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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
THE RIVERS.

If we could foretell what amount of
rain would fall ia the section drained
by the Mississippi river within the
next thirty days, we could estimate al
most exactly how high the water
would go this Spring. AS we cannot
know what rainfall there will be, we
a only estimate, and except for bad
weather.
Although we have had two or three
hard rains recently, we see no good
reason to change our estimate of a week
ago, in which we stated that the river
at this point would hardly go above
danger line, and but little above it at
Memphis.
The bulk of the flood is now CEN
tered at Cairo, and the rise there has
nearly ceased. At Memphis the rise
is only two inches a day, and it is
Stacking up at this city. At Cincin-
natl and Louisville the Ohio is falling
four feet a day. AT St. Louis the Mis-
sissippi is twelve feet below danger
line and on a stand, and the
Arkansas at Little Rock is away down,
and falling. If the weather will remain
dry, the water will probably go to A
on the gauge here, remain high for a
considerable time and then decline, at
FIRST very slowly. Between this city
and Memphis, some weak or neglected
levees may break, but there is no good
reason to apprehend any serious
damage, if the citizens of the Valley
are watchful and energetic in the
protection of the levees.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
FRIENDLY

From the Wife of a Knight of Lab-F
to an EngIneer--She Declaresthat
Death ana Disaster Stare Him IN
the Face.
ST. LOUIS, April 1.-THE following
is a copy Of a letter received by Louis
Kelly, a passenger engineer, living at
DtSoto, Mo
"DESoTo, Mo, April lG, 1895.
"Mr. Lou Kelly;
Dear Slr-Ere you will receive this
you will no doubt see notices posted
informing engineers to beware. which
you will. if you are in the possession
Of facts that | am, give your eerliest
attention. for while l am the wife of a
Knight of Labor, and in sympathy
with their cause, | cannot, knowing
that they, in their desperation to
insure justice, are determined to adopt
measures in the immediate future
shocking in their nature and Of such
murdtrous results, any longer refrain
from letting you know that if YOU per
s,st in running, death and disaster
await you. The Knights int end this
for the last warning, after which they
say the fun begins. Now l am in ig-
norance concerning the details of their
plan, but this much l know They
are arranging to use some agency that
will Immediately destroy the toilers of
engines, with no regard to either fire.
men or engineers, for they claim
that the work will be done when and
where the least suspicion will be given.
l give this information cheerfully, for
rather than know that death had been
caused, l would submit to defeat.
viii you please put your brothers or
men on guard. | have no rest or
peace at present, and cannot sleep, for
horrid dreams haunt my slumbars.
Yours in sympathy
"A LADY FRIEND"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
AN IMPORTANT MEASURE.

Mr.. Davis, of Massachusetts, from
the House Committee on Commerce,
has introduced a Bill to establish a
Bureau Of Public Health, under the
control of the Interior Department. 1t
creates a Commissioned of Health with
a salary of forty-lve hundred dollars a
year, and makes it the duty of the
State Department to furnish accurate
information at all times of the sanitary
condition of ports with which
this country has commercial inter
course. Its chief purpose is to keep
out contagious and infectious diseases,
and to prevent their spread in the
United States, and to generally look
after the public health from a national
point of view.
We know of no more important
matter before Congress. If evidence
Of 1this is needed, it is to be found in
the alarm and protest of those who echo
the sentiments of the inefficient State
Boards and the Marine Hospital Bu-
reau. Already they declare the Davis
Bill is the entering wedge to re.estab-
lish the National Board of Health, and
make various shallow pleas and
charges against it.
We trust the Congressman from the
Mississippi Valley will closely scruti-
nize the Bill, and if it is
really a Bill to give us ma
tional protection from contagious
and infectious diseases, do all in their
power to secure its passage. A strict,
effective measure of that kind, enforced
by national authority is precisely
what is needed. 1t is indispensable,
for it WiU not do to rely upon hamper
ed, shackly State concerns. If the
Davis Bill is not passed, or one similar
to it this session, the country may have
to 60 through a plague like that of
1873. 1t may be cholera or
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

