The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-09-16
WELCOME RAIN.
The Long Drought in Several States
Comes to an End
A Dry Spell Such as Has Not Been Knows
in the Northwest for Many Years
Wisconsin Left Out of the =
Favored States.
THE EARTH REJoICEs.


CHICAGO, Sept Tuesdays rain
ended the droughtEln Chicago that had
entered upon it's eighty-fifth day.
Showers are reported throughout the
state and to the east and west. At the
weather bureau rains were reported
in Grand Haven, Mich: Jacksonville,
Fla; Louisville, KY; Pittsburgh, Pa,
and Springfield, III. The temperature
was that of July. At Abeline, Kan,
the maximum registered was 104 de-
grees. In some parts of Texas the
the shade.
COLUMBUS, O., Sept. l3.-Weather OBJ
server McDonough says the recent
drought, broken for the first time Tues
day by rain, has been the longest
since the location of the signal
station in this city in 1879. Cor
eighty-six days, with the exception of
passing shower on the 27th of August,
there has been no rain in this vicinity.
The observer is of the opinion that
from past experience the coming win
ter will be marked by an unusual num-
Der of heavy SHOWS and many days Of
rainy weather, the precipitation being
much more than last winter. June,
July and August were collectively the
driest months at the local station OBJ
served by the weather clerks in four
teen years.
IN INDIANA.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Sept 13.-Not
since June 81 has enough rain fallen
here to make the cutters run until
Monday night when there came a
shower. This was supplemented
Tuesday afternoon by a heavy
downpour. A steady rain is now
falling and is being drunk up
by the parched foliage and sum
cracked soil, dry as powder for nearly
eleven weeks. The weather has been
SO dry that no fall blowing has been
done, while the late maturing crops have
been almost cooked in the earth. Corn
has ripened half grown, and potatoes
are almost too small to dig. The fields
are burned up.
IN ILLINOIS.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Sept. 13.-The first
general rain since May 81 fell here
Tuesday. The drought was almost alb
solute for eighteen weeks, but it's back
is now broken While it will be of no
benefit to corn it will revive parched
pastures and meadows and loosen the
soil for fall blowing. The indications
point to further rainfall.
WISCONSIN LEFT OUT.
MADISON, Wis, Sept. 13.-Not drop
Of rain since five weeks ago last Friday
is a drought record which has left
nearly the whole of southern Wiscon-
sin in truly critical condition. The
terrible condition of northern
Wisconsin, where fierce forest fires
are destroying not only valuable
timber but promising towns, is we'll,
known; but that damage, though more
forcefully impressed upon the public, is
hardly equal to the damage by the
drought in the southern part of the
state. All about Madison, and it
is so throughout, the pastures are
absolutely dried up and no amount
of rain could revive them. A ire
mendous crop of hay was cut. but
farmers have already begun to feed
it to their stock, which makes them
fear the supply will not last through
the year. No fall blowing has been
done, and it looks as though no winter
wheat can be sown. Tobacco and corn
are badly dwarfed and chinch bugs by
the billions infest the fields, though
they are too late to do great amount
of damage. 4