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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09
WILL PROBABLY RECOVER.

The Conductor Who was so Badly Beaten
ut BallinEer Improving
special TO the Gazette.
BALLNeER, TEX, Feb. s-Mr. Finks,
the conductor who was so badly injured
by Mr.. Bailey yesterday, is better to-day,
and it is thought he will recover. HIS
brother snd sister and DR.. Brown of
Waco, G. A., Helm, train master, and
other officials OF the Santa Fe arrived in
special car last night and viii remain
here several days. The sheriff and posse
in pursuit OF Bailey have not captured
him, but wnen last heard from were sup
posed to be but three or four miles be-
hind him, g&pg towards Goncho county.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09
Oa!s-Bulk, 42kc. II
Brsr-sOc per hundred.
Barley--90c Per btfshel,
Rve-9lc Oer bughal


Rve-9gc per bushel
Hay-Loose local, 81 o03s 90; johnson grass,
IS 30; best prairie bay, S. O0S9 so per ton,
baled; alfalfa, retail, lac per b special price,
wholesale, l2c.
Alfalfa-12c per pound.
Johnson grass reed-S1 1872 % per 2sb,
bushel.
dried peaches, &c; indigo, 75c per D /; blulng,
50caS1 90 per dozen ;Oolensn's mustard, 81 SOC
so dozen; macaroni, imported, loo per , ;
american 76c per box; buckets, two hoops,
b5ls. Csc; do, 2-5 casee, s. l0; brilliant, 2-a
CAGES, 81 10; do, 12-I cases, s. So; baking pow
ders, bulk, 1lcI In cans, g 50; nacsroni
small box, SIC; varmicelli, emSn box, 66c;
catsUp IN bulk, per gallon, s5o: Worcester
per x Dbl, 81 90.
bbls, &c; cut lost, bbls, sKci do half bbls SCI
standard granulste6, bbls, SHc; Louisiana
granulated, bbiS, SIC: standard A.7Hc; choIS7
white, 7KG: LoGisisrs '. O., choice. 6Sci DO
fancy 6x S7c.
Rice-PTime exc; choice 64c.
HORSES AND MUIlEs--lu car or train load
lots: Mexican maree. l2H tc l3A bshos MIR
unbroksn, sI6 00Sls 90 per eeac; Mexican
rlsSss. 13k to IA hands high. unbroken, $40 600
Y 90 per head; aieIlcsn mares, IL to Is hands
high. unbroken, SD gGFs26 90 per mead; Tex78
mares, Is TO Il hands high, unbroBsn, $50 006
90 % per hesd; Te1sG mEZes: Il TO 10 hands
high, uabroAea, $50 C0S40 90 her head; Texas
mares, Is 20 is hands high, unbToker. $40 eG1
60 90 per head; Texas horses, IL 10 hands
horses, u 20 is hands nigh. unbroken. $50 O01
so 90 per head f; Me1icsn horses, Is to II hanGs
high, unhrokan, SIS 0OS25 90 B6r head Mexi-
can horses, IA to II hands high, Enb=okaa. s25 Gu
$50 % per head; Mexican mules, 1917 &c a
hGndo high, Rabfoke7, $50 0G&50 90 per hesG;
Texas mules, Is TO 1917 hands high broke, $50 90
@l60 90; American draft norsG5. ID to l6h hSnds
high, broke, SI0oGlT5 co. From 81 50 g 81
di.icnsl for thoroughly ecoke STOCK.
HIDES md SXISS-NG. heayy j. 2 hIdss
Ice per ., No. haHyY 9oi NO. J light 9oi
No. light 7c-
Dry salted TGec; bull hides Sc, klua SCI
green sailed Sc; butchers green 3S4Xc; shear
hngs 20c; pelts I0975c.
MOLASSES-New Louisiana syrup $50; new
choice LouiEIana moissses, o r. 55c; new
prime do SIC: new fair do 4gc; choice Csutrifu-
gals 45c; prime do AGO. prime reboilad S5c fair
do $50.
NUTS - Psanuts. sX&7Xe; psGans. soi
almonds, zoe; Brazil nuts, lbc per b dlberssr
loo per u English waluuts, $50 per L
NAILS-$3 % peg ksg, DxsiB 100; odfdsn
horseshoe per seg IS; Perkins, ssme. IS 500
walker, same, s. so; burden U1uIa S. north
western horseshoe nsils, No. 1, SOC; No B, 2eci
No, 6, 25c; No. 7, 2lo; No. g. zoo; lakes" No. l.
$50; No. s, &c; No. g. 22o; No. J. zoe; No 8, 1867
Ausabls, same, No. 4, 45c; No, ), 24o; Nc. g. 2lci
No. 7, 1876; No. s, lS9.
OUTLYING quote: Young trying chicZeni
81 00a2 % Per cozi old hens g % per DOL:
turkeys 75cdSl 90 each.
WHISKY-Rectifed 81 col SO. as per proof
eour-mssh, two years old. 81 602l TO- lures
years old 81 e0S2 &c; fancy extra old whisky
8 00R5 90
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09

