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Rock Island Daily Argus. ROCK ISLAND. MONDAY. MARCH 13, 1893. Single Copies Coats Per Weak ISM Cents XLI NO. 124 VOL. HE L O DON WATER RUNS WILD With the Aid of Ice It Plays1 Great Havoc. MICHIGAN STREAMS AT FLOOD TIDE. FIRE! FIRE!! FIRE!!! We will FIRE OUT our stock of Clothing, Hats, Caps, and Furnishing Goods at about One-half price. - Mice New Fresh Goods - Cheaper than damaged goods. When others pretend to sell cheap that is the time to com pare The London's prices. THE LONDON The Greatest Value Givers. NEW SPRING WALL PAPER. Our Selection of new designs for the comingsea son is nearly all in stock, and we feel confident your , inspection will pronounce it overwhelm- ingly superior to any we nave ever shown. We have taken advanla e of every opportunity in making our selection, in order to give the people or tbia city and vicinity the choicest designs from the product of nearly very manu'acturer in this country, at the very lowest prices. We emDloy only first class workmen, and shall be pleased to recivs your orders for Paper Hanging, Painting, or anything pertaining to mtenjr uecorating: Room Moulding to match wall oaoer. w x J. Window Shades ready made and to order, all colors ricture Frames latest styles. r. ojRivrPToivr &c co. "Wholesale and retail book sellers and stationers. 1727 Second avenue. Rock Island. ALWAYS THE CHEAPEST. iive money bv buying your Crockery, Glassware, Cut Jery, Tinware, Woodware, and Brushes, at the Old and Keliabie 5 aid 10 Cents Store. m RS. C. JMTSCH'S. 1314 TJblrdAve. JOHN GIPSON, THE MBST-CLA6S HORSE SHOER. I located in hit new shop. At 324 Seventeenth Street. I'glt shoes a specialty. , Opposite the Old Mac 4. W. TREFZ & CO. HEADQUABTEB8 FOB School Books, Toys, and Candy. 2011 FourthlAv?nue7 tiirkesfeld'f Old 8tod.t The Grand and Other Kivers Spread Themselves Around Promiscuously and Make It Very Damp at lona and Grand Kapida Bridces Go Down with the Flood Accompanied hy Thousands of L.ign The Ieople Turn Out to Dam the TVaten and Do It Energetically Heavy Damages, I.ife Iost. Ioxia, Mich., March 13. Xever before in the history of Ionia has Grand river been co high as at the present time, and the water is still rising. The warm weather of the last few days has caused the heavy masses of ice and snow in the.Grand, Shia wassa, Itaisin, Clinton and many other of the smaller rivers throughout the state to move. Innumerable gorges have formed in these rivers and have caused the water to back up, flooding the cities and towns lying on their "banks. Several bridges have bf en washed away, houses, stores, mills , and other buildings flooded and other j damage done, the exact amount of which is not yet known. At thi" place hundreds of men were at work with teams all Satur day night and yesterday trying to prevent the floods crossing the street road. A great line of breastworks has been thrown lip all along the road and every suspicious rivulet has so far been successfully checked. Warned of Imminent Danger. At 4 o'clock yesterday morning a general alarm was turned in warning that the danger point had been reached and great crowds of men flocked to the scene to do what they could to protect the flooded property. The Capital Wagon works plact is entirely surrounded by the flood, the basement and lower floors being inun dated. The furniture factory's plant is in almost as bad shape, and all that can be seen of the fair grounds is the upper por tion of the buildings. Most of Ionia's manufacturing concerns are located on what is known as the "flats," which have heretofore been considered safe ground. The bed of the river lies a least a half mile away, but the whole country far miles im now but a raging, rushing torrent. Trying to Save the Bridges. The bridges at that point are all in place, but are in great danger. The bridges on the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee road are in imminent danger. Yesterday morning men were engaged to weight them down, and tons of sand bags were piled on them. Train on the Detroit, Lansing and Northern are in confusion. The trestle at Portland give way Saturday night and passengers must be carted around the washout and loaded on other trains. Thera is no ice in t be river now to speak of, but the current carries large trees and debris of every description kown with terrific foree,"and whatever is in He course must go. Kept at Work All Night. A force of men