Show CLICKS bismarck to BERLIN april 5 reports are current that prince bismarck has asked the emperor to relieve him of his post the alleged cause is the precarious state of his health april 5 A dispatch received here to confirms the report that prince bismarck is about to retire from the german lor ship it is rumored at berlin that if prince bismarck resigns count herbert bismarck will also resign only conr ol 01 LONDON april 5 four thousand irish emigrants sailed from queens town to day for america jake ine NEW YOEK april 5 at p m today to day jacob sharp was unconscious his family do not expect tb he will live more than two hours at farthest jacob sharp died at tonight about six he was siezer with a severe fit of coughing and though it subdued somewhat he never rallied he died in a state of coma without recovering consciousness members of his family were at his bedside his death was the result of a complication of heart disease affection of the kidneys bronchitis and worry over the legal troubles which hung over him it was understood he was soon to be tried a second time on the charge of bribery NEW YORK april 7 one of the queerest episodes that over occurred in this city was the funeral of jacob sharp occurred at this evening at his late residence the utmost lecresy marked the arrangements and no one was allowed to enter the house except by invitation specially sent by the family even the visitors evidently has been instructed not to give any information about the affair and when questioned denied that the funeral was taking place A great freshet in iowa CHICAGO april 6 A special from mason city iowa says the greatest freshet ever known in this country was experienced last night the town falls on the shell bock eivor experimenting it most dis the iron bridge baet long and the dam are both gone and the damage to property there will not fall short of the village of kock falls south of the river was completely inundated houses and barns were crushed and swept away and in some instances no vestige remains of what was before a substantial structure the house of mr cruikshank whore he lived with his wife and three children was crushed like an eggshell the family having a narrow escape the house in which mrs anderson lived with her five children was swept from its foundation and floated against some trees where it lodged the women and children escaping on floating ice where they remained barefooted bare footed and in their night clothes until daylight when the water receded and their rescue made the large bridge went out when the ice gorge gave way and portions of the trusses and stringers are now to bo seen on the farm of joseph herret where they were borne by the flood awo miles below the dam and tubing considered the best in the state are gono milos of fence were torn from land where the water was never known to reach before when the water receded it loft immense piles of ice on the streets huge cakes three feet thick are piled up on one another ten to fifteen feet high and it will be there for weeks before they melt and make the streets passable it looks like an immense arctic scene with the roofs of houses protruding through |