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&•- THE WORTHHtoTOHADVAHGE. BOBBBT MCCUKIC, Editor and Publisher WORTHINGTON, Noble* Co.. MINN THK United States has expended $9, 000.000,000 for railroads, and the aver age cost price has been $30,000 per mile. IT is stated that two million orange trees hare been planted in San Ber nardino County, Cal., since January 1, 1890. THE new German Chancellor, General Caprivi, is an inveterate smoker and a moderate drinker. He manifests a marked preference for wine over beer, which he touches very rarely and spar* inKly' NATURE is very good. Eighty thou sand years ago, in anticipation of the past mild winter, she deposited thiok layers of ice in the Stevens mine on Mount McClellan in California. They have just been found. HEBE is the name of a Western Ten nessee colored girl. It is pronounced in a sing-song way: Cary-Ann Happy Ann Ann-Eliza-Scales Blow-the-Bellows Potterfleld Rosa-Ann-Thomas. There is much in such a name as that DURING tlio late snow blockade six hundred passengers at Reno, Nev., to amuse themselves, issued a handsome little paper entitled "The Snowbound, a Souvenir of the Sierra." It contains very handsome illustrations of the place, and recites the efforts made to pass the two weeks of waiting. THERE are to-day royal and imperial orders in the world, with a prodigious assortment of collars, crosses, stars and other fancy insignia, laid up for the tickling of human ambition. The old est is St. Andrew's Order, first insti tuted in England in 787, disused after ward and re-established in 1540. THE plan is favored by some of the papers and likely to be adopted by the Board of Education in Boston to give teachers who have served nine years continuously a years' vacation on half pay. It is claimed that constant service in the schools shatters the nerves and a period of recuperation is needed. The usual Western expedient of matrimony for the lady teachers is not available in the East on account of the surplus. A REPORT says that within the past four W9eks two hundred icebergs have been seen floating in the Atlantic ocean. No one but a mariner can realize the menace which these monsters are to navigation. Every winter vessels sail from port and no tidings are ever heard of them again. Until the sea will have yielded up its final secrets, no one can estimate how large a proportion of catastrophes has been due to collisions with these pitiless floaters. OSE of the industries of New York is the insurance of babies. The sum paid is usually five cents a week on each child. The system is productive of good in so far that it assures very poor people against being put to ex tremes in the event of a death in the family. On the other hand, the pos sible and even probable abuses are ob vious, for it gives heartless parents a direct personal interest in the death of one who is entirely at their mercy. CHARLES E. CROSS, formerly president of a bank at Raleigh, N. C., has been convicted of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. An old slave, who belonged to the young man's father, made a per sistent appeal to serve out tue sentence in his "young massy's" place. Instances of the fidelity and devotion of the negro are not rare, but seldom has there been a more affecting case than this. The old slave's request could not be granted. ACCORDING' to a recent official return the length of the telegraph lines on the globe is at present about 600,000 miles, or twenty-six times its circumference at the equator. The length of wire is l,tt88,880 miles, or eighty times the length of the equator. Europe has telegraph lines measuring 232,270 miles America, 176,264 Asia, 50,875 Australia, 26,053, and Africa 12,973. These are the land lines. There are, besides, 950 sub marine cables of a total length of 112, 701 nautical miles. THE widow of Jefferson Davis, since his death, signs her name "V. Jefferson Davis." Many persons doubtless sup poses he has added the name Jefferson to her Christian name, Varina. But this is not the proper explanation. V. is the abbreviation of veuve, the French for widow, and it is the custom of Louisiana, and perhaps in other parts of the South, for widows to place that letter before the Christian names of their husbands. V. Jefferson Davis simply means the widow of Jefferson Davis. FOR years and years it was the prac tice of the flippant paragrapher to have the most acute fun over some reference to the fact that our ex-Minister to En gland, the late General Schenck, was an authority on poker, alleging that, while discharging his august ministerial duties, he had issued a book on that seductive game. All this annoyed Gen eral Schenck greatly. What he really did was this: In response to the request of a lady, whosq guest he was, he ex plained the game and wrote out the rules for playing which she privately printed for the use of herself and her friends. OHIO and one or two other States have tried the parole or ticket-of-leave plan to some extent with