Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-01-15
Determined IOHAYE GOAL
Residents of Arcola, ILL.,, Secure q
Supply by Selling a Train of
Sixteen Car Loads.
FUEL FAMINE LEADS TO coNFIscA1IoN.

FUEL FAMINE LEADS TO CoMFIsCA1IoN.
Situation In Many Localities L. Most
serious-Great Suffering Is Report
educational Convention to BE
Held in Washington to Urge Need
for Immediate Relief. @|
Arcola, ILL.,, Jan. 13.-Arcola, which
during the last two weeks has SUI
fered q 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 fruitless,
and the crowd, which had by this time
increased to 500 or 600 people, set to
work to unload the coal. Many promi-
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 train
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 coal.
Situation in Chicago Serious.
Chicago, Jan. 13.-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
stitutions and hundreds of residences
and tenement houses have almost no
fire and can get hardly any coal.
philadelphia Shivers.
Philadelphia, Jan. 13.-This city,
the greatest coal center in the world.
is without coal. The suffering among
the poor is very great. People who
are able to burn gas are in that way
keeping from freezing. Those who
cannot afford gas are 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. SAG.
Cincinnati, Jan. 13.-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 cruel wind.
The demand for aid from the local
charitable institutions has increased
greatly. ii" II -: 49, ~ g..
St. Paul in Sore Plight,
St. Paul, Mimi, Jan. 13.-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 af-
fairs, and, according to the. local
dealers, the residents of St. Paul are
just beginning to feel the famine.
Coal dealers say: "We 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. 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. It 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 re-
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 a veloc-
Ivy VI oil 11OuI 1IOlA Liz
west, and combined with the ex-
tremely low temperature and scare
ity of fuel in many quarters, caused
much suffering. ..s.-
Michigan Has Zero Weather.
Detroit, Mich, Jan. 13.-Following
on the heels of the most severe
snowstorm of the season Sunday,
came the coolest night of the win
ter in this city. At 1880 Monday
morning the thermometer registered
five below zero. The zero temporal
ture was general all over the lower
peninsula below Alpena, with the ex-
ception of a section close to the
shore of Lake Michigan, near Grand
Haven.
Out of Fuel.
Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 13.Zero
weather prevailed in Kansas City at
seven o'clock Monday morning, fall
of 11Ha degrees in the past IL hours.
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