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J. i The Omaha Daily NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 10. EATKKJt tfOREOAST For Nebraska-Fair and w.irmer. For low a-Fair Bin! wurmrr. For weather report see page ?. VOL. XXXVIII NO. -'T4. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1900 TWENTY PAGES. SINGLE COI'V TWO CENTS. M'C UMBER FOR FREELUMBER North Dakota Senator Makes Speech Which Provokes Extended Controversy. Bandits Hold Up an Idaho Train Bee ' WAR AT LINCOLN INSANEASYLUM Superintendent Woodward Discharges Miss Beatrice McGinnis, the Matron. LATTER REFUSES TO BE FIRED Depends on Her Relative, Arthur Mullen, to Keep Her in Place. GREAT STORM IN MIDDLE WEST Fourteen Persons Are 1'illed in Illinois and Missouri and Many Are Injured. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE IN CHICAGO Three Men Killed by Collapse of Factory at Grand Crossing. Drove Off Trainmen with Guns and Cut Open Six Sacks of Mail. REVISION SHOULD BE DOWNWARD Objects to Duty on Coal. Lumber, Iron Ore and Oil. NECESSITY FOR CONSERVATISM Quotes Figures to Prove that These Resources Are Being Exhausted. SHOT AT SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS He rnalnrn from Thru lain rr Demanding Mure Protection 'Ifaan Old Mae Republican. WASHINGTON. April 30. An . extended pceih by Senator McCumhcr favoring free lumber occupied several hour In the senate today. His remark provoked (In extended controversy imoni advocates of a tariff on lumber. Mr. McCumber said, while he was a thorough protectionist, he would not agree to a tariff on product such aa coaj, Iron ore, lumber and oil, that are being oxhnnsted and cannot be replnced. Semitor Aldrlch retried from the com mittee on finance additional amondment 1 1 the tariff bill nnd the aennte adopted a motion mode by him tliut until further notle the senate shall meet at U o'clock daUy. Scnntor Johnson of North Dakota made hi maiden speech In reply to a statement during the campaign by V. J. Rryan, who, ha aald, reid been "fouled" by the counter vailing clause In the. petroleum schedule by which petroleum brought Into this coun try paya the ditty levied on American oil Imported Into Russia. "I had to alt and take It then." be said, referrlne; to Mr. Rryan's nddrrss, "but to dny Is my inning." Mr. Johnson severely criticised Mr. Bryan aa having hei-n larirely responsible for auch a clause remaining In the WlUon bill. Speech of Mr. Mi-Camber. "No rvsourcea of the country which, when once utilised, cannot be reproduced, and vw'iiMi nro certain of exhaustion In a com I'Uiutively few years, should be protected r-iialiiHt Importation," declared Senator Mc Cumber of North Dnkntu, a member of the iiiii. niltlen on finance, who followed Mr. Johnson. "No turiff," he added, "should l It vied upon lion, coal, oil or lumber," Except (or these, ho snld, he was aa strong an advocate of American protection aa any peimtor. Mr. McCumber said that tariff revision this year is universally understood to mean reviHion downward. Ife asserted that lum ber iirriH-d tie protcctjon and that no other 1 1 1 1 u i r v h.iil prtMiuccd mow millionaires fo. the ninouiit Invested than the lumber In dustry. Mi. Met 'uniher ml. led. however, that he billewd on tlie whole thai the bill "does fur the most purl meet the Just demands Vf the people." lie remarked thit the southern demo irals are milking si confer apiM-al for pro tection than the ri'piililli-.niK of the old school, snd Senator Tillninn Interrupted him to say: "We are getting so I sdly mixed that It Is hard to tell the heep from the goats, and I am afraid that before we get through there won't be trough enough for all tho hops to got their art-op." ftenatora Badly Mixed. Senator Tillman said some republican members were making speeches In accord ance with democratic principles, while some democratic members were delivering ex cellent republican speeches. Mr. Tillman argued that the rutted States can compete In the open market of the. world for steel rails and other atcel manufactures, "yet Carnrgle and Schwab and Corey and Gary and that crowd have Influence enough to have high rates of duty retained." Mr. MoCumber replied thst he would be glad to vote with Mr. Tillman on any schedule, the rate of which Mr. Tillman could prove were higher than was neces- sary to protect t.e difference In labor cost in America and abrond. "I deny that there 1h any one policy that cai make one-half of tho American people rich and the other half pour," said Mr. M-Cumber. Mr. Tillman had drawn a comparison be tween the protection of Infant Industries and farmer 'feeding young pigs about weaning time and stopping the feed when there Is no longer any profit In raising them by that method. Mr. McCumber aug geated thst Mr. Tillman would agree that here Is no way of feeding a pig so