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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-10
ron Observation-Disclosures.

FOR SALE, BUTTER, CREAM.
curds and milk. Orders by wagon drivers
or telephone COG. Vale Royal Dairy.
FOR SALE. THE CARPETS AMI
furniture Of an elegant private home; par
ties leaving the city. Call between ten
and two o'clock lO7 Perry street, west.
CYPRESS SHINGLES AND PILfNG-
We are now selling cypress shingles at tho
reduced prices Of sl.25. SIS and s28 per
thousand. Special prices on carload lots
Boats can load at the mills. Can also fur
nish cypress piles In any quantity on short
notice. Vale Royal Manufacturing Com
pany.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-10

Reports of wrecks and derelicts receiv-
ed for transmission to the navy depart
ment.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-10

Special Texas Rainfall Report-Coium-
bia, trace: Dallas, .0s; Longview, 70; Or
ange, trace.
Heavy Rains-cheraw. s. c., 16s; Flor
cree. $. c.. 1.SS.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-10

A FINE RESIDENCE, 2s2 BULI
street, near theater. Inquire at Sternbere
& Co.'S store.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-10

--T, temperature; ", velocity OF wind.
,. NJ Bhcrlor.
Observer. Weather Bureau
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27
mark, as the result of three days heavy

mark, as the result of three days heavy
rains.
The Cumberland river continues to
rise at Nashville, Tenn, submerging
the lowlands everywhere in its valley.
Paducah, KY, is an island, the Ohio
lowering about the 80 mark. All west
Kentucky streams are raging torrents,
devastating property far and wide.
The Tennessee river continues on a
rampage in Alabama, rising two inches
an hour at Florence.
From Helena, Ark, as far as West
over there is a levee which has done
service since the days of 1882, the last
break, which occurred March, 1856,
from that day until now the govern
ment has expended some 1925. 900. That
expenditure has been a safeguard to
over 200, 900 acres of the richest lard in
the world. Leaving Helena at 2:15 p. m.
the levees were followed the entire
distance to Modoc. which is So miles
below Helena. Capt. z. ID. Pillow,
who has been fighting the mighty Fa-
Their of Waters for the past 25 years,
has a force of 500 men working from
the box factory to Long Lake. The
levee, which has a narrow apex nearly
three miles, has been guarded with a
row of sacks filled with sand, which
will protect the levee for thatdistance.
He is assisted by Mr.. Z. H. Rice, who
has for the last 10 years been a levee
builder.
Throughout the Memphis territory
there has been scarcely a ray of SUI
shine since last Sunday morning, and
few and brief let-ups in the rainfall.
Thursday night it rained hard and had
been doing so all day. A half-inch rise
on the Memphis gauge means an NOR
mouse volume of water pouring down,
since it covers a surface of at least 30
miles.
The Memphis relief committee wired
Gov. Jones of Arkansas, calling atten-
ton to the condition of refugees from
his state, asking for state aid and also
suggesting that he wire Arkansas con-
gressmen to seek government aid. This
was the governors reply: There
relief of flood sufferers. lean do moth
ing to aid you" Upon receipt of this
response the committee issued an open
letter to merchants. farmers and citi-
zens of Mississippi, Arkansas and
Tennessee, asking aid IN maintenance
of refugees and their live stock.
Says a Memphis special: Along the
river there are also hundreds Of people
driven from their homes, most of them
taking refuge at D%yersburg and other
railroad towns of this section. Most
of these people saved practically
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

