Waterloo Courier, The (Newspaper) - May 16, 1888, Waterloo, Iowa 3 WATERLOO IOWA WEDNESDAY MAY 1C 1888 WHOLE NUMBER 1507 WATERLOO COURIER Bates May Be Reduced A dispatch from Chicago last Satur day states that it has been developed that the elaborate distance tariff which the Iowa roads put into effect Thurs day was only adopted conditionally and there is more than afair prospect that rates all over the State of Iowa will drop 10 to 12 per cent before the end of the month The Illinois Cen tral claims that the new Iowa rates are too high in comparison with the St Paul rates and in consequence place Iowa shippers at a disadvantage It however has agreed to adopt the new tariff if the Northwestern roads will agree to advance rates to St Pan about 30 per cent so as to equalize the Iowa and tbe St Paul tariffs A meet ing of the northwestern roads has been called Tuesday to consider the proposition In the event which is considered a certainty that the roads do not agree to advance rates in the Northwest the Illinois Central will at once give notice that it will put into effect a new distance tariff reduc ing its rates oh all lines in Iowa 10 to 12 per cent This will force compet ing lines to take similar action and as the law requires rates to be made on a fixed mileage basis it will result in a 10 per cent reduction in local and through rates all over the State of Iowa It may be added as an indica tion of the sentiment of the freight agents that at the recent meeting at which this matter was considered a resolution was adopted stating in ef fect that in the event of a failure to advance St Paul rates any road would be justified in issuing its own individual distance tariff The reso lution has however until now been kept a profound secret by the railroad officials There was caught in the Boyer river near Dunlap a few days ago a monster turtle that measured twenty four inches across and had the naune of L H Rees April 1847 cut in its shell on the back Where did this stranger come from and where was he going and how old is he is a mystery J Lusk Co of Sau Francisco operating the largest establishment for canning fruits and vegetables in the world made an assignment Friday T Coeman the head oE the com mission firm that assigned a few days ago is the principal creditor The lia are estimated to be Coleman Co have endorsed much of the canning company paper floated in the east It is thought that the assign ee can carry on the business until the affairs of the company can be straight ened out Measures have been taken in George H Thomas post No 5 G A B of Chicago to procure a decision from the Eea of that organization on the action of E D Baker post of Philadelphia in admit ting a Joe Johnston to a contributory membership The ques tion ia raised that there can be no con or a regular mem but that if ouch membership can be established by post those who bore arms against the United States are ineligible as in the case of regular membership A cyclone of tremendous force swept over a portion of Northern Indiana Friday night The telegraph wires throughout considerable territory are prostrated and the extent of its rava ges can only be formed from the few scattering reports At Winslow siding on the Nickel Plate a train of sixteen freight cars was lifted from the track and distributed across the sur rounding prairies At Wanatah a number of houses were unroofed A dispatch says Valparaiso was not touched The storm was deflected two miles south Three hundred telegraph poles were leveled in that vicinity A Colorado Wreck DENVER Col May reached here that the Thunderbolt on the Santa Fe collided with a freight train near Fountain at 6 oclock this morning A car of powder on the freight exploded completely wrecking both trains instantly killing ten and many more Later advices from Fountain the scene of tbe Santa Fe railway accident state that train No 7 known as the Thunderbolt arrived at Fountain at a m and Lad only been standing a few minutes when the caboose and some cars the brakes of which had got loose in some way ran down from tbe sidetrack and struck the train with force One car was loaded with naptha which exploded throwing oil over everything setting the train on fire The trainmen shoved the uninjured cars back from the wreck and were trying to save the depot when it was ered that two cars were standing on tbe main track that were not wrecked The nearest one was burning and was tagged powder Shortly afterward the car exploded completely demolishing the depot several dwellings and number of cars One dwelling and the depot were consumed Three persons one woman and two men were by the explosion and some twelve or fifteen persons were wounded none very seriously There is a hole in the ground where the car stood abon thirty feet in diameter and fifteen fee deep Two cars were burned and six teen together with the locomotive more or less wrecked It is sup posed that tramps let off the brake from the car High Water lu the Mississippi May