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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26
DRIrEy orr ny FLOODS.
Ninety Thousand People Homcicss--Tho
Ohio River a Roaring Flood-cincin-
natl Badly Washed.


natl Badly Washed.
CINCINNATI, o., Feb. 22.-All day the
Ohio river continued TO force its way
further uptown. The rise for the past
"a hours has averaged nearly 2 inches
an hour, and the 55 feet that now marks
the rivers height is 5 feet higher than
the best Judges estimated. The chamber
of commerce considered the situation SO
grave that il posted bulletins throughout
the day, and in the bottoms hundreds
of wholesale merchants stand ready
with teams 10 remove their goods. Up
to this time only the wholesale men on
Front, Water and Second streets have
had to move out
The water is on the third floor of the
notorious tenements known as lat
and Sausage rows. Water began
early this morning to filter into the
trough through which the o. " NJ, Mid
land, c., @. G. 81 st. Louis Midland,
Erie and other roads enter the grand
central depot. Tonight the water
stands on the floor of the depot, and
such trains as do get in come through
hundreds of yards of water several inches
deep. A number of railroads, notably the
O. d M. and Big -Four, have ceased taking
freight. All the truck gardens for miles
up Mill Creek are under water, and the
loss is very heavy.
Across the river the situation in New
port and Covington is becoming serious.
The Licking river is backed up for
miles and the water is within u few
inches of the floor of the United States
barracks. According to the latest reports
the river is still rising as far up as
Huntington, w. Va, and il looks like
five feet more Of water here, enough to
insure great loss. THE weather is clear,
but much warmer.
WHEELING, w. VA, Feb. 22.-In-
formation received from this part of the
Ohio valley shows that the damage by
the flood will reach less than one million
Of dollars AT New Cumberland Il fire
brick works and potteries We're flooded,
entailing loss of over 100000 In
this city over 1000 residences and bust
ness houses contained water from 2 to 20
feet deep All along the riyeras far south
as Parkersburg similar condition of
affairs prevails.
1t is estimated that no fewer than
10000 people were driven from their
houses and their residences made unfit
| for habitation.
The Eureka Oil Field, containing over
200 producing wells, is literally drowned
out, derricks, tools and tanks all being
gone, The loss here will reach 100000.
The damage to the railroads leading
from this city is equally great The
Ohio river road is practically wreck,
80 miles of track being flooded. So far
there has been little suffering, and what
there is the local relief committees can
attend tn
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26

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me poey q ia!Lich 1i Mei!y, o,i1 Ie % .i.o
Vic'ihS 81 tlle nllile uis'I IS.; az 'e''i'es
Vlile, ~, was IecoNeIeel : Ilaay.
Samuel Post died IN New VOTE on
Friday from gunshot wound lniilcted
by his mistress, Mrs. Ellen Nelson. Inc
woman Is under arrest.
Near Paris, Tenn, on Thursday, dur
ing a family quarrel, Thomas MCGEE
shot and killed his father-in-laW, John
Aaron, an aged farmer.
Two freight trains collided near St.
Herman. Quebec, Friday, demolish-
ing both engines and several cars. One
man was killed and several were injured.
In Chattanooga Tenn. an Friday.
Jesse Fryerson. Convicted Of the muir,
| dor If Policeman Mnsproye. was sem
tancad ~ III hanged an Anril Inn next.
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~ Nn, siro Lost
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Jonll fg :, was hill ~ ~ lnuiS9ay
hlsn. Wiz " -,
mont, MIS-. Lizzie Wyne hau ner Jaw
ana collar pone ploken, anu SeYeial
oeilels weie siisiisiy ihJoieo'
Inc owners OF large tract OF land on
the verge OF the wyoming coal basin are
about to sink q bore hole 2,OoO feet deep
to determine the quantity OF anthracite
coal existing beneath the tract
Work was resumed this week at
the rolling mil ana nail WORKS OF the
Brooks Iron Company, at Birrdsboro,
Pa. The puddlers who have been on
strike have accepted reduction from
1919 70 $3.50
A fire IN Watkins, New York, FIJI
day destroyed the Watkins Democrat
block, the Kendall Hotel and two other
three.-story buildings occupied by \; II.
Consldine. The lre communicated to
the Fitzgerald block and Coles's Bot
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26
SUCCESS or RoNE GR4FrING.
DIR. Phelps Discusses the Case of johnnie
Githins.