pet stock that made the farm TEEN with
life, forest giants whose roots fast EN-
bedded in the soil could only De torn
up by washing away the ground in
which they grew. Still the waters con-
tinue to rise.
The lower Mississippi situation is
hourly growing worse. Death and de-
struction are abroad throughout the
valley. The river is rising from Cairo
to New Orleans.
The levee at Modoc landing, Ark,
gave way Thursday night and the peo-
pie in that vicinity fled for their lives.
The government corps, who had Ia
bored hard to save the ievee, were at
once taken to Old Town. several miles
below, with 5000 sand bags, to protect
the levee there. The men are working
under the most diScOuraging condi-
tions, the rain falling in torrents and
undoing their work as fast as it is done.
The entire levee between Helena, Ark,
which is sc miles above Modoc landing,
and Relief is reported to be doomed to
destruction. North Helena is sub
merged, although the town proper is
LQOuSnG 10 DC III no udupcF
Seventeen persons We're reported
drowned so miles below Charlottesville,
Mo-, where the levee is said to have
gone to pieces. Near Charlottesville the
levee was maliciously cut and govern
ment engineers were dispatched to re-
pair the break.
A negro woman named Eta Nix and
- &c., ,Is1l,a- --, lNr-1l -,..
Marion, Ark, where 400 helpless flood
victims were rescued Wednesday and
taken to Memphis.
The river rose three-tenths of a foot
at Memphis, and as rain has fallen in
cessantly for IS hours in west Tennes-
see and east Arkansas the rise promises
to continue.
The relief boats sent out from Mem
phis are doing noble work. Six hum
dred people were rescued yesterday on
the Arkansas side of the river and
taken to Memphis, but there are flood
districts so situated that the RELIEF boats
can not reach the stricken ones.
On Island 80 100 sufferers and con-
siderable live stock were rescued by
the steamer Itasca- Neither man nor
beast had tasted food for over "a hours.
Human beings and helpless brutes are
huddIed together awaiting assistance
all along the Iron Mountain and Kan
sas City, Fort Scott & Gulf tracks.
Five hundred people weIe 4or,cd to
fee from the floods in Dyer and Obion
counties, Tennessee. The legislature
of that state has been appealed to for
help, as there were 5000 destitute refu-
gees in Memphis last night, and more
arriving every hour.
A crevasse appeared at Glendale,
Miss, Thursday, a few miles below
Helena, Ark. The whole delta country
will suffer. The water will flood the
country and return to the Mississippi
through the Yazoo.
The Arkansas river rose over three
feet yesterday at Fort Smith and Lit
lie Rock, and is nearing the high-water
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

goods whichincreased foreign imports had sup
planted, but also a market for goods which the
farmers and masses Of the people were able to
purchase In 1893, but which they could not buy in
1895 because OF q loss of employment and pur-
chasing power.
Beyond this, 1t has been demonstrated that by
placing wool on the free list, to the injury Of the
farmers and manufacturers, we have not been
thereby enabled to increase our exports of man.
fractures Of wool las 1t was claimed would be
tine case). and We have greatly increased the
use OF shOddy by diminishing the purchasing
power OF the masses, and thus compelling them
to seek cheap cloths
Enlightened by this experience In revising
the tariff with a view Of securing both revenue
and protection to our farmers, we have restored
wool to the dutyable list, and at the same rate
1t bore in the tariff Of 1890 III centsl for the
great mass of clothing wool in the unwashed
condition, and a revenue duty Of By cents on
carpet woods below Is cents and 80 per cent.
above. and have made the compensatory duties
the equivalent Of these duties, so as to place the
wool manufacturer on the same basis as to ma
terials as his foreign competitor, which Is
necessary in order that the farmer may have a
market for his woodland have them given the
manufacturer a compound duty largely con-
verified into specifics equivalent to the 40 and 80
per cent. ad valOrem duties Of both the tarln OF
49, eA@ ~ AN "Oc-N AN cNANA -N~N~
substantially that of the tariff OF 1890, except
that a few kinds Of wool classed under that and
previous acts as carpet woods, which have been
largely used for clothing purposes and
whose use for a purpose not intended
by the old classification has caused
much irritation among wool growers, have been
transferred from third-claSs to firSt-clasS woods,
and the exclusively ad yalorem duties which
have been previously given the manufacturers
as protection against his foreign competitor
employing cheaper labor, and which enabled
the latter by differentiation Of the wide va
riety Of imported wOOlens. whose value could
not be definitely determined. to avoid q large
part Of the duty appearing on the face OF the
tariff, have been converted as largely as poSsi-
bic into specifics equivalent to whatever the
present law processes to give.
We believe that the enactment Of this sched-
ule into law will not only restore to our far merS
the wool growing industry, which has been so
seriously injured by free wool our fiockS having
diminished more than one-fourth since 1872
but will also revive the notwithstanding in
dustry which has been SO greatly crippled by
the tariff of 1894 and the loss If the purchasing
power Of the masses of our people through
lack of employment and wiz, at the same time,
largely increase the revenGa from that source,
which because of the character Of the line
goods imported under the tariff OF 1880, was
practically derived from luxurieS.
Mr.. Dingley continued in the same
exhaustive manner to review the en-
tire field, explaining the action of the
committee and its reason for its vari-
Gus recommendations.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27
A GENERAL UPRISING.
The Greeks VIII be Compelled to Fight to
Escape Dishonor.

