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the Indicators on the roof of the Majestic building, which are. under Observer Wappenhans s care, and the spirit thermometer at the Bates House Pharmacy showed a fall averaging 1 degree during the early hours of the night. The Bates House thermometer was found to register 8 degrees warmer than the official thermometer, due to its protection from the wind, and grantinn that the conditions of exposure remained practically the same throughout the night the tigures that the w’eather observer will And registered when he comes down this morning will be approximately as follows up to 1 o’clock a. m.: 9 p. m —l3 10 —l4 31 —l3 12 —l6 1 a. m —l7 * NO REDUCTION IN ICE PRICES, Despite the Enormous Crop of the Present Season. One man. wrapped in his overcoat and his feet in the stove, found fierce joy yesterday in the thought "how'd ye like to be the iceman?” But the icemen suffered no more than the rest of humanity—they did not work in the Klondikian fields northeast of the city, where ice blooms twelve inches thick on the canal and the ponds. The ice companies have not yet begun to cut ice, b‘ cause they and their employes deem it a physical Impossibility to stand'the cold. Icemen say there has not been so fine an ice crop since the winter of 1894. The ice on Bioadcut is twelve inches thick and on the ponds it is between ten and twelve inches. It is clear and solid under the coating of snow. It is agreeil that a fair estimate of the year's harvest is 20.000 tons. It is as"erted that th< ampleness of the crop will have no effect on prices next summer, because, ice men say, they have furnished ice tit bottom prices for several years and they Jo not expect to lower them. As soon as the cold spell breaks four hundred men will be put to work cutting and storing the ice. And dot the Frozen Face. The natural born comedian, who still works at a desk, met a group of friends last night and he was so anxious to tell them his cold>-weather story that he stammered. “S-s-ay. at a-a band rehearsal up the street on the fourth story to-night they tried to play 'There’ll Bea Hot Time in the Old Town To-night,’ and—and their lips froze to their instruments and they went home.” The chorus of approving laughter was so strong (they liked to humor him) that he told that one about a tramp who “held up a man on Monument place for a nickel and got the frozen face.” School Children Frost-Bitten. The severe cold quickly froze the exposed ears and noses of those who were forced to go outdoors and many painful frost bites were taken care of by physicians by home treatment. No serious cases came under the observation of the physicians. Twenty-two schoolchildren were found by their teachers to have been the victims of Jack Frost and many a pupil wondered why his ears were so unceremoniously scrubbed with snow by the vigilant school mistress before ho was aware of the extent of his injuries. A Ton of Coni u.n Hour. In the hotels every attempt was made to keep the rooms comfortably and uniformly heated by burning vast quantities of coal beneath the boilers, but complaints were not infrequent. One of the hardest buildings to heat is the courthouse. An abundant supply of coal was laid in and the rooms of the county officials were comfortably w’armed. The janitor of the building said this was done by burning coal at'the rate of a ton an hour. Why the- Train* Were Bate. All the trains 1n yesterday were from three to five hours late. The engineers found It impossible to get up sufficient steam w'ith the temperature outside their boilers so low. Tne L E. & W. passenger train due here at 2 p. m. was four hours late, the engine having broken down. Saggeßtion a* to Grate*. C. R. Egbert suggests that if house holders will take a piece of sheet iron or heavy tin the width of their grates and insert in such a manner as to throw the heat into the room instead of letting it go up the chimney they will be surprised at the result.

