St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 5, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 August 1896 — Page 7

HOT SPELL BROKEN. RAIN A LIFE SAVER TO SUFFERING HUMANITY. Lone Season of Terrible Heat Departs in a Thunder Storm—Victims in Many Cities—Men and Women Die in Their Tracks on the Streets.

Awful Death Roll. The backbone of the hot wave has been broken. The breaking of this cast-iron backbone was accompanied by severe thunder storms, but it is broken. An area of high pressure developed on the Oregon coast on Sunday night and crossed the Rocky Mountains in Montana with fair velocity. Monday night this high area was at Helena. The temperature there was 62 and the velocity of the wind thirty miles an hour. At Qu’appelle, in the Dominion, the temperature was 50, and at Havre, Mont., 56. There was.ram In the Dakotas and Minnesota .Tuesday, I I ] A ' HEAT PATIENT IN THE HOSPITAL, and it reached northern Illinois and Chi- ! cago late Tuesday night. Out of the west there came a wind and rain. In an hour ! the rainfall was more than an inch. In ] half an hour the fall in temperature was 20 degrees. In that manner Chicago : dismissed her hot wave and welcomed the coolness from Montana and Wyoming. When the rain came down upon the | baking town It was after 0 o’clock. All day men at work bad sweltered. Little I

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people and the old were faint. Some were dead, because the battle with them had been too harsh. Then the rain came. Winds blew it out of the west and out of the north —kind winds —and it fell as unrestrained mercy out of heaven. Sick and prostrate ones found in its balms reI \ 11’ — I r ( i"0 I A STRICKEN HORSE. prieve and pardon. Millions thanked God out of their hearts. The day had been oppressive. Man and beast had fallen helpless as the mercury rose steadily, and many feared in midafternoon that the awfulness of Monday j night might have succession not less terrible. At 3 o’clock in the afternoon the

uv reury was but 1 d*gree below the . may;.num registration of twenty-four a hex/rs U. A- 4it ' as 91 degr.es, -V f C it had peev'. ’’y fallen to St) degrees. 1 ’There seemed small voice for thanksgiv- ! i ing. Every hour had brought to the I health department fresh lists of stricken 1 people, new tales of the dead, added noti- < fications that poor beasts had dropped in ; harness and demanded burial. Then the ’ bounty of the sky and the wes wind pullsd its purse strings wide and men and Women breathed again. The slaughter was given pause. This is the record of i the conqueror for the hottest three days: j SUNDAY. New York and Brooklyn 72 Philadelphia '.'.23 1 Baltimore Ip i Chicago is 1 Small Illinois towns p ' < lindanati ............................... 31 igmall towns in Indiana 3 Small towns in Ohio 3 St. Louis 2 . Pittsburg 1 j Cleveland 2 j Doulsville 1 | Memphis 1 San Antonio 1 Siouz City 1 ; MONDAY. Pros- : Deaths, trations. ■ New York 69 205 Brooklyn 21 New York suburbs ..... 73 201 Chicago • 20 91 St. Louis 11 Pittsburg 3 ICO Hartford 3 New Haven 3 ... Boston 1 9 Cleveland 2 30 Toledo 2 ... Providence 4 ...

Washington 6 Buffalo 2 ••• Philadelphia 57 128 TUESDAY. ProsDeaths. trations. Greater New York 182 500 Boston 12 18 Philadelphia 18 0” Washington * Baltimore - St. Louis 12 Indianapolis 1 Cincinnati \ Cleveland 1 17 Louisville 3 *< Sullivan, Ind 7 qk Terre Haute, Ind 16 • Chicago _ 8

