Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-28
MERCURY ON THE RUN.
alarming Altitude of the Heat All Over
the Country.

the day in this city, bringing the total
since Saturday night up to fourteen
The heat to-day has become so intense
that Chicagoans who are not absolutely
4tied to their homes have determined to
avoid the prospect of fatality by fleeing
tic some resort where life will be made
senGura BILE. The earliest toilers telt the
Oppressiyeness of the morning and
hour by hour it increased as the Their
smometer rose. At a. NJ. 1T registered
So; in two hours it ran up 3
more degrees, and kept on
climbing up, hour by hour, till at
= o'clock it had reached "a. The
weather throughout the state and Iowa
y has been even worse than it was here.
The atmosphere has been SO sitting at
practically become impossible, and only
venture out Of doors. The thermome-
ter has been steadily and rapidly rising
Early in the afternoon it stood at 80
and then gradually, hour by hour,
Scrept up until it reached the maximum
! Of 100.
DETROIT, Mich. July 25.-The hot
weather continues without abatement,
and there is no promise of relief until
tomorrow, when cold wave is expect
led. There was very little relief to be
found on Belle Isle, which is usually
cool. Everywhere the wind, which at
times was strong, seemed to come di
|rectly from hot furnace. The expect
sed,co!d wave did not strike Lower Mich
Iigan to-day, but in the northern part Of
the state Manistee enjoyed tempera-
'6S, while Detroit was sweltering under
the fercest heat, the thermometer
ranging away up in the COS.
PITTsBURG, Pa, July 25.-Pittsburg is
BUST now experiencing a record-break-
ing spell of hot weather. On Sunday
Ethe thermometer registered 96 degrees
sin the shade, and was the hottest day in
five years. A storm last night, how
ever, cooled the atmosphere and made
6eleeping comfortable, only to be fol-
Bowed to-day by another boom in mer-
curry until thermometers all over the
two cities registered 50 degrees, or two
zdegrees hotter than yesterday.
Il CINCINNATI, o., July 25.-To-day in
the matter Of extreme heat was a re-
as0etition of yesterday. Part of the day
the sky was overcast, but the air was
:6ultry, and except on the hilltops there
u. NJ, in the signal service office, regis
tered 50. AT noon it was 96 and at 3 P.
SbI. it reached the maximum, 9S. Up to
R o'clock tonight there were eighteen
new cases of prOstration by heat, one
Rof which proved fatal, and several are
Extremely dangerous.
Sr. PAUL, Mimi, July 90 Although
2ocal storms lowered the temperature
throughout the Northwest the weather
Still continues uncomfortably warm, and
there is no immediate prospect of much
cooler weather. In this city but two
fatal cases of sunstroke have been re-
ported, those occurring Saturday, when
8he heat was the most intense. The
hot wave extends all over the North
vest. During the day in this city the
nercury lowered around 80, and at 7
10 clock tonight was at 81, or ten de-
8Qrees higher than last night. Reports
from this state, the Dakotas, Montana
Ind the Canadian Northwest are to the
same effect.
IN ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July Pin the little
observatory at the top of the United
States custom-house to-day the Their
nometer performed some strange feats.
At noon 81 degrees of heat was regis
xered. At o'clock the mercury had
|Erept up to the 50 notch, which seemed
ID be as high as its aspirations allowed
II to go. When placed in the sun, how
&ver, it reached 1O6 in eleven minutes.
But while 96 was the highest recorded
ID the shade by Uncle Sans instru-
ments, various thermometers on the
4hady side of the business streets
xeached 100 to 1O1. Late tonight John
4angle, president of the Anchor
Milling Company, and prominent
xItizen, died from the effects Of prostra-
lou by the heat.
New YORK, July 25.-Ever since the
lawn those summer terrors, heat and
humidity, have been running a close
ice for supremacy. At clock the
humidity was leading by one point, the
8Eures shown being heat, IS; humidity,
I'D. The latter, however, with the aid
"A old Sol, got down to business and be-
IN to dry things out, and by 10 o'clock
HRd succeeded in catching the other,
bth at that hour going at an increased
lit. At 2 p. NJ. the heat was 90. From
new York state and New England come
xeports of heat up to So degrees. In
huntington, n. j., the mercury went up
38 los degrees in the shade, and the fac
fories were compelled to shut down.
here were many cases ofprostration.
nv AsiIlNGToN. ID. c., July 2o.-This has
washington. The thermometer regis
feets the heat was terrific, several
thermometers in different parts of the
<lE registering as high as 103 in the
&t@de.
RICHMOND, Va, July 25.-This has
~ EN- the hottest day of the season. The
thermometer registered SO, but there
re no prostrations from the heat.
NORFOLK, Va, July 25.-The weather
IS extremely warm to-day, the mer-
&Wy reaching 81.
Denver, Col, July 25.-Denver has
A4 experienced the intense hot
X@ather reported as existing in the
81. The highest point reached by
NJ mercury to-day was 80 degrees, and
<1e cool breezes from the mountains
we'd to take away any i'll effects which
heat otherwise would have had.
hight a heavy rain fell, lasting tor
Ill an hour. There has not been the
htest prostration in Denver or Col
uo.
ULUTH, Mimi, July 25.-The weather
his cltv sinca loS Thursday hos been