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ASHEVILLE, N. C, SATUEDAY HOMING, APRIL 21, 1900.
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FLOOD NEWS
Towns in Mississippi Inunda
ted and Situation Grow
ing Worse.
People Abandon Their Homes
and Flee for Safety.
FIGHTING IN
FREE STATE
eris Has Begun His
Advance'
Boers Said to Have Driven
Back a Small Force.
Railroad Traffic Suspended Over a
Large Territory.
Houses and Cattle Floating on the
Raging Rivers.
Th& Csnsorsh p Restrictions
4 Increased.
Are
We desire to call atten
tion to onr line of
Tailor made
Dress and
walking skirts
Silk mercerized
and mohair
petticoats
Silk and wash
waists
Suits and skirts
made to order.
OESTREICHER&CO
51 Patton Avenue.
" Standard the World Over."
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LOSS OF LIFE WILL BE HEAVY
AND PROPERTY DAMAGE ENOR
MOUS TRA -juERS WAiBR
BOUND AT NEW ORLEANS THE
RAIN SHOWS NO SIGNS OF
CEASING.
COLUMBUS BUGGY CO'S.
Our eitock of
Trans. OTen and
Top Buggies, Concords, Handy Wagons,
rjomnlete and attractive.
It is a pleasure to us to show the
goods, and the prices are right, of
course. . , '
All our work ie furnished with Brad
ley Shaft Couplings, Long Distance
Dirt-proof Axle with Bell Collar , and
Bailey Hangers for End Spring Gears.
Meville Hardware Company, Agfa.
Southeast Corner Count Square,
'Phone 87.
Kelley Springfield Tire Put on in Onr
Rubber Tire Department.
New Orleans, April 20. New Orleans
has ceased to regard the flood situation
as a temporary inconvenience. As the
full scope of the disaster which visited
this section in the excessive rains
which! began in the early days of the
week, and still continue, has been
learned, the conviction has beefl.irre
sistably brought home that ia calamity
of appalling magnitude has been ex
perienced, and that instead of the
worst being over the evil has just be
gun.
There are now within the city no less
than 500 water bound travelers, who
are not only unable to return to their
!hnt. do not know when they
will be able to leave.
Partial reports of the damage in
;cmrrei in the storm belt 'have run the
figures up into millions. The Illinois
Central system has incurred damages
which will amount to hundreds of
thousands of dollars, figuring loss of
business, and the end is not yet. Not
onlv was this road tied up yesterday,
but there is no telling when trains will
-n-r. Thf trains are still
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rising and the rain continues to fall.
The tie-up is complete both on the
Illinois Central and the Yazoo arid
Mississippi Valley railroads.
The New Orleans and Northeastern
is in a bad fix. It has been unable to
move any trains since Monday, and
does not know when it will resume op
eration. The East Louisiana railroad
has shut up operations and the Mobile
and Ohio is paralyzed. Business is at
a standstill owing to lack of mails,
which have been stopped over the
roads since Monday.
t v.. vinitv of Enterprise, Miss.,
ill. i,ii
the waters of the Chickasawhay -re
raging. The water is five feet deep in
th main streets, and throughout last
night cries for assistance filled the
sir. iShubuta and DeSota, Miss., are
.wiiir innnriinted. The rise of
vximjic Ltij
the Chickasawhay is in the neighbor
hood of thirty feet and the torrent is
still rising.
tsjo OriPans. April 20. Advices
flay from Pearlington say the
i-irAr has reached the highest
are forced to abandon their homes and
flee-to the Mississippi side for safety.
Hundreds of head of cattle and hogs
are drowned.. Deer and other game
are swimming across the river at ev
ery available point. All farms ana
gardens will have to be replanted.
Meridian., Miss., Atril 20. The nooa
situation is growing worse with every
TTio tnnm nf TTifVrnrV is in a
distressing condition. A special says jStfOnff Indications That Rofa-
1L IS COIIipiCtCljr uiiuuimi-u,
ters rising as a result of the heavy
rainfall last night. Hundreds of cat
tle are drowned and all fences are
swept away.
The town of Enterprise ana sur
rounding country are devastated. ..The
waters having been sweuea iasx m&ui.
six miles -above the town by the giv
ing way of the Wanita cotton mill
dam enclosing 100 acres of water av
eraging a depth of fifteen feet. Build-ings-in
the path of the waters were
fiwpnt from heir foundations ana wet.
In Chunky river swamps the number
of lives lost is unknown, but is sup
posed to be heavy. Property damage
is incalculable. A two-foot rise of the
waters around Meridian was noted this
mrtrnine'.
Jackson, Miss., April 20. The1 nooa
situation during the past twelve
hours has shown no improvement.
