| Show flnlon Alenalls CHICAGO Sept 15IlIInoh Indiana Indi-ana aud Iowa are parched Until lost evening Kansas was In the lame condition but rain come Weather bureau men say grateiul showers are one In the other states In a few drIb dr-Ib southern llllooli the temperature has avenged 90 degreee for gets days Northern Illinois and Chicago are experiencing ex-periencing an unusually hot period for in lam In the teaioo Corn Is I being destrcved lu nearly all Ibe Egyptian couutiy Tne Bangaraon Mackinaw and Vermillion Ver-million livers are nearly dry anti the cattle on a Ihoutand I hills are dying for want 01 water In Indiana no drop of molitnre has fallen for two montbr the corn Is I being be-ing burned to death Ibo Failures ala al-a inflammable us powder and prairie fires are raving All over northern and eastern Indiana prayers lor rain are being odercd In ail the churches Iowa baa had an average of nearly ninety tot ten days aud never In the states history has there been such tuflerlng In September Public kouools are closed In many towns workmen am forced lo quit toll and prayers lor rain are going up en every band In Ohio alio public schools were forced to close curing yesterday on account of Ibo extremely hot weather Michigan lapels scanning the tkleiand walcalug every newspaper news-paper and weather bull t till for Ibo promise of a downpour Farmers ore anxious and null ralsera are downcast down-cast aud the people the olllts nre discouraged |
