Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-03-31
WOOL

MOOL.
BOSTON. March 3o.-There has been a
sharp demand IN the wool market TINS
week. and indications are that manuldc-
turcrs Will continue to buy WOOL uiitH o o.,e
price gets so high that they will be con-
tent 10 rest. Territory WOODS nave INST
with q large demand and are selling on
the secured basis of 2.M35c. while lots OF
good staples are selling for S1d3Sc. Fleece
woods are quoted higher al along the line,
bat the market Is largely nomlndl on
many grades. Australian wool Is very
active and dealers have no trouble IN dis
posing OF their supplies az Iu!I prices ,r,,.
Following are the quotations for leading
descriptions:
above 1Siadl9c: No. ] cOmbing. DC: No.
do 23c; Xxx and Xxx above, 2lG23c; de.alne
Michigan. Wisconsin. ctc.-X Michigan
11Ld1Sc: 40. ! Michigan comblng, &c;
boT1blng &c: No. > Illinois combing, re;
No. " York. New Hampshire ana Yer
rush OrTeA No. 1. New York, New Hamp-
thrown bacEnont zoe; deaine Michigan
mouth Of the Yazo Ike. lucky and Indl-
of Vicksburg. ,KentucIy and
Back thirty to fifty mile. Missouri 4
river runs number of lateral 9yS * c0''''-
which empty their water inS
Yazoo. The whole territory from -
main river east to these streams Will
be for the most part under water IN
fortv-eight hours. The region marked
for destruction is probably hundred
miles long and from twenty TO thirty
five miles wide. The country is as ler-
tile as n-r;1ern garden.
Greenvifle is in great danger. The
water from the middle break will par
TALLY flood that town. If the levee III
front Of Greenville should break, no
man can conveive what the losses 10
life and property would be. ,-.,.,.
Probably 10000 people are working WIN
a desperation born Of despair to save their
homes and property. The whole machlh-
cry Of the State and the Illinois Central
railroad Is being brought into play. 1t Is
currently reported tonight that the leVee
in front of Laconia Circle, Ark. has bro
ken. II this should be true, and most
probably is correct. thirty thousand acres
Of fertile cotton land will be flooded by
morning.
The news reached Memphis through a
telegram from Captain II. Cheek. OF the
steamer Kate Adams. at an early hour this
morning. supposedly between 3 and
o'clock. the Ievee near Stokes Landing,
four miles above Huntington on the Mis-
sssippi. gave way.
The information came to Memphis di-
rect from Supt. Gilleas, of the Illinois Cen
trail. who is now on the line.
The width of the crevasse could not be
ascertained, but the worst is feared as
The levee there for miles is considered
rather weak.
The river is stationary at Memphis TO-
night. the gauge indicating S6.2 feet
The stationary condition instead Of the
usual fall is thought to have been brought
about by the rainfalls in the territory
which drains into the Mississippi north OF
Memphis. For the same reason 1t Is pre-
dicted by the local observer of the weather
bureau that there will be probably slight
rise in the river at Memphis during the
ensuing "a hours.
At Helena a rise of but two-tenths Of a
foot in the "a hours ending to-day Is re-
corded.
At Arkansas City. instead Of the con-
siderable rise. fall of two-tenths OF
foot is indicated.
The river at Arkansas City IS 80 ABOVE
danger line. .
At Vicksburg this morning the gauge
REGISTERED 49.3 feet. a rise of half foot IN
a hours. The river at Nicksours mas
reached a point which is 81 above danger
line. ,-;.,
The river is rising with increasing rapIu-
ity both at Vicksburg and points on the
lower Mississippi.
vTCKSBURG. Miss. March SO.-Last
night a serious break occurred in the ieVee
AT Stop Landing. Miss, seven miles north
of Arkansas City. This makes the third
break in the Mississippi.
JACKSON. Miss, March SO.-Vicksburg
telegraphs to the Associated Press at SD
n m that the river there Is higher thah III
. wears The Louisiana levee north OF
y,,ol,eburg is still maintained through
s,,narbuman effort. Several are in a pre-
.o-io,,s condition. Two more breaks,
hove and below Huntington. Miss, are re-
nortad making in lower Mississippi dis
tricts They will chiefly affect the coun-
49,. ,,,ee+ of the Louisville New orleans
and Texas railroad.
Cunnison. Miss, March 91.-News mas
iuet been received here by special mes
Sanger that the leve has brokn at Stoks'
~ Sunny Wild plantation, two and a
half miles south of Gunnison- IL Is
said bv good river judges that II VIII
cover everything south as far as ROSE
dale and it is thought 1t VIII put the
Iatter Mace under four feet Oh "dueI'
There will be great destruction OF prop
ertv This break will put Gunnlson ia
a very precarious position, placing the
,o,,,n between two crevasses, one at
Perthshire. four miles north ana tne
hoax at Stokes. Gunnison IS alreauy
under watch from one to six feet; ana
The the. break south Of here Will ADD 10
this. ,o,- hoe caused
-,ncb suffering and loss of property.
The crevasse is now 400 feet wide.