Railroad traffic is still toadly crippled
by washouts and missing bridges and
it is feared the worst is yet to come i
The partial schedule of the Illinois
Central is suspended on account of
track trouble at Oamolback, south of
Jackson, and no trains will get through
before late this afternoon.
A heavy rain fell last night anu the
situation in Jackson is growing very
serious, a large section oi iuc 'u' -part
of the city being flooded by back-
water of Town creeK, anu uu
families have been compewu -
from their homes. Tneir nauseam
goods were carried out in boats
To the east ot nere rcan I-
spread over the country for a distance
of six miles and the waters are now
lapping the flooring oirn
eon bridges in KianKin tuuu ..
stage Vf the river is the highest ever
known and the water continues to rise
at a rapid rate.
fully appreciated, but the opinion is
held that if his executive strength was
not equal to Spion kop it is unsafe to
trust him with future operations
bearing in an important way on the re
sult of the war.
SITUATION GROWS WORSE.
Accra, Gold Coast Colony, April 20.
Governor Hodgson wires from Kumas-
si that other tribes are rising and asks
assistance. The loyal Bebuis have
been attacked by Ashantis and 500 kill
ed. It is feared this will compel the
Bekuis to join the rebellion. Evident
ly the situation is extremely serious
and reinforcements will be sent before
it is too late.
CANAL BILL
ON CALENDAR
YOUTSEY DENIES COM
PLICITY IN COEBEL MURDER
Nicaraguan Project to be
Considered in House
May 1 and 2.
A Compromise on the Hep
burn Measure.
Bitterness Engendered by Reppits of
J Indictment of Gov. Taylor.
I Frankfort. April 20. Youtsey was
It? t u.j i.u t..Jm; 1 brought into court today and denied
i v i n ftri(iri hii . i ih hi m. i.iiim itiir: - u '
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Progress of Work on Naval Appropria
tion BUI.
Mafeking Garrison.
SOERS
(Itein
SOUTH OF BLOEMFON
RETREATING RHODES
WILL. LEAVE ENGLAND FOR
CAPE TOWN TODAY.
A GIRL LEAPS FROM
THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE.
Had Lost Money and Friends Will
Recover in a Few Days.
-KTTxr vnrk Anril 20. Marie Dinse, a
German girl, having lost all her mcney.
jumped from the Brooklyn- tod&e
day and was not ihurt enough to kee)
her in bed more than three otJAx&
She became conscious three hours after
taken from the river ana iom wu
pitaa surgeons she did not remember
imping from the Tiage. She added
in Germany 'twas mo crime for a
ooor girl who had lost all (her money
and friends to jump from a bridge if she
wanted to.
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iince 1874 Today timoer oooms uum.
menced breaking up and thousands of
dollars' worth of timber has floated "to
the sea. All business on the river is at
a standstill. Sawmills had to discon
tinue operations.
Water has reached the first floors of
TfmAnt for ii er, nlontr the river, ah bam-
KERVOTJS, RHEUMATIC d OTHER are lying at the wharves in the
MASSAGE..
AND PACKS.
DISEASHS.
fTHURB BRANDT MASSAGH FOR
FEMALE DISEASES; ALSO
(FACE MASSAGE.
PROF. EDWIN GRUNERj
Grflii.tA nhAmnitz Collece. Germany.
Formerly with Oakland. Height. .
Sanitarium.)
t. MAIN ST. THLEPHONB 20.
Home or Office Treatment.
Office hour, 11 a. nu to 1. p. m., 2 to
p. m.
Steam up in oase of emergencies. Traf
fic is suspended 'and the water is stall
rising. Every bridge from Pearling
ton to Uogtown is swept 'away. Water
in the public roads is deep enough to
swim a horse.
People living on the Louisiana side
EXPOSITION S PROGRESS SLOW.
Americans are Abont the Only For
eigners There-Hotel Rates High.
Paris, April 20. The exposition is not
progressing coward completeness wilu
anything like tne rapiuity
like 'to see. The chiet cause w una,
the foreign section is the fact that the
customs officers refuse io ort
sealed cars after an eariy
the morning. The commiasionerwin
nJ.2A-. js mr Tvl 3 lfla
of one of the leaaing stcuwia
v.?iTr r,Ti this nomt tms nwumig..
and all 'the commissioners find it nosi
vexatious. . .
