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The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06

BARBAGLIA SENTENCED.
The "kins of Dago Hill" Given
Three Years for Completely I'm
Naturalization Frauds.

st. Louis, May 30.-John Barbaglia
"King of Dago Hill," convicted in the
United States District court, of forg-
ing and having in his possession
forged naturalization papers, was
sentenced TO three years in the Mis-
souri, penitentiary by Judge Amidon
In pronouncing the sentence Judge
Amidon told Barbaglia that he had
been guilty of grave offense against
the government, and that his sentence
was unusually light for the crime of
which he had been found guilty.
His confession and his action in tell
ing the names of those who were par.
ties to the crime, and who were be-
hind him in the naturalization frauds,
the judge said, had earned for Bar
baglia light sentence. On this ac.
count the leniency Of the court had
been extended.
In conclusion, Barbaglia was ad.
monished to shun evil influences when
his sentence was completed, and to
live as a law-abiding citizen of his
adopted country.
A meeting of the Italians who hold
forged or fraudulent naturalization
papers, secured at the instance OF
Barbaglia and his associates, was held
Thursday night. 1t was decided tc
aid the government to convict those
who had imposed upon their ig.
norance and credulity.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
coNQUERoR OF TETANUs.
The Dread Disease, Loci<jaw, sue-
cumbs 20 the serum Treatment
Mt 81. Louf.-

st. Louis, May 3o.-The efficacy of
the new antitetanic serum has been
demonstrated recently in two cases at
the city hospital. Frank Wakeman.
eight years old. and Ernest Smith,
railroad man, have both been saved
from the deadly tetanus by the use of
the new remedy, which has been
adopted to fight lockjaw in the city
institution. The experiment has been
costly, but 1t has been most satisfac-
tory. The expense TO the city for
both cases was nearly 5000.
Wakeman had foot crushed three
weeks ago. He was taken TO the city
hospital and symptoms of tetanus
developed. The use of the antitetanic
serum was Immediately begun and the
case responded to the treatment al
most Immediately. The boy is now
out of danger.
Smiths case was more stubborn,
and he has been under the treatment
of the city hospital physicians much
longer than the Wakeman boy. Smith
had mashed hand. He was In the
hospital some time before there were
indications of lockjaw. Tetanus, how.
ever, deleyoped in a most yirulent
form. At one time Smiths jaws
were so tightly locked that they were
rigid and resisted the attempts of the
attendants to pry them open. He has
recovered.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
THE SITUATION IN IOWA.
Idly. and II In believed the
Worst II Passed.

Des Moines. Ia, June THE food
situation in Des Moincs Is improving
and the Des Moines river has been
falling rapidly, eight feet being re-
ported at Boone IN y rours. In hes
Moines 5000 are homeless. and are
being cared for by local committees.
Provisions and clothing have be n
contributed in large quantities, and
II Is believed that the worst has
passed, and that no further trouble
will be expected. From ten miles up
the river TO ten below, all the bottoms
are covered, and fully 1000 homes are
under water.
No lives have been lost and N, fires
reported.
Extreme cold continues, and the
food victims are still without sufil-
cient clothing. Pitiful appeals are
made for dry garments for women
and children. The most alarming re-
ports were received, Monday morning,
concerning the epidemic of pneu-
monia and kindred disorders. Doc
tors are unable to get sleep, so nu-
merons arc the calls, and scores OF
fatalities resulting from exposure
seem inevitable.
The smallpox hospital WIS sur
rounded by water. the coal and food
supply was cut off for two days. but
the anxious inmates have been reas-
sured by the declining of the water.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
A FAVORABLE IMPRESSION.
Chaplain yoItmann's Ideas or
Church Affairs In the Philippines
FsyorabIy Received af Rome.

