The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-08
BRISBANE FLOODS.
The Water Submerges Buildings
Sixty Feet High.
EX-PRESIDENT GREyY is ACOUIT-
TED OF COMPLETELY IN
PANAMA FRAUDS.

The Roman Bank Scandal-A Protest
Against the Crimping Eyil-Death OF
AIgernon Sartoris.
BRISBANE, February THE water is
thirty feet deep in the principal streets
of the city tonight and in the suburbs has
covered buildings sixty feet high. Five
hundred houses are demolished. Hun
dreds of families who lost their homes
have left the city in boats for higher
ground. All gas and water pipes are de-
stroyed and the city is in darkness. All
the towns between Brisbane and Ipswich
are submerged. It is the worst disaster
in the history of the colony.
BRISBANE, February AT 4 o'clock
this morning the water arou d Brisbane
began falling. The city is still isolated.
however, and little news can be got from
nearby towns. The list of dead grows
hourly. Many bodies are being found in
houses which were supposed to have
been deserted.
1t is reported that several mines at
Gympie in the Wide Bay District are in
undated, and that great damage has been
done to mining operations.
Ex-President Grevy Discharged.
PARIS, February Tt is reported
that chamber of indictments has decided
that no case has been found agains
Deputy Rouvier and Senators Deves,
Grevy and Renault, against whom M.
Franqueville, the examining magistrate
in the Panama scandal, reported true
bills.
All the above mentioned officers have
been exonerated from the Panama
charges on the ground that the evidence
does not warrant their prosecution.
The Crimping Evil.
LONDON, February Tin replying to
deputation from the chamber of ship
ping, yesterday Mr.. Mundella,. presi-
dent of the board of trade, i'd that,
while recognizing the evils of crimping
in American ports. the government was
in difficult position, because British
consuls in the United States had powers
which the habeas corpus act denied to
American consuls in Great Britain. The
Crown lawyers were considering
the subject, and meantime treaty
would be concluded with the United
States for the mutual surrender of mer-
chant seamen and deSerterS.
An American Bark Foundered.
LONDON. February Capt. Scott and
crew of ten men of the American bark
Henry A. Burnham, landed at Falmouth
after being rescued from the vessel at
sea. The Burnham sailed December %
from Port Spain for Philadelphia, and
when out ten days encountered hurri-
canes lasting sixteen days, during which
she sustained irreparable damage. When
the crew were rescued January Is, she
was in latitude 39o 05t north, longitude
SO go west. The Burnham was in a
sinking condition.
The Italian Scandal.
ROME, February THE examining
magistrate has learned that in 1889 the
bank of Rome, despite the fact it is one
of the smaller of the six banks of issue,
distributed 100000 lire among deputies
and other politicians to secure the pas
sage of the bank bill. Under similar
circumstances in 1891. the same institu-
ton paid 1900, 900 lire for support of
men of the same class.
Algernon Sartoris Dead.
LONDON, February 7.--Algernon Sar-
toris, the husband of Nellie Grant, died
at Capri, Italy, Friday. He had not
lived with his wife for years.