1 Total 265 JO4 1 The baking to which this continent has 1 been subjected is almost unprecedented'

> in the weather history of America. Every ’ summer there are periods of six or seven ■ days in which the temperature remains abnormally high over small areas. But rarely if ever has the whole country borne continuous heat for so long n time. St.' Paul and Jacksonville. Fla., El Faso and Abilentj, Pueblo and Green Bay sufI sered about equally, and the hot wave rolled mercilessly from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic ocean. The cumulative effects of the excessive temperature on the public health are marked in the returns of sunstrokes turned in by the police and the observations of general mortality made by the health department of large cities. Although the temperature in Chicago Tuesday a week ago was 94. the number of prostrations was small; it grew on Wednesday with | the mercury nt 96; it was still larger on 1 Thursday when a maximum temperature j of only 85 was recorded. Thence it j mounted steadily to the extraordinary and appalling record for Sunday aud Monday. New Yorkers Suffer. With the beginning of the seventh day of torrid heat New York city gave one groat, gasping sigh and then submitted I to a scorching that struck down men and women on the streets and in their homes, babies in their mothers’ arms, nnd children in their beds. Though the humidity was not so great ns it has been, the mor | tality list and the roll of those who fell I prostrate were longer than over. Men ; and women who had lived through six days of such awful heat could not with- ‘ stand its cumulative effects. It is fair to

I sny that hardly more than 8D per cent of I those overcome hnd their cas.-s rep rted Ito the police. Many were strii ken down and went to their homes or «< re taken ! car© of by friends, and of these the a : i thorities know nothing. R UIN LE FT BY WIN D. Michigan, lilinoia, Ohio, Indiana and lowa bw -pt by Morin*. Michigan had a sevi re tn- - .' with a ■storm Sunday night ami M< day. A i veritable cloudburst visited Ln. Ou* , storm struck the city nt 11 o’ei • k nnd ja second came two hours later. C-nn I plcte prostration of telegraph and tele I phone wires resulted. No human vic'ims were claimed in the city, b it the po p ■ erty damage will reach fully s7s.o>"i. I;. ' the agricultural districts the :-;;i s> <i. to have been equally dis istr.'is. Fr. : i j nearly every direction oune reports of ■ buildings blown down or unrooft ■!. «'* ; hundreds of acres of fruit trees are t .-.i up or broken down and the fruit de ’ stroyed. Corn is flat on the ground from the effect of the rain, hail nnd wind, while I miles of fence will have to be rebuilt. lu* ■ damage to tho rural districts will aggregate many thousands of dollars. I. , I of lire stock especially promises to rm ii ,an astonishingly high figure. A l< ss of , sloo,oou was occasioned by a terrific wind ■ which swept over Saginaw early M day . morning, but no huiiinn victims wi r* I claimed. The storm was accompani 4by ! terrific lightning nnd a deluge of water. In some sections of lowa the wimi almost amounted to n tornado. Immense i tre^s were blown down, lions- sn*v. I off their foundations and barns and out! iil>i ings dismantled. Panic-stricken people ■ y-jtie-l s>r < °ve« cc’if’-s and other y’aces

by Hgi• f u« Wi.iic ft saw ODu At Rockford, Ilk. the State Stret t Rn? tist Churi h was struck fttol s-ri damn^od and several farmers in the bv flames due to li ’htnii st Many 1 h‘ld the " roofs d nr 1 qrvnr’il

-/J - -1- k -4j— -2 ANDERSON AS HE RODE BEHIND THE TRAIN.

bolts. There was a heavy electrical and rain storm at Fort Wayne. Several cars were shocked by lightning. A terrible storm struck Winona Park, east of Warsaw. Three wings of the Winona build-

ing, a new structure just completed, were completely destroyed, and the ruins scattered over near-by ground. LOSES BY three SECONDS. E. O. Anderson Fails to Ride a Mils in a Minute. Rut for an accident Cyclist E. O. - derson would have made a mile in one minute in the recent race behind the Bluff line engine at Alton, 11l- When wit n 500 feet of the finish he was close behind t coach, which was moving at just s y miles an hour. At that ^stance finish Anderson thought he heard, oj the roar of the train and rushing wind, the torpedo that was to announce that