The streets of Fans .never were iui
than now, but tnis is largexy
spring weather coming aner so
weeks of cold. Except for the Ameri
cans, who did not get word in time ao
to the state exposition, is m. 'here
are few foreigners here. All are wait
ing for fair weather and a lowering in
the prices charged by the hotels. It is
hardly worth while waiting for the lat-
The question ot the international jury
of award is now beginning to claim the
aL LCll LIUll '
country wishes to get as many honors aa
possible and each commiHisi'Oiner will en
deavor to put forward his country's
strongest and ablest representatives im
jury service. Am effort is being made
to have some women serve on behalf of
the United Sttctes, and Mrs. Potter Pal
mer naturally is championing this idea
and earnestly urging it adoption, it is
rumored, lowever, that France's expo
sition authorities will oppose this rad
ical innovation, -his is the flrj&t time
women have taken or attempted to take
ar.y prominent part in connection witn
a European expositi on, an I it is one
I more inovation that may be credited to
tho influence of the ,chi-ago World's
Fair.
Pretoria, via Lorenzo Marquez, April
20. Advices just received here from
Hoopstad, Orange Free State, are to
the effect that a sharp engagement has
taken place north of Boshof (between
General Delarey's advance, consisting
of 150 Boers, and a British force. The
latter were repulsed. The British left
twenty dead on the field.
REPORT OF FIGHTING.
London, April 20. The report of
fighting at Kare siding, collected in a
special despatch from Bloemfontein
today, may be the flnt news of he
Vrofrtti of tht Britiih advance
Pretoria, (but even if this were oniy
an. unimportant skirmish, there are
many indications that Roberts is
either starting or has already started
for the northern goal.
Censorship restrictions have beCU in
crefc3ed owing to the movem-t of 'the
troops.
The Boers Seiiih of Bloemfontein GJf
reported retreating: Large commands
were seen April 19 near Thaba N'Chu
moving tothe north. Progress was
stojv, ho-weVer, owing to ih terrible
condition of the country. -
By way of Pretoria comes the report
that fever is dedicating the Mafekihf
garrison, and a lettS? from the mayor
of Mafeking says RofcSrts has ask
Baden-Powell to hold otlt until May 20.
Cecil Itnoaes returns w wa-ir j.wwxi
tomorrow. The announcement ot xi s
departure was unexpected.. It is
learned the so-called "empire iHaner
came to England purely on business
connected with the British Chartered
South Africa company and the De
Beers Mines company. He has accom
plished his object, and hating inaction
suddenly determined) to return to
South Africa. Rhodes absolutely re
fused to be interviewed, though he
privately expressed scathing comments
on several generals still holding com
mands at the front.
T,a.flv Gatacre will be a fellow pas
senger of Rhodes. She is going as far
,ac TVTnrlPira. -to meet her husband, wno
has been sent back to England.
tLLER'S SUCCESSOR.
Tendon Anril 20. What Lord Rob-
prts oroooses to do regarding the
rn.mma.nds in South Africa is a question
of supreme interest in England at the
present moment., It is generally con
ceded that the commander in chief
would not have criticised General Bul
ler and his subordinlatess so freely if he
had not intended to make important
changes in high places.
Britishers think if General Sir Red-
vers Buller was not strong enough to
ocrt his authority at Spion kop he
is not strong enough to command the
British army in Natal during the crit
ical operations of the immediate fu
ture They also feel that Lord Rob
erts should promptly relieve from duty
the men he has seen fit publicly to
condemn; but unless there are other
take their places it
is feared that evil results as regards
the discipline of the force in the field
will ensue. .
General Butler's uuuaos V
the struggle to relieve Laaysmiui x
the charge of complicity in the murder
of Goebel made against him in the in-
rtirtmpnt an d moved for bail. The
case was set for April 30, the day on
which all parties under arrest will be
arraigned.
The publication of the indictment of
Governor Taylor has caused much bit
terness among republicans. Taylor
has been in Washington, but is expect
ed here tonight or tomorrow. An at
tempt to arrest him here would bring
on a conflict between his soldiers and
the arresting officers. No warrant will
probably be issued or attempt made
to arrest him until the indUctinent is
made public at the conclusion of the
term of court. ;
House Adopts Committee's Proposition
' For New Warships.
REFUSAL TO ESTABLISH AN AR
MOR PLATE FACTORY THE EN
LARGEMENT OF THE ANNAPO
LIS ACADEMY.
Washington, April 20. Mr. Hepourn,
in charge of the Nicaragua canal bill,
announced today that a definite Jar
nangement had been reached by which
the bill would be considered by the
house May 1 and 2 and passed. The
house committee on interstate and for
eign commerce today made an import
ant change in the Hepburn bill, strik
ing out the provision for "fortificaU0'
CANNED BEEF.
washinei-nn. Anril 20. The war de
narrmwit has been romoelled to resort land thus providing what is expected to
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be a compromise, wnicn wiu aiu, m
bringing the measure to early consider
ation. The amendment was proposed
by Barham, of California.
to the use o cannea roast beef tor
subsistence 0f the" army in the Philip
pines. Phig i& due to the fact that it
is nWlutelv essential, that the soldiers
1 Khali be served with fresh meat, and
Oil . . tV, IrrvrtrvoaihilltV Of fVrOVld-
oecause jl lii ""'""
ing refrigerator 'beef or eattle on the
hoof under existing condition.
