Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, April 2, 1920, Page 4

MANY ARE KILLED IN MID-WEST TORNADO Thousands Rendered Homeless | and Millions in Property Destroyed. Chicago—Reports from the states in the middle west which were torna do-swept Sunday indicate over 10 persons lost their lives, while thou sands were rendered homeless and | millions of dollars worth of damage | done. | Chicago and suburbs show great loss of life—twenty-nine persons be: | ing killed, with the greatest loss at) Melrose Park. | Ohio reports twenty-four known | dead, It is thought when the rural) districts are heard from this figure will be increased. Indsana reported seventeen known dead and Michigan | reported five. Wisconsin and Missou- ri each«reported one person killed. Apparently there were three distinct storms, one driving northward into | IMinois and dying out on the shores | of Lake Michigan, just north of Chica- go; one striking in Georgia and Ala- | bama and another sweeping through | Indiana and passing into Ohio and) Michigan. The twisters which swept through Michigan and Ohio and Inidana appar- | ently were distinct from the Il{nois | storm. In each instance, however, it was the same tale—wrecked houses, prostration of wire communication | and a death list. While northeastern Illinois sustained the principal damage, the tornado, in Its freakish career, swept several In- diana towns, causing the death of one man and the injury of several persons in St. Louis, and killing Mrs. Louis | Brown at East Troy, Wis. | A dozen or more Michigan cities were cut off from the rest of the world, and it was reported they were In the Qath of the storm which swept nortliward across the state from Lake Michigan. ‘Tlie storm was said to have been particularly severe in the vicinity of Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Lansing, Bay City and Saginaw. | Atlanta reported that the death list In Georgia and Alabama was at least | 36. STORM DEVASTATES ELGIN Brunt of a Tornado Falls on tilingis . Town. Figin, [l.—With eight known dead, '°) or more injured and property loss | that may exceed $4,000,000, Elgin was paralyzed as a result of a tornado that swept over this town at noon Sunday. The storm, which swept a path 200 | yards wide across the heart of the | city, took its greatest toll of life at the Congregational and Baptist church- es where four women were killed and dozens injured. The storm struck Elgin from the southwest during a torrential down- pour of rain. The tornado was fol- lowed by a terrific hail storm lasting 15 minutes, Towns which felt the full effect of the siorm include Wauconda, Mec Henry, Woodstock, Algonquin and Marengo, Ill. Dundee is said to have been passed over by the storm, but damage “in the surrounding» ‘farming tountry was heavy. Scoreagof horses and cattle. were killed. | idaho Wheat Stores Big Boise, Idaho.—Idaho has in wheat teserve—unsold wheat from the 1919 trop—a total of 2,618,700 bushels, or 14 per cent of the crop. This fact is brought out In a statement on survey of grains in the state by Julius H. Jac- | obson, Idaho field agent of the govern- ment crop reporting service. The other grains on hand are: oats, 1,925,000 bushels; barley, 470,000 bush- els; corn, 84,000 bushels. This agent | says that the value of Idaho farm land is increasing rapidly each year, the average value per acre being $41.63. To Investigate Oil Prices. Washington.—Favorable report was ordered by the house judiciary com- mittee on the resolution directing the federal trade commission to make an immediate inquiry into recent ad- vances in the prices of oil, kergsene, gasoline and other petroleum products, Nebraska Liquor Law Upheld. Lincoln, ,.Neb.—The Nebraska su- preme court upheld the constitution- ality of the law giving the state the tight to confiscate automobiles that have been used for illegal! tranusporta- ton of liquor. | Allies Find Guns Hidden in Germany. | Paris.—Great quantities of arms | have been discovered in Germany by | the allied officers charged with super. | vising execution of the peace treaty, according to advices received here. Decorate Roosevelt and Genera! Hines. Washington.—Award of distinguish- ed service crosses to Major Gene John L. Hines and Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Rooseveli was announced at the war departmem, | man for the operators in conference in | constituting |} of nations, | will definitely settle the conflicting | | factions of the party as to the signifi- | | interests were trying to buy the na-| | dates for the presidency. | from ice jams have made hundreds of | | overflowed. The Wisconsin and Chip- | pewa rivers went on a rampage and | swept away bridges and flooded low- | immense property | section of the state | of potatoes are hoarded in California Mrs. E. T. Meredith, wife of the | | Mew secretary of agriculture. COAL OPERATORS AND | MINERS ARE INDICTED Indtanapolis.