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NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK Resume of World’s Important Events Told in Brief. J. Pierpont Morgan died In Italy. Rome, । Croat of the Ohio flood is reached at Cincinnati, and danger believed pa«t. Russian mob« parade atreeta of St. Petersburg, crying “down with Aus tria.“ Walter II. Page, editor of World’s Work, has been appointed ambassador to Creat Britain. It is believed J. P. Morgan, Jr., will «ucceed his father in most of his business enterprise«. Meat price« in New York arc again ■oaring, owing to acarcity caused by the Middle West storms and flood«. People of Cairo, III., hurriedly re inforce levee« with sand bags, while water slowly rises to danger |>oint. Business was suspended for five minutes on the New York «tock ex change to adopt resolutions on the death of J. P. Morgan. SIGHTSEERS VISIT AT OMAHA Indies Hold “Tav Day” for Relief of Sufferer». Omaha--Omaha was the Mecca for ■bout 100,000 sightseer« who came in from the «urroundlng country Sunday to view the district devastated by the recent tornado. All railroads entering the city ran «pedal train« with excur- •ion rate* for the benefit of the viait- or«. Brown-clad militiamen were on guard at all intersections of the tor nado zone, keeping the crowds in check and constantly on the move. Rehabilitation and relief work was kept up all day. The ladies of the city held a “tag day,” and in this manner «welled the relief fund. The tags, according to reports, brought from ten cents to $5, and gave the visitors an opportunity to help the sufferers from the storm. One of the novel sights to arrest the attention of the outsiders was the ■ervice In the Trinity Methodist church. This church had a whole side literally sliced off by the twister, but the 'enthusiastic parishioners patched it up with tarpaulins and boards and the organ’s peals were heard there as on every Sunday. Appeals for help have been prompt ly met by the relief committee. They hope to raise a sufficient fund to give all in need a new grip on life. Work goes on slowly in the storm-swept area, and it will be «ome time before it assumes a normal status. A recent change in freight rates makes it possible forPacific Coast pa lter mills to ship pafter to Florida and TURKS KILL 1000 BULGARIANS sell it at a profit there. An American suffragette on a “hun ger strike” in a Ixtndon prison, smug Desperate Chargea With Bayonets Cause Great Slaughter. gled out a letter In wfhich she declares her intention to wir or die. Constantinople—The Bulgarian« left The three-masted schooner John D. 1000 dead on the field after the en Spreckels was discovered drifting bot- gagement west of Biyuk Chekmedye, The tom-up near Point Reyes, Cal., but no according to an official report. Turk« also found 400 rifles and large trace of her crew can Ite found. quantities of entrenching tool*. Since Flood and fire at Dayton, Ohio, th,* ahnn when* Orville this engagement all has been quiet along ihe^Tchiaija lines, ■■ we»« <w at Wright constructed and perfected his Bulair. first aeroplane, but it escaped un- The Bulgarians hurled 20,000 men hsrmed. against the Turkish advanced posi City park officials of Portland, Or., tion, and in the darkness carried it are looking for some one to trim the with bayonet, the Turks retiring on toenails of the pet lioir at the park, their main position. At daylight the but so far have found no one who will Turks bombarded the captured posi tuck!<■ the job. , tion and prevented the Bulgarians Subsequently the President Wilson contemplates go from entrenching. ing to the flooded districts of the Mid Turks delivered a counter attack, 6000 dle West to direct relief work in per infantry storming the position with the bayonet. son. The Turks flung themselve« on the Looters begun work at the scenes Bulgarians and a desperate bayonet of the Ohio disaster, four already hav fight ensued. The Bulgarians were ing been shot. driven down the shpe on the opposite Smallpox and diphtheria have brok side. The Bulgarian attack on the west en out among the flood refugee« at wing near Tchatalja was also repulsed. Lafayette, Ind. The Turks believe the Bulgarian Captain Roald Amundsen, has