Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 27, 1901, Page 2

The Hevald--Review. By B.C. KILEY, GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. The search for frozen birds in a New York city cold storage house, made by the state game inspector, is ended, and it appears that in its course nearly 49,- 000 birds, were discovered, all of which, it is alleged, were killed out of season. Criminal and civil actions are to be brought at once against several persons. Eugene Field’s first poem was 4is- covered recently in the possession of Edgar White, a court stenographer at Macon, Mo. It is entitled “Bucephatus, a Ttail,” and is believed to have been written by the author in 1871, when he was a student in the state univer- sity. H. W. Burke, a St. Joseph jus- tice of the peace, who worked with Field on the old St. Joseph Gazette, bas pronounced the poem genuine. The Pullman company is arranging to establish a pension system for its entire force of employes, numbering between 12,000 and 15,000 persons. Six- ty years will be made the limit of ser- vice. For each year an allowance of 1 per cent of the average monthly pay for the last ten months is to be given. Thus, employes who have been with the company forty years, receiving $50 a month, would get 40 per cent of $50, or $20 a month. Tradition asserts that the Queen of Sheba gave Solomon an_ intricately pierced stone to thread. He solved the problem by forcing a worm, dragging a thread, to crawl through the winding passage. The modern version is on a manified scale. To test the right of Chicago to call itself a seaport, the steamer Northman, loaded with west- ern grain, timber and machinery, has made the voyage from Chicago to Hamburg by way of the Great Lakes and the Welland canal. The white thread of her wake can harly fail to Weave new nd important pattern into the maritime commerce of nations. A patriotic New Yorker, a member ef the Sons of the Revolution, is pre- paring to give to each of the public school buildings of New York city, a copy Gf colossal size, of the famous | Houdon bust of Washington. The model, made by Wilson MacDonald, one of the oldest sculptors in America, has already been accepted. The pub- lic spirited donor believes that love of country should be taught in the schools and that there is no better way of teaching it than by keeping the mem- ory of the greatest patriots fresh in the minds of the pupils. Naturally the Father of his country comes first. An Indianapolis correspondent calls attention to the part played by the telephone in a recent divorce case at Noblesville, Ind. A Mrs, Nagle brought suit for divorce. On the day appointed for the trial her attorney, Mr. Fippen, could not attend, and called up the Nol ille judge and explained the ‘ stances, suggesting that the case be tried by telephone. The judge consented the witnesses were sworn, aed th afiswer to questions asked them | by Mr. Fippen, thirty miles away, sub- mitted their testimony to the judge, after which Mr. Fippen delivered his argument, talking into the judge's ear by telephone, The divorce was grant- ed, a Dr. N.S. Davis, of Chicago, is called the father of the American medical association, for it was in 1845, while a member of the New York state medi- cal society, that he offered a resolution recommending that a national conven- tion, representing all the medical soci- eties and colleges in the country, be held in New York city in May, 1846. The purpose was to be the adoption of a concerted plan of action for the ele- vation of the standard of medical edu- cation in the United States. The con- vention resulted in the formation of the American medical society. Dr. Davis is 85 years old, and has been a resident of Chicago since 1849. The remarks against kissing attrib- uted to Professor Crook of Chicago, prompted B. B. Wilson, a merchant of Mount Hope, Kan., to form an anti- kissing league. A dozen married men were persuaded to become members. The wife of Secretary T. J. Cox, of tae league, has revolted and is suing for divorce, after three weeks without kiss- ing, but Cox boasts he has not kissed his wife in many years, maintaining that it is unmanly. The pledge one has to take to join the league is that he will kiss no woman, no matter if she is his wife. “Kissing is for women only—the weaker ‘sex,” Wilson says. “Kissing a weak manner of show- ing affection. We love our wives more than those men who are all the time kissing them every time they leave the house. Some wives may object, but that will not induce us to desert the cause. My wife is in favor of the plan ‘and looks at it in the same manner as I do.” Peul Wayland Bartlett, the sculptor, who has established