The Irish standard., 1901-07-06
ports are coming in of damage to crops
and property in the country. At many
points the corn was quite severely in
jured.

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points the corn was quite severely in
| jured.
Ice Famine at LouisviIle.
| louisville, KY, July 3.-The ice
shortage in Louisville and scores of
small Kentucky towns is getting to be
serious. The decision of local dealers
Monday to fill no more out of town a.
ders at present, in order to protect pa
! irons at home, was followed Tuesday
by the announcement of two large
dealers that their supply was ex-
hausted. The factories whose ma
chinery broke down, owing to it's in
cessant use, are still crippled, while
those still in good working order are
powerless to anything like meet the
abnormal demand.
-Four Deaths MT baltimore.
Baltimore, Md, July 3.-The ther-
mometer at noon registered 101 and
at one o'clock it was one degree high
er with no relief in sight, unless the
few clouds in the west presage a
thunderstorm. Four deaths and 80
cases of prostration had been report
ed at one o'clock, which exceeds the
number recorded Monday at the same
hour.
Slight Relief mt Washington.
Washington, July 3.-Two deaths
were reported from the heat Tues
day. There have been number of
prostrations. The official thermom-
eter has been dropping steadily and
at $3.50 o'clock registered IS.
st. Louis Hospitals Crowded.
St. Louis, July -Thirty-three per-
sons, larger number than were
treated here during the entire sum-
mer of 1900, are at the city hospital
suffering from heat prostration. Two
of these cases had resulted fatally
up to ~ o'clock.
1t is probable that there are many
more cases being treated at resi-
dences throughout the city.
At ~ o'clock the weather bureau
reported the temperature as "a in
the shade, while on the stone pave
| ments it was as much as ten degrees
higher.
~ cool breeze is promised for the
evening.
Deaths by Lightning.
Carlisle, KY, July 3.-Otho Morgan,
a young farmer, was struck by light
ming and instantly killed near his
home here. He was was burned al
most beyond recognition.
Huntsville, Ala, July 3.-Mrs. Eu-
gene Penny, of New Market Ala, was
struck by lightning and fatally in
jured during storm. She was fear
fully burned.
Saginaw, Mich, July 3.-Hon.
George Davenport, former state sem
ator, and one of the most promi-
nent men in this section of the state,
was killed by lightning at his sum-
mer home short distance from the
city Tuesday morning. He has also
held many local offices.
Crazed by Heat.
Louisville, Ky, July 2.-Peter D.
Arnett, young macninist, who was
overcome by the heat ten days ago,
was Tuesday adjudged q lunatic and
ordered to the asylum. He has been
a maniac ever since he was over
come.
The Heat at Other Points.
Bulletins from other cities through
out the country are as follows:
Indianapolis-At 1890 the thermometer
| registered SO degrees. Two deaths.
Observation-Disclosures was hottest day
since July 1, 1887, when 1t was 103 in the
shade. The mercury went up to " ana
| there were a dozen rrostrations, but no
| deaths. Tuesday opened hot and stuffy,
| but there was breeze blowing.
Detroit, Mich-Fierce rainstorm during
tie night lasting an hour and half cooled
| temperature so that at eight o'clock Tues
day the weather bureau thermometer reg
istered but Is degrees. At IL o'clock it
was So.
In Ohio at Cleveland thermometer regis
tered 81; at Cincinnati 81; at Columbus, Sc.
Kansas City-At IL o'clock thermometer
registered 90, against "a degrees at the
same time Monday. No prostrations re-
ported.
Louisville-At ii a. m. the official heat
record was 81.
wilmington, Del.-Thermometer at nine
| o'clock registered IS degrees in shaded
| places Three deaths and Is prostrations.
Boston-East wind brought relief from
great heat. Thermometer fell. and at noon
| it was 49, Seven prostrations, four of whom
| will die.
| SpTlnBlelu, MASS.-<AA1 neat 1SCO1OS VI
| the season were broken Tuesday. At eight
a. m. official record was 80 degrees. At ten
o'clock mercury stood at Sc. No deaths re-
| ported.
New Haven, Conn.-The temperature at
| eight o'clock was 50. one degree lower than
| the corresponding record Monday.
Heat Extends to Europe.
London, July 3.-While the weather
in England is temperate, continental
kilograms continue to report the raw
ages of heat and storm. Deaths
from sunstrolle are numerous. In an
Italian regiment which was marching
from Pisa to Leghorn Monday, there
we're 30 cases of sunstroke, while
many of the soldiers dropped from
exhaustion.
Storms have occurred in northern
France, where lightning has wrecked
churches and houses. Several fatal
| tiles occurred.
Crops Suffer.
London, July "a dispatch from
| St. Petersburg says the crops in the
province of Saratoff are whitening
and the grass is scorched, owing to
the prolonged heat and drought. The
price of corn is jumping up and the
outlook at saratoff and in the neigh
boring Voisa districts is alarming.
The scarcity promises to be as severe
as the famine of a decade ago.
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