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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-20
TIE WATERS STILL RISING.
Hundreds OF Human Beings and Cat
tie Are Rescued From Houses
and "Cree-Iops.

piAN
MEMPHIS. TENN. March .15.-The
day dawned dark and gloomy for the
homeless inhabitants of the flooded
stricken districts in the territory near
this point. Rain began falling short
II after O'Clock and at this hour IS
coming down in torrents, adding to
the suffering already caused by the
Overlooking of streams.
The work of rescuing people and
stock continues and is being conducted
Systematically. y Citizens Relief
Committee mas been organized: boats
have been chartered, and funds rails
ed. By these means hundreds of head
of stock and almost as many men,
women and children have been res
cued from houses and tree tops in the
ove.llowcd district and brought to
this city by harbor towboats with
bargeS attached.
The gauge here reads 36.3, a rise Of
one foot in twenty-feur hours, and all
indications point towards a fnrtAcr
rise. News comes to-day of the par
tial breaking of the st. Francis icvcc.
sixty miles above Mrmyhis, IL a point
near the south END of the levce. Just
what damage will result cannot be
foretold. but local steamer captains
say great additional suffering and
loss will result
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-20
ELEcTR.clTY's LATEST USE.
Il VIII BE Applied as Motive Power
of "a Newspaper TO Control the
Snped,

CHICAGO, March 15.-The applica-
ton OF electricity as the motive power
of a newspaper press, in such man
ner that the speed can be controlled
at any time. has been demonstrated,
fol. the first time, to be complete
success. Tomorrow morning part of
the edition OF one OF Chicago's dailies
will be run off on press driven and
governed in the manner above stated.
Irving |. Stone, mechanical super
intendent of this newspaper, has just
perfected an electrical device bymeaus
of which the speed of a newspaper
press can b. controlled and placed
anywhere from to 100 revolutions
per minute. By a series of six pneu-
matte motor controllers, which are
distributed around the press, in differ
ant locations, the operator can in
crease or decrease the speed of or stop
the press entirely at will. There are
also automatic controllers throughout
the press which, should the paper
break, either before entering the press
OF its way through or after entering
the folders, would bring the press to
an immediate standstill. Mr.. Stone
has also added device for carrying
the paper into the press, controlled
by compressed. .air, by means of which
a fresh roll of paper can beintroduced
into the press without the press com
ing to an absolute stop.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-20
Electric Bftters

Electric Bitters is medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps the more
generally needed in the Spring, when
the languid exhausted feeling prevails,
when the liver is torpid and sluggish
and the need OF tonic and Alternative
is felt. \ prompt use of this medicine
has often averted long and perhaps
fatal bilious fevers. No medicine will
act more surely in counteracting and
freeing the system from the malarial
poison. Headache, Indigestion, Con-
stipation, Dizziness yield to Electric
Bitters. Only fifty cents per bottle at
W. c. Haman's drug store.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-20
The Republican Convention.

The Republicans of this city met in
convention at the court house Thurs
day night and nominted full Repub-
can ticket. The convention was the
largest city convention ever held in
the city and it was harmonious from
beginning to ending. The ticket NOM
mated is made up of good men. The
distribution of the offices with ihe diff
ferent wards was just and fair and
showed good politics. If the Repub-
licans will quit knitting each other and
stand together they will elect every
man on their ticket.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-20
Longevity of Birds.

Ar Eagle died at Vienna at the age
of 103 years. According TO Button
the life of the crow is 0Syears, andno
authorizes Us to attribute
to it. with Hesiod. 1000 years. a
paroquet, brought to Florence in 1858
by the Princess PrOvere d'Urbin,
when she went there to esponse the
Grand Duke Ferdinand was then at
least twenty years Old, and lived
nearly 100 more. \ naturalist whose
testimony cannot be doubted. Will
loughby. had certain proof that a
goose lived a century. and Button
did not hesitate to conclude that the
swans life is lengeryet: some authors
give it two and even three centuries.
Mallerton possessed the skeleton Of d
swan that had lived 307 years.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-20
Death of Ferdinand Lipp.

