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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-17

plant since 1917, when an old mill
was destroyed, and was replaced by
a concrete structure. In 1923, a feed
mill was burned.
Two probable causes of the fire
we're being investigated. Employees
working in the elevator believed a
spark from a freight elevator in the
structure started the fame Fire
men believed it was due to
spontaneous combustion.
Three explosions followed in quick
succession as the structure was
enveloped in flames, huge clouds of
smoke pouring over the west side
of the city.
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YOO-hOO
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y 2 = WNIIN FENW
EVANSTON, ILL.,, Dec. IL
Pedestrians crossing streets at
night should wear spats and
carry a white handkerchief to
wave, Safety Director Frank
Kreml suggests.
This will enable auto drivers
to avoid them because the
spots of white will contrast
with the dark street, he be-
lieves.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ing annexation of territory in the
vicinity. Equipment was removed
from the building after it was va
Gated, and pupils were transferred
to a nearby school.
Members of the committee, ap-
pointed by L. E. Kirkpatrick, league
president, are H. A. Johaningsneir,
D. o. Broadway and Scott Kirkpat-
rick.
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ago Of school No. at Thirty-sixth
and Gale streets, is made by the
East rty-eighth Street Civic
League.
The league has appointed COM
mittee, to draft plans for the suit,
which would require rehabilitation
of the school.
The school building was acquired
by the city three years ago follow
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-17
, JOIN MISSION BOARD

Ed Dirks, Irvington business man,
and Robert Nipper, football coach
at Shortridge high school, have
been named new members of the
board of directors of the Wheeler
City Rescue Mission.
Dirks was elected to represent
the Emmanuel Reformed church, of
which he is a member.
Nipper will represent young peo-
pies organizations of the city. His
father, the Rev. James A. Nipper,
was superintendent of the mission
twelve years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-17
SUIT is THREATENED In
SCHOOL ABANDON MEN

3Sth Street Civic League Wants No.
8 Building Put in Use.
Threat Of suit against the city
school board as result of the acqui-
sition and abandonment two years
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-13
German War Veteran Ends
HoIdup With Deadly
Shotgun Fire.
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By United Press
CHICAGO, April 13.-Search for
two bandits who escaped the deadly
shotgun fire of a German war vet
eran who killed two others Of their
band, was pushed by police today
while the hero of the attempted
robbery disclairned credit for his
deed.
Four robbers entered the L'Aiglon
restaurant, a Gold Coast resort, and
held up Nine. Augustine Andre, Is,
the cashier.
Frank Adler, IS, headwaiter with
three years Of service in the Ger
man army, ran to the basement and
procured his shotgun. He returned
to find the bandits threatening the
girl, while $50 guests and orchestra
members covered along the walls,
Adler fired once and a robber fell
dead. Again he fired, MORALLY
wounding another. Two others of
the band fled in terror and escaped
in a waiting automobile.
The dead men were identified as
Charles Nelson, &c, and James
Hirsch, "a.
Adler, a bachelor, who has been
in this country for only five years,
discounted his actions, which police
characterized as zone of the bravest
things in the annals Of Chicago
crime.
He was concerned chiefly over the
discomfort caused his guests.
1T is nothing" he said, "but I do
not like this robbery business"
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TWO ARE SENTENC ED
Heavy Fines, Jail Terms
Given Convicted Pair.

Heavy fines and sentences were
meted out by Judge Paul G. Wetter
in municipal court today to two
men charged with carrying con-
cealed weapons.
James Wilson, 1000 South Me-
ridian street, was convicted OF
carrying concealed weapons and
blind tiger after detectives testified
they found fifteen gallons of whisky
in his residence and Wilson was
armed when they arrested him. He
will serve sentences of sixty days
concurrently at the state farm and
was fined 500 on each count.
Pleading guilty to carrying con-
cealed weapons, Leslie Harding, SAT
Douglas street, was sentenced
to thirty days on the farm anc
fined 500.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-13
WOMAN WHO HIRED
MATES KILLER DIES
Poison Too Slow for Her,
So She Got StiIIetoist
to Do Work.