Delaying; Telephone Work. The extreme cold weather is delaying the N.w Telephone Company in its work. The gangs of men stringing wires and making connections are unable to work while the thermometer is so low’. ♦ ALARMING SITUATION. Natural Gmh Give* Oat Entirely and No Coal In the Town. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. • CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 9.-The nattiral gas has gone out all over the city, and this morning there was not a pound of coal in town, and the price of wood instantly went up. The woodmen are met by buyers two miles from town. There is suffering from the cold in almost every house in town, and the poorer classes are in great distress. Suffering at .Muneie. Si>ecial to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 9.—There never has been such intense and general suffering from the cold weather in Muneie or this part of the State as has been experienced for the past twenty-four hours. The thermometer nearly touched the low mark, that of 24 degrees below\ on New Year’s, 1864. Fully 75 per cent, of the homes in this city are without a sufficient supply of gas, even the most reliable companies for the first time showing up weak. This causes increased suffering, as people have not wood or coal. Work in many factories was suspended and business is at a standstill. Thousands of people remained in bed to keep warm. While walking on the railroad this morning Miss Katie Doland became so rold that she fell and is badly frozen. This is the only case reported. One Man Frozen at Portland. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., Feb. 9.—The mercury dropped to 24 degrees below zero last night and kept at that figure until early this morning, improving a little after daylight. The unprecedented Cold wave made the gas supply hardly equal to the demand, and many families and business houses were compelled to use wood during the day. During the early morning the office at Fred Bimel s handle factory burned to the ground, together with a number of valuable papers and records. A half-frozen tramp, with his feet badly frost bitten, was found on the street and locked up. Dozens of families lost their house flowers, fruit and the like from the piercing cold. Kokomo School* Frozeu Out. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 9.—The mercury* registered 23 degrees below zero this morning. In parts of the eitv where the natural gas distribution is defective there was some suffering from cold. The schools were frozen out and have closed in the High School building this morning until the weather moderates. Ga* Freeze* in the Main*. Siweial to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 9.-The situation Is becoming more serious at this point, as gas continues to congeal in mains, shutting off fuel supply. Some public meetings had to be dismissed to-night. Factories have closed. The street railway system was inoperative this afternoon and to-night and

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traffic on the gas-belt electric railway has been suspended indefinitely. The wheels of justice froze and the courts closed for lack of fuel. The thermometer, at midnight, Is 22 below. It was 27 below this morning and still 19 below- at noon. This was the coldest day since New Year’s, 1884. Business is practically suspended. Caught It Hnrri nt Wabash. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Feb. 9. All the manufacturing concerns in this city and nearly all of the schools were closed this morning, owing to the intense cold, 27 below zero. Yesterday the Logunsport and Wabash valley Gas Company shut off the natural-gas supply of all the factories, which were obliged to return to coal, but this morning the temperature in the factories was so low that the men could not remain on duty. Wabash railroad trains have been running from one to five hours iale and freight traffic is practically at a standstill, on the Big Four passenger trains are delayed. Lowest in Thirty-Six Year*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., Feb. 9.—The weather of yesterday and to-day has been the coldest this city has experienced since the memorable New Year's day in 1863, when the temperature fell from 88 degrees above to 23 degrees below within twenty-four hours. The temperature registered 24 below at 4:30 o’clock this morning, and at 7 o’clock, by the government thermometer at the local forecast office, it registered 21 below. There has been little suffering, however, and the gas supply has been adequate. Scarcity of Gas at Greeu*burir. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENSBURG, Ind., Feb. 9.—The mercury in the thermometer this morning registered 22 degrees below zero, being the lowest here since 1884, when 27 below was recorded. The natural gas pressure on several of the lines is low, necessitating the use of other kinds of fuel. This is the first time this season that gas consumers have suffered from the scarcity of gas. The city schools were dismissed by reason of the severe cold weather. Froze Out the Ga*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CONNERSVII-.EE, Ind., Feb. 9.—The coldest weather experienced in this locality for years came last night. Thermometers in the business portion of the city registered 22 below. The residence portion of the city showed 24 below, while in East Connersvllle, close to the river, several thermometers registered 27. The gas supply is low and it is hard work to keep comfortable. Wood and coal merchants are doing a land-office business. Ga* Give* Out at Decatur. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DECATUR, Ind., Feb. 9.—With the thermometer registering 22 degrees below zero, the coldest here in years, Decatur people are shivering around stoves, with the natural gas supply almost out. Wood and coal dealers are doing a land office business. This is the first time in the history of natural gas that the fuel was ever weak in this city. There will be much suffiering If the supply be not replenished soon. Too Colil to Hold Court. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENFIELD. Ind., Feb. 9.—This is the coldest day Greenfield has known in many years. The thermometer indicated 22 degrees below zero this morning and at no time during the day has it been above 32 degrees below. There is shortage of gas, but with wood and coal the people generally manage to keep comfortable. On account of the cold court adjourned until Monday.