Ferdinand Lipp died at his home in
this city Monday evening, March 18th.
The deceased was an old citizen of
this city. He had been in the butcher
business here for twenty years and he
was we'll known to nearly all our
citizens. He was big hearted kind
man and he had a host of warm
friends. In his death we lose a. good
citizen, his family loses a kind and
affectionate father and the Catholic
Church loses a worthy and dutiful
member. To the bereaved family we
extend our heartfelt SYMPATHY.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-20
An Agent of Prosperity.

Of the many European war scares
since 1871 this is the most serious.
Forty-eight hours may bring on a
storm in Europe which: however dis
tressing to the humane sense of man,
will start the mills and fill the farmers
pockets in the United States as no po-
litical policy on this side of the water
possibly could.-New York Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-20
A DRUMMER ON WHEELS.
One Hundred New York Merchants
to Consolidate Their samples.

NEW YORK, March l3.-An expo
siton in transit, or miniature world 5
fair on wheels, to be taken all over
the country, making limited stops at
every city of consequence, is the latest
idea of company of enterprising
merchants in a hundred different lines
in this city. The object primarily is
to minimize the enormous expense
which the large manufacturers ara now
laboring under in sending 'out indi-
vidual commercial travellers, to save
the loss OF time experienced under the
lexisting methods, and to make mat
| ters much more easy, remuneratlve
and cOmforta BILE for the commercial
traveller himself. The idea was orig
mated by J. d. Prince, of this city,
who is veteran drummer. The first
of these moving expositions, for it is
intended to start them periodically
throughout the year, will leave this
city on May /, and will consist of a
train of twelve specially constructed
vestibuled cars. The first trip taken
will be to the Pacific coast and it is
estimated will cover a period OF six
months and distance of over 5000
miles.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-20
BEATEN TO DEATH.
Two strangers Murdered by Drunk
en- Men at Dudley, Mo.

DEXTER. Mo-. March 13.-MiltOn
Gladen and Louis Harmon are locked
up here to avoid lynching and ans
swer for double murder at DaGLsy.
eighteen miles from here.
Two strangers whose names are not
yet known applied at the mills for
work yesterday. They were told to
return to-day, so they vent into camp
Just below the mills. This morning
they were found iii dying condition,
having been b"utally assaulted and
beaten.
GLADDEN. and Harmon are accused
of the crime. One Of the victims died
early this morning and the other can
not survive.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-20
To Abolish Grand-Juries.

JEFFERSON CITY. Mo-. March ID
The Senate Committee on Constitu-
tional Amendments and Federal Re-
lations has recommended the adoption
of the resolution to submit constitu-
tional amendment authorizing the
to abolish the Grand-jury
system. The resolution has already
been adopted by the House.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-20
Twenty-Five Miles Wide at Cairo

Twenty-EtVe Niles "1de at cairo.
CAIRO, ILL, March 16.-The river
situation is unchanged since yesterday.
The river is still advancing, but at
decreased rate, and the water will
hardly reach the 50-foot mark. Each
pleasant day makes the situation more
favoreble. The guage reads 49.5 to-
night. a rise OF 1-I0th of a foot since
morning. 1t has now passed the 1893
stage of 1913 feet, the last high-water
mark here, but lacks nearly 3 feet of
the hish-water mark of 1883. The river
at this point has spread out over the
Missouri and Kentuckey bottoms until
it has reached a width of nearly
twenty-five miles. but the rise has been
gradual, and nearly all the residents
nave had ample time to save their
stock and personal effects. The Mis-
souri, levies are still holding. and the
Cotton Belt road keeps traffic open
by the liberal use of rock and sand
bags.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-20
TIE LEYEE BROKE.
And the Raging Waters
Are Pouring Into Pemtscot County
People Fleeing for safety.

Z. T. Blomeyer telegraphed the rail-
road officials here that the levee in
Pe,niscott county broke Thursday
evening two miles below Caruthers-
Will: and the raging waters are ilood-
ing the southern portion of that
county. People are fleeing for their
lives. The Ohio River is still rising
and there is no estimating the damage
that the flood will do.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-20

Potatoes for eating, and also to
plant. They are the best. Come and
see at John st. Avit & Sons.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-03
Knights Templar Plan Pilgrimage.

