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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31
WHY A CHURcHMAN.

THE PASTOR OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
Editor Gazette.
l received your request for an article on,
'FVhy I am a Chnrchman." While 1
haven't the time for an elaborate statement,
I shall be pleased to give 2 hasty and brief
one.
By churchman I presume you mean sim
ply member of the church That being
your meaning, I shall proceed TO give you
some of the many reasons for being mem
Der of the church of Jesus Christ.
L I believe the church Of Jesus Christ is
OF divine appointment. The reasons for
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31

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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
ONE HUNDRED LIVES LIVES.
Names of But Fifteen Known-A Finan-
cial Loss of Sc 900, 900.

Names of But Fifteen Known-A Finan-
cial Loss of Sc, 100000.
The relief committee has the names Of
fifteen known to have been drowned and
authentic reports of the drowning of three
or four times that number 1t is believed
that the death list will not number less
than 100. The waters are receding. Floyd
valley, mile wide in places and five
miles through the manufacturing and
railroad district of the city and thickly
dotted with homes, is a scene of desolation.
There were probably 200 families in the
valley, the majority living in small houses.
Havoc in the Factory District.
Hundreds of houses were swept away en-
tirely. Over half mile of paving on one
street was destroyed. All the railroad
yards, machine shops, warehouses, lum-
Der yards, stove works foundries, shoe fac
tories, gas works and many retail business
houses were submerged. Four bridges
were carried away. Not railroad train
can reach the city. In the afternoon fire
in the flooded district added to the horror
The total loss in the city is estimated at
$1,0O0, ,0O0 to $4,000
Fifteen Corpses Swept Away.
At the manufacturing suburb of Leeds,
directly in the Floyd valley, nine persons
are known to have been drowned. Four
were drowned at Springdale, just below
Leeds. Observers on the high bridge
counted fifteen bodies that swept under It.
One man attempted to wade out, carrying
two children, but was struck by . floating
timber and SO hurt that he dropped one.
Matt Roe, an old sailor saved the lives of
twenty-eight persons. Mrs. f. e. West
was swept away and separated from her
little 5-year old giil, who was drowned.
A Child of the Deluge.
A woman who managed to walk to a
box-car was there seized with labor pains
and gave birth to child and two hours
later was rescued. A woman named Hin
ton and three children were drowned in
their own house. Two Swedish families
were swept away and drowned before res
cuers could reach them. The gas works
and electric light plant are under water
and the city is in darkness. Citizens have
thrown open their houses and barns, and
the churches will be opened il necessary
to shelter the homeless multitude.
Scenes Among the Refugees.
The scene at the Chamber Of Commerce
was pitiful. Hysterical women rushed
hither and thither, with fearful eyes, in
vain trying to locate their missing ones
Mothers with their loved ones all saved
thanked q merciful God for his favor
Poor and rich met on the common level
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKETS.
Chicago.

