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PUN FIGHT
«ILL INTRODUCED WHICH 80ME
LEGISLATORS THINK AMOUNTS
TO LEGALIZING THE VIOLATION
OF ANTI-COMPACT LAW.
REFORM MEASURES
GIVEN APPROVAL
SENATE DI8CU88ION OVER SHER-
IFFS' BILL SHOWS SURPRISING
TENDENCY TO ACQUIESCE IN
THE NEW MEASURE.
Des Moines, Jan. 29.—Another
turn was taken yesterday in the in
evitable fight of the Insurance people
to undo some of the work of the past
In legislation to protect Iowa policy
holders. Representative Harding in
troduced a bill to legalize the violation
of the Blanchard anti-compact law.
The first section of the bill provides
that:
"It shall be lawful for fire insurance
companies authorized to do business
In the state of Iowa to collect statis
tics, eliminate as far as possible the
lire hazard, reduce the fire waste, fix
and apportion upiform rates .for fire,
lightning and tornado insurance fairly
among" the people of the state, and
prevent discrimination or favoritism
in t^he apportionment of the cost of
fire, lightning ind tornado insurance
to the public."
The bill authorizes a convention of
representatives of insurance com
panies to be held with -tfie head of the
Insurance department and the attoiS
ney genera.^ and it also authorizes for-'
matidn qf "lfccal boards for the main-
A short tltne ago a local daily paper
which maintains a commercial depart
ment published a modest news item,
which was evidently furnished by the
insurance interests the substance of
which was that the companies had giv
en up hope of securing the direct' ap
peal of, the Blanchard anti-compact
law but would try to clrcumvent-it in
some other way. It also stated' they
had decided upon making a fight for
retention of the insurance department
under the present official in charge.
Sheriff's Specific Duties.
The senate discussion over the bill
to give the sheriffs specific duties as
to enforcement of law and especially
to obligate them to engage in de
tective work and to ferret out crime
and to file information where a crime
has been committed or where the
sheriff has reason to believe a crime
has been committed, showed a surpris
ing tendency to acquiesce in the re
form measures which have been set
down in the official program for this
general assembly. A committee amend
ment tacked to the bill provides that
the county attorney may direct a
sheriff to make a special investigation
and report thereon and that under
such circumstances the county can
pay a reasonable fee for expenses in
curred. Even this did not cause re
sentment, though Senator Frudden
pointed out it might open the way to
presenting large bills. It was admit
ted by the author of the bill, Senator
Cosson, that in writing it he had his
eye on the infraction of the prohib
itory liquor laws especially, though
Dther laws were violated without any
effort on the part of the chosen officers
of the law to prevent violation.
The Anti-compact Law.
The chief grievance of the insurance
interests against Mr. Roe, who had
been for six years at the head of the
Insurance department, was with re
gard to the anti-compact law. Judge
McPherson had held unconstitutional
a similar statute in Nebraska and the
insurance department then said he
would not appeal. Then he held the
Iqjpa anti-compact law illegal and at
Dnce the companies commenced to re
organize the old 'local boards which
were declared to be legal.- But Mr.
Roe insisted upon appealing the case
.o the United States supreme court
3 nd when this was done the Iowa law
vias upheld. The companies now claim
that this anti-compact law is exceed
ingly burdeusome, that, it has had the
effect of materially decreasing the
gioss amount received from fire in
surance policies and that rates in
Iowa are lower than ever before be
cause of the inability of the companies
to meet and fix rates.
The bill just introduced would be In
effect a repeal of the Blanchard anti
compact law, and its introduction is
taken to mean that the companies are
prepared for a pretty fight all along
the line.
First Contest From Clinton County
The first of the contest committees
to report was that in the contest from
Clinton country. The committee re-
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CONQUERS HIS CANCER
Dr. W. T. Bull, Well Known Surgeon,
Refuses to Give up, and Wins
His Fight.
New York, Jan. 29.—According to a
statement made yesterday by Dr.
Nathaniel B. Potter, who with Dr.
Joseph Blake has had charge of the
treatment of Dr. William Tillinghast
Bull, a remarkable change has been
accomplished by the use of serum in
the case of the famous surgeon. The
cancerous growth in Dr. Bull's throat
had dried up and disappeared. He is
gaining strength by the day and on
Friday or Saturday will leave the city
for Savannah.
