Show Telepbone and Typewriters Mllwtulee July 8As n result at last nights storm the only reliable means of quick communication was the longdistance telephone The Western Union lines as well as those of the I Postal and Chicago and Milwaukee telegraph tel-egraph were prostrated to such an extent ex-tent that aside from the telephone the railroad trains were the best substl tute available to move the the accumulation accumu-lation of commercial messages and press dispatches The failure of the telegraph wires be tweon Milwaukee and Chicago had the effect of developing quickly a method of transmitting press matter by wire that Is new In the West Typewrite operators with telephone receivers at their ears were seated In the ncwspa per offices at Milwaukee and the new was talked to them Cram Chicago at the rate of eighty words I minute |