Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 1, 1909, Page 1

For Nebrasks- Fair and warmer. For Towa—Fair and warmer For weather report see page OMAHA, M'CUMBER FOR | FREE LUMBER| Hold Up Idaho Train an North Dakota Senator Makes Speech | Drove Off Trainmen Which Provokes Extended | Cut Open Six Controversy. Mail. BPOKANE, Wasih, April 30.—Safely en- sconced in some hotel or lodging house | Epokane the iwo bandits who held | Northern Pacific passenger train No. Inean Rathdrum, ldaho, last night are he |lleved to have found shelter shortly after midnight, waiting for the excitement subside Two luckless hoboes who were | captured by a frelght crew last night | suspects were turned loose toda it there Quotes Figures to Prove that These [is stil hope that the right men may be . |landed by night Resources Are Being Exhausted. fix eliks of mall were opened by the — |bers, who captured the engine and mail {car soon after the train left Rathdrum SHOT AT SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS 10:% p. m. Driving off the trainmen with revolver shots and cutting loose from the "rnm-hrl they ran the cngine about iwo miles west of Trent, where it was aban doned. it {s supposed one bandit ran the | engine while the other was searching mall sacks. How much booty they secured {18 not yet known. It is suspected they had an automobile in waiting near Trent and speech by Senator McCumber avoring free | Tushed at once Spokane. Indications Jumber occupled several hourddn the senate | A7¢ that the robbers were experienced in todny. His remarks provoked“in extended | the holdup business, and it is thought they controversy among advocates of a taritt|May be the men who held up the same en i M. McCumber S4id. whill he | SIneye aimost the identical spot last was u thorough protectionist, he would not | #ummer Agree to a tariff on products such as coal o s AR iron lamber and ofl, that are being | \ S ool A HaAYS, B ety |Roosevelt Speaks Senator Aldrich reported from the com- | ce na at Berkeley mittee on finance additidhal amendments to | the tariff bill andl the senate adopted a motion made by him that until further notice the senate shall meet at 11 o'clock dally, Senator Johnson of North DaketR made his maiden speech in reply to & statement during the campajgn by W. J. Rryan, who, | he sald, had been “‘fooled” by the counter- valling cla in the. petroleum schedule by which petroleum brought into this coun- try pays the daty levied on American ofl tmported Irito Russia “T had to slt and take it then," be said, referting ‘o Mr. Bryan's address, “‘but to- day 1s my inning." Mr. Johnson severely criticised Mr. Bryan 84 having heen largely responsible for such a clause remaining in the Wilson bill. Speech of Mr. McCumber. | “*No resources of the country which, when once utilized, cannot be reproduced, and | wiidh are certain of exhaustion in a com- | 1 2 puratively few vears, should be protected | Alleged Kidnaper of Billy Whitla to »gainst importation,” declared Senator Mc to Face the Court on Cumber of North Dakots, a member of the cominities on finance, who follewed Mr. | May 5. Johnson. “'No tariff,” he added, *‘should | levied upon lron, oil_ar lumber," Except for these, he #aid, Lie was as strong An advocnte of Amerfcan protaction as any with Guns and Sacks of REVISION SHOULD BE DOWNWARD 7 P Objects to Duty on Coal, Lumber, Iron 3 Ore and 0il NECESSITY FOR CONSERVATISM These More He Says Seantors from States v Demanding tection Than Old Lin Republ Are the WASHINGTON, April 80.—An extended at on ore, Ex-President Will Make First Public Address There After Return from Africa. BE nouncement versity of Roosevelt KELEY, Cal, April $.—The an- has been made at the Unl- California that ex-Pesident will deliver his first publie speech in this country upon his return from his African hunting expedition In the Greek theater at that Institution. {Boyle Trial 1s Postponed T coal, MERCER, Pa., April %0.