People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1894 — Victim of the Heat. [ARTICLE]

Victim of the Heat.

Cedar Rapids, la., July 3.—The heat of the last few days has been intense, the thermometers registering 98 to 100 in the shade. Saturday afternoon Joseph Skerritt, of this city, was overcome by the heat while setting up a binder near Palo and died in a few minutes.