con offensive action at Tchatalja was in tracted for two areoplanes, to be used tended to prevent any Turkish dem in arctic explorations. onstration during the attack on Adri Portland, Or., semis her first install anople, and that the Bulgars will not ment of relief money to flood suffer attempt to pierce the lines, which re cently have been strengthened by the ers, amounting to 13500. addition of heavy siege guns. The fall of Adrianople has caused a PORTLAND MARKETS feeling of deepest dejection in all sections, which has tended to increase Wheat — Track prices: Club, 86c; the unpopularity of the government. bluestem, 97c; red Russian, 85c; val ley, 87c. Barley- Feed, $23 per ton; brew SUMMER CAPITAL SELECTED ing, nominal; rolled, $25.50(4 26.50. Com... Whole, $27 per ton; cracked, President Wilson Will Rest at $28. Ornish, N. H. Oats No. 1 white, $27(4)28 per ton; Cornish, N. H. — President Wilson valley, stained, $24(4 26. has chosen the home of Winston Millstuifs—Bran, $20.50(4 21 per Churchill, the novelist, to be his sum ton; shorts, $23; middlings, $30. mer capital, according to a telegram Hay — Eastern Oregon timothy, received here from Mr. Churchill, who choice, $15(417; mixed, $10(4 13.50; is now in Santa Barbara, Cal. The oat and vetch, $12; alfalfa, $12(413; message contained instructions for clover, $9; straw, $7(48. getting the place in readiness for the Vegetables — Artichokes, $1(41.25 president's occupancy. per dozen; asparagus, 8(4 9c pr pound; Harla E. Enden House, as the Chur cabbage, lie; celery, $2.50(44.50 per chill property is known, is a two-story crate; hothouse lettuce, 90c<o$lper brick structure, situated on a hill box; peppers, 30c per pound; rhu three miles beyond Windsor, Vt. It barb, $1.75(42.25 per box; spinach, 5 commands a view of the Connecticut (46c per pound; sprouts, 10c; garlic, River valley and of the Green Moun 5(4 6c; turnips, 90c(4$l per sack; tains. Between 600 and 700 acres of parsnips, 90c(4$l per sack; carrots, rolling farm land and fragrant pine 90c(4,Jl. groves give the estate the seclusion Onions -Oregon, 90c(4$l per sack; the President desires. Mexican, $3.50 per crate. On the estate are two seven-room Potatoes — Burbanks, 45(4 50c per cottages, where the executive offices hundred; new, 8i(®10c per pound; can be established and where the sweets, 4c. president’s attendants may live. Apples—80c(u$1.50 per box. Poultry—Hons, 17(417Jc per pound; Servians Capture General. broilers, 30c; turkeys, live, 18(420c; Belgrade, Servia—The honor of cap dressed, ghoice, 23(4 25c; ducks, 17(4 turing Shukri Pasha, the Turkish com- 18c; geese, 12(413c. Eggs—Frosh Oregon ranch, 19(4^0c. mander-in-chief of Adrianople, with Butter — Oregon creamery, cubes his headquarters staff, belongs to the Twentieth Servian regiment of in 39c per pound; prints, 39(a40Jc. fantry. An official statement, issued Pork—Fancy, lli(412c per pound. here, said that Shukri Pasha, two oth Veal—Fancy, 14(414jc per pound. Hops—1912 crop, 11(4,16c pr pound; er Turkish generals, 22 field officers and 150 junior officers were in Had- 1913 contracts, 15c. Wool—Eastern Oregon, 10(414c per erluk fort to the northwest of the city pound; valley, 18(4 20c; mohair, 30(4) when the Servian regiment stormed and captured it. 32c. Cattle — Choice steers, $7.50(4 8.25; Piqua’s Loss Is $800,000. good, $7(4)7.50; medium, $6.50(47; Piqua, O.—The property loss here choice cows, $6.50(47.25; good, $6(4 The water sup- 6.50; medium, $5.50(46; choice will reach $800,000. calves, $8(49; good heavy calves, !ly is good and the gas plant is un- amaged, except in the flooded dis $6.50(47.50; bulls, $5.50(46.25. Hogs — Light, $9(49.80; heavy, trict. Much of the wreckage is lodged on an island three miles below the city $8(4 9. Sheep — Yearling wethers, $6.25(4 and an armed force is guarding the is 7.25; ewes, $4.75(i€5.75; lambs, $6(48. land. 2000 OR MORE FEARED DEAD IN DAYTON, 0. Streets of Ohio City Are Seeth ing Torrent Eight to 20 Feet In Depth. HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS LOST Famine Impends, as All Groceries and Supply Houses Are Inun dated—Housetops Crowded, Office Buildings Filled. Dayton, O.