New York, May 30.-Chaplain Watt:
mann OF the Twenty-ninth United
States infantry, In his interviews
with the members of the sacred col
lege was very strong and energetic in.
speaking of the situation in the Phil
lippines, says the Tribune's Rome
correspondent. He demonstrated the
necessity of abandoning Immediately
the present dilatory policy and of
taking measures to solve promptly the
different esiasticalquestions which
are vitality important in determining
the existence and advance of the Ro-
man Catholic church in the islands.
Chaplain Vattmann openly urged the
necessity OF having, soon, an Ameri-
can clergy to take place of the
Spanish, and of raising, at the same
time, the standing and prestige of the
native priests in order to convince the
FiIipinos that Rome also was deter
mined to begin new regime in the
archipelago.
The frank and earnest statement OF
the chaplain produced deep and ia
yorable impression at the vatican.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
THREATENING AT ST. LOUIS.
The Most serious Condition In Many
Years Confronfs LowIand
DweIlers.

ST. Louis, June 1.--St. Louis faces
the most serious river conditions In
years. Early Monday morning the
stage Of the river was reported at 27.s
feet, rise of 2.2 feet in "a hours.
II the Missouri continues TO rise in
the next "a hours at the same rate
the danger line, 80 feet will be reached
Tuesday.
Flood waves are reported pouring
down the Missouri as far north ls
Omaha, and 32 feet may be reached
Tuesday.
River boat dwellers squafters in the
bottom lands and farmers on both
sides of the river in this vicinity are
abandoning their homes and fleeing 10
places of safety
Lowlands occupied by truck garden
ers on the east side, between Cahokia
creek and Venice, are inundated and
crops ruined.
Owing TO the heavy downpour of
rain locally River Des Peres, Cahokia
creek and every tributary is swollen
and rising rapidly.
More rain is promised tonight and
Tuesday by the local weather bureau.
and no relief is in sight. Over an inch
Of water fell in ST. Louis in three
hours Monday morning.
At the Worlds fair grounds, consid-
cradle anxiety was caused by the
heavy rains Of Sunday night and Mon
day morning. Drives and terraces al
ready built were washed away and
more or less damaged. The flag staff
on the south tower Of the Administra-
tion building was struck by lightning
Sunday night and split in twain.
The great sIuice way through which
treacberous River Des Peres has been
turned inside the fair grounds, Is be-
ing severely tested. The water pours
into II in torrents. but the fair man
agement anticipate that il will stand
the strain
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
Railroad Activity.

There has been considerable activ-
;ty in railroad matters during the
mast week. The promoters of the
Tombigbee River Railroad Com
nsny have submitted a proposition
% the citizens of Aberdeen to build
tbe road via that place providing
,he town will subscribe $4,000 to
the capital stock. This is the line
which was chartered to be built from
Linden. Ala, up the Tombigbee val
low TO Helena, Ark, and from Lin
den southwark to Pensacola, max
ing gateway from the terminus of
the Gould system at Helena to the
deem water at Pensacola. Aberdeen
i out of direct line between Co
lumbus and Helena, and the pro-
moters naturally desire some extra
inducement to build out of direct
route.
The citizens of Columbus have
also been asked by representatives of
the road to subscribe $4,000 to the
capital stock, and a committee of
the local business men has been ap-
pointed TO look after the matter. 1t
il understood that other towns along
the route will also be asked to make
capital stock subscriptions. The
National Guarantee Company, of
Chicago, is looking after the fnan-
cial details for the system.
Work has been resumed ON the
Belzoni branch Of the Yazoo & Mis-
sissippi Valley road from Belzoni,
which was interrupted by the over
flow in the delta, and the company
expects to have the line completed
in time TO handle the seasons cotton
crop. This road will be quite an
addition TO the already splendid fa-
cilities Of that system In the delta.
The branch line of the Illinois
Central to Monticello is showing
good progress, as is also the new
branch of the Gulf and Ship Island
from Mendenhall to Columbia.
None of the new roads recently in
eorporated have made any move
ments of public interest during the
past ten days. The indications are
that the electric road to connect the
gulf coast towns is a certainty, and
there is much probability of an in
.er-urban electric belt line from
Jackson to Clinton, Cooper's Wells
and RAYMOND.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
Cotton Planters Alarmed.