$780, Short ribs-February 81 As; March
81 AK; May 81 62H. Cash quotations were:
FIonr-QuIet; Wheat No. ? red 77Ac; No. 2
corn, 46kc. Mess Pork. pr barrel. Sl4 l5S
IA 90 Lard, per 100 pounds 81 6T]5G7 20.
Short rib sides, loose 81 80. Dry sslted shout
ders, boxed, IS 0Oe6 so; short clear sides,
bSXed, 81 959s 90.
NEW YORK, Feb. Coffee-Soot fair: Rio
steady at Ice; options ansettled, closing heavy
and lower; sales 81 800 bags February Is O9G
13 10; March II 706l3 90; April al2 559l2 S.;
May IL 4OG12 TO- June y SOAP 60 July II 600
II 20; August II S06ll s.: Seotember II 500
IL IS; October II 2OGll 80; November IL 250
II IS; December II POOL 40; January II 25.
sugar-Dull aud nominal; fair refining quoted
at 4zSc; refined QUILL; off a 6lsc; mould &c cut
loaf and crushed 77z1i pOwGeCe 1908 l5c ;
granulsted SIC. cut T5Sa73 TO-. Mola,ses
nominal; so test PC. Cotton seea oil quoted at
301E G32c for crude and 4lc for = fined.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09

Turner VS.. Butts, from Grimes; Andrews
VS.. Smith, from Grimes; Baker VS.. the
State, from Grays0n.
T. Charles Hume, on behalf OF the GAL
weston BE- Association, delivered an
eulogy before the court on the life and
memory Of the late Judge Ballinger,
which was eloqHently responded to by
Presiding Judge White.
By order Of the court both addresses
Swere spread upon the journal.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09
ON CHANGE.
Spot Cotton Unchanged; Fuiures from
8 TO II Points Higher-A0ney
Market Easy.
wheat Opened Firm, FluctuEted Mar.
rowly and Clossd LOwor-Live Stock
Transactions Brink.
Daily Local Review.
GAZETTE OFFICE, I
uADr IUoDr-1 FNn- EaA : lgES (

EORT WORTH, lex, I Co. >, ISsoI
Produce is fairly plentiful On the mar
ket now ana values are little easier,
though none are quolsbly lower except
eggs, which are only worth % cents.
There have been large receipts of those
articles within the past few days.
Trade is brisk and everything in mer
camille circles is lively. The fine weather
Of to-day brought out great msny pur-
chssers.
THE MONEY MARKETS,
The manifestations in the New York
market at present are entirely in the
direction of financial plethora, the indics.
tions being that very easy losniug condi-
tons are probable throughout the first half
Of the year. Money continues to flow to
New York from the interior, while the
large purchases of bonds for foreign
account, with the corresponding weakness
in exchange and very low rates prevalent
In the London mSrket, remove any
tendencies of character to affect the
situation in an unfavorsble way. the
dul.ness of stock speculation has, per-
haps, decreased the demands for money,
and loans OF bankers balances on call
have been made at from % to
81 per cent. on the Stock Ex-
change, the banks being free
lenders at 81 per cent. or slightly better.
Time money is also plentiful, and is Of
fered at to Il per cent. on mixed COL
lateral at from three to six months, and
even 81 per cent. rates have been quoted
on governments. Commercial paper Is
in active demand and apparently decreased
supply, the feeling in mercantile circles
being that even easier rates will probably
be obtained shortly. At the moment, best
city names and endorsed bills receivable
are taken at 5@53 per cent, and single
named and western paper 53@6 per cent.
= Brsdstreet's.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09
Court OF Appeals.