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MARYSVILLE, O., April 13.-Mrs.
Eva Katherine Kaber, so, who hired
stilettoist to kill her husband,
Dan Kaber, wealthy Lakewood (O)
publisher, when poisoning was too
slow, died Sunday night In the
MarysviIle reformatory for women,
where she was serving a life sem
tence for the crime.
Death was caused by acute indi-
gestion, superinduced by tumor, for
which she had refused to submit to
an operation.
She was stricken last Friday. but
disdained appeals Of her physicians
to operate because, it was said, Of
religious scruples.
Ends Awesome Case
Mrs. Kaber's death ended one Of
the most amazing and awesome
murder cases in the history Of Ohio,
embroiling as it did two members
Of her immediate family, and three
others in the plot designed be-
cause she was mot satisfied" with
her husband, one of the largest pub
fishers Of printing supplies in
Cleveland.
Over a period Of several months
she had been administering poisons
Of arsenic in his food, allegedly by
a poison queen" and her agent.
On July 10, 1919, stilletoist crept
into the house which, by prear-
rangement, had been upset as if by
robbers, and stabbed Kaber as he
slept.
Crime Barred Later
Mrs. Ethel Berman, prominent
Cleveland and Lakewood society
woman, brought about the widows
arrest two years later after she had
acted as her travelling companion
and conddante.
Her mother, Mrs Mary Brickel,
and her 19-year- old daughter by
a previous marriage, Marion Nc
Cardle, were arrested as accessories,
but subsequently were released.
The stilletoist was arrested in
Italy and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment while another man was
given life imprisonment in Ohio
penitentiary.
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HOMES ARE LOOTED
Weekend TheftS, Rob-
berries in Crime Reports.

Clothing valued at $3.50 was stolen
from the store Of Jake Scholl, 500
East Washington street. he reported
to police today.
Other weekend robberies and
holdups reported:
Kroger grocery. 1915 North Senate ave-
nue., merchandise. -sz5: Marvin Brown,
poolroom at 1902 Columbia avenue, mer-
chandise SIS; G. c. Tenney. l07 East
Forty-eighth street ring, $3.50; Mrs. Louise
earle. 6l5 South Noble street, house looted
nue.. residence looted. s37: John Courtney
Of New Augusta. robbed Of SO; Hugh Macy.
25 Of 1918 Hillside avenue, bus driver,
sill: Mrs. Lulu Brown. 1881 Boulevard
place, auto entered golf bags. valued at
500 stolen; Mrs. Robert Munson, LA East
Eighteenth street $40; Don r. Curles. 1855
North keystone avenue. SAT. and Edward
Cakes. 2244 Prospect street. operator OF a
street car. SIS.
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H|JACKER SHOT
IN Gun BATTLE:
Wounded as Car Crashes;
Jumps Into Cab.

