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Show RITTTER COLD CLAIMS VICTIMS MANY PLACES REPORT BITTER ; COLD WEATHER Chicago Temperature Below Zero for First Time This Season MONTANA IS COLD Storm West of Rockies to Sweep Eastward, Is Prediction CHICAGO. Dec IS Harry Graham 50 years old. painter was found frozen to death In a downtown alley in the three below zero cold early today The frozen body of n second man. Tixriofhy Tierney. 65, a railroad watchman, was found later near the tracks of the Chicago Chi-cago and Western Indiana railroad CHICAGO. Dec. 18 Temperatures lower than ;uny previously reported this winter in tho northwest, he upper up-per lake region, the great central allevs the middle and west gu'i states and the southern Rocky mountain moun-tain region were recorded last night and today as another cold wave spread over a great portion, of the United States west of the Appalachian mountains moun-tains The mercury in Chicago went below zero for the first time this season. It was one below here eany today. The weather bureau reported th? cold wave haa a general southeasterly trend across the middle states and will be followed- by a slowly rlsln t Riperaturc today for the upper and middle Mississippi regions and tomorrow to-morrow for the Great Lakes region and the Ohio valley. MONTANA IS COLD. Hare Mont, last night was gripped grip-ped by 32 below zero weather. Other towns In the northwest registered readings from 4 to 2S degrees below zero. ' ,,,,, Although the snow in the mldd.o states partially had cleared yesterday indications were seen by forecasters of a formation of another storm ci liter li-ter beyond the Rockies tomorrow, advancing ad-vancing eastward. Local snows were predicted fo. X, Vork tomorrow while local showers were expected In Florida Temperature In North America, last eight's weather report showed ranged from 34 degrees '" . I! Hat. Manitoba, to 74 degrees above, m Miami, Fla (OLD IN IOWA. WATERLOO. la., Dec. 18. The minimum temperature recorded here last nlirht was 18 below zero. ILLINOIS RIVLU FROZEN. PFORIA. III., Dec. 18. The Illinois rive was frozen over today with the mercury dropping fo HlX below zero mercury r mv RECORDED. w &.SHINGTOX. i" c 18. Temperature Tempera-ture of r degr.es below zero at White River, Ont.. was reported o-.1 o-.1 av to the weather bureau which is- JJod a eold wi mrnUig for New York. Pennsylvania and New Lngland states. no- |