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VOL. XX.— NO. 91. BULLETIN OF THrE ST. Pflr(X GI^OBE. THURSDAY, APRIL, 1, 1807. Weather for Today. Ltnonl Shnwrrn; Cooler. page: i. Local Flood IncrenttlnK. Dnmagp of Ice Jam in Minneapolis. Dtaciey Tariff Bill Passed. PAGE 2. Snnknrd I m miji m■■ ts Arrive. i ii ii in > Auditor's Annual Report. Trap That Didn't Catch Fullerton. Oninhn Freight House liurns. PAGE 3. MiniK'ii polls MntlcrH. "UarshipH Shell the Cretan*. "Worst In Feared in Southern Flood. Arl.i trn I ion Treaty Jlnrli Amended. page: 4. Editorial. Can County Fis'ht Patched Up. HifkH Election Law Killed. PAGE 5. Four Appropriation iliiln Downed. Citpltol Hill Recommended. Work of the Leg'lt*lature. PAGE O. Bar Silver, «1 11-l«e. « "jii.li Wheat In Chicago, 7O 1-Sc. FiiK'ar Factory for \e\v I Im. Hews of the MwttmeiL PAGE ?. Mott Against Sunday Ractng. Chandler, Oltla.. in Ruina. Wanta «rf the People. PAGE 8. Chamber of Commerce on Charter. Bntter Men Copy l.lyin Railroads Evolve a Sew Plan. Espies* Companies Make No Return* R«Ulivay Gossip. EVENTS TODAY. Met— O'Neill in Monte Cristo, 8.15. Grand — shadow* o>f a Great City, 8.15. Capitol— Legislature, 10. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMSHIPS. NEW YORK— Arrived: Orizaba, Havana; Jason, Kingston. Sailed: La Champagne, Ant werp; Britannic. Liverpool; Southwark, Ant werp; Olympia, Marseilles. LIVERPOOL— Arrived: Cephalonia, Bos ton. PHILADELPHIA— SaiIed: Inois, Ant werp. HONG KONG— Arrived: Olympia, Tacoma. ROTTERDAM — Sailed: Maaadam, New York. Arrived: Werkendam, New York. AMSTERDAM— SaiIed: Edam, New York. SOUTHAMPTON— SaiIed: Havti, Bremen for New York. Arrived: Spree, New York for Bremen; St. Paul, New York. LIVERPOOL — Arrived: Indiana, from Philadelphia; Teutonic, from New York. Called: Germanic, for New York. Don't kick! Don't kick today! m Don't kick anything today! - . Peaehblow Plngree is more stirred up than stirring lately. The Yant'fc is afloat again. So is the West side, St. Paul. There is hope for Chicago, Dvight L. Moody is drawing better than any of the candidates for mayor. Adlai E. Stevenson was born in Ken tucky, but Kentucky doesn't seem to be very proud of the fact. A hog goit drunk on wine. in Califor nia the other day. He is not the only hog that ever did it, either. Hunter is holding his own in Ken tucky, but if he doesn"t do better than that, he will never be United States senator. Times are pretty hard in New York. The number of convicts in the three prisons of that state in 1892 was 3,595 Last year i.t was 3,120. There is a convict in the Connecticut penitentiary who knows Shakespeare from cover to cover. But this doesn't help him to get out of prison. -. _ m — A Leavenworth, Kan., preacher charges the women of that town with gambling. He says one young lady lost 1300 at one sitting. What luck! --- * Colorado is buried under a foot of snow. That sounds homelike. It is less than a week since Minnesota was buried under more snow than that. An Indiana man has broken the mat rimonial record in a new spot. He died, leaving six living wives. He left the last of these $1,000. To all of the others he was paying alimony. Lightning struck a featherbed near Utica, N. V.. the other day. The old •women of New York will have to seek n new haven of rest during thunder storms. President McKinley cent another large batch of appointments to the senate yesterday. The most that Min nesota got out of it was a postoffiee at Olivia. Thirty-eight citizens of Louisville ■were arrested the other day for get ting full on beer. It is spring in Louisville, and Louisville has a Repub lican mayor. '- Rhode Island never had a representa tive in a president's cabinet. Rhode Island doesn't carry guns enough. It should annex Connecticut, Massachu setts or Block island. Milwaukee dispensers of liquid re fr» shments are talcing concerted action for the abolition of the "growler." It is driving ihe Milwaukee saloonkeepers to drinking their own beer. The skullduggery that goes on in some of the polling booths would Indi cate that It would be entirely appro ■ priate that the flag that floats over them should be at half mast. Fred Grant, late colonel U. S. A., is said to be on the slate for the Austrian mission. Thus Fred gives significance to his remark that the only way to fret him off the New York police com mission was by "legislation, death or something better." THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE ABOVE DAGGER LINE. RIVER AFTER A RECORD. Water in the Mississippi at Ijad Reached a Point Ijigher Than Any Since the Heavy Freshet in 1881. FLAT DWELLERS ARE PJOVIJiG OFF. Weather Bureau Requests Police to JJotify Those Living on the Flats of Their Danger — F|any t^oved Under Difficulties— Something Be Done to tjelp the [jomeless. Between the hours of 11 o'clock and midnight, last night, a large quantity of Ice came down the river, and with it came a slight increase in the rate at which the river was rising. The gauge at midnight registered 14.8 feet, a rise of .8 of a foot in three hours. This over reaches all the high water marks since 1881. In 1888 the records show that the water reached a height of 14.4 feet, and in 1893 it went to 14.7 