New YORK, Feb. 20.-T'he Medical
Record will print the official account of
the recent experiment in the Charity
Hospital on Blackwell's Island, Of graft
ing the bone of dogs leg into that of a
boys The experiment, which was I'M
successful, was tried on Johnnie Githins,
ID years of age, and began last Novem-
Der DIR. A. NJ. Phelps, who had charge
of the matter, says "rhe operation is
success in so far as it establishes the
principle that it is possible to grow large
masses of tissue from an animal to man,
and to establish the circulation until the
union takes place between opposite
species without danger to either.
at also demonstrates that a growth of
new bone takes place when section of
bone is transplanted and its nutrition
maintained by the artery of the animal.
This,if continued for four or five weeks,
would probably unite fracture. Owing
to the inefficient dressing which is apt
to occur in all early operations, the CON
tact of the transplanted bone could not
be continued sufficiently long for bone
to unite to bone. But | am confident,
after viewing the specimen and taking
all the conditions and surroundings into
account, that bony union would have
taken place if actual contact could have
been maintained for longer period.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26
sHor HER FoR 4 BURa1AE.
Young Hollands Mistake Costs a Sis
ter's Life.

ter's Life.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22.-Frank Hol
land, aged q years, shot and fatally
wounded his sister Laura, two years
older, early this morning, installing her
for a burglar.
The brother and sister live with their
parents at No 1923 North Forty-third
street, West Philadelphia. Burglars
have been of frequent occurrence in the
neighborhood of late, and Frank, who
owns a heavy A calibre, has several
times declared his intention Of shooting
any burglar who might enter the house.
Within the past week houses on either
side of the Holland home have been
entered and robbed.
Early this morning young Holland
was awakened by noise. Suspecting
the presence Of robbers, he secured his
rifle, which he kept near his bed, and
crept downstairs. He saw what he
thought were men in the back yard and
fired twice. The noise awakened his
sister, Laura, and another sister, and
they hurried downstairs. Being in their
stocking feet they moved nolselessly,
and Frank, seeing them moving through
the hall, took aim and fired. The bullet
struck Laura in the side, passing through
her body.
The rest of the family were by this
time aroused and the victim Of her
brothers terrible mistake was sur
rounded by her almost hysterical rela-
tives. The girl is still alive at late
hour tonight, but her death is momen-
tarily expected Frank was arrested
but was allowed to go home after bail
had been furnished. He is said to have
become almost crank" on the subject
of burglary.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26
4 fire occurred in a building il

A fire occurred in building in
Brooklyn, N, y, yesterday lweek,
caused by the boiling over of a pot Of
fat, Mrs. John Henry and her four
children were sufIocated, and Jacob En-
rich was probably fatally burned.
Secretary Mohler of the Kansas State
Board of Agriculture, has received ex-
ceedingly encouraging reports of the
condition of winter wheat. Ii is said
that it looks mnch better now than it
has at any season tyr several years,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26
FOSTER N EETS B EN-.
They Have an Hours Conference in New
York--The Ex-Governor Silent

