The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-10


for Friday. Through the southwest cola'-
weather, prevails. In the northwest corner
OF the State, Hopkins reported 80 degrees
below zero this morning: and Maryville
20 below. At Lawrence. Kan, il WAS =
below.
Topeka. Kan, Feb e.-The weathe- rec
ord since 1892 was broken in Kansas dur
ing last night. Standard thermometers at
Topeka registered Is degrees below zero
| between and O'Clock this morning. At
s O'Clock the temperature was 10 below.
The sky is clear and no wind.
THE LAKES AND THE FAR NORTH
Duluth Mimi. Feb. 9-Last night was
the coolest for several years, the Their
mometer dropping 10 81 below zero. The
wind ranged from 0to Sc miles an hour
throughout the cold snap, making it doubiy
severe.
Detroit, Feb 9-The lowest point reach
ed by the official thermometer in Detroit
this winte rwas Is below zero at o'clock
this morning. This is the coolest weather
in twenty years.
St. Paul, MINI. Feb s-The witer's
cold record was again broken last night
the official local mercury reached IS be-
low zero.
sITXY ABOVE ON THE COAST.
San Francisco. Feb. s.-California is en-
joying beautiful winter weather. but the
farmers are pining for rain. Two weeks
go summer weather prevailed the ter
mometer registering as high as degrees
in San Francisco. This was followed by
slight rain and severe frosts. but no ma
terial damage to crops has been reported.
To-day the thermometer stood at 50 de-
grees. More rain is badly needed.
THE COUNTRY AT LARGE.
Washington, Feb. e.-Weather bureaus
special bulletin: Morning advices showed
that freezing temperature had occurred in
Florida last night as far south as a line
traced from point little south OF Tam
pa to the Atlantic coast just north Of
Jupiter, Tampa. Tampa showing a mini
mum temperature of 80 degrees and Jupi-
ter minimum of So degrees. At Jackson
Vile a minimum of % degrees was reach
ed. These temperatures were very aceu-
rately forecasted Wednesday morning.
when the weather bureau at Washington
telegraphed the following special forecast
and warning, which was distributed by its
Florida stations to all fruit-growing. agri-
could be reached by telegraph. telephone
and mail during Wednesday: "Tempera-
ture will fall to about % degrees tonight
at Jacksonville and the line of freezing
weather will extend as far south as Tam
pa. The weather will continue Thursday
and will moderate Friday"
The temperature continued abnormally
low in all districts east of the Rocky noun
tains, eastern Dakota, Minnesota, western
Wisconsin and the region TO the north
ward being embraced within the area OF
lowest temperature, where the readings
ranged % degrees to So degrees below
zero in the states named and reached
so degrees below zero in Manitoba Zero
temperature extended TO line traced from
central Virginia over Tennessee. orthern
Arkansas. and south Oklahoma; at Gin
cinnati the low temperature record was
broken with a reading of IS below zero,
the lowest previous temperature ever
recorded by the weather bureau at that
place being u degrees below zero, Febru-
airy g. 1895, and on January 1, 1885,
The outlook is that there will be mark
ed thong hgradual rise in temperature
east of the Rockey mountains after today
In Florida the cold weather period viii
be of brief duration and a return TO the
normal temperature may be expected IN
that section by Friday night
Among the stations showing low temper
atures were: New York 4 below; Wash
ington. below; Cincinnati. 10 below: Pitts
burg. 10 below; Buffalo, 4 below; Chicago.
20 below; Milwaukee. % below: Duluth,
80 below; st. Louis, 16 below; Kansas City.
20 below; Omaha. "a below; Bisl2arc5. SO
below; Charleston, % above; jackson. Is
above; Jupiter. "a above; Tampa. so above:
New Orleans. 20 above; Galveston, q
above.
Chicago. Feb. e.-Huron. ". D., IS below
zero. was the coolest place In the United
States today. Bismarck. y, D.; Duluth.
Mimi, and Lacrosse. Wis, reported 80
below zero. The cold wave shows increas-
ed intensity in the central portions Of TIE
country. The line OF zero temperature
passe from Chesapeake bay westward over
Tennessee. Arkasas and Oklahoma. Freez-
ing temperatures today are reported as far
south as central Florida. The indications
are that the extreme cold Will moderate
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