Morning Herald-Despatch (Newspaper) - January 26, 1897, Decatur, Illinois VOL. 167 JANUARY 26. 1897 10 CENTS A WEEK RECORD The Coldest Many Weather For ENVELOPES THE COUNTRY Si fieri eg in the Large Cities as a Result the rt on to Aid io the Work of at in ta Touches 51 Degrees Below News with Telegrams fiem Duluth tbat the thero showed 32 degrees below zero this Readings ut other points in Minnesota IIP showing that it has tj tbe square aij state in the At the ranges ht 51 at 42; at 40; at Two thit del y ia offering relief to the needy iu this city might be tbe Mayor t hnd upon the polLu force tj Rid in out the Through the telephone com- and ths of the it is thought to b3 fur to be in touch with all times and thereby D p lily of acy deaths -i 4 11 i i Mayor Swift w Hi tre i i 3 furce Is engaged in helping kera that ho will bi i j. for ell H ii t ei in estreme Fifteen hundred h atliss fit the police d-t At Grand thirty three with ren f it. poorly protected In tk I were found to death for want of been The cold severe anl widespread known iu two It reaches from trie to Ue anJ as far south as thn gulf of In tne temperature on SuLday night was only tvo From a of the cold wave It id caused ia tho first piace the atmospheric surp in tho the barometer there taring 31' j Tils U and Prof. that it is the highest iu At 7 a. If t im degrees noses and ears were of occurrence and a few more cus s were reported but up to noon only one death was noted as a of fe That was Fieda eged 5 as a of Grant was In a freight car ar attest with feet to ly that will t3 be Tna work of clearing tho down town of wad abandoned to ihe Many of tha moo lied t work without gloves or over- coats ami rrany hundred of them were or kss bidly frost Oie man hail tin body and so badly en ho cie Miss Emma riding on a street car was HJ by cold that she nnd it tjok an hour's hard work by to I cr. The und the Salvation Army hive with all day Mayor an appeal for aid and the big department and o n sent in fcr and 51COO Ooe pitiful case brought to light WLB report d at the Hyde Park At tho home of Martin Fifty-first an in- fant child dio 1 on cf starvation auJ when the body lay un- and c family wad oS fui i ur fr in at n gay thit thy of the cold wave will bs felt middle and south Atlantic stated tonight Local snows aie reported from and the It Is jet too to reckon It to acd tho houth A a of four e of At colJ IB of The tr f it eight coding yesterday morning wss 13 There was lit U or co In the of j rep that tot in hast so tru h i prevailed as a of the c All fears of the failure of an ice crop hare Lake n In till continued tut the ret eels look hku ships crystal end thn work Is with the f ported a of teen btl this Telegraphic vice crippled and greet prevailed the pcor neither in The were j with ipp for aid fiom tho At Tex cold and third a heavy Report from the showed great suffering and among the cattle nnd blizzard fi on the hecla c f tl o sheep and cattle Denver reports teta tj twelve below much as a of the lowing no the heels the mild At a heavy the cold and the mercury was at eight and ten Minneapolis leporta thirty the coldest ic three At Paul it was two below on the mercury having failed to git higher than fifteen degrees be Wia 28 low this 20, At 1 the was 15 be- ncd thp Missouri is frozen At Das Moines the temperature was 17 ba- low and drifting had seriously inter- ice endangers shipping Traits were generally on time this but this evening all those due from points west and were in one in- stance two hours and ten All weio by snow The i dispatches show tbat lain south of city has I fury of the no section west or escaped the sudden For the first time in special Up In the Senate For a nr man's memory ice formed for a short time over lower White river In Arkansas Snow ie reported In Wett Tennessee and Southern The great fruit section tif Southwestern Missouri and Northern Arkansas has especially suffered and nothing can eave the A fall of snow that would have paved the wheat fields of Iowa and did not come with the cold wave and tions of disaster to the cereals weie quent on Distress at Jan. 25-Tae cold coot nues nnd the suffering among Its I of Cleveland es any pre- vious The below zeio Few Minutes IN SHAPE OF A Offered by Senator Burrows of Chandler Wants Wholesale Larceny of Senatorships Turpie Wants the Belligerency of Cuba on the Lute Speaker Jan. condition of affairs in with the choice of a senator from the of Delaware was called to the ett of the senate today ferod wit i street car At Davenport the temperature was 18 below and at kuk It tj 15 Acted Jan. people of iu bodies and BH individual citizens were aroused today to take prompt and for relief of the two score thousand destitute i The suffering of these unfortunate people for watt of food and has reached an LH a of tke terribly cold wave which canoe upon the Tho cold hes steadily in until when it reached