Flooded Mississippi Valley Seethes With Suffering and Drowned
Descriptions from Vicksburg and Yazoo delta detail widespread flooding along the Mississippi with towns submerged. Fever and illness spread as hundreds are reported in danger. many drownings occur among blacks on plantations. Refugees crowd levees from Huntington to Arkansas City and Natchez, while railroads suffer damage and relief is urgently requested from Washington county Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi Valley
Natchez
Miss
Louisiana
Huntington
Mississippi Valley Railroad
River Bend
Pleasants
Mound Landing
Mississippi floods wash away railroad bridges at Clayton and Roe
The Louisville New Orleans and Texas Railroad bridges at Clayton Mississippi and over Bayou Afalays were swept away this morning. They were temporary structures and the road hopes to replace them in a few days. A Bolivar county meeting at Roedale adopted resolutions urging Congressional aid to improve the river and build levees amid Yazoo delta flood damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas City
Huntington
Sappington
Chicot
New Orleans
Mississippi Valley Railroad
Louisville, New Orleans and
Texas
Clayton
Miss
Bayou Afalays
Bolivar County
Roeedale
Lower
Mississippi
Yazoo Delta
Reading Railroad Ends Legal Battle with Harmony Plan
The Reading Railroad dispute concludes with a harmony arrangement approving two opposing shareholders’ nominees Thomas Dolan and Henry C. Gibson to join the Board. Isaac L Rice and Samuel Dinn brokered the agreement with Reading and Philadelphia executives, confirming the plan by letter exchanges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Reading Railroad
Klue
Messrs
Thomas Dolan
Henry C. Gibson
Isaac L. Rice
New York
Samuel Dinn
John Lowther Welsh
Voting Trust
Q. Austin Corbin
Reading Company
Mesers
Welsh and Hice
John Lowter Welsh
Isaac L Rice
Dean Stram
Dent Corbin
Board of Managers
Jon Lownen Welsh
Mother and Daughter Burned in New York Fire
A kitchen fire in New York on April 2 left Mrs. Herzot with severe burns and her 17 year old daughter Rosa critically burned. Rosa survived initial treatment at Mount Sinai. Mrs Herzot died later. The Harzofs are a well to do Austro-Hungarian family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Leopold Harzof
Rosa
Moses
Gam
Mra Rotsehild
Architect Jennison's Circular World Exposition Building Idea
Architect E S Jennison outlines a giant circular World Fair hall 3000 feet in diameter with a central 1492 foot tower. The tent like structure would house all exhibits in concentric circles and nations by class, using 242000 wires for a true glass lit roof.
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Jennison
Crmicaco
E. S. Jennison
Chicago Real Estate Board
Jesnison
Bucket shops persist after Board of Trade move
April 2 in Cincinnati, tickers removed from the Board of Trade floor to block bucket shop quotations. The move failed as bucket shops and brokers in Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Kansas City copied price fluctuations, with Merchants' Exchange in St. Louis lacking quotes, prompting many deals. Local traders reported record activity driven by bucket shop orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cnicaco
Board of Trade
St. Louis
Kansas City
Chicago Board
Merchants’ Exchange
Chicago Dealers Oppose Tariff on Hides Meeting
A Chicago wholesale shoe and leather dealers meeting chaired by C. H. Fargo organized opposition to a proposed import duty on hides. The group will send petitions to the trade nationwide and to Congress protesting removal of hides from the free list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lay
C. H. Fargo
West
Congress
Washington
Mass Exodus From New York Laundry District to China
More than 60 Chinese workers fled their washhouses in New York late last evening with many packing belongings and preparing to depart by Saturday. The evacuation is linked to fears of anti Chinese persecution and a broad threat to laundries in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
China
Wallace ready to accept Democratic Governor nomination
Ex Senator William A. Wallace, stopping at the Continental Hotel, says he wrote the letter to Judge Harvey and would accept the Democratic nomination for Governor if the party offers it with broad unanimity. He calls for unity, an aggressive fall campaign, and aims to mobilize the Democratic vote while recalling 1868 leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DistaTcn
Philadelphia
United States
William A. Wallace
Continental Hotel
Harvey
Allentown
Wallace
Maryland License Law Brews Up Saloon Financing Plan
The high license law advances threaten small saloon owners who cannot raise 250 by May 1. Philadelphia brewers offer to fund keepers in exchange for buying all beer from the lender brewer. Baltimore brewers plan a similar scheme as the governor’s approval looms. The measure imposes harsh limits, restricting hours and beverage types, with drug stores, grocers, and restaurants facing strict record keeping and compliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Battmokre
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Quaker City Enterprise
Board of Supervisors
Narrow Escape as Cumberland Valley Train Wreck Traps Three Men
A southbound Cumberland Valley train jumped the track ten miles south of Martinsburg West Virginia. Engineer Thomas Lichteau and conductor William Mickey were pinned under the locomotive and nearly roasted as the cab caught fire. Fireman Albert Johnson escaped with a broken arm and a head wound. Lichteau's condition is critical after severe burns and injuries.