Two months ago Dr. Bull was taken
to the Plaza a doomed man. The
ravages of cancer had wrought a ter
rible change in his appearance. There
was no doubt about the cancerous na
ture of the growth in the surgeon's
throat glands. Only the great surgeon
himself refused to accept his doom.
Day by day as his strength "permitted,
he discussed his case with a multi
tude of surgeons and specialists that
called utfon him
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tenance of deemed in*!
and rules established" by the com
panies.
Chicago, Jan. 29.—Charged with
murdering his young wife in their
apartment at 4507 Woodlawn avenue
in the early morning hours of Decem
ber 14, Frank Dufterin Campbell was
arrested last evening in Kewanee, 111.
The police move proved a complete
surprise to Campbell, who is a travel
ing man ior Franklin MacVeagh & Co.,
and was making one of his usual visits
to Kewanee.
He declared himself innocent of
charges that he was responsible In
any way for his wife's death and ex
pressed anxiety to return to this city
as quickly as possible.
The arrest was made by the K?
wanee city marshal, William Bucking
ham, and after the arrival of Chief of
Police Potter of Galesburg, who had
been prepared to arrest Campbell on
his expected arrival in that city, the
three boarded Burlington train No. 4.
They arrived in Chicago at 6:50 o'clock
this morning.
TO INVITE 230 SCHOOLS.
Large Number of Colleges and Univer
sities Asked to Compete In Meet
During Big Exposition.
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 29.—Two hun
dred and thirty colleges and universi
ties in the United States and Canada
have been sent invitations by the ath
letic committee of the Alaska-Yukon
Pacific exposition to participate in the
huge athletic meet to be held on the
exposition grounds this summer. Ev
ery institution of higher learning
Ottumwa Practically Cut
Off From Outside World
All Wires Snowed Under
Ottumwa is practically cut off from the outside world today. For
the first time in more than five years the telegraph wires are' out of
commission. The Western Union had a wife working with Chicago
early this morning, and again this afternoon It was opened long
enough to get a partial market V'sport, but the communication did not
last long enough to give much of an Idea of what Is going on In the
outside world. The Postal had even worse luok, not a single wire be
ing open during the day.
There may be all kinds of good "stories" at the other end of the
wires, but the wires are silent and the stories will not be printed.
There may be wrecks, fires and murders galore, but until the coat of
snow and ice leaves the wires the news of them will not be told. The
legislature is in session at Des Moines, but what legislation was con
sidered or passed is a total blank. Des Moines could not be reached
by telegraph or telephone.
If there were a few Jack Blnns around handy with wireless instru
ments it would aid vastly in gettln out the paper, but then the
chances are Jack would find It hard to send a C. Q. D. against the gen
tie zephyrs plying hereabouts today.
There never has\ been a fight like
^th.medlptaui, fpr In
tient was the general who directed the
forces fighting in his behalf.
WIFE MURDER CHARGED
Chicago Traveling Man Arrested
Connection With Puzzling
Gas Mystery.
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America that boasts a track team has
been sent a formal invitation.
The program of sports will consist
mostly of track athletics. Baseball
games among Washington, Yale, Har
vard, Wisconsin, Princeton and Penn
sylvania universities will probably be
played. Yale, Harvard, Wisconsin,
Cornell, Syracuse, Stanford and Cali
fornia have been asked to compete
with Washington in a huge rowing re
gatta on Lake Washington early in the
autumn among the northwestern
teams.
New York Man Commits Suicide.
New York, Jan. 2.—Condar Daniel
son the Porto Rican manager for the
United States Express company, who
was found with a bullet wound in his
head in his apartments at the hotel
Carlton early today, died this after
noon without regaining consciousness.
Iowa Central Engineer Dies of Injuries
Oskaloosa, Jan. 29.— (Special)—Tom
Conner, aged 20 years, of Nashville,
Tenn., fireman on the Iowa Central,
leaned out of the cab window and was
hit by a girder on the Des Moines
river bridge at eight o'clock last night
He died at the hospital here at six
o'clock this morning.
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MR, HOOT FEARS
TOO MUCH POWER
SENATOR-ELECT TELL8 NEW
YORK LEGISLATORS STATES
MUST USE RIGHTS.
Albany. N. Y„ Jan. 29,-United
Senator"elect
Root yesterday
addressed the senate and assembly in
joint ^session. He told the legislature
mat he believed there were two dan
gers, due to the development of this
country.
