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Show HOHESI DAY OF YEARJN EAST Another Heat Wave Plunges Country Into Deep Distress More Deaths and Prostrations. New York, Aug. 8. Although the humidity was lower, this city was plunged into another heat wave today, to-day, the mercury ascending in leaps long before noon. At 10 o'clock the weather bureau thermometer registered regis-tered S3 as against 77 yesterday. The humidity was 80, compared with 93 at tho same hour yesterday. That this probably would be the hottest day of the year was Indicated by a rise of 3 degrees in the temperature 'between 9 and 10 a. m. Thero have been five deaths and 19 prostrations during the last 24 hours. The forecast offered no immediate promise of relief. |