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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-16
The MOrrOw Chinese Bill.

WASHINGTON, April l5.-The House
Committee on Foreign Affairs to-day
considered the Morrow Chinese bill
and the Chinese indemnity resolu-
ton, and although no final action was
reached there was free expression of
individual sentiment upon those sub
jects. The period fixed for the re-
striction of Chinese in the Morrow
bill was regarded as too long by a
number of the members of the COM
mittee, and there was decided OPP
position developed to that section of
the bill forbidding the return of Chi.
nese to this country after two years
ABSENCE
1t was held that this section is in
conflict with treaty stipulations, as it
would apply to Chinese who were in
this country before the consideration
of the bill. 1t is probable that the
measure will be amended in these re.
spects. The indemnity resolution in
its present shape was regarded as OBJ
iectionable as establishing danger
Gus precedent, and there is some dis
position to make a cash payment to
China, under the guise of returning
an excess Of the Indemnity paid by
China to the United States, result
of the outbreak of 1857. The Cali
fornia delegation urged the committee
to immediate action, and it is prob
able that at the next meeting both
measures will be agreed upon.
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The cyclone az coon Rapids, la.

CHICAGO, ILL, April l5.-Special dis
patches from Panama, Ia, say that
the cyclone which struck Coon Rapids
yesterday was more serious in its
effects than Il first supposed. One
boy was killed and numerous persons
were injured. Twenty-Five houses,
two churches, one school house and
several business houses were de-
stroyed. A freight train, except the
locomotive, was blown from the track
and demolished and the contents
ruined. The cyclone swept over
Western Iowa, doing considerable
damage. 1t is supposed to have start
ed about three miles east OF Griswold,
then passed north and slightly east,
then going about nine miles northeast
of Atlantic, and passed two and half
miles east of Brayton. The cyclone
had the appearance Of funnel-shaped
cloud. Southeast of Atlantic, about
four miles, Henry Rogers house was
blown away, and his hired man was
badly injured. John Kinks big stable,
300 feet long, was destroyed, together
with his house. In Benton township
ten houses were totally destroyed and
one woman fatally injured. Near
Brayton the dwellings Of James Rey-
nolds, William Burtner and Donald
BURNER were destroyed, and also the
BURNER school-house The pupils
escaped, however, by running with
the family into BURNERS cave, or
cyclone cellar, they having seen the
cyclone coming. Mr.. Northgraves, in
that vicinity, was dangerously hurt.
Much stock has been killed. Reports
from the cyclone are very meager so
far, but it is feared that great damage
has been done and many lives lost.
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The pan.EIectrIc Investigation.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-The exami-
nation OF Benthuysen was continued
before the Telephone Investigating
Committee to-day.
Mr.. Ranney questioned the witness
as to the withdrawal of his applica-
ton, and he said the object OF his
visit to the Acknowledgement was
simply for the purpose of asking him
to act upon the recommendation OF
some District Attorney that suit be
brought without referring it to the In
terror Department. MIR. Brierson had
made the request, but the Attorney
General hadgrefused to have anything
to do with it. Witness denied that
anybody uttered Pan-Electric to the
/. Attorney General on the occasion OF
that visit. Witness had often ex-
pressed wonder at the very positive
mistake made by Mr.. Garland when
he stated in his letter that he had
been approached by somebody con-
nected with the Pan-Electric. Nobody
connected with the Pan-Electric
except MI Young accompanied him
(witness) to the Department of Justice,
and not a word had been said about
the Pan-Electric.
The committee at this point had a
long discussion over the New Orleans
record, during the course of which the
witness suddenly interjected the re-
mark that as a representative of the
New Orleans committee, he should say
that it was none of the committees
business.
at is astonishing how he can hear
sometimes sarcastically said Mr..
Hanback,, referring, to the deafness of
the witness. "He has the most accom-
modating set of ears ever saw"
Adjourned.
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An Interesting Claim

