Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — SOL MAKES ’EM SIZZLE. [ARTICLE]

SOL MAKES ’EM SIZZLE.

Inten.e Heat Ta Recorded in Many Cities and Towns. Reports received by telegraph from the principal cities and towns of the West and South' bring tidings of unusually hot weather. Following is a sample of the temperature in various s parts of the country Wednesday: '* Little Rock”, i.. .lOOJacksonville, Fla 9® Dodge City;.... .lOOMemphis ...... 9t> Indianapolis .... WiAtlanta, .. ...... 94 Cincinnati ..... 96New Orleans. ~. 92 Kansas City.... DUChicago . 92: If a line were run from Canada down through the western boundary of Nebraska to the Gulf of Mexico, to the east of it would lie that portion of the country where the mercury hoveled all day in the 90’s. The coolest spots were.. Boston, 84; New York and Galveston, 88. In the morning the center of {he hot wave was over Duluth. Last night it hud sneaked to Lake Huron. In:Cincinnati many men were overcome by the heat. St. Louis reports thirty-four persons prostrated by heat, and many of them will probably die. Thirty-six horses fell dead on the streets, and scores of dogs were driven mad by the high temperature. The thermometer marked 98 degrees, and the suffering was increased by the humidify in the atmosphere. Twv deaths were reported—Frederick Toussaint. a tailor in the Southern Hotel, and Richard Tassell. a laborer. Martin Taylor, a street cleaner in Cincinnati. died, and M. Kobald, a baker, is in a critical condition. A nitmber or horses fell dead in the street. In Louisville the hot Jvetither record for fifteen years was broken. The thermometer registered 98 degrees in the shade. Two laborers died from heat prostration. In Illinois there was great suffering from the heat. In Quincy the hottest day of the .rear was registered, the mercury marking 100 degrees in the shade. There' were numerous prostrations, hut. mine of them serious. Thermometers on the streets.: jn Chicago registered as high ns 101 degrees nt ti o’clock i:i the •..■:iing, but the instrument in the tower of the .Auditorium marked 92. as the highest. Matty prostrations but no deaths we.ro: reported. Wabash. Ind., sweltered under 99 in the jjhade. and a shower did not help matters at all. In Topeka. Kan., they had winds. f<ni|t tl-.e winds, were like wafts from a blast furmice.' Life there was a burden to nntn and beast,,but the corn crop.is safe. ’ .