Show BY d 1 av I 1 R PER relt WESTERN uston UNION TELEGRAM USE LINE AL AMERICAN I 1 I 1 E n 1 nati WATI II 11 the day has been one of the greatest excitement since the flood began the stage of high water of last year ear car was pa parsed sd at I 1 pm A steady and ilard hard rain has continued during the greater part of the day and together with the reports of the general rains every place where it would run into the ohio has made it certain that a still more dangerous flood would be upon the already unfortunate people e of the ohio valley experience last ast year made the people bold boid in confronting the danger they had once met and overcome but when the new elein clein at i of terror comes in the form of a h ht ienco 11 ened flood a anew new series of calamities begins to ap appear ear the ga gas s was lost yesterday an and the water su supply aply ceases to accumulate today to day T there ere are tive five days supply in the reservoir with careful use but one big fire would make a serious inroad oil on that the worst of all is that nobody knows when the limit of the flood will be reached the rising waters above and ju all render it certain that the river riven must continue tg rise for some spine time how iop ion long iong and ana how rapid will be the r rise i se are the points ints of conjecture and fear fean ear ean the who he river to has s increased to an inch an hour and it is hardey possible to give an idea of the situation situa tiou the mass of the people cannot see the great body of the river approach to the tho hanks onks is cut off on all tiie tile streets running ng to tile the river strangers in the city may gain an idea of its extent when it is iq stated the tite water is now jiow but little more mor ethan feet from the burnett barnett house boats are gliding in all directions tho the suspension bridge a hundred feet above low water mark makes a low arch the flood the newport and Southern railroad bridges look as if they were almost douphin tou phin the water A view from fricas frices hill bill in the western part of the city gives rives ives ivea the only outline of the flood covered portion of the city at the foot of the hill on the west side of the city mill mili creek spreads to an average of a mile in expanse and reaches north out of sight the back water runs beyond spring grove celli celii cemetery seven miles distant up the river from cincinnati covington and newport houses can be seen seeh peering out of the water while down the river almost from hill to hill the valley is covered up to this time of the greatest danger there has bee been 4 no disaster aster but the cry of distress is beginning to grow 16 louder louden the relief work in cincinnati is beginning to press lawrenceburg Lawrenc eburg toda today to da day 1 sent a request here for help but resident president arner I 1 mer was compelled to refuse for lack of funds the contributions contribution s have not been as generous as tast last year but will probably come faster tomorrow to morrow the eighth street railroad between this city and prince hill was overflowed today and access to that suburb by street C ars cars was cut off one of the largest establishments in mill creek valley vailey the american oak leather company hav have c been battling to keep the flood out they have built a barrier entirely surrounding the whole structure and are now IS 18 inches above the water and r can ae i keep safe until 73 75 feet is reached at 7 p in the water was 66 feet 11 inches at the water works the office reports one engine still running and it will continue to go until the fines dines ures are put out which will be when the water rises 4 inches more the consumption will be stopped tomorrow to morrow except for domestic purposes new richmond 0 II 11 this thia town has been cut off for six days from tile the outside world except by means of skiffs the watter water ls is in n every evory building and houses are arc submerged one third of the population depend on outside support rhe the rho water is 26 inches higher than a year zear ago and the highest ever known thirty five buildings building s are off their foundations dat ions two feet water will float them away the ahe village of rural kentucky quirce is entirely swept agaj away only two or three houses being left frankfort ky 11 the kentl Kenti kentucky lOy river is rising slowly it lias ilas risen three thre and ennd a half haa feet since friday reports from abak dafft maddt avy rise and rain falling marietta 0 via belroy hon 11 the water is receding ri rapidly it bentoff went orf off the court house floor at 8 last evening there is no telegraph or railroad communication the bridges across the muskingum ngum arc ard both gone no lives are reported lost memphis ii 11 the river hero here this afternoon at 2 attained thirty two feet on the guage which is two feet below the danger line and it continues s rising at the rate oi of nine inches titue tigue d dally daliy lly liy it hassone has gone over the banks both above and belo beio below wherein here in two places but so far no damage has been done it will take two feet additional rise before trouble in the bottoms begins wheeling II 11 the water recedes so slowly that the lowlands in some places blades are still covered but are now so low that boats navigate