Considerable apprehension exists
among the cotton planters of Missis-
sippi that the Mexican boil weeyil
will make its appearance in the
State this year.
Last season the boil weeyil ap-
peared in several counties and
caused widespread destruction. The
visitation was not general, but in
localities where the bug got in his
work the result was disastrous, and
the fear is prevalent that the State
is becoming more and more infested
with the pest each year, and the
planters are conjuring up pictures
of blighted fields and ruined pros
poets. The career of the boil weeyil
IN Texas doubtless caused much of
this apprehension.
The cotton crop has been making
excellent progress in nearly all parts
OF Mississippi during the past week.
In the extreme northeastern section
there is still much complaint of the
lack of rain, but in other sections
where there was a good description
week or SO ago, the hot weather
Is bringing up the stands in fine
shape, and the chief battle for the
next few weeks will be with the
weeds.
The corn crop is also doing fairly
well, although indications do not
point TO a larger yield than that of
last year, even with continuance
Of favorable conditions, as there has
been but little increase in the acre
age.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
University Normal.

Chancellor Fulton, of the Uniyer-
sity of Mississippi, announces that
fully six hundred teachers will at
tend the university summer term,
which opens on the 10th OF June
for session Of six weeks, and the
session promises to be the most not
able educational event that has TAX
en- place in the State for good
while. The ablest educators and
lecturers in the United States have
been engaged to deliver lectures and
special courses of training for the
teachers, and the citizens of Oxford
are making special arrangements to
care for the visitors.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
Mississippi State News
Crops seIated.

Planting operations in Bolivar
county are several weeks behind the
average, but there is yet a fair
chance for good crop, as the delta
has never yet experienced total
failure. The acreage in cotton all
over the county is about the same
as last year. On some of the larger
plantations, however, some of the
land will go uncultivated, as the
high water delayed operations TO
some extent, but this will be offset
by the new land which will be
brought under the plow for the first
time.
account of the delay some Of
the planters have planted quick
groth variety of cotton, while others
have preferred to use the same kind
as they did last season.
The labor question continues to
be "a thorn in the flesh of delta
planters, and while most Of the
planters will be able to get through
with their present amount of labor,
still the supply is totally inadequate
for the demand, and there is hardly
a large planter in the county that
could not use very proftably num-
Der of additional families.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
FORMER HIGH RECORD rAssc !,
The High Record Made In ~ Passed
by several Feet.

Kansas City, Mo-, June 1.-The river
guage Monday morning showed 35
feet, having risen from 3o.7 during the
night. This is nearly four feet higher
than the previous high record made in
1881. There WAS eight feet OF water
in the Union depot.
A great, swirling lake, dotted with
floating cottages, trees, telegraph
poles and other wreckage, covers the
lowlands as far as the eye can reach.
Similar floating objects came rush
ing down the Knw river, some Of
it possibly from Topeka.
The committee having in charge the
work of relief and rescue were busy
early and special meeting of the
city council was held during the fore
noon.
Thousands Of refugees at the con-
vention hall made their breakfasts
from the liberal rations issued by the
relief committee.
The police have been ordered TO
shoot on sight any caught plundering.
The number Of lives lost in this Vi
cinity can not be learned for some
time, and probably never will be
known definitely. However, there
seems to be ample verification of re-
ports which account for the loss OF
more than a dozen lives in the bot
toms.
The keenest anxiety is felt over the
situation at Kansas City, Kas. One
rumor circulated during the night
was that scores of people had perished
in that city. but owing TO the fact that
there has been absolutely no commu-
nication with that place since Sum
day there is a general disposition 70
discredit this and other sensational re-
ports.
That there has been some loss of
life there, however, Is regarded as
probable.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
Appointed a Negro.

Mississippi is threatened with an
other postofiice controversy. A ne
gro has been appointed postmaster
at GOA, in Copiah county, and the
patrons of the office are ordering
their mail sent to Barlow Office, de-
elaring that they will not patronize
the GOA Office while the negro is
IN charge. Goza is located in beat
No. 3 of C9piah county, a neigh
borhood where the citizens have a
reputation for occasionally taking
matters into their own hands, and
Il the negro attempts to serve he is
likely to meet with a warm recep-
ton. 1t is likely that the Office will
pc closed, as none of the citizens
Wlll patronize the place.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
To Exhibit the Levees.