feet. The theory of the 9t Paul weather bureau that the sudden rise of the river Monday night was due to the breaking of a gorge furt.er up the river and that it would 6Ubside rapidly was not borne out by the action of the "Father of Waters," for it continued to rise all day yesterday, passing the dan ger mark at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. V nli^J^ '^ At that hour the government gauge at the foot of Jackson street registered a full fourteen feet. This showed an in crease since midnight on Monday of seven-tenths of a foot." With the smashing of the theories of the-weath er bureau the hopes of the flat-dwell ers that they were to be spared a repetition of the extreme high water of past years have also gone glimmering. The scene on both the upper and the West side flats was one of lively ac tivity all day yesterday. A few fam ilies had left their homes on Monday, but a vast majority of them remained in their houses, hoping against hope that the water had reached its limit and would show signs of subsiding by Tuesday morning. The result was that ninny of them awakened yesterday morning to find their homes in the center of a sea of water. On the upper flats the water is still between three and four feet from the top of the levee, but the hack, wa^er is causing the people serious trouble. The strong wind which blew directly across the river forced the water through the open culverts at a rapid rate, and with no means of escape it rose steadily until it was almost a foot higher than the level of the river. The condition in the middle and upper portion of the flats was worse than anywhere else, and the people were busy all day raft ing and boating their belongings from their flooded homes to places of safety on the higher ground. No real danger has yet been encountered by the people of the upper flats. In two or three cases household effects have received a severe wetting owing to the refusal of the people to leave their homes until absolutely compelled to do so, but be yond that no serious damage has been done. On the West side and lower Polander flate the condition of many of the peo ple is pitiable in the extreme. They have no levee to protect them, as is the case in the ur>per flats, and in many places the water is flowing di rectly through their homes from the river. At 3 o'clock yesterday after noon there were only a few small patches of land visible In the bend of the river below Fenton street. Ten nessee street was a perfect sea of SAVINO HIS HOI'SEHfttLI) EFFECTS. water, and men were employed all afternoon with boats and wading boots staking- the- sidewalk into the ground so that it could not float away. There are less than a dozen houses on the Po lander flats that are not flooded, and with but few exceptions, the owners have all gone to the empty houses on ■the higher ground. On the West side flats many of the houses have not as yet been reached by the water, owing t othe fact that they are built on mounds piled up above the level of the ground, but nearly all of them are en tirely surrounded by the water. Up to yesterday the owners of these houses felt very secure. They rather expected that the water might surround them, but did not think that it would reach their houses, but yesterday the ma jority of them decided to move while they had time and boats were busy all over the flats carrying their belongings to the higher ground, where it \va:t loaded into express wagons and taken away. Along the river front the condition of the people is worse than elsewhere. The houses are mere huts and the peo ple living in them are of the very poor class. Many of them do not even own thp boats, which is evidence of pover ty on the flats and they have no n-.oney to hire the more fortunate ones to convey their goods to the high ground. Some of these people called on the mayor yesterday. They told him that they had no means to get their goods out of their houses and even if they had there was no place THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1897. for them to go. One man living on Fenton street has a flunily of five children and two of than are sick in bed. The house was flooded with water and his family were really In danger. "When the river reached the danger mark yesterday afternoon and there were no signs of the flood abating, the weather bureau decided that it was time to act, and in compliance with a request from that offlee, Chief Goss took measures to serve individual and peremptory notice upon the oceupanta of each of the dwellings in any way endangered by the high water to move at once. One officer from the central station was sent to the upper levee and another from the Dacas street sta tion to the West sid* flats with In structions to employ boats or any other means necessary to visit every house and in each case to secure the name of the occupant in order that the depart ment may keep track of them. Mayor Doran will call a meeting at once for the purpose ; of organizing 1 a citizens' committee to furnish tempo rary quarters for the families thus driven from their homes and to render such other assistance as may be found necessary. Chief Goss spent the after noon driving about the flats and su perintending the work o-f the officers. At 9 o'clock last night the register showed the height of the water to be 14.5, an increase in six hours of a half a foot, showing that the water had been raising at the rate of one inch per DIJMLEY TARIFF BILL PASSED. As Adopted Its Schedules Go Into Effect Today— Five Dem ocratic Votes for ths Measure. WASHINGTON, March 31.