—The trial of James H. Boyle, ¢harged with the abduc- tion of Billy Whitla, was today postponed till May#. Mrs. Boyle's trial was set for the day following. HOLLAND CELEBRATES EVENT Birth of Helr tain Fenntor 5 Mr. MeCumber sald that tariif ravision this vear is unfversally understood to mean revision downward, e asserted that lum- Dber heeded o protegtjon and that no other Industry lind produed wore millionaires for the amount invested than the humber in- duatry. Mi. McCumber botleved for the of the i Tmportant Independence of Netherlands, to Main- the wdded, wholo however, that he that the bl “‘does the just demands an the most -Wilhelmina birth to a THE WAGUE, Apdl 5. queers of The Netherlards, gav daughter this morning. The condition of her majesty is satisfactory, the Infant princess is doing well and Holland is cele brating th from one end of the country to the other wtih of joy such as seldom have been witnessed among thts plactd The political significance of the occurrence lies in the fact that there Is now an hieir to the throne of The Netherlands, a circumstance which | greatly enhances the country's chances for continued independence. Every town and village In Holland is today celebrating the {long awaited birth of a child to her majesty, who was married to Prince Henry Mecklenburg-Schwerin February part meet marked that crats making sty tection than the school, and 8 nim to “We are getting mixed that it hard to tell from the goats and T am afraid that before we get through there won't be trough enough for all the hogs to get thelr scrops.’ Senntors Badly Mixed. Senator ‘Tillman said some repubiican members were making speeches In accord ance with democratic principles, while some democratic members were cellent republican speech Mr. Tillman argued that the United States can compete In the open market of the world for steel ralls and other steel manufactures, “vet Carnegie and Schwab and Corey and Gary and that crowd have influence enough to have high rates of duty retained. Mr, McCumber replied thet he would be glad to vote with Mr. Tillman on an schedule, the rates of which Mr. Tillman could prove were higher than was neces- ' STy to protect the difference in labor cost | in America and abrond. “I deny that there is any can make one-half of he rich and the other half McCumber. Mr. THiman had drawn s comparison be tween the protection of Infant industries the hern demo als for pro- of the old interrupted nator Tillman happy event expressions say o Ladly people. is the sheep of delivering of n 3101 - on The accouchement took place at 7 o'clock Owii g to the early hour the contemplated salute was not fired and the first persons passing the their way to were the were a party of workmen residence of the queen on work. The cheers then raised signal for general rejoicing. Flags and bunting that had been held in readiness were unfurled and the city took on hollday attire, Heralds accompanied by trumpeters olad ent Dutch dress made the rounds ty proclaiming the event in of ang one poll the that American people pour,” sald My ulations on the »f Holland. today cabled his cong birth of an heir to the throne in | outside the royal palace to hear the news | WASHINGTON, Avril #.—President Taft | WAR AT LINCOLN INSANE ASYLUM Superintendent Woodward Discharges Miss Beatrice McGinnis, the Matron, | |I.ATTER REFUSES TO BE FIRED /Depends on Her Relative, Arthur Mullen, to Keep Her in Place. STAFF GENERALLY DISORGANIZED | Governor Will Have Matter on His to Settle the Return, SHALLENBERGER FOR PRESIDENT | Pennsrivania Paper ! hraska Executive a ! Which Trots Ne- Timber from ndidate Might ured. Out | (Frem a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Neb., April (Special Tele- gram.)—~Mise RBeatrice McGinnls, matron, has discharged b Superintendent Woodward of the Lincoln @splum, and Miss | Beatrice McGinnis says she will not quit | Thus begins the disorganization of the | Lincoln asylum under democratic rule, for | dissatisfaction Is expressed by many of the employes about the way things are running | and it is even sald Assistant Superintendent | Weber covets the place of his ch and factionalism runs riot to such an extent \l!ml no men's job is safe. Miss MeGinnis sald notice of her dis. missal was the result of a united effort (o get her out of the institution. She Is a | relative of Arthur Mullen, overlerd to the governor, and she is depending upon Mr. Mullen to hold her In her place. At the present time Mr. Mullen s out of the city and 0 is the governor. Miss MeGinnis