that ti side Is lean and the other fat. Mr. cCumhrr declared that the senator from 1 tilth Carolina seemed to have an Idea hat no one could be ln.nt but himself. Mr. Tillman took exception to this and appealed to his colleagues whether he was egotist leal. Doe a hog ever get grown?" Mr. Till man asked Mr. McCumber. The senator from North Dakota refused to answer this question. Xrrrsaltr fee t'eaeervatten. Mr. McCumber presented statistical est! male to show that the eoul of the I'nited Htates. at the present rate of consumption, would last 100 years, Iron years, lumber SO year and oil from 3u to 60 year and maintained thst the het way to conserve these eupidles mould lie to permit free Im - puliation of auch produits. Messrs. IMxon. Piles. Paae and nlllner engHged the Nor'h Do kola senator In fre quent discussions. Pointing to the nr,i of New England rosnufscturem to obtain free raw material, Mr. McCumber disclaimed anv failure to appreciate the needs of all Industries. He Insisted that he would not agree to protect ajty product which could not be produced In less than fifty rs and under that rule lumber was ha'-re) out. FORT DODGE MAN DRINKS ACID Cereeera Jary Brt.., i Verdict ef Accidental rieah tee ef Plusrsr. KOItr DODGF.. la, Apr )., Special Telegram)-H. M. ,.,,,, K y,ait o(1 - .an of flare Coin..., , plore.r, dr,nh c,r. bolio ld at hi. hom, nigi.t Mj aM 7 "' A reroner'a jury brought SPOKANE, 'Wasii., April 30. Safely en sconced in some hotel or lodging house In Fpokane the two bandits who held up Northern Pacific passenger train No. S neen Rathdrum. Idaho, last right are be lieved to have found shelter shortly after midnight, malting for the excitement to subside. Two luckless hoboes who were captured by a freight crew Inst night as suspects were turned loose today, but there Is still hope that the right men may be landed by night. Six sacks of mall were opened by the rob bers, who captured the engine and mall car soon after the train left Rathdrum at 10:5 p. m. Driving off the trainmen with revolver shots and cutting loose from the coaches they ran the engine about two tnilea west of Trent, where it was aban doned. It Is supposed one bandit raji the engine while the other was searching the mall sacks. How much booty they secured is not yet known. H Is suspected they had an automobile In waiting near Trent and rushed at once to Spokane. Indications are that the robbers were eaperlenced In the holdup business, and it is thought they may be the men who held up the same en gineer at almost the identical spot last ummer. Roosevelt Speaks at Berkeley Ex-President Will Make First Public Address There After Return from Africa. BERKELEY. Cel., April SO. The an nouncement haa been made at the Uni versity of California that ex-Pesldent Roosevelt will deliver his first public speech In this country upon his return from tils African hunting expedition In the Greek theater at that Institution. Boyle Trial is Postponed Alleged Kidnaper of Billy Whitla to to Face the Court on May 5. MERCER. Pa., April 30,-The trial of James H. Boyle, charged with the abduc tion of Billy Whitla, was today postponed till Mayt6. Mr. Boyle' trial wn set for the day following. HOLLAND CELEBRATES EVENT Birth ef llrtr Important t Mi tain Independence of the etherlaads. In. THE 11AG!'KV April 30 Wllhelmina. Oueeis of The Netherlands, gave birth to a daughter this morning. The condition of her majesty is satlsfnctory, the Infant princess Is doing well and Holland Is cele brating the happy event from one end of the country to the other wtlh expressions of Joy such as seldom have been witnessed among this placid people. The political significance of tho occurrence lies in the fact that there Is now an heir to the throne of The Netherlands, a circumstance which grestly enhances the country's chances for cuntlnued Independence. Every town and village In Holland Is today celebrating the long awaited birth of a child to her i nisjesty. who was married to Prince Henry I of Meeklenbui B-Sch werin I Vl. on fphruary 7, r I The accouchement took place at 7 o'clock. Owii g to the early hour the contemplated valuta was not fired and the first persons outside the royal pnlace to hear the new were a party of workmen parsing the residence of the queen on their way to work. The cheers then raised were the signal for general rejoicing. Flags and bunting that had been held In readiness were unfurlrd end the city took on holiday attire. Heralds accompanied by trumpeters olad in ancient Dutch dress made the rounds of the city proclaiming the event. WASHINGTON. April 30. President Taft today cabled his congrctulation on the ! birth of an heir to the throne of Holland. I When Pot Calls Kettle Black (World-Herald. LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 5. 