They Have an Hours Conference in New
York--The Ex-Governor Silent.
New York Feb 49, Ex- Gov Charles
Foster of Ohio, arrived here this morning
and was in conference with President
Harrison at the Fifth Avenue Hotel for
an hour. The presence of the famous
politician aroused the widest interest in
political circles, because his name has
been frequently mentioned in connec-
ton with the secretaryship of the trea-
sury, and his coming here when Presi-
dent Harrison was in the city was re-
garded as highly significant
II may be said on the best authority
that Ex-Governor Foster met President
Harrison by appointment, and that the
President discussed the question of the
secretaryship of the treasury with him.
But it may be added, also, that it is be-
lieyed that the selection of William
WINDOWS successor has not been made.
Mr.. Foster admitted that he had met
the President in the morning and talked
with him for an hour. The subject of
this conversation however, Mr.. Foster
said, he could not disclose, out of cour-
tesy to President Harrison. He then
dismissed the rumors about his succeed
ing Mr.. Window and spoke Of other
matters.
Mr.. Foster told a reporter, that his
sole object in coming to New York was
to attend Gen. Sherman's funeral. He
had received an invitation to be present
from Senator John Sherman. He said
the President did not send for him, that
the Treasury portfolio had not been Of
fered to him, and that politics did not
enter at all into the cause of his visit.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26
singerly,s Iiolstein Cattle.

The sale Of William NJ. Singerly's
celebrated Rolstein -l'reisian cattle was
commenced yesterday week at ss"llome
Farm" Gwynedd township, Mont
gomery county, Pa. There were about
1900 people present, and the place had
festive appearance all day. The bid
dings were spirited and good prices
ruled. One hundred and twenty-five
head Of cattle were disposed Of, aggre-
eating S10,056, the highest price given
being sl55 and the lowest SIS.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26

The Democrats viii Prevent Any Expr'
sions to the Speaker of False Comp

The Democrats VIII Prevent Any Express
sions to the Speaker of False Coinpli-
ment.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.--Speaker Reed
will probably go down to history as the
first Speaker Of the House of Represent
atives who failed to receive vote of
thanks from the House at the expiration
of his term. In this matter, as in so
many others, he will be able to repeat
his boast, eve have broken the prec-
edents of hundred years.
Ii is customary for some member of
the party in the minority to rise on the
last day of the session and move a reso-
luton Of thanks to the speaker for his
courtesy and impartiality. Such reso-
imous vote. There was some Demo-
cratic opposition to the resolution of
thanks to Speaker Keier at the
close of the last Republican Con-
gress, eight years ago, but he had strong
Democratic friends and they proposed
the resolution and easily carried it.
There may be one or two Democrats in
the present House who sycophantic
enough to move resolution of thanks
to Speaker Reed, TO lick the boot which
has kicked them.
If such resolution is offered, how
ever, substitute will probably be pro-
posed expressing the real opinion of
self-respecting Democrats upon Mr..
Reeds performances. Mr.. Rogers of
Arkansas, who has been thorn in the
side of the Speaker, is reported to have a
set of resolutions ready if it becomes
necessary to offer any. He will not pro-
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26
rosrER sVCcEEDs WINpoM.
Ex-Governor Foster of Ohio Appointed
Sncretary of the TrnasnrY.

WASHINGTON, Feb, 2l.-The President
to-day sent to the Senate the following
nominations. Charles Foster of Ohio
Secretary of the Treasury; Martin A.
Knapp Of New York, Interstate Commerce
Commissioner; James Z. Dodge of New
Hampshire, collector of customs at Ports
mouth, n. H !; assistant naval constructors,
Joseph II. Linnard and Joseph j. Wood
ward; naval constructors, Lieutenant John
Newton, Jr., grade to be lieutenant; Ensign
Leroy NJ. Garrett, to be lieutenant, junior
grade
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26
PARNELL,S TRIUMPHlL T0UR.
He VIII "Adopt an Attitude of Armed
Observation.

