The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-10-21
LONG SIEGE CT
FREAK WEATHER
World Is Slowly Recovering FrOI
Severe Attack OF ,he,eor0-
logical bumps.
EFFECT PhTlENT TO SUnis'i.i.' :
United States Suffers Chiefly Fro7n e
cess OF High Temperature and De-
Eoiency of moisture-Sone
Recent Disasters.

New YOrk.-The old spheroid IlnoYn
rs the earth is 'enreiT1ns f.'bms .WIiat
some hunai III. euOsticians might call
a severe a+ack. OF meteorological
mumps. II has been accompanied by
gn Intermittent fever. maH..s<t.d iii a
worldwide heat wave Of UNUSUAL
lcagth and Intensity. In spite of crises
and relapses, earthquakes, tidal waves,
cloudIursts. typhoons, Watefspouts
haiIstorms. floods and hurricanes in
many widely separated parts from
Kaachatka To Cape Horn and from
Guam to Guadaloupe. the doctors are
confident the patient will recover.
Meanwhile the United States for the
last year has been suffering Chiefly
front an excess of high Temperature
aud a deficiency of moisture. "A condi-
tiOn unprecedented i'm the fifty years
history of the weather bureau.
Suffers Heat Waves.
The persistent higher temperatures,
for which number OF speculative eX-
plantations nave been given, began in
August, 1920, and for the succeeding
twelve months there was an average
monthly excess above normal OF 81
degrees. -Aiarch. 1921, an unusually
warm spring month. had an excess nv
eruge of los degrees. 1'he first shght
breaS ia the record occurred last. .Au-
gust. which was sllsltly below normal
In the nine months period beginning
in October, 1915, and ending tif Jay,
1918. tAe aVera .,e monthly Temperature
Vas Ill degrees above n0mrl, anti
tits VAS a reco9a' until suii spots, seA
bottoia ul,heilyals 90 utier nyi'otnedca!
causes sent tlIe mercury still higher.
The highest avcrus- teui.esa,ure ever
recorded ia ths country for The month
Of March, Weutl y n"c.aiS say was
49,. in sIurch. ls2k -
The ayer2sss. fehlpgls,t,Ire fQr April
192l-53'as$sg,S S 6 s.s1-,ns HAigAest for
that nvon'lffThali. (. ce.its'4sy -iMay .-tzi
June were nos -lnjtG.tk b.t July bro1o
;al records for the preceding eleven
yeArs.
Ncathcr bureau ut,icialS here de-
clined-to di>cllss Ihc possible connec'
ton Between the present n IN tempera-
lures 'and disasters of nature in many
parts OF The .orid.
\ glance back for recent disasters
snd NATURAL phenomena shows the
1pnowins:
Two million Koreans starving in
hIanchuriq owing to drought-ruined
crops.
Three hundred buildings wrecked
and many kille,kby hailstorm and wa
terspout ut Baez, Cuba.
Three volcanoes, Villarica, Llaima
and Lanin. spout flames more than a
thousand feet from craters.
Drought kills fish in river Seine and
France suffers most severe drought in
AZ years.
Rhine and MoSeHe rivers 10 great
damage in highest flood in 1856 years
Cloudburst and hallstorn damage a
Rome. Italy.
Mount NeSuviuS shows. activity an,
earthquake shock is felt from LeshorI
TO Lake Lugino.
Italian destroSers carry Inhabitants
10 safety aS volcano Stromboli re
sumeS activity.
Damage OF several million drachma'
done in Greece by severe hailstorms.
Earth Blocks Canal.
Earth blocks Corinth canal
Cyclone devaStates three towns il
Haiti.
Volcano Kilauea in Hawaii Spout'
immense fountains, of.lava.
Activity of thesvolcano Popocatanet
in Mexico Increasing.
Earthquake shades Vera. Cruz an,
four other cities -
Lightning strikes oil-wells. eauSin;
millions of dollars damage in Tampie,
and other districts.
AhNicans pEay.to water goddess" I,
end dfousht
Volcano Collmz in Jalisco,iS in erm
tion.
Many lives lo>t~in waterspout whiel
destroyed part of Tsnser, Morocco
Volcano MaSaya in Nieara qua il
eruption.
Typhoon and floods ia Philippines
and especially on Island Of Luzoa. IL
great damage
SiN new cratcrs opened al Noun
Izulco. Salvador.
Waterspout ia Maia-Doura. provinc
of SPAIN damages crops and Villages
Heat IN the Alps causes glaciers L
shrink and nine mountain climbers ar
killed
Seventy-five dead in tornadoes whicl