his studio in one of the eastern suburbs of Washington, has reccived a letter from the Franch rovernment accepting his statae of La- fayette, which is the gift to France of 5.000.000 American school children. Mr, Bartlett’s design was the success- ful one before the American jury, and he was required by the French gov- ernment to erect his statue in plaster on the elite allotted for it im the court of the Louvre, where the French jury Snally passed on it. From Washington. Controller of the Currency Dawes has levied an assessment of 100 per cent on the stock of the Seventh National Bank of New York. The stock is $500,000. Gen. Hughes, in command of the Vasayan islands, reports progress in the task of penetrating, the Island of .Samar and scattering the insurgents. It is said at the navy department that the return to work of the machin- ists at the Newport News shipyards as- sures, probably, the commisssioning of the battleship Illinois in about three weeks. Secretary Hay has received by mail an official report from Gov. Allen of Porto, Rico, enclosing the resolution adopted by the Porto Rican legislature providing for free trade between the United States and Porto Rico after July 25, Information of value to Americans who intend to travel in Japan is con- veyed to the state department by United States Minister Buck at Tokio. This consists of a set of the new Japa~ nese customs rules, framed in a spirit af liberality and moderation. Lieut. Charles R. Ramsey, of the Twenty-first infantry, who was wound- ed in the engagement near Lipa, prov- ince of Batangas, early last month, is dead. The death is also announced of Solon A, Massey, formerly a lieutenant of artilllery, who was recently appoint- ed purchasing agent of the insular sov- ernment. Preparations are being made by the treasury department to meet the ex- pected demand for small notes during the crop moving season by printing as many as possible of the smaller de- nominations at the bureau of engraving and printing. Small notes are being exchanged in considerable amounts for the larger issues. Carrying out a decision reached about a month ago, Secretary Hay gave an instruction to Mr. Rockhill to support the Japanese application for, an en- largement of their indemnity to be paid by China from 46,000,000 to 54,000,- 000 yen to cover the depreciation in Japanese bonds as compared with those of some other nations. People Talked Abont. William S. Gracey, a prominent and wealthy oil operator and manager of the Boston Oil company, dropped dead in Marietta, Ohio. Herr Buenz, consul general for Ger- many in New York City, has arrived in Berlin from the United States and is going to Carlsbad’ for a brief vacation. Richard B. Hubbard, formerly gover- nor of Texas, and during Presiden: Cleveland's first administration United States minister to Japan, died at his home in Tyler, Tex. Horace Gray, merchant and banker, was found dead in bed in his home at New York. It is thought that death was the result of heart disease. He was born in Boston eighty years ago. Amasa Howland, aged seventy-four years, died at Sandy Hill, N. Y., where in 1850 he began the manufacture of paper. Mr. Howland organized and was president of the Howland Paper company. Mary Upderhill, seventy-three years of age, is dead of cancer at her home in Babylon, L. I., after a prolonged illness. Her grandfather was Capt. Jacob Conklin, the lieutenant and right-hand irct of the notorious Capt. Kidd. Mrs. Satine White, wife of Dr. White, author of ‘‘White’s Authors” and other educational works, died at her home Ut Columtus, Ohio, of paralysis of the heart. Mrs, White was the wife of Gov. O. W. White of West Virginia. Judge F, E, Baker, son of Judge John H. Baker of Goshen, Ind., formally an- nounced his candidacy for the position of judge of the United States court for the Seventh circuit to succeed the late William Woods, whose death occurred recently. John J. Lamborn, for many years a prominent Republican of Nebraska, who served several years in the state senate and was captain in W. J. Bryan’s regiment during the Spanish- American war, died in Santa Fe, N. Mex., of consumption. Nicholas Heredia, a professor in the University of Havana, died from apo- plexy on a New York Central railroad train. In company with his wife, his brother-in-law, D. §S/ Zanetti of New York, and his nephew, Prof. Heredia was enroute to Saratoga. Criminal. Joseph Kramer, seventy-five years of age, was arrested at Philadelphia charged with having seven wives, all of whom it is declared are living. Mrs. Solomon Haas, who was shot by her jealous husband Friday, is dead at her home in Wilburton, Pa. Haas, af- ter shooting his wife, killed himself. A