CHICAGO, May 1a
Following were the quotations on the board
Of trade to-day: Wheat - May, opened
Sic, closed s Hc; June, opened Sic, closed
sO5sc; July. opened sO34c, closed so4Sc. Corn
May, opened 55c closed 52A;c June opened
$3.50. Oats-May. opened 3oc, closed 2egtc,
June, opened 3Oc, closed 2g56c; July, opened
3Oc, closed azsc- Pork-May, opened and
closed Se.721S; July, opened and closed
ss.77I1; September opened Sas0, closed
s995. LarI - May, opened and oiossd
$3.50.
Live Stock: Prices st the Union Stock yards
today ranged MS follows: Hogs Market
active and prices 5610c higher, while other lots
are unchanged, the packers and ship
pers both buying; sales ranged at $3e50L 30
pigs, s42ba4.75 light, s40aa4.35 rough pack
ing SI.3014.7o mixed, $4401&75 heavy pack
ing and shipping lots
Cattle-Market fairly active and prices sroue,
quotations ranged at SA2s1LT5 choice 70 ex.
ira shipping steers, S3Sj j94-25 good to choice
do, $3.6 G40O fair to good So Is da70 common
to medium do S3.000a50 butchers steers
$2.6OG33O stockers, $2.5UGS7j Texas steers,
$3.iO6 LOO feeders. Sl.2j0l50 cows, $2000350
bulls and $200G475 veal calves.
Sheep - Market moderately active and
prices steady; quotations ranged at s5O0oN
westerns, SiS0G6.30 natives and $5751T0
lambs; shorn lots, 5O07o per 100 lbs below the
quotations given above.
Produce: Butter-Fancy separator, s0c;
fine creamerieS 19c: dairies fancy fresh lsc;
No. daires log Ice; packing stock. fresh. l0c.
Egg-Fresh, 1f12c per doz. Live Poultry
Chickens, l2c per doz; roost.rs. &c; ducks 100
12c; turkeys, choice hens, l4c; young toms, Rc;
old goblers l00l1c; geese. SHsi65 % per doz.
Potatoes-Hebrons, 35Gt40c per bu. Burbanks.
45@4Sc; Rose. 356l37c for srei; Peerless. $50
SIC; common to poor mixed lots. 25G3Oc; Ber-
muda. potatoes, SS.5069.U per bril- APPLES
Common, 81 80 per bril-. good. S0JG325;
fancy, S3.i0. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. see, poor to
fair, SLO04L75 per twenty-four quart case;
fancy, $200G2.50 per twenty-four quart case.
New York.
NEW YORK, May IS.
Wheat-No. 2 red winter cash. q6asc; May
ss34c; June, S91sc; July, S934c; August, Sestc.
Corn-No. mixed cash, sS1sc; May, 53,Sc;
June SIPS; July, 50;ac. Oats-No. mixed
cash, S5c; June, S5ssc; July, 357sc. Rye
Steady; SIC delivered Barley = Nominal.
Pork-Dull; new mess, SlL00 Lard-Quieti
July, S656; August, S6.I. -----sss
Live Stock: Cattle-Traiing active, but
dealers rated values shade easier than Mon.
! day; poorest to best native steers, $+0ua
| 4eo per 100 lbs; bulls and dry cows, SL7o6
| ass. Sheep and lalnbs-Sheep and yearlin&
active ana sc per ID higher; spring laWH
very irn; clipped sheep, s5.s5d6-25 per u
lbs; clipped yearlinss, S6.75G7.5o; southAfl
lambs, 1850 10. 90. Hogs Nominally higher: Hv'
hogs, $4.SO1S2 per 100 lbs.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
Eleven straight Games for An.or-

CHICAGO, May ls.-Yesterday's win by
the Chicago club made eleven straight
games won since Anson got aboard his
streak of luck. League scores: At Chi
cago-Cleveland 2, Chicago 5; at Phil
adelphia-Washington 0, Philadelphia IL;
at Pittsburg-Cincinnati 8, Pittsburg 8:
at New York-Baltimore o, New York L:
at Brooklyn-Boston 8, Brooklyn s. Louis
ville-St. Louis game postponed to July 8.
Western: At Columbus-St. Paul 1.
Columbus & No other games played.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
Buried Forty Feet Deep.

CARTHAGE, Mo-, May IA large sec
ticl of ground at Thr CUP Diggings, near
Gainesville, caved in Tuesday. The fall
was seventy five feet across and sixty feet
deep. Yesterday force of men were en-
gagged in filling in the cavity when an
other cave occurred, carrying with it
Charles Roach, superintendent of the
mines, formerly of Indianapolis; Charles
II. Eulett and f. Howell. Roach made
his escape at the first fall, but another
slab of rock caught him and took him
down. The men are buried under forty
feet of dirt and rocks.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
OUTLOOK AT ST. LOUIS.
The Mississippi Goes to Thirty-Six Feet
and Rising-Desolated Farms.

The Mississippi Goes to Thirty-six Feet
and Rising-Desolated Farms.
ST. LOUIS, May 19.-The Mississippi
passed the thirty-six-foot mark at 10 p m
1t is rising steadily and slowly. The wind
has added its force to complete the work
of desolation commenced by the waters.
A strong gale prevailed throughout the
flooded section during yesterday, lashing
the water against such levees or embank'
ment as have SO far withstood its force.
Last night all hope Of saving the town OF
Madison, in the northern part of ST. Clail
county, ILL.,, was given up.
Damage in American Bottom.
The American bottom, the most fertile
section of Illinois, is now great lake; the
crops thereon are lost; at least one-third
of the stock has been drowned and farm
houses are under water, and many OF
them have foated away. Worst of all,
the deposits of sand and gravel left by the
river when it falls may leave the land ut
terly valueless. The loss in this section
aloue will run into the millions.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
Booming Again at Kansas City.

KANSAS CITY, May 19.-The Missouri
river is again booming and reached
higher point on the gauge last evening than
has been registered at any time this year.
The water is still rising at the rate of an
inch an hour and the signal Office says
that a greater flood is coming from above
which will send the water all over the
bottom in greater volumes than has yet
been seen
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
The Missouri Again Rising.