Special 70 The Ga2eFte,
GALVESTON, TEX, Feb. S.-The Court
Of Appeals to-day affirmed: Rochell vs..
HollGn & league, from Dewitt county;
S.urgls vs.. ShiVers, from Houston county;
P. A. Smith VS.. Forester, from Grimes.
Reversed and remanded: Gill Bros. VS..
Ben Jackson, from Freestone; Turner &
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09
HANGED HES TO KILL.
Two CoIosnd aIsn Arrested at Omaha OF
Charge of Lynchlng.

Two Colos"d Msn Arrested at Omaha on
Charge of Lynchlng.
Correspondence Of the Gazette.
OMAHA, TEX, Feb, 5-Constable
CuIlee to-day arrested Dick Fuller and
Sam Strsmsn, both celored, on g charge
of having helped to hang negro oy the
name Of Dick Murry, three miles north Of
town lsst Tuesday night, and they were
placed uuder bond Of $3.50 each for
their appearance before court next Tues
day. Writs have been Issued for two
more and they will be csught soon. The
negro was not killed and is not seriously
hurt, but he says the hanged him to kill
with trace chain and took him down
and left him ior dead.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09
J.nsrsOr's Pubic Building.

SpSCah4 W tnS 0dHetIs'
JEFFERSON, TEX, Feb. s.-The con-
tract for building the United States court
house and postoffice at Jefferson will be
let in few days at Washington, D. C.
The plan is somewhat similar to the gov
eminent building a. Shreveport.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09
fIAAE OLAG

ENGLISH OoNsOLs
LONDos, Feb S.--Consols closed At leg 5-16d
for money. Silver, 444d.
MONEY,
SEW YORK, Feb. s.-honey on call easy at
2S3 per cent; last loan at 2K per cent, closed
offered at per cent. Prime mercantile pa
per 5G7 per cent.
STOCKS AND BONDS.
NEW YORK, Feb. S-StocSs Srd bonds
40 Eall
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09
ordinary, 9oi low middling, 9Hc; mid.
ding 92Sc; good middling, lO1sc; middling fair,


NEW ORLEANS. La. Feb S-Oottoa-spoi
closed steady and unchanged,
sales 4C0n bsIes.
Stock 36S JOG.
Low ordinary 1876; ordinary 7-l6o; Roo6
or 'irary 1l60i low Hlddling exc; rtddling
l3 l6c. good UtddlinR 10 3l6c; middllng fair
10 a-l63; faiE II 5-l6s.
Futures opened quiet ana closed steady, 10 70
II rOints hiVher
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09
ON WALL STREET.
Ths Rats War Going on In The West
had Depressing Effect on tie
Stock Market.
The Close Steady, Near to the Opening
FiKures-Irregular Changes in RaiI-5ay
Bonds with Advances in the
Majority.
COMMERCIAL RESUME.