Did Not Break Old Record*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Feb. 9.—-The thermometer at 7:30 o’clock this morning registered 12 degrees below zero, the lowest in fifteen years. The records as far back as 1835 show only four days in which the merrsr o Was l° wer - They were ag follows: Jan. 13,1857, degreet? below zero; Jan. 10. 1858, degrees; Jan. 1, 1864, 20 degrees, and Jan a, 1884, IOV 2 degrees. Too Cold for liusinex*. Special to the In<liana|>olis Journal. VALPARAISO,.Ind., Feb. 9.—This section is experiencing the coldest weather since 1884. Yesterday morning thermometers registered 18 below zero and this morning from 28 to 30, not rising above 14 below during the day. To-night promises to be colder. The railroad men suffered severely to-day and business was practically suspended here. Gu* Pipe* Frozen I p. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EI.WOOD, Ind., Feb. 9.—The mercury registered 16 deg.-fes fce'ow zero here this morning, the coldest spell that has been experienced this winter. Farmers report having lost many valuable hogs last night by being frozen to death. Some people are suffering from the want of sufficient gas, a great many pipes being frozen up. Too Cold for School. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DUBLIN, ind., Feb. 9.—The people of this place experienced the coldest weather this morning since the New Year's morning of 1864. The thermometer registered as low as 2S degrees below in some places, the average being 24 degrees below zero. The public schools had to he closed on account of the severe cold weather. The Record at Vincennes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES, Ind., Feb. 9.—This has been the coldest day ever known here. At daylight thermometers registered from twenty to twenty-seven degrees below zero, according to exposure. The mercury has been below zero all day, a thing never before known here. Gn* Wholly Inadequate. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 9.—There was much suffering here to-day because of the cold weather. The natural gas is wholly inadequate and there was a heavy demand for other fuel. The thermometer registered as low as 24 degrees below. Lowent in Fifteen Year*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WILKINSON, Ind.. Feb. 9.—This is the coldest day at this place for fifteen years. The thermometer registered 22 degrees below zero at 7 o’clock this morning. There is a little snow on the ground that will protect the growing wheat. The gas is holding up well. Coldest in Twenty Year*. EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Feb. 9.—This is the coldest day in twenty years. The government observer’s thermometer registered 15 degrees below zero. At exposed points it showed two degrees lower, and on the river front, where a strong west wind has full sweep, the mercury showed 22 below. 32 Below at Fort Wayne. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE. Ind., Feb. 9.—The thermometer reached twenty-two below zero today. It did not vary three degrees in the entire length of the Grand Rapids road between Richmond and Grand Rapids. Plenty of Coal at Mndinon. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MADISON, Ind., Feb. 9.—Notwithstanding Madison is experiencing the coldest weather in thirty-five years, little or no suffering exists, as the local coal supply is abundant. POOR ARE SUFFERING. tolilcnt Weather on Record in Kan*n anil Western Missouri. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 9.—Never before since the government Weather Bureau

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was established has such cold weather been known in western Missouri and Kansas as prevailed last night and to-day. In Kansas City the mercury registered 20 degrees below zero this morning and at 4 o’clock this afternoon 7 degrees below was recorded. At 10 o’clock to-night the temperature is higher, zero weather prevailing. This unprecedented weather has caused much suffering among the poor. At the Midland Hotel today Manager G. T. Stockham fed five hundred shivering men with soup, coffee and bread. The various charitable organizations have received many calls for assistance. Throughout the Southwest the cold is intense and heavy losses of cattle on the ranges are feared. All points in Kansas report temperatures below zero. Atchison reports 22 degrees below; Leavepworth, 29 degrees; Lawrence and Junction City, 18 degrees; Topeka, 17 degrees; Fort Scott, 13 degrees; Galena, 12, and Wichita, 9. Still colder weather is reported in western Missouri. Hopkins, in the northwestern corner of the State, reports 30 degrees below'. Maryville and Chillicothe 28 degrees, Centralia 26 degrees, St. Joseph 23 degrees, Sodalia and Columbus 20 degrees, Springfield 14 degrees, Webb City 12 degrees. Os the forty-two passenger trains arriving in Kansas City this morning only two were on time. Trains were delayed from fifteen minutes to three