1909. To J. C. Dahltiinn, Mayor; L. H. John son et al, Members of the City Council of Omaha Gentlemen: AVe note. In the pub lic press, your letter to the Douglas county delegates in the legislature, though the letter itself has not reached us. We take It for granted that the press is correct, and we know also that it was evidently given out for home consumption. Replying thereto for ourselves, we desire to impress upon you aud the public that there is no legislation which we know of that "looks toward eliminating from the Omaha charter or the laws of Nebraska the right or authority of the city council to regu late public service corporations, or to impose such an occupation tax upon them as will in their Judgment be just and equitable." We also desire to say that though this power has been a part of the Omaha charter at ail times since you mere. elected to your present office, we know of no one of you tak ing any steps whatever to enact any ordinance tinder this authority, at least not until very recently. We fully know why you are writing letters to ua now. for there is an tlc tUm to take place this spring; we un derstand this thoroughly. Itut why have foil not exereUed tlUs ower Im for? Why have you let this power la you as officers lie dormant and un used for three jeara, and during all STAFF GENERALLY DISORGANIZED Governor Will Have to Settle the Matter on His Return. SHALLENBERGER FOR PRESIDENT Pennsylvania Taper Trots 0t Jle hraake Kxeeatle aa Timber from Which (nadldate Might Fie fler-nred. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Neb., April 30. (Special Tele gram.) Miss Rratrlce McCSInnls, metron, has been dlscliarged by Superintendent Woodward of the Lincoln splum, and Mis Beatrice McGinnis says she will not quit. Thus begins the disorganisation of the Lincoln asylum under democratic rule, for dissatisfac tion Is expressed by many of the employe about the way things are running and It Is even said Assistant Superintendent Weber covet the place of hi chief, and factionalism runs riot to uch an extent that no man's Job Is safe. Miss McGinnis said notice of her dis missal was the result of a united effort to get her out of the institution. She I a relative of Arthur Mullen, overlord to the governor, and he is depending upon Mr. Mullen to hold her In her place. At the present time Mr. Mullen Is out of the city and so Is the governor. Mis McGinnis ex pect to remain at the Institution until the case is passed upon by the governor and hi chief adviser. This latest outbreak has- caused several of the employe to tald, and It I reported on good authority that the custodian of the dlpso ward. Marshall of Franklin count-, whose wife Is also employed at the institution, is doing work from from satis factory, and It Is also reported he gave nut the information that he did not care to coma to Lincoln to work, but to simply hold down a Job. Several nights ago the governor was en tertained at dinner at the asylum and In his honor flowers were brought from town and the various wards decorated with them, notwithstanding the asylum support a greenhouse. More Trouble for Rryaa. Another Insurrection has started In the Bryan democracy. Governor Shallenbeg. who carried Bryan to victory In the tate last fall, I It along with a bunch of peo ple back in Pennsylvania, from whence ca ve tho i-overnor' "Dutch" anret"-y It Is likely that Mr. Guffy. who It will be re membered was the subject of a speech by Mr. Bryan lost ummer, 1 at the bottom of it all. Anyhow. Governor Shallenberger ha been mentioned favorably a demo cratic presidential timber. The mention was made In a Pennsylvania dally paper of some proportions, a marked copy of which was received at the office of the governor this morning. With Shallenberger the presidential pos sibility and Metcalfe the senatorial possi bility, there I some speculation as to where Mr. Bryan Is going to get on during the next few year. While the outcome of the Shallenberger presidential Tinom 1 not much In doubt, it Is now believed to hsve been the Inspira tion which brought forth the humble letter from one Colonel Charles E. Fanning, who had an inside tip on the news. Governor Shsllenberaar hss thonrht thst the reason for Pennsylvania starting n boom for his candidacy Is because he has observed republican Minnesota has been carried three times by a Swedish demo crat, and perhaps this Pennsylvania paper has hopes that republican Pennsylvania might be carried by a Pennsylvania Dutch man. The clipping about the governor follows: When it comes to dolrig democratic things (and democratic things are for the good of the whole eountrv as well as for the state In which they are enacted) Governor Bhal lenherger of Nebraska has done more good thlnns for his state sjid people In the few months he has been governor than Gov ernor Johnson has during his more than two terms. Nrmsn