COMMERCIAL RESUME.
Special to the Gazette.
NEW YORK, Feb. 8-Railwsy bonds
to-day closed as follows: Kansas and
Texas rs at 101; general 6's at 6sg
Houston and Texas Central rs at 1874;
Missouri, Kansas and Texas SIS at COZ;
6's at G9F; Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
is az 12I.
Gold G's st 974.
Money POS per cent.
Sterling steady.
Silver $50.
Governments steady.
Wheat active.
Cotton steady.
Oh 904.
Coffee 10 to Is points higher.
Sugar steady.
GOVERNMENTS, STOCKS AND BoND3.
NEW YORK, Feb. S-Tha stock market
was little more active to-day, but the
improvement was accompanied by q
downward movement in prices, and NEST
OF the list are materially lower this even
iGg. Reports of the rate war going on in
the west were sgsin numerous. The first
sales were made ct declines extending to
} per cent. on fairly active business and
further fractional losses we're sustained
when the pressure OF stocks for sale was
withdrawn, and some Improvement was
made in quotations though the market
then became dull and lifeless as
usual. Utter stSgnation was the
rule until toward O'Clock when
Northwestern and Lake Shore became the
leaders and declined quite rapidly, though
the general list was quite steady. There
was a little reaction in the last hour and
the market closed about steady at close
to the opening figures. Everything ex,
cept Manitoba, which advanced l pei
cent, is lower tonight.
Railroad bonds were quiet, but little
frmer, snd while the closing figures show
irregular changes, advances are in the
msjoritY. The business amounted tc
S1,067,000.
Government bonds were dull but
steady.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09

The finest ever eown on American soil
are handled iaboth wholesale and retail
depsrtmentsof the Fort Worth Grocer
Co.'S. Re1ember This when you are
mASiDg uayour ordexs.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09

ST. LOUIS Mo-, Feb. s-wool- The market
continues active and steady; uuwashed, bright
medium l6d24c; coarse braid Ilz2lc; low
sandy l06lsc; fine light I3al9c; fine heavy
19@l7c. Tub ashed-Choice SAC; inferlor 30
935c; sacked 106l5S. ssest'VN
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09

LIVERPOOL, Feb. -fyottnD spos closed
dull, in buyers favor, l 16d lower.
Ordiosry Lied; good ordinary 8 3-lsd; low
middling 53Sd; middlioe uDlandS .Ad; mid
ding Orleans 9 led.
Total sales 5000; American $500
Imports, Is, 600; American, Is, 800.
Futures Closed steady, yesterdays prices
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09
Tho Ooffen Raarkst.

GALVESTON, TEX, Feb. S-Conee -Ua-
changed Wholesale gfocsrs quote good
90K02lc; peaberry 2!ci old government Java
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09
.,na 1860 ba,ea
New KGSk

New XGSE
HE& susA Feb. -Cotton-Spot closed
firm and unchang. d.
Sales, 1874 bales.
stock 266,3S3 lslar.
Ordinary, II 16c, scoc -JrdlnAyt. 90 .; iow
uiddung, 10 l-l6c, nlidtiing, 10 Is q, good
mlddling, 10 1886; uiddIinS fair IL 7-l6c.
Futures closed steady, tc 10 points higher.
SaIea l46 IGn
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09
Galveston

3ALvRsToS. Tx, Feb. s.-oo;sox - spot
closed firm and unchanged.
Gfoss receipts, 574.
sales, 9es.
Exports, =.
Shipments coastwise,
Rail shipments, 49,.
Stock, 81 ,75s bales.
Low ordinary, Z Is lsci ordinary, 5-1eci good
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09
THE DALLAS SEED STORE

Just receivsd. 40 cars of erase, Field and
Garden Sc edsS5scars Seed PJta oes and Olion
selts, etc we carry the largest stock Of Bulk
Seed. tnffbe Sta e.
HOLLOWAY & co.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09
oOrToR MARKETS.

8eestpts st All United States Forts
GALvEsToN. TEx.,s Feb Es.-Oottoa receipta
Il Ifr..ta.u SIstaa nnYrE.
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ernment building at SIR
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Inc triple alliance, but pfAise1 AeI Ior-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-13

Compiled From Late Dispatches
FIFTIETH CONGRESS-.