results that are in the main very encouraging. New Jersey is about to experiment in that direction. The prisons in that State are overflowing and this plan will fur nish relief. It is claimed that under its operation a much larger per cent of the eonvicts become good citizens and a much better opportunity is afforded them to get out of the bad ruts and become useful members of so ciety. Besides, the State is relieved of a good deal of expense by this method. REV. DR. PARKHURST, of New York, says he knows a man, and offers to give his name, whose life ambition has been to amass a fortune of millions. Until he had reached the goal he promised himself neither rest nor enjoyment nor benevolence. A few days ago he was appealed to on behalf of a most worthy object He gave her just twenty five cents, and in reply to the expres sion of astonishment such a contribu tion from a millionaire could not fail to bring forth, he said: "You don't know how it hurts me to give away that twenty-five cents. I've nearly reached my twenty-million-dollar mark." THE rapid increase in the wealth, business and prosperity of the United States during the last ten years is sim ply marvelous. The total wealth of the country is now $71,459,000,000, equal to nearly 81,000 per head. This is an in crease in ten years of $18,000,000,000 or forty-two per cent England's wealth in 1885 la given as $50,000,000,000, giving an average wealth per head of $1,545. The average in Scotland is $1,215 per head and in Ireland $565. The total wealth of France.is estimated at $36,000,000,000. England exacts in taxes $20 per bead of population, while each individual is the United States jays frut $12.50: BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. 'TUESDAY, April L—The Senate com mittee on pensions reported favorably the bill granting a pension of $100 a month to the widow of the late General Hartranft A bill was introduoed regu lating the manufacture, sale and impor tation of lager-beer. In the House bills were introduced to establish a National banking oode providing that pensions granted to the dependent relatives of deceased soldiers shall take effeot from the date of the soldier's death. Bills were passed limiting to six years the time within which suits may be brought against accounting officers and their bondsmen Senate bill creating the of fices of surveyors general in North and South Dakota admitting free of duty articles from Mexico to the St Louis exposition in 1890, and the fortifications appropriation bill ($4,521,678). WEDNESDAY, April 2.— In the Senate Mr. Edmunds reported a substitute for Mr. Sherman's anti-trust bill, en titled "a bill to protect trade and com merce against unlawful restraints and monopolies." The rest of the day was devoted to the Montana Senatorial con test Mr. Hoar presented the majority report favoring the admission of the Republican claimants and Mr. Gray spoke for the minority, which recom mended the admission of the Democrat ic contestants. In the House the bill for the admission of Idaho as a State was discussed. A bill was introduced to repeal the act making fractional silver coin a legal tender for only $10, and in creasing the limit to $20. THURSDAY, April 8.—The Senate spent most of the session in debating the Chinese enumeration bill, which finally went over. The Montana Senatorial contest was also discussed and laid over without action. A bill was introduced to regulate the compensation and per diem of laborers employed by the Gov ernment Adjourned to the 5th. In the House a concurrent resolution was pre sented requesting the President to in vite arbitration with foreign govern ments to settle disputes or differences. The bill for the admission of Idaho was passed by yeas 129, nays 1, the Demo crats refusing to vote and the Speaker counting a quorum. FRIDAY, April 4. The Senate was not in session. In the House a joint resolution was introduced providing for the election of Senators by the qualified voters of the States. Favora ble reports were made on the bills to prevent the enlistment of aliens in the navy to investigate the liquor traffie granting a pension of $100 per month to the widow of General Kilpatrick pro viding that all publications purporting to be issued periodically and to sub scribers, but which are merely books, shall pay postage as third-class matter. At the evening session thirty private pension bills were passed. FROM WASHINGTON. IN the United States the visible sup ply of wheat and corn on the 31st ult was, respectively, 27,114.093 and 20,204, 686 bushels. THE public debt statement issued on the 1st showed the total debt to be $1,599,862,544: cash in the Treasury, $32,615,842 debt less cash in Treasury, $1,023,157,672 decrease during March, $11.3S9,857 decrease since June 30, 1889, $53,488,949. SMUGGLING frauds in the glove trade in the country to the extent of $1,000, 000 had, it was said on the 4th, been dis covered by United States officials. IN the United States there were 206 business failures