Augusta, 2.-The committees from the
several Communicates knights Templar
of the upper Kennebeo valley, held a
meeting in Augusta this afternoon, ,decid-
ing to have pilgrimage to Fort Popham.
Friday, August 18, leaving Gardiner by
steamer Islander.
The Communicates which will partioi-
pate are: Maine, No. 1, of Gardiner;
Trinity, No. z, of Augusta; DeMolay,
No. 10 of Skowhegan; and st. Omer,
No. IL of Waterville. This is the first
occasion on which the several comman-
deries of the upper Kennebec have united
in making pilgrimage of this sort.
The plan is to have the DeMolay and
st. Omer communicates join with Trini-
ty of Augusta and have short parade in
this city, and thence go to Gardiner
where there will be short march. On
the return to Gardiner, Maine comman'
dery will entertain.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-03
HAWAII VERY UNSETTLED.
British, Japan and American Warships at
Harbor of Honolulu.

New York, August IA despatch tc
the Herald from Vancouver, says that the
steamer Miowera from Honolulu brings
the following Hawaiian advices:
Honolulu harbor is dotted with British,
Japanese and United States war vessels,
and more Japanese and British vessels are
expected daily.
In semi government quarters everything
is reported quiet, but popular outbreak
may occur at any time when international
interference from the ships in the harbor
would occasion complications.
The stream of Asiatic leborers is still
pouring in, each ship load causing fresh
outbreak of feeling among the different
factions on the island.
An immediate cause for alarm Is that
the United States blue jackets are bitter
ly hostile to the Hawaiian police who ex-
ercise almost military authority. British
and japanese sailors are not molested but
American blue jackets are constantly ar
rested as deserters without cause and an
noyed in every conceivable way. The OBJ
ject Of the authorities in this persecution
cannot at present be fathomed.
News of the annexation of several OF
the Solomon islands by Great Britain has
been received witch excitement and again
started the report that advices have been
received from England that the United
States will not be allowed to annex
Hawaii as Great Britain wants the
islands herself.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-03
FIRE HAD LONG START.
Biddeford Buildings Badly Burned Owing
to Departments Delay.

| Saco, August 2.-The Saco fire depart
ment was called to the residence of
Nahum McKusic and Rev. d. t. Call on
Beach street at 1.30 today and met stub
born fire with good work. The flames
were quenched before the house was
burned much, but the damage by water
was heavy The loss on the building,
owned by Mr.. McKusick and Mr.. Charles
bennett, is covered by insurance, and
Mr. McKusick's 8 furniture is also insured,
but Mr.. Call had no insurance.
The fire was we'll under way before it
was discovered. The house was then
filed with smoke, and the shed of Mr..
McKusick's side, where the fire originat-
ed, was mass Of flames.
The horses for the steamer, driven by
James Burns, were at the gravel pit,
and those for the hose wagon, driven by
Charles Hodgkins, were on Factory ISL
and with the waste cart. The arrival of
the fire apparatus was thus delayed, and
the flames took advantage of tie delay.
1t was 215 before the steamer was shut
off and the fire was under control very
soon after the department got in position.
The little shed on the McKusic side was
all in flames before the streams were on.
The whole house was seerhing with
smoke and the cracking was ominous in
its portent.
The house owned by A. J. Tenders IN
stands next to the shed and, but for the
copious application Of water, would have
caught several times. No other building
was endangered at any time. Nearly all
the furniture was saved without being
scorched or wet. The stable occupied by
Mr.. Calls horse was wet down, but the
wagon and sleigh and harness were taken
out; and in the front of the house not
much water ran down.
The fire caught around the funnel in
Mr.. McKusic's part. The fiue was de-
fective and the fire ran both ways into
| the shed and also into the house. The
fact of the defect has been known to Mr..
Call for some time, but he has been un-
| able to have it fixed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-03
CONFERENCE ONLY BLUFF,
So Writes Prof. Henry Elliot to a Cleveland
Paper.


