Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1901 — Page 3

There Is some talk of using the rural free delivery for merchandise also. —St. Paul Pioneer Press.

TEMPERATURE GOES TO 102.

All Records for ttae Heat in Chicago Are Shattered. Wednesday was the hottest day Chicago ever experienced. The thermometers in the Auditorium tower registered 102.1 degrees at 3 o'clock in- the afternoon. the highest previous maximum temperature having been made on July 16, 1887, when 99.8 degrees was registered, but which went into the printed record as 100 degrees. During the hottest part of the day the humidity measured only BO per cent, while at 7 o’clock it had fallen to 33 per cent. This condition probably kept a great many persons from being prostrated. One of the features of the day’s heat was the wind that blew over the baked prairies of Illinois and lowa. It started at a ten-mile gait at 7 o’clock in the morning, and the mercury began to climb the tube at the rate of 3 to 4 degrees an hour until the high point was reached at 3 o’clock. At that hour the wind was blowing at the rate of thirty miles an hour. The street thermometer registered at least 105, and gome of those which were hung where the sun had been during the morning ran up as high as 115 degrees. The lake breeze which visits Chicago like a protecting angel during hot spells played over the city, beginning at 7 o’clock at night,. sending the mercury from 96 degrees to 66 degrees. The hot wave Wednesday extended over lowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Indiana. Ohio and part of Michigan. The highest temperature recorded during the day was 104 degrees, at Dubuque, Davenport and St. Louis. It was 102 degrees at Springfield, Ill.; Omaha and Concordia. Kansas City and Des Moines recorded 100 degrees, while at North Platte and Dodge City 98 degrees was the record. It was 94 degrees at Detroit, Indianapolis, Louisville, Cairo und Nashville, 92 degrees at Cincinnati, and 90 degrees at Cleveland and Huron. It was only 84 degrees at St. Paul, Albany and Washington, and 80 degrees at New York and Philadelphia. At Buffalo it was only 78 degrees. The people of Milwaukee enjoyed a temperature of 86 degrees. At 7 o’clock at night the temperature in Chicago had dropped to 64 degrees. The coolest place on the map was at Duluth, where it was only 66 degrees during the warmest part of the day.

OFFICIALS ARE CENSURED.

Indianapolis Grand Jury Makes Hepor on Insanity Trust. The Indianapolis grand jury made a report on the alleged insanity trust. It found that, while the law had been abused, there was no evidence of criminal intent and hemce no indictmentcould be returned against the parties accused. The report says: “There has been no violation of the laws of the State of Imliunn, but we are also of the opinion that the law has been abused. We feel that Dr. Christian, police surgeon, and William Lockman, justice of the peace, deserve cen aure for their conduct in this matter for the reason that they are trying to control all the inquests possible in Marion County for the pecuniary interests involved. The jury finds the insanity law deficient in that un-'cnipn’ous men can obtain public mouey without violating the law.” .

BRYAN IS IGNORED.

Ohio Platform Has Nothing to Pay of Former Leader. The Democrats of Ohio at their convention in Columbus put themselves on record against Bryan and the Kansas City platform. Both were ignored in the resolutions adopted, while the moat bitter things were said of his leadership in the committee on resolutions in the morning, where it was instated that his name should not be mentioned and that his platform should ba ignored.

During the recent hot spell city harness dealers were unable to keep enough horse sunbonnets on hand to supply the

according to the secretary of the Mis-, souri Humane Society. He said the other day to a St. Louis reporter: “The horse snnbonnet has my approval. It is a humane instrument, and every horse owner who cares for the comfort of the animal should procure one. The bonnets have not been generally used until this summer, and as a result of their use I notice a falling off in the number of horse heat prostrations.” The accompanying illustrations khow some of the numerons styles of horse headgear.

SULTAN PAYS 895,000.