Favorable impression has been
made by the suggestion that the
Mississippi lcvees should be cxhib-
tied at the st. Louis Exposition on
a canvass about thirty feet long,
making a complete showing of the
river protection on the Mississippi
side from the Tennessee line TO the
Natchez bluffs. Very few people in
the United States realize the enor-
nifty of the Mississippi leyee system,
and such an exhibit would be highly
instructive. A similar plan has al
ready been adopted by Louisiana.
1t is also likely that large map
will be made Of the Mississippi Gulf
coast, showing the harbors at Gulf
port, Biloxi and Pascagoula.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
At MOUTH Of THE kAN..
The Desolate Aspeetlin the Lowlands
About Kansas City Shows
No Improvement.
NEARLY FOUR FEET HIGHER THAN IN 81.
Railroad Traffic ParaIyxed and Bn.i-
ness Generally suspcnded-Thc
Water supply shut on and M
street Cars RunninR-Anxiety
. Over Kansas City, kns.

Kansas City. Mo-, June 1.-The des-
olate aspect of the flood situation
here showed no improvement Monday
morning except that the fires, which
it was feared. Sunday night, would
spread, were put out by the rain and
the flood itself.
So far as rail communication was
concerned, the city was almost an is
land. The only communication, and
that very uncertain. was by road
running southeast.
Business all over the city is sus-
pended. Manufacturers on high
ground were compelled 10 shut down
owing TO the almost total shutting of
of the water supply. No street cars
are running, nor are any railroad
trains going TO or from the city
north, west or south. The blockade
at the outlet to the southeast is so
severe that traffic in that direction is
practically at standstill.
No Further Loss OF Life.
At nine o'clock Monday morning IL
was reported at police headquarters
that there had been no further loss of
life during the night, as far as was
known. All along the bank of the
river wagons containing ropes were
stationed during the morning In or
der that any emergency could be
promptly met. Early in the morning
it was announced that there were
number of people on the Milwaukee
bridge, and il was decided to send the
ferryboat to their rescue. An addi-
tional call was made from hotel sit
uated at the intersection of Four
teenth and Genessee streets, where
number of people were reported TO be
held in the upper stories of the build
ing. The ferryboat was also ordered
to take them off at the earliest practi-
cable moment. Word came up from the
stock yards that there were twenty
or thirty people caught by the flood
in that district. They were said to be
in no immediate danger, however, and
would not, in all probability, be taken
off before late in the afternoon.
Looters mt work.
Word was brought to police head
quarters that a number of men were
locting houses in the east bottoms.
They had improvised rafts from
boards and by propelling them with
poles were making their way into the
houses through the second-story win
dows. As soon AS this word was re-
eeived by Chief of Police Hayes he or
dered detachment of officers TO the
place, with strict orders that II the
story was found to be true,the thieves
should be shot down at once.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
Some Remarkable Cows.

Remarkable cows are being made
the subjects of boasts by farmers in
the agricultural columns OF the
country press. L. B. 'Sojourner, OF
the Gallman neighborhood, Copiah
county, possesses COW which ne
claims averages 81 pounds OF
strained milk each day and seven
teen. pounds of butter for seven.
day period. DIR. Shepard, OF
Holmes county, boasts of COW on
his plantation which has produced
six calves, within three years, all fe-
males.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
FIFTY BELGIANs DROWNED.
stories Told by Flood Refugees From
the ERst lotions.

Kansas City NO.. June i.--Accord-
ing to the statements of food refu-
gees, which generally are exaggerated.
from the east bottoms. about so Bel
gians, men, women and children, ,sere
drowned near the Crescent hotel on
Sycamore avenue. early Monday
morning. They were laborers. and
their families. who lived in small
frame houses along the railroad
tracks.
The ground on which their homes
stood was higher than the water
early Sunday night. The Belgians re-
manned in their homes. About day
light their homes began to float, and
they were drowned While trying TO
reach the south bluffs.
Another refugee reported the
drowning of IL people in skin. They
were carried out into the river
shouting for help Their skiff cap
sized and all were drowned.
None of these stories have been
substantiated.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
An Old Confidence Game.

Two very smooth confidence ar
fists are in Mississippi working the
old mineral rod trick, and they have
been meeting with much success
mulcting confding citizens of hard
earned cash. Their latest victim Is
a negro named John Franklin, liv-
ing in Jones county, who was swim
died out Of $500, on the pretense
that golden treasure had been To-
Gated on his farm.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
Two FataIitie. Reportea.