was kept at work all last night and every effort made to keep the waters tinder control a few hours long er when it was hoped the greatest danger would be averted. The water rose here in less than thirty-six hours, something never before known for Grand river. It is reported thai the lower Milwaukee railroad bridge is in danger. The water is undermining the piers, and it is now feared the bridge will go. A freight train which attempted to cross was obliged to back off and the bridge is condemned. VERY WET AT GRAND RAPIDS. from tiammon county siuea. here foran in definite length of time. The Burlington railroad bridge over the Platte is so strained by pressure of ice that it is unsafe to run over it. Washed Out a Railway Track. Portland, Mich., March 13. The flood, which at an early hour Saturday morning threatened great damage, subsided some what during the day, but at night ice from Grand Ledge reached this point and both Grand and Looking Grass rivers rose several feet. Saturday night the ice formed a gorge and the river flooded the Detroit, Lansing and Northern track, washing the earth out and wrecking the track. Much Dampness In the East. Philadelphia, March i. Reports re ceived to night from the various sections of the eastern part of the state threatened by floods show abatement from the danger of a freshet in some places and in others the condition of the swollen rivers remains dangerous and at Conowingo the waters burst their banks and flooded the town. Port Deposit, Md., was also flooded. The flats everywhere are submerged. There are floods in all directions, but so far not a great deal of damage has been done. Drowned in a Flooded Ravine. Midland, Mich., March 13. Fred Lai sure, with his sister-in-law, Mrs. Hattie Sullivan, both of this place, were drowned a short distance from here yesterday, He was driving along the road to Sanford and tried to cross a ravine which, on ac count of the overflowed river, was full of water. The buggy, however, sank and its two occupants were drowned after a des perate struggle to reach the bank. Another Lot of Logs Washed Away. Flint, Mich., March 13. Saturday aft ernoon the ice in the north branch of the river gave way and with the immense vol ume of water that had accumulated dur ing the past few days carried away 1,000,000 feet of pine logs from the mill of F. P. Smith ic Co., of this city. The railway and city bridges in the course of the rush ing logs had a close call. STEERAGE BUSINESS RESUMED. Arrangements at Rotterdam to Prevent Sick People Kmigratlng. Washington, March 13. The treasury department is officially advised by the de partment of state that steerage traffic be tween European ports and the United State, which was discontinued on Jan. 1 last, had been resumed. United States The Grand River Get I'nromfortakly Familiar With the City. Ghakd Rapids, Mich., March IS. Grand river is fifteen feet alxue high-water mark and lacks but ten inches of reaching the point made in 1S83, when the big log jam took ont every railroad bridge airrous it. It rose all day yesterday at the rate of six inches an hour and at 10 o'clock last nig-it the waters became stationary. At 5 o'clock yesterday morning the first ice of the gorge at Mnir put in an appearance and all day long the huge cakes buffeted the bridge piers and disputed with logs the supremacy of the five-mile current. The abutments of two highway bridges have been weakened by the ice and logs. Two Million Feet of Logs Get Away. At 3 o'clock yesterday morning the booms confining the logs at the Michigan Barrel company gave way and 2,000,000 feet of logs started for Lake Michigan. The flats and the island are inundated and it was with great difficulty that stock iu barns was rescued. The huge warehouse of the Valley City Storage company was carried a mile and finally anchored against a tree. Wallin's tannery and the plaster mills are four feet under water. The Michigan Barrel company and the Quimbly Lumber company have lost several thousand feet of lumber and the latter con cern expects its huge dry kiln to be swept away. Loss About felOO.OOO Already. The basements of the Goshen Carpet Sweeper company, lierkey & Gay and the Grand Rapids chair company are flooded and the machinery will suffer. The press and composing-rooms of The Evening Press are covered by two feet of water. The loss already aggregates $100,000 and will be greater, as reports from up the river mention ice gorges and rising