— With to morrow morning the duties imposed by the Dingley tariff bill will be in force and the present law will be a thing of the past, if the last amendment at tacher to the bill before its passage in the house today, fixing' tomorrow as the day on which its provisions shall go into effect, is in the bill when it Is finally enacted and is held to be legal by the courts. The Republican victory today was complete. The party pre sented an unbroken front to the op position. All the rumors that the dis satisfaction with particular schedules of the bill might lead some to break over the party traces proved absolutely unfounded. On the other hand five Democrats, one more than was anti cipated, braved the party whip and gave the bill the approval of their votes. These five Democrats are inter ested in the sugar schedule. Three from Louisiana and two from Texas. One Populist, Howard, of Alabama, voted for the bill. Twenty-one other mem bers of what is denominated "the op position," consisting of Populists, fusionists and Silverites declined to record themselves either for or against the measure. The vote on the final passage stood: Ayes, 205; Nays, 122; 'present and not voting, 21. a majority of 83. Speaker Reed added to the dramatic nature of the climax by directing the clerk to call his name at the end of the roll call, recording his vote for the bill. The events of the last leading up tc the final vote were replete with excite ment and Incident and not devoid of humor. The galleries were crowded to suffocation. Even tH» <-!tccutive and diplomatic galleries, which are usually empty even on big day.s, were well filled. Many prominent personages were present. On the floor every seat was taken. After the amendment fix ing tomorrow as the date on which the bill should go into effect had been adopted, against the protests of the Dwnocrats, who contended that it was retroactive, and therefore unconstitu tional, the last three hours were taken up with short speeches, most of which were made for the benefit of the gal leries, and the constituents of the speakers. The Democrats had yielded the question of a long debate over the (Irosvenor amendment, in the hope that enough progress might be made with the bill to permit the house to rea.cn the sugar schedule, but only two more pages were read, learing 140 uncon sidered in committee of the whole. The motion to recommit with instructions to amend the bill, so as to suspend the duties on articles Controlled by trusts, upon which the Democrats based their principal hope of breaking through the Republican ranks, failed of its purpose. Every Republican voted against it. There was a great demonstration on the floor and in the galleries when the till was finally declared passed. The galleries were crowded early to witness the maneuvering leading up to the climax of the ten days' battle. Mr. Dingley and Mr. Bailey, the op posing leaders were in their places when Speaker Reed, called the house to order at 10 o'clock. Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, called* mttention to the fact that there was manifestly no quorum present, but declined, on ac count of the brief time remaining for the consideration of the bill, to make the point. Paragraph 66. making phenacetine, etc., dutiable at 8 cents an ounce, was siricken out on motion of Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania. TJiis sends the ar ticles in the paragraph to the basket clause, making them dutiable at 25 per cent. Mr. Grosvenor offered a committee amendment which was adopted, mak ing the rate on dates and currants 2 cents per pound. Mr. Devries (Dem., Cal.) said, as a representative of a fruit growing dis trict, he favored this amendment. Mr. Grosvenor then presented the amendment about which there has been so much discussion during the last few days, fixing April 1 as the date on which the bill shall go into effect. The amendment in full was as follows: Section 27. That all articles mentioned Jn the several schedules of this act, which shall be imported into the Cnlted States between the first day of May. ISS7, and the date of the passage of this actj ani which were not purchased and directet! b» the owner to be shipped for importation into the United States by any citizen thereof prior to April 1, 1897, shall bear the same duties to be charged upon similar articles in this act and such dutie« are hereby made a ben on such articles wherever and in whatsoever hand? found, ex cept in the hands of persons holding them for final consumption and having no purpose to sell cr part with the pame or any part or product of the same, and except al?o in the hands cf rersens shown, to have obtained such articles without nottee of the provisions of the act. and any person, no* a final con sumer cr holder, without notice, having ob tained an interest in or possession of any such article or articles so subject to duty, ex oept as a common carrier of warehouseman, shall be liable for the- payment of such duties thereon, and the same may be recovered with interest, but without penalty, in an action or suit brought by the United States against such person or persons in any district or circuit court thereof. And all persons liable under this act for such duty or any part thereof in' respect to any shipment, cargo or lot of any article or articles may be joined on the same action for recovery without re gard to mutuaiity or nature of interest or defenses, and such joint or several judgments or decrees may be rendered therein, including the enforcement of any svh lien as justice and CQuky may require 1 .