lumber yards are all abandoned and over st thousand men are thrown out of em ployment On the levee all the stores and business houses have six inches of water on the first floors and it is im possible to receive or ship goods Many families are living in tents or have sought public buildings in which to live until the flood subsides The riv er in some places is several miles wide and entire farms are under water The damage in one way or another will reach several thousands of dollars In some instances dwelling houses have floated off and been carried down stream it is thought the flood has reached its height The Bur lington track and lauding is entirely under water and the transfer boat is bringing over cars and unloading them into the depot The Illinois Central depot is under water and a raised plat form has been constructed to enable passengers to land The trains move slowly and cautiously on the track flve inches under water Steamboats are doing little or no business for the rea son that freight cannot be received at the levee In fact business of every description is paralyzed DUBUQUE May river at this point has been at a standstill since 6 oclock this morning During the night it rose one inch and now stands at 22 feet 4 less than the high water mark of 80 AH tbe railroads are under water but not enough to impede the movement of trains All the mills and most of the factories have been compelled to stop Over a thousand men are out of em ployment and this closes the third week in which they have been idle en of at least per week A large number of people in the lower part of the city have been to abandon their homes en tailing a great deal of suffering and want May river here is now ten miles wide and hun dreds of farms are submerged to a depth of several feet The levee be low the city is weakening in places and a large force of men are at work night and day to avoid a calamity The foundries and factories along the levee have been forced to suspend The St Louis Keokuk Northwestern rail way has abandoned all trains north of here cutting off the towns of Canton and Alexandria The Joss is incalculable Tonight the water is still slowly rising ROCK ISLAND Ills May high water which has been over the stone wallof the Moline wat er power at carried away a large section of the bulkhead which runs across the south chanuel of the Miss between the Rock Island arsen al and the main shore This bulkhead vas constructed of heavy blocks of Nauvoo stone and was seven hundred feet long Five hundred feet of this wall has disappeared and it is believed the rest has been so badly damaged as to need rebuilding The wall cost the Government The tide of water coming to the city in front of Rock Island carried to mid stream 000 worth of logs from the upper saw mills and the freight warehouse of the St Paul packet line All trains are abandoned on the St Paul road be tween here and Savanna in conse of the floods on the sia and on the Peoria roads on ac count of a long railway embankment which threatens to break and flood the lowlands Hundreds of families are moving out of their houses tonight KEOKUK May river at this point rose six inches during the night and passed the danger line today It is rising at the rate of half an inch per hour and is now within a few inches of the highest mark in 1881 All business is suspended in the lumber districts The efforts of the men engag ed in saving property of the Rock Island car shops are completely suspended by the water and a rise of eight inches will put it over the floor of the round house and machine shops of that com pany Railroad tracks in tbe lower part of the city are under water and traffic is being seriously interfered with At Alexandria a few miles be low here the water is up to within four inches of the top of the levee which affords a means of protection to the town The leves at Alexandria broke shortly before noon today flooding that town The high wind that pre vails will cause great damage DAVENPORT May ippi river at this point which has been rising steadily for six days reached the stage of seventeen feet and eight inches at 6 oclock last night This is thirtytwo inches aboye the danger mark All the saw mills in the city have been forced to shut down and in one of them the water is six feet deep Along Front street scores of families have been driven out of their homes by the flood but no lives have been lost This morning the river is stationary and reports from above indicate a further rise which must involve ser losses May water is going down very slowly and the record last night was U inches below the highest mark From Hudson May John Greely left on Friday last for Charles City called there by the severe illness of his brother who was not ex to live Win Sherratt having procured a lot of John Miller is erecting a substan tial dwelling house upon it Miss Emma visited with friends in Waterloo last week The Cheerful Workers society will meet with Mrs Henry Miller on Thurs day afternoon May 