during the seven days ended on the 4th, against 189 the pre vious seven days. Ttre~iotal of failures in the United States from January 1 to date is 3,386, against 3,569 in 1889. THE EAST. IN New York City Isaac S. Winner, a retired Jewish rabbi, died on the 1st at the age of 100 years 1 month and 14 days. FLAMES nearly wiped out the village of Cornwells, Pa., on the 1st THE death of David Wilber. Congress man for the Twenty-fourth New York district,occurred at his home inOneonta, N. Y., on the 1st NEARLY 7,000 men in the employ of the Reading Railway Company were discharged on the 1st in order to cut down expenses. ON the 2d Evan Novagrats, a Nor wegian, was drawn into an ore-crushing machine at the Vulcan iron works at Pittsburgh, Pa., and almost instantly ground to pulp. THE firm of Rhodes & Bros., operators of the Aston. Knowlton and West Branch dress-goods mills at Aston, Pa., failed on the 2d for $100,000, throwing 1,000 persons out of work. THREE men were killed and four fatally injured in a mine explosion on the 2d at Nanticoke, Pa. AT Albany, N. Y., Isaac Howes and wife while out driving on the 2d were struck by a train and killed. IN Boston on the 3d Miss Lelia Robinson, the first woman lawyer ad mitted to the Massachusetts bar, was married to Eli B. Sawtelle, a business man. IN the recent election in Rhode Island for Governor, Ladd (Rep.) received 19,217 votes Davis (Dem.), 20,667 Larry (Labor), 1,767 Chase (Pro.), 778. This result leaves the choice of State officers with the Legislature, which stands: Re publicans, 45 Democrats, 36. FLAMES on the 3d destroyed the old Greeley homestead at Chappaqua, N. Y., which was formerly the home of Horace Greeley, being built by him in 1851. THREE supposed wealthy farmers of Lancaster, Pa., failed on the 3d, Benja min*L. Gamber, for $89,000. Jacob H. Hostetter for $42,500 and Daniel E. Heifer for $13,564. SEVERAL counterfeiters were capt ured on the 3d at Buffalo, N. Y. IT was said on the 4th that Sheriff Johnson, of Atlantic County, N. J., had sold within two days 200 farms to satis fy foreclosed mortgages, and it was said that forty families in the town of Ger mania were homeless. IN the Cameron (Pa.) colliery the fire was on the 4th beyond control, and the entire mine would have to be flooded. The loss was estimated at $100,000. WEST AND SOUTH. IN Chicago 1,000 journeymen plumbers struck on the 1st for an advance in wages to $3.75 per day. THROUGH a boiler explosion at the stave mills of J. H. Hussing & Co., at Hutsonville, 111., on the 1st five lives were lost THREE little sons of R. B. Barkers ville and three boys of R. R. Wommack lost their lives on the 1st by the caving ing in of a sand bank near Vernon, Tex. IN Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Illinois on the 1st license carried in a majority of the towns where it was an issue in the municipal election. THE death of General T. C. Anderson, a member of the famous Louisiana re turning board of 1876, occurred on the 2d at New Orleans, aged 70 years. IN the West the number of hogs packed during the winter season, No vember 1 to Maroh 1, was 6,663,802, against 5.483,852 during the same period a year ago. IN a quarrel over the latter's farm near Grand Haven, Mich., Michaol Mill man shot and killed his wife on the 3d. REPUBLICANS of Iowa who are op posed to prohibition met in convention in Des Moines on the 2d and adopted resolutions asking the Ueneral 4** L. rttrfras J* .* -i sembly to so modify the law as to give to each community the right to deoide whether it shall have prohibition or not ON the 2d Mrs. Ann Kise, of Vin cennes, Ind., aged 70 years, fell into an open fire-place and was fatally burned. FEMALE crusaders on the 2d emptied fifty-one kegs and twenty-one cases of beer into the streets of Farmington and De Lassus. Mo. IN the flooded districts along the Mis sissippi river the .water was gradually falling on the 2d. AT Hamilton, O., Dolpha Grabham was killed and his younger brother fa tally injured by a pieoe of falling scant ling on the 3d. WILLIAM HICKS and Robert McCoy (colored) were hanged on the 8d at Homerville, Ga., for the murder of Will iam Hughes and his wife last Novem ber. TURKS children of William Brown, who had been locked in their home near Huron, S. D., were burned to death on the 3d. A CYCLONE at Galena, Monmouth and Champaign, in Illinois, on the 8d un roof el houses, leveled fences and up rooted trees, causing great damage. No lives were lost THE retirement of Murat Halstead from the editorial management of the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette was re ported on the 3d. DEMOCRATS in Tennessee will meet in State convention at Nashville July 15. ON the 3d the female crusaders at Farmington, Mo., destroyed another wagon-load of beer and attempted to enter several saloons but found them barricaded. PLANTATIONS near Greenville, Miss., which were always considered above high-water mark, and were never before submerged, were inundated on the 8d, the flood