Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-09-19
NO. 43

has been much frozen, and, in many
places, killed outright.
"The oldest residents claim that yes
terday was the coldest day ever ex-
perienced in any September, and last
evening the thermometer sank very
close to the freezing point. The frosts
of Friday and Saturday nights were the
most severe north of this point, but it
extended all over this State and North
ern Iowa Corn has been seriously
damaged, and good judges estimate the
crop will be short of last years, and
will not go over 10000, 600 bushels at
the outside. In Southern Minnesota
corn was advanced so far that it was
not hurt SO badly as further SOUTH"
MICHIGAN's HEAVY LOSS.
DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 10.-Reports
from all over the State show that tho
frost of yesterday and Saturday has
damaged the crops incalculably. The
corn crop has suffered the most, and
fears of its total destruction are enter
tanned. The mercury stood at $50
here Yesterday, but the weather has
moderated some to-day. The greatest
damage seems to have been done along
the Michigan Central and Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern Railroad lines.
The entire growing tomato and GU
cumber crops about Detroit are lost,
and within twenty-four hours the price
of tomatoes has gone,upfrom fifty cents
to $3.50 per bushel 1t is estimated
that the losses to farmers in this State
will aggregate 100000.
WHAT MILWAUKEE, REPORTS.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 10-From sever
al hundred dispatches received in this
city from reliable sources over the
Northwest it appears that the recent
frosts extended North from a line
drawn East and West through this
city across the country increasing in
severity, and consequent damage to-
ward the North, the most direful re-
suits being attained in Michigan, this
State, Minnesota and Northern Iowa.
HAVOC IN CRANBERRY FIELDS.
WAREHAM, Mass, Sept. 1O.--The
last six or eight weeks have been the
driest the Cape has known for years.
and the drouth, together with fruit and
vine-worms, have caused havoc in the
great cranberry fields. On many farms
vegetation is beyond revival. Cattle
suffer for pasturage.
PENNSYLVANIA.
ERIE, Pa, Sept 10.-A heavy frost
visited Erie and adjoining counties last
night, and South of the Lake Shore
Ridge there was three-quarters of an
inch of ice. The corn and buckwheat
crops left by previous frosts were en-
tirely destroyed. The late peaches in
some localities were frozen. Garden
vegetables were destroyed. The region
of country fringing along the Lake
shore, including the vineyards, was
protected by the Lake breezes.
DELAWARE CoUNTY's OUTLOOK.
CHESTER. Sept. l0-The farmers in
Delaware county seem to be well pleas
ed with the result of the years harvest,
and do not now apprehend anything in
the way of dry weather that can hap
pen will affect the outstanding crops to
any great degree, though it would
cause great distress to cattle.
TOBACCO DAMAGED IN BUCKS.
QUAKERTowN, Sept. lO-This sec
tion was visited by heavy frost last
night. Corn and vegetables in low
places suffered considerably. Mr.. VIM.
Dengler, who has two acres of very
fine tobacco growing, reports that his
loss from frost is about 5000.
GRAPES AND OTHER FRUITS SUFFERING.
PINE GROVE, Sept. l0.-A heavy
frost, the fourth of this season, visited
this section of the country last night,
doing serious damage to grapes and
0fhar frnits