Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-07-04

ENTIRE COUNTRY
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bathers to river and ocean beaches
due to the excessive warmth was in
directly responsible for nine deaths
from drowning.
Hot Day for Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, July 3.-That Philadel.
phia and vicinity are In for another
extremely hot day was early indicated
by the government weather bureau
thermometer which registered 81 de.
grees at M, or nine degrees warmer
than at the same hour Yesterday.
The government thermometer here
registered 80 at 1 o'clock, making this
the hottest day since July 2, 1901 when
103 was recorded. Nine deaths have
been reported as result of the heat.
Southwest SHELTERED Last Night.
Kansas City Mo-, July 3.-Followlng
the hottest night In Kansas City since
the establishment of the bureau,
weather here % years ago, the local
forecaster predicted abatement today
for the southwest. Most Of Kansas
City that could, slept out Of doors last
night. Thousands who had not the
poorer quarters Of the city hundreds
advantage OF sleeping porches made
their beds on fire escapes, and In the
of men, women and children lay down
on the cnrbing. In the suburban dis
trlcts after midnight many slept on
lawns with and without cots. The
government thermometer registered
81 at midnight, the same at 1 o'clock,
and just before sunrise stood at 83,
the lowest reading of the "a hours
from 7 to 7. The highest temperature
yesterday was 104.
st. Joseph, Mo-, reported two deaths
from heat last night, following the
seasons hottest day Of 10S degrees.
Hot at St. Louis.
ST. Louis, July 3.--The hot wave
continued over eastern Missouri and
southern Illinois. At st. Louis the
government thermometer registered
"a at 10:3o o'clock. Two men died last
night from the heat.
los in Burlington.
Burlington, July 3.-Today was the
hottest day of the summer In this
city. The temperature reached 1O5
degrees at two o'clock this afternoon.
No prostrations are reported, although
much suffering Is occasioned.
Showers are Coming.
Washington, D. c., July 3. - With
downtown thermometers registering
1O7 degrees, a weather record for the
season was made here Sunday. The
official temperature was SO and the
suffering was increased by the humid
ity No immediate relief, 1t was said
is in sight.
The weather bureau promises that
the coming week will be one Of moder-
ate temperatures in the south Atlantic
and gulf states and generally over the
region west of the Mississippi river.
High temperatures will prevail the
firht part of the week in
the northern and middle states, east
of the Mississippi, followed by a
change to lower temperatures in these
districts about "Wednesday.
A barometric depression that now
covers the Rocky mountain region &C
cording to the bureau, will drift
slowly eastward, preceded and at
tended by local showers and thunder
storms. and will cross the Mississippi
valley Tuesday or Wednesday and the
Atlantic states Thursday or Friday. 1t
will be followed by cooler weather
over the plains districts, the Mississ-
ippi valley and the region east thereof
New York July 3.-With a tenn
perature Of SO degrees this is the hot
test day of the year here One death
was reported early and prostrations in
creased hourly as the day wore on.
In Brooklyn Eugene Cortnell, crazed
by the heat ran amuck with an open
knife and after attempting to stab two
policemen and several citizens. was
shot dead by an officer.