The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
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Residents of Arcola, ILL.,, Secure 81
Supply by Selling a Train Of
Sixteen Car Loads.
FUEL FAMINE LEADS TO coNFlscATloN.
Situation In Many Localities Il MOST
seriou-Great suner inE Ii Report
educational Convention. to ne
Held In Warrington to Urge Nee0
for immediate Relief. s,a.:.

Arcola, ILL.,, Jan. 12.-Arcola, which
during the last two weeks has suf-
fered a coal famine, now has coal To-.
burn. Saturday morning an Illinois
Central train loaded with 16 big cars
of coal stopped here for few minutes
to repair the engine. The coal was
Immediately confiscated by body OF
citizens. Efforts to buy the coal from
the railway company were frultless'
and the crowd, which had by this time
increased to 500 or 600 people, set TO,
work to unload the coal. Many proml-
nent citizens assisted in the raid.
Farmers bringing corn to town were
persuaded to turn their wagons into
drays and assist in hauling coal to
those most in need. Several hundred
wagons were backed around the tram
in the course of the day. The coal was !.
distributed in ton lots. A weigher
was secured and strict account kept
in hopes of making satisfactory set
Element with the company which owns
the COAX For the last few days there
has been considerable suffering on ac-
count of the fuel shortage. !
Situation In Chicago Serious.
Chicago, Jan. 12.-With the mercury
below zero and likely to sink further !,
in the next day or two, the coal famine
is reported to be growing worse, or at
least more keenly felt. The big office
buildings, the schools, the county IN
situations and hundreds of residences
and tenement houses have almost no
fire and can get hardly any coal. "A
Philadelphia shivers. s&
Philadelphia, Jan. 12.--This city,
the greatest coal center in the world.
is without coal. The suffering among
the poor is very great. People VINO
are able to burn gas are in that way
keeping from freezing. Those who
cannot afford gas ore in a deplorable
state. The demand for oil heaters is
immense. Absolutely nothing has
been done by the municipality to re-
lieve the distress, and charitable or.
CARNATIONS are able only to carry out
their usual programmes. ~
Misery at Cincinnati. ~
Cincinnati, Jan. 12.-Cold and hun
ger have found many poor, starving
mortals in Cincinnati during the last
few days. = Inaccessible. prices. for
coalare able allies of the cruel wind.
The demand for aid from the local
charitable institutions has jncrea sed
greatly. 4
st. Paul in Sore Plight
st. Paul, MIMI, Jan. 12.-In half of
the homes in St. Paul the members
of the household use the kitchen al
most entirely. The coal famine is re-
sponsible for this condition of at
fairs, and, according to the local
dealers, the residents of St. Paul are
just beginning to feel the famine.
Coal dealers say: eve have no hard
coal, and it is guess when we will
have any," AS high as $40 per ton
was offered by those who needed coal.
National Relief Convention.
Chicago, Jan. PA national con-
vention at Washington for the pur-
pose of impressing on President
Roosevelt the urgent need for imme-
date relief from the stringency of the
coal situation was decided on Saturday
at conference in the Grand Pacific
hotel. The call for the extraordinary
gathering will be issued by Mayor
Maybury, of Detroit, acting as chair
man of the permanent committee OF
the Detroit coal convention. It was
this committee which agreed on the
necessity for national meeting at the
capital. 49, .
Good Roads Convention. =