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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-23

SALT RIVER ON A BOOM.
Scores of Adobe Houses In Arizons
Washed Away.

scores OF ADOBE houses IN Arizona
Washed Away.
SAN FRANcIsco., CAL, Feb. 22.-The
Chronicles special from Temple, Ariz.,
says: "Salt river valley has just been
visited by the greatest food on record. The
storm Is general over the country. It
swept over Arizona with q deluge
Of rain, raising mountain streams to
torrents and rivers far above their flood
levels Last Thursday morning Salt river
had risen IL feet above the ordinary level
at point twenty-eight miles above Phoenix
"At Temple, on the south side Of the river,
the railroad bridge was sweps entirely
away, cutting of communication with
Phoenix.
BUILDINGS CRUMBLE AWAY.
"a little south of Phoenix, the river left
its channel and overhowed a number Of
farms, cutting out the railroad track.
Many farm buildings, built OF adobe,
crumbled away. Frame structures foated
of.
1.-THE northern edge Of this food, which
Is about q mile wide and three feet deep, en-.
tered the city Of Phoenix, flooding out many
poor families. The Territorial Insane
asylum had marrow escape, the water
being banked off. The electrical works
were flooded and the town left In darkness.
HUNDRED HOUSES FALL.
"About one hundred adobe houses fell In
as soon as the water soaked through, and q
large amount OF personal property was thus
lost.
Measures for the relief Of the needy
have bsen taken.
"Ths river began TO fall Friday after
noon and has nearly reached its normal
hight.
1.-THE loss is not less than Si25,000. of
which one-third falls to the railroad com-
pany. About five miles Of track was
washed out and bridge destroyed. Five
Pima Indians living near Leli, twenty-five
miles cast of Phoenix, are the only persons
known to have been drowned, though it is
believed a white man and his family, living
ished.r
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APPALLING LOSE OF LIFE.
The Spring Hill Death List Run Up
to III.

SPRING HILL MINE, N. g., Feb. 22.-To-
day the effects Of yesterdays disaster are
felt more acutely. Grief is depicted on
every face. The work of recovering the
bodies was pushed forward. and the
searching party entered the mine at
IL o'clock last night. A number
Of bodies were taken up and
to-day the work is going on steadily. The
dead are brought up more rapidly, and it is
expected that most Of the dead will be out
of the pit to-day, except those who are
buried beneath the fallen roof. The total
number of dead is now placed at III. Two
Of those injured died last night.
FAMILIES TERRIBLY AFFLICTED.
To several families the afiiction is very
great.
Reid Carter and his two son s, Willard
and Clarence, are all dead.
Three sons of the Carmichaels are
dead, John, Andrew and William.
Jesse Armishaw went down the No.
slope yesterday and found his three sons,
Jesse, Herbert and John Bainbridge ian
adopted SOM all lying together. The sight
stckened and unnsrved him so that he had
to return to the surface without them. He
was frantic with grief
The two sons of Robert McVey, under IA
years old, are laid out side by side.
Hugh Bunt loses two boys, Andrew and
Alexander.
These sorrowful households are only few
of the large number from which bread
winners have been snatched.
TEARS IN SCORES OF EYES.
To-day one meets everywhere women and
children weeping piteously. The deepest
munity. During the night people were
astir, and little knots of men eagerly dis
cussed the situation.
special train has arrived from West
vile and other mining centers in Plctou
county with relatives of the dead and
Others.
A steady stream OF curious people has
been pouring into town from all quarters
and visitors are numerous.
Some of the bodies taken out were fear
fully mutilated. Those of the dead who
were beyond recognition were identified by
their clothing or marks on their bodies.
AN IMPRovIsED MoRGUE.
The carpenter shop has been temporarily
converted into dead house, Co which all
corpses are taken and then washed and pre-
pared for their coffins. 1t is most
gruesome sight. The shop is
continually crowded with sorrowing
relatives looking for their dead. The
clergymen of the different denomination.
are doing what they can for the griei
stricken people. No services were held in
the Methodist or Presbyterian churches to-
day. Rev. Father Egan celebrated high
mass in the morning and there was shori
service in the Episcopal church. The
appalling enormity of the accident has
stunned the people, and they are just be
ginning to realize the extent of the dreadful
calamity. The injured are progressing
most favorably, and are being tenderly
cared for.
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STRUCK BY A SQUALL.
A Schooner Turned Over in York River
and Her Mate Drowned.