K. Msek In his first Issue of the National Monthly (democratic) (out Slay 1) hss done good service for the democratic party by printing side bv side (Continued on Fifth Page.) February 6, l!op) the time you have been in office? Why are you so exercised now as to declare this supposed, but not contemplated, action by us "a detrimental action against the city administration, who have this most vital question" before you "for consideration. Investigation and action?" Why have you not In Testlgated and acted in thotte 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 tmiteouml 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 trying to pre vent the present democratic delegation of Douglas county from redeeming its promise to give borne rule to the city of Omaha, you might have accom plished soiuethlug along the line that you claim now you intend to- accom plish. Yours truly, F. T. RANSOM. E. Ev HOWELL. J. M. TANNER. ' W. - :v J Ik , From the New York World. HUNDREDS SENT TO CALLOWS Military Court at Constantinople is Busy with Reactionaries. TRIAL FOR THE ADANA RIOTERS lostlaatnrs ef Massacre Will Re Droaght to Accoaat Before Com- ' ntlaaloner Cabinet Is ' For), aa. . fU-LXKTIX. LONDON. April JO. A local news agency today publishes a dispatch from Saloniki, European Turkey, saying It has been of ficially announced there that Abdul Iiamid, the deposed sultan of Turkey, Is to be tried before a constitutional court-martial and that It Ms generally believed sentence of death will be passed on him. CONST A NTfNOPt.E, April S -The con stitutionalists have lost no time In bring ing the conspirators in the recsit rising to trial. The military court, sitting In the war office today, condemned abnut 2K prisoners to death and they were executed. Nadir Pasha, the second eunuch of the palace, whose sentence waa pronounced yesterday, was hanged at dawn on the Gal at a bridge, and his great body was viewed by thousand in the early morning hours. The national assembly, which met today under the presidency of Said Pasha, de rided that the Sultan Mehmed V should take the oath of the constitution within a week. The assembly also ratified the transportation cf Abdul Hamld to 6alon1kl. It is not expected that the new cabinet will be completed before Saturday. The government has decided to send a com mission to Adana to try by court-martial the instigator of the massacres and the committee Is authorized to act with the utmost severity. It is alleged that the chief author of the recent mutiny were Abdul Hnmld's favorite son. Prince Mehmed Kurhan Ed dlne. Rear Admiral Bald Pasha, son of Kiamil Pasha, the former grand' vizier, and Nadir Pasha, whe were engaged for a long time prior to the rising In cor rupting tiyh troops. The two former have fled. ' JOHN D. JRWINS CASE Publishers of New York American Found Uallty of Criminal Libel. NEW YORK. April 30. A verdict of guilty of criminal libel was found against the publishers of the New Tork American by the Jury in the trial charging the pub lication of an article libelling John P. Rockefeller, Jr. 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 to see w hat they would like to sell. Then they write out a want-ad telling about them and put the ad in The Bee. It's a sure way to flean out the thinprs that you don't want to move a money ranker, too. That's one reason why there are so many bargains on The liee want ad page. Have you read them yet, today ! LIGHTING THE WAY. Cattle Rate Hearing is On Suit at St. Louis Affects Tariffs from : Southwest to Omaha and Other Central Markets. ST. 1.0 CIS. April .-The tsklng of tes timony in R1. lyouls in the suit of the rail roads of t le southwest to restrain the Interstate Commerce commission from put ting Into effect a reduction In cattle ship pings rates has boen completed and James A. Seddon of St. Louis, commissioner to take the testimony, has adojurned the hearing to Chicago, where further testi mony will be taken. AH the railroads doing a cattle business from Texas and southwestern points to 8t. Louis, East St. Louis, Chicago, New Or leans, Omaha, Kansas City and St. Jo s"ph are plaintiffs In the suit. They failed to obi a In a temporary Injunction ngainst the commission and the testimony now be ing taken Is in their effort to obtain a per manent injunction. The suit was brought In the United States circuit court. QUARREL LEADS TO SUICIDE Daughter of Omaha Woman Takes Her Ovrn Life at California Home. - BAN BERNARDINO. Cal.. April 30 Followlng a quarrel with her husband re sulting because she did not want to accom pany lilm 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. Tho woman's parents live In Omaha. ( Mrs. Fording's mother, Mr. Einma T. Edward, wife of Norrie N. Edwards, a laborer, lives at 412 Dorcas street, Omaha, and her father, Louis Schwer, a butcher in the employ of Armour & Co., Jives at Thir teenth and Polk suvets. South Omaha. Mr. Fording never made her home In Omaha, tt visited her mother here last summer, spending about . four month in the city. She had no children. Mrs. Edward was apprised Friday morn ing of the tragic death of her daughter by a telegram from her daughter' husband. HARRIMAN LOSES APPEAL Appellate Division of Co art Refuses to Dismiss Hie; Knit by St. Joseph Man. NEW YORK. April 30-The appellate di vision of the supreme court today denied the appeal of E. II. Harrlman for the dis missal of , suit for 100,0110 against him, brought by John Donovan of St. Joseph Mo. Aged Judge Weeps During Plea Before Pardon Board SPRINGFIELD, ill., April au-Abner Smith, former . Judge of the circuit court of Cook county, broke down under th 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 failure of the Bank of America on a conspiracy charge, wept as he begged th pardon board to spare him further dis grace. Governor Ueneen cat by with Ed Snlvely and Charlea Ecknart, member of th par don tribunal, and waa visibly affected by the recital. Smith voice faltered and choking with emotion, the tear visible, he bad to atop before he ended hU plea. The former Judge, dressed in a suit of black, presented a sorrowful picture aa hi gray head bent and he told th pardon board member how hi lif waa disgraced already. "1 ui now a man of 6fi year and this trouW ba rcauliod la taking from me aU BLACK HAND KILLS EIGHT Tenement House Burned in New York Following Honey Demand. FIVE OF VICTIMS ARE CHILDREN Hall-mays Are Soaked with Kerosene and Dwellers Are Trapped hj the Rapidly Spreading Flames Foarteea Are lnjare4. NEW YORK, April 30. Eight persons, five of them children, were burned to death, and fourteen others were Injured In an Incendiary fire In a five-story tenement house at 87 Spring street, occupied by twenty families, early today. The blaze followed a demand by members of the Blsck Ilsnd society for the payment o tl.000 blackmail. It spread through the building with startling rapidity, as the hall ways were soaked with kerosene oil by the blackmailers. In a panic which followed the alsrm tho tenants fought their way down the fire esrspes or Jumped from the windows, while babies were thrown from windows Into the arms of policemen on the sidewalk Six of the Injured, three of them chil dren, are not expected to recover. Jacob Pruck, the proprietor of the grocery store on the main floor of the building, received on April 1 a letter, resdlng: "We demand tl',000 or death. Bring It in Mott street. Petroslno Is dead, but the Black Hand lives. (Signed), "BLACK HAND SOCIETY." On Monday last Bruek received another letter, written In a similar strain. Ho turned both letters over to the police. Bleaching Order is Sustained Court Refuses to Compel Secretary Wilson to Change Decision to Prosecute. WASHINGTON, April 30,-Justlce Staf ford of the supreme court of the District of Columbia today declined to compel Sco retary of Agriculture Wilson to vacate his decision lo Institute next June prosecu tions against manufacturer and dealer in flour made according to the bleached process. The question whether such bleaching vio lates the pure food law was not before the court. The question' decided was only whether the Alsop Process company of St. Louis Is entitled to mandamus to compel the secretary to chango hi opinion that th, Juice of nitrogen peroxide In the bleach ing of flour render the product unwhole some, deleterious to the consumer and a violation of the pure food law. that I had aa a result of a life work. My children are all dead. If you grant me a pardon the only thing I have left I to resume the practice of law. "I hd no intention of wrongdoing. I wa convicted owing to the inflamed public feeling exlating at the time, of my trial. Thl waa made Intense because of the fail ure of the Chicago National bank of which John R. Walsh wa president. The convic tion of Paul O. Btenland added to the feel lng." Smith read a letter from Mayor Busse of Chicago. In which the Chicugo city ex ecutive declared he believed Smith to he Innocent of any Intentional wrongdoing. Clarence 8. Harrow of Chicago, who as sisted In th prosecution of Smith, read to the pardon board a statement of the facts in the case. This was done on the request ef the board. The hoard Is expected to take th cue Under adviaemenL MISSOURI TOWN WIPED OUT Five Are Dead at Golden and Two at Summerville. SCORES DEAD IN THE SOUTH Isolated Tornadoes Fatal la Several State and Mississippi Tows Re ported Wiped Oat, rrlth Twelve Killed. CHICAGO, April SO.