San Francisco, May 3o.-There were
two fatalities on the steamer City Of
Para, which has arrived here from
Panama. P. Wagner, passenger
from New York, dropped dead from
sunstroke at Panama. Charles Thomp-
son, another New York passenger,
jumped overheard and was drowned.
when off the Guatamalan coast
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
COLUMBIA SCHOLARSHIPS.
One Goes to a Tennessean and An
other to a MisslssIpplan.

New York. June columbia Uni
versity Council today announced the
award of Al scholarships. In the
list eighteen States and several terri
tories are represented. Among those
from the South who share this honor
are Horace L. Jones. OF Hartman.
Tenn, in Greek; J. G. Hamilton. OF
Hillsboro. NJ c.. In American History;
and Charles r. Stockard, OF Washing
ton, Miss. in Zoology.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
LITTLE CHANGE EXPECTED.
The weather Bureau Has Little of
Immediate Comfort 10 oar.

Kansas City, Mo-, june 1.-At q n.
M, Monday, the weather bureau is-
sued the following:
There will probably be little change
in river conditions a. Kansas City
during the next "a hours. slight auc-
tuatioDs mean but little in the way
Of relief so long az weather conditions
remain unsettled. 4 storm area 10
central in the middle Mississippi val
ley. from which the west has not
emerged. and the threatened develop
ment Of anothev storm erea In The
southwest carries no as-uranes 81 i'n-
mediate relief.
Light TO moderate rains hate fallen
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
JUDICIAL ELECTION.
Democrats Garry Cook County, H.,
by Large Majority.

Chicago, June 1.-Out OF the eigh-
teen candidates voted for at the jti-
dieial election in Cook county today
the Democrats elected fourteen and
the Republicans four. A light vote
was cast, owing to the weather, and
straight tickets were few and far be-
tween. Among the defeated Repubii-
cans wns Judge Elbridge Hanecy.
close friend OF Congressman Lorimer.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
Many Homeless at ottumwn.

Chicago, June 1.--E. A. Hackett, of
TT. Wayne, who arrived this morning
from Ottumwa, in an interview stated
that last night at O'Clock the tracks
at the station we're under water ard
about thousand persons were home
less. The citizens we're arranging to
care for the families who have lost
their homes.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
Amorx,s Second Bank.

Articles Of Incorporation were
fled with the secretary Of State
last week for the Farmers and
Merchants Bank domiciled at Am
orv: paid up capital Of $500 with
privilege Of increasing to $1,000
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06

In the Kaw and middle and lower Mis-
souri, valleys in the past 4s hours. and
rain Is falling over the greater part
of Kansas, Iowa, Missouri aud Me-
braslxa this morning"
Stage of the river at n. NJ; Kan
"a City. IS, and still rising. At oma-
ha. IA; at siox City, 1i.3, fall of Z.
No reports have been received from
noints on the Kaw
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
BANKRUPTCY AND SUICIDE.
ton Broker, Falls = Victim to
the Bull Campaign.

Chicago, May 3o.-A dispatch to tbs
Tribune from New Orleans says:
Frank Emmett, formerly of En-
NETT & Puech, one of the biggest cot
ton men in New Orleans, who was
bankrupted by the bull campaign in
cotton, committed suicide, Friday
night, by cutting his throat.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06

Baltimore, June Ian expedition
organized for scientific survey of the
Bahama islands under the auspices Of
the geographical society Of which DE-
Daniel G. Gilman, Of Carnegie institu-
fion. in president. sailed from this
port Monday.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
Address BY BIshop Galloway.

Bishop Galloway has accepted an
Invitation to deliver an address dur
ing the celebration Of the bi-cente-
nary Of the birth Of John Wesley,
which will begin at Savannah, Ga,
% June 26 and last four days.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
Grenada Pastor Called.

DR.. Charles Hinman, Of Grenada,
has been called to Christ Church. in
Vieksburg, to succeed DR. H. SAN
som, deceased. DIR. Hinman has not
accepted yet.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
Lumber Piaaf Bnrnea.

Trinidad, Col. May 3o.-Fire de-
stroyed planning mill, four cars load
ed with lumber and lot of lumber
at c. S. Woods saw mill in Saricilla
Canyon, west of here. Loss $4,000.