LEAvENwoRTH, Kans., May l9-The
Missouri river, which had begun to recede
at this point. is again rising. The waters
from the Iowa and Nebraska floods reach.
ed here last evening and the river is rising
at the rate of one inch per hour.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
Probable Last News from saiix.

SALIx, Ia, May 19-This town is five
feet under water and has been so for
twelve hours. No lives are reported lost,
but the damage to property and stock is
immense. All business is at a standstill
and this is probably the last message
which will go over the wires for some
time, as the telegraph is bound to go
down
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
Warned of a yyaterspout,

DEs MONIES, Ia, May 19.-The Des
Moines and Raccoon rivers rose two feet
yesterday and were coming up rapidly
last night. Advices from Fort Dodge
say that a waterspout of eight feet
in depth is coming down the river and
should it reach here the whole business
portion of the city will be submerged.
The levees at North street and South Coon
have broken. The people in lower por.
tions of the city are seeking higher ground.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
Nine Persons Drowned.

LINCOLN, Neb., May 19.-Lincoln is
water-bound. Not a train can come or CO.
Two thousand people are homeless, and
yesterday nine Russians, seven of them
children, were drowned before they could
be rescued from their house which was
washed away.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
Panic at Alton.

ALTON, Ills, May l9.-As the result OF
recent heavy rains both rivers are again
rising rapidly and the announcement Of
another foot of water coming from above
has created something like panic. Men
are busy raising the levees on Front street
in the manufacturing districts of the city,
as the water is ready to break into the
easements from above, flooding the ma
chinery. The rescued families temporar-
lily sheltered here now include nearly 1,00G
persons and half OF them are destitute.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
Other Devastation in Iowa.

LEMARs, Ia, May 19.-At Oskaloosa
thousands of acres of pasture and farm
land are under two and three feet Of water.
At Eddyville the high water has washed
out both approaches to the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific railroad bridge. Over
1900 feet Of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul tracks, between Emmettsburg
and Spencer, Aas been washed away.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19

all thankful even for life. The city
council at a meeting last ni1 hit appropriate
ed 5000 for immediate relief and several
thousands have been raised by subscrip-
tion. The ladies have been doing noble
work, providing shoes and clothing for the
children
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19

MoRRILLToN. Ark, May 19.-Hamp Viii.
son, colored, four women and five chill
dren were drowned at Dowdle's Place
while trying to escape in skiff.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
The Flood in the South.

NEW ORLEANS, May 19.-The river at
this point is washing over the levee in
some places, and men are hard at work
building it higher. Many rumors OF
broken levees are current, but cannot be
confirmed The waters, however, are over
thousands of acres of cultivated land and
working immense damage.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
The Local Markets.
Office Rock Island DAILY AND WEEKLY ARGUS
Rock Island, Ill. May 10 1902

Office Rock Island DAILY AND WEEKLY ARGUS
Rock Island, H., May 10, 1892 I
Business has been remarkably quiet on Marke
square during the past few days. Owing proba-
bly, to the almost impossible condition OF the
roads and the contiLaed rainy weather scarcely
any far ners are coming to town. No grain, hay or
produce Of any kind is coming in and no immedi-
ate prospect OF any until the roads dry up some
what. No material change in prices has occurred
and the following are the ruling ones:
wheat-s7Gsec.
Corn-39640c.
Rye-T90S1c.
Oats 30G35c.
Bran -S5c per cwt,
May-Tinoihy, slisis prairie. ,oan; clover
Butter-Fairto to choice, 16c; creamery, aaGs4
Eggs Fresh, l6c; PACKED, loc.
ducks, 12hc: geese, 10c.
rsu1T AND vEe.rABLEs.
hpples-s2: 25Gs27b per Dbl.
Onions-S0GS5c.
Turnips-i5d5Oc.
Cattle-Butchers pay for corn fed steers
shQ4hc; COWS and neifers, 2n03c; calves
Hogs-4c.
sheep-4G5c.
Hard-7 soar IS.
Soft-2 lOG2 30.
HIDES, wool, SEEDS, ETC.
Hides, dry 4c per ID.
green &c per ID.
Grubby No. &c
Green Salted pure No. /, 4lsc.
Calf Skin SC.
Wool. unwashed. 1Sc
Lime, per bbl, T5c.
Stucco, per Dbl. So IS.
Clover seed, per bu. 50 80.
Timothy, per bu. 81 so.
Common boards S16.
Joist Scantllng and timber, - TO i6 feet, S13
Every additional DOT inlength 50 cents.
X A Shingles 90 75.
Lath g So
Fencing IL TO 16 feet SIS.
Stock boards rough S16
- dressed SIT.
c. flooring $50
Finishing Lumber. dres ssedS3O1S4O.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
Devastation on the Illinois.

river continues to rise slowly and has COW
cred 5000 acres of farm lands in this
county. A large portion of this land was
in wheat, which is totally ruined.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
Drowned IRVING to Gross a River.