-Death and destruc tion followed In the wake of aJ terrific storm which swept over the middles west last night. Including Chicago In it path of devastation. Hero many buildings were unroofed, homes blown over and scores of people driven into the slorm, many nar rowly escaping with their live. Three men were killed at Grand Cross ing, a suburb, In the collapse of a factory. Tho victims were burled under tons of debrl when a brick wall of the Grand Crossing Tack company collapsed. Homeless men, women and children awoke today In strango beds In many parts of the city, where the storm had held furious carnival. Lots of hardship and peril brought charitable response from neigh bors who fortunately escaped the ravages of the veritable tornado and II accom panying torrent of rain and hall. FleTen More Death. In tho path of tho storm before It reached the Great Lake region great destruction of properly Is reported and at least eleven are known to have been killed. At Golden. Mo., the business section of the town was destroyed and many homer were wrecked. Five persons lost their lives. The dead at Golden are1 MRS. W. H. HENSON. MRS. CORA PRENTICE. BCD HOPKINS. BESSIE CAMPBELL. MRS. JAR VIS. At Summerville, Mo., the wind cre ated havoc 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 Illinois. At Texas City, near Carnil. four persons were killed nd many seri ously wounded. The dead re: EDWARD OVERTON. . . MK8 OVERTON. MRS OVERTON'S RABT. A SERVANT. Many house were destroyed nd trW. town was wrecked. Heavy Dnniaae la Mississippi. Great daniHge to property , and crops wat canard In Michigan, on the east shore of Irfke Michigan, Benton Harbor and South Haven being In the path of the storm. Vessels were Imperilled on the lske. Dis patch's from fault 8te. Mario, Mich., re port that a steamer, believed to be the Aurania of the Corrlgan line, wa seen to sink yesterday tn White Fish bay by Cap tain Boyce of the steamer Tesvey. Cor rlgan, Mi-Klnney & Co. of Cleveland, own ers of the steamer Aurshla, have received no tidings of the vessel. At Michigan City. Ind., on the southern shore of Lake Michigan, the windstorm was terrific and a portion of the wall of the Northern Indiana penitentiary there was destroyed. Militia from South Bend was ordered to tho scene to guard the prisoners. In Wisconsin the storm wss converted Into a bllr.rard and for many hours there raged one of the severest sijowstorms of the season In msny towns, csuslng gret damage to property.' At I .a Crosse and Superior reports are thst traffic wss prsc tically abandoned because of drift. Telegraph Wires Down. Telegraph service between the great news center I tlll harppered and early Improvement Is problematical. South of Louisville conditions are particularly bad. In the south snow has held up train serv ice and the gx.1 on the lakes has hampered hipping to a considerable extent. Inquiry at the general office of the Illinois Central aa to the report tht the town of Horn Lake, IV Soto county, Mis sissippi, had been wiped out by the torm, elicited the Information that the company had no way of ascertaining the truth or falsity of the report, a all their wire were prostrated. There were no wires for tho dispatching of train early, although hope .was expressed that a patchwork serv ice might be restored before night. The Chlrsgo A Alton, two of who train were stalled last night, reported traffic, being handled on a normal basis today, althouc'.. thi'.r wires had suffered. (Helghlng; In WUeoasla. LACROSSE, Wis., April 80. One of the heaviest snowstorms of the winter Is rag ing today. L'p lo S o'clock four Inches of snow had fallen and th storm seemed likely to I'ontiiuiH all day. The snow le now heavy enough for sleighing. SUPERIOR, Wis., April 0. The blirxsid which started yesterday I till raging, snow being driven all night by a wind ranging from forty to fifty-five mile. Heavy hinne tn Able. PIQl'A. O.. ApiU 30. A tornado twenty mile wide (truck this section early this morning and caused a property damago estimated at $IOO,iftu. The path of destruc tion extends over several counties and ex treme damage was done by the . wind In the towns of Plqua. Sidney, Houston Fletcher, St. Paris and Klrkwood. No lots of life I reported. told In MiisntilD Region, DENY KM, Colo., April Vl Temp! aturet as low a :'S above aero are reported from the fiult region around Grand Junction, Colo., today and much damage ha un doubtedly been done. Hundred of fruit raiser ar using smudge pot to protect their yees. Cold weather extends all over th moun- . tain region. At Denver It wa IS above this mortilng and at Cheyenne, Wyo., lo above. A high north wind prevail and the weather bjreau predict hevy frost to night. More than a fxt of snow ha talk u at Tellurlde. Colo. Frees la Panhandle, KANSAS CJTV. Mo.. April 3li.-A twenty, mlle-au-huur wind from tue north, with the temperature at 40 degrees abov sere, were the conditions that prevailed gen erally In western Missouri and through out Kansas today. The local weather bureau also reyoittd a frealn( temperature I