—The crest was reached about midnight Tuesday. Water Is now falling at the rate of half an inch an hour. OHIO HEADWATER* RAGING. All Small Stream« Out of Their Banks and Grave Danger Seen. Pittsburg, Pa.—With a continued heavy rainfall in Northern and West ern Pennsylvania, the flood situation Is growing seriou« and heavy property damage haa already resulted. Oil City, Bradford, Warren, Titusville, Green ville, Newcastle, Sharon and the low land« of thia city and vicinity are battllag with flood water. Many pointe are without electric light, water, transportation lines and gas. A score of bridges throughout the state were swept away. The situation at Oil City, Pa., is grave. The dam at Spartansburg has let go, «ending a great wall of water toward Oil City. The Allegheny River at Oil City has reached 16 feet and is rising a foot an hour. Oil Creek is out of its banks, and a large portion of the city is under water. All small streams around Bradford are out of their banks. Sections of the city are under water and hundreds of families homeless. At Greenville, Pa., more than 500 person« are homeless. At Sharon, Pa., the town is under water and a dozen or more bridges are wrecked. The loss of the United States Steel Corporation at Farrell, a suburb, is estimated at $200,000. A report reached Sharon that a wreck train and a crew on the Lake Erie road went down with a bridge near Mead ville, Pa. Dayton.—The wind veered suddenly from south to north at 3 o’clock and the fires on Vine street sprang up TERRE HAUTE TWICE DESOLATED anew. _____ Dayton.—(By telephone via Xenia) Flood Follow« Cyclone Disaster and Many Surrounded by Water. —Dayton is nothing lees than a seeth ing river, three miles wide, a mile and Terre Haute, Ind.—Hardly recover a half on each side of the main street, ing from the daze of the tornado of Its principal thoroughfare, while it is Sunday that claimed 20 live«, Injured estimated that from 2000 to 5000 peo 250 and did property damage amount ple have perished. ing to $1,000,000, Terre Haute Tuesday The Algonquin Hotel is submerged faced ita second disaster in 48 hours, In water up to Its third story, and when the waters of the Wabash left above this level the downtown district their banks, flooding part of the resi office buildings, hotels and business dence district. houses are places of refuge. Many families whose homes had es A school building that was known caped destruction in the tornado were to have housed not less than 400 surrounded and the residents were school children shortly before the forced to flee for their lives. waters rushed In that direction is en The river haa passed the 25-foot tirely submerged, and as far as can be stage and is rising at the rate of five ascertained all of those nine ones met inches an hour. Railroad traffic is a watery grave. practically suspended and interurban traction service haa been abandoned. Mayor Heer of Middletown, Ohio Residents of Taylorville, Robertsville wired Mayor Hunt of Cincinnati to and West Terre Haute have deserted rush boats on a special train, adding: their homes. Five hundred houses are "Do it quick, as necessary to save under water and the coal mines near lives.” The special train was sent at here are flooded. once. Relief station« established near the Through Safety Director Cash of flooded districts are swamped with ap Cincinnati, the Chamber of Commerce plications for aid. at Hamilton, Ohio, today asked that Governor Cox be requested to order TOTAL LIVES LOST NEAR 7675. a battalion of militia to Hamilton. That body also adopted a resolution asking Governor Cox to declare Hamil Estimated Figures Based on Unveri ton under martial law. fied New« From Two States. Three bridges over the Miami river Chicago.—Unverified reports from at Hamilton have collapsed. A bill appropriating $100,000 for the flood-swept cities in Ohio and Indiana relief of the flood sufferers was intro show the following estimated loss of duced into the Ohio legislature, it life: Ohio—Dayton. 100 to 5000. Piqua (ru Is estimated that there are 5000 people mored), 540; Delaware, 50 to 100; Sid homeless in the state. ney, 23 to 50; Middletown. 15 to 20; Hamilton. 12; Tippecanoe City, 3 to 5; FLOODS COVER INDIANA. scattering, 16; total Ohio, 759 to 7175. Indiana—Peru, 200 to 500; Newcas Thousands Homeless In Kokomo, tle, 3; Lafayette. 