The Pasteur method Is re-
coiving some serious knocks. The Doc
tor failed to cure the Russian bitten
by the mad wolf, and it now turns out
that the Newark children cured by
him were never bitten by a mad dog at
all. On this subject an exchange says:
"The dog which had the distinguished
honor to bite the Newark children who
were sent to France to be cured of
hydrophobia by Pasteur, has been kept
shut up and proves to be as healthy as
a rich uncle and as harmless as a
sheep"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
yours in sympathy
"A LADY FRIEND"
Strikers Sent to Jail by Judge
Pardee.


Pardee.
DALLAS, April l7.-United States
Judge Pardee in the trial Of the n
tempt case yesterday, passed sentence
on the following persons, who had
been convicted OF offenses against the
Texas and Pacific railroad company:
Charles Wilson,. charged with dis
placing a switch for the purpose of de-
railing an engine at Denton on March
9th, sentenced to five months inn
prisonment in the county jail; G.
Bishops, for taking possession of a
switch at Fort Worth on April I'd, was
found guilty and remanded to await
sentence. RObt. Irwin and VIM. An
derson, for the same o%ffense, were dis
charged. Samuel Perry, intimidating
laborers, was discharged on his recogni-
znoe. 7. P. Lane, taking possession
Of a switch and preventing its use, was
admitted to bail in the sum OF one
thousand dollars and the case contin-
ued. Richard Gordon, striking a
switchman with a stone at night, three
months Imprisonment in the county
Jail. Charles Barlow, intimidating
lab0rers by striking a negro on the
head with a stone; remanded for sen
tence. James Newgate, intimidating
laborers in Paola, Pinto county, case
continued to the next term of the
court. Timothy Higgins, found guilty
on Thursday of in~timidating by using
abusive language, held for sentence.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
The Text of Mr.. oladstone's Bill.

LONDON, April l5.-The house of
commons having voted permission to
Mr.. Gladstone TO introduce his bill for
the better government Of Ireland, the
official text OF the measure is today
made public. 1t debars the proposed
Irish parliament from legislating con-
corning the status, dignity or succession
of the crown; from passing laws effect
ing peace or war, the army or navy,
the militia or volunteers, or the de.
Tense of the realm, and from taking
any action concerning the foreign or
colonial relations Of the EN-
pire. Among the other subjects
placed beyond the powers of the irish
government to deal with are dignities,
titles and honors, prizes and booties of
war, otfenses against the law of nations,
treason and alIenage, navigation, copy
right, patents. mails, telegraphs, com
age and weights and measures. The
bill further prohibits Ireland from
doing anything to establish or endow
any religion, or to disturb or confer
any privilege on account Of religious
belief, and also forbids it to impose
customs or exercise duties. The queen
is given the same perogative to sum-
mon, prorouge and dissolve the
Irish legislature as she has
with respect to the imperial par
lament. To her majesty also
is reserved the power to erect forts.
arsenals, magazines and dock yards.
The Irish legislature is permitted to
impose taxes to be paid into the con-
solidated fund to defray the expenses
of the public service in Ireland, sub.
ject to the provisions of the Irish land
purchase bill, but is Lot to either raise
or appropriate revenues without the
Queens recommendation made through
the lord lieutenant.
The church property in Ireland is to
belong to the Irish people, subject to
existing changes. The executive gov
eminent Of Ireland is vested by the
queen in a lord lieutenant, who will
govern with the aid of such officers
and councils as the queen may appoint.
and will give orders and withhold the
queens assent to such bills as the
Irish legislature may pass.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

yellow fever. At this very time a few
imported cases Of yellow fever, would
cause an epidemic at New Orleans be-
fore the Summer is over. Congress
men. with the slightest conception of
the swarming millions of inhabitants,
and the swarms increasing all the
time, in this country, must see that
their duty is to provide the most
stringent national measures of prOtec-
ton for health, and turn a deaf ear to
the selfish suggestions of narrow gauge
politicians.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