Uncle Sam Receives Big Draft ae Payment of Indemnity. Drafts for $95,000 handed to Unite 1 States Minister Leisfaman of Constant!-, nople by the Sublime Porte, as payment of the indemnity claims of the United States against the Turkish government, were received Wednesday by Secretary Hny. The payment is regarded by the State Department as a distinct diplomatic victory, as some of the claims bnvc been pending more than eight years. The victory, if such it may he called, is a hollow one, as the totnl of the claims against Turkey greatly exceeds tbe amount actually paid, but the State Departmeneagerly accepted the “marked down” tender of the Sultan, and has agreed to make a distribution of the money anion : the claimants.

News of Minor Note.

J. E. Cove, a farmer, near Mena. Arkcommitted suicide by cutting his throat with a rasor. The American Bible Society is preparing to Issue editions of the Scriptures in twenty different Filipino dialects. W. F. Stone, a prominent cattleman, died at Gainesville. Texas, from injuries received by falling from hia horse. Among the odd scenes of the recent flood in Bradley, Me., was a woman paddling about he{ yard in a rowboat taking the week’s washing from t+w line.

HATS FOR HORSES

Some of the Season’s Styles in Equine Headgear.

demand. In New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and other big cities bonnets were placed upon the heads of light livery horses, as well as teaming horses, and it is asserted that the use of the headgear is responsible for a decrease in the number of horses dying as a result of heat pro s t ration. Humane Society members have approved of this method ’of lessening the horse’s sufferings. They would be pleased if a law were adopted making it compulsory for owners to protect their horses from the sun by means of a bonnet,

SETTLERS IN TORTURE.

Oklahoma Registry P sts Scenes of Heat and Exhaustion. The first day of the opening of the registration for the waiting thousands of prospective settlers of Indian lands at Fort Sill and El Reno was a day of dissatisfaction, of fearful heat and of numbers of cases of exhaustion from those unable to bring their camping outfits with them and were compelled to stand in the long line day and night in order that they may not lose their chance of following out the rigorous conditions imposed by the government. The force provided by the government could not register onetenth of the people. At the six different filing places the men to file first were from Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Wisconsin and California. All night thousands stood in line. The temperature was 100 in the shade, but those in the line had no shade and water was scarce and food poor in quality, exorbitant in price and hard to get. The certificates issued to the applicants will be sent to Washington and passed upon, then returned and the drawing of land will begin. As each legal settler’s claim is called he will be allowed to file upon the land of his choice at the local United States land office. Many hifd waited on the border of the new country for two years or more and the last night of their long vigil wag the most trying they had experienced.

YOUNGER BROTHERS FREED.

Minnesota State Board of Pardons Yields to Appeals of Friends. The Minnesota State pardon board on Wednesday approved the parole of Coleman and James Younger, who have been in the Stillwater penitentiary for the past twenty-five years for complicity in the robbery and murder at the time of the raid on the Northfield, Minn., bank. The friends of the Youngers have never ceased their work on behalf of these well-known characters and for over twenty years have used all possible means to secure their legal release from prison. Ench succeeding Governor was requested repeatedly to grant a full pardon, but the opposition to such an action was so strong and active that denials always

THE YOUNGER BROTHERS.

met them. It was largely to get rid of the repetition of this request that the pardon board was created ten years ago. Four years ago the friends of the imprisoned men undertook a new movement. trying to secure legislation that would permit the parole of the men instead of the pardon, which had previously been the only relief possible for them, the parole law not extending its provisions to the prisoners. The measure'faiied at that time, tbe Honse refusng to pas# it. Its friends revived it last winter and secured its passage.

Estimates on the Crops.

The statistician of the New York Produce Exchange has given the figureashowing the probable wheat and corn crops of lflOl, compared with the harvests of 1000: Bustie!*. Wheat, crop of 1001 701,380.000 Wheat, crop of 1000... 1 . 522,'.'20,500 Biggest on record, 1808 811,218.705 Spru»« Wheat, Indications July 1 201,286,000 spring wheat, cron of 1000 101,838,703 Winter wheat. Indications July 1 411,882,000 Winter wheat, crop of 1000 *80,800,712 Cora, crop of 100t...i.. 2,098,003.000 Cora, crop of «PO. >. .»,10a.1t2,»1g Patronise thoao who advertise.