One he said was the danger of the
national government breaking down In
its effective machinery through the
burdens that threaten to be cast upon
.. "On the other," he continued, "is
the danger of breaking down the local
self-government of the states."
"The tendency of vesting all powers
in the central government at Wash
ington," he said, "is to produce the de
cadence of tlje powers of the .state*.
Now do Hot misunderstand me.11 am
a convinced and uncompromising na
tionalist of the school of Alexander
Hamilton.
Believes In Power of Executive.
"I believe in the exercise of the ex
ecutive, the legislative and the judicial
powers of the national government to
the full limit of the constitutional
grants as those grants were construed
by John Marshall and would be con
strued by him today.
But I believe that the founders cf
the republic builded more wisely than
they knew when they set the limits be
tween the exercise of that national
power and the exercises of the local
powers by the states. And while I be
lieve in the exercise of the national
power throughout the province of the
constitutional grants of national pow
er, I believe also in the preservation
of state power within the limits of Its
constitutional authority.
Officers Must Observe Limit.
"Further than that I believe that the
essential quality of free government is
to be found In the observance by all
public officers of the limitations set by
law upon their .powers.
"I am opposed to the direct election
of senators, as I am opposed to the in
itiative and referendum, because theso
things are based on the idea that the
people cannot elect legislatures whom
they trust. They proceed upon the
Idea of abandoning the attempt ro
elect trustworthy and competent state
legislatures.
"If you abandon that attempt, if you
begin to legislate or to amend consti
tutions upon that theory, what be
comes of all the other vast powers of
the state legislatures, in maintaining
the system of local self-government un
der the constitution?
8tates Must Use Rights.
"Evidently if the powers of the
states are to be preserved and their
authority is to be continued, the states
must exercise their powers. The only
way to maintain the powers of gov
ernment is to govern. Let me say that
the men who make the most noise
about state rights are apt to be the
men who are the most willing and the
most desirous to have the national gov
ernment step in and usurp the func
tions of a state when there is an ap
propriation carrying with it the usurp
ation.
Named for Annapolis.
Washington, D. C., Jan: 29. Con
gressman Haughen of the fourth dis
tirct of Iowa, has recommended the
appoointment as a midshipman at An
napolis, Paul A. Preus, son of Presi
dent Preus of the Luther college of
Decorah.
Honors for "Tama" Jim.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 29.—Secre
tary Wilson has been elected honor*
ary member of St. Andrew's society
here, together with Ambassador Brycs.
Creston Wants Carnegie Library.
Creston, Jan. 29—The ladies' feder
ation supported by the Creston Busi
ness Men's club Is to make a united
effort to secure a $30,000 Carnegie li
brary.
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OTTUMWA. WAPELLO COUNTY, IQwL^s itoKSg ggg^NU-ABY 3 ),J909
FINOS AWAY
TO SAVE COAL
MAKING OF BRIQUET8 OUT OF
SLACK OR WASTE FUEL BY USE
OF MACHINERY IS FOUND TO BE
PRACTICABLE.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 29. Mil
lions of tons of coal may be saved to
the country through the investigations
of the Technologic Branch of the
United States Geological Survey into
the brlquettlng of coal. For several
years this branch of the government
has been conducting a series of exper
iments in the hope of stopping the
tremendous waste in the use of fuels,
and one of hem was the making of
briquets out of slack or waste coal.
This fine coal, which has not nearly
the value of lump coal, because of the
difficulty in burning it, is mixed with
5 or 6 per cent of water gas pitch and
pressed Into, cakes or bricks by power
ful machinery.
Several hundred tons of these bri
quets were made at the fuel-testing
plant at St. Louis, Mo., and later at
Norfolk, Va. This prepared fuel was
used in a number of tests by the
Pennsylcania, the Missouri Pacific,
the Lake Shore, the Michigan Central,
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific,
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, the
Chesapeake and Ohio, and the Atlan
tic Coast. Line railroads, and In ev
ery Instance the briquets furnished
more power with less weight of fuel
than the run-of-mine coal from the
same mines. They further showed less
smoke than .the coal and indicated
that their proper use at terminals
might do away with a large part of
the smoke nuisance from the railroads
in the big cities of the country.