ex- pects to remain at the Institution until the case is passed upon by the governor and his chief adviser. This latest outbreak has caused several of the employes to tald, and It is reported on good authority that the custodian of | the dipso ward, Marshall of Fr‘nkllu: eounty, whose wife 18 also employed at the | Institution, is doing work from from satis- | factory, and it Is also reported he gave out the information that he did mot care to come to Lincoln to work, but to simply | hold down a job. Beveral nights ago the governor was e tertained at dinner at the asylum and in his honor flowers were brought from lnlln‘ and the varfous wards decorated with them, notwithstanding the asylum supports a | greenhouse. More Trouble for Rrya Another Insurrection has started in the Bryan democracy. Governor Shallenbeg who carried Bryan to victory in the state Jast fall, 18 it along with & bunch of poo- ple back in Pennsyivania. from whence cawe the governor's “Dutch” ancestwy. It is iikely that Mr. Guffy, who it will be re- | membered was the subject of a speech by Mi. Bryan last summer, is at the bottom of it all. Anyhow, Governor Shallenberger has been mentioned favorably as demo cratic presidential timber. The mention | was made In a Pennsylvania dally paper of some proportions, a marked copy of | which was recelved at the office of the governor this morning. With Shallenberger the presidential pos sIbility and Metcalfe the senatorial possi | bility, there is some speculation as to where | Mr. Bryan is going to get on during the next few years. While the outcome of the Shallenberger presidential hoom is not much in doubt, it | |18 now belleved to have been the inspira tlon which brought forth the humble letter from one Colonel Charles E. Fanning, who had an inside tip on the news. Governor Shallenberger has thought that Jthe for Pennsylvania startingga boom for his candidacy Is because he has observed republican Minnesota has been | carried three times a Swedish demo- i erat, and perhaps this Pennsylvania paper {has hopes that republican Pennsylvania | might be carried by a Pennsylvania Dutgh- man. The clipping about the governor follows When it comes to dolgg democratic things | (and democratic things'are for the good of the whole country as well as for the state | In which they are enacted) Governor Shal- lenberger of Nebraska has done more good | things for his state and people in the few months he has heen governor than Gov- ernor Johnson has during his more than two terms. Nwrman E. Mack in his first ssue of the National Monthly (democratic) (out May 1) has done good service for ti |democratic party by printing side by side | e AL : | (Continued on Fifth Page.) been reason by and farmers ‘feeding young plgs about woaning time and stopping the feed when there 18 no longer any profit in ralsing them by that method. Mr. MeCumber sug- gosted that Mr. Tillman would agree that Qere 18 no way of feeding A pig so that | e side is lean and the other fat. Mr jeCumber declared that the senator from uth Carolina seemed to 1 Aal no one could be honest but himself Mr. Tillman took exception to this and apnealed to his colleagues whethor he was cgotistical ‘Does & hog ever get man asked Mr. McCumber The senator North LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 5, C. Dahlman, Mayor; 1 et Members of Counell of Omaha Gentlemen We note, in the pub- letter to the Douglas delegates in the legislature, though the letter itselt has not to answer this question reached us. We take it for granted Necesslty Conservation | that the press is correct, and we know Mr. McCumber presented statistical est!