New York, Nov. 17.
'The coldest wave for 52 years is being experienced in the Northeastern area of the United States. Snowfalls have occurred in the Mississippi River district and eastward. The temperature in New York' State is only four degrees above zero. -'Shipping on Lake Ontario is' at a standstill. Two persons have up to the present been reported frozen to death, Many others have been overcome jby the cold.—Reuter's American Service.
New York, Nov. 18, intensely cold weather winds have been responsi a chain of disasters. Ten people are known to be dead and a huge loss of property and shipping Has been sustained, Steamers are urrivjng a day late, many encased ice. Firemen have been han-sapped in several serious fires owing to lack of water. Damage to the extent of $1,000,000 was thus caused at the Standard Oil. plant at Warner, liar damage was sustained at a fashionable hotel at Atlantic City. The hate was destroyed and two gues vished.—Reuter's American vice,
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