A peculiar and interesting claim has
Just been passed upon by the First
Auditor of the Treasury. In 1880
many of the officers of the Continental
Army, having become discouraged
over their failure to get pay and cloth
ing, were threatening to res gn. In
that year Congress passed a law grant
ing to all officers who served on to the
close of the war half pay for life.
Three years later the officers were per-
mitted by Congress to vote whether
they would take full pay for five years
or half pay for life. Gen. Washington
reported the result of the vote to Con-
gress; this vote was in favor of the
five years full pay. John Baptiste
Ashe was a lieutenant colonel OF a
North Carolina regiment; he never
claimed his five years, but in 1883 his
descendants put in their claim, and
by special act of Congress they were
granted $4,000, the full pay for five
years; this they accepted as settle
ment. Now comes Mr.. NJ. A. Collins
of Memphis, the ineal descendant of
Col. Ashe, and, quoting the law grant.
ing the half pay for life, sets up that
Col. Ashe lived nineteen years, and
his descendants have only received
pay for five years. He therefore prays
for pay for the other fourteen years.
He is cited the facts in the case, and
his claim is disallowed.
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TIE RIVER AT HELENA.
Planters on the Mississippi Side
Strengthening the Levees.
[sPEC1AL TO TIE APPEAL.

HELENA, ARK, April Is. The river
here is now forty-thrse feet three
inches above low-water mark, and
three feet eleven inches below high
water, and has risen three inches in
the asst twenty-four hours. A large
force of men are at work strengthen
ing the levees on the Mississippi de
of the river, commend cling at point
Just short dist ,nce above Austin and
extending down. The planters of
Mississippi fear the levees near Austin
more than any other place, from the
fact that the st. Francis empties into
the Mississippi near that pc MT and
the immense volume of water coming
out of the sunk lands is carried
against them with so much violence
tn it is feared they cannot stand it
after the water gets TO its highest. 1t
will be fully ten days before the water
quits rising at this point
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-16
The ElectoraI Count Bill.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-The report
of the Committee on the Electoral
Count, upoa the Hoar bill, was pre-.
scented to the House to-day. The COM
mittee has made several important
amendments to the bill, which are ex-
planned in the report. In that part of
section (which prohibits the rejection
of sny State from which but one return
has been received, Except by the af-
frmative vote of both houses" the
committee has struck ont the excep
ton. The majority of the committee
was of opinion that where there was
but a single return from State, that
the two hous should not have the
power to reject the vote of the State.
A material amendment has been made
in the latter part of the same section,
relating TO two sets of returns from
one State, so as to provide that those
votes only shall be counted which are
by electors whose appointment shall
have been duly certified under the
seal of the State and the executive
thereof, in accordance with the laws
of the State, unless the two houses,
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knights of Honor.
ESPECIAL TO rHE APPEAL.


NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 15.-The
eleventh annual session OF the Ten
nessee Grand Lodge of Knights of
Honor is in session here to-day. The
following grand officers for the ensuing
year were selected j. o. Pierce,
Memphis, Grand Dictator; Tom w.
Neal, Dyersbrrg, Grand Vice
Dictator; A. G. Turner, Nashville,
Grand Assistant Dictator; j. T. Brooks,
Paris, Grand Chaplain; VIM. M. John
son, Nashville, Grand Reporter; X. l..
G. White, Lebanon, Grand Treasurer;
G. Mathes, Jonesboro, Grand Guide ;
b. F. M. Randall, Tullahoma, Grand
Guardian; G.. w. Stamps, Rossville,
Grand Sentinel The following were
elected Grand Trustees: Messrs.
Stacker, Doyle and Jones. The Grand
Lodge then adjourned until to-mor-
row morning.
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DIED.