2; Noblesville, 2; Muncie, Terre Haute and Frankfort, 1; Fort Wayne, 1; Rush Marlon. ville. 1; total Indiana, 210 to ouv. Indianapolis. Ind.—Ten thousand Grand total, 969 to 7675. families are homeless in Indiana as The homeless, most of them tem the result of the worst flood in the porarily, are estimated to number up history of the state. The property wards of 100,000. loss runs Into millions, and all In The property damage is roughly esti dustry. including transportiakin facil mated at $25,000,000 or more. ities, Is suspended. All the great railroad systems run Four persons are known to have ning through the flooded states are been drowned. Other large sections tied up by floods and washouts. of the state are isolated, and it is feared the death list will be materially Thousands Rush to Safety. Increased when communications ia re stored. Cleveland, Ohio.—Washouts are re Some of the largest cities In the ported everywhere, and all interurban state will be in darkness for some and railroad traffic is at a stand days, the flood waters of various rivers still. putting electric light and water plants The Cuyahoga river is badly swollen. out of commission. The floods follow In Muskingum county a boy was a two days’ downpour, which was' drowned while attempting to ford the general fh Indiana as well as adjoin stream in a buggy. ing states. Police Captain McGowan was Five hundred persons are homeless drowned at Findlay while trying to at Marion, Ind. At Mlsslssnawa, Ind., rescue marooned families in the low the river burst the levee on the east lying districts. Two feet of water is side of the city, and factories there reported in several Findlay districts. were forced to shut down. Kokomo At Cincinnati, Valentine Boet, 22 Is without light and water, and a yearFTld, was drowned in the Miami mile square area in the center of the and Erie canal. city is flooded. The Scioto river at Columbus if far The schools are closed there and above the flood stage, and is rising the militia are patrolling the streets. rapidly. Scores of factories are closed. The known drowned in the state up More than 500 residents were forced to noon were Ray Rothenburger and to abandon their homes at Akron. Sev his brother, Rescoe, Frankfort: Wal eral parts of the city are under water. lace Garrison, Burlington; John Dag- Seven hundred families were driven ner, Newcastle. from their homes at Mount Vernon when the Koskosing river broke 300 Homeless in Terre Haute. through the dike. Terra Haute. Ind.—With 20 known to be dead, five missing, and 100 in Fire Aids Rescuers. jured, Terre Haute is slowly recover Hamilton, O.—The Champion Coated ing from the effects of Sunday’s cy Paper Company, a $2,000.000 concern, clone. Mora than 300 persons are took fire early Wednesday morning homeless, the city housing the des and it is at the mercy of the flames, titute In the public schools. Mayor as all fire-fighting Is out of the ques Gearhardt was forced to Issue a tion. The glare of the fire helps threat to prosecute storekeepers who somewhat in rescue work. Twelve were caught charging exorbitant prices persons are known to have been for food. They had increased their drowned, while it is believed over a prices in some cases nearly 100 per score or more are dead as a result of cent. The working class district here the flood of the Miami River that was wiped out. swept Hamilton, and is rushing through the streets to a depth of from Fifteen Killed In Illinois. three to six feet.__________ Anna. Til.—Fifteen persons met Five Dead at Hamilton. death in a cyclone at Makanda, Ill., Hamilton, Ohio.