Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-03-27
LOMAS e. MILF,
DRUGGISTS
SAW SIX MEN DROWN.
Four Commercial Travellers and Two
Negroes Meet Death in Flood
in Arkansas.
BOAT OVERTURNED BY SWIFT CURRENT.
Worst Blizzard of the Winter RACES
in Western Michigan-SnOwfall In
terferes with Railroad Travel
Fears Expressed for Small Fruits
and Peaches.

Memphis, Tenn, March 25.-J. B.
Hood, an employe of an Arkansas saw
mill, returned from the flooded district
of Arkansas Tuesday morning and re-
ports that while at Gavin, a station on
the Frisco railroad Saturday after
noon, he saw skiff containing four
drummers and two negro oarsmen
swept under the track of the railroad in
stiff current. The boat was over
turned, all six of the occupants were
drowned. Mr.. Hood does not know the
names of the travelling men, but says
they had employed the negroes to row
them across the submerged territory
to Mound City, Ark, where they in
tended to take a steamboat for Mem
phis.
To Relieve Starving Stock.
Natchez, Miss, March 25.-The Mis-
sissippi is rising. An attempt to sup
ply feed to starving stockin upper Con-
cordia parish will be made Tuesday aft
ernoon by means of coal barges and
skiffs.
Ohio Rising Again.
Cincinnati, March 25.-The heavy
storm Of Monday with extraordinary
rainfall at the headwaters of the Kama
wha, has caused a sharp rise in that
stream, amounting to 1914 feet at
Charleston. There have been consid-
cradle rises inthe Upper Ohio, such as
go at Pittsburg and g. at Parkersburg.
These causes it is estimated will bring
stage of over 80 feet at Cincinnati by
Wednesday morning and will cause the
river to continue rising here for sew
eral days.
River Bulletin.
Washington, March 25.-The wealth
er bureau Tuesday issued the follow
ing river bulletin:
The Mississippi river continues to
rise below Memphis and fall north
ward to Cairo at about the same, rate as
during the two days preceding.
Stages Tuesday morning were as fol-
lows:
Cairo, $50, a fall of or foot; Memphis,
1914, fall of Of foot; Vicksburg, 51.3,
rise of O.4 foot; New Orleans, 200, a
fall of Of foot; no changes from
previous forecasts are indicated.
The rivers of the Atlantic system
from eastern Pennsylvania to Georgia,
except northern Virginia, are also in
food, but not to an alarming extent,
and the necessary warnings were As
sued Monday.
Worst Blizzard of Winter.
Detroit, Mich, March 25.-Specials
from western Michigan report that one
of the worst billiards. of the winter is
raging in that section of the state with
the temperature below freezing. Grand
Rapids reports heavy SHOWS, the tenn
pcrature two degrees under the freez-
ing point and snow plows being used
on the local and inter-urban electric
lines to keep them open. Much fear is
felt for small fruits and peaches. AT
Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, much
damage has been done by the wind.
Wires are down and a number of small
buildings have been damaged. The
big store of H. L. Bird & Co., at the
principal cornersin Benton Harbor, is
wrecked by the,wind and it's stock and
fixtures ruined. There is atremendous
sea running on Lake Michigan and
navigation is temporarily suspended.
In Detroit the temperature lowered
close to freezing during the morning
with 45-mile an hour wind prevailing.
There was no snow fall however
Local Option LAW Valid.
Columbus, o., March 25.-The SUI
preme court Tuesday declared the
Beall local option law constitutional,
the decision being unanimous. The de-
cision was given in the case of a Cam
bridge saloon keeper who sought to
escape sentence Of imprisonment on
the ground that the law was unconsti-
tutiunul,