Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — WINTER IS IN SIGHT. [ARTICLE]

WINTER IS IN SIGHT.

Prof. 'Wiggins Turns Loose a Cold Wavs from Bow River Valley. Prof. Wiggins, the Canadian earthquake and cyclone man, went into his annual fall spasm the other day and instructed the chief of the weather works to give a pull to the cold-wave lever, with the result that the first chilly snap of the season was turned loose upon the country. The wave was hitched up at Calgary, in the Bow River valley, a grazing district near the foothills of the Rocky mountains. Snow came down from the mountains and at Calgary the fall was three inches. From that point the wave traveled southeast through Manitoba, Montana, Dakota’, Nebraska, Kansas, and Northern Texas, where it wheeled about to the northeast and made headway through Missouri and up through Illinois. Continuing it skirted the western shores of the lakes and had fun with the half-breed population north of Lake Superior and south of Hudson’s bay. Freezing In lowa and Nebraska. News that freezing weather prevailed in lowa and Nebraska drove the farmers home from the World’s Fair, and many of them have since rolled their pumpkins into cellars. It was snowing in some parts of Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Montana, and while the cold was loss severe eastward, it made its way north of the Ohio River to the Atlantic, where it was swallowed up in a rainstorm which ha 3 been drenching the coast from Halifax southward for nearly a week- Edmonton, the «piost northern point on the continent from which intelligence is received at the weather bureau, sent word that the thermometer registered 30 degrees above zero, just 10 degrees colder than in Chicago; Battleford registered 24 degrees, Qu’Appelle 14 degrees, Winnipeg 22 degrees, and Minnedosa, a town in Manitoba, was shivering at 10 degrees. The points above mentioned are north of the international boundary line and above the forty-ninth parallel. Bismarck was the coldest town in Uncle Sam’s country Tuesday morning. The mercury flew down to 18 degrees above. At Morehead it was 26; St. Paul, 28; Des Moines, 32; and Valentine, Neb., 20. The wave was felt at all points south to Arkansas and- Tennessee. The little lakes in Wisconsin. Minnesota, the Dakotas and Manitoba all bear a thin oovering of ice. Pelicans are leaving their breeding grounds at Shoal Lake, Man., and flocks of wild geese are making day and night hideous with their screeching as they travel southward for the winter.