- In every such case the process of the court In the district whore the action or suit is brought and where one defendant resides and is served shall run to and may be served on any defendant in any other district. It is hereby made the duty of the secretary of the treasury to prescribe sind enlorce suitable hour. The platform surrounding' the Devereaux commission house, where the government gauge Is located, was under six inches of water at th«,t hour. Col. Jones, of the United States en gineering corps, returned yesterday from a trip of inspection along the waterways of the north part of the state. The colonel is, therefore, quali fied to speak with some certainty on the flood situation. "There is plenty of snow in the north yet," said the colonel to a reporter for the Globe yesterday ■ afternoon. "While it has melted to some extent from the open country, there has been no thawing at all in the timber where the snow is the deepest. So you see there is still rivers of water up there which will not come down for months. The waterways in the northern part of the state are not full as yet, and the volume in the government reser voirs has not commenced to increase to any great extent. Now if the pres ent high water at St. Paul is caused by the melting of the snow in the open country, w-e are all right, and I take it we are. I expect to see the river rise higher than it is now, but this flood must not be taken for the regular sum mer or spring freshet which will not come until late in May. Then I ex pect the river will be far higher than it Is at the present time. The stage of water in St. Paul now is nothing re markable. Half of it comes from the Minnesota river." regulations to carry out the provision of this section, including the retention in the bonded warehouses of the United States or any other place where such goods are deposited of samples of such goods until required for evidence on any such trial. The parliamentary point was im- (HOLD THIS SHEET BETWEEN YOU A\D THE LIGHT.) mediately raised by the opposition, that the amendment had not yet been order- I ed reported by the full committee. In | order to avoid any technical trouble, I Mr. Dingley withdrew the amendment md called a meeting of the ways and means committee. The committee was absent but a few minutes, and upon entering the chamber, Mr. Grosvenor | a pain offered the amendment making »blll effective April 1. r. Dockery offered as an amend ment the proviso to suspend the duties on articles controlled by trusts. A point of order made against it, after a short discussion, was sustained by the chair. An arrangement was made for fifteen minutes debate on each side of the Grosvenor amendment. iMr. Bailey stated that the opposi in was extremely anxious to reach ■•o schedules in the bill and did not sire to consume more time on this amendment. In opening, Mr. Gros venor remarked upon the alleged at tempt of the Democrats to make politi cal capital out of the opposition to trusts. As to the pending proposition. to make this tariff bill go into effect April 1, no matter what the date of its final enactment, he said, two ques tions were involved. Its expediency and its wisdom. That it was wise, he did not think anyone would deny, and he would, therefore, direct his attention entirely to the question of its expedi ency. Mr. Grosvenor's strongest point was made in connection with the present tariff law, which bore date of Aug. 1, 1594, but was not finally enacted untii twenty-eight days later. Although Continued on Third Page. PRICE TWO CENTS—) IT WAS IRRESISTIBLE. ■ ICE JAF( AT HipEAPOLIS. Swept Away pillions of Feet of Logs, Snapping Booms as if They Were Pipestems and Causing Devastation on Both Banks. A DAMAGE OF FULLY $100,000. Exciting Scenes at the Soo Railroad Bridge, During Which fjundreds of Lives Were in Peril-Sudden I^ise and Fall of the River Responsible for Further Destruction. "It Is the worst I have ever seen and I have waitohed this river every spring as it was about to break up," for the laet twenty-eig-ht years, said H. M. De Laittre, of the Bovey- De Laittre Lum ber company, yesterday afternoon, while watching the ice jam that had formed in the river near the O. A. Smith & Co's saw mill at Forty-fourth avenue north in Minneapolis. It was a terrible sight, and it was with apprehension .that old river men watched the crowding ice, and when it did finally break away, it carried every thing before it, causing a total