hours on account of the extreme cold. ♦— NINE DEATHS REPORTED. Victim* of the Cold in Western State*—Chi can o’* Temperature. CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—To-day was the coldest day in twenty-six years, and there is no record of a February day so cold. The low mark in the Weather Bureau’s books, that of Dec. 34, 1872, was but two degrees lower than the minimum of twenty-one degrees below' zero, reached at 8 o’clock in the morning. The cold wave lingers persistently over the entire central and eastern section of the country and runs far down to the borders of the gulf States. The area of the arctic blast covers so wide an expanse of territory that it moves slowly off the continent. In the far West there is a slight but steady rise in the temperature. The intense cold has had no marked abatement at any hour. The range of temperature was inappreciable. There was a range of but twelve degrees, while the day’s record, which is expected to be the record of the winder passing to its close, was twenty-one degrees below. The highest temperature recorded was eight degrees below'. With the sinking of the sun the mercury again started on its downward course to the bottom of the shaft, and the local forecaster predicted a coldness by to-morrow' morning but slightly less acute. Eighteen degrees below zero is his guess for the lowest point. The slight warming up of the Western country will reach Chicago on the eastern movement, and zero will be reached during the day. Nine deaths from freezing are reported from Illinois and neighboring States, as follows; W. H. BLUENSI ELD, Chicago. FRANK DUIBRIST, and GEORGE HAMILTON, Joliet, 111. M'HOIUAS KEEGAN, Rockford, 111. HENRY" K. FORTUNE, Oskaloosa, la. THOMAS BRIDGES, Friaceton, Ky. ANNIE MILLER, Louisville. UNIDENTIFIED MAN, Toledo. MARY LOYNE, Henderson, Ky. * e FUEL FAMINE FEARED.

1.000 SllioveleT* Will Try to Dig; a Way Cli- 11 r for Train*. DENVER, Col., Feb. 9.—This was the sixteenth day of the great snowstorm in the mountains. The wind was blowing a gale, filling railroad cuts with snow, and fresh slides occurred, covering the tracks with great piles of snow, rocks, etc., at various points. Not a wheel was turning, and the outlook is more serious than at any time since the storm began. The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad was open only between Denver and Salida. Two east-bound trains are stalled at Minturn. The passengers are being cared for by the railroad company. The Colorado Midland is blockaded both east and west of Leadville. No further attempt will be made to open the South Park line beyond Grant until the weather moderates. The Union Pacific is still open, although trains have been seriously delayed by snow on Sherman hill. .A dispatch from Leadville says: “Two feet of fresh snow has fallen in this vicinity yesterday and to-day. The people have begun to realize that the camp is facing a desperate situation. The ordinary consumption of coal in the camp is 600 tons a day. There were to-day but few carloads left and the railroads were blockaded on both sides of thi city. The big rotary snow plow on the Denver & Rio Grande was out of service, being caught, bet wen two trains, surrounded by snow slides near Red Cliff. It was evident that unless the Rio Grande or the Midland road could be quickly opened not only must the smeiters and mines be closed, but i the pumps at the down-town mines must stop work, causing irreparable loss. A meeting of mine and smelter managers was hastily called to consider measures of relief. Col. George \V. Cook appealed to the managers to come to the aid of the railroads, not for the purpose of enabling passenger trains to move, but in order to bring in supplies of coal. He said if the smelters closed down and the water flooded the down-town mines it meant a year’s work would be lost to Leadville. The response was prompt. In less than ten minutes six hundred men had been furnished. In the morning Colonel Cook will go out at the head of 1,000 shovelers to clear the Rio Grande tracks to Malta, where a train of loaded coal cars is stalled. It will possibly take two days to clear the tracks to Malta, a distance of five miles. When that is finished the services of the shovelers will be tendered to the Midland. The little coal on hand will he distributed sparingly among the properties working pumps. It is realized that if fuel is not secured much suffering and possibly loss of life will result. On this, the sixteenth day of the snowstorm, the air was so dense that it was impossible to distinguish objects at a distance of four feet." Local Forecast Official Brandenburg gives it as his opinion that the storm at Leadville is due largely to topography of the country. No matter what are the wind conditions, some parts of the mountains w'ill receive regularly snow. The barriers formed by the mountains themselves are opposed to the winds which otherwise would tend to dissipate the disturbance. Reports from eastern Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming state that high winds have drifted the snow, clearing the prairies in places sufficient to furnish some feed for both cattle and sheep. Indications are that the heaviest losses will be in the south, cattle of the north and west being in better condition to withstand the cold weather and having more feed. In Ohio and Yenr-By State*. CINCINNATI, 0.. Feb. 9.