without injury to property through the washing bof of the waves and there is no more firing on relief boats the accumulated mail mall is pouring ill in on the few trains that have so far resumed an unknown boyeas boy was drowned on the south side today to day by the caving in ia of a bank about half thi homeless people have returned to their houses or oreave have hase found foun d quarters elsewhere other houses are swept away or dest destroyed foyed and aind fully people are homeless destitute and h helpless 1 il 1 esaf and will have to be lle fed by the 1 relief lii lil e f coil coll committee in attee for weeks the damaged mills cannot start for weeks middleport Midd leport 11 the river is falling it is foggy and raining at the tho court house step people ure are haggard liaga for sor want of sleep food and shelter nearly every businessman business man IS 18 bankrupt the ceaf coal mines at syracuse are flooded A house went wont by middleport Midd leport this morning with a woman ridi riding ngon on tile the gable end men rowed out at and appealed to her to get off adt she sho ref refused used sayong n she had four bable bables c below the sai glass ass was broken and the children were were seen floating W dead Ther Thet ellef elief committee sent to pomeroy has dust just returned lve irive ive thousand people nia apo aro aia camped on the hill and are arc in horrible want for food and shelter one hundred and fifty houses floated aW awayan ayat bootland boatland Bo atland pittsburg ii 11 the river is stationary al it is raining and mild it is also r raining ing at headwaters arnd annd they are rising considerable rain has fallen in the last forty eight hours another flood which will inundate the lower portion 01 ol allegheny at least is feared calro cairo ill lil 11 there has been a heavy fog over the river and city city all the afternoon it is mild and the river is ris rising ilig half ah inch an hour lawrenceburg ind hia il 11 it is growl ing worse and worse the mayor for the first time today to day asked help from abroad warehouses are moved fron from theli their foundations the people are moving from ther thee second floors and abandoning their goods because they have no place to take them and the current is so go swift that boating boating is dangerous A family was rescued from the second story where the water had reached four inches above the flood 11 TOwN pa 11 last lust night wight north union township three miles east of here hero was the scene cene of a brutal murder the victim 1 in b being L if 1 a an n old man GO years of age nam named amp Alp alphonse honse bonse wilson 1 and the murderer his son frank tile the two who had been drinking together had a quarrel which ended in the father ordering frank to leave hoine home the tho latter iatter complied but in ten minutes returned and calien callen called his father out the old mail started for the door but before he reached it frank drew ft D revolver ani and shot him dead the parricide then went to the house of dennis springer a short distance away where he remained all day threatening to kill any one ohe who attempted to arrest him this evenin evening the sheriff and two constables went to springers and after some trouble cap captured him but not before he be attempted to shoot the constables on the way to jail he passed his fathers house his mother came out oat to see sec him and he told her he intended to kill the old man ile he was intoxicated when the dotimas atleed ivas done but it made no difference kassas KANSAS CITY ciny 11 in the criminal court this morning the states attorney dismissed the case edse against frank james and charles ford arged charged cli cil with mith the blue cut train robbery robber in the attorney submitted a statement that owing to the refusal of governor crittenden to pardon lardon dek nick liddel the state was deprived of his testimony mog moP I 1 and also valuable corroborative evit evidence hence he would not be able to make a clear case ile he stated the case at gallatin for b bank k robbery james would I 1 also lie lii ibe dismissed thus vacating cacatin all the indictments in in missouri re the announcement created quite a s surprise tir prise in the counting countin room james was immediately taken gb before ford jud judge ge krekel ot of the united states court where a hearing is now in lil progress on a charge of the tile robbery of a united states paymaster at murcel shoals alabama chicago it 11 when thomas aiken alken a railroad weigh master maston reacted home tonight to ni night lit after a days work he found ilis ills dead on oh the floor with a hole hoie in her head and E W Feite zes a bookkeeper book keeper boarding at aikens ay iy lying across his cifes body with two bullet wounds in his body and unconscious feite Felte zes fired all the shots letters left bv him indicate he was criminally intimate int finate with the woman and jealous of the attentions of another ot herman henman man it Is thought Feite felte zes cannot survive lie comes ot a respectable family of aledo ills lils milwaukee 11 jerry st arnold 20 years of age agda a dally daily telegraph operator on the northwestern railway at the depot shot bridget egan egan a pastry cook at the depot restaurant in the face to tonight night and t then hen fired into his brain