LER0Y-At residence, No. 81 Madison
street, April Is, 1885, A. II. LEROY, aged
thirty-two years and eight months.
Funeral from P. NJ. Stanley's, No. IS Mad
ison street, this (FRIDAY) afternoon at
o'clock Services by the Rev, Mr.. sessums.
Friends are invited to attend.
PATRICK-At residence, No 45l Pontotoc
8! rect, Thursday morning, April Is, 1885, at
$3.50 o'clock, in the forty-fourth year Of his
age, J. V. PATRICK.
Friends Of family are invited TO attend his
funeral, from Second Presbyterian Church,
corner Beale and Main streets, this (FRlDAYJ
morning at 10 clock.
MARTIN-Suddenly Thursday afternoon ,
April IS, 1885, PArRIcK MARTIN, aged forty
seven years. due notice of funeral will DO
givan
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acting separately, shall concurrently
decide such votes not to be the lawful
votes of the legally appointed electors
of such State The committee was of
the opinion that when there was more
than one return from State and but
a single State government, the vote of
the State lawfully certified by the ex-
ecutive and TO be cast by the lawfully
appointed electors should be counted,
unless both houses concur in rejecting
the vote. Sho,ild this amendment be
adopted by the House, and the bill
passed, the mode of counting the
electoral vote may be thus briefly
stated: In those States where a tri-
bunal has been established for the de-
termination of contests and concern
ing the appointment of electors there.
in, anG such tribunal has decided
what electors were duly APP
pointed, the determination of the
State tribunal shall be conclusive.
Where there is but one return from
the State, the vote so returned shall
be counted; but in case there should
arise a question as to which of two or
more OF such State authorities de-
terming what electors have been APP
pointed in the legal tribunal of
such State, the votes of the
electors of such State shall
be counted, whose title as electors,
the two houses acting on separately
shall concurrently decide is supported
by the decision OF such State tribunal
as was organized by law Under the
amendment already referred to, where
there is but one State government and
two sets of returns purporting to be
the vote of the State, that return shall
be counted which is supported by the
executives certificates, unless both
houses acting separately shall decide
that the vote is not the lawful vote of
IL
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The Work OF Devastation az 81.
Cloud.

ST.. CLOUD, MINI, Arril 15.-The
work of devastation in the district
visited by the cyclone is complete, as
the Uttered and shivered remains of
what were frame buildings will tes-
tify. The scene to-day was one to
appall strong hearts. For width OF
about 500 feet, running from south
west to northeast, the tornado had
leveled almost everything before it.
An occasional building, partially
wrecked, was left to tell the tale Of
destruction, as if by contrast with the
ruin to be seen on every de. Scarce
ly a vestige of any structure remained
so as to be recognized, the ground
being literally covered with all k nds
of timber promiscuously tangled to-
ge her. 1t is estimated that 400
structures were blown down, all of
frame and not costly. The Manitoba
depot was unroofed and wrecked
thus almost entirely cutting off all
Geographic communication. The
only building of any consequence,
aside from the depot, injured was
the brew ry, and this was badly
warped and twisted. The small resi-
dences were mostly occupied by for
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-16
Searching for the Dead at sank
Rapids.

SAUK RAPIDS, MINI, April 15.--The
dismal work of searching for the dead
among the debris of the storm-swept
section still continues, while the re.
covered remains, blackened and
mangled, are beng shrouded
for the grave and the wounded ave
receiving every possible attention.
Physicians from neighboring cities are
still on duty, tireless 10 their efforts
As the returns come in from the
country in the track of the tornado,
new fatalities are discovered, and of
the manned that are be ng brought in
for treatment no pen can depict the
horrors of the scene. The final
muster of casualties will surely swell
the total of fatalities to 100.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-16
Hope 20 DO Away with Convict
Labor

CHICAGO, ILL, April l5-The jour
neymen coopers of Chicago are DER
fecting plans by which they hope to
do away with prisoa contract labor in
their business. AT general meeting
Of the journeymen coopers Of this city
and vicinity last evening 1t was re-
solved that the executive committee
request the packers not t. purchase
any more prison-msde cooperage on
and after June IA, 1886 A circular
setting forth their grievance and the
resolutions was sent to all the packers
of Chicago and reply requested.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-16
A Fraudulent Incubator.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-The Post,
master to-day issued an order
directing the postmaster at Quincy,
Ill0 to withhold payment of money
orders to the Natures Incubator
Company" doing business at that
place, and the Uoited States Attorney
has caused the arrest of Harvey S.
Waldo, the originator OF the scheme,
on a charge of using the mails to de-
fraud
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The Internal Revenue Laws.