GOVERNOR OGLEsBY was able, after
the strike grew to dangerous dimen.
siOns, to maintain the peace in East
st. Louis. He sent a few hundred raw
militia there and quiet followed.
This fact proves that he did not do
his duty in the beginning. He could
have prevented the killing of the nine
persons and the destruction of prop
erty, by sending the militia when first
asked to do so.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

A SPECIAL to the New Orleans
Picayune makes the following refer
enceto one Of cur Oldest citizens: Capt.
A. Auter, who pilOted the steamboat
Wanderer in 1azOO river many years
ago, when the Indians were moved
ont Of that country and taken to the
Arkansas reservation, is dangerously
i'll. He is in his SD year. While his
children and grand children surround
ed him to-day he joined the Methodist
church and received baptism admin.
istered by the Rev. DR.. Woodward.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
A d

When the vote was taken in this
city for or against the shops of the L.,
N. O. & 7. R. H., those opposed to the
proposition, referred to Marshall,
Texas, to prove that railroad corpora
tions could not be compelled by law to
adhere to such contracts.
A motion Vas argued there We'd
nesday before Judge Pardee, to dis
solve the injunction. which prevented
the receivers of the Texas Pacific from
removing the shops. Judge Pardee
oVerruled the motion and the shops
will remain at Marshall.
If our city carries out its contract in
good faith with the L., N. 0. & r. r. r.
it's shops will have to be located and
kept here, OF the city will have its
remedy in the courts. The action
taken by Judge Pardee at Marshall
indicates what could he done under
similar circumstances here.
In this view of the situation, therei is
no necessity for some of our people
severely criticising the action of indi-
viduals, who imagine that some other
contract would be more to their bene-
fit. While the citizens should not for
get the motives of individuals, we do
not see that they should be abused for
trying to carry out a policy which they
think will benefit them, provided the,
keep within legal limits.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
H IOWA CYCLONE.
Later Reports Show the Destruc-
ton of Life More Than at First
Reported.

ST. PAUL, April 15.-The reports of
The C. clone at st. Cloud, Sank Rapids,
Rice station and other points iu
the vicinity last night and early
this morning were not exaggerated.
At 3 o'clock this morning 10 the places
named there were forty-nine dead and
nearly two hundred injured, with many
still missing, whose bodies will pEoba-
bly, be recovered to-day. Just enough
houses are left in Sank Rapids TO form
a fringe around the village limits. The
debris is not piled in heaps but scat
tered far and vide, The sign Sank
Rapids" in the Manitoba depo: and a
basket full of books was found at
Rice's station, Fifteen miles distant.
This shows the terrible power Of
the storm. No reports have yet been
received from out lying districts,
where it is believed great destruction
of property and loss Of life has been
wrought. The storm extended from
Jamestown, Dakota, through Mime
sofa and into Wisconsin, though its
most disastrous effects are to be found
in the three places first named.
ST. PAUL. April l5--The
city council this morning voted
$4,000 in cash to aid the cyclone suf-
t%erers, and Gov, Hubbard dispatched a
Car load of provisions to Sank Rapids.
The car was accompanied by a COM
mittee of the Jobbers' Union, who will
offer all the assistance in their power.
DR.. Denslow, who with others went
last evening by special train to st.
Cloud. returned this morning. Upon
reaching st. Cloud he said the physi-
clans from St. Paul and Minneapolis
divided, part going to Sank Rapids
DR.. DenSlow was on the force sent tC
the st. Benedictine Sisters hospital
and they were kept busy until 3 O'Clock
this morning. Fully twenty-five in
jurtd were taken to the hospital alone
and he does not know how many mort
cared for in private houses. Two OF
those taken TO the hospital will very
probably die. One is a woman, who
has a broken collar bone, both
bones of the left forearm anC
both bones of the left leg Were frac
tured, all committed and the pelvlj
broken, an accident seldom chron
icled in surgery. Her head ant
face is bruised beyond recog
milton, yet strange 10 SD,
the woman is conscious and talkel
freely, saying her hip hurt some, bu
otherwis she felt no pain. The otht
probably fatal case is that OF a younj
lady, twenty years old, both legs beln.
so badly crushed that they had to bp
amputated midway between the kne,
and the thigh. An old man lying il
the hospital badly injured SAID thre:
of his children were dead. Anothe
mar in the next cot 10 him responded
saying his wife and three children wer,
killed by the storm. Three little boy.
about six years old were brough.
in at midnight, wounded cruelty
A woman was found with
piece of the scalp as large a man,
hand torn from her head and hanging
in shreds. Drs. DenSlow and Ritchlt
shortly after midnight went across u
Sank Rapids. to render what assistanc,
they could there. Twenty-three dedt
bodies had then been found and th'
doctors from Minneapolis were bus,
caring for the injured.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