A Schooner Turned Over in York River
and Her Mate Drowned.
BALTIMORE, Feb. GA special to the
Sun says: "The two-masted schooner East
Newmarket, Capt. T. J. Moon, of Balti-
more, was wrecked near Pages rock, in
York river, Saturday afternoon, and the
mate, Lancer Hubbard, was drowned.
"Capt. Moon says it was northwestern
squall that struck him. He was taking in
sail, and had the main sail part Of the way
down when the wind struck it, carrying
away both jibs and the mainsail. After
the sails had been blown away the schooner
was completely overturned. She laid on
her beam ends aud blew ashore The crew
of four got on her side and in the rigging,
where they remained until between and 6
o'clock this morning, when the Baltimore
steamer Danville, Capt. Billups, on her way
to West Point, went to the rescue. The
mate was then found dead in the rigging,
drowned. The crew and captain were very
nearly exhausted. The mate was so years
old and leaves a family. The schooner was
bound from Norfolk to Pamuuky river for
lumbern
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AMERICA A MODEL.

DR.. Windthorst Says Our Laws Would
Make Germans Happy.
BERLIN, Feb. 22.-At dinner given by
Herr Barth last evening to the members Of
the Reichstag, DR.. Windthorst offered
toast in honor of William Walter Phelps,
the United States minister to Ger
many. In offering the toast. the
clerical leader said that America,
Notwithstanding the temporary madness"
shown by the adoption OF the new tariff
law. was still model by the imitation Of
which Germany might insure the spread of
happiness and liberty among the people.
This sentiment was heartily applaUded by
Herren Ricketr, Schroeder, Bamberger,
Siemlaw and other political leaders present.
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ILLINOIS DEADLOCK.
Two OF the Farmer representatives
Ask Instructions.

Two OF the Farmer representative
Ask Instructions.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. % -Representa.
tives Moore and Taubeneck, who addressed
a meeting at Shelbyville yesterday, re-
turned to this city to-day. Their audience
was composed of farmers mostly. and when
Mr.. Moore asked how many desired him to
vote for Gen. Palmer, about one-sixth of
the one hundred present raised their
nands. Four wanted him to vote
Tor a republican, and tine remainder
slgnihed their approval of the course taken
by the Farmers Mutual Benefit Association
legislators. Gen. Palmer, in an interview
TINS afternoon, said he would continue to
receive votes from the democratic members
Ior some time to come, ard that there is at
present no indication of near approach Of
1he time for change of candidates.
WILL NEVER VOTE FOR PALMER.
,SHELBYvILLE, ILL, Feb. 22-Mr.
moore, In public address here yesterday,
declared that he would never vote for Gen.
Caiiaer. 1t was upon Mr.. Moore's vote
ilargely that the democrats were building
hopes OF Gen. Palmer's eventual success.
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A BLUFF IN NICARAGUA.
The Canal Company Doing Nothing
But Little Dredging.

The Canal Company Doing Nothing
But Little Dredging.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.-It appears that
the Nicaragua canal people do not expect to
get their bill any further this session than
through the Senate. and that they do
not care to get it through the House.
since its chief purpose is to use
the favorable action they expect from the
Senate as an advertisements to draw in
vestors into the project. A local paper
contains the following to-day. "a gentle
man lately in the employ OF the Nicaragua
Canal Construction Company, who has
just returned to the city, SAYS that
nearly all the engineer parties have been
discharged for lack Of funds to pay them.
MAKING A BLUFF.
while it was ostensibly given out that
the survey had been completed when he
left Nicaragua, parties were being taken
from the field work, which is not near COM
pletion, and were told that the twelve
months contract under which they were
employed would not be kept by the Mari
time Canal Company, and that all work
would be stopped except the show of dredg-
ing until congress appropriated money to
resume 1t.
OBJECT OF THE DREDGING.
"This gentleman also said that he was told
by an official Of the construction company
that they had stopped the work of the en-
cheering parties in preference to the work
of dredging, because they wanted to keep
I'D sho,v for the present. and while every
body could see the dredgers at work nobody
could see the engineering parties in the
woods "
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positively identified the prisoners as the
essailants. After the trial they wsTe bound
over, and be left on the Q o'clock train for
Brunswick In company with George Han
son. He also testified that the deceased were
the men identified by Jordan.
THE VERDICT.
The jury retired and after deliberation
returned this verdict: 1--WE, the jury. find
from the above evidence that the parties,
Wesley King and Henry jackson, came to
their death on the night OF Feb. 21, 1891, by
hanging and gunshot wounds at the hands
OF parties unknown to us. and We also find
that the officers in charge OF the prisoners
were powerless TO resist the attack Of tho
mob, and we believe the same to be mur-
der.h The bodies were then cut down aud
given TO Undertaken Moore, who placed
them in pine ooffins furnished by the
county, and later they were buried in the
pauper's graveyard.
Curiosity seekers cut much of the rope TO
pieces by which they were hanged.
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IN DANGER OF LYNcHINa.

