The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-06
METEOROLOGICAL.

METEOROLOGICAL.
Jan. 3-Very. cold weather. all over the coun-
try. Ice formed III the City Of Mexico and ther-
mometer was ~ degrees below zero at Water
town, n. Y.
Jan. 4-Snow fell a foot deep in louisiana
the heaviest ever known.
Jan. 5-Five inches Of snow fell in Georgia
and Mississippi.
Jan. 6-Thermometer ranged from 60 below
zero at Moorehead, Mimi. to II below at Mil
Waukee, and was reported to have registered SO
bel6H at Aitkn Mimi, on the night of the Sth
Jan. 6-Thermometer 80 below at Miles City,
hi. T., ana 50 below at Pembihai D. T.
Jan. l9-Coll weather throughout the East.
In the Mohawk Valley, N Y, mercury ranged
from p to 80 degrees below zero.
Jan. 3l-Mercury 81 below zero at St. Vim
cent, MINI.
Feb, s-severe blizzard in Dakota. Snow
compelled abandonment Of all railroad trains.
Feb. s6-Earthquaze shocks in Illinois, In
diana and Missouri.
Feb. 9-Winter in Montana reported severest
in ten years. Many people and cattle persisted.
Feb. 22-First cyclone ever known west of
Rocky Mountains passed near Oroville, Cal.
Feb. 26-Trains throughout Northwest block
adeq by terrific snow storm. 10
Mar. 23-Heavy SHOWS in East AtsdEfers-
Ville n. Y. piled as high as store fronts.
apr 4-I'rains delayed by heavy snow in Wis
consin and Michigan.
Apr, 15-Cyelone at St. Clairsville, o. wrecked
800 houses. Loss, S1.0D,000.
Apr. 21-Cyclone in Vernon County, Mo-,
killed about p people. Cyclones destroyed
PRESCOTT. HAN, anu destroyed lie ana prop
erty in Arkansas Heavy SHOWS In Northwest.
May. 3-Severe earthquake shocks III South
ern Arlzona and Mexico. 200 people killed in
latter country.
May 11--Dryest season In forty years report
ed in Wisconsin.
May Five shocks earthquake at Nogales,
A. L Cyclone leVeied houses and killed two
persons at Three Springs, Neb.
May 30-Two shocks earthquake at Nogales,
AT.
June 3-Severe earthquake shocks in North
ern California ard Western Nevada.
June 16-Hurricane Grand Forks, D. t. killed
6people and destroyed $4,000 property
June 17-Cyclone near Crookston Mimi.
killed people. !. Great heat throughout North
west and Z cases sunstroke at Chicago.
June 22-SnoW fell in Pleasant Valley MINI.
June 23-E'rost injured crops in Dakota.
June 25-Mono County New marble quarry
destroyed by earthquake. Loss, S1.01o.00O.
June 27-Tornado in Texas killed several peo-
pie.
July 8-Mercury 96 in shade at Chicago and
intense heat throughout country.
July 12-Great heat in Northwest At some
points mercury 1903 in shade.
July l6-17-Intense heat throughout country.
In Chicago 1871 deaths from sun-stroke, 12 in
| Cincinnati, 1Sin St. Louis, Il in Philadelphia.
July 16-At Rockford, ILL.,, II children died
from severe heat
July 29-Tornado destroyed half of David City,
Neb.
July 31-Eight deaths from sun-strol1e in Phil
adelpha and in New York.
Aug. Body of land near Golden Pond, Ky,
sank half a dozen feet during an earthquake.
Seventeen cases sun-stroke in Chicago and
16 in New York.
Aug. drought inIndiana Illinois and Wis
| consin unprecedented. Thousands of acres
burned over.
Aug. 11-Remille, MINI, devastated by tor
nado.
Aug. 1S--Republican City, Neb., nearly de-
stroyed by hurricane; 2 persons killed and
many injured.
Sept. 23-At Abercrombie, Mimi, mercury
| registered above zero.
pt.!24-Heavy frost in Northwest and about
Lynchburg, Va.
Sept. 25-Snow at Pennington Me.
Get. 7--IeaVy SHOWS in Dakota.
Oct. Thirst snow-storm in Wisconsin and
| Michigan.
| Oct. 24-Mercury at Billings, M. IT,, Is below
| zero.
| Oct. 25-Tn Northwest thermometer lower
| than ever before in October
Oct. 31-Snow in Southwestern Virginia.
Nov. 5-Unprecedented drought in Southern
| Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky.
Nov. 21-FroSt at Tampa, Fla; probably
killed yellow fever germs.
| Nov. 2S-Thermometers in portions of Min
! nesota, Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin marked
| from IL to 2S degrees below zero.
Dec. 15-F0ur to six inches of snow in
Western Texas-heaviest ever known in that
| section.
Dec 19-BliZzard and heavy snow fall through
ont Northwest. Six feet of snow in por-
tons OF New Jersey-heaviest fall for years.
Dec. 20-Severe blizzard and extreme cold
weather in the Northwest
Dec 2'-Unusually cold weather in the cattle
belt of Texas.
Dec 23-EarthQuaze shock at New Bedford,
Mass
Dec s5-Eignt inches of snow in Louisiana
and Mississippi.