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Show COLD SWEEPS " JOUNTmY Minimum Temperature of Eighteen Below Zero Recorded in North and Frost General In South Chicago, Dec. 14. Tho llrst cold wnvo of tho year to strike the mid die west probably will havo passed by tomorrow night, according to tho United States weather bureau here, which tonight reported rising torn- j perntures In tho oxtremo northern states. Tho cold was passing to tho cast, It was reported. Two degrees below zero was the minimum tempcrnturo recorded In this city. Temperatures of sixteen to eighteen degrees below 7ero ru ported in Montann, Minnesota nnd. North and South Dakota during tho enrly day had risen several degrees by night. Thero was a sovero frost as far south as Corpus Chrlstl, Tex. City and county relief associations and private charities contributed to the relief or hundreds during tho day. The police gave first aid to n score of Illy clad sufferers who fell unconscious un-conscious from tho cold. |