being the highest on record. THE death of Mrs. Elizabeth Price, said to be the oldest person in Central Illinois, occurred on the 3d at Blooming ton in the 100th year of her age. AT Lima, O., Adam Beach had his eyes blown out on the 4th by a natural gas explosion. IT was said on the 4th that six revenue officers had been shot by moonshiners at Fleminsburg, Ky. EAGLE HORSE, an Todian, shot and killed Frank E. Lewis, a schoolteacher, on the 4th at Pine Ridge agency, in Ne braska, and then killed himself. A TORNADO on the 4th at Thomaston, Ga., blew down several buildings, and in its traok through the country the ground was swept as if by a brush, and the crops would have to be replanted. IN St Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati anew counterfeit $10 bill was in circu lation on the 4th. It is on the Germania National Bank of New Orleans, letter "C," bank No. 889, series of 1882. ON the 4th a severe storm of wind and rain prevailed at Arkansas City, Ark., and nearly every house was flooded to a depth of ten or twelve feet Two churches and three or four residences were blown from their foundations. FORTY-FIVE directors of the world's fair were chosen in Chicago on the 4th. THE relief for the cyclone sufferers at Louisville, Ky., amounted on the 4th to $135,000. Eight hundred applications for aid had been received. ON the 4th the sixtieth general an nual conference- of the Mormon church opened at Salt Lake City with President Wilford Woodruff presiding. IN a tunnel near Santa Paula, Cal., an explosion of gas on the 4th killed six men. NEAR St Charles, Mo., fifteen pas sengers were injured on the 4 th by the plunging down an embankment of an express train. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. AT Vienna 10,000 builders' employes and 800 bakers' apprentices were on a strike on the 1st PRINCE BISMARCK'S 75th birthday was celebrated throughout Germany on the 1st MEXICO'S Congress was opened on the 2d. President Diaz in his message said that the finances of the Republic were flourishing and the affairs of the country generally were in a satisfactory condi tion. THE Cosipuiriachic reduction works near Chihuahua, Mex., owned by a New York company, were recently destroyed by fire at a loss of $2,000,000. AT Szegedin, Hungary, a man was hanged on the 2d for the murder of eight women. ON the 3d the State Treasurer of the canton of Ticino, Switzerland, was ar rested on the charge of embezzling 1,000, 000 francs. A DISPUTE in a restaurant at Debrec zin, Hungary, caused forty challenges to duels to be issued on the 3d. Two WOMEN and a negro girl were burned to death in afire on the 3d which destroyed the Chamber of Com merce at Santiago de Cuba. IN Russia all the universities were ordered closed on the 4th owing to dis order among the students. LATER. Reported Wrecked. BURLINGTON, la., April 8.—It is re ported here that Prophetstown, 111.,' has been swept away by a cyclone. At 3 a. m. the reports are- very meagre, the rumors cannot be verified, but seem to be true. Every indication points to the fact that a severe storm had. passed over a portion of Illinois. Prophets town, the plaee reported blown away, is a small village of about eight hundred inhabitants and is situated on a branch of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road about thirty-five miles southeast of Fulton, 111'. A special stock train was just leaving the town when the storm struck it, tearing everything all to pieces. It is impossible to get any further information, as every wire lead ing to the city is down and the place is entirely shnt off from the outside world. Left Their Hammers end Sews. CHICAGO, April 7.—Between 5,000 and 6,000 carpenters are out on a strike in Chicago this morning. The strike, really began at 12 o'clock last, and when to-day dawned not a union carpenter was at work within the city limits. All had left their hamipers, saws and planes and joined the movement for a shorter day and 40 cents an hour. A great many of the non-union men quit work out of sympathy with their union brethren, and it was claimed that most of them would join the carpenters' union. Every House Demolished. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 7.—It is just learned here that Harper's Ferry, Hen ry county, was almost completely de stroyed by the tornado. The village, composed of less than two dozen houses, a considerable distance from any rail road. Not a house remained standing and the country about is covered with wreckage. THE meat inspection law of Virginia was declared void by the courts on the 7th. FRANK SCOTT, of Butte, Mont., woke up on the morning of the 7th and found his wife dead by his side. She had com mitted suicide by taking morphine. OVER twenty prisonerr escaped from the jail at Spokane Falls, Wash., on the 7th. THE plumbers' strike in Chicago end ed on the night of the 7th on an agree ment of $3.50 per day. SEVERAL thousand children took pos session of the White House grounds on the 7th and