telegram from Cordova, Mex., says that a train on the Vera Cruz railroad was attacked recently by a large force of armed men at Tierra Blanca, a small station. Seven men on the train were killed. Lucius Reed, manager of the Pear- man plantation, near Cleveland, Miss., was killed by Charles Phillips, colored, whom he had ordered to clean out his cabin. Phillips took to the woods with a@ posse in pursuit. John C. Brady, probate judge of Koo- tenai county, Idaho, died as a result of the shot fired July 5 by a madman, ! Henry Wilbusse. Wilbusse, who had been committed to an asylum, escaped, went to the judge's office, and without: warning, shot him. Arthur Miller, of 63 Hast Bleventh’ street, known among the cadets of Capt. Diamond’s precinct as Kid Aaron, was convicted in the general sesssion of New York of abducting fifteen-year-old Gussie Hslofsyl of 34 Canal street and compelling her to lead an immoral life. life. George W. Lane, a wealthy farmer, aged eighty, returned from Canton, IIl., and found his wife, aged forty, dead in the woodshed. It was first thought heart disease was the cause byt it was later shown that it was a case of mur- der by strangling. The murder is a mystery. : Foreign. A London newspapere asserts that Frank S. Willard, a kinsman of the late Frances E. Willard of the Women's Christian Temperance union, has come to establish a private matrimonial bu- reau. M. Tchierkoff, who is Count Tolstoi’s representative in Great Britain, has re- ecived a telegram asserting that the i famous Russian is @angerously ill with fever accompanied with great weakness and that his state is very serious. A dispatch to the London Pall Mall Gazette from Constantinople says great frauds have been discovered in the Turkish customs. The embezzzlements are said to exceed £120,000. Several of the higher customs officials have been arrested. The German merchants of Yokohama and Tokio have formed an association for the purpose of promoting German commercial interests in Japan, accord- ing to information furnished the state department by Consul General Guen- ther at Frankfort, Germany. Mise Hetty Chattel, an actress, has obtained a verdict in London for £2,500 in the sheriff’s court against the Daily Mail for libel. At the time of the marriage of Rosie Boote to‘the earl of Headfort the Daily Mail asserted that Miss Chattel was the mother of Miss Boote. The list of the prize winners at Bis- ley, under the auspices of the British National Rifle association, includes Private John Craig, of the Fifth Lan- arkshire regiment, who is first with a score of $8 out of a possible 100, and |.Private W. F. Dahan of Canada, who is second with a score of 95. The number winning the prize of 100,000 francs in the recent lottery in Paris in aid of the Dramatic Artists’ association, was not presented until the Rothschilds informed M. Coquelin, pres- ident of the association, that they were the holders of the number dnd would donate the prize to the association. Tord Kitchener. has advised the gov- ernment, so the London Daily News un- derstands, that it is possible to with- draw a large number of infantry from South ‘Africa, amounting virtually to the greuier part of the unmounted army. At the same time he desires to be supplied with more mounted men. Casualties. A military balloon descended at Schlusselburg, Russia, and exploded and burned. One person was killed and twenty injured. Bob Cook, Charles Swisher and Charles Scott were instantly killled by lightning while seeking shelter in’a barn from a severe electrical storm north of Arthur, Ill. The village of Warwick, Canada, has been almost entirely wiped out by fire. Twenty dwellings and stores and the Grand Trunk railway station were burned. Loss, $75,000; no insurance, A chain weighing four tons fell on six men at the Westinghouse Electric company’s works in Cleveland, Ohio. One man, B. Germann, died shortly afterward and five others were badly injured. Fire of mysterious origin destroyed three buildings of the Des Moines poor farm at Burlington, Iowa. Loss, $49,- 000; insurance, $24,000. Insane patients were all rescued with difficulty. One or two escaped. The body of D. D. Dick, an English millionaire, has been found near Banft, B.C. He had been staying at the Banff hotel, and had wandered off Sunday, July 7, and it is supposed he was acci- dentally drowned. Capt, May of the German steamer Tan{is, from Hamburg, June 21, for Montevideo, cables that his vess¢] ran ashore at Punta Mogotes and is a total loss. Her passengers are all safe and are proceeding for Montevideo, A severe hailstorm three miles north of Muskogee, I. T., killed some stock and completely destroyed crops for a considerable