24th Jonas Switzer is still dangerously sick Geo is quite seriously af with brights disease E Speicher and family of Waterloo visited over hist Sabbath with Jonas The Womans Home Missionary so ciety will hold a Bazaar in the Hick er Saturday evening May 26 Refreshments will be served from 8 oclock until 10 both fancy and use ful articles will be sold during tbe evening An especially pleasing feat ure of the evening will be the Art Gallery The ladies extend to all a cordial invitation to be present Geo I and wifeof Anoka Minn are visiting with in this vicinity The account of the tragic death of Chas Hooper which occurred near Des Moines Friday was a shock to in this section Charley had not long been in the service of the railroad com pany where he was brakeman and his sudden and accidental death is a sad surprise to all Mrs Ellis of Grundy Center is visiting with her sister Mrs C F Prof A of the State Normal school Cedar Falls will preach in the church next Sabbath morning at oclock OBSERVER Cull on OLD DEALING A FEW SEASON ABLE OFFERED BY FELLHEIM Right from the Start FOR THE OF ECONOMICAL PEOPLE PU MADE UNDER LICENSE OF WARREN HOSE SUPPORTER CO SLEEPING IN A COFFIN Peaceful und lEest Secured ill a A man who will choose a coffin for a couch may justly lay claim to the badge of eccentricity Frankford says the Philadel phia possesses such a man and his coffin is kept in the lof l over the ing establishment of E H Allen ou one of the principal streets of that The coffin is of extra lurge size and is only one ot many similar furnishings which are stored in the undertakers The man who nightly sleeps in this strange bed is familiarly known to the people of the vicin ity us Cob lie is a beneficiary upon the un charity and has for years done odd jobs around the place for his board He has occupied this coffin ever since he camo to Sir Allens except when his asthma has compelled him to sit up all night Bob Is a quaint little man of about fiftythree years with piercing black eyes and curling black hair now fast turning gray He comes of one of first families His ther was once the leading Democratic poli of the town and an extensive builder He built all the original buildings at Frauk ford Arsenal more than half a century ago He gave all his children Robert included a liberal education and brought them up in luxury The undertakers shop is what was once the Roberts father und part of tho very loft in which he now makes his bed was in his boyhood his pigeon house A romance of love twines around the life of this odd little man with hia stooped shoulders and peculiar ways His lady love died many years ago and poor Bob often yet repeats half audibly some of the sonnets of which so fond It is thought that Bob never fully recovered from the blow caused by her death and the work shop of the undertaker has numerous acrostics and poems of Bobs composition stuck up around its walls The man is a mathematician of some pretensions and a fine penman Mr Allen has known Bob from boyhood and indulges his whims A visitor tc Mr Allens shop one night found that gentleman seated iu his office me said he taking lern and leading the way upstairs and I will show you Bob he is in bed uow Fol lowing Mr Allen up the steps leading to the loft the light exposed to the visitor long rows of coffins ranged around the room One of extra large size lay upon the floor and from within it came deep labored wheezing The lid was well drawn up and nothing inside could be scon Hello Bob are you in said the undertaker and the lid began to slide slowly downward with a creaking sound A head poked up and then a man sat upright It was Bob He answered Yes what do you want and then seeing a visitor sank back again and drew the lid over him Bobs got it a little bad tonight said Allen alluding to his asthma and he pulled down the trap leading to the loft and left Bob to enjoy hia sleep till morning The trees and the animals don a new in tho spring and man needs well follow example It gives a uow to existence to begin tho smil ing season of tho year in Seasonable Garments and this your tho Spring Stylus are charming Dress makes the mini appear at his beat and wo furnish tho dross to suit iu every instance We have a mammoth ami complete stock correct in weight fabric and cut mul u visit to our establishment will satisfy you that we arc tho lenders in every particular Tho featherweight have been placed on Urn scales and found wanting Uros knocked thorn as high as n kite How natural When low prices are arrayed high prices tho former arc bound lo win Blow and bluster for Wind is uot weight and unfortunately wlud seems to be the only substance composing tho Clothiers But it is a consolation for tho of Waterloo to know that there is at least one house iu their midst that upholds the principles of ing that overy trick and questionable method that makes low prices and reliability its channel for seeking patronage that guarantees satisfaction to every purchaser and last but not least has