waters. Lyons Feels Tolerably Safe. Ltons, Mich., March 13. Heavy jams of ice were passing here all yesterday after noon, and at 5 o'clock one end of the dam gave out. A large force of men. by quick work, saved the whole dam from going, but small breaks are constantly occurring. It is now hoped that the greatest danger is over, as the ice is now rotten and less apt to gorge. The river has gradually assumed its regular course and at 10 o'clock last night it began to look as if though the worst was past. Rain was falling and the rjver's roar could be heard a mile, but un less a great quantity of ice lodges no ser ious difficulty is expected. - Farmers Left In a Predicament. Central City, Neb., March 13. Two Wagon bridges over thePlatte river naer this city were partially demolished by gorged Ice yesterday, leaving douns of farmers Consul Gardner, at Rotterdam, in a report to the state department gives a detailed ac count of the precautious taken there to prevent the emigration of persons affected with contagious diseases. He states that all steerage passengers are examined by the consular doctors, their baggage disin fected by consular employes, and a cer tification of both passenger and baggage made by the consul. The "llolei 'Emigrant. In addition to the safeguards against transmission of disease afforded by the local system of examination made immedi ately before embarkation, a new hotel de signed exclusively for the accommodation of steerage and Becond class passengers en route for the United States has been built. This hotel is known as the "X&sm" and is owned by the Netherlands-American com pany and is solely under their manage ment. It contains all the modern conveni ences of a first class hostelry with an ex perienced steward, assisted by waiters and guards. THE GREAT BOSTON FIRE. Only Five Fersons Dead One Man Who Lost His Life For Duty. BosTOK.March la The body of Harry J. Turner was yesterday taken from the ruins of Friday night's Are, and the total num ber of dead was made five by the certain ty that Lewis Cotton, a bookkeeper for the Ludlow Manufacturing company, was lost in the fire. The body of Turner was found under the building ooenpied by the Jao quith Rubber company, for which be worked as a bookkeeper. Turner knew of the fire in time to escape, but stayed in the office to put the firm's books into the safe and then he was too timid to jump from tho window. Looking for Odiorne's Body. The search for the bjody of Charles T. Odiorne was continued all yesterday, but was unsuccessful. The whole burned sec tion is still roped off, and the streets will be impassable for many days. The one standing wall of the Ames building, which was tottering toward and threatening a large commercial building across the street, untouched by fire, is being pulled down as fast as possible. The money loss is still put at 4,50u,000. United States Officials Indicted. Louisville, March 13. Collector of Internal Revenue Scott, of the Fifth dis trict: Chief Deputy Collector William E. Riley, and Special Internal Revenue Store keeper V. P. Shaw have been indicted by the United States grand jury. The in dictments against Scott, are for violation of the civil service laws and for swearing falsely to the pay roll!". Kiley and Shaw are indicted for violation of the civil ser vice laws for receiving money from gaugers and storekeepers for campaign purposes. Conference of Health Hoards. Columbus, O., March 13. Dr. C. O. Probst, secretary of the international con ference of health boards.has left for Cincin nati, where he will meet Dr. J. M. Mo Cormick, of Bowling Green, Ky., president of the conference. They will fix up the time and place for a conference of the health boards and quarantine officials of the United States, Canada and Mexico to provide against an invasion of cholera. The conference will probably be held in Washington early in April. , The Corean Kxhibit F.u Koate. "Washington, March 13. The Corean legation is informed by cable from Seoul that the newly appointed royal commis sioner to the World's Columbian exposi tion in Chicago has started for this coun try and the exhibit has been shipped to San Francisco. The royal commissioner, Jeung Kiung Won, is of iigh rank in the Corean government and is accompanied by many attaches. . - ISob Lincoln Dines with Victoria. London, March 13. Mr. Robert T. Lin coln, the American minister, and Mrs. Lincoln dined Iby special invitation with uxi