distance over a stretch a mile wide. Heavy rain fell over the Creek and Cherokee nations, generally saving crops. G Fire destroyed the packing plant of Jacob Dold & Sons in Wichita, Kan. Four large buildings were destroyed, to- gether with about 7,000,000 pounds of meat in process of preparation. The loss is estimated at $650,000; insurance about $400,000. Four. men were injured by a falling wall. \ General. | The United States army transport Sumner, with convalescent soldiets qn board, has sailed from Manila for San Francisco. \ The firemen on the Mexican Intérna~ tional railroad have all resigned jwith the engineers. Trains have all been tied up for two days. | The Lerlin Academy of Science has awarded the annual “Count Loibat” prize to J. F, Rhodes ot Boston far his “History of the United States.” Donald A. Cameron, a prominent citi~ Sioux City, Iowa. It is believed fleath resulted from the intense heat. The city of Decatur (Il.) street. Mrs. Hatfield’s son was for life‘and James Lee's son was) killed while playing in Lee’s yard. Ajstorm proke ‘the wire, and‘it fell :partly|in the yard and on a trolley ‘wire, if Under the application of the Soltithern Pacific Railroad company, Judge Dunn of the surerior court of San Francisco has issued a temporary order restrain- ing all local ticket brokers from hand- ling Epworth league tickets. The constitutional convention ‘in Montgomery, Ala., provided for quadri- ennial instead of biennial sessions ‘of the legislature, and’ fixed November’ in- stead of August for’holding state’ élec- tions. The consolidation of more than @ score of axle companies into a big com- bination, with a capital estimated at ‘PREVIOUS HIGH, RECORDS. FOR ‘HEAY ARE ALL EX- CEEDED. ANDSTHERE 1S NO HOPE OF RELIEF Practically the Entire Country Cov- ‘ered by the Hot Wave—Tempera- ture Line of 100 Degrees Includes the Entire Great Corn Belt—No Indications of Any Relief in Sight --Much Suffering. ‘Washington, July 23.—A hot wave of unusual, and in places record-breaking intensity, is again prevalent over the central western part of the country, and jis Spreading eastward and north- ward, The Central West reported ex- ‘tracrdinarily high temperature line, 100 degrees, yesterday, including the States and Territories of Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Missouri, ‘Chio, Indiana and Illinois. Last night at Chicago, at 7 o’clock, the tempera- ture was 100 degrees, exceeding by several degrees anything ever before recorded at that of the day. A serious feature is the showing made in tho States of Iowa, Missouri and Kansas, where the temperatures have been 90 ‘degrees or over for a period of over a month. For eighteen days of this time the thermometer at Kansas City reg- istered 100 degrees or more. Weather bureau officials do not care to make any prediction as to the prospects of relief. They say that none as yet is in sight. The seriousness of the situa- tion to the crops is increased by the lack of rain, none of importance hav- ing fallen in the corn belt for three days and there apparently being no prospects. The rain which gave a practical relief to the states of the corn belt during the past week was not by any means general in character, but a succession of thunder showers affording temporary relief to the over- Parched ground and grain. The rela- tive high barometer in the southeast section of the country shows a persis- tent continuation of warm southerly Winds and there appears to be no prospect of a change until the appear- ance of a high barometer in the North- west, where a low pressure now has full swing. Such relief of a local char- acter ds Is held out in the meantime, it is stated, will be due to local thun- dershowers, which always accompany Periods of protracted heat. Madison, Wis. -- Yesterday was the hottest day known to the official ree~ ord here. The government thermome- ter at Washburn observatory regis- tered a maximum temperature of 104 degrees. Burlirgton, Iowa — Frightful heat prevailed here and all over Southeast- ern Iowa yesterday. The maximum here was 110, accompanied by a hot wind. Reports from the state show: Chariton, 107; Fairfield, 108; Ottumwa, 110; Murray, 110; Middleton, 113. Corn is reported to be faring badly. Dubuque, Iowa—All high tempera- “|ture records dating back forty-eight years were broken ‘yesterday. The maximum was 106. There were a large number of prostrations, Keokuk, Iowa—The weather bureau station thermometer registered 107 here yesterday afternoon, 2 degrees above the previous record of July 10, and 3 above any previous record for thirty years. Twin Cities Scorched. St. Paul, July 23.