Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-12-31

DENVER, December 3O.-The Rocky
Mountain News has received several
special dispatches from Western Ne.
braska, telling of the destitution and
distress prevailing among the inhab-
itauts OF the drouth-stricken districts.
A dispatch from Hastings says:
Terrible destitutiOn exists in Per-
kins, Chase, Duuby, Lincoln, Hays,
Hitchcock and Frontier counties, and
the worst feature is the people in sew
eral localities are afflicted with scurvy
for want Of wholesome food.
The State Relief Committee find
themselves unable TO relieve all people
in distress, so great are the demands
for aid. The railroad men report that
sIuce the cold snap no less than
DOZEN PEOPLE HAVE PERIsHED
in the above counties 10 the past two
davs for want of food and fuel.
Hundreds Of families are without
coal, and 10 the border counties, where
no trees or brush exists, the poor peo-
pie had hard time To keep from ireez-
ing TO death In Perkins county dest-
tuition is complete, over 600 families
are appealing for help.
Near Lisbon, the wife and two chill
dren of Settler Burns died for want
Of proper nOurishment and clothing 10
cover them.
"In Hitchcock county, the wife Of
one of the settlers gave birth TO twins
during the storm and before the neigh
bors could reach the home
THE PooR WOMAN EXPIRED
for want Of sufficient food and atten-
tion. The twins are still living aud are
in charge Of charitable neighbors.
Goal is most needed In the drOuth
district and Mr-LHdden,-Of the State
Relief Committee and General Manager
Holdredge, OF the Burlington and Mis-
souri, River railroad, are doing every
thing Ia their power to forward supplies
70 the more destitute localities. Very
few OF the farmers 10 the border coun-
ties have any stock left, having let their
cattle aud horses roam at large. Stock
is being driven out OF the State TO pre-
vent starvation
"The corn planted 10 eight or ten OF
the western counties last summer never
reached a height Of over SIX incnes and
contains 20 more nourishment than sage
brush. People are
LIVING IN COVERED WAGONS
bV the hundreds rather than face star
walton and freeze to death.
zone of tue first acts Of the Legisa-
ture, which conVeneS next Thursday,
will be TO pass suitable appropriation
for the relic of the sufferers. More or
less destitution exists in every county
from the Colorado liue east to Hall and
Adams counties, and the various relief
committees are overwhelmed with APP
Deals for aid. F"
North Platte reports:
ut is fact that there have been
many cases of suffering and hunger
among the drouth sufferers 10 Lincoln
and Local counties. Many families
have only potatoes aud milk TO live OF
now, with no bay or grain for their
stock through the rest OF the winter.
The county 10 a short time will be un-
able TO supply the increasing demands
Tor
THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE.
The Overseers Of the Poor state that
there are more calls already than the
county can supply, and, unless aid
comes from the outside, there will be
many deaths from hunger and want OF
clothing this winter"
A despatch from Curtis says:
Great distress prevails throughout
this sad surrounding counties owing TO
crop failures the past two seasons. Re-
lief committees have been organized in
almost ever precinct aud solicitors sent
east for aid, several carloads of which
have been received. THIS, with what
the county has been able 10 give, has
alone prevented suffering among the
people and stock.
THE OUTLOOK Is EXTREMELR DARK,
owing TO the scarcity Of food and seed
grain, the two articles most needed.
The State Relief Commission has
fifty families on its list as worthy and
needing assistance, aud the most dis
trsssing reports come in from all over
the western part Of the State relating
10 the WOeiul lack of food sEd clothing"
Says a Lincoln despatch:
NO deaths certainly attributable to
stasvation have been yet reported, al
though il is claimed that woman aud
two children found dead 10 cabin
near Niobrara the morning before
Christmas, died from lack Of food and
care.
There are thousands who could not
withstand the rigors of cold spell
without aid, which is being sent out In
generous supply by the relief commits
sion wherever il is known TO be needed.
Relief supplies are being received from
sll over the country and shipped d.
rectly TO the needy in car lots"
Vacancy Fuled.
ST. PAUL, MINI, December 3O.-
Archbishop Ireland to-day received the
formal announcement, from Rome, of
the removal Of Bishop Marty from
Sioux Falls, 5. D., TO the vacant bish-