- | also that it was evidently given out for mates to show that the coul of the United | home consumption States, at the present rate of consumptio i . would 1ast 100 years, fron # vears, lumber | 1€PI¥INg thereto for ourselves, we 2 boarn- 408 of) 1 % to ® vears and | d¢sire to impress upon you and the mamtained that the hegt public that there is no legislation '““"""""'“'” " ) | Which we know of that “looks toward portation of suel | E : < Messtn Dixon. Piles. Page and Galiinger | €/ @IDAUNE from the Omaba charter enguged the North Dakota senator in fre- | ©F the laws of Nebraska the right or | authority of the eity council to regu- quent discussions. nting o England | late public service eorporations, or to s Syuutatn free raw maierial. | impoge such an occupation tax upon appreclate the needs of all industries. He | (€M @8 will in their judgment be just inalsted that he would not agree to protect | 80d equitable.”” We also desire to say aay product which id not be produced ] that though this power has been a part P ey AN waber {of the Omaha charter at all times ouresude L G ! slnce you were elected to your present FORT DODGE MAN DRINKS ACID | ofice. we know of no one of you tak- —— ing any steps whatever to enact any s v i ordinance under this authority, at Acciden least mot until very recently, We fully know why you are writing letters to us now, for there is an elec ¥ old, | tion to take place this spring; we un drank car- | derstand this thoroughly. But why * last night and died | pave you not exercised this power be- cttact ne dleg me V8" | fore? Why have you let this power eaves & widow and | I® You as officers lie dormant and un used for three years, and during all 1909, B. John- the City To J have of son lic press, county your grown?’ Mr. - from Dakota refused for way to conserve to permit free im the effort of New | | | ¥ Brings In Verdiot of De, » of Plon FORT DODGE Telegram. )-H, M san of Clare Colling bolic acid at his how soon afterward April 3. (Bpecial lins, ploneer ars When Pot Calls Kettle Black (Werld-Herald, February 8, 1909, | the time you have been in office? Why | 8re you so exercised now as to declare this supposed, but not contemplated, action by us “a detrimental action agalnst the city administration, who have this most vital question” before you “for consideration, investigation and action?” Why have you not in- vestigated and acted in those three years you have been in office? Evi- dently you did not want to do so, but now when an election is nearly at hand you put in the public press, for home consumption, your letter wherein You state you consider such power of vital interest to your administration. You need not fear it will be taken away from you. What the public needs | | to understand is that you have not | used this power, and what they need to | fear is that you are not in earnest now | since you have had the power for three years and have not shown any desire whatever to use it. If you had spent your time in endeavoring to act under this most vital power, instead of spending your time In trylng to pre- vent the present democratic delegation of Douglas county from redeeming its promise to give home rule to the city of Omaha, you might have accom- plished somethiug along the-line that you claim now you intend to-accom- plish. Yours truly SATURDAY | will | committee MORNING, MAY 1, From the New York World. 1909—TWENTY PAGES. LIGHTING THE WAY. HUNDREDS SENT T0 CALLOWS ‘lfilihry Court at Constantinople is Busy with Reactionaries. TRIAL FOR THE ADANA RIOTERS Massacres ‘“‘Ill ht to Account Hefore Coms tgators of Be BULLETIN, LONDON. April 3.—A local news agenoy today publishes a dispatch from Saloniki, Buropean Turkey, saying it has been of- ficlally announced there that Abdul Hamid, { the deposed sultan of Turkey, is to be tried before that it death a constitutional is generally will be passed court-martial believed sentence on him. and ot CONSTANTINOPLE, stitutionalists have lost no time in bring- ing the conspirators in the recsat rising to trial. The military court, sitting in the war office today, about 20 April 2. —~The con- condemned | prisoners to death and they were executed. Nadir Pasha palace, whose the second eunuch sentence was pronounced yesterday, was hanged at dawn on the Galata bridge, and his great body was viewed by thousands in the early morning hours. The national assembly, which met today under the presidency of Sald Pasha, de- cided (hat the Suitan Mehmed V should take (he oath of the constitution within 8 week. The assembly also ratified the transportation ¢f Abdul Hamid to Salonikl Tt is not expected that the new cabinet be completed before Saturday. The government Las decided to send a com mission to Adana to try by court-martial the instigators of the maseacres and the is authorized to act with the utmost severity. It is