Semi-weekly herald., 1909-05-03

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lions OF Turkish troops arrived here
today and IL is understood strong
detachment will also be sent up coun.
try to Hadjin TO effect the relief Of
American women missionaries there.
who for nearly fortnight. have been
besieged in this mission house by
horde of fanatical Mohammedan tribes
men of the surrounding country.
WASHINGTON. April 29.-Senators
Hughes and Guggenheim are deter
mined to make a fight in the senate
against the finance committees recon-
mendation for graded system of du-
ties on zinc ores. Their efforts will
be to impose duty OF l cent a pound
upon all ores OF this variety regard
less of the percentage OF zinc they
contain. The committee on finance
will recommend that duty of one
fourth of cent pound he imposed
more than 20 per cent of zinc and
graded rate Of duty up TO ] cent
pound on ores which carry less than
| 30 per cent Of zinc.
DENVER, April 2s.-Eighteen mil
| lion acres OF land in the counties of
Yuma, Cheyenne. Kit Carson, Wash
| ington, Lincoln, Routt and the eastern
| part of Ebert will be thrown open
| for settlement In Colorado In few
days.
| The order making this possible is
expected to arrive tomorrow from
Washington and Commissioner Ford
of the local United States land office
will be prepared to Issue permits fo5
filing on the new land at once,
Land in eastern Colorado or in the
dry farming belt can be entered
under the enlarged homestead act, per
mitting settlers TO take up 800 acrns
The old desert act provided land must
be irrigated, but the revised law
makes this unnecessary.
DENVER, April 29.-Postoff1ce In
spector Cochran and two of his as
sistants are at Erie, Colo, today In
vestigating the appearance In thai
town of Ave unsigned treasury notes
part of $500 package bound fol
California banks which was either
lost or stolen from Union Pacific
train between Green River and Bryan
Wyo., last week 1t is expected tina
arrests will be made today.
1 CHICAGO, April ga violen
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lightning and rain. struck this cit.
early this morning. The first intima
tion of It came when persons in thu
loop district and those riding on sur
face and elevated cars were startled
by flash of lightning followed b!
cannonading that seemed to shake th'
skyscrapers. Lightning struck two
buildings but no damage resulted.
The storm was prevalent through
out the middle west and worse weath
er with prostration of wires and prop
erty damage is expected within TWEEN
ty-four hours.
Kansas and Coma today experiences
windstorms approaching tornadoes Il
violence.
Telegraph and telephone wires ar
blown down for miles southwest o
caused much damage.
Snow. heavy enough to cause I
blockade, is reported from Oshkosh
Wis, and is general throughout tn,
northwest.
I In Iowa, near Mason City. three
inches of snow are reported.
NEW YORK, April 29.-After near
ly month of extreme cold and un
enced a late April snow this morning
Snow began falling about a. M. bu
after furry the cold ceased for s
time. Although cold northeast wine
as fast as 1t fell. but In the suburb,
the ground was covered with white
blanket
DENVER, April 30.-The storm O
yesterday and last night did grea
damage all through the country.
general alarm was sent out last nigh
all over the Colorado fruit belt ant
before morning the smudge pots were
in action. 1t is stated that the trees
are in good condition TO Withstand /
moderate freeze.
i Terrific storms swept over the mid
die west, south and southwest, killing
many people and doing an immense
amount of damage to property ant
crops.
The state penitentiary at Michigan
City, Ind, was struck by twistel
shortly after night fall and 500 feet
of the wall blown down. The militif
has been dispatched by the governor
this morning to prevent an outbreak
by the convicts.
Chicago was in the grip of q
mighty wind and electrical disturb
ance for several hours. At least FIVE
persons were killed and communica
tions with the outside world was com
pletely severed until late last night
when a few wires were repaired.
A hurricane swept over eastern Iowa
late In the afternoon carving havoc