—Saturday was the hottest day on record in the Twin Cities. At 3 o’clock in the afternoon the thermometer registered 101.2 im St. Paul and 101 in Minneapolis. Great suffering resulted, although no casual- $10,000,000, seems to be an assured fact. ties were reported. There were a number of prostrations in Minneapolis, Sunday was not so warm. The maxi- mum temperature reached was 96. Records Broken at Chicago. Chicago, July 23.—All hea trecords since the establishment of the weather bureau in Chicago thirty years ago were broken yesterday, the goverh- ment thermometer registering 103 de- grees. Down on the street it was 3 to 5 degrees hotter, and to add to the suf- fering, a hot, stifling wind, like a blast from a furnace, blew all day from the southwest. Prostrations were numer- ous and rolice ambulances were kept busy taking care of persons who were overccme on the streets. Day of Prayer in Missouri, St. Louis, July 23. — Yesterday, the day that Gov. Dockery designated for fasting and prayer to God that the present drouth might be broken in Missouri, all recoris for hot weather in St. Louis were smashed, the weath- er bureau thermometer on the custom- house registering 108 degrees in the shade. On the streets and in exposed places the mercury went many de- grees higher. The record broken was that of 106, made in the early eighties BOYS IN A RIOT. Indianapolis, July 23. — While 10,000 people were crowding under the trees at Fairview Park last night a riot broke out between the Biggalos, a lo~ cal crowd of white boys and some colored boys.. The whites chased the colored boys into the main pavilion, and when the officers of the park had surrounded them the Biggalos fired several shots and stoned and beat the crowd. The officers were powerless for two hours and called on the governor for a company of militia. Failing to get aid from the governor aid was sought from the sheriff. Charles Dan- 4Yels, a bystander, was shot through the neck and may dic. Two others were badly beaten with clubs and a dozen “or ‘More women and children were hit py club and stone. A quarrel ‘between the ‘whites and colored . boys ‘caused the ‘riot. Admonished by Commander. “Washington, July 23.—General orders ‘from the department of the Missouri (publish the progress in the case of Maj. Charles E. Woodruff, surgeon, U. ‘gS. A., who was tried by court-martial rand found guilty of “conduct prejudt- ¢fal to good order and military disct- ppline in violation of the sixty-second article of war,” and sentenced ‘to ‘be admonished by the department ‘com- mander. The offense of whith Maj. Woodruff was found guilty ‘wes -@ lapse of his official duty. REDUCE EXPENSES. Corbin and Chaffee Consult stegurd- ing Radical Reforms. “Manila, July 24.—The conference be- tween Adjt. Gen. Corbin and Gen. Chaffee, recently held here, probably will result in radical economical and administrative reforms in the army of occupation. It is estimated the total cost of maintaining the American army in the Philippine islands can be reduced by 60 per cent in the course of one year. The principal change will be the reduction of the present force to between twenty and thirty thousand men. The abolishment of the, present army districts is contemplated and three brigadiers, with permanent head- quarters at Manila, Dagupan and Iloflo or Casu will be substituted in their stead. The troops will be concentrated at three points selected, abandoning all minor posts, These changes wili result in an enormous saving in the transportation of supplies and the pay- ing of rental for barracks for the sol- diers. At present in most towns the troops are quartered in churches, con- vents and public and private buildings, for the use of which considerable rent- als are paid. In the majority of other cases, where the troops do not occupy public buildings, it is believed rental should be paid for the soldiers’ quar- ters if their occupancy is continued, since these regions are pacified and their inhabitants have sworn allegiaxce to the United States, Adjt. Gen. Corbin and Gen. Chaffee have decided upon the construction of barracks at the pumping _ station (about six. miles from. Manila), the source of the city’s water supply, to acecmmodate three regiments of in- fantry, one of cavalry and eight bat- teries of artillery, as well as a general commissary and quartermaster’s stores to cost $100,000. The erection of this latter. building will reduce expenses $20,000 a month, being the rentals paid for quartermaster and regimental stores in Manila alone. An electric railroad connecting the docks on the Pasig river and the new storehouse will be constructed. Generals Corbin and Chaffee have also decided upon one single general military hospital to replace the seven military