Victim Of liquor battle, Anthony
La Rosa, 80, Of 525 South Noble
street, today is in the city hospital
detention ward suffering from a
bullet wound, while police are
searching the underworld for the
gangSter who shot him.
La Rosa, known to police as q
hijacker and rum runner, was shot
in the head Sunday night when q
car in which he was being taken
for a ride" crashed at Sixteenth
and Hall place.
Driver of the auto fell to the
street, curSing La Rosa and fired
shot at La Rosa who fell. La Rosa
fired back and the driver Of the
car slipped under the wheel anc
fed.
La Rosa, picking up the revolver
jumped into cab and was found
later by police on the south side
He had disposed Of the revolver
giving it to an unknown man who
also is sought by authorities. The
bullet from the assailant's CUR
struck La Rosa near the right ear
His condition is not serious.
He has refused to tell police who
shot him asking, leave me alone. ,
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By United Press
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, April 49,
Mrs. Frances Thomson, 90, Welles-
ley graduate, minister's daughter,
killed Miss Minnie Dilley, aged
spinster she accused in an alleged
love cult" because Of "hallucina-
tons" her husband declared today
as Wellesley alumnae came to Mrs.
Thomsen's aid.
Four Wellesley women visited the
jail and brought literature, deli
cacies and offers of financial and
.egal aid, jail attaches said.
1t further was reported that the
district Wellesley alumnae associ-
alton was planning to assist the
woman.
Her husband, Carl Thomson,
was named in Mrs. Thomsen's
statement to District Attorney
Lewis as high priest" of the love
cult Miss Dilley. planned to estab-
liSh in the Pocono mountains.
The cult" was to provide COP
portunity for love" for school teach
ers and employed women who had
no other time "for love affairs"
Thomson said a strange friend
ship existed between the two wom-
en-, and that he moved his family
from Forty Fort to free Mrs. Thorn
sen from the aged spinster's hold
on her.
He said his only relations with
Miss Dilley were those Of neigh
bor."
They spent many nights togeth-
er reading erotic literature" Thorn
sen said. IT threw the books into
the ash can whenever I found them
around the house"
Meantime Mrs. Thomson, who
hitch-hiked across the state from
Pittsburgh to visit the Dilley woman,
a visit that ended in the Staying
the wellesley graduate has con-
fessed, expressed little remorse. She
said nothing more than sit just had
to be DONE" jail attendants said.
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MONROE, Wis, April 13.-Re-
ports that relatives of Fred j..
Blumer, wealthy kidnapped near
beer manufacturer, were negotiat-
ing secretly for his release were
widespref d today as hour after
hour passed and he remained away.
Blumer disappeared last Thurs
day night. A few hours later off,
Gals of his company we're informed
through mysterious telephone calls
that he was being held for $780,
900 ransom.
AS the interest of Blumer's wife
and 20-year- old daughter Marion,
in the official investigation appeared
to slacken, authorities became more
and more convinced that efforts
were being made to obtain Blum
er's secret release by paying COM
promise sum between the $150,000
and the $4,000 which Mrs. Blumer
previously had said she could offer.
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3 AGED men
GIVEN SIGHT
IN MIRACLES
PhiIanthropic Surgeon,
Name Withheld, Helps
Aged Blind Trio.
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BIZ United Press
PHOENIX, Ariz., April 13.-Three
aged men, their sight restored al
most miraculously after three years
Of blindness, planned today to leave
the Pioneers Home again to become
useful" and independent" citi-
zens.
To each the return Of his sight
meant realization Of a dream he
long had ceased to hope might ever
come true.
To Abraham H. Porter, IS, who
could see again after being blind
for twenty years, it meant mot be-
ing a nuisance any more"
To Steve A. Tyler, 10, blind fol-
eight years, it meant going back
to the hills" in search of ore. He
was a prospector for years before
he went blind.
To the third man, George D
Hoyer, 81, blind for sixteen years
being able to see again meant being
able to "go out into the world to
look for all the people I've lent
money to-"
The men had been blind because
Of cataracts on their eyes.
Operations which we're termed
miracles because of the patients adj
vanced ages, were performed by a
philanthropic surgeon who asked
that his name be withheld.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-13
TEN CITIES Get
POLICE BUREAUS
Forty State Cops Will Be
Added to Force.

Location of ten of eleven state
police subStations, and possible 10
cation Of the eleventh, was an
nounced today by Grover G. Gar
rett, state police chief.
The expansion will add forty new
state policemen to the force by May
l, bringing the total to eighty-four,
under new statute allowing extra
funds for the department.
SubStations will be in Michigan
City, Rochester, FIT. Wayne, Mont
morenci, Muncie, Indianapolis, Put
namville, Columbus, Paoli, Evans
vile, and either in Angola Of La
Grange.
In each, six patrolmen and a
lieutenant will be stationed. Sixty
six motorcycle policemen will patrol
Gill miles of state highways daily,
and will clear traffic for the Ken
lucky Derby, May is, and the IN
dianapolis 500-n1ile auto race May
81. A campaign will be inaugu-
rated against improper lighting, the
chief said.
1.-THE aim Of the department will
be courtesy first" said Garrett.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-13
Neck Broken, AerialiSt
Tries to Take a BOzO

By United Press
NEW YORK, April 13.-The
IN Ringing Barnum circus went
on as usual today, but its famed
aerialiSt. Charles Siegrist, was not
among the entertainers.
He. was lying on 8 hospital cot
with a broken neck--and the
knowledge that he never again will
climb to dizzy heights and swing
through the air.
For forty years-since he was
l4-SiegriSt has climbed a ladder
to the tent top to swing on trapeze
and cross-bar, and send his body
hurting through space while
thousands cheered his daring. But
that is all over now.
Saturday afternoon Madison
Square Garden was filed. The
clowns and their funmaking CAD
gets, Clyde Beatty and his forty
lions. the bareback riders and the
kicking mule had come and gone.
Siegfist, his son William and
another partner came running
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-13
AGED PIONEER
Dies IN west
Pasadena (CaI.) Man, 104,
Voted for Fremont.
By United Press