THURSDAY, April 5. THE Bond Purchase
an amendment providing for additional
coinage to take the place of surrendered
National bank circulation Mr. Wilson 1a)
spoke on the Presidents message, and de-
nounced free trade theories In the House
the entire session was consumed in filibus-
tering over the Direct-Tax bill
FRIDAY, April g. In the Senate a
bill was introduced to repeal the statute
which provides that no person who served
in the late war on the Confederate side shall
hold any position in the United States army.
Among the pension bills passed were the
following: To the widow of General Kill
patrick, 800 month; widow of General
Robert Anderson, 800 month; inereas-
ing the pension of the oldest revolutionary
pensioner on the rolls, Nancy Rains, ninety
six years of age, from IS a month to an
amount not fixed, but left to the Secretary
OF the Interior, and to Dr. Mary E. Walker,
$25 month Adjourned to the 9th In
the House the entire session was again con-
sumed in tilibustering over the Direct-Tax
bill.
SATURDAY, April 7.-There was no session
OF the Senate. In the House the entire ses-
sion was again consumed in filibustering
over the Direct-Tax bill
MONDAY April 9. In the Senate the
bill for the admission of Dakota into the
Union and for the organization of the Ter
ritory OF Lincoln was considered, but no
action was taken Bills were introduced for
a permanent court of arbitration between
the United States and Great Britain and
France, and for the completion of the direct
tax $500, 000,00O of 1861. In the House
the deadlock over the Diret-Tax bill still
continued, with no prospect of coming to
nm nOn
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-13
LATER

The Irish-American Protective Tariff
League of New York on the 10th issued
manifesto against the adoption of the free
trade principles and calling on all foreign
born citizens to oppose free trade
A FIRE on the 10th did great damage in
the business part of Austin, Miss
The Arkansas Republicans met on the
10th at Little Rock and elected delegates
to the National convention in Chicago
A CYCLONE passed over the southwestern
part of Washington County, Ill, on the
10th, demolishing houses, barns and
fences
THE Michigan Greenback State conven-
tion will be held at Lansing on the Sth {
May.
BOTH branches of the Iowa General AS
sembly adjourned sine die on the 10th.
A MOVEMENT was begun in New York on
the 10th to send to France statue of
George Washington as a present from the
women of America.
AN explosion in dynamite factory at
Grenoble, France on the 10th killed nine
persons and others were seriously injured.
THE Kootenai Indians in Montana were
committing depredations on the 10th, and
the Governor had been asked for troops
WILLIAM MILLMAN for the murder OF
Mary Tupling, was hanged on the 10th at
Charlot6etown, P. E. l.
In quarrel on the 10th at Omaha, Neb,
German named Damke killed his wife
and fatally injured his daughter-in-law.
ALL the bridges in Dakota County, Mimi,
had been washed away by freshets on the
10th, and in the towns of Waseca, Shako-
pee and Waterville much damage had also
been done
A BOILER exploded at Fink's saw-mill at
Baldwin, ILL.,, on the 10th, killing four men
In a fight on the 10th between striking
railroad hands and new employees of the
Powell Valley Railroad Company at Cum
berland Gap, Tenn, five men were killed
and twelve others were wounded.
GEORGE K AMOUR and his fifteen ear-old
son were burned to death in their house
near Cedar Gap, Mo-, on the 10th.
THE Leader and Sunday Dispatch offices in
Blnghamton, N. Y, were destroyed by fire
on the 10th, the total loss being $4,000
The family of man named HubbeIl,
consisting of himself, wife and five chill
dren, were poisoned on the 10th by drink
ing milk from an unhealthy cow, and two
of the children were dead and others were
dangerously i'll
AN expert reported on the 10th that the
accounts of s. NJ. Weir, for fourteen years
treasurer of New Albany, Ind, were $780,
900 short
A FIRE on the 10th devastated three
large estates at Matanzas, Cuba.
IHE bill to authorize the sale to aliens of
certain mineral lands was passed in the
United States Senate on the 10th, and the
bill to provide for the admission of the
State of South Dakota and the organization
OF the Territory of North Dakota was fur
Their considered. In the House the entire
session was devoted to tlibustering over
the Direct Tax bill
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-13
FROM WASHINGTON.