In co-operation with the navy de
partment, a series of tests were made
on the torpedo boat Biddle, off Hamp
ton Roads, and, the briquetes, weight
for aweight with the coal, succeeded
miich rojfre power, Wit
ere was very little difference in the
amount of smoke.
To the navy these tests are of the
greatest importance. The fact that
the briquets give more power than
the coal means that the vessel carry
ing 2,000 tons of briquets will be capa
ble of steaming a farther distance
than one with 2,000 tons of raw coal.
In time of war this would be very de
sirable, especially If the fleet were in
foreign waters, far from coaling sta
tions.
To the railroads, the briquets, it Is
said, will undoubtedly prove a valu
able fuel because of the hotter fire
they make and the lessening of the
smoke. In a number of the road tests,
the engines using briquets, carried
heavy trains much faster than with
the coal. They showed their ability
in a number of instances in making
up lost time, which would have been
impossible with the raw coal, ac
cording to the statements of the men
who operated the engines.
A report on the results of these
tests has just been made to the geo
logical survey by Prof. W. F. M.
Goss, consulting engineer in charge
of locomotive tests. He sees many ad
vantages to the railroads in the use of
briquets. "In locomotive service,"
says Mr. Qoss, "the substitution of
briquets for coal has resulted in
marked increase In efficiency, in an
increas of boiler capacity and in a de
crease in the production of smoke. It
has been especially noted that care
ful firing of briquets at terminals Is
effective in diminishing the amount
of smoke produced."
The tests as a whole indicate that
many low grade coals, now considered
useless, may make an admirable fuel,
and thus add to the supply of the
country which is being used at a
rapid rate.
"Hobo Poet" Ends Life
Cincinnati, O., Jan. 29.—John H.
Seymour of Chicago, known through
out the country as the "Hobo Poet,"
yesterday committed suicide by
drowning in the Ohio river. His
body was found after a search In
stituted by a friend, Thomas Shade,, a
Socialists, who received a letter in
which Seymour said he had thrown
himself into the river because he was
"abandoned by all and driven by the
workings of an ironical fate to des
peration." Slnoe the death of his
child-wife in Chicago a few years ago
Seymour had led a wandering life. He
contributed frequently to magazines
and published several books of verses.
THE WEATHER.
Iowa—Fair tonight and* Saturday
cold wave last of month.
Illinoi^ —Snow followed by clearing
tonight with cold wave Saturday
fair and colder.
Wisconsin—Fair west and clearing
in the east tonight Saturday fair and
cold wave tonight.'
Local Weather.
Nine o'clock last evening 4s
Seven o'clock this morning 24
Two o'clock this afternoon 10
THK NEW GERMAN AMBASSADOR AND THE
AT WASHINGTON.
Washington, Jan. 29.—A number of
memberB of the diplomatic corps and
others prominent In Washington offi
cial life will go to New York next
week to attend the social events to be
given in honor of Count Johanna
Helnrich von Bernstorff.the new Ger
man ambassador. A -dinner at the
Manhattan club and a chamber of
commerce reception will be two of the
events.
The German emperor could not have
selected a more pleasing representa
tive as his ambassador to America
Count von BernstorfC Is recognised as
one of the leading diplomats of the
world and comes to America from
the German legation In Egypt. He
succeeds the late Baron Speck von
Sternberg.
One point which makes Count von
BematorfC especially popular in Amer
ica is that his wife. Countess von
Bernstorlf, is an American. She is the
daughter of Edward Luckemeyer of
New York.
The German legation' h«s always
been one of the "so'ci&l centers -5f "dip
lomatic Washington and their elabor
ate quarters, beautifully furnished.
HIS GRAY HAIRS
WERE HIS CURSE
CHICAGO MAN KILLS SELF LEAV­
ING PATHETIC FAREWELL
NOTE AS EXPLANATION
Chicago, Jan. 29. Robert M.
Quigloy died by his own hand yester
day, a victim of the hard economic
law which sanctions the survival of
the fittest. He,was an old man, he Baid
in a note he left behind, and Chicago
rejects the man with "a gray head."
The note, which contained a poig
nant if unconscious protest against
the inexorable working of this law,
was started, appafently, as a plea for
assistance to his brother. At the last
moment the courage to accept an
other's bounty had been wanting,
and the old man took'his life rather
than become the pensioner of his
kinaman.