WASHINGTON, April l5.-The House
Committee on the Judiciary to-day in
structed Representative Bennett to re-
port favorably bill TO ameliorate the
harshness of the internal revenue
laws. The bill abolishes minimum
punishments for violation of the in
ternal revenue laws, and provides that
no warrant in any case under those
laws shall be issued except upon the
affidavit of an officer of the internal
revenue service or on affidavit setting
forth that the facts are within the
personal knowledge of affiant.
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Customs Rules for Exhibits ut the
Louisville XDOsitiOn,

WASHINGTON, Arril 15.-The acting
Secretary of the Treasury has author
lied the Surveyor of Customs at Lou
isville to adopt, in regard to the stor-
age, exhibition and sale of foreign
articles at the Southern Exposition, to
be held in that city, the course pur-
sued at the Exposition of 1885.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-16
Buildings for ThIru Glass Post
Offices

WAsHNGToN, April 15.- Senator
Wilson of Iowa offered a resolution in
the Senate to-day directing the Senate
Committee on Postofiices and Post
roads TO examine and report what
legislation is necessary to authorize
the Postmaster General to lease
premises for third-class postoffices
The resolution was agreed to.
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The Hawaiian Treaty.

WASHINGTON, April 10. The House
Committee on Ways and Means to-day
decided by vote Of 9 to to report
favorably the resolution recommend
ing the abrogation of the Hawaiian
treaty. Messrs. Morrison, Mills, Hew-
lit, Mcmillan, Harris, Breckinridge
lark. ], Mayberry, Kelly and Hiscock
voted in favor of the resolution, and
Representative Breckenridge [Ky.l
cast the negative vote. Representa-
tives Reed, Brown lind. land McKin-
ley declined to vote, and reserved the
right to take such a. position on the
proposition as they thought best.
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more Casualties Reported.

BIG LAKE, MINI, April 15.-Drs.
Higbee and Dallister OF Minneapolis,
Just from st. Cloud, told an Associated
Press reporter that new bodies were
being recovered hourly from the de-
bris and being brought in from the
country in the track of the tornado.
Twelve injured people were brought
in, several of whom will die. Drug
gist Scuabert's remains had Just been
found; he had only been in the city
two weeks Four have died of wounds
since morning. At church east of
Rice's Station thirteen instead OF ten
of a wedding party wbre killed ,includ-
ing the officiating minister. At Sank
Rapids thirty-one are already dead.
The list will be swelled to forty. DR..
DIR. Ames of Minneapolis, who is on
duty at st. Cloud, told Dr. Dallister
that at least thir y deaths can but re-
suit from the visitation there.
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AdminIslrator's Noiiee.

Office Public Administrator, Shelby County
Courthouie Memphis. Tenn, April IS, 1885;
VNHE undersigned hay ng been appointed
i and qualified administrator Of the estate
of Henry +. Arnold, do tsed, notice is
hereby given 10 all persons indebted to said
eytate TO come forward and settle; and to
those 10 whom said estate is indebted 10 o Q
their claims with ne, duly probated, within
the time prescribed By law, or the same will
be forever barred. JOHN L0A9UE,
Public Administrator.
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eigners, whose names it has been inn
possible 10 secure with any degree of
accuracy. The Catholic hospital is
filled with the wounded, but only five
or six of them are considered to be in
a dangerous condition. The others
are slightly hurt. There were fifty
four wounded in the hospital last
night, besides a number that were
taken 10 private residences. To-day
there are about forty in the hospital,
two having died and the others being
removed. The dead bodies at the
engine-house have been neatly dressed
and cofiined. The funeral will proba-
bly, occur tomorrow 1t is imposs BILE
to say anything definite about the re-
building, but it is not believed that
there will bs much delay in repairing
the structures, as tenant.houses for
laboring people are in demand. The
pecuniary loss will hardly 20 above
100000. The 70 ce Of the storm was
such as to wrench of the door of the
safe in the postoffce and carry it
some distance from the building
The church bell, weighing 1900
pound, was found among the debris,
400 feet away from any building. The
remains OF the dead are almost I'M
recognizable, being terribly crushed
and blackened. There are remark
able number of persons injured about
the hips and spine Many of the sur
vivors will be disabled for life The
delegation of doctors frm st Paul
and Minneapolis worked all night I'M
der the disadvantage of having no
splints or drugs, as the drug stores
wee demolished. SPINS were made
from shingles, with which the ground
was strewn in the track OF the storm
for miles. One fortunate thing was
the fact that school had been dismissed
on Friday, or the fatalities among the
children would have been appalling,
the school house having been RACED to
the foundation. Following are addi-
ticnal names of killed in st. Cloud:
@. f. Andrews, thirty years; Miss
Streitz, twenty years an unknown man,
thirty years; Ed Meehan, twenty-five
years; Mrs. Semnitz and two children;
Anna Seibold, four years; Jacob Short
ridge; Jennie Junglen. sixteen years
August Junglen, nine years; Mary
Junglen, fourteen years.
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Fearful Cyclone in missouri.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April ia Skid
more MO- special to the Post-Dis-
patch says: A fearful cyclone passed
over Monroe ownship late yesterday
evening, destr ying dwellings, harms,
out-houses and killing thousands OF
dollars worth of stock. Three persons
were killed and many are injured.
The killed are: Jennie Hooper, Mrs.
Hugh Sport and baby. Many OF the
wounded are not expected to live.
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The tornado I'm western Iowa.

