Frozen While Walking A Mile

Scranton, P., Feb. 7- All day here the meroury was about zero, and at 9 tfolock last uight it was 3 degrees bolow. Ihoinini s havo been shut down. Charles Staples, a formor Lackawanna coal train eaginoer, living at Moscow, near hore, left tt hotel at thac place to go to his home, a ile distant. Three houra later ho was ieuud lying holpless in the road, half a aile from tho hotel. His legs wore so badly frozen that amputatiou may be ■eoossary. Had not help reached him when it did ho would undoubtedly have perished.