ELBING, Kan, May 19.-Tuesday night
Irving and Ella Osborne, brother and sis.
ter, attempted to cross the Whitewater
near this place. On account of the swollen
condition of the stream the buggy was
overturned and both occupants drowned.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
Trafhc stopped In South Dakota.

YAYKToN, S. D., May 19.-Trains on the
Milwaukee and Northwestern roads run
ming east Of Sioux City and Hawarden,
Ia, have been abandoned on account Of
the floods
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-19
Cash Is What Knocks!

You know as we'll as we do that for Cash
you can buy cheaper than on credit We
do a strictly Cash Business and when tra-
ding with us you are not compelled to pay
for the loss Of bad debts, etc. We have no
Old Shelf Worn Goods in our house, as the
goods of the old firm were closed out with
a RUSH after their failure; we have more
nice new Clothing to select from than any
two Clothing houses in the city. The Lon
don is the only Cash Clothing House in
ROclz Island
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-24
THE CURTIS TRIAL,

Testimony In Rebuttal-Only Two Witnesses Examined-The District
 AtTorney's Argument to the Jury.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23.-The taking of testimony in rebuttal in the Curtis trial closed to-day. Only two witnesses were examined, both being for the defence. District Attorney Barnes then opened the argument to the jury. He laid stress on the fact that Mrs. Holden and Mrs. John son, both residing across .he street where Officer Grant was shot, heard shots and saw one man fall and only one man run away. A pistol of the same calibre as the one owned by Curtis was found near by
 with three empty chambers. When ar rested Curtis exclaimed: "Oh, my God, if I could only recall the past three or four hours" Curtis had on his wrist nipper
 placed there by an officer. The dis trict attorney rehearsed the story told by Curtis that he was assaulted and an officer was killed by footpad, and in closing asked If it were possible for intel
 ligent men to believe the story. Attorney Knight made the opening argument for the defense. He stated that Curtis was known by reputation to the people of the United States everywhere and his reputation had always been good. He claimed it was i'm possible for a mind befuddled as was Cur tis' on the night of the tragedy to concoct defense which has withstood examination unless there was truth in his statements. Knight said only Sergeant Coles testified that Policeman Grant had star on when his body was found, and it was further claimed that Grant was in citizens cloth ing. Knight claimed the prosecution had suppressed material evidence.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-24
on the Track of ConspiratOrs. nIs Eol % Tla E.onoh x,oEao .,x
RUN OVER BY A TRAIN.

Two Members of a Pleasure Party
 Killed and . Third Ltk ely to Die.
 PrrTsBURG, Feb. 23.-The west-bound St. Louis express on the Pennsylvania road ran down 8 pleasure party at Flaw kins station, near here, at about o'clock this morning, Killing one person instantly and fatally injiring two others. Their names were:
 Alice Gaskill, aged twenty years, of Swissvale, Pa., killed instantly. William Dewar, aged twenty-two years, of Williamsburg, Pa., died at the hospital @ few hours after the accident.
 Milton Ziegler, aged twenty-two years,
 of Williamsburg, Pa; still living, but will likely die.
 The members of the party were return l ing from dance at Braddock, and having missed the last train were walking home. | They had reached Harwins Station when | the express came around @ sharp curve. | The sudden appearance of the train bewil- 1 dered them, and before they could step | from the tracks the locomotive was on them, and they were ground under the wheels. Miss Gaskill was dead when picked up, Ziegler and Dewar were uncon.
 scious. They were taken to the West Penn
 sylvania hospital, where Dewar died two
 hours later. The physicians have no hopel of Negler's recovers.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-24

CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH. Their Father Likely 10 Die From
 Burns Received in Trying 10 Save Them.
 PITTSBURGH, Penn., Feb. 2S.-Two chil. dren were burned to death in fire al McKeesport last night, and their father, in his efforts to rescue them, almost perished himself, and may yet die of his injuries. A third child was also probably fatally burned.
 The fire occurred in three-story frame house late last night, owned by man named Huey and occupied by Michael Lynch and his family. Lynch is fireman, and when the alarm was turned in he was on duty at the engine house. Little think ing that it was his own house that was on fire or of the terrible calamity that was about to fall upon him, Lynch jumped on the hose carriage and rode to the burning house, which he was horror stricken to find was his own. It was mass of flames when the fremen arrived. Lynch rushed into the flames and smoke in search of his wife and children who, some one said, were in the house. The frantic father had scarce ly got inside the door when he was over come by the dense smoke and fell forward on his face unconscious. Several of his fellow fremen jumped to his as- sistance, and it was with the grestest difficulty that they succeeded in rescuing him.
 In the meantime two of his children, asleep in another room, were caught by the flames just as the father entered the house to save them and were soon burned to death. Another child was badly burned, but some of the fremen succeeded in res cuing her. Mrs. Lynch succeeded in es- caping from the burning building without serious injury.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-24
TRAIN ROB BEE CROSS. He Confesses to Being an old Hand messenxer McInernH,s Story.

"esseuSeT "Clnerny's story.
 ROCHESTER, N. Y., Feb. 23.-J. B. Prem tiss, agent for the American Express com pany in this city, has been to Lyons ana has had an interview with the robber Mir Prentiss says: ''He is the same man who committed the Utica robbery, O. c. Perry He admitted the whole thing and told where he had been. Since the Utica rob bery he said he had been in Canada and in the west. He says he always went un der his own name and was indignant at the statement that he took any other. He told me he knew when they were after him in any place and avoided arrest by changing his voice and putting on gold speotacles"
 Daniel McInerny, the express messenger who hsd such thrilling experience, was brought to his home in this city and sur gical aid summoned. His worst wound is through the right thigh. The wound on his forehead is slight, and that in his hand was made by a fragment of a large bullet, as a piece was found in the wound. Me Inerny told his family that when he found himself in the power of the robber he roll ed out some of the less valuable packages and covered valuable ones with them. The robber was impatient to get the currency, and threatened to shoot if 1t was not sur rendered. He said to the messenger: "You can't fool me. I've been in the business before" While the robber was waiting to get the money the train reached Lyons and the game was up.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-24
FIELD IN COURT.
He is Bro ught in to Stand Trial on
 Charge of Grand Larceny.

He is Brought in to Stand Trial on .
 Charge of Grand Larceny.
 NEW YoRK, Feb. 23.-Edward M. Field, son of Cyrus W. Field, and head of the firm of Field, Weichers & Lindley, was brought before Judge Van Brunt in the court of oyer and terminer to-day for trial on one of six indictments charging him with grand larceny.
 w. Bourke Cockran, counsel for Field, objected to his being placed on trial stat. ing that he was insane and was mentally incapable of pleading to the indictment. He offered in support of this . certified copy of the verdict of the jury at White Plains pronouncin9 Field insane. District Attorney Nicon suggested that . | jury be selected to try the question oi Fields insanity. Judge Van Brunt decided | in favor of jury and the work of select ing one was at once begun.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-24

SITuATIOE 10 do houseEork in private far fslits Ens ASFgMI7N STRFFT
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-24

A SITUATION by a German eiri to do sec Aond work Second noor,
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-24
SOME NEW DISCOVERIES.
What pr. Chandler Has Found Ou
 About Stars.

W nut UT CnahuleT haB rOuno out
 About Stars.
 BOSTON, Feb. 23.-At the 242d regular meeting of the Boston Scientific society this evening Dr. Seth 0. Chandler read 6 paper entitled ''Some New Discoveries iu Stellar Motions," which is the most impor. tant paper of it's kind which has ever been presented before a scientific society in this country. In his investigations of the pc, riod of the variable star Algel, Dr. Chan, dler discovered some irregularities. both in brightness, period and proper action. A consideration of these irregularities has convinced him that Algol, together with its dark companion, are revolving to- gether about third body, nearly central in the system, in 130 years, and that minor pertubations indicate, but do not prove, the existence of still other planets in the system. This is the statement with any foundation on proof that there eIist in stellar space any systems comparable with our solar system. Dr. Chandler considers that the central body, although dark, is probably observable under favorable con ditions by our largest telescopes. He is inclined also to the opinion that the evi- dence tends to show that such systems are by no means rare in the universe.