The morning times., 1896-08-08

4 James W. Kenny of No. 1121 Twentieth
i'street was stricken by the heat yesterday
afternoon and died at Emergency Hospital
late in the day.
| A great deal of effort was expended on
the victim by Surgeons McGrath, West
and Mi,ners, but without avail. Kenny was
unconscious when picked up at the corner
of Eighteenth and l. streets and renamed
in that condition until death.
Kenny was thirty-eisht years old He
was by trade butcher, though !or long
period he had worked for Contractor Shea.
and when not thus employed OH wet days
| he would drive a horse and cab winch ne
! owned. He was a native of washington
| His pa rents died few years ago and since
| then he has rooIned in house No. l12l
Twenticth street. owned by II. c. Mercer.
His SISTER. Annie Kenny, Is laundry
| maid at tire Hotel Raleigh. and he has
brother, employed as q butcher in New
| York city.
! Kenny had been out of employment for
about Two weeks before his death Kenny
| walked from his Lodgings 10 the Capitol
| and back on Thursday afternoon, and it
was this exposure which probably induced
! his death
FELL FROM HIS CHAIR.
| Early Yesterday m orping he was at
! Joyce's restauraBt and complained OF
feeling sick He sat on the cellar dCtr
till a chair was handed 10 him. He re-
NAMED there till / O'Clock, when he fell
| to the groupd and soon sank into uncon-
sciousness. Eearby physician was called
and advised that the patient tie sent to the
| hospital.
When he reached there his temperature
registered 10. The usual remedies were
resorted to, but Kenny died few hours
| later.
The funeral arrangements have not been
perfected.
John Clark, coloned, No. "a Harrison
alley, and John Eenable, No. IT bingham
court, were Frustrated by the heat yestey-
day and later removed TO Emergency Hos
pital.
Venabe fell at the corner OF Thirty
fourth and NJ streets. When he reached
the hospital at 10 O'Clock last night he
said that he had been at the place where
he WAS found four hours. His condition
is critical.
John Clark was chopping trees on K
| street when he was overcome.
In integers and decimal fractions people
were one degree and two-tentbs cooler at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon than at
that hour on Thursday To this extent the
forecast of Major DuDwoedy was verified.
and TO the further extent that few drops
OF rain fell on the section west stward from
the Virginia end OF the Aqueduct Bridge
Altogether Major Dunwoody's predictions
have been fully verified
READINGS FOR YESTERDAY.
But yesterday was none the less a
scorcher and a terror. The range OF the
thermometer from midnight Thursday until
last night at O'Clock was: Midnight, 81;
a M, 30; a. m, 7S; a. m, IA; 8 a.
m. S4: 10 a. m. So; IL IN, "a; p M.
95: Alp. IN. 96s; pm, s4: Top ~. 80:
The northwest breeze, aided by de-
crease of two hundredths in the humidity.
accounted for the difference of 2 degrees
bet ween ! O'Clock p. III. and p. m.
| The weather will continue warm today,
| TO great relief being expected until the
wind shifts to the east.
Some Of the notable temperatures yes
terday were: Palestine, Tex, Memphis,
Nashville. Dodge City, and Springfield,
No, 100; Abilene, Tex, Kansas City.
Huron, s. D., and Little Rock, 1O2:
Oklahoma, 1o4; East Port, Ne, 56: San
: Francisco, ga; Seattle, 6s; Father Point.
Quebec, 66.
/ The terrific heat proved too great for
I the street car horses, four OF which it was
reported last night had dropped in har-
! ness during the day.
The first TO go under was one of the horses
on the street line Of the lexington and
Soldiers Home road, aud soon after one on
| 'iic Fifth street branch OF the same line.
| Still later in the day it is said that two
others succumbed to the heat on the G street
l. line.
Every thing possible was done to relieve
the horses en all The ''hay burner lines.
The schedules were heightened and the
drivers ordered to sparc the animals as
much as possible, especially In climbing
! grades. On the Belt line six OF the cars
were taken off, and in this way the work
of the horses was greatly lessened, for not
only did the horses have a longer rest at
| the terminus but also the horses in harness,
because of the longer waits at the transfer
| stations.
| Mr. Taylor. the conductor OF the car on
the Fifth street line. to wirieh the horse
was attached, which succumed to the
heat yeste rday, at Sixth and Louisiana
, avenue, was painfully hurt while trying
= to relieve the dying animal. The horse
| was beautiful roam, pet of all the en-
ployes of the Fifth street line, and while
trying to keep the brute from rising he
, | was struck over his eye by the horses
3 teeth which inflicted an ugly wound.
| The postmaster Of this city has issued
orders to the carriers that they need not
, | make the usual noon collection and de-
t livery of mail from the street boxes dur
r ling this heated term. This relieves the
men Of a two hours tramp during the
hottest time of the day.
) The heat was so intense at Fort Myer
| Yesterday that all drills a fter guard mount