New YORK, March GA special
cable dispatch to the journal from
Athens says: The great Pan-Hellenic
society has decided to give the signal
for a general uprising of the Greek race
in the Ottoman empire. 1t is also
known that most of the officers of the
Greek army now massed on the
frontier have bound themselves by
oath not to return without fighting.
The army is nov practically be-
yond the control of the king.
Civilized people of the world will
recognize in a few days that the com
bined European powers have deliber-
ately forced the Greek nation into war
to escape dishonOr.
Thursday the minister of foreign af-
fairs notified the chamber of deputies
that the six powers had informed the
government that on Sunday morning,
at eight o'clock an active blockade of
the whole of Crete will begin, and
after hat vessels carrying the Greek
flag will not be permitted to pass
the line of the blockade. Vessels
of other nations will only be allowed
to enter the line after being searched
for war materials. The shameful fea-
ture of this scheme of coercion is that
Turkish vessels are not shut out, but
may pass the blockade on even terms
with those of other nations. The eX-
element in Greece is beyond descrip-
ton. 1t is plain that Russia is leading
IL - f~.a, A. n.,,l- ,-r.-
ment into a voluntary and almost hope
less war. Russia stands ready to adj
vance and seize whatever she can
when the crash comes. The powers
refuse to state that they are leaving
Greece no option but to fight; for the
nation is nearly bankrupt and can not
long support the large army which she
is compelled to mass on the frontier to
face the Turks. l believe Greece will
invite ruin and defeat if she declares
war;, but she will destroy herself finan-
cially and politically if she accepts the
humiliation offered by the powers.
The Turkish army in Macedonia Occu-
pies a commanding position with 40, O00
infantry massed on the hills facing the
mountain passes, supported by an i'm
mense force of artillery on the plain
below. The Greeks can make an at
tack in Epirus, but they have no eX-
cuse for declaring war on the sulsln
unless an uprising in Turkey oc-
ours, and the Turks begin to mas.
sacre Christians.
The remorseless armed hand of Rus
STA begins to emerge from the shadows
of diplomacy. The moment the crow
prince goes to the front at the head of
the army, all hope of peace will vanish.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27
Executive Mansion, March Is. 1897.


Lunatics often assume a superiority
of intellect to others which is quite
amusing. A gentleman, while walking
along a road, not far from the side of
which there ran a railway, encountered
q number of insane people out for ex-
ercise. With a nod toward the railway
lines, he said to one of their lunatics:
''Where does this railway go too" The
lunatic looked at him scornfully for q
moment, and then replied: 1T doesn't
go anywhere. W. keep it here to run
trains on.-Agate.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

The lady belongs to a wealthy Irish
family, which has behind it a long
line of distinguished ancestry. The
man is, or was, a policeman, who, by
his bravery in stopping a runaway
horse, won the lady's affections and q
large part of her estate, which she has
made " to him since he became hel
husband. If love at first was on the
lady's side only, she took a practical
way Of winning a return of affection.
In a hanson she was In the habit OF
following the brave policeman over his
beat with a supply of provisions to ~
fresh him-Chicago ~Inter-Oeeaa.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27
LOWER RIVER FLOODS
No Abatement in the Mad Rush
of Angry Waters.
Relief Boats Doing Noble Work In the
Rescue of the Drowned Out and starry
ing People The Situation Hourly
Growing Worse.