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Hacers
Tows
Cumberland Valley Road
Martinsburg
W. Va
Thomas Lichteau
William Mickey
Lightcap
Mickey
Albert Johnson
One Man Holds Up a Stage in San Diego Can
Steamer passengers report the Alamo stage was halted Monday by a lone highwayman at Winchester rifle point. He demanded bullion from the International Company but none was in the stage. Major Zimpelman carried about $8,000 in bullion. other passengers had about $10,000 total, all given up as 18 Mexican dollars. The robber fled, pursued without success. The International Company had cleared $25,000 the day before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Can
Laprendna
California
Alamo
International Company
Zimpelman
el Paso
Australian ballot used in Rhode Island state election
Providence reports show the Australian ballot used for statewide offices including Governor and General Assembly. Democratic ticket leads outside Providence with Davis gaining in many towns while Union and Prohibition parties rise about two thousand votes. Providence tally delayed but likely similar city trend toward Democratic plurality.
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Providence
Bel
General Assembly
Davis
Tnion
Prohibition
Midnight double surrender over fatal Clayton shooting
A Savannah letter reports Henry Love and his 10 year old son surrendered to Sheriff Gounce for the killing of Guile Hodge, a Clayton blacksmith. Love says Hodge attacked him at his home midnight, prompting the boy to shoot. Coroner later ordered Emic Kevey and her mother jailed.
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Nashville
Savannah
Henry Love
Gounce
Guile Hodge
Clifton
Wayne County
Love
Hodge
Coronier
EmicKevey
Love's
Sekence St
Soe Ete Gordo
Prohibition Fails as Iowa Republicans Seek Local Option
At a Des Moines conference 196 delegates from 25 counties backed anti prohibition resolutions. George M Hubbell Davenport was named temporary chair. Ex Governor Kirkwood urged local option with high license. The group urged amending liquor laws to allow communities to choose regulation and license.
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Iowa Republicans
Des Mores
Republican Party
George M. Hubbell
Davenport
Kirkwood
Iowa City
Iowa
Committee On Permanent Organization
Joseph Collins
Keokuk
A. B. Cummins
Des Moines
Benjamin Harrison
License in Iowa House Debates License by Popular Vote
The Iowa House went into committee on a Democratic caucus license bill. Irving B. Richman noted past prohibition enforcements varied by locality and that current laws were sometimes openly violated. The measure aims to regulate liquor traffic by local popular vote and grant second licenses only.
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R People
Des Mores
House
Irving B. Richman
Prohibition Measure Debated by Iowa District Court Panel
A district court considers a multi point licensing plan outlining remonstrance rights license fees to county and city jurisdictions bond requirements penalties for violations and council rule making while noting shifting public opinion against prohibition after heated debate and a postponement to the next day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
nth—Councils
Boards of Superue Fix
Saght
Nth
Iowa
Aston Mills Proprietor Files for Creditors’ Benefit in Delaware County
John R Rhodes of Aston Mills in Delaware county assigns assets to Delaware County Trust and Safe Deposit Co and Samuel Rhodes. Total liabilities near 300 thousand dollars with judgments of 107 thousand. Aston Mills, founded 1865 by Rhodes brothers, produces cotton and woolen jeans tricots domets doeskins and ships 5 million yards yearly. The firm also operates a village store at Aston and employs over 1,000 people reliant on the mill. The owner cites poor trade and general price declines as the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
John R Rhodes
Aston Mills
Delaware County
Delaware County Trust and Safe Deposit Company
Samuel Rhodes
John B
Rhodes Bros
Aston
Rhodes
Tornado devastates Livingston County with multiple deaths
A Norfolk style report from April 2 details a Livingston County Kentucky tornado-caused casualties. Rudolph Shaub Clifton Holman Mrs Allie Ott Henry Hud son A. H. Todd J C Standford Mrs Brown Mrs Mays Dunkosio Kimley and others are listed as dead or severely hurt. Farm losses are estimated at $50 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Livingston County
Hamrtos
Rudolph Shaub
Clifton Holman
Allie Ott
Harry Morton
George W. Faulkner
A. H. Todd
J. C. Standford
Henry Hudson
John Brown
Brown
George Mays
Dunkosio Kimley
Kimley
Eac
A. H. Robinson
Coit Withdraws Name From Tillman Ticket
D. C. Coit, nominated with Tillman for Lieutenant Governor at the Farmers' Convention, deserts the ticket. He states he cannot indorse the platform and withdraws his name from the canvass per the convention’s rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers
Cyarieston
D. C
J. C. Coit
Tillman
Shell
Missionaries Protest Chinese Exclusion Bill At Conference
At the East conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in New York on April 2 a resolution was adopted opposing the federal bill to deport or imprison Chinese entrants without a certificate. The measure was attacked as unjust and dangerous to American missionaries in China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
East Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church Today
Washington
China
Glass makers meet in secret session at Wheeling
A secret meeting of Western glass manufacturers is in session at the McLure House Wheeling. Discussion centers on high soda ash prices and possible glass price increases. A second meeting is planned for tomorrow. In Charleston Logan Court House, Jerry Hatfield was shot and killed last Saturday by M C Lee linked to the Hatfields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
McLure House
Dispatch
Charleston
W. Va
Logan Court House
Hatfield
Jerry Hatfield
M. C. Lee
Hatfields
Spaniard Basanez Extradited From Havana to Vera Cruz
Pedro Basanez a Spaniard accompanied by a policeman left Havana today aboard the Orizaba for Vera Cruz. He is charged with swindling a Mexican firm and was extradited at the request of Mexican authorities.