WE feel certain that enough land
has been cleared along the line Of the
Louisville, New Orleans & Texas rail.
road between this city and Memphis,
since the constr uction of the road, to
pay for the road. 1t would be hard to
estimate the increase in the value of
real estate in the State, directly tracea-
bic to the construction of this valua.
BILE trunk line.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

A GREAT fuss is made wei the AL
dermen in New York, arrested for
bribery and prostitution of official po-
sitiOn. Down in this section, Radical
thieves boosted of their bribery and
the money they had for that purpose
and it made them more popular than
ever with the ignorant and corrupt
classes. 1t remains to be seen what
will come of it.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
Lamar's First and Last Love.

NpCCldl W Vic NlODt-DellOCTdJ
MACON, GA April l4.--Aprop& of
the arrival in this city this morning Of
Secretary of the Interior Lamar, a
very pretty little love story has been
put in circulation, and seems to be
well vouched for. 1t is to the effect
that the Secretary will soon make a
prepossessing WIDOW of this city his
wife. AS the romance runs, they
were in early life engaged to be mar
ried, but for some reason not stated
their troth has never consumated at
the altar. Each married, and death
has restored each to single loneliness
and sorrow. Soon, the story goes,
each will seek a truce from sorrow at
the altar. Secretary Lamar will re-
main in the city until Friday or Sat-
urday. To-day he was the guest of
Col. Anderson w. Reese and to-mor-
row he will accept the hospitality Of
Col. w. IL. Ross.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
Congressional Investigations.
pnilahnlnhia Times

Congressional Investigations.
Philadelphia Times.
Mr.. Morgan, of Mississippi, spoke
the soundest word in the discussion in
the House of Representatives yester-
day, when he urged that in a matter
where Congress is without any power
Of efficient action the pretence of an
intention to do something is not only
useless but deceptive. The res solution
to send a committee to investigate the
railroad disturbances in Missouri and
the neighboring States is one of those
measures that cannot possibly lead to
any useful results. but which do harm
by exciting false expectations and by
confusing the public mind, as well as
the minds of legislators, as to the
power ard functions of Congress. 1t
was adopted as a matter Of course, but
it is entirely safe to say that no good
will ever come Of it.
Mr.. Reads idea that Congress "sat
for the hearing and redress OF griev-
ances" is an ancient form of words
that never had any applicability TO the
Congress of the United States, which
is not a high court Of the nation, but a
legislative body with certain distinctly
defined duties. Whether the settle
ment of labor disputes ought TO be
among its powers is not the question
as a simple matter of fact NOBODY will
assert that it is. and it is not honest to
pretend the contrary.
Mr.. Randall defended the resolution
on the ground that there was no harm
in the House possessing itself of tull
information on the subject" and it
was doubtless on this ground that
most Of the members would explain
their votes. Full information on any
subject will never do the House any
harm and perhaps might save some
foolish speeches. But Mr.. Randall
knows how hard it is to get the House
to attend to its proper business, and
one reason for this is the disposition tC
wander off into buncombe and to waste
time on sui jects quite outside the
power Of Congressional action either
to help or hinder.