ST. LOUIS, March 2O.-Water, water,
everywhere, and not a spot of dry land
upon which to seek refuge, is the wall
that comes out of the southland. The
Cumberland and the Tennessee are
pouring mighty volumes into the Ohio
from the south, and the Wabash is
rushing in one of the greatest floods
ever known in its valley. All this
makes the volume of water poured into
the Mississippi from the Ohio probably
greater than ever before. At the pres
ent time, a stretch of country over 100
miles long from a point 20 miles north
OF Memphis to a point 80 miles south of
the Tennessee metropolis. iSsubmerged,
In places to a depth of Is feet, as the
land dips or rises.
Fertile valleys in Tennessee and Ar
kansas are completely inundated, many
lives have been lost, stock drowned,
fencing and dwellings swept away,
and the inhabitants, destitute and
homeless. are left to starve or drown bv
the steadily and remorselessly rising
tide.
Late reports from nearly all trib-
utarY streams show rains and rapidly
rising rivers. floods from which will
soon be emptied into the Mississippi,
AIDING to the danger when hurled
a/ainst the already weakened levees,
now patrolled hourly by armed and
desperate men, provided with sand
bags to strengthen weak places or to
close threatened c~revasses, and rifles
to shoot down any miscreant who
would venture to cut the embankment
to allow the waters on his plantation
to find a vent into the lowlands of a
neighbor.
The floods now partake of the nature
of a deluge As far as the eye can see,
nothing but water meets the gaze, I'M
til checked by lowering clouds on the
horizon. And still the rain falls, the
waters continue to rise, as silently and
irresistibly as fate, while shivering
women and wailing children on rail
way entertainments or levees expect mo-
mcntarily to be swallowed up by the
resistless tide as it swirls and gurgles
gleefully to the gulf, carrying on its
wide eXpanse homes of homeless ones,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27
~STRYCHNINE REVEALED.
A Life Insurance Sensation Expected Il
be Exposed In Kentucky.

A Life Insurance Sensation Expected to
be Exposed In Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 2o.-M. w.
johnson, a tobacco grower of Paint
Lick, died very suddenly in December,
1896. His death aroused the sus-
picions of the companies that had in.
sured his life and an investigation fol.
lowed. Representatives of these com.
companies found hat johnson
was comparatively a poor man
and lived in a cabin near
Paint Lick. The body was ex-
humed and an analysis of the stomach
revealed enough s%trychnine to have
caused death. johnson had taken out
policies in various companies aggregat-
ing 500, 600. The family is about to
bring suit to recover the amount due
and it is expected that a sensation will
be brought to light, as the companies
will contest the case.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

few of their possessions, either
household effects or live stock. and
the future for them is filled with dense
gloom ven when the water subsidies,
which will be late in the planting
season. They will have nothing to
make start toward their maintenance.
1t is not difficult to foresee the logical
consequence of the condition, both to
the immediate victims and commune
ties relying upon them, either wholly
or in part.
The river at Helena is AZ feet on the
gauge, which is one and one-tenth feet
below high water mark, while the river
at Westover is six inches higher than
ever known before. and at Old Town,
six miles below Westover. the river is
three inches above the highest water
mark. At Modoc it is three inches
higher than ever known before.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

The report that the Inauguration of a new
sleeping car line from Chicago to Washing
ton. by way of Cincinnati and Indianapolis,
by the b. l. o. and connecting lines, was
part of q plan OF the Receivers to abrogats
the lease OF the Central Ohio Railroad Is IN
true. The lease of the Central Ohio is to
run for 30 years yet, and the road is too valu-
able as a part of the b. 4 o. system to be
disposed of. The financial troubles, which
are now in the courts, will be settled salts
factorily.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27
Did Not Decide the DauntIees Affair.

WASHINGTON, March 2O.-The cabi.
net meeting adjourned without decid-
ing upon any definite plan of action in
connection with the alleged flibuster
Dauntless, which has come to be re-
garded as a test case in respect to tha
policy of the administration
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27
Floods in the Northwest.