—Five persons are Monday night, according to reports re ceived here. A fast freight train was known to be dead here and several blown from the Illinois Central tracks others are reported drowned. Half of the city 1s already under the flood and 25 cars dumped into a ditch. A torrential rain followed the cy- waters of the Miami river, and to clone. Engineer Waggoner and Fire make matters worse an old reservoir man Andrews of the wrecked train on the banks of the river burst today, flooding over 400 acres of farma. are known to have been injured. HALF MILLION ARE HOMELESS 3000 Perish and $100,000,000 Is Estimated Damage. Fire Adds to Dayton’s Distress— Only Two Railroads Open- Reconstruction Is Begun. Chicago. — Three thousand people perished In the deluge that swept the northern half of the Ohio River valley the past three days. Probably 500,000 people were made homeless by the floods in Indiana and Ohio, and property damage, in l»th states will be at least $100,000,000. These figures were complied late Wednesday from reports received here from various points in the stricken dis trict. Further reports may increase the number of dead, and it is unlikely that any decrease In the loss can be expected. South of Indianapolis the flood is said to have caused death in several small towns and villages. Fire at Dayton added to the finan cial loss caused by the flood. Early estimates, placing the damage in Ohio and Indiana at $50,000,000, were re vised to show double that amount. Railroad officials were authority for the statement that lines converging in Indianapolis would have to stand a loss of $25,000,000 in that city and vi cinity alone. Railroads were chief sufferers from property damage. It was said by en gineers and construction bosses pre paring repair trains for the flooded districts that strips of railroad more than half a mile long had been washed away in several places in Indiana. Concrete and iron bridges, their sup ports undermined, crumbled before the strength of the torrents hurled against them. The loss through cessation of traf fic cannot be Only roads, the Michigan Central and the Lake Shore, maintained communica tion with New York over their lines, those farther south finding mile after mile of their right of way under a fathom of water. Men and material are being rushed by the railroads to every accessible point where damage has been reported and active work will be begun as soon as the floods recede. FIRE SWEEPS FLOODED DISTRICTS OF DAYTON, 0. Dayton, O.—The fire in the business section was still burning fiercely Thursday morning. It seems to have changed its general direction from northeast to straight west. Efforts to ascertain if buildings housing refu gees have been burned were In vain. It was impossible to approach closer than a mile to the blaze. At 1:15 A. M. a state guardsman shot and killed a man attempting to loot the homes on Fifth street Dayton, O.—That a fierce fire which appeared to be sweeping through the half-submerged business district »of Dayton early Thursday had destroyed the Beckel House, where there were supposed to be more than 20C flood refugees, was the consensus of opin ion of scores of watchers on top of the National Cash Register building, near ly two miles from the scene of the flames. Investigation of the fire at close range was an impossibility. More than a mile of flood water in tervened between the point whese the staunchest boats dared to venture and the area of flames. SERUM MAY BE GIVEN OUT. Dr. Friedmann Considers Instructing Physician« In Use. New York.—The advisability of dis tributing for general use by physicians the tuberculosis vaccine discovered by Dr. Frederick F. Friedmann was dis cussed at a conference between the German specialist and several phy sicians, whose identity was not dis closed. Under a proposed plan, phy sicians from various parts of the country might be Instructed in the Friedman method of inoculating pa tients. Mayor Rescued From Pole. Delaware, O.—Mayor Blease was rescued from the top of a telephone pole, to which he climbed to rescue others. Delaware 1s in great need of bread, as well as gasoline with which to cook. The village of Stratford, five miles south, has been wiped out. The total population of 100, it is reported, has been drowned, but this has not been confirmed. Fifty are dead in Tiffin, it is also reported, and the village of Prospect, 10 miles to the north, is un der water.________________ Mississippi Now Rising. Memphis, Tenn.—“With such a vol ume of water coming into the Missis sippi from above, people along the Mississippi River should prepare for a great flood,” said the Memphis weath er observer. “It will be a big river," said he. “I believe the flood stage will be reached at Memphis Thursday morning, if not before.”
