The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-16
FLOODS CAUSING MUCH
 DAMAGE IN SOUTHWEST
In Mississippi Valley.


 Louisville, Ky, December 15.-Heavy rains in the valley of the Mississippi. which have continued in some instances since last Thursday, have sent many streams out of their banks with eonse- quent damage to railroad and other prop erty. No loss of life has occurred, as far as is known. Washouts are reported on the Illinois Central below Memphis and on its Kentucky lines in the vicinity of Paducah, and on the Nashville, Chat tanooga and St. Louis near Paducah. The tracks of the Louisville and Nashville are covered in various places between Hopkins and Nortonville, Ky, but up to this time the road-bed remains intact. The town of Gracey Ky, is submerged with four feet of water flowing through the main street. An unofficial report says that nearly foot of water has fal- len at Paducah in four days Among the official reports of precipitation In the past twenty-four hours, are the following:
 Memphis, Tenn, 4;2S; Little Rock, Ark, 2:42; Cairo H., 2:So; Nashville, Tenn, 1:S6; Louisville, 1:57.
 Floods In Arkansas.
 Little Rock, December 15.-Railroad traffic in portions of Arkansas is impeded in consequence of heavy rains in the past forty-eight hours. The St. Louis. Iron Mountain and Southern railroad is the principal sufferer. Near Judsonia and Higginson parts of the track were under water today. Little Red river is unus- ually high, and this morning a boom gave way, sending 10000 ties and a vast quantity of driftwood down stream. The immense mass of timber lodged against the bridge across Little Red river near Judsonia and threatened the safety or fba hut lxyh hoe -o,-Ir na ,1,ar was dislodged and the bridge saved
 High Waters In Kentucky.
 Burlington Ky, December 15.-The heavy rains of the past twenty-four hours has flooded the country and covered lne tracks of the Louisville and Nashville railroad in several places between Hop kinsvile and Nortonville The water is so high at the little town of Mannington, a few miles from Nortonville, that the @A4-%-~~&N-~-4-%-~-~-~- in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and in- dependent condition which they have as- sumed and maintained, were thenceforth not to be considered as subjects for fu- ture colonization by any European power and,
 
 declared in that message that the United States would consider any attempt by the allied powers of Europe to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and society; that with the existing colonies and depen- dencies of any European power, we have not interfered and would not interfere, but that with the governments who have declared their independence and main- . tained 1t, and whose independence we have on great consideration and just principles acknowledged, we could not view any Interpretation for the purpose of expressing them or controlling In any other manner their destiny by any Euro pean power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposi- tion toward the United States, and fur ther reiterated in that message that It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any por- tion of either continent without endanger- ing our peace and happiness; and,
 Whereas, The doctrine and policy so proclaimed by President Monroe have since been repeatedly asserted by the United States by executive declaration and action upon occasions ana exigencies similar to that particular occasion, and that exgency which caused them to be first announced and have ever since their promulgation, and now are, the rightful policy of the United States; therefore, be it
 Reaffirms Monroe Doctrine.
 Resolved, That the United States of America reaffrms and confirms the doc Urine and principles promulgated by President Monroe in his message of De- cember 2, A. D. 1923, and declares that 1t will assert and maintain that doctrine and those principles and will regard any infringement thereof, and particularly any attempt by any European power to take or acquire any new or additional territory on the American continents, or any island adjacent thereto or any right of sovereignty or domination in the same in any case or instance, as to which the United States shall deem such attempt to be dangerous to its peace or safety by or through force, purchase, cession, occupation, pledge, colonization, protec- torate. or by control of the easement in any canal or any other means of transit across the American isthmus, whether unfounded pretense or right in cases of alleged boundary disputes or under any other unfounded pretensions as the man. Hesitation of an unfriendly disposition to- ward the United States and as an in tarDosition which 1t would be impossible