—The names of approx imately 125 coal operators, others connected with the coal indus try in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and West ern Pennsylvania, indicted recently by | a special federal grand jury here for | alleged violation of the Lever act and | miners or | conspiracy sections of the federal crim: }inal code, were made public here by federal officials. The miners include pee eene President John Lewis, Secretary~+ Treasurer William Green and Chief Statistician Percy Tetlow. The operators named include Thomas T. Brewster of St. Louis, chairman of the operators’ scale committee; Phil H. Penna of Terre Haute, Ind., spokes- Washington just preceding the strike of the miners last fall, and F. S. Pea body of Chicago, one of the leaders among the Illinois operators, | The indictments contain 18 counts, all of which charge conspiracy of some kind. One count sets out .10 overt acts violation of the federal | laws. | BRIEF " CENERAL NEWS William Jennings Bryan, in an ad- dress at Fremont, Neb., predicted the United States would enter the league Odessa, the great Russian port en the Black Sea, has been occupied by Ukrainians, according to information received by the Ukrainian mission in Paris. Attorney General Palmer will appear before the miie committee on agricul: | ture on April 2 to discuss the pending | legislation for the regulation of the packing industry. Formation of a new cabinet for Ger- many, with Herman Mueller as pre- mier and foreign secretary, was an- nounced. The minister of labor is Herr Schlicke, socialist, as is the premier. Only the decision of the republican national convention at Chicago in June claims of Johnson, Wood and Lowden | cance of the one-hour presidential pref- erence vote in Minnesota. | A direct charge that big financti tional conventions of both the republi- can and democratic parties was made in the senate by Senator Borah, re publican, Idaho, in a speech advoeat- ing congressional action to regulate the | pre-convention expenditures of candi- | Hundreds Made Homeless by Floods. St. Paul, Minn.— Floods resulting | families in Minnesota, Wisconsin and | North Dakota homeless. Two hundred | families living in the flats here were forced to flee when the Mississippi lands in many towns along the routes. | Seven Die at Lima. | Lima, O.--Seven persons dead and | damage was the| toll of Sunday's wind storm over this | Three were kill- ed at Van Wert, three at Moulton and | one at Lima | Potato Hoard Is Found. | San Francisco.—Thousands of sacks | warehouses, according to a@ report) following an investigation by the of- fice of District Attorney Matthew | | Brady. | Twenty Dead at Toledo. Toledo, O.—Casualties in the storm | which swept Toledo and the surround: | ing district Sunday afternoon number- | ed twenty killed and hundreds in-| jured. Chehalis Mill Burns. Chehalis, Wash.—Fire apparently of incendiary origin destroyed the main mil! and dry kilns of the Coal Creek dumber compeny in this city, | FIRST NATIONAL BANK ——-or—- Cottonwood, Idaho Tickets for The Hallowell Concert .—BY THE— AMERICAN LEGION Are selling fast. Call at Turner Drug Store REL And get good seats be- fore it is too late. The Association Ever Devised Greatest Banking Subscribe for the Chronicle. COUNTY SEAT NEWS ITEMS. Mr. and Mrs. Basil Harris de- parted Sunday for Prosser, Wn.. where Mr. Hartis has accepted a position in a newspaper office. Miss Oma Edwards of Clear- water and Carl Austin of Stites! were married Saturday by Pro- bate Judge Wilbwr L. Campbell in his office in the courthouse. The newly-married couple wil! reside on a ranch near Grange- ville. * Five th6usand dollars is to be expended by the U. S. forest service during the coming sum- mer on. improvement of the old road from Grangeville to Adams Camp. The distance is ap- proximately twenty-eight miles of which twenty-one miles the national forest. service, however, will fine its improvements not within the forest, pend money on stretch, O. H. Barber, state commis- sioner of immigration, labor and statistics, plans to visit Idaho county in April, when he hopes to make a tour of the entire county, mountain but the country. He will gather data on conditions here, | and material he procures will be | an effort to stimulate eastern While Barber will Grangeville used in emigration from the states to central Idaho. in Idaho county, Mr. be the guest of the Commercial club. Judge Edgar C. Steele of the com- Clearwater about twelve | years held regular terms of dist- rict court here when Idaho coun- | second | district, was an arrival on Tues- | from his Judge Steele second judicial district, prising Latah and counties, who for ty was included in the day evening’s train home at Moscow. is occupying the hench today in the case of E. Erickson vs. 0. G. Hansen, the latter Ferdinand, in which Seales is disqualified by before being eleva | bench. 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