The Heated Term

New York, June 16. - New York experienced on Monday the hottest weather ever known June 15. At 8 o'clock the tht-rmometer registered 70 degrees, which beats the record ior the year at that hour. At 11 o'clock it had jumped 14 degrees, and there seemed every 'prospect that by H::;o p. m. the mercury would mount close up to the 100 point At noon the people sweltered in a heat of 89 degrees, which is 2 degrees ahead of the best previous record, and at 3:30 p. m. the thermometers in some parts of the city indicated 98 degrees. Sergt. Dunn's records show that June 15, 1889, when the thermometer reached 87 degrees, was the next hottest day to this. Every where, especially in the tenament-house región, where the population is thickest, there was intense suffering. At night thousands of the dwellers in these regions slept on the roofs of their houses, and when these were too crowded betook themselves to the sidewalk. The worst oi it is that Sergt. Dunn predicts a continuance of the hot weather for to-day. : Beports from the leading cities in this state show that the intense heat is general. At Albany 98 degrees is reported, whüe Hudson, the coolest place' heard from, tells of 96 degrees. Advicea from many towns in New Englandshow a very sultry condition of things. The reports received from Maine points show a range from 82 degrees to 90 degrees, the latter at Portland. Of thlrtyeight towns in New Hampshire, but one shows below 90 degrees. ín Massachusetts 92 degrees is the lowest temperature report ed, but the hottest place yet heard from is Providence, R. ,, where the top notch of 107 wás1 touched. The thermometer at Hartford registered 91 degrees in the shade. Everything is dried up by the drought. Vegetation all over Connecticut is fering for want of rain. Pittsburgh, Pa., June 16.- At the signal office Monday 93 degrees was registered, though down on the streets 96 degrees was recorded. Many cases of prostration by heat are reported, thcragh but two were fatal - an infant and a Slav serving woman. Several iron milis were obliged to suspend operations in the afternoon owinjf to the inability of the men to continue work.