Daily Republican., 1883-06-25
NEWS SUM NARY.
MISSISSIPPI LEVEEk BREAKING
TERRIBLE TORNADOES-
OTHER NEWS.


Disastrous breaks have occurred il
the levees near St. Louis. On Frida,
3. night the Fish Lake levee, which pro
g. tected fifteen square miles of rich farm
<. ing land, on the Illinois side OF the
!, river, below East Carondelet, gave way,
:, and 10, 900 acres of land We're overfipwed.
The damage to crops and other property
to is estimated at 100000. The Madison
Dyke, between St. Louis and Al'On, also
,e on the illinois side, broke in two places
on Saturday morning, aud it WAS ex-
lie pected that all the bottom and north of
East st. Louis, covering 50 to 20 square
a miles, would be inundated
+ AT Milwaukee, before daylight Oh
Saturday mo ming, the schooner Lu-
cerne, the barge Goshawk and Voght,
We're boarded at their docks by twenty
men, supposed to be anion sailors, who
pulled the nou-union men from their
y berths by the hair of their head and
threatened to kill them if they did not
v leave town within two hours. The
: crew of the Lucerne and two of the
Goshawk's men deserted. Armed DO
| lice were afterwards sent on board the
vessels to protect them.
The contract with John r. Miner to
carry the mails over the Fort Ni,brara
and Deadwood route has been aunuiled
by Second Assistant Postmaster-G neral
! Elmer. 1t appears that the contract
was awarded, not on Marcn Sd, as pro-
posed in the advertisement for bids,
but on April 4th, while First Assistant
Postmaster-GeneraH Hatton was Acting
Postmaster-Genera Mr.. Elmer holds
that the contract was awarded without
express statutory authority, and that
the route must be again advertised.
Following a terrific thunder storm, a
tornado struck d tract of country near
Omaha, Nebraska, on Saturday morn
ing, causing loss ofproper estimated
at Sl0,O 600. The people along the path
! OF the tornado, seeing its approach,
saved their lives by taking refuge in
their cellars, where "a number of fami-
lies saw their houses turned about over
their heads.
A telegram from Matamoras saws:
Zone hundred and fifty revolu.ionists
attacked Chiantla, Mexico, and carried
Oft two officials A body of cavalry
pursued them, and the revolutionists,
being pressed, assassnated their priso-
ners. They We're finally overtaken by
the troops and cut to pieces. thirty of
them being killed.
The U. S. Fish Commissioners steam
er Fish Hawk has been at Fortress
Monroe for week Matching and dis
trlbutlng mackerel and other fish i'll
the lower bay. 1t is understood that
attention vii! soon be given to the pro-
pagation of oysters in Virginia waters,
many of the finest beds having become
depleted and ruined
John II. Campson committed suicide
in Charleston, South Carolina, on Sat
nrday evening, by shooting hiuHrif
in the head. He was 4} Years of age
He had been dismissed from the posi-
tion of Master of the CharlestJwn
for cruelty beating child.
Private advices from Vera Cruz, re-
'eived in Galveston, say the yellow
fever is making fearful ravages among
he European and American residents
If the former city. There were ten
ieaths in the hospital on Friday, max
ng 900 during the last Two months
c. l.. Haywood, Superintendent ofthe
government quarantine at the Union
Stock Yards, ut Watertown, Massa-
'husettS, was killed by an engine at "a
3airoadcrossing near that place on Sat
lrday
DR.. w. T. Crutchfeld, 27 years of
lge, was fatally stabbed by L. F..
Mason, i'll an atfray in Richmond, Vir-
,lnla, yesterday afternoon. Mason is
bout 40 years of age. The trouble grew
nj Of an old feud.
Andrew McHale, 10 years old, fell
ha B h. h,tt 81
Enterprise Colliery, at vii llesbarre,
'enna., on Saturday uight,a distance OF
everal hundred feet, and was mauglei
Il shocking manner.
The New Orleans Continentals ar
lved in New York yesterday from
Hartford They will remain in New
ork until Wednesday, and be enter
ilned by the Seventy-tirst Regiment.
The jury of the Court of Sessions at
orkport, New York, discharged on
for the term, convicted every
riSOncr who was placed on trial before
The dead body of X. S. Palmer, pro-
rirtor of the city hotel, in Chicago
as found III the Lake on Saturday
ternoon. 1t is believed he was robbed
nj murdered.
1t is reported that FIVE persons were
He'd in Mound township, Livingstone
lunty, Missouri by the recent tornado.
bout twelve persons We're badly in
red.
frederick Steinle,a railroad employee,
rs k lled on Saturday morning, in
'adlng by falling from IA coal train as
was starting.
The boiler of an oil well on the Clapp
m, near Bradford, Pa, burst on Sat
lay evening, demoishing the Orig"
Il killing the engineer.
Blair il reported to he
iouSiy i'll 1T his summer residence,
ir Silver Spring, Maryland.
-EWISN!LLE, lND.-Rev. j. s. Cain
5 81 used Brown's Iron BitterS
nervous prostratIon aud found it en-
'ly satisfactory.
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Iudi.sn A fairs.
'aptain Crawford, with four compa-
$ Of cavalry and two hundred and
y Indian captives, arrived at the
Carlos Agency, i'll Arizona, ON
urday morning. Chiefs Loco, Mana
Bohito talked freely with the
4rvatlon Indians Will whom they
e acquainted. Mana said h was
10 old for further operations, and he
glad he had arrived at II safe place.
officers OF the 60 nln;lnd seemed to
TX the ChiricahIia would hereafter
peaceful. Chief Geronimo, in his
interview with q neral ''rouk, eX-
'Sed Il desire to have Il farm. The
gram reporting the arrival of the
lans ut San Carlos adds: "Runors
reached the indians that in case of
ure they would he put IN irons and