The body was found yesterday in a
room of his house at 936 North Fair
field avenue. The old man had inhaled
gas from an open jet. The unposted
letter, undated and written with
great care, was discovered in the fire
less stove. The letter explained that
its author, who was well known in
the vicinity, having been a prfclnct
committeeman, had been driven to
suicide by failure to procure work.
Lives Without Fire.
All through the winter he had lived
alone In the house without fire, hav
ing no money with which to purchase
coal. His wife, who was a victim of
rheumatism, he had sent to the house
of their daughter, a Mrs. Charles Mon
ahan, 677 North Humboldt street,, be
cause she could not endure the cold.
Mrs, Monahan's husband, who has
be'en out of the city, was expected
back soon, and Mrs. Quigley had told
her husband that she would remain
with her daughter no longer. She
would come back to him. This was
the situation which the old man faced
when he started to write to his broth
er and then decided on suicide.
Charlotte Cuengs, the 16-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Mary Cuengs, a
boarding-house keeper at 1247 Marl
anna street, vainly sought to take her
own life yesterday by shooting. The
weapon which she used was a small
rifle, the bullet from which penetrat
ed her left side. Although the girl
became conscious shortly after she
had been taken to the German-Ameri
can hospital, she was too weak to dis
close the motive for her act.
Woman Hangs Self.
Mrs. Mary Brltt, 57 years old, 821
West Twenty-second street, ended
her life by hanging in the basement
of her home yesterday morning. Her
husband.had died recently, and she Is
said to have been the victim of
chronic ill health.
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New York to Entertain
New German Ambassador
GERMAN LEGATION
form one of the show places In our
capital city.
The new ambassador began his dip
lomatic career in 1899, when he was
made attache at Constantinople. From
Turkey he was transferred to the
foreign office in Berlin, after which
he advanced from one grade to anoth
er. serving in Belgrade, DreBcent, St.
Petersburg and Mumch. He was coun
cilor of the embassy and first secretary
in London In 1902.
While in England the count came
.especially under the notice of Emperor
William as a result of his work in
ameliorating the existing ill feeling
against Germany. He drew up a series
of lucid and comprehensive dispatches
on the situation. After four years'
aervice in London he was sent to
Cairo. In the German diplomatic
service this post is regarded as a
stepping stone toward announcement.
The count married Mis Jennie Luck
emeyer in 1887. His wife was born
December 13, 1867, and the couple
have two children. The Luckemeyer
family" YSttlfew fork several ydara
ago a,nd Settled in FVance, where the
countess*' father died this year.
ELIMINATE THE
UNFIT NEW PLAN
DEAN OF ILLINOIS AGRICULTUR­
AL COLLEGE WOULD IM­
PROVE RACES.
Chicago, Jan. 29.—Extraordinary ex
periments were related and radical
measures advocated at one of the
largest meetings of Chicago physicians
in the history of the city, which was
held at the Grand Pacific hotel on
Wednesday, for the discussion of the
problems of heredity.
Dr. Eugene Davenport, dean and di«
rector of the College of Agriculture of
the University of Illinois, created a
great sensation among itft several
hundred doctors when he advocated
the application of the fundamental
principles of eugenics for Improvement
of the human race. His treatment of
the subject was based not only on the
paper read to the meeting but also on
his own vast experience in meeting the
practical problems of live stock breed
ing.
His chief proposal was that all the
"culls" or "scalawags" of the human
race should be taken before the courts,
.scientifically investigated, and, if
found unworthy, colonized and allowed
to die off.
Experiments in Intermarriage.
Scarcely less interesting was the re
cital of Dr. W. L. Tower, professor of
zoology of the University of Chicago,
who told of experments in intermar
riage of Anglo-Americans with the
Indians of southern Mexico. He an
nounced important scientific deduc
tions arrived at as a result 5f com
paring these with similar experiments
with different varieties of a certain
small South American beetle.
Other men who have devoted their
lives to a study of heredity in pigeons,
evening primroses, guinea pigs, turtle
doves, rabbits, and rats showed the re
sults of their experiments in the form
of stereopticon viewff ^nd stuffed ani
mals. and drew theretrom interesting
conclusions.
The meeting was a Joint one of the
Physicians' Club of Chicago and the
Chicago Medical society for the pur
pose of instructing the profession in
Chicago in the latest developments in
the study of Ifsredity with the hope
that the knowledge might be of practi
cal benefit to them In their daily work.