hospitals in Manila and vicin- ity; one of the. latter buildings to be converted into a hospital. The reduc- tion of the great fleet of government launches and small goyernment steam- ers has already begun, Permanent barracks have been erect- ed at Dagupan to accommodate all the troops necessary to Northern Luzon. Government vessels will carry supplies for the Southern brigade from the United States direct to Ioilo without touching at Manila. The insular constabulary is now be- ing organized. ' It will be maintained by the insular government and is ex- pected to be amply able to preserve peace and enforce the law. he QUICKLY AVENGED. Obstreperous Negro Is Disposed of in a Summary Manner. Elkins, W. Va., July 24. — The dead body .of William Brooks, a negro, swings from the limb of a tree in the city park here, and Chief of Police Robert Lilly is dying in a Cumberland, Md., hospital, from the effects of a bullet wound inflicted by the negro. Word was brought to the police sta- tion yesterday afternoon that William Brooks, colored, was creating trouble in the lower part of town, and asking for aid. Chief Lilly said he would go himself and bring the man in. When Brooks saw the officer coming he ran to his house, and when Lilly reached it and ordered the man to come out, Brooks appeared at a front window armed with a gun. Officer Lilly or- dered him to surrender. Brooks re- fused, Lilly ran into the house. The crowd outside made no offer to help, and the officer faced the desperate ne- gro alone. Sounds of a struggle could be heard and the crowd rushed into the house to help. The men were on the floor in mortal combat. The negro was shouting that he would never be taken alive and the officer, silent and grim, held him with a death grip. Sud- denly the negro worked his right arm free from the grasp of the officer, and, Catching Pp a Revolver that had fallen to the floor in the struggle, fired point blank at the of- ficer. Lilly fell to the floor, shot through the abdomen. When the of- ficer released the negro the latter broke from the room and ran, followed by a big crowd. After a chase of half a mile he was captured. He fought desperately but was overpowered. Other officers came to the rescue, and with smali ceremony Brooks was turned over to the sheriff to be taken to the county jail. At the prison doors @ mob of men.at least four hundred strong surrounded the officer and de- manéed the prisoner. The sheriff and guards refused and made desperate re- sistance, but to no avail. Brooks was seized and was rushed through the streets, half-walking and half-falling alorg, toward the city park. Then he was ordered to prepare to die. The negro could not speek and seemed al- most insensible to what was going on, ang in a few minutes his body swung lifeless from a tree. Then the mob dispersed, and many women who had followed to witness the terrible trag- edy, walked to their homes with white faces and terrified hearts. Officer Lil- Yy’s wounds are fatal. The body ot Brooks up to a late hour last evening still hung in the park, ‘WAGES INCREASED. Pennsylvania Puddlers Benefited by a Change of Scale. Lancaster, Pa., July 24. — The hun- dreds of puddlers employed in the four mills of. the Susquehanna’ Iron ana Steel company at Columbia are bene- fited by the wage increase which be- came effective yesterday. The advance amounts to 25 cents, an increase from $3.50 to $2.75 per ton. Pe % \ Highwayman Fatally Shot. Leavenworth, Kan., July 24.—An al- leged highwayman, giving his name as | 11 Johnson, was probably fatally shot at the base of the spine while seeking to escape from a policeman. His companion, giving the name of Murphy, was captured. % Destroyed by Fire, ~ ‘Wheeling, W. Va., July 24.—Fire at) ‘Bridgeport destroy: Whee “Traction entra the | Whe c ‘barns, together ‘with ‘twenty oars, en- IS HERE 10° STAY NQ PROSPECT OF RELIEF FROM: THE AWFUL HEAT FOR AT LEAST TWO DAYS. ALL RECORDS ARE AGAIN BROKEN: One Hundred Degree Temperatures- Common Throughout the Great Belt—Seattered Thunders storms May Bring Relief to Some Portions of the Superheated Area Deaths in Many Places, Corn Washington, July 24. — One hundred degree temperatures were common throughout the great corn belt yester- day, according to the reports to the weather bureau here. In various places in Illinois, Iowa and other states al! previous records were broken, There appears to be no prospect of de- cided relief from these exhausting conditions for the next two days at least except such as may come from the always present possibility of scat- tered thunderstorms, which are. pre- dicted from some portions of the super= heated area. Dry thunderstorms, un- accompanied by rain, prevailed