WEST PRAYS FOR RAIN.

Farmers of the Great Wheat and Cora Belt See Crops Wither. The people of the middle West are praying for rain. They are praying singly and in groups, but the entire stricken region, which includes Kansas, Missouri, lowa and parts of Illinois and Indiana, is toward a huge, concerted prayer day to bring rain to their burning crops. Unless rain quickly comes to the relief of the great parched crops in the immense corn and wheat belt of the West great loss and in many cases complete ruin of the crops will result. For twoVeeks the hot wiuds and heat wave have been at their worst, with the thermometer soaring close to the 100 mark. The only way the farmers now hope to get relief is by asking more than hu-' man aid. Kansas is burning up. In 50 per cent of the counties the crops are entirely ruined. It has been 100 degrees or over in the shade for days upon days, and the grain is just at that point where it must have rain or die. The same condition prevails in Missouri, and other of the grain States. Already crops are damaged and. vegetation withered and ruined in many parts of the middle and Western States, which have felt the greatest force of the sun’s fury. The scorching heat prevails also in Illinois, lowa, Nebraska. Indiana, Ohio aid in other States contiguous to those there is little difference. A communication was sent from Macon to *Gov. A. M. Dockery of Missouri, asking that he set apart a day in that Immediate futnre. proclaiming a day of humiliation and prayer, requesting everybody to meet at some place of worship and join in prayer for rain, that the calamity of further drought may be averted. The suggestion for enlisting executive action was made by the Rev. George W. Sharp, a well-known preacher of North Missouri, whose home is at Kirksville. The Rev. Mr. Sharp is confident that this is the appropriate thing to do to secure relief in time. The conditions in Missouri at present are serious, according to information coR lecte<J by a Chicago paper. All hope of a corn crop is extinguished and stock raisers are shipping their cattle to other States for feed and water. Farmers keep their wells locked for fear of travelers stopping at night- and clandestinely watering their horses. In Mexico and other villages prayers for rain have been publicly offered. At Warrensburg experiments have been made by shooting chemicals at the sky. At other points cannons have been fired at regular intervals. The heat belt extends across the corn, growing bottoms of the Mississippi valley aud hour by hour it is drying up the creeks and wells, which usually have been adequate for all purposes of cultivation. Now the stock wanders miles for a little fresh water to drink where a month ago the cows stood rib deep near the banks. Some of the finest orchards in the West now look as if they had been swept by fire. The fruit is drying up into little brown shells, which will soon fall to the ground and dry up to nothing.

Where Heat Wm Most Severe.

Burlington, 1a....106|: Cincinnati 10o| Decatur, 11l 103; Columbia, M0....112; Des Moines, la. ..101] Fort Scott, Kan.. 108] Harrisburg, 111. ..10ti Hannibal, Mo. ...105] Jefferson City. Mo.lo7|' Kansas City, Kan.lo3l little "ock, Ark. .1011 Louisville, Ky....103|

FACTS ABOUT THE CENSUS.

The census office has issued a bulletin concerning the urban population of the country. It shows that 28,411,698 people in the United States live in cities and towns of over 4,000 population. This is 37.3 per cent of the entire population, a gain of almost 5 per cent since the census of 1890, when the percentage was 32.9. Compared with the returns of 1880 the report shows a gain in the urban population of the country es more than a third in percentage and qf .considerably more than double in actual numbers. There were in 1880, 580 places of more than 4,000 persons each, with an aggregate population of 12,936,110, or 25.8 per cent of the then population. About one-half of the urban population of 1900 was contained in cities of over 100,000 persons. There were thirtyeight of those cities, with a combined population of 14,208,347. There are now 1,158 places of over 4,000 people in the country, as against 869 in 1890. The population of the District of Columbia is regarded as urban. In the other States and territories the percentage of people living In cities anil towns as compared with the entire population of the places ranges from 91.6 in Rhode Island to 2.5 in Indian Territory. The entire list is as follows:

