Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-03-25
The Waters Of The Mississippi the
Highest Known in Flood Annals.
AN APPROPRIATION OF seoo.oo ASKED
FOR 10 PREVENT THE OVERFLOW.
A Verdict IN a Murder Case Declared
Privately by the Judge.
A TERRIBLE MELEE IN CON-
TESTING AN OIL LEASE.
Proceedings to Open to Probate a Ten
Million Dollar Will.
EDMUNDS AND LINCOLN the CHOICE OF
MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICANS.
ESPECIAL TO THE sENr1sEL.l

ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
Congressional Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, March 24.-The Senate
was to-day presided over by Sherman,
designated under the rule by the Vice.
President for that purpose. Vance pre-
sented the views of the Minority Committee
on Foreign Relations relative to the action
and report of the committee on the subject
of the exclusion Of American meats from
foreign countries.
Ellis asked unanimous consent to intro
duce a joint resolution reciting that the
waters of the Mississippi river had risen to
high water mark, "a, at New Orleans,
which is the highest known in flood an
mails. The river is rising between st.
Louis and New Orleans at the rate of two
or three inches a day; that the appalling
calamity Of overlooking the city, with 300,-
600 souls is imminent, involving great loss
OF life and property, and that an appro-
priation of 5000, 900 be Immediately avail
able, to be expended in the discretion of
the Secretary of War, in preventing the
overflow of the city Of New Orleans
and the country adjacent thereto. There
was nothing between the city Of New
Orleans and q river 16 feet above the level
Of the city but q dirt wall. The calami-
ity must ensue if the waters rose higher,
and could not be depicted by the human
tongue. It would be the calamity of the
age. The House rejected the resolution
appropriating 5000, 600 to prevent the over
flow OF New Orleans.
Harrison moved to make the special
order for Thursday Of next week the bill
organizing into a State and admitting into
the Union the Territory of Dakota.
Cockrell said the bill could not be passed
this session, and it would be a waste of
time to make it a special order. The vote
on Harrison's motion resulted: Yeas, SO;
nays, %. There was not the necessary
two-thirds vote. Before the announce
ment of the result several Senators
changed their votes, stating that they un-
derstood the question was regarded as a
political one.
The Senate took up the bill to increase
the salaries of United States District
Judges to $1,000. Van Wyck'e motion
makes the figure 81, 1000. Rejected.
Senator Vance's minority report from
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, sub
mitted to-day. expresses the opinion
that Germany has the right to
exclude the American hog products,
on the ground that they are un-
wholesome, if she deems it proper,
and this Government is not justified in
impeaching her motives. If it be true,
continues the report, that the pork is to
any extent unwholesome, we shall ~endeavor,
by a rigid system of inspection, to re-
move the cause of complaint. II it be
the fear Of trichnosis. as only a pretext,
and that the real reason for excluding
our products is the desire 10 protect their
own products, then we are the last people
on earth who ought to complain, after
surrounding ourselves more than 20 years
with a protective tariff wall SO high as to
exclude, virtually, all the products of
Germany which compete with ours, it is
rather late for us to advocate retaliation
against q Government which merely fol
lows our example.
In the House, the joint Mississippi
River Relief resolution was lost. Yeas,
So; nays, lis; but by unanimous consent
was reintroduced by Ellis, and referred
to the Committee on Appropriations.
Found Guilty of Manslaughter.
CINCINNATI, March 24.-William Berner,
on trial for the murder of VIM. 81. Kirk,
wa this morning found guilty of man.
slaughter. The verdict was declared
privately by the Judge who tried the case.
The jury, after leaving the courtroom,
were hooted by the crowd, with the sug-
gestion that they should be hung. Kirk
was killed in his stable by the blow of a
hammer. He was robbed of about 500 in
money, put into a wagon, hauled of to-
wards Cumminville and dumped into Mill
creek, where the body was found two days
later. Joe Palmer and William Berner
confessed that they did the murder and
robbery. On the trial Berner testified that
Palmer did the actual murder, while he
only looked on and got a share of the
money.
A Brutal Melee.
PETRoLIA, Pa, March 24.-The Bowser
and Barnhart factions, in contesting an
oil lease, had a terrible melee Saturday
night near Iron City, in which Bowser
and an innocent party named Andre,
were probably fatally cut. Three of
Barnhart's party assaulted Bowser, one of
them using a razor, and kicked and
slashed him brutally. just as the fight
ended a young man named Andre, passing
on his way home, was mistaken for q
lliCnu VI DOWc0I D. no was Ot6EthkcQ
and stabbed three times in the back, near
the spinal column and kidneys. His con-
| dition this morning is very critical. Bad
blood and whisky was the cause of the
ARRAY. No arrests,
Republican Sentiment I'm Massa-
chusetts.
Boston, March 24.-The Advertiser will
tomorrow print 800 replies to circulars
sent to prominent Republicans in every
Congressional district, with the desire to
obtain a correct representation of the Re