Petersburg, Va, in as Excited a State
as brunswick.
WASHINGTON, Feb. ga special TO the
Post from Petersburg, Va, says Scott
Bishop, a negro who made murderous as
sault on Hugh Hammock, prominent
citizen Of Nottaway county, few days ago
and then robbed him. has been arrested at
Ridgeway, N. c., and taken TO Blackstone,
Va. The feeling against Bishop is very
bitter, and threats of lynching him are
being made. The prisoner acknowledges
his guilt, and duplicates a white man
named Wells, who denies that he had any
part in the assault. Mr.. Hammock died
from his injuries Friday,
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JERRY SIMPSONS VIEWS.
The Republican Party Dead-He Would
Abolish the Senate

WASHINGTON, Feb. Representative
elect Jerry Simpson of Kansas, in the
course Of long interview published to-
day, Is quoted as saying: "The third party
movements is growing in strength every
day, aud IL will be considerable of factor
in the next presidential campaign. The
farmers represent the great moral engine in
our politics. and when corruption runs
rampant IN the large cities and our rerubIi-
can form Of government IS threatened then
is the time that the moral engine of the
country is called into play. The Republican
party has had its day. II is as dead as the
whig party. The republicans have no
reforms to offer the people, and they are so
honeycombed with corruption and have
given the people so much class legislation
that the time has arrived to infuse new
blood into the government
WILL LIVE ALWAYS.
"You say the Republican party Is dead.
What is your opinion Of the Democratic
party!"
"The Democratic party, you know, has
existed since the foundation of the govern
meut and will always live. 1t is a conserv-
ative party and is more in harmony with
the people. Once aud awhile it gets into a
rut and needs q general shaking up, and it
6CAoA oAAI 6oeo 49,
WOULD ABOLISH THE SENATE.
az am in favor of abolishing the Senate,n y
continued Mr.. Simpson. "The Senators do
not represent the people. Alexander Ham
ilten was an aristocrat. BE said the people
could not be trusted; he wanted the power,
however, to hold the people in check,
and the Senate represents that
power. Besides, a senator's term of
Office is too long. The CON-
biued wisdom of the people is greater and
safer than the wisdom of select few. The
representatives being elected every two
years, and coming from the people direct,
are better qualified TO pass upon the legisla-
ton that is wanted by the people than the
senators, who have no interest in COM
mon with the people. regard the
movement inaugurated in Illinois to elect
the senators by the popular voice Of the
people as the beginning Of what is to fol-
low, and that is the abelishment of the
United States Senate. You may not live
to see it, but it will surely come"
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STABBED SEVEN TIMES.
A Brickmaker Fatally Wounds Man
Who Loaned Him SIS.

ATLANTA, Ca, Feb. 22.-Mark Hasby, a
brickmaker, last night called at the board
ing-house of Henry Arnold and stabbed
him seven time. Death is almost sure TO
result before morning. The two had some
words yesterday, when Arnold demanded
the return Of IS lent Hasby TO pay the
funeral expenses for his child. Accounts Of
the stabbing conflict.
Arnold says Hasby called on him with his
brother for the purpose of renewing the
trouble, and the latter knocked him down
with a chair, while the other did the stab
bing. Hasby, o2 the other hand, declared
when arrested that the meeting with Ar
mold was accidental, and that he did the
cutting only after being attacked with a
butcher knife.
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aATHEaINes OF woMHN.
Important Conventions to be Held at
Washington.