yes- terday in several sections of the West —hundreds of miles apart. They tem- porarily cooled the atmosphere, but brought no relief to the famishing crops. Absolutely no rain fell in the corn belt, according to the official re- ports received here. In Western Iowa it was a trifle cooler yesterday, while in the central portion of the state it was warmer. There is a little belt of high pressure over -the great lakes and anotker over the South Atlantic coast, but they offer no prospect of relief im the West so long as the continued low, pressure remains in the Northwest. The warm weather again was general shroughout the entire country, ex- cept on the Pacific coast. In the East the temperature, while high, did not approach anywhere the extremes yre- vailing in the West, and the recur- rence of the hot wave of two weeks ago is believed to be unlikely on the Atlantic coast. Thunder showers have continued from the South Atlantic coast westward into Arizona, and @ continuation of them is predicted for the South and Southwest. KANSAS CITY A FURNACE, All Hert Records Broken and Six-- teen Deaths Are Reported, Kansas City, July 24. — A veritable- hot blaze scorched the West yester- day. breaking all heat records in the- history of the local weather burean, Sunday Kansas City experienced the nottest weather ever krown, the gov- ernment thermometer registering 104, remaining above 100 for seven con- secutive hours. Two dozen prostra~ tions, nine of which were fatal, was« the result. The bureau thermometer at the highest point in the city showed 106 degrees yesterday, while thermom- eters on the street reached as high as« 128.. Hardly a breath of air stirrea. The suffering was intense, especially, among persons compelled to work out doors and the poor districts in the bots toms. Seven deaths from prostrations- were reported during the day in Kan- sas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., and over thirty people overcome by. the heat were treated. This makes a. total dead for the day of sixteen. Most of the victims were elderly people. Yesterday was the twenty-second in» succession on which the temperature has averaged above 90 degrees, and. the fifteenth in that time that the thermcmeter has gone above 100. gh wT QUARTER OF A CROP. All That Can Now Be Hoped for in« Kansas. Topeka, Kan., July 24.—Three deaths and ten prostrations was the record of yesterday's heat in Topeka. The ther- mometer registered 106, maximum. It has been three degrees higher during the heated season, but the humid air made the day the most oppressive 0! the year. Most of the active work was stopped. The Kansas river is very low, but..the supply of water in the city mains is yet plentiful. From numerous places in Kansas come re4 ports of intense heat and much re- sulting damage. Slight showers fell last evening in some regions, but the larger part of the state is still parched by the terrible heat. In some parts of the state the temperature was as high. as 109, with considerable humidity. The most hopeful estimate of the prob- able corn yield has fallen from half acrop to a quarter of a crop. Many counties report a total loss. Some Relief in Chicago.’ Chicago, July 24.—Ten dead, one man driven insane and five prostrations showed yesterday the result of Sun- day’s sweltering heat. The tempera~ ture yesterday was pleasant, being be- low 80, and the deaths and prostrations were therefore the work of Sunday- The pleasant weather of yesterday is predicted for to-day. OBSTRUSTING MAILS. Charge Upon Which Several Tele graph Operators Are Arrested. Little Rock, Ark., July 24. — Train= master S. H. Barnes of the Cnoctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad has caused the arrest of five telegraph operators on a charge of obstructing the mails. A small strike of railway operators was inaugurated on the Choctaw road at Brinkley, Ark., Saturday night and extended to Forrest City, resulting in delaying traffic several hours. It i9 alleged that the strike was led by an operator who had been with the com- pany only a short time, and that his grievance was that he was refusea transportation over the road. None of the strikers, it is claimed, belonged to the Order of Railway Telegraphers. j Mungarian Fiddler Coming. London, July 24.—The Hungarian vio- linist Kubelik has been engaged by Daniel Frohman for an American tour, commencing in New York in December next. that Kubelik’s share of the proceeds of the tour shall not be less than $100,000. Yellew Jack Appears. 3 Havana, July 24.—Five cases of yel+ low fever are reported at Santiago Las Vegas, a town of 6,000 inhabitants thir- teen miles from bee All the suf- Mr. Frohman has guaranteed -