the est point officially recorded in a quarter of a Between 5 and 7 o'clock this the weather bureau in the Auditorium where it is than on the recorded 20 degrees below Only in the history of tbe cember 24, 1872, 23 tbe fallen From 9 a. in. to 9 in. tie re was a gradual the range being 18 to 12 but tbe relief was harily felt because of a cutting northwest at 8 a. m. to day the mercury had present to 15 a tre crowd of half scantily clad pec p e to the city relief They plied for and tbe de- mand for coal being greater than at any county previous in the of tbe not excepting the pania year of Red tape in the matter of wae dispensed with and for the first time in the history of the city the applicants for relief e3 a paper by the thiee presidential electors tor tre state ic which it is asserted that through end fraudulent action a majority of about 500 republican votes had been changed into a democratic majority of about 2CO, Mr. Burrows presented a paper signed by the of the senate and the speaker of tbe house asserting that legislators chos en by the were evicted from the state giring the of to be American I ret din tha to listen to on the Jute Speaker Crisp and immediately afterwards The Jan. bouse today disposed of a lot of miscellaneous and toward the close of the en- upon the of tho Indian appropriation In tbe time alloted to general debate on the Mr. eon gave to the house at his views upon the for a revisit n of the currency and banking disposing of about a quarter of the frst of tha hi 1, which Includes eighty printed tie house at o'clock until The Deport upon gration vita by Mr. who notice he would ask the house to lake i1 up Wednesday and dispose of it. Bilis were passed to the tion of dead bodies iu the district of bia and to prevent of in tie A senate was passed directing a vey from the of the J t ies through bajou tj were given the benefit of the Men and tbat the of the 6tate clamored for work on the but relief was given without for no human be- ing could have worked on the streets of Cleveland today and passed through the deal Tte average was much colder than the lowest point being 15 below in tbe morning At 10 tonight tie United States weather observatory gives a record of 8 below witb prospect of 15 or 16 below before Tonight tte theatres are practically Relief is ised for Uncle Sam's weather prophet says it will be 10 Destitution at Jan. stories of The highest temperature for the day I want and destitution aggravated by the was 10 behw end tonight the is moving slowly down with no hopa cf material relief held for Mayer Swift issued a proclamation this to in- tention appealing in urgent language for contributions of and to prevent the tion and freezing of unfortunate cold which still holds iti grip on tbe city and are coming to the attention of the The city authorities day had over 1000 families to provide coal for in addition to food and Tee charitable inst of the city aie able to assist only a small proportion of those in actual reed of ia a report tonight tbat a woman and baby have beec frozen to death at Oak a He urged the of as 8uburb of the Persons were bins none too to afford tie help by bursting water backs The funds of the cherity and JDe may not the made upon them even ing the mil j winter the mayor's proclamation vas issued butions the special fund came into his in currency and checks wbiJe various of coal and wood were received en a liberal The board of trade and ether organizations started to laise relief funcia and the es and Salvation Armies making and extensive arrangements to help the work their special ea. Soup and will ba and re aa long as A plan which the mayor and of Police upon at a conference was immediately put into effect The city will buy with the fund food atd fuel acd they bute the in the of the police This is to be usual investigation the BIO also take up the Ail police stations have been thrown open to the homilies and night every onu was crowded with refugees from the The mation is the first ct the kind to be It sued in twenty-five The worst end most cases of suffering were reported from South csgo end where thousands of men been laid off at tho mills and other The savings of morit of ma of the haid times bare buen in paying for their little 1 practically although The work of awarding instant tnd relief tho weather vas by the police using patrol wagons in such a manner that DO of tion reported remained unattended to night i Much damage vas done in the suburbs to and by the lea Tha is. en- tirely frozen over acd formed a foot thick on the Out etata the thermometer ranges to 17 below it being the at 100 mileb west Stock snap seems to be weather 1 ter than More Cold in St. Jan. cold ia ported again tonight ail over the ncr It is 20 below in St. ana low as 32 below points northwest Signal i that there will be a slight moderation Rail way trains are all running hem but all aie