alleged that the chief authors of the recent mutiny were Abdul Hamid's favorite son, Prince Mehmed Burhan Ed dine, Rear Admiral Baid Pasha, son of Kiamil Pasha, the former grand vizier, and Nadir Pasha, whe were engaged for o long time prior to the rising in rupting thh troops. The two former have fled. JOHN D. Publishers Found of the cor- JR, WINS CASE of New York A ity of Criming Libel. April rican NEW gullty the publishers of the New York American by the jury in the trial charging the pub- lication of an article libelling John D. Rockefeller, ir. ORK 0—A verdict of Are you going to move in the spring? Why move a lot of things you won't want in the new house? Most really wise people who think about moving prepare for the ordeal by looking around what they would like to sell. Then they write out a wantad telling about them and put the ad in The Bee. to see It’s a sure way to clean out the things that you don’t want to move—a money mgker, too. That’s one reason why there F E J. T. RANSOM, E, HOWELL, M. TANNER. are so many bargains on The Bee want ad page. Have you read them yet, today1 of criminal libel was found agalnst | 'Cattle Rate Hearing is On |Buit at St. Lonis Affects Tariffs from | Southwest to Omaha and Other Central Markets, 8T. LOUIS, April ®.—The taking of tes- timony in. 1. Louls In the sult of the rail- foads of fie southwest to restrain the Thte: ting Into effect a reduction Iu cattle ship- ping rates has been completed and James A. Seddon of St. Louls, commissioner take the testimony, has adojurned bearing to Chicago, where further mony will be taken. All the railroads doing a cattie business from Texas and southwestern points to St Louls, East 8t. Louls, Chicago, leans, Omaha, Kansas Cit seph are plaintiffs In the suit They failed | to & temporary Injunction against | the commission and the testimony now be ing taken is in their effort to obtain a per- manent injunction The suit was brought States circuit court LS SRR § QUARREL LEADS TO SUICIDE Daunghter of Omaha Woman ife at ¢ Home. to t tesi- New Or- and St. Jo- obtain in the United Takes ifornia SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, April 30 - Followlng a quarrel with her husband re- sulting because she did not want to aceom- pany him to Columbus, O., to attend the meeting of the Order of Railway Train- men, Mrs. C. P. Fording, wfe of a well known conductor on the Santa Fe, shot herself through the heart today. The woman's parents live in Omaha. Mrs. Fording's mother Edwards, wife of Norriq N. Edwards, a laborer, liyes at 422 Dorcas street, Omaha, and her father, Louls Schwer, a butcher in the employ of Armour & Co., Jives at Thir teentd and Polk stieets, South Omaha Mrs, Fording uever made her home in Omaha, Yk visited her mother here last summer, spending about four months in the city. She had no children. Mrs. Edwards was apprised Friday morn- Ing of the traglc death of her daughter by a telegram from her daughter's husband HARRIMAN LOSES APPEAL { Appellate Division of Court 1 to Dis Blg Suit Joseph Man, Mrs. Emma T, Refuses by St. | NEW YORK, April 3.—The appellate di- vision of the supreme court today denied the appeal of E. H. Harriman for the dis- missal of & suit for $500,00 against him, brought by John Donovan of St. Joseph, ate Commerce commission from put- | BLACK HAND EKILLS EICAT Tenement House Burned in New York Following Money Demand. FIVE OF VICTIMS ARE CHILDREN | | Hallways Are Soaked with Kerosene | and Dwellers Are Trapped by the | Raplaiy ending Flames ~Fourteen Are Injured. | NEW YORK, April 30.—FEight persons five of them hildren, were burned to death, and fourteen others were Injured in an incendiary fire in a five-story tenement house at 37 Spring street, occupled by twenty families, early today The bla followed a demand by members of th. Black Fland moclety for the payment of $1,00 blackmalil. Tt spread through bullding with startling rapidity ways were soaked with blackmallers. In a panic which followed the alarm the tenants fought their escapes or the as the hall kerosene ofl by the way down the fire jumped from the windows, while bables were thrown from windows into the arms of policemen on the sidewalk of the injured, three of them chil- dren, are not expected to recover. Jacob Bruck, the proprietor of the grocery store on the main floor of the bullding, received on April 18 a letter, reading: “We demand $1.000 or deatl Mott street. Petrosino Black Hand lives. Bring it in Is dead, but the (Bigned), “BLACK HAND SOCIETY." On Monday last Bruck recelved another letter, written in a similar strain He turned both letters over to the police. Bleaching Order 1s Sustained Wilson to Change Decision to Prosecute. WASHINGTON ford of the suprem A %0.