* JyOI <7l/4 ’ u/ P / 1 CYCLIST E. K. ANDERSON. the run was ended. He slowed down, then, seeing his mistake, again spurted. But ho had lost three seconds. The train covered the ground In something better than a sixty-mile gait, but the rider came short just sufficiently to . miss by three seeoncs his wager to cover the mile in one minute. However, ha I demonstrated the fact that a bicycle enn no put over ground a great deal faster than anyone lias ever bee re thought of i doing, and thereby earned the laudation iof wheeling enthusiasts everywhere. A great cheer went up from the throng I when the result was announced. Ibe first half mile was « ivcrcd at the rate us sixty-two miles an hour. WEATHER CROP CONDITIONS. Weekly Report of the AgrlcnHnral Department lor Different State*. The reports ns to the condition of the general e' t «»' t • v-.-c'-r on th* made by th directors of ihe several di- ] heat nnd lack of r; n, »--t,-i ti-ns which charm tori rod ti c ] • • v< k In th* ' very unfavorably. While the week baa 1 of th>> country mat of the Rocky Mooni tains the in uri<» *s eo‘< * of th* heat I upon crops has K - n Urgefy c ut nc.l to j crop which I a« suffer'd to th itest j extent. Th* rotton crop Uns d< ’- d I generally throughout the cotton i*- ? Tbe c*n»»-I prema’nre < p' , ’rnc 0. * Rind th* plant is dying. C< ntral and n >rthem Texas nnd Oklahoma I -t w nd* bnr* err; u«iy Injured <<-tt«’n end i>: ler the in Texas will l»o b-lo* the aternge The advance "f the <c.n«on. N Gh Carotin* rej- rts that tie fir"? bn'e hn« been marknown. Late e rn ins been in.'urvd to Kansas and « th«. g N. imAs' and the noia. Generally tlir - t ti e S uthern Stutt s > rn h.«s 1 ' i. •-> k Ipn grrna n. st favorable exmd.! •; -. p -J u och of t • •mli -1 ly .. j- r'. ■.s <>f 1 and siding has bA‘ n done, I 4 tl e . Gremely t<Tun’ed the work 1 • • fn- ts occurMURRAY HILL BANK CLOSED. Well-Known New York Institution in Financial Distrene. The Murray Hill Rank of New York La ( Bank v.; s organ ’<4 in 1870. It has been I regarded tte of the -trongegt of the 'uptown Institdßons. it is nt.’..-stood that there is due its 1.700 d t p. liters . aL>>ut $ 1.27s MMjO. The ens: rs of »he bank were chiefly hx’al tradesmen. The ", - The ff $250,in ti.e la • :• w m.ciths. Thr e Ehn- : ; f I ■ - ■ . SW.OMI. one' -f the I blirj bunks of the city, closed its d" rs T.;. ■ ’ .y morning. Heavy withdrawals of depositors

and the impossibility of making speedy collections are given as the cause. The Democratis national headquarters will probably be at "Washington.

; TOPICS FOR FARMERS A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Advantace of Wide Tire, on Wacona Effect of Detasselins Corn—To Exterminate Vermin from Chicken.Cheap Sheds for Kmercencie^ "’aeon Tires. rhe wide tire law of Connecticut went into effect with the beginning of the month, ami there is likely to be trouble over it, for wagon makers are going on building vehicles with as narrow tires as ever, and a good many People seem nut to have heard of this new law. There should, of course, be a certain degree of latitude in the matter of replacing wheels which, in the ease of some of the poorer farmers, represents a considerable outlay, but it should at least be distinctly understood that anyone who buys a new wngou which does not'conform to the statute docs so at his own risk. It is an eminently wise and reasonable law- the 01 ly wonder Is that people have to be forced by legal measures into doing what Is obviously to their own Interest. No other single element, except Ignorant roadmaktng, ad.ki so much to the heavy burden of supporting the highways as the use of narrow tires, which cut up the ro;nLs Instead of Ironing them smoothly down. Look nt the Imautiful glossy pith which the bicyclists make fur themselves at the edge of the road before the puddles are fairly drle.l up. am! then at the bottomless ahy-kns plowed by tl a loniL d wagons an.l you have the w’ >le thing In a nutshell. The hors s' hoofs, of course, chop up the road somewhat, but it Is mere surfaeo Irritation compared with the deep and fatal wounds made by the j I mti .ow tiled wh< is mhr i trace a rut is ' l.i.dd a r.joni’.h pmd nnd and the tires of a bicy. le, with the tretd, I not br rutt»* lat alt Tb * *^l^ H<»rvo I ,n<* J i'l ?■ V M lißV't' h> b*s’’r** • I m •* tjx re s r>tG>* ? > tttcatn ■ » ffert of Dr?*** X -g C rn. I •; ‘h ':??:<■. I «>. If, »• ••,. t - •> < s' •- J .n—-1 > d salts, s;; h a.« arc uisd for uw k i tie emts ~~ . ' I I Carbol;-- a. . 1 ..- /so _.. 1. [ remri />. r j mites or ii- i ii.w ;■< 'air, I as >r the !n«- ts departed bag sad baggage. Naturnllv carbolic a.-M i q our re’-s-dv - now aiiCi this test. iak> a bot r le <-f t;dn. At: i ’ w ill < w'n in > skop- - x trv Gentleman. Cheap Sheds for IbneFsrencieß. tiers and for sheltering live sto k. Where a deficiency exists in the way of buildings numerous mr.heshifis are frequently resorted to. TL-0 r.-omy calf stable Is filled with hay at harvest tune, and the calves must take the weather until this Is feil out in early winter. The tool room Is used to ^ore the potato (rop temporarily ns it comes from the field, while tiie implements are left out in the sun and rain for 8 few weeks, nnd then likely not housed promptly when the room is vacated. The hogs r which are intended for the November market are fattened in an open lot, anil when circumstances postpone their sale • till the holiday season they are compelled to take all the storms that may