Rhode Island ....91.6] Massachusetts . .86.9| New York 71.2] New Jersey 67.3 Connecticut 63.51 Pennsylvania .. .51.1! Illinois 31.01 California 48.9| Maryland 48.2| New Hampshire. .46.7] Ohio 44.8 Delaware 41.4] Colorado 41.2 l Michigan 37.2] Washington 36.4: Maine 36.2, Missouri 34.91 Wisconsin 34.3| Minnesota 81.01 Indiana 30.6| Utah 29.4! Montana 28.9] Wyoming 28.8, Oregon 27.6|i Hawaii ~.25.5;

Told in a Few Lines.

P. O. Cato, a veteran, on the way from ¥>w* to the Indian Territory, was robbed of $327 at Arkansas City, Kan. The British have taken 930 Boer prisoners to Bermuda and placed them in camps- There are many children and aged men among them. A battleship of 16,000 tons displacement, the latgest ever designed, la to be added to the United States navy. If the proposed speed of twenty-one knots is secured, this ship will be the masterpiece in naval construction.

Mexico, Mo 112 iMoweaqua, 111. ...104 Princeton, Ind. ...103 Paducah, Ky 104 St. Joseph, M 0.... 109 St. Louis, Mo 104 South Bend, Ind.. 101 Springfield, 111.... 102 Topeka, Kan 102 Vandalla, 11l 103 Wichita, Kan 102 1

Louisiana 23.1 {Vermont 21.0 iNebraaka 20.8 [lowa 20.5 Kentucky 19.7 Kansas 19.2 ] Florida 16.5 |Vlrglnla 16.5 (Texas 14.9 [Tennessee 14.1 Georgia 13.9 1 South Carolina ...11.7 iWest Virginia.... 11.6 1 Arizona 10.6 'Nevada 10.6 Alabama', 10.0 iNorth Carolina ...8.0 ISoutb Dakota .... 7.2 Arkansas 6.9 |ldaho .... ....... 6.2 : New Mexico 0.1 [North Dakota .... 5.4 Mississippi 5.3 [Oklahoma 5.0 [lndian Territory.. 2.5

CHINESE DENTISTRY.

Profession in Which the Celestials Have Not Mads Much Progress. If the Chinese can boast that nothing is new to them, and that all the arts and sciences are old stories in the Celestial Kingdom, it is still true that for operations in dentistry an American or European would hardly care to go to a Chinaman. In spite of their boasts, the Chinese have not been slow in recognizing the superiority of American dentistry, although there are some who adhere strictly to ancient methods, and the New York Evening Post avers that every year one or two Chinese dentists of the old school come to New York, and remain until their customers have had tbeir teeth “put In order.” The work Is ludicrously primitive. The operator extracts all teeth with his fingers, and it must be admitted that his success Is astonishing. His dexterity is due to years of practice. From youth to manhood he is trained to pull pegs from a wooden board. This training- changes the aspect of the hand, and gives the student a finger grip amazing In its strength, equivalent in fact to a lifting power of three or four hundred pounds. For toothache he employs opium, peppermint oil, cinnamon oil and clove oil. Sometimes he fills teeth, but he does it so bunglingly that the fillings stay in only a few months. An element of superstition runs through all the work. According to the system, all dental woes are brought on by tooth worms. The nerve pulp is such a worm, and is always shown to the patient For humbugging purposes, also, the dentist carries about In his pocket some white grubs, and after he has extracted a tooth he shows a grub to the sufferer as the cause of all the trouble. The position of the dentist of this class is not very lofty among his countrymen, and he is regarded as half-way in social importance between a barber and a laborer, which is certainly a great injustice to an honest laborer.

England as She is Preverted.