washington.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22-The present
week in Washington will be a notable one
for the women Of the country. Two gather
ings, in which much interest is manifested,
are to take place during the week at AL
baugh's opera house The first Of these
gatherings is the first triennial OF the
Woman's National Council OF the United
States.
Its regular business session will begin to-
morrow and will continue Tuesday and
Wednesday, with two or more
sessions each day. A large number OF the
prominent women Of the country are here
to attend the meetings of the council, and
many subjects will be discussed. Thirty
five organizations of women will be repre-
sented. Preliminary exercises of q religious
nature were held to-day and were attended
largely. Long before the hour Of the meet
ing the opera house was hlled, and many
persons we're unable to get In the house.
CONDUCTED By WOMEN
The services were conducted entirely by
women. -Four women ministers participated
three of whom are settled as pastors over
churches They are Revs Caroline J
Bartlett of Michigan, who offered prayer /;
Ida A. Hultin of Iowa, who delivered a
sermon, and Anna GarlIn Spencer Of
Providence, r. l. Rev. Anna H. Shaw,
national lecturer of the National
American Woman's Suffrage Association,
announced a collection with true Methodist
fervor, and Mrs. Margaret Bottome, presi-
dent of the Kings Daughters, made an
eloquent exhortation for broader spiritual
life for women.
The second gathering will be the 23d an
nual W Washington convention Of the National
American W oman's Suffrage Association.
This convection will begin Thursday and
end Sunday.
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MORTGAGES IN ALABAMA.
Facts Learned by the Agents of the
Census Bureau.

Facts Learned by the Agents Of the
Census Bureau.
WASHINGTON, March 22.-Supt. Porter
of the census bureau has just prepared an
introduction to the bulletin on the private
Indebtedness Of individuals and corporations
of the United States. The report issued is
for Alabama and Iowa. According to this
report the total real estate mortgage debt in
Alabama in force Jan. /, 1890, was
$39, OPT ,9S3; the average amount of debt to
one of population, $26. In 1889 the number
of acres mortgaged was l, ,744, ,420. The total
number OF acres in the state is 329, SOC, 800,
and the per cent Of acres morUgaged "a.
The interest charges range from to 40
per cent Throughout the south and west
contracts often state that the debt is with
out interest. or give lower than the true
rate.
The average life Of mortgages Is COM
puted to be 2.7S years in Alabama.
WHY LOANS ARE SOUGHT.
By personal inquiry as to the objects in
mortgaging real estate, the most prominent
ones given are; Purchase money to buv
other land, business improvements, farm
expenses, family expenses, family supplies,
farm supplies, to repay borrowed money
and litigation and lawyers fees. The coun-
ties thus selected and known in the consus
Office as inquiry" counties were jefferson
and Greene counties. In Jeffer-
son county it was found by
actual inquiry by special agents
of the census that the motive for
1854 per cent. OF the Indebtedness was the
incumbered and other real estate. improve
ments and business, and in Greene county
Alabama, for these purposes, 66. 81 per cent.
In computing the amount OF existing in
debtedness in the two selected "inQuiryn
counties in Alabama the total actual debt
on Jan. l, 1890, was S14, 952, ,020; the total
computed debt, $685., ,230, and the per-
centaRe of error in excass was 2 30
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ST. AUGUSTINE CROWDED.
More People There Yesterday Than
on Anv Previous SUNDAY

More People TherS yesterday Than
on any Previous Sunday.
ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA, Feb. 22--It will
take all the outgoing trains tomorrow to
carry away the surplus guests Of to.
day at the Ponce de Leon, Cor
The city never before had such
crowds as during the past twenty four
hours. Paul Boyton gave a swimming
exhibition on North beach. Father
Ignatius preached to an immense congrega-
ton. Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton Disston and
party are at the Ponce de Leon, where a
George Washington dinner was served from
a vellum menu.
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CHAMPIONS ON SKATES.
The international Tourns ment Ends
in a Norwegian Victory.

CHRIsTIANA, Feb. 22.-The international
skating tournament was concluded here to-
day. The first contest. which took place
last Sunday, was won by Hagan, the Nor
wegian champion. In the Sec
ond contest, to-day, Hagan COW
cred the distance, one mile, in 2 minutes
81 is seconds, and Cormick, the Canadian
champion, in minutes "a 2-5 seconds.
Hagan won the third contest, distance
three miles, inc minutes Is seconds; Cor
mick's time being minutes So seconds.
The announcement Of the result was ac-
claimed by $4,000 spectators. Hagan was
awarded $500 aud Kroner a gold medal
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woRLp.e FAIR RIroEEs.
A Rurnor That Director General Davis
VIII Resign.

CHICAGO, Feb. 22.-The Members Of the
worlds fair national commission board OF
control all arrived in Chicago
to-day in preparation for the ses-
sion beginning tomorrow, which 10
expected TO be decidedly lively. 1t is ru-
mored. but not confirmed, that the discourage
ing course of events at Washing gton will re-
suit in Director General Davis rendering
bis resignation to the board Of control
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HARD FIGHTING IN CHILE.