Cleveland, Ohio, August 2.-Prof. Hen
ry W. Elliot has written a scathing letter
to the Plain Dealer regarding Lord Sails
bury's seal conference, supplementing
the one of few days ago to Assistant
Secretary of State Day. Part of it is as
follows:
HIn the foreign dispatches Sunday
morning there appears an entirely mis-
leading account of the fur seal which
Lord Salisbury has finally, at the urgent
personal appeal of John Hay, authorized.
protest against this studied attempt to
deceive the people as to the scope and ex-
tent of that conference and the inference
which may be drawn.
In the first place we have had the
official and curt refusal of Lord Sails
bury to reopen this seal question in any
way affecting existing rules and regula-
tions as established by the Paris Tribunal
in 1898. This refusal was made on April
IL last and not a thing has taken place
which has altered Salisbury's s hand. Fos
ter's trip to London only strengthened
the British Premier's hand.
"Now, what is the warrant for this
erroneous story of what the fur seal con-
ference is to compass at Washington next
October? Simply this and nothing more !:
John Hay, to break the force of Fosters s
humiliating failure to reopen the ques-
tion and that Shirt Sleeve letter of May
10 begged Salisbury to let the British
naturalists who have been studying the
seals on our islands since 1891, meet our
naturalists at Washington next fall and
compare their biological notes as to
animals, all reference to the revision of
the existing regulations to be expressly
barred from the discussion.
calling in Russia and Japanese agents
to this informal conference will not have
the slightest effect one way or the other
on the stand which the British agents
may take or have taken. Canada con-
unusually easy task,as things are now di-
rected on our side she will again succeed
with Foster as she did in Paris in 1893
(Signed.)
''HENRY W. ELLIOTT.
Lakewood, August l, 1897"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-03
No War Ships Required.

Washington, August 2.-The state de-
partment has been in correspondence for
several months with the government of
Peru respecting an alleged violation of
one of our consular agencies at Piura in
that country. 1t appears that during the
seizure of the goods of the consular agent,
a feed official who had been for many
years merchant in the place, some of
the consular records were searched. That,
at least, is the story of the consular agent,
while on the other hand the Peruvian
state officials who served the writ, deny
that the papers were molested. The de-
part,nent is now endeavoring to ascertain
the facts and it is not doubted that if it
should be established that the consular
records were really violated, the Peruvian
government will make all necess ary
amends and disavow the act. No thought
of a warship has been suggested in con-
nection with the matter.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-03
Man Once An Undertaken Heals the
Sick.
REV. STEPHEN MERRITT AID
DRESSES ALLIANCE PEOPLE.
Tells of Miracles He Has Performed py
Laying on of Hands Says He LIS on lnti-
mate Terms With God and Has Nothing
To Worry About.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREssel

ESPECIAL TO THE PRESScl
Old Orchard, August 2.-Rev. Stephen
Merritt, now connected with the Christian
Alliance Tabernacle in New York, but
| formerly in the undertaking business
there, and who attained national repu-
tation by having charge of Gen. Grant,
funeral, was one of the speakers at the
afternoon service at the camp ground to-
day. His address was listened to with
special interest, as it pertained somewhat
to his personal experience with sanctlfca-
tion and divine healing.
He laid great stress on the feeling OF
happiness and contentment that comes to
| person who has accepted the 'third dis
pensation,' - and become an instrument in
the power of the Holy Ghost. II feel
like laughing all the time" said he. 81
am on intimate terms with God and his
JOY is my strength. reside on the corner
of Praise avenue and Hallelujah street.
Where I live there is neither cloud nor
trouble, nor anxiety, nor worry; all is
shunshine. know God will make me
just what he viii have me. I don't have
a thing to worry about. 1 am at peace
with all the world and 1 hope to sustain
that amicable relation.
"But I specially love these Alliance
people, who fully believe that God is the
Lord. want them to be peculiar and
jealous people, who love God and show in
| their faces and by their acts that they are
different from world people and church
people, They are intimate with the Holy
| Ghost and through his power they can
dispel all manner of diseases and can ask
that the devil may go out of this person
or that and their appeal is promptly
granted.
''The Christian Alliance people are able
to go up and down their fields of work,
healing the sick on every hand, through
the power of the Holy Ghost. The
heathern lands are crying out for the
gospel. They are not ready to receive an
emasculated gospel that has been preached
here year after year, without success. Mr..
Moody says there are 5000 churches east
of the Alleghanies that did not convert a
single soul in the last year That kind
~ % 6OoPSl 40 AlOu w llelU SIl1ld, sJaD1n.
Ethiopia, South Ameria and the isles of
the sea Grave. Send them the Holy Ghost.
The speaker related instances in which
he had healed the sick by the laying on of
hands. In one instance he anointed a
New York woman who, was dying.
Physicians had declared she could not live
through the night, and church people had
called and failed to comfort her. After
he anointed her she got up from her death
bed, put on her clothes and the next day
was able to leave the house. He said that
with the power of the Holy Ghost, he had
also saved many others from the grave
and restored to health many sick and in
firm.
He exhorted his hearers to accept the
Holy Spirit and to join in making this
Christian Alliance convention, what God
wants it to be, the most glorious week of
religious revival in the history of the
country.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-03
News From Navy Department,