indulged in the annual "egg-rollingi'* A Miik.: Former Decision Reversed by the B« preme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court of the United States recently reversed the decision of the Minnesota Supreme Court in what are known as the granger cases. The Minnesota decision was against the con tention of the railroad compa nies. The decision deolares that the law of Minnesota neither contemplates nor allows any issue to be made as to the reasonableness of the rates estab lished by the State railroad commission ers, thus establishing an extra ju dicial tribunal in violation of the. con stitution of the United States. This be ing the case, the decision is reversed and the case remanded. Sneer Loaf Mountain. In the city of Winona there stands a romantic and picturesque mountain oalled Sugar Loaf, which is an enormous square rock. One day a beautiful Indian maiden for some reason mounted this dangerous rock and jumped from th« elevation with the intention of com mitting suicide. Her name was Winona, and to her that city owes its name— Winona. James Tawney and John Har ris, of that place, are now in Washing ton with a bill appropriating money foi the establishment of an observatory on Sugar Loaf mountain, which is the high est point on the Mississippi river. A Friendly Association. The Young Women's Friendly Asso ciation was recently organized at tut Paul and the following officers were elected: Rt. Rev. N. M. Gilbfert, Presi dent Charles P. Noies, First Vice President J. Elbert Moore, Second Vice-President T. L. Schurmeier, Third Vice-President Newton R. Frost Re cording Secretary J. M. Lichtenberger, Corresponding Secretary William B. Bend, Treasurer. The objects of the club are to provide quarters for young ladies employed in stores where they may have a library, with classes, lectures and entertainments. Born on the Train. On the Wisconsin Central train which arrived at St Paul the other morning an infant was born just after the train left Milwaukee. The mother was Mrs. George Richards, of Cottage Grove, and was en route from England. Her hus band was at the depot to meet her, and an hour after was so excited that he could not say as to whether the addition to his family was a boy or girl. Mother and child were doing well at the city hospital. The baby would be named Waupaca. Lease of a Valuable Mine. John Paulson, of Minneapolis, has with others leased the Diamond Iron Company's mining property. He pays 150,000 as a bonus for the lease and a royalty of forty cents per ton of ore mined. The Duluth & Winnipeg rail road will build a spur track and exten sive ore dooks at West Superior. The result will be to open the West Ver million range to development and in crease the .Duluth output of Bessemei ore. Covered with Boiling Pitch. Mrs. M. Pierro was burned to death at Duluth the other morning as the re-! suit of a peculiar accident She was' boiling pitch and threw some water Into the kettle to cool it In some way the kettle was upset and the unfortu nate woman was covered with its con tents, which caught fire, and she was burned to a crisp. To Protcct Game. Owing to the violations of the game laws in the State it is probable that a game club will be organized in Minne apolis similar to the Cuvier Club of Cin cinnati, which will devote its attention not only to protecting game but to se curing better legislation. Prominent sportsmen are interested. The News Mrie I Chronicled. L. W. Mears, a traveling man, died at Faribault recently. The house of Harvard Dunham, in the town of Clear Creek, was totally de stroyed by fire the other night. The Duluth & Winnipeg road is mak ing arrangements for the erection of ex tensive ore docks at Duluth. A fire the other morning in Mrs. F. F. McGowan's store at Duluth caused a loss of $8,500. Fully insured. The American Building and Loan As sociation of Minneapolis has squared itself with the Wisconsin Auditor's office by depositing additional $25,000 ol securities. An attempt was made at Minneapolis recently to kill Actor Joseph Haworth by a woman who fired two shots at him. The contract for a system of watei works with a 100-foot stand pipe and drive well supply two and one-hali miles of mains for Litchfield was recent ly awarded to Fairbanks, Morse A Co., of St Paul, for $19,000. The contract for an electric-light plant complete was awarded the Fort Wayne Electric Com pany. The Faribault Home for Aged Women at the recent annual meeting elected Mrs. A. E. Beech, President Mrs. I. A. Nutting, Treasurer, and Mrs. K. D. Cole, Secretary. There were forty-nine fires in St Paul during the month of March. The largest was O'Leary's packing house. In the District court at St Paul re sently Judge Kelly rendered judgment for $31,444 in favor of John V. Farwell & Co., of Chicago, and against the St Paul Trust Company. State Treasurer Bobleter has issued his monthly report for March which shows the receipts of his department iuring that month to have been $491, 872.04. March, 1890, was