The Revolutionary Forces Defeated at
at PisaRua.
BUENos ArREs, Feb. 22-Two hundred
Chilean refugees have crossed the Andes
and arrived at Mendoza. They state that
the Chilean insurgents, led by Urriza, hold
Pisagua, Iquique, Antofagasta and Chan
araL
Advices from Chile say there has been
desperate fighting at Pisagua and that the
insurgents ere finally defeated. A battle
began near Iquique Saturday, the result of
which is as yet unknown.
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London,s Shipping strike.

LONDON, Feb. 22.-The dockers' commit
sS s9 mas issued a manifesto charging the
Iupplng federation with committing
bseacnes of faith, and with desiring to
iprihg about another severe struggle between
r;u ,aoor and capital The union men are adj
'"lng the committee not to strike.
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SEVERAL FIRMS BURNED OUT.
a Big Building at Kansas City Wrap.
ped in Flames.

0Is bUlIulng at Kansas Guy Wrap
ped in Flames.
KANSAS CITY. Mo-, Feb. 22.-Fire was
discovered at 10 o'clock tonight in the
second story of a building at No. 70S Main
s'reet, occupied by the Wells Fargo Ex-
press Company. The loss is esti-
mated at $255, ZOO, divided as
totoWs: ,s: Liehstader & Co., wholesale
iTHHlnnners, $4,000; Holland BROS, $25, 900;
CHeHs Fargo Express Company; S25, 900;
GGppenheimer & Co., $4,000; Sloss, 500 900.
hue, htus loss on the building is $75 600. The
TTIlllulng belonged to Boston syndicate.
st1s aue amount Of the insurance is not obtain
able tonight
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Three Denuties Elected

PARIS, Feb. o. Socialist BasIy has been
elected In Bethune and two republicans
in Rouen and Averne respectively to fill the
seats Of deputies elected to the Senate.
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HAzLEToN's DEAD MINERS.
Nour Bodies Recovered and Eight
More in the Mine.

nAzLEToN, Pa, Feb. 22.-Searching
partles in the Jeanesville mine recovered the
s SOl'e' of Larry Reed, Harry Ball, Mike
Smitn and John Bullock In Balls breast
.uS afternoon. The four unfortunate vic
TN TINS mad evidently lived ten or twelve days.
eo ro space in which they were found was
b9.se3uey feet above the water line. The
otS OySlies were more or less eaten by rats. The
bTugr biu bodies, eight ia number, will proba-
Wy Dc recovered early tomorrow.
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A Enanish Admiral Dead

MADRID, Feb. 22-Admiral L. Fl. Pinson
Alvarez, commander-in-chief OF the Span
ish navy, is dead
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sHERMAN's FUNERAL TRAIN.
Return Of the Mourners From the
Trfy, ~ Or ntf{a

Trip TO 81. Louis.
PITrsBURG, Pa, Feb 22.-The Sherman
funeral train arrived here tonight on Its
return trip. Secretaries Rusk and Proctor.
Senator John Sherman and Gen. Schofield
took a train for Washington, Liout. Fitch
and family went to their homes here. Gen.
Miles started for Chicago, while the other
friends and family continued on their way
TO New York.
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IRELAND's OAMpAIaN.
Auti-Parnen Philippics Hurled From
the Pulpits.

the Pulpits.
DUBLIN. Feb 22-The Catholic primate
of Armagh, in sermon to-day, praised the
dissenters in England for having risen as
one man to mark their adherence of the
sin of impurity.
speeches on his way to Roscommon to-day.
The general burden Of his remarks was thai
not even the Healyites dare say that Mr..
Gladstone's assurances are satisfactory.
Men whom Ireland bad looked to in conf
dence had now sunk low enough to accept
English gold in payment for their sub
servience to English parties.
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Csman Digns On the Run.
SUAKna, Feb. 22.-Osman Digna Is 6es-
ing to Kassala.
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ANTI-PARNELLIrEs ROUTED.

An unsuccessful attempt was made to hold
an outdoor anti-Parnell meeting at Car
rick on.Shannon, capital of county Leitrim,
to-day. The Parnell sympathizers,
who were out in large force, re-
fused to listen to the speeches,
and finally charged upon and demolished
the platform which had been erected for the
speakers accommodation. Among the
prominent members of the anti-ParnelI fac
tion present were Messrs. Hsaly, Jordan
and Matthew Kenny.