from onS to four hours owing to the inability df the trainmen keep up steam in such In South Dakota rotary BMW plows are ing to raisa tbe snow on all Apprehension for settlers in remote districts is scarce and it Is alsi f ared that cold and deep will cause a heavy loss among The storm vast aiea of South Dakota acd in many respects in more then the in 1888 when 107 eons No Fatalities government were usurped by a corrupt oligarchy Both papers urge tbe senate ta take action in the premises in connection with the same subject Mr. Chandler announced b's intention to to the senate whether some method cannot be fixed prevent the whole SB Io larceny of in various A resolution wea offered by Mr. Petti grew and was feut to the committee on for a select committee to inquire into the issue of land patents to the Pacific railroads and as to the diversion from the gross earnings of the subsidies pa id by the companies to the Pacific mail And was given by Mr. Gear Ia chairman of tbe Pacific railroad that after tbe Nicaragua canal was cut of the way he would ask tte senate to consider tbe Pacific railroad commission White giving notice that tlon would to made to the conbi deration cf tbat A providing tbat no person shall tried ia a Unit d States court for acts in aid of tbe republic of Cuba was introduced by Mr. and was referred t3 the ary committ e. And in of previous Turpia ihe senate in a long it to prove mount power to not ia the president 6f bat in congress constitution which shall have power Supreme Courts Decision On the Shipping JUDGE HARLAN It is Held That Sailors Who Fail to Liva Up to Their Contracts Are to and Return to tice Brown the Opinion While Harlan Tert cf tbe A ON Jan. most im- news that we have yet received from eaid Mr. Du the first secretary of the legation us by cable from Madrid laet It is a telegram from the minister of foreign tbe Duke of em- the material points of a dispatch Bent to him by the captain general at Tbe duke's reada BB at tbe head of teen his traversed the of Havana compelling the principal rebel chiefs o fly to Les abandoning their in the river many of the fugitives perishing in Weyler that in Havana and there are no longer any organised bands to disperse and tnat both provinces may be considered entirely The sugar proper ti 8 in the retreat of the have already to information the Mr. Dupuy de authorizes me to give t the United Associated said Mr. Du from the fact that it comes from the minister of foreign it has been confirmed several other sources and may be relied upon ES being The legation ie very rot to oui id the dispatch legation mace public in two The other was tbe of which at denied here and in New lork afterwards when it could be co longer to nis death wa imputed tj should Mr. Du Bosc went Jan. rr shipping aws of the authorizes the arrest of who fail to observe the terms of their contracts tc serve on board vessels was today declared by the supreme court to be and witnin the jurisdiction of to Disposing first of the question of Justice Brawn said the statute ing justices of the jurisdiction complaints seamen for violation of their constructs was within power the United and con- greee co lawfully atale to warrant such as tte OEP upon which the were in egon and returned to their The ne it question was was by tbe thirteenth Ia the opinion of tbe court it attached to at the tbe It was true tbat might be no remedy if the contracting party caped from the control Ibe person with whom bo bad and that the con- tract might be declared and void as not in accord with poll but these considerations could not the service contracted fcr If the term were to be by the carty said the i the contract terminated in his a rran might net bu abla to contract f p ice and to his parson al for a brief tions in the ct. By such a construction a rr his command on the eve ol bat Ie end that be ti it baldly be as tanding to the eood of cf rse with foreign two hours half i present trip about when the hour of the of I ia vituperation of that General Weyler started en his 030. The province of Finer del Rio has beon under practical subjection ever eince the death ol the only revolutionists now there are a few guerrilla The es province of Sdata Clara can be said as a mac who to have ever been la revolt and as a result n and we now have four provinces in there with paper and is little if any the new Turpie reforms for Cuba era as they ol probably will be within the next ha by the they will be put effect iu all the six B of marque and and in Cuba aa soon as tte Ttf of private ery for the which is a con- Ke denied f n jf t n n VP Jan. have been i Beca would Spanish 1 the ocean and Spanish bonds and will his epe closed by that approved the for nc no fatalities from tbe cold he appr although reports have it that thermometers thinking it not at exposed points on tha the but rounding hill tops as low twenty degrees dition