when found by b the police both were in the throes of beath teath death they had apen intimate for about a year it is said that st arnold was desperately in love and wanted her to marry him norwich ct II 11 this afternoon F V conant alfred mcclellan and a friend named button took a drive through the city returning to Co nantS home button drove the horse to the stables while conant asked mcclellan elian eilan to KO go to a shed near by to see a pony A few minutes later mcclellan ran from the shed bryin crying murder conant appeared app fared farea pursing n him and fired the third shot mcclellan ran across th the street estreet and fell dead in a gutter one ball hit him in the leg another passed through through his bis hat and the third through his heart eart conant examined the body to make sure of death then put up the revolver and walked to the first baptist church of which his wife wasa was a member and entered the conference room his wife was speaking no hs as he entered he took a seat and sati sent a boy poy to call her and when she 1 followed fOllo WOd im to the vestibule he said 41 I have kil kli lilledal killed ledAl AL mcclellan she is reported to have exclaimed IM my god G L di I 1 never thought it would come tol toi lith this io s then they jid returned home together 81 int anthas ant when conant was vas arrested he gave the his revolver and accompanied them theiu peaceably to the station house san francisco 10 Exand examiner 1 tombstone gerodemos Gero nemos nemols band have i surrendered d er eato to captain rafferty and are now on en route to san carlos the date of surrender is not known baltimore XI 11 two oyster police boats captured two piratical vessels this afternoon in fishing bay and made prisoners of their crews the gun boats oats now have blockaded thieving craft in eastern bay hot springs 11 saturdays tragedy has been followed fogged by only one death although gh three other victims are in a precarious condition one hundred I 1 bullet t i ilet liet marks mark s were found on the ha hack back ek in which the flynn brothers were riding in ada ada ohio 11 A row which commenced in sunday school was renewed in the evening meeting and the police were compelled comp elfed to enter the sacred edifice and stop the shouting men and screaming women galveston Galve ston 10 metes san A antonio trouble is apprehended at eagle pass the authorities have been in secret communication with governor ireland and enough is known to warrant the assertion that the sheriff of boverick Wo verick county anticipates a raid from the mexican side of the theR rio loGrande grande and andis is anxious for re kaptain captain sheely of the texas rangers has hasteen deen been asked lor lon for all ail the troops at his disposal united states marshal gosling has haa also been wired to for armed assistance the raid is doubtless for the tiie capture of two suspected cri crl criminals finals held at eagle pass whom the Ameri amerl american call cali extradition agent refuses ito eto to surrender in view of the recent ruling of secretary freling huyen in the case of the trouble of ige ite the alleged train robbers the prisoners being held are accused by the mexican authorities of murdering manuel rod at san sau acques mexico on the 7 ath th dinst the deceased was shot early in the morning five buckshot taking effect in the head and the upper lipper part of the body dying in ten minutes in great agon agony the murde murderers lers lerg were trailed to aedras piedras negras degras where they crossed into texas rodriquez vas was was a prominent merchant and influential fluent ial citizen his friends are determined ter mined to bring th the assassins to justice by force of of arms if necessary marshal marshai gosling leaves san antonio with a posse by the first train for eagle pass I 1 where the invaders will be received with ball and buckshot should an attempt be made to cross the river witt with an ari armed force or to capture the prisoners in the hands of the maverick authorities A correspondent of the galveston accompanies the relief force A houston paper this morning publishes an account purporting to come by telegraph froni from matamoras giving givin 1 an account of an alleged uprising 05 of indians at Omi blay near tuxtepec state of alack ajack mexico it is sald saia that the stores and private dwellings lae were v r e plundered seven nl merchants killed li 6 d and a number wounded that the corpses of the murdered men were W ere dragged through the phe he streets and subjected to all manner of indignities the authorities at tuxtepec are said attacked the mob with a force of men but were defeated with four kill killed ea A special further says that several thousand andare are being concentrated cent rated in the states stales of pueblo and bajack cincinnati 0 12 9 am the river marks 68 feet I 1 inch and is still rising at the rate of an all inch an hour weather foggy and mild tile the sun was shining this morning for the tte first time since since the flood began its spring like temperature since n noon itis again oyer over overcast casi cast and there are fears of more rain the water at one stood 68 feet inches the condition of things at New newport portis is growing more frightful the worst fears about damage to of buil bull buildings dlugg are |