheny City and
South Side are under water and many
workshops aud foundries! have been COM
PEELED to suspend operations until sub
sidence of the food. The damage here will
exceed 100000, while the loss
above cannot at present be approximated.
| Dispatches from Kltlanning say the water
| is falling. Between rs and 100 families are
living in the second stories or have moved
out. There is great suffering among them
on account of the cold weather. Trains all
delayed.
NEWCASTLE, Pa, Feb. ga number of
bridges crossing the Nespannock have been
swept away, All manufactures have shut
down, and hundreds of families are washed
| out.
TOLEDO, N. Y, Feb. Reports received
| here of damage by the floods are confined
| for the most part to this immediate locality.
| The tracks of railroads east, south ana
southwest are under water in many places,
| several bridges are badly damaged and i'm
passable, while others are partially sub
merged aud considered unsafe. The ice in
| Anglaize river, at Defiance, broke
up yesterday afternoon, and at
6 o'clock was badly gorged at the mouth OF
the stream. About midnight the gorge
! ;a tlooding that portion of the town
compelling many families TO leave
...eir dwellings. At Z o'clock this
morning The river had risen three feet and
everything flooded. Turnbulls wagon
| foundry, situated forty rods from the bank
o. the stream, is inundated. At
points along the Maumee, be
tween here and Defiance, high
water and still rising is reported,
and considerable destruction of property,
flooding of buildings and damage TO bridges.
There are no indications of a breakup here
yet.
CLEVELAND, o., Feb. 5.-Heaviest losses
by the flood to lumber firms, are: Monroe
Bros, SS0,O00 Forces, Barstow IL Co., $780,
600; Cleveland Sawmill and Lumber COM
pany, $j0,O00 Huntevant d Co., 10000
Hawley II Newton, $4,000; Rusk, King II
Clint, $40 700, and numerous other firms for
smaller amounts.
CoLUMBUs, o., Feb. 5.-Reports from all
parts of central Ohio show the highest wa
ter, by from to 20 inches, ever known in
the Scioto river. In this city 1t is II inches
higher than ever before, and the damage
here is enormous. On the west side leo
families have quit their homes. The river,
by noon, had fallen 2 feet, and the worst is
over.
AKRON, o., Feb. 5.-To the total loss by
loode In this citv and county, and previ-
ously reported at 100000, add $4,000
from the peninsula alone, mostly
borne by the Valley railroad
and Ohio canal company. Bridge and
mill dams by the score will further
increase the losses. The Valley raj
road is reported under. water for
twelve miles south Of Cleveland.
~ L.. hrfA Aernk ha
Cuyahoga river, at Brecksvile, is gone.
The body of Mary shrapp was found to-day
a few hundred yards from
her home frozen in the sand
CLEVELAND, o., Feb. "a Marion special
to the Leader says the floods
swept away two bridges, and
the county commissioners have ordered oae
Others. The Bee Line bridge, over the
sc4oto river, which was two feet under
water, was saved by keep.
inc heavy train on IL.
Tie Tuscarowas river and Sugar creek have
flooded the low lands and carried away
part of The Cleveland & Marietta
railway bridge. Stations on the Cam
alton Valley railway are accessible
only BY boats. Iron furnaces are obliged 10
shut down. Railway communication
has stopped. Reports from ell
p9it.ts in northern OHIO stale
he freshet is rapidly subsiiiuE.
No further damage is feared. ThereDort Of
the Nickel Plate bridge at Willoughby be.
ins swept away is coniradicted.
bavr0E. O., Feb. 5.-fhe s1uth-b0und
usssanrpr tram on the Dundee r0ad. due
here nd $50 p. m, and the north-b0und
freight train. due AZ Sidney at
=. m. ccllided near kirkwO0d
a 33l O'Clock to-day. The freight wss go
ing down grade and around q slight curve,
when the passenger dashed into d. John
Miller engineer of the passen-
ger. and Pat Howard, fireman.
were killed. Clarence Freeman. engineer
Of the freight train. was killed, and Frank
Wneeier. baggags-maEter n the freight,
Killed The engines are total
wreck. The freight cars and
baggage car are on the track, but no
,.oerb.s were dsmaged. Three passengers