Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-01-15
Residents Of Arco1a, ILL.,, Secure a
Supply by Selling a Train of
Sixteen Car Loads.
FUEL FAMINE LEADS TO CONFISCATI0N.
Situation in Many Localities Is MOST
Serious-Great Suffering Is Report
educational Convention TO DC
Held in Washington to Urge Need
for Immediate Relief.

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 confscated by BODY OF
citizens. Efforts to buy the coal from
the railway company were frultless'
and the crowd, which had by this time
increased tc 500 or 600 people, set to
work to unload the coal. Many prom
nent citizens assisted in the RAID.
Farmers bringing corn to town were
persuaded to turn their wagons INTO
draws and assist in hauling coal TO
those most in need. Several hundred
wagons were backed around the train
in the course of the day. The coal was
distributed in ton lots. A We1gner
was secured and a strict account KePt
in hopes of making satisfactory SET
Element with the company which owns
the coal.
Situation in Chicago Serious
Chicago. Jan. 122With the mercury
below zero and likely to sink TURNER
| in the next day or two, the coal FAMINE
is reported to be growing worse, or at
least more keenly felt. The big ONCE
buildings, the schools, the county IN
stitutions and hundreds of residences
| and tenement houses have almost no
fire and can get hardly any coal.
Phi1adeIphia> shivers.
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 are in 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
coal are able allies of the crue. wind.
The demand for aid from the local
charitable institutions has increased
greatly.
st. Paul in Sore Plight.
St. Paul, Mimi, Jan. lin 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 af-
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 a guess when we will
have any AS high as, $40 per ton
was offered by those who needed coal.
National Relief Convention.
Chicago, Jan. IA 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 a 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. 1t was
this committee which agreed on the
necessity for national meeting at the
capital.
Cold in Ohio.
Cleveland. O., Jan. 13.-The lowest
temperature of the winter was ire
corded here early Monday, when the
government thermometer indicated
four degrees below zero. At other
points in northern Ohio the temper
allure fell to eight below. During
the night the wind reached veloc-
ity of A miles an hour from the
west, and combined with the eX-
tremely low temperature and scare
ity of fuel in many quarters, caused
much suffering.
Out of Fuel.
Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 13.-Zero
weather prevailed in Kansas City at
seven o'clock Monday morning, a fail
of 49, degrees in the past II hours.
There is no prospect Of moderation
and suffering because of lack of fuel
will prove severe. The supply of
coal in Kansas City, which was short
on Saturday, had diminished great
ly over Sunday. Similar conditions
exist at all points throughout this
part of the southwest.
Suffering in Iowa.
Des Moines, Ia, Jan. 13.-Extreme
cold has prevailed throughout Iowa
for 80 hours, the temperature rang
ing from zero to six below, accom-
panied by considerable wind. 1t was
three below zero here Monday morn
ing. Hard coal cannot be obtained
and the soft coal supply is exhaust
ed in many places, resulting in much
suffering.
Little Girl Takes Poison.
Ottumwa. La. Jan. 12.-Because, it