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Havana
Pedro Basanez
Orizaba
Vera Cruz
Basanez
Pacific division strike ends as UP meets wage demands
Portland April 2 The strike of switchmen on the Pacific division of the Union Pacific was declared off today the company having acceded to the demands of the men for a 10 percent advance in wages.
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Portland, One
Pacific
Union Pacific
William at Paris Aims to Improve German French Ties
Reports from Paris on April 2 say William seeks to mend relations between Germany and France. Diplomatic circles note his seriousness about improving strained ties.
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Paris
William
Germany
France
Reed Sure To Come At Annual Americas Club Banquet
A Pittsburgh delegation in Washington secured Speaker Reed's assent to attend Pittsburg's Americas Club banquet. Postmaster McKean and Superintendent Collins pressed for fast occupancy of the new Government building, with Supervising Architect Windrim reviewing progress. James V Long met Senator Cameron about the Florence consulate. Republican Wisconsin congressmen dismissed election results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americus Club
Reed
McKean
Collins
Wisconsin
Wasurxorox
Pittsburgera
Harry
Paul
Post Office Department
Pears
State Department
Pittsburg
Pattison
Supervising Architect of the Treasury
Windrim
Speaker Reed
Americas Club
Colonel Bayne
New York
Long
Senator Cameron
Florence
Italy
Lightner
Senator Receives Request for Recognition on World Ride
A Chicago man Milton Gray seeks congressional or Commission approval to accompany a world voyage by horseback starting July 1 from Chicago to New York and then to Liverpool. He offers to fund himself and aims to broaden knowledge and literary privileges. Gray, 21, 6 ft 3 in, 180 pounds, is a college graduate and son of a farmer, with a woodcut portrait attached.
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Washington
Senator Cullum
Chicago
Ien
Milton Gray
Congress
New York
Liverpool
Secularists Active Seek Local American Secular Union Chapter
Washington April 2 The movement to sever church and state gains force with a plan to organize a local branch of the American Secular Union. Opponents include clergy and church members, while the group pledges to welcome all to membership under the banner No Union of Church and State aiming for free thought and universal toleration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
American Secular Union
National Reform Association
American Sabbath Union
Congressional Inquiry to Probe Immigrant Labor Contracts
A congressional subcommittee led by Representatives Owen Brewer and Oates and Senators Hale McPherson and Evarts plans to travel to New York to examine immigrant care methods. The probe will focus on the landing site change from Castle Garden to an harbor island and aims to uncover whether immigrants arrive under contract and how to better apprehend and return them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enrl
Washington
Owen
Brewer
Oates
Hale
McPherson Sod Evarts
New York
Castle Garden
Tobacco Growers Protest McKinley Tariff Schedules
A large delegation of tobacco manufacturers from the South pressed the Ways and Means Committee arguing the tobacco provisions of the McKinley tariff would ruin the tobacco industry at Key West. The report also notes the Attorney General plans to appeal a Court of Claims decision holding the Government responsible for Congress members’ salary losses tied to the Silcott defalcation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Committee On Ways and
Key West
Silcon
Wasuoeton
Court of Claims
Congress
Silcott
Senate weighs Montana election case over Sanders Power vs Clark Maginnis
The Senate moved to consider the Montana Senate dispute with a majority favoring Sanders and Power and a minority backing Clark and Maginnis. Debate centered on which slate properly represented Silver Bow County voters and whether the canvassing board overstepped by using nonofficial sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Montana
Wilbur F. Sanders
Thomas
Power
William A. Clark
Martin Maginnis
Hoar
Sanders
Silver Bow
Clark
Maginnis
Gray
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Messrs
Montans
Territory
United States Senate
Wisconsin Republicans dismiss local wins as temporary setback
Wisconsin GOP congressmen say Democratic gains are temporary. Caswell blames asleep Republicans and expects a return to normalcy this fall. Haugan pins concern on the Bennett law, while Spooner’s seat is not viewed as in danger. German opposition seen as strongest in Milwaukee.