tho brains and executive ability I to mark its own path and originate its own and popular ways of advertising This house as everybody knows i FELLHEIMER BROTHERS Our Piece Goods comprise all the Latest Novelties in the market We have secured the services of a firstclass Cutter who is giving universal satis faction iu Fit and Workmanship To all who may favor us with orders we say if your Suit does not fit in every particular do not take it as wo guar antee a perfect fit in every Golden Eagie Clothing House Will force the fighting Rain or shine sun or snow breeze or blizzard our Spring Stock of Clothing MUST BE SOLD We cant wait for sunshine and roses we bought these goods to sell this Spring and we are going to soil them if low prices will do ic Other deal ers may sit still aud sigh for seasonable weather but thats not the kind of dealers we are if the weather does not come to suit We make the Prices to Suit the Weather made mt Cut A LI II OKI ili uso Flu a Silli J Sent por mull or cf liy aU Diy BOLE EMFiELD ROBBER CO 80 St H Y FOR SALE UY Waterloo Notion Co WATERLOO IOWA U Iff He stood before looking glass Aud proudly tossed his head He struck a graceful attitude And this is what ho said Yes this Suit is neat and stylish I can see that plain enough They uro just the right dimension And are made of splendid stufl The Trousers fit mo Theyre the latest style I see I never had a Suit before That exactly suited me The Coat and Vest aro just ns good To both theres no objection The fabric Jit and price are right My purchase is Every counter table and shelf in our store is loaded down manufactured bought for Spring trade with new Goods Fifty Thousand Dollars Worth Weve bought to sell this Spring and sell them we will sell them we must sell them we we shall not the profit we should have done had Winter lingered less lovingly in the lap of Spring But that IB we have put prices on the very cream of our stock of Ive been deceived so many times I can hardly trust my eyes But the Old Reliable tells the truth Aud theyve got what they advertise to canvass for the Bale oC Nursery Stock Steady employment ANT EXPENSES PAID Apply at once stnt CHASE CO tANY to this paper N V Eightynine Californians who have removed to that country from West Branch and vicinity Cedar county have returned to their Iowa homes The West Branchers welcomed them on their return by forming a proces sion with music and suggestive mot toes Whooping cough is attended with but little danger when the cough is kept loose aud expectoration easy by the free use of Chamberlains Cough Rem edy Sold by W W PORKY A Great Washout on the Missis sippi River You will have to take the Illinois Central for the following points May 22 June 5 aud 19 Only one fare for round trip to Iowa Falls Iowa Ft Dodge Iowa Storm Lake Iowa Cher okee lowaLe Mars Iowa City Iowa and the towns along the Chero kee Dakota railway which has just been opened for business Larrabee Woodstock Primghar Sheldon George Rock Rapids Sioux Falls Quimby Washta An thon Annette 531 COMMERCIAL ST WATERLOO IOWA NEW SIDEWALK FIRM After Three Years ol Experience in Laying Cement Sidewalks ing Spring Furnishing Goods tlie most earnest Bargain Hunter We are Prepared to Lay Sidewalks Cellar Floors and Curlings Our Prices are too low for competition Nothing but the best of Imported Cement used All work firstclass or no pay Call on us or drop us a card and we will call on you and give you close es and the best of work WM HETTS CO for Spring Suits ni Spring Mens Magnificent and body fitting fine Suits and Overcoats AN ASTONISHING CASE A very mature and her immature consort while on their wedding trip so the story goes annoyed the rest of the passen gers in the cars by tho effusiveness of their devotion to each other Besides this the lappy couple kept their window open a good deal to the discomfort of their elers At last a Wy who sat behind them a woman could have cut so unerringly and mercilessly into tho weak spot of her over and said with tho smile Madam will you kindly request son to close the window I fear I am taking cold The window came down aad BO did the spirits or tbe bride Train Robbers school teachers of tbe gentler sex have recently resign ed with matrimonial intent Their tetter ot resignation jointly signed was an artistic document the vignette representing cupid embowered among roses and impaled by thorns A T May robbers supposed to be Mexicans at tacked tbe southbound Sonora train as it was standing at a small station called Adna about 10 oclock last night The robbers opened fire aud killed the and wounded sever al others one of whom Conductor At kins has since died Messenger Hay was badly wounded in the head and back Wells Fargos box containing about was taken The railway officials nave offered a reward of SI 000 for robbers capture A large posse Mexican troops are in pursuit The name of the fireman who was killed on the Sonora railroad last night by the train robbers was Forbes Conductor Atkins died