The boast of Americans has been that, no matter where you may go in any part of the United States, there is very little difficulty in understanding the dialect. Oregon may talk with Florida, or Maine with Arizona, without the confusion That arises in the various counties in England. But if a New York woman is to be believed, a new language is springing up in the metropolis which promises to develop the worst phases of Anglomania. When she answered a summons to the front door, she encountered a small boy who briefly remarked that he had come for "de foyndish.” “The what?” “De foyndish.” “Well,” she said, in desperation, “I don’t know what you want, but I am quite sure I haven’t got it. Who sent you?” “De ftogst. De flogst sent me fur de foyndish.” This did not mend matters, and the boy was going down the steps when a light suddenly burst upon the woman’s mind, and she remembered that she had asked the florist to send for her fern (tysh. The boy was recalled, the dish Avas brought, and the amenities were restored-

Easy to See.

Brigham—l saw you and yotir wife dining at the new restuui'uut last Evening. Burnham—How did you know it was my wife? Brigham—l heard you say, “Gness we'd better have some roast beef.” —Boston Transcript.

Do Your Feet Ache and Burn?

Shake into yous shoes, Allen’s FootEase, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cares Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At ail Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.

A Fine Memory.

“Brown must have a bad memory; he has owed me $lO for two years.” “You are mistaken; he has a very good memory; he always goes across the street in passing your office.” I am sure Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos. Robbins, Maple street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900.

Prohibited.

He —Darling, a single kiss from those lips would intoxicate me. She—But this is a prohibition town. Mrs. Winslow’s Soorana nvxtrr for Children teething: softens tbe cams, reaucas Inflammation allars pain, curee wind colic. » cents a bottle There are 1,000 vessels which cross the Atlantic ocean regularly every month.

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The Parson as a Pacemaker.

Rev. Elijah Kellogg did not confinehis good works to the composition of “Spartaeusr” and the preparation of capital books for boys. He was foremost in practical benevolence, an® never so happy as when helping out bin neighbors. One Sunday morning, Jus* before the sermon, he made this announcement: . ‘‘The Widow .Tones’ grass is getting pretty long.. I shall be there with my scythe, rake and pitchfork at 4 o’clock to-morrow morning, and I hope every male.member of my congregation will be there, too.” In answer to this broad hint the Widow Jones’ field was well filled the Bert morning. Among the volunteers was a Captain Griggs, who stood six feet twoin his stockings, and weighed abont two hundred and fifty pounds. “Parson,” said he, “look out for me. I’m goin’ to cut your corners this nwroin’.” ' r ": ■' Mr. Kellogg was a small man, weighing barely one hundred and thirty pounds, but he was an old hand with, the scythe, and before long the captain, lay under a tree, knocked out by tii» pacemaker. And the “parson” used totell the story with great glee, always concluding with: “He didn't cut my corners that morning.”

Wonderful Case In Indiana.

Buck Creek, Ind., July 15.—MrsElizabeth Rorick of this place badrheumatism. She tors told me they could do nothing forme.” She was very, very bad, and tbs pain was so great she conld not sleepat night. She used Dodd’s Klduey Pills, and she is well and entirely free from palm or any symptom of the rheumatism. "Are yon still using Dodd’s Kidney Pills?” was asked. “No, I stopped the use of the pill* some time ago, and have not bod th* slightest return of my old trouble. 1 am sure I am completely and permanently cured.” Many in Tippecanoe County who have beard of Mrs. Rorick’s case and her cure by Dodd’s Kidney Pills, areusing the pills, and all report wonderful results.

The White Ant.

Two peculiar cases have recently been discovered in Baltimore in th* form of the “white ant.” Walnut joist* in one of the best built residences and; also the platform of a public school have been found honeycombed by thea#Insects. The white ant (termes flavlpesj, however, is not white at all, norls It red, as the common ant, but a sort: of black. In the course of Its life It develops wings, but is unable to fly, which, when attempted, resalts in tb* wings breaking off. Its most destructive work is done before the wings appear. From the surface the work of decay is not apparent as the insect enters the timbers at the ends and bore* through lengthwise with the grain, the wood only being held together by fibers. Many Instances are on record of the ruin caused by these little pests.

Told the Whole Story.

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