—Justice urt of the District of Columbla today declined to compel Seq- retary of Agriculture Wilson to vacate his decision institute June tions against manufacturers and | in flour made according to the process. | | | to next prosecu dealers bleached The question whether such bleaching vio- | lates the pure food law was | the ¢ The question” decided the Alsop Process c is entitlgd to mandamus to compel secretary change his opinion—that the juice of nitrogen peroxide in the bleach- ing of flour render the product unwhol some, deleterfous to fhe consumer and a violation of the pure food law not before was only mpany of St urt whethe Louis the to | | SPRINGFIE 1. April @.—Abner | Smith. former judge of the circult court jof Cook county, broke down under the weight of his sorrow today in pleading be- | fore the board of pardons here to keep | out of the penitentiary. The former jurist, sentenced to the penitentiary in connection with the fallure of the Bank of America on a conspiracy charge, wept as he begged the pardon board to spare him further dis grace. Governor Deneen and Charles Ecknart, don tribunal t by with Ed Snively members of the par- and was vislbly affected by the recal. Smith's volce faltered and choking with emotion, the tears he had to stop before he ended his plea. The former judge, dressed in a suit of black, presented a sorrowful picture as his gray head bent and he told the pardon already. “l mm now a man of & years and this trouble has resulied in taking from me all visible, | board members how his life was disgraced | ‘Aged Judge Weeps During | Plea Before Pardon Board | that T had as a result of a lite's work | ehildfen are all dead. If you grant | pardon the only fhing I have left resume the practice of law 1 bad no intention of wrongdoing. I was convicted owing to the inflamed public feeling existing at the time of my trial This was made intense because of the fail- ure of the Chicago National bank of which John R. Walsh was president. The convic tion of Paul O. Btensland added to the feel- tng." Smith read a letter of Chicago. in which the Chicago city | ecutive declared believed Smith innocent of any Intentional wrongdoing Clarence 8. Darrow of Chicago, who sisted In the prosecution of Smith My me is to a from Mayor Busse ex he he to read to in the case. This was done on the request of the board | The hoard is expected to take the case | under advisement. Court Refuses to Compel Secretary | Btaf- | the pardon board a statement of the facts | GREAT STORM IN MIDDLE WEST Fourteen Persons Are Illinois and Missouri Many Are Injured. Killed in and EXTENSIVE DAMAGE IN CHICAGO Three Men Killed by Collapse of Factory at Grand Cros: MISSOURI TOWN WIPED OUT Five Are Dead at Golden and Two at Summerville. SCORES DEAD IN THE SOUTH ornadoes Fatal in Several States and Mississippl Town Ree ported Wiped Out, with Twelve Killed, CHICAGO, April 30.—Death and destruc- tlon followed in the wake of & terrific which swept over the middles west last night, including Chicago in its path devastation. Here many bulldings were unpoofed, homes blown over and scores of people driven into the siorm, many nar- rowly escaping with their lives. T men weore killed at € nd 1ng. a suburb, In the collapse of a factory The victims were burled under tons of dobria when a brick wall of the Grand Crossing Tack company collapsed. Homeless men, women and children awoke today In strange beds In many parts of the city, where the storm had held furlous carnival. Lots of hardship and peri) brought charitable response from nelgh bors who fortunately escaped the ravages of the varitable tornado and its accom- panying torrent of rain and hail even More Deathw. In the path of the storm before it reached the Great Lake region great destruction