DIES MoMEs, IA, April 10. Reports
from yesterdays tornado in Western
Iowa show that the storm ranged
from Taylor county north to POca
hontas county. -Four persons are re-
ported killed, and about twenty-five
seriously injured. From fifty to
seventy-five dwellings are demolished
and large damage was done to barns,
stock and trees.
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Small cyclone in dakota.

JAMESTOWN, OAK, April l5.-James-
town was visited yesterday afternoon
by small cyclone, followed by a
heavy electrical storm. Several build
ings and sidewalks we're torn up.
Gasal & Kulewatz's brewery was de-
stroyed and Mr.. Kulewatz's house
wrecked. No one was injured so far
as known.
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Lnhor InYeatIKatI. e CommitI e

WAsHINGToN, April l5.-Speaker
Carlisle to-day appointed the follow
ing committee toinvestigate the causes
and extent of the labor troubles in the
West: Nessrs. Curtin of Pennsyl-
vania, Grain of Texas, Orthwaite of
Ohio. Stewart of Vermont, Parker Of
New York and Buchanan of New Jer-
GOV
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MR.. LANAR'S TRIP SOUTH.
THE SECRETARY SAID TO BE CON
TEMPLATING MATRIMONY.
Van BeuthuJsen Again Before the
Telephone Committee Sen
ate Executive Session.
lspEcIAL ro rHR APPEAL.I

WASHINGTON, April 15.-Mr. Nc
Lure, the appointment Clerk OF the
Postoffiee Department, was refreshed
to-day with a new experience in the
shape of Letter from a man in Ala
bama who declined with thanks an
ap, ointment to $1,000 position.
The DlsNfssALs OF Ex-UNIoN SOLDIERS
from positions in the departments
without sufficient cause is said to be
the. source of much complaint in
Grand Army circles, and there is talk
of an investigation of reported cases.
SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GEEER-
AL KNOTT
has gone South for week on official
business.
SECRETARY LAMAR's MATRIMONIAL MIS-
Considerable excitement prevails in
political and social circles here over
the rumor that Secretary Lamars visit
South is purely a social one, and that
it is a matrimonial mission which
takes him there. Those who are in a
position to snow say that he will soon
be united in marriage to Mrs. Holt, a
Macon lady, the widow of Gen. VIM.
Holt. AS the romance goes, they
were engaged to be married when they
were young, but were parted for some
trivial cause Mr.. Lamar is now a
widoweT and she a widow, and now,
after long years, they are to be united
in marriage
MRS. VAN II. MANNING
of Mississippi gave charming dinner
to Gen. Stephen d. Lee, the distin-
guished ex Confederate officer, last
evening. The other guests were the
Hon. D. W. Voorhees,, Senator and
Mrs. George, Gov. Ross of New Mex
leo, Mai. Adams Of Little Rock, Mrs.
Perry Fuller, Mrs. Earl Van Dorm
Miller and Miss Fletcher. Gen. Lee
is now president of the Mississippi
Agricultural College.
PETITIONS.
The following petitions were intro
duced:
By Mr.. Neal: Petition of the Knights
of Labor of racy City, Tenn, remon-
strating against the passage OF the
free shipping bill.
BY Mr.. Oates: Petition of R. A.
Solomon and six others, citizens of
Barbour county, Alabama, praying
Congress to provide for the payment
rents, stationery, etc, for third and
fourth class postmasters.
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NOTICE

THE BRINKLEY LUMBER COMPANY
i will continue TO receive orders and de-
liver Lumber from their mills without any
interruption from Ove' flow.
GEO. BAYMILLER, Agent.