Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-07-25
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Governor Made Yesterday A Day
of Universal Appeal.
BUT 1T WAS HOTTER THAN EVER

Thermometers In st. Louis Registered
1O6 at $50 O'clock In the Afternoon.
Chicago Enjoyed Its Hottest Day In
Thirty Years.
st. Louis, July 22.-Yesterday the
day that Governor Dockery designated
for fasting and prayer to God that the
present drouth might be broken in
Missouri, all records for hot weather
in st. Louis were broken, the weather
bureau thermometer on the custom
house registering 106 degrees. Non the
streets and in exposed places the mer-
curry went many degrees higher. The
record broken was that of 106, made
in the early eighties
At early as a. m. the day gave
promise of being unusually warm. At
that time the thermometer registered
90 degrees. and from then on until
$50 D. M the mercury steadily climbed
upward under the impulse of fierce
sun shining from cloudless sky.
Hardly a breath of air stirred all day.
and the little that did circulate came
as the draught from furnace, so in
tensely hot was 1t.
The governors proclamation was
very generally needed, nearly every
church in the city holding well attend
ed services, given up to prayer that
the drouth, which has prevailed sew
eral months and threatens the de-
struction of all vegetation, might be
broken.
This is the second proclamation of
the character ever made in the his
tory of Missouri. In 1875, time of
drouth and grasshopper pest, Gov
ernor Charles H. Hardin called upon
the people of the state to pray for re-
lief. This call was also generally
observed.
In the states of Iowa, Missouri and
Kansas the duration of the present
heated term is without precedent, there
having been practically no interruption
to temperatures of 80 degrees or over
since June 49, a period of "a days.
On 18 days of this period the maxi
mum temperature at Kansas City was
100 degrees or more. There are as
yet no indications of any relief from
the abnormal heat. No rain has fallen
in the corn belt for the past three days
and none is in sight.
At other points the maximum tenn
perature was as follows: Kansas City,
104; Chillicothe, ia; Bowling Green,
112; Paris. 10S; Monroe City, 107;
Springfield, 100.
Chicago's Hottest Day In 80 Years.
Chicago, July 22-All heat records
since the establishment of the weather
bureau in Chicago so years ago were
broken yesterday, the government
.fio rmometer registering 103 degrees.
Down on the street it was from three
to five degrees hotter, and to add to
the suffering hot, sitting wind. like
a blast from furnace blew all day
from the southwest. From O'Clock
in the morning, when the thermometer
registered II, gradual rise followed
until, at 4.3O in the afternoon, the top
notch had been reached. Shortly after
that time the wind veered around to-
ward the lake and caused drop to 50
at $50 last night Prostrations were nu-
merous and police ambulances were
kept busy taking care of persons who
were overcome on the streets.
At Decatur the thermometer regis
tered 106, while a similar temperature
was recorded at Sioux City, la.
Even Russia Feels the Heat.
st. Petersburg, July 22.-Phenome-
nal heat prevails throughout all north
ern Russia. The temperature in St.
Petersburg yesterday was 1T degrees
Fahrenheit. In Odessa 1t was 1903, and
the rate of mortality there is 20 per
cent. above the normal.
EPWORTHiANS ENTHUSIACTlC
Ten Thousand Heard Bishop Joyce
Preach In Mechanics Pavilion.