Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-28
An untraceable rumor says fifteen persons

that Metropolis, a small village in Illinois
! about thirty-fve miles from Cairo, was de-
stroyed by the storm and several hundred
persons killed.
M1NNEAPe1Is, March 2s.-Telegraphic re-
ports from points in Minnesota, Dakota and
Iowa show that severe snow storms have pre-
vailed during the day. The storm has been
most severe in northern Iowa where railway
traffic is impeded and stock will suffer to
some extent.
CHICAGO, March 27.-The storm which
reached here at noon to day has been general
throughout the northwest. Snow COM
menced falling at 1 O'Clock and continued
accompanied by wind, blowing thirty-fve or
forty miles an hour. The wires are prostrat-
ed in all directions.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, March 27.-The first
blizzard of the season ia raging tonight, but
as the weather IL comparatively warm the
suffering entailed is not considerable. Snow
Is falling heavily. The wind is blowing
ierce1y.
OA1Ro, ILL.,, March 27.-A tornado struck
Metropolis, ILL.,, this evening, doing great
damage to property. Many houses were
blown down, but no loss of life is reported.
NEW ORLEANS, La. March 27.-The Times
Democrats Greenville, Miss, special says:
Heavy wind has been blowing all day, caus-
ing the levees to wash badly in
many places and several places above
sros co shsK are ts1p%7s
has been and is now raging at Leota, several
houses and stores having been blown down.
The wind ia rising hero again and more
damage will be done before daybreak.
Countrymen who have hitherto been
confident We would pull through without
any great loss, have now given up and be-
lieve that terrible disaster is imminent, az
they do not think the levees can stand the
terrible strain much longer.
the United States signal service at the Equi-
table building at midnight said that the
storm was central over Springfield, ILL.,, and
rapidly moving eastward. High winds
were prevailing over Lake Mich
igan and Memphis and Nashville.
High winds will occur along the Atlantic
coast to-day, and severe local storms will
Pennsylvania and New York. A slight
cold wave following the storm and
in front of it. The temperature
is very high. Wind signals are dis
played along the Gulf and on the Atlantic
coast from Jacksonville to New York city in
advance of the storm. It was raining at mid.
night from New York to Kansas City. The
storm will doubtless cause great damage and
| to morrow night 1t may be expected to reach
New York.
The Democrats Wick sburg special
| says:
The latest advices show that there was
great distress last night at Skipwith. The
US. steamer Meteor was relieving the people
as far as possible. The cravssse is 500 feet
| wide and ten to fifteen feet deep
Owing to want of means of communication
with the country along Stesle's Bayou the
amount of distress there can only be guessed
ok hy7kt hA oo,N1ifino ofk ho y,opu1ofion <hore
ia necessarily dangerous. The small steamer
Evergreen is now en- route from Zoo City
to relieve the people there and another
steamer will be sent at once. Steele's bayou
cannot be navigated by the government
| steamer Osceola, SO che will be sent with
material of all kinds to Skipwith and to rivet
! the ends of the levee.
direct this work. The entire section that
will be overlooked by the Skipwith
crevasse is devoted to the cultivation
of cotton fields that produce annually
90, 900 bales of cotton will be affected and a
least twenty-f five valuable plantations will
be inundated, embracing about $4,000 acre.
of the finest cotton lands in Mississippi i
not in the world. So far no loss of life Ii
! reported at Shipwith.
TIRE PACIFIC RAILROADS.
A Decision Reached In tho Method {.
be Pursued In tho Treatment of tn
Pending Bills Looking to the Pay
ment OF the Government Indebted
ness.
WASHINGTON, March 27.-After diacussin
the question for month the house commit
tee on Pacific railroads this morning reache
a decision respecting the method to be pun
sued In the treatment of the pending bill
looking to the payment of the government
Indebtedness OF the Union and Central Paci
fic railroads. Upon motion of Mr.. Cooper
resolution was adopted which binds the CON
mittee to report ono bill covering both com
panies in its provisions, and subsequent
another motion prevailed to take up at tn
next meeting the bill reported by the senat
committee. But one member of tho commit
tee was absent from the meeting, and tn
opposition to the adoption of the Ooope
resolution was confined to three members.
Mr.. Mason made an argument In support c
the motion, In the course of which he too
the ground that if the committee desired
accomplish any legislation 1t must report th
combination bill, as the house could never
prevailed upon to pass . separate measure
the case of each railroad. Several propos
tions in the nature of amendments or subst
tutes providing for postponement of tn
|
Rress and for the reporting of separate bill
in the case of the Union Pacific and the Ger
trail Pacific were rejected before the questio
was put and carried on the Cooper resolr
ton.
As matter of fact the bill reported b
the senate committee has not yet reached th
house committee, so that its considerable
will probably be preliminary in nature, br
this work will be considerably lightenet
; owing to tho fact that the committee has q
ready considered the Cultivate bill, whic
il similar to that part of tho senate commi
: tee bill which concerns the Union Pacif
J railroad company, and only the sections r
lating to the Central Pacific railroad RENAL
to be disposed of.
THE TARIFF SCHEDULES.
, Representatives Of Several Industrll
Before the ways and Means C0mm1
tee-wOrks OF Art Placed on tho Ere
List.
,, WASHINGTON, March 12.-Representativ
, of the National Cordage association appear'
: before the republican members Of the wa
. and means committee to-day to prote
against the proposition to increase the du
, ON loose fbres used in twine-making. Amor
0 these were Edwin Il. and William N. Fiji
= of Philadelphia and B. Hinckley of Bosto
They did not ask any reduction of the exis
] ing rate, but declared the proposed increa
2 would be ruinous In its effects upon q
Z wage workers and would not protect Il
! farmer, as the fibre was not produced in ii
country. The principal change made in &