the coldest March in the State since 1876, except March, 1883 and 1888, the mean temperature bejng 32.15 degrees. The total water deposit was 1.685 inches. The State Oil Inspector proposes to lischarge all of his deputies and do the work himself. This is in retaliation for a suit resulting in a court decision sompelling him to inspect any quantity jf oil in one vessel for forty cents, in stead of charging forty cents a barrel. At Montevideo recently John Lynce was found guilty of robbery last sum mer against the person of Hector Mo Lean, a farmer living near there. A law and order loague was recently Formed for the purpose of having the liquor law in Rochester enforced. D. H. Williams was elected president and in executive committee of fifty was ap pointed. The State Superintendent of Publio Instruction reports that the plan of granting certificates for perfect attend ance at the teachers' institutes, and at tention to the duties assigned to them, iias so far worked excellently. Rev. Dr. D. J. Burrell, of Minneapo lis, has declined the call extended him by the Collegiate Reform church of New fork City. The new Metropolitan Opera-House at St Paul, which will seat 1,800 people, will be absolutely fire-proof, and it is intended to rank in elegance of appoint ments with any in the country. The Jost is estimated at $800,000. Miles Wagner and Henry Zumberg, inder arrest at Howard Lake charged with attempting to blow up a M. Buck tnd T. E. Latham by charging sticks of wood in their wood pile with giant •"wdafc oonfssaad the crime recently. Another Mississippi Levee Breaks, Snb merglnff Many Plantations A Fleree Gale Adds to the Hardships of the In habitants of Arkansas City. ARKANSAS CITY, Ark., April 5.—News has reached here of a bad break in. the levee just above Catfish Point Miss. The break occurred at 1 o'clock Friday morning, and was a complete surprise, as the river was falling and the levee was thought to be safe. The levee was about fifteen feet high and was con structed principally of sand. The crevasse is nearly 900 feet wide and very deep. It is rapidly widening, and there is no telling how much wider it will become before the ends can be fastened. Catfish Point is on a big bend in the river, Mound Landing being about ten miles below and Bolivar Landing about the same distance above. The entire bend is in cultivation, and the principal plantations are the Miller, the Connelly, the Martin, the Edmunds and the Ousley places. The break occurred be tween the Miller and the Connelly places. Every plantation is flooded, and the depth of the water will not fall short of twelve to fifteen feet The water will back up to Bolivar Landing, will help to increase the depths there and will make matters worse below Mound Landing. The break is said to be by far the worst that has yet occurred on the Mississippi side. A tremendous AHKANSA C/TV tAfte PffQVt MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 5.—The com mittees of the citizens' relief fund sent down the river to Laconia and Henrico to investigate the condition of the flood sufferers returned Thursday. They re port that in Laconia alone fully 600 peo ple, mostly negroes, are without food or houses. Few houses are left in the city, and in one gin house there are 150 persons huddled to gether like so many cattle. The water is from six to twelve feet deep on the plantations. Forty houses were washed down by last Thursday's storm. At Modoc, Ark., 420 people were found to be suffering for food. At islands Nos. 46 and 47, below Helena, 100 people were found in the same condi tion, and at Henrico 125 more. In the limited investigation made by the com mittee fully one thousand people were found to be homeless and hungry, and these were all found at points on the river. They were unable to cross the country back of the river, where, prob ably, more distress exists than on the river front MANY WERE SHOT. Rowan County (Ky.) Illicit DlatUlers At tempt to Kill Informers. CINCINNATI, April 5.—A special from Flemingsburg says that lawlessness has again appeared in Rowan County, Ky., growing out of the manufacture of illicit whisky. Revenue officers made a sweep, destroying many stills. For giving information to them Eph Cooper, Sim Cooper, Burt Baumgartner, George Hogg, a son of the sheriff, Hiram Roberts and Nelson Egan have been shot, Hogg and Roberts fatally. FACTS ABOUT FLAGS. To "STRIKE the flag" is to lower the National colors in token of submission. THE yellow flag shows a vessel to be in quarantine or is the sign of a contagious disease. DIPPING the flag is lowering it slightly and then hoisting it again to salute a vessel or fort. A "FLAG of truce" is a white flag, dis played to an enemy to indicate a desire for a parley or consultation. A FLAG at half-mast means mourning. Fishing and other vessels return with a flag at half-mast to announce the loss or death of some of them. FLAGS are used as the symbol of rank and command, the officers using them being called flag