Evening star., 1920-07-04

| my years ago the country was
IN the grip of a hot wave of excep-
tional intensity.
Hot Wave Sweeps In The Star of
tho cor June -. 1870. is
the 70 wing
| summary of the heat records. show
ing that Washington was not, as has
| been generally claimed, one of the
warmest spots in the United States.
This heated term has covered. so
| far as we can learn. the whole area
| of the United States, always except
! ing Alaska. The accounts come in
from various directions telling of in
| tensely hot weather prevailing all
over the country There have been
a number of fatal cases of sunstroke
Telegrams report that the day in
| Philadelphia yesterday was one of
| the hottest ever known there. the
| mercury indicating 9S in the shade; in
New York the highest temperature
" as SO. At Bangor, Me. the mercury
stood at l03 in the shade yesterday.
On Friday and Saturday the thcr-
mometer at Lewiston, Me, ran up from
| 80 to los. Seven cases of sunstroke
occurred Saturday in New York,
| three cases occurred in Wilmington,
y. c., where the mercury rose to 90.
! In Chicago it was 90; at Cambridge.
| Iowa. the mercury touched Zoe. at
Oshkosh. Wis. SO: at Madison. Wis,
| 9S; at Rochelle, Ill, So; at Des Moines.
Iowa. SO; at Jeanesville, Wis. 81: at
Aurora. III. 105: at Boston. "a; New
! York. 96A Portland. Me. 90: Al
bany, \. Y, f05; ST. Louis, 9s, while in
! Washington the thermometer did not
| rise above So"
,,,+r q Il.
hand in legislation fifty years ago,
according to the
Fly Takes Part in following item
in The Star of
The bothersome fly has got over
to the Senate wing and yesterday
caused an amusing case of misunder-
standing between Senators Hamlin of
Maine and Morrill, of Vermont. Mr..
Hamlin, in the course of his speech
on the income tax question, paused
to interrogate Mr.. morrill, in regard
to what he construed to be a wig
orous expression of dissent by that
gentleman to his proposition that 1T
was not necessary to replace the in
come tax by a tax on sugar Mr..
Morrill, intimated that it was mis-
take-he had not dissented. But said
Mr.. Hamlin, you shook your head
Whereupon Mr.. Morrill, explained that
he had shaken his head to get a
! fly off, and the matter ended with
| a ripple of laughter among the grave
and reverend seignors. Mr.. Morrlli.
! like Mr.. McCreery, parts his hair IN
| the middle, though not quite so much
so as the senator from Kentucky
| And Yesterday being the warmest
[ day of the session. Senator Morrill,
! was quite justified in shaking off the
| troublesome flies with the energy
| which SO misled the senator from
| Maine.
; In the list of nominations sent by
29th of July. 1870. as
Irdoa creu printed in The Star
| of that date, was the
Nominated. name of William b.
Smell of Maine, to be judge of the
Police Court of the District of Co.
| lumbia Concerning the nominee,
who was the presiding genius of that
court for many years thereafter and
was locally famous as a terror to
evildoers, The Star of the same date
says:
"Col. William B. Smell, TO-DAY nofhi
mated by the President for judge OF
| the Police Court of this District. Is
| a resident of Kennebec county, Maine,
! and served during the rebellion as
! an officer of the 18th Maine Nolun-
| teers. At the close of the rebellion
he was mustered out and resumed the
! pra actice of law in the courts OF ms
native state He was formerly
states attorney for Somerset county,
Maine. and was regarded as lawyer
of ability. He is about forty years OF
iage and has been practicing law Tor
the past twenty years, with the ek-
!, cention of the time he was in the
war"
! According to an item printed in
The Star of June %, 1870, part of the
$4,000 stolen in one
rr packet from the
Trea asury Depart
Recovered. ment by sneak
thieves a few days before had been
recovered in New York city by COL
Whitley. chief of the detective bureau
| of the Treasury. He reported that
he rad secured $4,000 of the money
and asked that witnesses be sent AT
nnca to New York Accordingly, ii.
q Boot. chief of the division IN
charge of the room where the ron
herv was committed, with woman
cIark and a colored woman messen-
GOV loft Washington on that errano-