DUBLIN, Feb. 22.--AIr Parnell made
a number of short speeches on his way
to Roscommon to-day The general
burden of his remarks was that not even
the Healyites dare say that Mr. Glad
stones assurances are satisfactory. The
men TO whom Ireland had looked in
confidence and now sunk low enough
to accept English gold in payment for
their subservience to the English parties.
No opposition to Mr.. Parnell was
manifested along the route. At Knock
roghery, a man who was standing in the
throng about the window of ParnelPs
railway carriage was dragged along the
platform by the moving train and was
only saved from death by the prompt
action of Messrs. Parnell and Redmond,
who seized him by the shoulders and
held him safely on the footboard until
the train reached Roscommon.
Upon arriving at Roscommon Mr.
Parnell was escorted to his hotel by II
torchlight procession. From window
of the hotel he made a speech, in the
the course of which he declared that he
would adopt an attitude of armed OBJ
seryation until he saw what solution
was offered on the police and land
questions.
AT mass in the morning the Catholic
curate appealed to his llow-townsmen
to have regard for the purity of domestic
life and not to attend the meeting to be
addressed by Mr.. Parnell,
F0W SHERMAN RODE ar SIMON.
Like the spirit of battle swift rode our
brave chieftain,
Where the lines of the Gray met the lines
of the Blue;
And we knew by his look that we must
hold the highlands,
Tho the dead they were many and the liv-
ing were few.
And the souls Of the dead seemed to fight
with us grandly,
As we met them at last as the rocks meet
the sea-
While victory crowned every shot-riven
banner,
When Sherman fought Shiloh by the dark
Tennessee.
Rochester Democrat.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26

The confidence possessed by the manu-
facturers of DIR. Sages Catarrh Remedy in
their ability to cure the worst cases Of nasal
catarrh, no matter of how long standing
is attested in most substantial manner by
their standing reward of 5000 offered for
many years past for an incurable case Of
this loathsome and dangerous disease. The
remedy is sold by druggists, at only 50
cents. It is mild soothing, cleansing, de
ordorizing, antiseptic and healing.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26
ONLY A HoLE IN THE GROUND.
The Result of Lightning Striking a
Nitro-gIycerlne Magazine.

ToLEpo, Feb. 21.-.A special dispatch to
the Blade from Findlay says: AT 1 O'Clock
this morning lightning struck nitro
glycerine magazine on the Stoker farm,
three miles northwest of the city, in which
were stored so cans of the explosive. The
only thing left to indicate the place of the
magazine is hole in the ground big
enougfeSo bury a three-story house. The
loss is not great
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26
Cool to ex-Empress Frederick.

PARIS, Feb. 20.-The French news
papers have shown a marked GOODNESS in
their treatment of the visit of the ex-
Empress Frederick of Germany and her
daughter to Paris.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26
WHAT MR.. c1EpEhAND SAID.
He Did Not Declare That He Would Not
be IA Candidate in 1892.


New York Herald Saturday.
/ called on ex- President Grover Cleve-
land yesterday and showed him an
article published in the Washington
Post which stated most emphatically
and purported to be given on the best
authority that Mr.. Cleveland would not
suffer his name to be used as candidate
in the next Presidential campaign, and
that he was about to write Il letter to
that effect
The dispatch said further that eau
Gus Of his friends had been held with a
view to uniting upon some other Demo-
crat for 1899, as all persuasion had failed
with Mr.. Cleveland.
When | showed this to the distin-
guished leader of his party, he thought
it of so little Importance that he at first
declined to be interviewed on the matter.
l pointed out that the article would be
copied all over the country, and Mr..
Cleveland then consented to reply
to my questions.
HIS CAREFUL STATEMENTS.
/ asked him if he intended to write
the letter referred to. The following
are MIR. Cleyeland's words, which took
II
to him. Mr.. Cleveland said my notes
We're correct:
II have never had such an intention.
In point of fact, am not giving very
much thought to the matter stated in
the dispatch you show me, | have not
said anything in public or private to
lead any one to believe that | am
anxious to obtain a denomination to the
Presidency.
tMy ideas on that subject are quite
well understood by all with whom |
have conversed and who are at all en-
titled to be called my friends.
"If it be true that there has been
consultation of my Democratic friends
at which conference my name was men-
toned | know nothing about it,
FOR THE COOP or THE PARTY
"Imay say that have such confidence
in the unseltish Democracy of my
friends that whatever they may deter
mine on am sure will be for the good
of the party. ! have not expressed to
them any settled determination touching
my relations to the next campaign, and
there has, therefore been no occasion
for them to attempt to have me change
such determination
THE FIGHT or cLEvELAND's LIFE.
New YORK, Feb. 22.-Concerning the
statements that Mr. Cleveland is not
candidate for the 1899 nomination, ex-
Secretary William Q. Whitney tells
Herald reporter; "Mr. Cleveland is not
candidate in my opinion, except this
far. He is committed to the fight. He
will never be satisfied until tariff reform
wins. He will do everything he can to
aid the tariff reform fight, and it nat
urally keeps him to the front. He is a
candidate for the fight good deal more
than he is for the Presidency. When
President takes his seat as the result of
a tariff reform victory Mr.. Cleveland
will be satisfied whoever it is. Mean
while, he isn't talking about declining,
and / am not in the business of pulling
other candidates out or of putting myself
in the race for the Presidency"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26