By United Press
PASADENA, Cal, April 10. -
Galusha Cole, who in 104 years Of
life, watched his country grow, and
voted for it's Presidents even in the
days before Abraham Lincoln, died
Sunday night.
He had been In the hospital since
April 8 after suffering a fractured
leg. He refused food and medicine,
fastening the end.
Galusha Cole was one of the COL
Orful figures of southern California.
For many years he served as a
leader of local church choirs and
recently led the choir at the First
Methodist church, Los Angeles,
which he attended regularly on
Sunday, making the ten-nile train
trip unattended.
He was born in Pornfort, Conn.
on Aug. IS, 1925. It was his boast
that he voted for John C. Fremont,
first Republican candidate for
President, and all succeeding can
didates Of that party, including
Abraham Lincoln.
Cole saw the population of his
country increase from $4,000 900 to
100000 persons.
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into the sawdust arena, along
with two other groups of aerial
workers.
They mounted the ladders and
climbed to the swinging bars far
overhead. Siegrist was hurled
back and forth by his partners as
the ''leaper" Of the act. He went
through his usual program with
out hitch. Then came the big
finale.
Siegrist was perched on the
bar read to make his triple SOM
ersault to the net, but his foot
caught on the bar, causing him
to slip and plunge heavily to the
edge Of the net.
He hit with such force that he
was bounced on his back to the
ground below, while startled thou
sands watched.
Siegrist. always the Snowman.
tried to get to his feet to show
that he was ulhurt, but he was
unable to stand and attendants
had to carry him to hospital.
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Mrs. Eva Katherine Kaber
MORRIS VERDICT
STAYS SUICIDE
New Evidence Heard, but
Finding Unchanged.

Death by suicide today stood as
the verdict in the death Of j. Ed
ward Morris, president of the de-
funct Washington Bank and Trust
Company, two weeks ago.
Coroner Fred w. Vehling Satur-
day heard testimony of Will Hopkins,
$40 East Tenth street, working near
the Morris home the afternoon Nor
ris was found pillowed, behind his
running auto in his closed garage.
Death was due to carbon monoxide
gas, Vehling had stated.
Hopkins was reported to have
seen strange car in the Morris
residence driveway. Members Of the
family indicated death might have
occurred in another manner than
suicide due to the number Of
threatening letters Morris received
since the bank closed in October.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-13
rs butterflies LAUDED
Students Who Received High
Grades Congratulated by Dean.

Twenty-six Butler students who
made an A or A average for the
last semester have been sent con-
gratulatory letters by Dean j. w
Putnam. Those who received let
tiers were:
Mrs. Freda Z. Bridenstine. Bertha Bretz-
man. Kathryn Bromley. Dorothy Cohen.
Mary Frances Cray. Josephine Davidson.
John " tastes. Herbert L. EKbert, cloyd
r. Fisher. Thelna Flack. Milton Green.
Russell =. Handy. Julia N. Henderson.
MAYNARD =. Lemer. Rudolf J. Pfixter.
Martha <. Pittenber. Delmar W. Ray. Eve
lyn Richey. EVELYN RodibauEh. Oran Stan
lev. Margaret II. Stayton. Dorothy z.
Stoelting. Rosaiind n. TAYLOR. Emma Lou
Thornbrough. Gilbert Timer and Elaine
Wilson
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LEGION HEAD OPPOSES
VETERANS AID BOOST

Expansion of Program in 1882 Would
Add to Federal Debt, O'Neil Saws.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, April 13.-Any
increase in the program of veterans
relief, as proposed recently by com
mander Ralph O'Neil of the Amer
lean Legion, was opposed today by
Chairman viii Wood of the house
appropriations committee, after
correspondence with General Frank
T. Hines, administrator of veterans
affairs.
Denying O'Neil's assertion that no
part of the treasury deficit this
year was due to veterans relief.
Wood charged that the veterans
bills, particularly the adjusted
compensation loans, played an i'm
portant part in the deficit. He said
an expansion of the veterans pro-
gram for next year would put the
government still further in debt.
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HUNGER PARADE WILL
BE HALTED BY POLICE
Hammond Radicals, Worried About
May Day Demonstration.