of property 18 reported and at least eleven are known to have been Killed. At Golden, Mo., the business section of the town was destroyed and many homes wrecked. Five persons lost their lives. The dead at Golden are MRS. W. H. HENSON MRS. CORA PRENTICE. BUD HOPKINS. BESSIE CAMPBELL. MRS. JARVIS. At Summerville, Mo., the wind ere- ated havoe and two persons were killed. a few miles north of the town. Many were injured. The dead are MISS BELLE DELVRY. MRS, GEORGE SMITH The storm was furious In the southern part of Thinols. At Texas City, near Carin four persons were Killed and many seri- ously wounded. ‘The dead are: EDWARD OVERTON MRS. OVERTON MRE. OVERTON'S RARY A SERVANT. Many houses were town was wracked Meavy Damage in Mississippl. Great damuge to property aud crops war caused in Michigan, on the east shore of Lake Michigan, Benton THarbor and South Haven being in the path of the storm Vessels were Imperilled on the lake. Dis- patches from Sault Ste. Marle, Mich., re- port that a steamer, belleved to be the Aurania of the Corrigan line, was seen to sink yesterday In White Fish bay by Cap- tain Boyee of fhe steamer Peavey Cor rigan, McKinney & Co. of Cleveland, own. ers of the steamer Aurania, have received no tidings of the vessel At Michigan City, Ind, on the southern | shore of Lake Michigan, the windstorm was | and a portlon of the wall of the | Northern Indlana penitentiary there was | destroyed. Militia from South Bend was ordered to the scene to guard the prisoners Wisconsin the storm was converted blizgard and for many hours there of the severest spowstorms of the season in many towns, causing great damage to property At La Crosse and Superfor reports are that traffic was prac- abandoned hecause of drifts. | Telegraph Wires Down. ! Telegraph service between the great | news centers is still hampered and early improvement is problematical. South of Loulsville conditions are particularly bad. ! In the south snow has held up train serv- jce and the gale on the lakes has hampered shipping to a considerable extent, Inquiry at the general offices of Tilinols Central as to the veport that the town of Horn Lake, De Soto county, M sissippi. had been wiped out by the storm. elicited the information that the company had no way of ascertaining the truth or falsity of the report, as all thelr wires were prostrated. There were no wires for tho dispatehing of trains early, although hopeswas expressed that a patchwork serv- jce might be restored before night. The Chicago & Alton, two of whose traine were stalled last night, reported traffic handled on & normal basis today, their wires had suffered storm Cross- were destroyed and ths terrific a | | n into a raged one tically the being althoug! LACROS! heaviest snowstorms of ing snow April 3.—Ope of the the winter Is rag- Up to 8§ o'clock four inches of fallen and the storm seemed Iikely continue all day, The snow s now heavy enough for sleighing. SUPERIOR, Wis., April 3.—The blizzard which started yesterday is still raging, snow being driven all night by a wind ranging from forty to fifty-five miles. Heavy Damuge 1n Ohle. PIQUA, O.. April 30.—A tornado twenty miles wide struck this sectlon early this morning and caused a property damago estimated at $100,000. The path of destguc- several countles and by the wind Sldney, Houston Kirkwood. No loss today had to tion extends over 2 s done in treme the towns Fletcher, 8t of life Cold DBENVER low as 28 above the frult regions around Colo., today and doubtedly been ralsers are using smudge their ees. Cold we damage of Pa pported Mountal April 2 and Reglow 0. —Temperatures reported from and Junctior damage has un Hundreds of fruit pots to protect in Colo. as ro ar mueh done ther extends all over the moun- tain reglon. At Denver it was 19 above this morning and at Cheyenne, Wyo., 10 above. A high north wind prevails and the weather bureau predicts heavy frost night. More foot of tallen luride, Colo than a anow has at Freexe KANSAS CITY mile-an-hour wind the temperature were the ditions [ Mo. from ndle, April 30.—A t twenty - th, wiik ve mero prevailed gen in western Missourl and through Kansas today The local weather bureau also reported & froesing temperaturs at 40 degrees ab ¢ that erally out