come up to that date, because there la no convenient shelter provided. To meet such emergencies as these and for other uses, a few cheap sheds and buildings should be provided. They may be of rough, cheap boards, which in many places will require no cash outlay except for sawing.—National Stockman. The Vegetable Garden. In Michigan the Parker Earle is considered to be by far the most prolific strawberry. Several farmers near Kennew’lck, Washington, have planted peppermint, and are looking for a man with capital to put up a distillery. A common mistake made in growing lettuce is In having the plants too close together. To reach perfection the plants should be from ten to fifteen inches apart in the rows. The "topping” of corn, that Is, cutting off the stalk above the ears for fodder, always decreases the crop so much that the value of the fodder secured does not compensate for the loss. The Michigan experiment station has tried 400 varieties of potatoes and discs riled nearly all of them as worthless. Among the promising sorts it names the t'armen. Colossal, Early Everett and Nott's Victor. The annual crop of mushrooms In France is valued at $2,000,000. The wholesale price to dealers is from $22 to $25 per luO kilograms (220.46 pounds). In Paris alone there are sixty wholesale firms dealing exclusively ill mushrooms. The transplanting of onions Is strongly reconu nded l>y the Tennessee experiment station. It is claimed that trasplnntlng resuhs in larger onions and larger crops. The cost of growing onions in T? nnessee is given as 50 cents a bushel. J. W. Hauck, of Jefferson, Oregon, sits that to < ire the gum disease in ! < herry trees In* sprays with from four । to six pounds of bluestone to fifty gal1 : s of wat r ns s ■ »n as the leaves > fall, anil ngain in ti e spring b fore •' buds sw.-11. Gum spots appearing <",) the cherry tre a ar > cut out and the j wo: nd washed with the solution. The Pi /•» Digestion. The j ig has a w. ndvrful dlgestivt I eapaeiiy. S' -ers e »n- i:no eleven and ( a h:ih’ ; Olin.ls • . 1y so J '.o every IOC I poll'.' Is of live w< ght, the sheep ten p-iai.ds, but t/■' pg e msumes twenty :• • nl; > a rn of one p-m lf t ■ « p a pound for ovoiy nine, 3 1 t .* • ■ n touibl for ovi’tv four nnd ahi If nouud.M TL gain is aceounteJ