—The weather bureau record here was broken last nighttile instrument reaching 16 degrees below zero, with a downward tendency. The lowest previous records w'ere in February, 1888, and in February, 1895, when 12 degrees below’ zero was the limit. Specials from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana report temperatures below zero, ranging from 2 to 26 degrees. Very few fatalities were reported. A coach was seen driving at furious speed down Lexington pike, back of Covington, this morning. Lookers-on stopped it and took the driver off frozen stiff. It took four hours to resuscitate him. Four passengers in the coach were unharmed. The Ohio river is so full of floating ice as to practically close navigation. There is no danger of the river closing at its present stage of thirty-six feet. At eighteen feet or lower it would have frozen over. Coal Famine at Nashville. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 9.—The increased consumption of coal, caused by the continued fearfully cold weather and the inability of Kentucky mines to furnish coal, the coal supply of this city being chiefly obtained in Kentucky, have caused a coal famine and the outlook is most serious. No dealer will promise coal before next week. Manufacturing establishments are closing down, the public schools have scarcely a week's supply on hand and the city has but a scant supply at the water-works pumping station. Unless many trainloads are received to-morrow suffering, which is already great, will become fearful. All day the temperature has stood near zero and to-night is below zero and falling. Coal shortage has been reported from many surrounding towns. Sueeoreil After a Rattle with lee. CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—The four men who have been imprisoned out in Lake Michigan at the city water supply in-take, off Sixtye'.gnth street, were reached to-day with provisions by the tug Morford, after a most difficult battle with the ice. The tug followed the outer edge of the gigantic ice t!ce and then squeezed between divisions of the Hce for four miles. The remaining half-inili was covered by bobsleds pulled and pushed by hand over the ice field in a hitter wind and temperature 20 below' zero. When the party returned to the tug to make the return trip they found that the vessel had a largo hole stove in her bow bv the

crushing of the Ice, making the services of a second tug necessary. * . Warmer at St. Lout*. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 9.—Boreas blew’ warm air into St. Louis to-night and the mercury, which hung around 4 and 5 degrees below zero all lafternoon, jumped up to 1 degree above the cipher at 10 o'clock to-night. The prospects ure good for a higher climb before morning. 'lhe police stations are crowded with suffering p ’pers. A large amount of bre& u was distributed to them today and the police are doing all they can to alleviate the suffering. Several street car operatives were so badly affected by the cold to-day that they had to be carried froi„. thier cars. No fatalities are reported. Tender Ornnge Tree* Nipped. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 9.—The severest cold wave of the season covered Florida last night and to-day. In the northern part of the orange belt the range of the mercury was from twenty-six to thirty-four degrees. Only the young spring growth on the orange trees was injured and “drone” or useless bloom made to fall. Truckers suffered some loss upon crops of beans, lettuce and tomatoes. Strawberries were partially hurt. Ample warning by the Weather Bureau enabled the truckers and orange growers generally to take precautions for protection. Pineapples were not hurt. School* Dimi***d. ZANESVILLE, 0., Feb. 9.—This has been the coldest day in Zanesville’s history. The mercury registered 23 degrees below zero and did not get much above that all day. Schools were dismissed and business is practically at a standstill. With the exception of this city, which is furnished with natural gas from Great Sugar Grove district, all towns in this section supplied with natural gas have been without sufficient fuel. It is growing colder to-night. Coldest in Fifteen Year*. COLUMBUS, 0., Feb. 9.—This has been the coldest day in fifteen years. At no time since 6 a. m. has the temperature ranged above 7 degrees below zero, the minimum being 17 degrees below, at 8 a. m. At 9 o’clock to-night 13 degrees below zero was recorded and the weather bureau predicted a fall to 20 degrees be’.ow by morning. A great many cases of suffering and destitution have been reported, but all have been promptly relieved. Peach Crop Killed. LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 9.