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WasHinetoyx
Congress
Wisconsin
Caswell
Spooner
Haugan
Milwaukee
Ruin to the Leather Trade Petition to Candler
A New England Shoe and Leather Association petition to Representative Candler argues that duties on raw hides would harm New England and the Middle States industries, raise shoe prices, and hurt the export trade of about 312 million annually, risking shift of trade to Canada due to cheaper labor and tanning costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Candler
New England Shoe and Leather Association
Congress
Waya and Means
New England
Middle States
Dominion of Canada
United States
One-Legged Minister Named Michigan Pension Agent
President appoints E. H. Harvey a pension agent for Michigan. Harvey, a one legged minister and former Union soldier, is endorsed by Michigan’s two senators and General Alger. The position is described as highly lucrative and influential in the state government. Colonel Jones backed by Alger fails to win the post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Washisgtton
E. H. Harvey
Harvey
Alger
Grand Army of the Republic
Colonel Jones
Attachment Granted Against Riverside and Oswego Mills
Judge Andrews of the Supreme Court issued an attachment for 751 089 against Riverside and Oswego mills Providence owned by Appleton Sturges. The Boston syndicate, managing the 6214 cent compromise with creditors, seeks to secure its claim as one creditor rejects the settlement. Settlement may occur without further court action and the attachment could be vacated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yeas
Andrews
Supreme Court
Riverside and
Oswego Mills
Providence
Appleton Sturges
Boston Syndicate
Stone Masons to Strike for Eight-Hour Day Demands
In New York on April 2 a mass meeting of 175 stonemasons and over 300 sympathetic laborers voted for a general strike. They seek an eight hour day with masons paid 50 cents per hour and laborers 225 dollars daily. Sixty-three firms are involved, with signatories already over half.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparcch
New York
Ey Hall
Femor
Dzar Wounded by von Assassin
Berlin dispatch reports a partially successful attempt on the Czar by an unknown would be assassin. The weapon and the attacker’s name are not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Von
Five Farmington WomenRaid Blind Tigers in Local Saloon Crackdown
In Farmington Missouri five temperance crusaders armed with axes and a rifle conducted a raid on saloons defying local option laws. They smashed beer kegs and bottles, dumped liquor, and forced a beer wagon driver to unload into the street. August Tromson may press charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temperance
Farmington, Mo
FagMincrox
August Tromson
Foster
Delassus
Farmington
Docrum
Tromson
Terrible facial burns from alleged vitriol attack
Thomas Curran, a young truckman, testified in Jefferson Market Court that Lawrence Ahearn and John Rooney attacked him with vitriol last Saturday. Curran's face suffered severe burns, left eye nearly closed, right eye almost shut, after being doused while asleep. he seeks redress and medical care.
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Thomas Curran
Jefferson Market Court
Lawrence Ahearn
Rooney
Curran
Ahearn
New York
Woolen firm Townsend & Co fails in New York
ANOTHER PAILURE IN WOOL. EB Townsend & Co, commission woolen merchants, made an assignment to James F Young of Philadelphia with preference to John and James Dobson for 42696. The firm includes Frederick R Townsend, Wm M Richards Jr, and Chas H Wade. The collapse is blamed on warm winters and weak trade, plus mill investments and large advances. The assignee cannot name the banks holding the notes and notes are near maturity without protest. Townsend is an officer in a mill facing receivership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
PF. EB. Townsend & Co
James F. Young
Philadelphia
John and James Dobson
Frederick R. Townsend
Wm. M. Richards, Jr
Chas. H. Wade
Townsend
Indictments See Fresh Abuses in City Sheriff Office
New York April 2 grand jury will submit to Judge Fitzgerald another presentment on abuses in the Sheriffs office and Ludlow Street Jail. Indictments may follow. Ex-Chamberlain Ivins Fassett Committee counsel Inspector Byrnes and Foreman Rhoades met District Attorney Fellows recently. Police Justices Powers and White conferred with Colonel Fellows. Referee Meeks and Lawyer Bird joined.
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New York
Grand Jury
Fitzgerald
Ludlow Street
Ivins
Fassett Committee
Byrnes
Rhoades
Fellows
Powers
White
Colonel Fellows
Meeks
Lawyer Bird
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Overbys
Arcols
Washington County
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Mending Railroad
E Dispatch
Chicago Board of Trade
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Ipatrch
Methodist Episcopal Conference
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the Dispatch
Americus
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National Senate
Secularists
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Repablicao Representative
Alger's
Oswego Mille
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Crusaders
Jennie Foster
G. W. Williams
Howard Jerome
William Odgers
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