Would Improve Human Race.
Not until Dean Davenport, who has
taken a breed of cows yielding 150
pounds of butter a year and developed
therefrom cows yielding 1,000 pounds
of buttt a year, spoke, was the practi
cal human end of the problem taken
up without trioves.
"We must first consider what the
end of our breeding is to be," ho said.
"Whether it Is to be the production of
a few superior individuals or the gen
eral elevation of the race. If the first
we must proceed as in the breeding of
thoroughbred racehorses. If the second,
as in the production of good average
fat stock for the farm.
As to the first, It is not necessary
to consider whether any further ad-
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OTTUMWA GETS FULL!
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PLATE GLASS WINDOW IN THB1
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BLOWN IN, SIGNS BLOWN DOWN I
AND TREES UPROOTED BY WINDS
Ottumwa today Is tn the grip
of one of the moBt, wicked wind
and snow storms that ever visited
the city. After an afternoon arid
evening of slow drizzling rain, the
elements turned vicious early this
morning, and the wind has been
storming since. While no great '1
damage has been wrought, there
are many reports of Injury to prop
erty due t.o the velocity of the
wind. The huge plate glass win
dow of the F. G. Graves & Son
building, corner of Second and
Washington street, was demolish
ed by the wind, and the sign of
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Morrlssey & Sullivan's on Bast
Main street was blown down. TreeB
in the yards of private residences
have been torn from their roots
by the ravages of the storm, and
the lines of the, telephone and
telegraph companies have suffered
considerably. The greatest suffer
ers, however, of the storm are the '1
railroads. The Burlington west
bound freights trains are all an
nulled and the passenger trains
both direction^ aee ruttnteg far'
behind schedule. The same con-'
dition exists on the other roads.
The grade schools dismissed stud
ies at noon, and the high school
closed for the day at 2:30 o'clock.
Chicago, Jan. 29.—Telegraphic serv
ice west and north of Chicago 1b al
most completely severed today by the
worst rain, snow and wind storm of
the season.
Communication with the most im
portant points In the northwest has
been impossible for several hours.
Scores of telegraph poles and miles of
wire in numerous sections were borne
down and rendered useless by the
storm. Telegraph service weBt of the
Mississippi'Is almost hopelessly crip
pled. It is reported that many trains^
have been abandoned in northern Iowa
owing to washouts In that Bectlon.
Snow 8torm In Iowa,
At the Rock Island general offices
It Is said that the whereabouts of
several trains In Iowa are unknown be*
cause of the loss of telegraphic com'
munlcation.
Des Moines reported a blizzar
throughout Central Iowa.
Six inches of snow fell during thi
night and drifted many feet Into the
cutst delaying or stalling trains. Thi
usual telegrams to the weathe
bureau are incomplete owing to thi
curtailment of telegraphic facilities.
Scattered reports from Dubuque
Davenport, Kansas City, Springfield]
111., and Peoria showed rain or snow.)
A heavy snow is falling over low*!!
Michigan, causing dfiuch trouble to
wires and street car service in th
cities.
Texas Practically Isolated
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 29.—High wlndJ
and snow formed a combination lata
last night and today that seriously in*
terfered with wire communication Iq
many parts of the south and has prac
tically isolated the state of Texas. Al
some points in Texas and Oklahom^
the wind blew at seventy miles ko(
hour. No serious damage 1b reportedJ
but many trains are late. Communis
cation Is hampered.
LAKE CRIB WAS FIRE TRAP.
Witnesses Tell of Carelessness at thfl(
Scene of Disaster Which Cost
Many Lives.
Chicago, Jan. 29.—At the resump
tion yesterday afternoon of the in
quest on the victims of the crib flre/
Coroner Hoffman and State's Attorney
Wayman renewed their investigation
into the dangerous condition of thai
crib prior to the fire in which almost
seventy lives were lost. The testimony
of many witnesses indicated that tha
crib was a flretrap and that frequently
it had been many hours without even
the meager protection of the tug whlcl|
rescued many of the victims. Work
men testified that the floor of the crll
had become oilsoaked through careles
handling of large oil receptacles.
The spread of the fire was declare^
so rapid that it would have been Im
possible to save all the employes oaf
the crib, even if the tug had bee
moored at the crib when the fire
out.
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