juajcai'j. ueea "ictoria. oaiuioay. ABBREVIATED TEXEGRAMS. After being a deaf mute for sixty-five years Dr. Livingston, ol liondout, . x., has suddenly acquired the power of speech and hearing. The last words of Margaret Fox-Kane one of the Fox sisters, the noted spiritual ists of many years ago was a request for "one more drink." Seth B. Stitt and John F. Bottemley, individually, and S. B. Stitt & Co., woolen merchants, of Philadelphia, have assigned. The firm is rated at more than $1,000,000 and the failure causes great surprise. Five fishing schooners from Gloucester, Mass., are given np for lost with sixty lives. They are supposed to have foun dered in the recent storm. Farmers in the Dakota corn belt have be gun planting.the weather being perfect for that sort of work. George Winn a negro ofG lasgow. Will be sold under the vagrant act of Missouri on the block at the court house door in Fayette, Mo., to the highest bidder for cash in hand for a term of six months. The Comet mine at Ironwood, Mich.. has established the eight-hour day. About 150 of the 306 delegates who voted for General Grant's nomination for presi dent at the Republican National conven tion of 1S0, at Chicago, at which General Garfield was successful, intend to celebrate the next anniversary of General Grant's birthday with a dinner at Philadelphia on April U7. Engineer George Hazen, of the Milwau kee road, was killed in a wreck at Otranto Station, la. A Negro women at Lexington, Ky., is "shedding" short pieces of pins through her flesh all over her face and hands. She does not rcmembar ever swallowing pins aud Bays she is "hoodooed." Anna Potter, wife of Eli Totter, a Kan sits City,Kan.,insurance man is announced as a candidate for mayor of that place. An inmate of the Hasting, Minn., poor farm named Dohling has'een in a comatose condition for six weeks. Trustee Kohlsaat, the Chicago member of the board which has charge of Governor McKin ley's financial trouble, has received enough voluntary contributions from 4,000 persons (the amouuts ranging from (1 to $5,000) to wipe out the governor's indebted ness. Mrs. Ellsworth Miller, of Cold Springs, N. Y., has recently presented her hus band with triplets the third set.. At seven confinements she has had sixteen children-, seven of whom are living. She is only 31 years old. . Iarg? numbers of farmers are moving from Illinois and eastern Iowa to north western Iowa, eastern Nebraska and South Dakota. " Admiral Ginr.ir.li sr.ys tl.ere will be forty warships of modern build in the Columbian naval parjde in New York har bor April 26. Five pretty Buffalo girls ari: missing and the natives are trying to discover which it tK viau el'rl With Hugh Mei'gban, aa irresistible y.j.ug man of that place. iTOl'es-ser Dewar. an English scientist, has sucovcued in pruducing a solid chunk of air sulid'fied by almost inconceivable cold. He Jniuitftl to Mis 2a;li. Bkazjl, Iu'l., M.irch To. Saturday James Duncau u iiist.-iutiy killed by -jumping from a moving freight tTtin. He boarded the train at this place to' go to Knightsvilie, two miles distant. The train was a through freight and did not stop at Knightvi.l, tint pussed the station at the rate of thirty miles an hour. Dun can jumped from the train and was thrown under the wheels aud ground to pieces. Cincinnati. March 13. Luke School craft, the famous minstrel, died here last night. Heart disease was the cause. Schoolcraft wni a member of the Russell Comedy company and played at the Wal nut street lLre.4s.r-- Saturday night. Monte Slnre Civil Service rt-form. Wasiiikuton, March 13. Secretary Her bert cays that lie does not favor making changes among t he mechanics of the navy yard because of politics and will follow the practice of bis predecessor in this respect. The Loral Market. Wbeai 74T.Wc. Coni 4SCt4c. Oats :0&33c. Uay TlmothT. flS.OO: upland, 10≪!ocgo 9.00; baled. S10.0O11.C0. raonrcx. Bntter -F&lr to choice, 2R ; creamery, ICc. Egps Fre-h. IT IK. Poultry rhirkci.. Be; turkejs r.14 docks, KHc; gc-esc, KC. crr 1KD TSeSTABtXS. Apples (4 00 perbW. Potatoes S5.V8c Onione !4 .(Oper bb! Turnips 60c per bii. I LtVB STOCK. Cattle Botchers pav for "com fvaj steers cow- and ceifei," Stt3!tc; calvrc 4rc Hots-S&heep fl CLOW II ! BAKING POUDER IS ON TOP BECAUSE No other Is to Good No other Is so Cheap Costs less than Half and pleases much better than the over-priced and ovwr-"endorsed" kinds. Jurina fam voupself. in Cans. At your Grocer's! i t if--