The effects of the mild weather in
the northwest are beginning to be
felt. Melting ice and snow has opened
the Bad river in South Dakota and its
violent waters are pouring into the
still frozen Missouri. The Cheyennei is
expected to open to-day and precipitate
an awful gorge in the Missouri, which
will Don break, in the vicinity of
Pierre. Settlers on the flats are
moving their effects to higher quarters
in anticipation of a disastrous flood.
The ice gorge in the Missouri at Flor
ence, Neb., moved out, and the river
rose three feet at Omaha. From all in
dications the spring rise of the Mis-
souri, promises to send an unprecedent-
ed volume OF water into the Mississippi
this year, which will play havoc should
the situation on the lower river not
improve soon.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27
The Situation Growing Worse in Iowa.

SIOUX City, Ia, March 2O.-Though
many of Thursday nights rumors of
drowning are u~nconfrmed, the actual
flood situation is growing worse. The
Floyd river has carried away every
bridge from Lemars to a mile above
Sioux City, and is still rising. The val
ley is full from hill to hill, the
towns of Merrill, Hinton and the
Sioux City suburbs of Springdale, Lynn
and Leeds, flooded and many houses in
Sioux City itself are surrounded by
water. On the Big Sioux, many
bridges are out and at Hawarden, the
water is reported five feet deep in the
streets. The Northwestern is said to
have not a bridge left between Huron
and Hawarden. The Missouri is still
frozen here, but is rumored to be break
ing and gorging at Onawa, same dis
tance farther down.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27
Bridge Approach Washed AWAY.

LOUISVILLE. KY, March 2O.--A dis
patch from Wickliffe, KY, says that a
part of the approach to the bridge over
the Ohio at East Cairo, KY, has been
washed away, delaying traffic on the
Illinois Central. More damage is ex-
pected. The river is rising here with
Is feet Oh the falls
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

How My Throat Hurtsl-Why don't you
use Hale's Honey of H~orehound and Tar?
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

The blossoms of spring are the prophets
of autumn. So a joyful service IN youth
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

1 believe Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my boys life last summer.-MIs.
Allie Douglass, LIE Roy, Mich, Oct. 20, 81
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

As you go forward in life never expect
too much, never hope for too ittle.-Dr.
Jowett.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or grippe, loo.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

Whatever makes men good Christians
makes them good eitizens.-Daniel Web
ster.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

Some people are so mean that they make
their politeness disagreeable.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

As you chew tobacco for pleasure, use
Star. 1t is not only the best, but the most
lasting, and therefore the cheapest.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

The same-old or new rheumatic pains St
Jacobs Oil will cure.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

No one ever thinks that a boy is tired
Atchison Globe.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

While asleep, cured soreness, stiffness!
All right, St. Jacobs Oil did it.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

When a little old man wants TO make
an impression, he puts on a plug hat.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

When bilious or costive eat a Cascaret,
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed. l0c, &c.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

All kinds, little or big. st. Jacobs Oil
surely cures aches and pains.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

We wish we could cash our time for what
it seems to be worth to US when a loafer
occupies it.-Atchison Globe.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

The shiftless man is always away from
home when a good opportunity knocks
Runs Horn.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

"What part did you find most difficult
when you were on the stage?" Trying to
live up to the salary ! told my friends ]
was getting."-Tit-Bi III
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27
star Tobacco

If the gossip would think more, her
tongue would get more Restraints Horn.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

Be sure; neuralgia will cease. St. Jacobs
Oil will cure. Get ease.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

People think you are as silly as you think
they are.-Atchison Globe.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27
THE NEW TARIFF BILL
Chairman Dingley Reports the
Measure to the House.
The Report EmbOdies an Outline of thu
Deficiency in the Revenues During
the Past -Four Years and Points
Out the Remedy.

WASHINGTON, March 19.-Mr. Ding
ley, of Maine, chairman of the commit
tee on ways and means, yesterday re-
ported the tariff bill to the house.
The report accompanying the measure.
which was written by Mir. Dingley, is
in part as follows:
For nearly four years the revenue has been
iradequate to meet the current expenditures
and pay the interest on the war debt. The de-
fciency during this period has been as follows:
Fiscal year ending June AZ