AS cure for piles there is this to be said
about Old Sauls Pile Ointment: 1t fs cheap;
It is safe; II is certain, and 1t is absout ly pain
less. Price Of this peerless remedy is only 70
cents,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26

use Horsfords Acid Phosphate. Dir. L. !.
Williamson, st. Louis, Mo-, says II have
tested its qualities in cases of diabetes, with
marked beneficial results, and am well
pleased with the remedial qualities of the
preparation"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26

The eyes of Delaware are assuming
their Delsartean spring expression de-
noting peach-bud Observation-Disclosures
ptiG Record.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26
Reeds Latest Petty scheme.

WASHINGTON, ID. O., Feb. 20.-By
way Of being really aggrayating when
he wanted to make quorum to count
in Democrats who had retired to their
cloak room in order to break quorum
to-day, Speaker Reed sent the smallest
page in the House of Representatives
with tablet and pencil to the door of the
cloak room to take the names of the alb
sentees. Having thus secured their
nominal presence in the House against
their will, the Speaker refused 10 allow
the small boys report to be questioned,
even when McMillin, of Tennessee, as
the temporary leader of the Democrats,
attempted it.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26

s'A stitch in time saves nine" and II you take
Hoods Sarsapari la now It may save months of
future possible sickness.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26

Every one's baby is the best; every ones
cntarrh or influenza is the worst; but evory
ones catarrh or influenza can be cured by tho
rse Of Old saul's Gaparfh Cure. Price only rs
cents POE box.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-03
DEATH of e. H. THATCHER.
A Well Known and Esteemed Old
Resident.


A Well Known and Esteemed Old
Resident.
A few minutes before one o'clock yester-
day afternoon f. II. Thatcher, the vet
eran boat builder, died, whose name is
more than locally we'll known, whose work
shop has been familiar for years to pretty
nearly everybody in New Haven that was
fond of such things. He had been failing
for about two weeks though not confined
to his bed but little over a week. His
death was due to heart failure. He was
born in East Haven and at the age of six
teen came to this city to learn his trade of
boat building and the carrying successes of
his crafts are conclusive proof
that the trade was we'll mastered.
He learned his trade from Captain Birds
eye Brooks, who afterward removed to
Bridgeport, and in 1910 was taken into
partnership with him. When Mr.. Brooks
removed to Bridgeport his son, Captain
John Brooks, became associated with Mr..
Thatcher and the firm name was known
for several years as Thatcher & Brooks.
For many years Mr.. Thatcher carried on
his business on the site where now stands
the seamen's bethel, then for few years
was down by Belle dock and afterward the
business was moved into the present quar-
tiers at the foot of Chestnut street.
In 1842 he was married to Miss Antoi-
nette Bassett of North Haven, who sur
wives him. Nine children were born to
them, seven of whom are living. Five
live in this city, and Mrs. Richards, one of
them, lives in Portsmouth, Va, and Mrs.
W. A. Chapman, another daughter, lives
in Portland, Conn
The business will continue under the
charge of his eldest son, Stephen H.
Thatcher, who was recently taken in part
nership with his father. The deceased
was an estimable man, whose sterling
qualities of head and heart won him the
respect and esteem of the community.