this morning Messenger Hay has been re moved here and his chances for ery are about even A passenger named French and another railroad man were also severely wounded A train started from Agua this morning with an armed posse aboard Why It Gave Ulna to Great in Dublin There reside in a fashionable part of Dublin a family consisting of a mother who is a widow two or three sons and three young ladies sisters At all events says the they were supposed to be so The family were held in the highest respect and un til an incident we are to relate oc curred the household was undisturbed by any occurrence of the young ladies were In appear ance and gifted with many accomplish ments The eldest we was not devoid of good looks either and possessed a certain amount of musical culture which was displayed effectively at numerous reunions parties and evening as about their neighborhood She also developed a remarkable talent for drawing She was frequently met with at social assemblies and places of entertain ment and was admired everywhere for her good looks and accomplishments Sho was an admirable tennis player and was alto gether an agreeable figure in the set in which she moved About a couple of months ago it was announced that she was about to proceed to to complete her studies jn the South Kensington School of Art and naturally news caused some interest among her acquaintances She came back at Christmas and many ladies who were acquainted with the family called at their house to see her What was the astonishment of the visitors when the mother calmly announced that her daughter svas boy und then the quondam miss en tered the room in masculine at tire having completely abandoned the char acter which she or he as we must now call him had been so long assuming of Tho incident gave rise to great perturbation among the acquaintances of tho family and as a result no little unpleasantness oc curred Those who knew the young gen as extremely astonished at the turn affairs havo taken They find it hard to believe that such a deception could have gone on for years without any suspicion of the real circumstances being entertained The young man has been re 33 a girl from infancy He went to school as a girl entered society as a girl dressed as a girl aud behaved as a girl so that the sudden announcement of his true position in society has naturally caused some commotion among the acquaintances pf the young man To the Permanent Settler Northwestern Iowa and Southern Dakota offer today greater advantages than any of the northwestern states and especially can this be said of those portions tributary to the Illinois Cen tral Railroad In proof of this we re fer to the hundreds of farmers on its j line out of debt and with money in j bank who a few years ago coud scarcely raise enough to make the first payment on their land While a large percentage of the land is being j developed there are still hundreds of thousands of acres of undeveloped prairie lands adjacent to this line at i prices varying from to 525 per acre Attention is Killed to the new territory j along the Cherokee Dakota Raili road from Onawa to Sioux Falls prei excellent opportunities for vestment For pamphlet lately entitled The Attractions of Northwestern Iowa and Southern Da kota address the undersigned at Manchester Iowa J F MERRY i G W P A Norman Horses No clothing dealer here has ever stock had the nerve to put such finegoods in Cut in Sack Frock CutAway Prince Albert and Walking Coat Style These suits were made and cut by the best merchant tailors in the land and are as fine in fabric as faultless in style and as elegant in make as if made to order for the most critical gentleman in the city They are as perfect as art and labor can make them It is a new thing to be able to buy the very finest Clothing readymade but we have inaugurated the idea and we feel confident of its success We know that prices on these fine goods will be very attractive to men who wear tine Clothes Recorded in Stud Books of France and America BOULOGNE No 1118 ORLEANS No 3578 No 25982915 These Horses are not Surpassed in Quality Individual Merit by other Horses Dont Leave Your Measure until you seen this stock of Fine Goods have OUR STYLES FOR KEPT AT TIIK Conger Barn Waterloo W AV JOHNSON PROPRIETOR ARK you MABR miserable by gestion Constipation Dizziness Loss of Appetite Yellow Skin is a positive cure For sale at Snowdens drug store G Are Better than those of any other house in the Union That boasts of having the best makers of Juvenile wear in the world This is fact amply demonstrated by the thousands of beautiful Spring Suits now on exhibition and sale in our colossal Boys and Childrens Department Many dealers to effect a sale will tell you that their styles are just as good as the GOLDEN EAGLE THEY ARE NOT Ills d Cant be Surpassed by any other House in the City Call and See Us if you Wish to Buy or Hot L GEISMER HARRY W ISRAEL 118 East Fourth Street Nest door to U T K COS EAST SIDE 1 B E ISRAEL Prop