\<tvrrti«r Ymir i’uttrr. an! sin-old bring the highest price, prin’ y.mr name and address on It, ?n I .r v• tr i ns: no rs agree with you] as to It* qualrv you will *’»n liave more ortlers for g-md butter than you ;< an till. Rut If su. h does not happen, v -i may depen I upon it that there Is r f, r : prov.'ment in the quality. t' n do n t ahvays complain, pre-1 : ferr ng to buy from other sources when Farm Note-. W: ■!* b>v s s. ittered around the edge of t’ •* earpet is excellent for Gat; • r a pa;- r of leaves from the I - I r.ui’an and spread in ti>e g'- ; . • ■ i...! •rif a lastii.g swetness is I I re are a’ -nt 5,< - 0 bros in a poi-.m! A gall ai <; h ii- y weighs from • <iei> a to twelve i auuds, according to « 4^* n«i ( v 'i. . uiu h [-raise cannot be given l. j.p .1 uni.ms. both as medicine and a break i p colds, a d digestion, aud re- i 1.. ve soft or swelled crop. l.« mon juice and sugar will cure a i cough and hoarseness. It will relieve । f-v. ri-imess and thirst. Lemonade as | . a drink in spring and summer will prevent or cure "that tired feeling." Hos 1 memo!-- taken soon enough will break l up a cold. . ‘ I.etitons are ns near being a panacea i for all ills as anything can be. Chronid ■ < k Ueadach's and biliousness will dSap[- ar if their victim will drink as s. ..n as rl'ing. before iln ssilig even, a • glass of warm water with the juice of 1 Dehorned cattle sell letter than • -”i > ■ <' ft >r iII ?*■ ’ ''St ’ Thov better, fvfd btdter, sell better find kill j • I better. The man who feeds horned cat- ’ tie is hr.ndicnppei! from 10 to 25 cents 1 i Cer. 'tit floors are likely to become ■ th ir dural ilitv. cleat,liness and the fa- ■ ' Cilitles they ■ ;Y‘. r for saving the liquid ' - nmtr • nuMTVPr fl PV fl FA tn hp valued for their - rat-proof qualities. Aav cne al * it to build ft new barn ‘ - wuild do well to consider this question .'err *1 ' y all cla>> < of stock, and it is । * v : ‘l.ls no^si' I • The cultivation 1 • of carrots, beets, parsnips, t irnips and j • potatoes serves to ch ar tke land of j . i weeds because cl-w ■ and careful work i -■ ' is required, the land being consequent- I ! lv better fitted for the growth of some I - i crop difficult to keep clear of weeds - : In portions of Europe, it Is said, gari ’ deners not only take especial care of ; I the toads of the garden, but frequent- . I lv buy to keep the stock good. Under- ■ ground shelters are made for the toads i by covering a small hole with a board or shingle. A writer believes that a I garden well stocked with toads would ’ be greatly protected from many of the - insects that are now so destructive to many kinds of vegetation.

——w— RECORD OF THE WEEK INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Defalcation and Suicide by Banker Kelley Amazes South Bend—FamilyNear Anderson Who Have No Fear Nor Dae for a Dentist South Bend Is Puzzled. W hen Josiah E. Kelley fired a bullet irt‘> his heart, in the basement of his I’ >ine, in South Bend, Thursday evening, he made full confession that ho was a defaulter of the fnuds of the First National Bank, of which lie was assistant eashitr, and with which he had been coni.eete I since boyhood. South Bend has hail nn.ro than its share of sensations concerning its banks, but the discovery that Kelley was a defaulter, and his act of selfdestruction following the discovery of his guilt by the National Bank Examiner, John L. \ ance, shook the business as well as the social foundations of the community as they had not been shaken beiore. If there was anybody in the liankinK business in South Bend in whom the pi'ople pi-nerally bail entire confidence, it was Josiah E. Kelley. The bank with which he had been eonnected since 18GS is one of the oldest anil soundest institu- > lions in the State. It was founded in 1843 i as "The State Bank of Indiana” and be- ! ante a national bank in 1863, a short I time before Kelley entered it as an office boy. The only feature of the lamentable incident, from which the owners of the bank and the business public generally can derive any gratification is that the defalcation, amounting in round numbers to 521.1H0. will in no wise cripple the bank nr even impair its credit. Have No Use for Teeth. A f imily of freaks was unearthed near I Lapel, west of Anderson. Saturday. It I insists of several people without a tooth. ■ Ismes Lc< imrd is the father. He is past । 'nt years of age. and has passed this much । f his life sound and healthy without the ' -sistiinee of a molar or even a baby ! tooth None never grew. Twenty years ago he married a woman who had as tine । i set of teeth as could bo found. She still p, sscsses them. They had four children, all of whom are full grown and perfect F“ganl to la alth. but wh-. like their fatiier, never had a tooth in their heads. ■ TT 'r gums, however, camo down much I further than is ordinarily the ease and are i hard ami as firm as K ne. Mr. Leonard ,s ebh t * . rack ni:'< in l^s jaws without . tin am! - ems to get rd mg fully as will I th nigh ho w» re poso s u'd of a full set । t tc> h. I’hc cliildri'n’s jaws are quite as .nn ind strong. All are perfectly contente l, have no use for dentists and no I iches ig pains in their jaws. They live 1 >n a farm and st Idom go away from home, i’hev are fairlv well to do.