Hammond Radicals Worried About
May Day Demonstration.
By United Press
HAMMOND, Ind, April IS. -
Hopes of Communist leaders and
sympathizers to lead a hunger
parade" here May l were blasted
when Chief of Police Thomas j.
Martinson announced any attempts
at a demonstration will be halted.
Communists of the state plan to
meet in indianapolis May 2 to pre-
sent their demands to Governor
Harry Leslie, Paul Bucha, 17-year-
old secretary and treasurer of the
Hammond group. revealed.
Numerous demands have been
made by Communists on the North
township trustee here recently for
free rent, food, clothing and medi-
cal service. All requests were de-
MED, the trustee says, and on sew
eral occasions police were forced
to eject the radicals from the trus-
tees office when they became in
siStent on their demands.
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BELGIAN PRINCE COMES
TO U. S. SECRETLY

Charles, Travelling Incognito, May
Arrive Today; Ship Is Unknown.
By United Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 49,
Prince Charles, second son of King
Albert and Queen Elizabeth, will
arrive in the United States today
or Tuesday. The court declined to
make known what ship he is travel
ing on, or at what port he would
land.
The prince is on a study tour
He is travelling iacognito.
Prince Charles, count Of Flanders,
is q.
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Cherry Blossoms Dra7O
Vast Thr0ng in Capital

around the basin with Allan Hoo
yer and Mrs. Herbert Hoover Jr.
Police estimated 175,000 per-
sons viewed the cherry trees from
automobiles, with $4,000 more on
foot.
In addition there were several
hundred in airplanes, too high up
to be counted, and others in mo-
torboats.
Two tourists, more intimately
associated with cherry blossoms
than any others, viii not see them
until Wednesday. They are Prince
and Princess TakamatI Of
Japan.
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SAVE TRAPPED GIRL
Rescued From Quarry;
Ankles Bound With Wire.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
NEWTON, N. j., April 13.-Miss
Edna Wright, 20, Of Newton, was
rescued today from the waters of an
abandoned stone quarry, her ankles
bound With wire.
She was removed at once to a
hospital after first aid treatment
revealed she was suffering from
exposure and immersion.
The water in the quarry from
which five young men reported
they rescued the girl, after hearing
her screams, is said to be IT'S feet
deep.
The girl, too exhausted to tell her
story Of the rescue, Will be ques-
toned as soon as her condition per-
mitS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-13
fARMAKIS NOT HELD
Enormously Reported Arrested in
Gambling Raid.

Through an error in police rec
ords, The Times said Saturday that
John Farmakis, 40, Of 708 North
Illinois street, was arrested in a
gambling raid at that address. Far
makis lives at the address, but the
raid was made at a poolroom near
st. Clair street, residents said to-
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-13
2 CHICAGO BANDITS
KILLED BY WAITER
Martial Speed

WARSAW, Ind, April IL
Divorced in the morning, wed
in the afternoon is the matri-
monial pace set by 18-year-old
Mrs. Vera Grubo Kelly Hawn.
She obtained a divorce from
Jack NJ. Kelly, because he is
serving a term in the Indiana
state reformatory for forgery.
A few hours later she be-
came the bride of Ward Eawn,
%, a mechanic.
Kelly forged the name of
his father-in-law Peter Grub,
to a check in November. He
received a two-to-fourteen-
year term.
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By United Press
VXTASHINGTON, April 49,
w Washington is on its annual
nature-loving spree.
IN the neighborhood Of a quar-
ter of million persons milled
aro6nd> the tidal basin Sunday
gazing at the japanese cherry
blossoms.
The trees, massed around the
margin Of the pool, were at the
height Of their first vivid glory.
oceans of pink met the eyes OF
thousands, including those Of
President and Ms. Hoover, who
arrived unheralded and walked
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-13
OIL PRICE CONTROL
is URGED BY BORAH

Idaho Senator Holds Federal, State
Regulation Needed.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, April Is. - Any
plan to curtal oil production and
importation also should include
federal and state price regulation
to protect the consumer, Senator
William E. Borah (Rep., Idaho
said Sunday night.
Borah, arguing that the consurn-
ing public would be left unpro-
tected from a possible price gouge
under any general restrictive plan,
said the business Of producing and
vending oil properly could be re-
garded 'as a public utility and sub
ject to government regulation"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-13
INDIANA SHORT OF RAIN
Fall Below Normal for First Three
Months of This Year.
By United Press

BY United Press
LAFAYETTE. Ind, April l3. -
Rainfall in Indiana is still consid-
cradle below normal, it is revealed
in a report Of the government
weather bureau at Purdue univer-
sity here.
Total precipitation for the first
three months Of 1881 was 487
inches, accord ng to the report.
Rainfall during January was 1.01
inches, compared with SAB inches in
the corresponding month of 1880;
the February record this year was
1.33 inches. compared with 2.25
inches in February Of last year; in
March slight increase was re-
corded, with 2.53 inches against
1.94 in the same month Of 1880.
The highest temperature Of the
year was reached April 8, when the
mercury rose to 70.