—At Lexington the thermometer this morning at 8 o’clock registered 18 degrees below, and during the entire day the highest temperature was 5 below. On Jan. 5, 1884, the thermometer registered 22 degrees below in the morning, but during the day went above zero. At various points out in the country the thermometer was 26 degrees below this morning. The peach crop is reported entirely killed. It is growing steadily colder to-night. An Oa*i* in the Zero Desert. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.—California is enjoying beautiful winter weather, but the farmers are pining for rain. Two weeks ago summer weather prevailed, the thermometer registering as high as 8C in San Francisco. This was followed by a slight rain and severe frosts, but rio material damage to crops has been reported. To-day the thermometer stood at 60 degrees. More rain is badly needed. Cold Point* in Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. Feb. 9.-This city experienced zero weather to-day, the coldest weather since February, 1896, when the mercury touched zero. Reports from the mountain districts of the State are that the weather is the most severe for several years. At Williamsport it is 12 below; Clearfield, 8; Altoona. 9; Hazelfon, 8; Wilkesbarre, 6; Lockhaven, 10; Reading and Pottsvillle, 5. Ga* Supply Cut Off. CHILLICOTHE, 0., Feb. 9.—With the thermometer two below zero and still falling, the natural gas supply was cut off by an accident in the gas field. An effort to husband the supply has not prevented great suffering. Heavy Snow in Texas. FORT WORTH, Tex., Feb. 9.—The heaviest snow known in north Texas fell today. Street-car frajlic is suspended. Reports from northwest Texas say cattle ate dying in large numbers from the severe weather. Ke!o*v Zero Vote*. The severest storm of the season is raging at Oswego, N. Y. The wind attained a velocity of forty miles yesterday. The Mississippi river at St. Louis has risen three feet in twenty-four hours, indicating a gorge at some point lower down. Ice has formed in the Chesapeake bay and Patapsco river to such a thickness that navigation for the bay craft is practically suspended. Should the freeze continue there will soon be an oyster famine. The official thermometer at Washburn Observatory, Madison. Wis., registered 28 below zero Wednesday night, the lowest since 1888, when it was 29 below, the coldest on record. It has been so for tw'enty consecutive days.

NOT Q 1 ITK SO COLD. Below Zero Weather May Begin to Loo*en It* (.rip To-Day. WASHINGTON, Feb, 9, 8 p. m.—Forecast for twenty-four hours: For Ohio—Generally fair; not so cold; frerh westerly winds. For Indiana, Illinois and lowa—Fair; not quite so cold; light to fresh northerly winds. Weather Conditions and General Forecast—The cold wave which has prevailed during the past twelve days in the central valleys West and Northwest has finally reached the Atlantic coast and extends from Maine to Florida. This morning the line of zero temperature extended through Oklahoma. Arkansas, central Tennessee and central Virginia, while the low'est temperature reached was 40 degrees below zero, at Williston. In Florida the line of freezing temperature extended below Tampa, w'ith a minimum temperature of 30 degrees at that place. In the districts from lowa and Missouri eastward through the Ohio valley and almost to the Atlantic coast the temperature ranged from zero to 26 degrees below zero, and were from 1 degree to 6 degrees below the lowest temperature previously recorded during the first decade of February. lire temperatures, however, are moderating in the east gulf and south Atlantic States and the central Rocky mountain region. Fair weather has prevailed, w'ith the exception of light snow in the lake regions and extreme Northwest and rains and snows in the west gulf States, the latter being due to a slight depression that is central to-night near the Texas coast. In the north and middle plateaus and the north Pacific coast region rains and snows have continued, while clear weather prevailed to the southward. The temperature changes in these districts were unimportant. Snow or rain is indicated from eastern Texas northeastward to western North Carolina and southern Tennessee and light snows in the Northw’est; elsewhere generally fair weather will continue, except in the lake regions, where snow flurries may be expected. Brisk west to north winds may be expected on the middle and North Atlantic and fresh to brisk north to northeast winds on the south Atlantic coast. Storm northeast signals are displayed on the gulf coast at Galveston, Corpus Christi and Brownsville. Local Observation* on Thursday. Bar. Ther. R.ll. Wind. Weather.* Pre. 7a m. 30.36 —IS 66 West. Clear. T 7 p.m. 30.52 —ll 78 West. Pt. el'dy. T Maximum temperature, —lo; minimum temperature, —IS. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation Feb. 0: Temp. Pre. Normal 32 .13 Mean —l4 T Departure rrom normal —46 —.13 Departure since Feb. 1 —156 —.66 Departure since Jan. I —l5B , —.14 C. F. R. WAPPENHANB, Local Forecast Official. Y esterilay”* Temperatures. Stations. Min. Max. 7 p.m. Atlanta, Ga IS 30 24 Bismarck. N. D —32 —S —lO Buffalo, N. Y —4 —2 —2 Calgary. Alberta —3O —2 —6 Cairo. 11l —22 0 —2 Cheyenne. Wyo 12 30 26 Chicago. 11l —2O —8 —lO Cincinnati. O —l4 —6 S Concordia, Kan —l4 0 —4 Davenport. la —24 —8 —lO Des Moines. la —24 —6 —4* Galveston, Tex 40 66 52 Helena. Mont 6 34 6 Jacksonville, Fla ............ 28 4S 41 Kansas City. Mo —2O 0 0 Little Rock. Ark 8 16 14 Marquette. Mich —l6 —l2 —l6 Memphis, Tenn 9 13 10

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Minnedosa, Man —SO Moorhead, Minn —34 Nashville, Tenn —4 4 —2 New Orleans, La 32 50 4*5 New York —6 6 4 North Platte, Neb —lO 8 4 Oklahoma, O. T 0 16 14 Omaha, Neb —24 —4 —4 Pittsburg, Pa —lO —4 —8 Qu' Appelle, Assin —32 —2O —24 Rapid City. S. D —lO 0 —4 Salt Lake City. Utah 32 42 38 St. Louis, Mo —lB —4 —4 St. Paul, Minn —32 —lB —2O Springfield, 111 , —22 —6 —8 Springfield, Mo —l4 10 4 Vicksburg, Miss 28 32 28 Washington, D. C —8 10 0 —Below zero. HENRY’S NEW CABINET. l'orto Rican Liberal* l>in*>i ti*tled with the General’* Policy, SAN JUAN DE PUERTO, Feb. 9,-Gov-ernor General Henry has appointed Franeiseo Acuna, Independent Liberal, now attorney of the Supreme Court, to be secretary of state: Dr. Coll, Liberal, has been appointed secretary of finance, and Federico Degatan, Radical, has been appointed secretary of the interior. The Liberals are dissatisfied with General Henry’s change of policy. Munose Rivera announces his intention of going to Washington soon in order to secure relief from the oppressive militarism, which, he says, “will estrange the Porto Ricans from the United Btates,” ,

MILITARY CONVENTION. It Will Prepare a Measure for Presentation to t’onmres*. TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 9.—The national military convention was organized at 11 o'clock this morning by the election of the following officers: President, Daniel J. Butterfield, of New York; vice presidents, Gen. F. H. Chase, of Michigan, Col. Anthony R. Dye, of Rhode Island, and Gen. John G. Underwood, of Kentucky; secretary, Capt. James Y. Wilson, of Florida. Major Shampson, in (ommami of the Toronto Cadets, was made an honorary member of the congress. Dr. McCracken, chancellor of New York University, was introduced by Governor Bloxam, and delivered an address on military instruction in public schools. General Case, of Michigan, presided at the evening session of the congress, at which the following was unanimously adopted: “Resolved, That the views of the convention will best be accomplished by the framing and x>resentation to the government of a project for legislative enactment which shall cause to la■ enrolled and made part ot the national military and naval forces of the United States, the various organizations and bodLs of National Guard, state troops, militia and naval reserve as an enrolled rest rve force of the United States under the orders and directions of the President, both for Instruction, preparation or any emer-

gency through their respective autnonues; that such legislation should provide for their enlistment and enrollment under a compensation equaling, nominally, one cent per day. “That such legislation should provide for periodical assembly and instruction of such forces in the actual requirements for camp and field service in time of war. “That the arms, equipments and outfit of these forces he uniform throughout the country under the directions and provisions of the general government and the drill, manual of arms, company, battalion and regimental formations, and methods be made uniform throughout the States by such enactments: that training for field experience be promoted by annual assemblage of all of the officers and noncommissioned officers for a period of at least one week or ten days In conection with companies, battalions or regiments of regular troops or naval detail of the United States, under regular officers, supplementing such annual assemblages of commission* and and noncommissioned olfl'-ers by such number of days additional service of the entire commands as the proper authorities may deem necessary.” lltsliop WIII in 111*’* Will. MIDDLETOWN. Conn., Feb. 9.—Although the will of the late Bishop John Williams has not been made public it Is known that he left little or no estates. The greater part of his salary of $5,000 was given away in charity. One provision of the will was that his body should be buried in a pine coffin, and this will be carried out. He will not be buried in the robes of his office, but will wear a plain black suit with the addition of a bishop’s apron.

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