officers. Such flags are square, to distinguish them from other banners. IF the President of the United States goes afloat the American flag is carried in the bows of his barge or hoisted at the main of the vessel on board of which he is. THE red flag is a sign of defiance and Is often used by revolutionists. In our service it is a mark of danger and shows a vessel to be receiving or discharging kerpowde*. i«*vr§ j*¥r The above map shows the location and ex tent of this flooded areas. North of Arkansas City, for some distance above the mouth ot the White river, at Emporia Circle, the land on the Arkansas side is all under water. To the east in Mississippi, from Green ville a short distance below Arkansas City nearly down to Vicksburg, the whole basin of the Deer creek and Sun flower river is flooded and the back-water threatens the Yazoo. On the westward again. In Louisiana, the Tensas basin is flooded from the break in the Lake Providence levees and many rich plantations lie three and four feet under the rushing tide. Where the river turnp to the east there is another series of crevasses above New Orleans, the water from which, flowing into Lake Ponchartrain, saved New Orleans from a disastrous flood. Taken alto gether, the flooded areas cover hundreds ot square miles and will cause a loss of upwards of a million dollars. volume of water is coming out of the crevasse and is" sweeping every thing before it Houses, cribs, stables and fences are being washed away, and many head of stock have already been lost Mrs. L. T. Martin lost fifteen mules, and nearly all the corn, hay and cotton seed on two or three plantations have been swept away. No lives have been lost. NEW ORLEANS, April 5. A special from Arkansas City says: Another wind and rain storm raged here Thursday night About 1 o'clock several strong blasts of wind in rapid succession severely tested the strength of every house in town, and brought the occupants out of their beds. For several minutes it looked as though the town would be blown away. The terrors of a storm in a town covered by water to a depth of from eight to twelve feet, can hardly be imagined. The Catholic church, an elegant little structure, was blown from its foundations and consider ably damaged. The building was flooded to the depth of eight feet and all of the furniture and fixtures badly damaged. A negro church was also blown from its foundation, but did not sustain very serious damage. Three or four residences were treated likewise. Of the great O.M. D. sh® bought unpply, And directions for taking pursued to the latter. TM" the beat bing on earth she conld possibly try, A nd soon, very soon. Miss Larkins was better. The G. M. D. she took was Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, the great rem edy for bronchial, throat and lung diseases, sick headache, scrofula, dyspepsia and all diseases that have origin in impure blood and a disordered liver. THB cleansini qualities of Dr. unequaled. antiseptic and healing 's Catarrh Remedy are Two or the wealthiest men In the West are said to have been messenger boys. It pays to go slow, after alL—Yonkers States man. Homes for 50,000Families. Do not lose the opportunity of your life. The good land in the recently ceded lands of the Sioux reservation is not nearly all taken. Here is the best chance in the world for young men of energy. For further par ticulars write to the Alliance Committee at Pierre, South Dakota. Tn dog with the appetite for trousers is liable at any time to go on a tear.—Wash ington Post Six Novel* Free, will be sent by Cragin ft Co., Philada, Pa., to any one in the U. 8. or Canada, postage paid, upon receipt of 25 Dobbins' Electric Soap wrappers. See list of novels on circulars around each bar. THK most popular dancing figure among business men is balance to partners.—Rome Sentinel. PAIS from indigestion, dyspepsia and too hearty eating is relieved at once by taking one of Carter's Little Liver Pills immediate ly after dinner. Don't forget this. Lovs mnv be blind, but he knows when the parlor lamp ia too high.—Binghamton Leader. TESTED BT TIME. For Bronchial affec tions, Coughs, etc., BROWN'S BHONCHIAL TROCHES have proved their efficacy by a test of many years. Price, 25 cts. THE most popular dentist is the one who extracts teeth without payin'.—Plunder. ACTORS, Vocalists, Public Speakers praise Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. REALIZING that time has wings the hotel waiter measures it from tip to tip. DON'T wait until you are sick before trying Carter's Little Liver Pills, but get a vial at once. You can't ta'ce them without benefit Two and two in an ice-cream saloon make a quartet.—N. O. Picayune. THB best cough medicine is Piso's Cure for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c. THERE are cases when an auction sale is a sell.—N. O. Picayune. OLD smokers prefer "Tansil's Punch." THE business of typewriting has come to be recognized as a direct step on the road to matrimony.