A VACANCY was created on the 9TH among
the Major-Generals of the army by the plac-
ing of General Alfred Ell. Terry upon the
retired list
AT the closing session of the National
Woman Suffrage Association in Washington
on the 9TH 1t was voted that a memorial be
presented to Congress and the States, ask
ing for the removal of the political disabiI-
tiles of women, and that delegates be sent
to each of the political parties asking for
the recognition of their political rights
On the 9Th the Democratic convention to
elect two delegates to represent the Dis
trict of Columbia at the National conven-
ton was held in Washington.
The House Committee on Post-offices on
the 9th completed the consideration of the
Post-office Appropriation bill. AS agreed
upon it appropriates 500, 1873 $40, against
revised estimates by the Postmaster Gen
eral of 800, 22O,S4
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 9th sent to
the Senate the name of Brigadier- General
George Crook 10 succeed General Terry as
Major-General
THERE were 100 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 9th, against ITO the previous seven
days
HE President on the 9th signed the bill
granting a pension to Mrs John A. Logan
and the act increasing the pension of Mrs
Frank p Blair
AT twenty-six leading clearinghouse in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 9TH aggregated 81, O4O,-
90S, 800, against 1898, 915, 154, the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the CORE
spending week of 1887 the increase
amounted to 81 per cent
The United States Supreme Court on the
9th sustained the validity of the law of
Pennsylvania prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of any of the forms of imitation
butter or cheese
On the 9th orations eulogizing the life
and services of the late Chief Justice Waite
were delivered in the United States Su-
preme Court.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-13
HIGH WATERS IN IOWA.
Four Young Lads Drowned - Disastr
Losses at MANY Points

Four Young Lads Drowned Disastrous
Losses at Many Points
STANsGAR, Ia, April 1.-THE Cedar river
at this point has been rising fast and is
now higher than it has been for several
years. Awagon load of men and boys, in
attempting to cross small tributary, were
washed down the stream and four of the
boys and the team were drowned.
SIOUX CITY, Ia, April THE Missouri
river continues very high here. The water
from the inundated regions above is still
deep ON the lowlands, but it is grad
ually draining off. Many farm-honses
are surrounded by water Rail
road communication is effectually
broken by the wrecked Sioux river bridge
and the washed-out tracks and roadbed
The Chicago, Milwaukee, ST Paul Com
pany is organizing heavy force to repair
the damage done to the bridge and the
track, but it is impossible yet to begin work
till the flood subsidies. The flood is being
reinforced by high water from the
upper river and by continent streams
swollen by the recent heavy rains and
waterspouts Little new damage is being
done, however, above here at the place of
the inun dation. The serious damage is in
the lower part of this city, where the
treacherous current is tearing away
the river front ut the same points so
disastrously attacked last year Some de-
Tense to the encroachment of the river is
needed, and an effort is being made to Sc
cure an appropriation from Congress- If
the flood continues the lower part of the
town will suffer
MASON CITY, Ia, April 7.-Thursday night
the Shell Rock river overlooked it's banks
and completely inundated the lower
portion of the town of Rock Falls
In less than two hours the river
had risen twenty feet. Houses and barns
were crushed by the ice and swept away.
There were no fatalities but several mar
row escapes. Mrs. Anderson and five chill
dren, whose house had been swept away
harefooted and in their night clothes
were rescued in the morning from a
sheet of ice which had lodged against
the branches of tree When the water re-
ceded it left in the streets huge cakes of ice
three feet thick, piled one upon the other
to height of fifteen feet The damage
done by the flood to public and private
property will exceed $40, 600 and is be-
lieved to have been much greater far up
the stream.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, April MANY houses
on the flats at Mankato are flooded up to
the middle of the windows and the river is
still rising. West Mankato is submerged.
Three feet more of water will cover the
Milwaukee tracks and all trains have been
abandoned ON account of water in the vi
cinity of Good Thunder. 1t is said the iron
bridge at Garden City has been swept away.
WAvERLY. Ia, April This city has been
visited by a most fearful inundation The
Cedar river at this place has been rising at
the rate of foot an hour, and half the
town is submerged. The mills are stopped
and the track of the Waverly Short-Line
railroad is two feet under water.