Washington, August 2.-The navy de-
partment has ordered new trial for the
torpedo boat Dupont which will take
place on Wednesday
The navy department. has received a re-
port from the naval board upon an acci-
dent sustained by the big monitor Puri-
tan last week which disabled her steam
steering gear. The report shows that
quartermaster failed to disconnect the
rudder before turning on the steam and
in consequence the steering engines shaft
supports were broken The damage is
small and can be repaired in couple of
days.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-03
ON THEIR WAY HERE.
War Ships Of White Squadron Leave
New York.
PROCEED TO NEWPORT AND FROM
THERE TO PORTLAND.

Fleet Comprises the New York. BROOKLYN,
Indiana, Massachusetts, and Maine
Most Magnificent Fleet Ever Assembled
in New York.
New York, August "A string of
small signal flags hoisted at four bells
in the morning watch aboard the flag
ship New York at anchor off Tompskins-
vile, S. l., today, was the signal for the
vessels of the North Atlantic squadron
to heave anchors and proceed to sea.
AS soon as the little flags had been
hauled down, the steam captains were
set in motion and few minutes later
the finest fleet of American warships
ever assembled in this harbor was under
way The New York, flying the flag of
Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard, led
the way towards the narrows. Then fol-
lowed the Brooklyn, called the Queens
jubilee ship, the frst-class battleships
Indiana and Massachusetts,, and the Sec
ond-class warship Maine. The squadron
is due at Newport tomorrow
Secretary Long has notified Admiral
Sicard of his intention to inspect all the
vessels there. From Newport the feet
will proceed to Portland, Maine, and from
there to Portsmouth, N. H., whence the
Indiana will be sent to Halifax, N. S.,
to be placed in the English dry dock.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-03
A LIME KILN BURNING.
nockiand Fire Department Almost Help
less and Loss Will Be ss25,00O.

hockland. August 3.-Fire broke out
at s.3S this morning in the lime kiln of
Mrs. Frances E. Hurley, and is now rag
ing fiercely. Three kilns with the sheds
are on fire and the fire department is
almost powerless. The loss will be in the
neighborhood of $4,000. One of the
kilns contains over 10000 empty casks.
Two of the kilns are operated by the
Cobb Lime company. The origin of the
IRE is at present unknown.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-03

Washington, August 2.-Assistant Sec
retary Howell has decided that section x
of the new tariff law which permits the
free entry into the United States OF
products of the forests of the State OF
Maine upon the ST. John river and its
tributaries, owned by American citizens
and sawed or hewn in the province of
New Brunswick by American citizens,
has the effect of excluding the free entry
of lumber which has been planed or ad-
vanced in any way from the condition of
sawed or hewed.
Under the old law planed lumber was
admitted free, but the interjection Of the
word otherwise" in the paragraph, "the
same being otherwise manufacture" is
held to operate against the free admission
of planed lumber
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-03
Farmer Buxton surrendered.

Bridgeport, CT, August 2.-Frederick
Buxton the Easton farmer who was
captured Saturday night after a four
hours seige, and after efforts extending
over several days by officers to take from
him pair OF Moses Ogden horses which
he was holding for damages, was given
this afternoon. To the charge of assault
with intent to kill Constable Osborn,
Buxton pleaded not guilty He was held
for the superior court under bonds of
$1,000 and went to Jail.