—Boston Herald. COBS kFvAD|^T^^|§"MARKi REM ONE ENJOY® Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to Ihe taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand 'mil pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. IOU18VILLE, KY. NEW YORK. N.t. scum EMULSION DOES CURE CONSUMPTION In Its First Stages. Liver When the Liver it crowded or clotted with a mass of impurities, its action becomes slow and difficult. Pleurisy, Headache, Pain in Side, Tired Feel ing and General Weakness ensoes^ resulting, if unchecked, in BrMmMni When yon have these symptoms, try a few doses of the genuine DrLMdane's^liverPins Price, SB cents. Sold by all druggists, and prepared only by Fleming' Bros^ Pittsburgh, Pa. Beware of counter {sits made in SC. Louis. Are ie:t^roe^A|N CURES PROMPTLY AND PERMANENTLY A O Rheumatism, Headache, Toothache* S A I N S Neuralgia, Swellings, Frost-bites, I S E S THE CHARLES A. V0GELER CO., BaKImor*. Ml li'psburgnQjj 6 IT IB (7IEV kr Cim BURN'S CHILDKJClf. Tkauaada «r jeug aanl naa la th* U. S. A. MM -t—- nr i~i tMrkapftaai la altera IM LARGEST and BEST HOTEL in WORTHINGTON. Newly Furnished Throughout and the one First-Class Hotel in the Place. IBilecAiit XjAdles' F*rIor fmwensely popular because •re strictly first-class, folly ind still only medium in price* (lev warranted Are the best In the world, and hare led all others for years. Orer 180,000 use. The people are bound to hare the1 best, and will have none bat the Estoy, Oar prices are the lowest and terms either time payments or cash, as cus tomer* prefer. Call and see ns, or send (or Ctifta legaes and full information.<p></p>ESTEY is.', & CAMP. 233 State Street, Chicago. 19»St. Loiti«a Mouse, G16 & 613 Olive St Mention this Paper. ?VSHBROS :wAgo W A O N O N •THE BEST- 0t US, BIGGIES •AND* Send for Catalogue and Price List FISH BROS..WAGON CO. RACINE. WIS. CHICAGO, ROCK I8LAND & PACIFIC R'Y. Its central position and cloae connection with Eastern lines at CLicara and continuous linea at terminal pointa, West, Northwest, and Soutn Weet, make It the true mid-link in that transcontinental chain ot unites the Atlantic and Pacific. Its main linea and branches include Chi- mediate places, making' all transfers in Union depots. Fast Trains of fin* DAY COACHES, elegant DINING CAES, magnificent PULLMAN PALACB BLEEPING CABS, and (between Chicago, St. Joseph. Atchison and Kansas City restful RECLINING! CHAIR CABS, seats FBEB to holders of through flraVclase tickets. THE CHICAGO, KANSA8 & NEBRASKA R'Y (CHEAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE) Extends west and southwest from Kansas City and Bt. Joseph to Pai* bury, Nelson, Horton, Topeka, Berington, Hutchinson, Wichita, Caldwell, •nd all points in Southern Nebraska Interior Kansas and beyond. Entire passenger equipment of the celebrated Pullman manufacture. Solidly bal* lasted track of heavy steel ralL Iron and atone bridges. All safety appliances and modern improvement*. Commodious, well-built stations. Celerity, cer tainty, comfort and luxury assured. THE FAMOU8 ALBERT LEA ROUTE the favorite between Chicago, Bock Ieland, Atchison, Kansas City, sad 'inneapolia and St. Paul. The tourist route to all Northern Summer Besorta. ts Watertown Branch traverses the most productive lands of the groat 'wheat and dairy belt" of Northern Iowa, Southwestern Minnesota, and East Central Dakota. The 8hort Line via Seneca and Kankakee offers superior facilities to travel between Cincinnati, Indianapolis. Lafayette, and Council Bluffis, St. Joseph. Atchison, Leavenworth, Kansas City, Minneapolia, and St. Paul. For Tickets, Maps. Folders, or any deaired information, apply to any Ooa pon Ticket Office in the United States or or addreea E. ST. JOHN, 6sasral Ksaagsb CHICAGO, ILL Where Are Yon Going? When do yon "tartt Where fromT Bowmssy In your par' rt What amonat o! Ireignt ot kagpafo have /oof What route do you pcererT Upon receipt of an answer to the shore Hons you will be turni»hed, free ol expense, with tb« lowest ma •L'aSJiis A xni'TrM tfWosA^rai able inform- IwB MUUTA* ^^atton which will SftTe trouble, time and money. Asrata will call in mmon where necessary. Parties not «eady to answer above questions Should cut out end p*«f*irTe thin notice for future retorenoe. It may become useful. Addrew G. H. WAaasH, general Passenger Unit, St. Paul, Miaa WmA Iss asw ma» KerUwest -THK BEST- FARM W/1 IM THK MARKET MAM •^ACQUAINTED WITH THE GEOGRAPHY OT THE OOUHTHT, WILL OBTAFLF 1CUOH VALUABLE IMTOBMATIOH FHOM A STUDY OF THIS MAP OF THE steel which irosperous towns and citiea. he Pacific Coast and inter E. A. HOLBROOK, flsa'l Tiskit ft Psn'r A|sat Minnesota Leads the World With her stock, dairy and grain products, .'.000,000 acne One timber, farming and grazing ands, adjacent to railroad, for sale cheap on *sr terms. For maps, prices, --tee, eia. dmsss, J. Bookwalter.Land Commimloner, oi H. Warren. General sessnpT Asset St. nnwk A w*A NOBLSS COUNTT MAPS. A supply of new Nobles Count) Maps for sale at this offlca II lit gsstt .Lv-