tj the You eek if can tbe ready for these new I have to die righU of no hesitancy in replying ir the only people who opposed these reforms desi e a continuation of the and back intD ihe periods cf antic -u Justice concurred in ht seamen to the terms of their contracts Navigation could cot be v ment of fcr the law in found in thel constitutional tc foreign and interstate Tbe cf al maritime front the earliest ages to tbe present and jo view of eL tee involved in tbe opinion concluded that tbe tbat the im- of p titi was cot by ihe t to constitution aad the cJ the cc .it for northern vas In hie streES of tae in Jbe of tbe of the the 1 ears ago The JEW in he fc iu a ted tc remain upon tKe books in hia opinion fcr want SOO yesr or ml council 2C3 t on ase ihe in York Tte of Io in Cu a a e fur Ia opinion tut oi the un tre seemed to have executive to the f j with Cicero was expended until lata toddy by of cable COLD SEWS AT ST. St. cold wave which gathered ia British Columbia on Friday down upon section esterday and continues here though slightly abated j At 7 o'clock this morning the temperature here was exactly at At noon three degrees above was indicated and at B p m. four degrees above was the This low temperature I upon a long season of In New York City this morning the and of poor re WOB registered at degrees below families Tte upon ic rhe interior of the state moie the associated charities for food and fuel intente I was never When the ticket At thero hate been no dow of tho provident a at tikins o- nU of the c ty sicca Saturday 6 B. m. men ord worren were in line m The temperature waiting for The police tha is at from 26 ti 30 be- ment Is to relieve low and the railroads are every the frostbitten the tracks of The were 1 at the city di stoim Saturday and Sunday and three ns the kno vn mai y Hundreds of in are sheltered At la tho thermometer WBS tbp e The river 22 being the not jet etched nera though it la full of There is tbe vary poor but the been quids and capable in responding to all forj Hobos ate being at tbe station houses tonight ajtd at street alone sixty were in an 1 Many for aid were supplied food and The Cold in Beer cold wave j which arrived here Saturday wad in full force morning eter recorded 21 below Toe of the city are with for help ing unemployed and there bistre si that cannot be Lake trente con- under almost len mass of steam Damage in Kan Jan. er this has twenty-four boars In this Great damage The cold wave ex An average of four zero ia ia prospect of No Damage in Jan. attire at 10 p. m. ia Florida tonight 64; St. Augustio 56; 56; Tar 62; Key West 68. A slightly fulling Is note at all South Florida paints on Eighth V be overlooked therefore favored the pi if Tile 2 pt an canal was laid bat at tte request oi Mr. Ala unt SUPREME 2 Ice Fuller nae would Ch rS t the the Turpie the second part oc the of in to the tion of tbe Cuban He much animation ihe existing in tbat ness and ending Moncay 1. He aloi that tha as s week to be before a full would go over uml d- in the ca cs of interstate n the Alabama Midland and the Grand Haven end rat com- the Boyden Power Drake va Brake and George B. yeara ago the Spaniards bj ern n company va. an Change of bed 0. J of bell He bra who TBS today the by Wayler to asked the to advance in buA by the ia Britain to heoring ibe noted 11 tha Be asked what in e between tbe eland jig ever a men with and to his will and tbe United States its marshal a can to a contract he leaser wisled to cf the of of tae Batlan to the vastly wider nMd thtl was pep to I which only by inhibited ES coo which acted only re a satic he from the passage by a etaie of a law the of a je who had extracted for bjt who had at tbQ end of a month tor reasons to or r af plainly to prevent the r of Havana by the forces Be denounced reptile who used i women aad chitoian and with pacer and for decided tck abandon the Yet i right of that to do tbat an eaily I upon juit as a basis as the of i e court in thU The from tbe Nebraska i English vas a 1 powerful and court eeo by tbat Maceo was and B ten line wipe cut Maana acd was no power to say it country the de- had no power except such as was conferred upon it by the con- And he did cot give congress the r gtt to a law AN in oi the I is convalescing of a severe operation on bur lest j which Tuesday a believed to have held one man to another his will in a matter of ncy and an oil ed the caute ol disorder j soahl and privets contract of cf tbe of the ncp oi tbe Cubans by ihe be wid it would them ra of tie and to tbe of o'clock r-c tte Two which he contracted in Siberia since that time weeks the such form natal surgeons decided tbat mediate tion wac tbe en y hope for bureau chief be s CTit ed t Jan. 25-There M no improvement in f-e condition cf of who is lying seriously ill at the Gatfield Memorial pit I. He bet f r end well laet but 11 re WHS po change for the V f f
