Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The richest gold placer mines of Alaska Hfive been transferred to Canadian territory, and miners arc now paying miners' tax to British authorities. The territory in question is from three to eight miles in width and embraces the rich placer claims on Glacier and Miller creeks, which heretofore were supposed to be in Alaska territory. The transfer of territory is the result of resurveys recently made. Following is, Tuesday's record of deaths from heat, at cities suffering most severely : Pros- * * Deaths, trations. New York and suburbs... 164 550 Brooklyn i... 20 05 Philadelphia, 7 40 Jersey City . 12 28 Boston .................. II 50 Chicago 17 (55 Then at Chicago came the deluge. Black cloud embankments were wreathed nnd riven by electric garlands and hissiiig lightning bolts. The thunders rolled and roared anil burned, ripped and rattled and crashed, deep reverberations mingling with ear-splitting peals until it seemed that all the artillery of heaven hail been parked and was trained upon one spot. Within forty minutes an inch of water fell, aud the mercury likewise tumbled from 1)3 degrees to 7S. Monday was another scorching day, nnd 188 people were killed by the heat in Greater New York and in the dense New Jersey population that . borders on the west shore of the North river. This terrible mortality was not entirely due to the heat of the day. .It was due to the ferritic heat that had scourged that vicinity for six days, and which seemed to culminate in all its fury Monday. The death list for New York city alone aggregated eighty-two, and it is certain that all the names Were not reported to the authorities. Gangs of men went through the East Side at night opening every hydrant. From Houston to Division street, east of the Bowery, every street was filled with running water. Half-naked men and women plunged into the hydrant streams. Children lay in the water in the gutters. The official heat record was 91 degrees.- with 65 percentage of humidity. It is the most fearful scourge of weather that ever came upon New York. There was no relief in any part of the country. At Chicago, 60 deaths were_directly traceable to the heal, which registered 98 degrees. There is a singular lack of fatal prostration in the Southern cities.