All Over the Stat*. A ba I wreck happened on the Lake Shore Road in the depot at Chesterton. A -and train ran into a fast stock train. All tn.’ trainmen jumped, one being slightly hurt. < hie engine and a dozen cars were c'tnolishcd and twenty head of blooded i attb' luibaL Sand was piled up ten feet deep. A '■ rioits । pidi tnie of typhoid fever is 1 prevailing m the vicinity of Oxford. Nine | f the f imily of William Hibbs were -trieken at one time, and the mother and [ ne hild died. Two other families were dso trieken. and two cases are reposted it Oxford, springing from impure water. For several weeks the Hibbs family were nnat'emied save by the father and one on. o great was the fear of contagion by I t he tu-iglibors. Miss Sarah Blinn. the Terre Haute ••'.derly spinstt r. in whose case a jury dis- | agreed on a charge of insanity preferred i by her sister in order to prevent her mar...i_e u Hi Widower Frank ( nibs, took I'ombs • Fari . 111., the other day and : . : iil i ; her fop marrying them. They | had been refused a marriage licenes at ITi rre Haute. On their return the boys in •he neighborhood of the house gathered and gave the couple a noisy serenade. Once they left tiie house and went to a ;’e :el ;■> spend the night. Combs objected to tht amount the clerk prop sod to charge them and they left the ii tel, although I Hrs. Sirrah stood ready, pocketbook in hand, to pay the bill. A sTa; i as ■ of poverty was disclosed I in a M im ic justice court, the subject bcii _ a former well-known Chicago wunian. Mis. Alma Southgate recently pur- | eh;, • d > .me second-hand furniture. She was the defendant in a replevin suit for failing to meet the payments. Her husI baind was connected with the PhiiadelI ph;.i Record until he assumed charge of the Chi< ago Telegram and later estab- ' lis’.i d the (hi ago Herald. Six years ago the husband and wife had some trivi;d iliiTi icuep and separated. Tiie woman ! went t ‘ lutawa. 111., ami then to Muni ■ o. Sh j has forked at dif- ] f- wnt o< eupations to support h. r .•hili’...rd (“the") ei er set iii type for tiie < 'hiThe County Commissioners of Adams f-o’.inty have l>een holding a special sesI sion in their office in D -catur. The pur- । pose of the meeting was for examining [ ami accepting the rep- rt of the officers of the county, including trustees, audiwer- ali carefully cximineir and found I to L- correct and satisfactory, until they came tiie report of the treasurer. DanIwn, g. IL' h.’. '. as all- ged. charged the couary with hi- per unit »n road taxes, I <■’ claim L-’h: 1 i... ri^hr t- io The nmc: : ■ of the <’;• ri-i^o may run into the ' thousands. Mr. Bolds is one of the ' v hi.-t ;::.J m- st prominent men in ] the o nnty. He has been quite a large oil sj culator. It is claimed by Bolds’ | friet.d that th ■ shotoige. which they say ;s c y a nitstindcrstanding. v due to I die fee ami salary law which has been I in force in this State the past year. I Thieves robbed the postoffice at Wheatfield Monday morning, taking several hunilred dollars worth of- tamps and a sum of money. Robberies have been eommit■ed at Demi-tte and 55 heatfield almost nightly for several weeks past. William Davis was shot by his wife Lizzie Davis, at Red Cloud. Mrs. Davis was a teacher in a Sunday school, an.l her husband became jealous and declared that she only went to Sabbath school to meet the superintendent, with whom he charged she was intimate. The wife resented the charge and in the row she shoe him.