Boreal Blasts

Chicago, Jan. 4.- The thermometer Sunday ranged from 5 to IS degrees below zero. Atfour o'cloch this morning it was 8 below. At othcr points in Illinois the di-grec of cold reached was as follows, each being below aero : Mattoon, 25 ; Shelby ville, 27; Hillsboro, Geneseo and Bloomington, 26; Tolono, Pari and Decatur, 34; Peoria, 26; AUanta, 30; Springfiekl. 22; Centralia, 15. Chica o. Jan. 4.- The heavy snowfall just east has soriously interferid with travel, and the delay of the trains on the greut trunk linus has lXM:n both protracted and most inconvenient. The western train were nearly all on good time yesterday, not varying more than thirty minutes from schedule. Th; eastern ones, however, were all late from two to eight hours. This provoHng and tryiiii? train bloekade is duc to the great snow-driitj enoountcred in Michigan, a heavy snow having been succeeded by high wind, in turn suiceeded by piercing cold. ToftosTO, (Int., Jan. 4.- A cold spell prevails throughout Ontario, the mercury ranging froin H to 38 Aegreea below zero. Watkutown, N Y., Jan. 4.- In scveral placea ia thl cotmty yesterday morning the thermometer registered 40 degrees below zero, which is the coldest weather of this s' . Cm o HUICO, Jan. 4.-A cold wave from tlip United States truck the valley of Mexico early yesterday morning. Thin ice formed in several pla;s in the city. There was a remarkably sudden change in the temperatura within a few hours. Lawbbxcb, Kan., Jan. 3 -Prof. Snow, 8tatc McU'orologist. sums up his report for December as fnllows: This was the coldest December rince 1878, its average tempera ture being usually low. There have been two coMcr Ik '-mbers in Hm last nineteen jrtart l-'2 wml lh. lherainfall was only half the average amount, thus fltly closing the flryat year on our record. Dki.avan. Ia , Jan. 3.- The mercury stood at 34 degrees below zero at six o'clock .Suuday morning. boing the lowest for severa) years.