damage that will foot up towards $100,000. That such a thing as an ice jam wap imminent was never suspected by the lumbermen. The first signs that the ice was on a rampage was at 9 o'clock in the morning. At that time J. Lee and C. L. Traebert, of the C. A. Smith Lumber company, were standing near the river. The water was smooth as gla^s, and running along sluggishly as is its wont near this point. All at once a crash was heard from further up the river. Upon looking in the direction from which the crash came, a rugged, moving sheet of ice was seen. Tossing about among it, as if alive, were any number of logs. The jam coming around the bend at that place was by its impetus carried directly towards Sawanson's brickyard, which is situ ated on the east side of the river. The ice was by its own force carried far up on the land, and did considerable dam age to outhouses. Slowly the jam form ed along the east side of the river un til the entire river at this point was one mass of struggling ice. The ice and logs from above were crowded In upon the first ice, and for a long time the ice and logs fought each other as if O> THE FLATS EAST OF STATE STHIiKT. alive and angry. For a time the booms at this point withheld the ice. About 11 o'clock part of it grave way, carry ing logs and breaking all booms wim which it came in contact. The heavy stone piers of the Smith Lumber com pany were ground In/to powder; logs were broken off like pipe stems, and chains snapped like mere threads. The force of the moving ice at this time, can hardly be apprehended. The great est action of the ice was, however, to come. After the first break away all was quiet for several hours. Experi enced men viewed the Ice apprehen sively, while others made the predic tion that all danger was over, and that the ice would stay where it was and gradually melt away, in the course of a few days. It was shortly after 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Not fifty people could have been watching the river at the time. The ice was thickly formed on both, sides of the river but a narrow swift current was seen in the middle. It carried pieces of ice with it under the gorge and was seen no more. The current was seen to gradually widen and larger pieces of Ice commenced to move with It. "She is going to break up now," said an old river man. His word came true. The breaking up was in no way spontaneous. It was gradual, as if done with great deliberation. But it was sure. The huge cakee of ice on both sides of the river seemed to be come imbued with life. They crowded each other and turned the logs on end, and crushed into the remaining booms. The action of the ice near the Smith mill was from both sides of the river towards the center, although it seemed to be attracted towards the east skle of the river. Prom the slow force that could hardly be seen at first, the Ice gradually increased its motion, and in fifteen minutes after it commenced to loosen it was one angry turbulent imiss. The sight in its tercibleness was grand. It was as great a concentra tion of energy as could be seen. TTie pc.wer of the oiynoving- mass was well nigh immeasurable. Nothing short <>r the force of an earthquake can l*> com pared with the giant force that slowly spent itself. Trees on the east Bide of the river were carried away. Piles of lumber were overturned, and n»i some time it was impossible to say what damage might finally be done The crib of the North side pumping station received the full force of the attack. The small house on it was overturned by the ice and carried away, while the north side of the crib was seriously damaged. To what ex tent is not yet known. When the ice had passed this point ■ all eyes were directed towards the Soo ! bridge, which crosses the river near | Fortieth avenue. At this point the j river before the breaking up was at ; least ten feet below the bridge. In a ; few moments it rose to the top of the piers, and it seemed certain that the bridge must give way before the terrible I onslaught. Jams formed on both sidt-» of the river, but the open trestle work in the middle of the river allowed the ice to go through. If it had not been for this, a great loss to property would have been incurred. Not only would the loss to property have been great, but also that of life. As there was n*> police protection of any kind on th» scene, many careless people crowdotl out on the bridge to better watch the element. Had the bridges gone down they would have gone with it, and once in the seething mass, death would have been the Inevitable result. The bridge, however, stood the war waged on it manfully, although the north side of it was badly bruised by log-s which broke through the wood work. It took the ice about an hour to pass, and when all was over the effects of the maddened element could be seen. The river, which at this point is filled with piers, piles and booms of every description, was smooth as a lake. All had been carried away, and great ! damage thereby done to the different saw mills and the Mississippi River Boom company. The Mississippi River Boom company was the first to fear the fury of the element. The company's main boom Is Continued r»n Third Pag*.