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FEW BUT DEMOCRATS YQTEP?
New Orleanfi, April 26. Full jreiifiis
'from the Louisiana election iheld ,Tu.8iJ
day ive Hearu s plurality ovr Caff ery
as 45,876. The legislature stand unan
hriously democratic for the first time in
the history of Louisiana. The democrats
carried every parish in tthe dtate except
Ascension and St. James, ana elected
every state and locall officer except two
sheriffs, four police (jurors) aind three
Justices of 'the peace
VATICAN OBJECTS.
frorne. April 20. An influential pre
late of Rome says that Archbishop Ire
land's letter to the British Catholic un
ion urging a united nglo-baxon prop
aganda is distrusted at the Vatican,
where it is regarded as an ertont to re
vive the liberal movement which passes
under the designation "Americanism.
ADDED ONE FIGURE TO A CHECK.
' Charlotte, N. C, April 20. -.Will
Snyder, the young white man who was
arrested yesterday for raising the
amount of a check, was tried today
before Mayor McCall and bound over
under a bond of $150 to appear at the
next term of the criminal court. Sny
rW was mid a check of $1.25 by the
Seaboard railroad and taking the check
he altered the amount to $bl.zt. a1,
ly all of the money was recovered.
LEAGUE GAMES YESTERDAY.
R. H. 'E.
..563
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McFarland;
At Philadelphia
"Philfi.rlelDh'ia. . ..
5 Boston
Rn.t.tetries Frazier and
Nichols and Sullivan.
At New York R- H. h.
New York 12 U
Brooklyn ' a
Batteries Seymour and Grady, iit-
son Yearger and McGuire.
In the house today Mr. Cannon ask
ed Ulnimous c-iseftt for-a modldea
tiott of the language of the amend-'
ment adopted yesterday relative to the
naval academy, The proposed modi
fieation made only one substantial
change in the amendment, authorizing
the secretary of the navy, after plans
had been approved, to contract for all
or a. part of the improvements at An
napolis within the six million limit. -The
amendment was agreed to.
This was the day devoted, under the
rules, to the - consideration of war
claims, but the navaTaffairs commit
tee desired to go ahead with the na
val appropriation bill. Mr. Foss
moved to proceed with the considera
tion of that measure but his motion
waS contested, by the committee on
war claims, and the roll call was or
dered. The naval committee won. iw
to 97, and consideration of the naval
appropriation bih was resumed.
Mr. Dinsmore. of Arkansas, made a
point of order against the section to in
crease the active list of surgeons to
55 and assistant surgeons to 110, and
providingthat assistant surgeons who
served in the war with Spain now in
the navy might be given permanent
commissions without limitation as to
age, also providing that assistant sur
geons in the navy rank with assistant
sure-eons in the army. Mr. Dinsmore
criticised the latter provision, which
would raise the old difficulty between
line and staff . He afterward withdrew
it and the paragraph remained.
The house this afternoon knocked
out all amendments and adopted the
committee proposition for two battle
ships, three protected cruisers and
three armored cruisers, all to cost
$28,000,000 with hulls and ultimately to
$50,000,000. Mr.
Kitichin protested against it without
avail. The house also refused to es
tablish an armor plate factory, against
Kitchin's advice, and adjourned.
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outh. Forty miles south of Ashevliie.
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FURNISHED
7 - room house $40 per month.
9-room houee,$50 per month.
5-room flat, $32 per mlonth.
11- roorn-house, $60 per month.
8-room house, $55 per month,
5-room house, $40 per month. ,
9- room house, $75 per month.
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7 -room house, $25 per month.
9-room house, $35 per month.
12- room house, $60 per month. .
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A new line of Baby Carriages and re
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CREAMERY BUTTER.
The senate spent nearly all day on
the Hawaiian government bill. A
long discussion took place over the pro
vision requiring payment by residents
of Hawaii of a poll tax of $5 before
voters could be registered. This pro-
V vision was opposed by Messrs. im-
man. Teller. Jones, Stewart and oui-
$ ers. Mr. Cullom said tnat x n w
sent back to conference he wouia ra
vor the elimination of the poll tax provision
Grant's,
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Phone 268.
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Successor to W. F. Tnider,
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