NEWER OFTHE WEEK —Simon Porter, a farmer, shot and fatally wounded his fifteen-year-old daughter, near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, on the morning of the 7th, because she refused to milk a cow which had kicked her the night before. The dead body of Alfred Blizzard, 55 years of age, was found in a creek, near Greenville, Ohio, on the 6th, He had evidently been murdered, and is sup- posed to have been killed in a house of evil repute he was in the habit of visit. ing. --The official investigation of the railroad horror near White River Junction, Vermont, was begun on the 7th. It is now believed that all the injured will recover. The wife of ex- Governor Fairbanks is supposed to be among the lost, One of the Select- men of the town of Hartford says that, **in his opinion, the bodies of 46 persons killed have thus far been taken from the wreck, although this is not by actual count.” Isaac Gates, undertaker, says ‘32 bodies have been brought to his care, 7 of which been identified and removed, and per- hays 5 more are susceptible of identifi cation.” — Frederick Mueller attempted sui- cide by cutting his throat in Washing- ton on the Tth, He is hkely to re- cover, He said at the hospital that failure to secure employment, worry wer his wife and child in Philadel- phia, and hunger, all tempted lum to the deed. in Lebanan county, Penna., on morning of the 6th, an iron tank on a truck filled with red hot cinders colli- ded with another car and the hot metal was thrown over Peter Reddin- ger, aged 45, and Henry Kurtz, aged ot of the Tth. —The earthquake reported by West- ern telegrams on the 6th was very gen- erally felt throughout central and southern Illinois and Indiana. It also gave the city of St. Louis a shake, which was especially felt in the out. skirts. —The wholesale drug store of M. T. early on the morning of the 7th, Loss $23,000; insurance $17,000. James Mec- Donnell was killed and Frank Me- Learney fatally ired by fall of a rear wall. —XNear De Kalb, on the 7th a figh occurred between four members of a family named White on the one side and Colonel John E. Rosser, his fifteen- year old son, Willie, and a hired man named Mullens, on the other. Rosser, and three of the Whites were killed, and Rosser's son and the other White were wounded, Mullin was not to be found, The trouble grew out of an at- temapt by Rosser to eject the Whites from a property which they had bought of him, but failed to pay for. Detective Hulligan, assaulted by ruffians on the railroad train near Ravenna, Ohio, died on the morning of the 8th in Cleveland. Ie leaves a widow and four children. — Benjamin Chamberlain, bookkeeper for Combs, Haanah & Co., at the stock yards in Chicago, who was arrested some time ago on the charge of embez- zlement, and discharged, was re-arres- ted on the Tth and bailed in $4000. It is said his ‘*‘shortage’” amounts to $11.04 i), $1 int 16 i Lie ijt + fit i“ gl } — Two freight trains collided early on the morning of the 8th, near Dubois, Georgia, wrecking th engines. A tramp was killed and one of the engi- neers injured. The Injured engineer and §ig fireman are supposed to have } ah J WV © n asleep, to find itself from a severe flood. All over the cellars were filled with water was water to the depth of several feet in Cook's Publis House, and the basements of stores were inundated, The Chicago street railway bridge was pa ported st that the dam at Alg destroyed. The Susquehanna river at Lock Haven rose rapidly on the 8th, in consequence of heavy rains. All the tributaries were swollen, and at We- tham the Philadelphia and Erle Rail- road tracks were overflowed. river at Williamsport reached a height of seventeen feet on the evening of the 8th, and the ice was running down freely. ~-There was another dynamite ex- plosion on the Geary street cable road in San Francisco on the 6th. The whole side of a dummy was blown out at ove of the street corners, There were no passengers on board, a party of vehicle a minute before. The train men and a policeman who were on the dummy escaped injury, although the mile, ~ As a traln on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis Raiiroad was crossing the line between In- diana and Ohio on the 7th, a bullet crashed through the window of a pas- senger car, passing closely in front of the head of A. P. Mitchell, of the firm of Vallette & Mitchell, New work of the other side of the car. The scoundrel who fired the shot is known. Train wreckers on the 7th removed a rail on the Carolina Central Railroad near Charlotte, North Caro- hina, and an engine and tender were in consequence thrown down a twelve. foot embankment. Two train hands were dangerously injured, -A heavy snow storm prevailed in Northern Montana on the evening of the 6th, and there Is now from 14 to 24 inches of snow on the ground on a level, There is terrible suffering among the cattle, food is scarce, and coal is selling at $60 a ton. The In- dian Commissioners have been snow- bound at Choteau since January 20th, ~Heavy rain fell during the even- ing of the Tth and the morning of the 8th at Chicago. It cleared about eight o'clock, and the temperature grew colder, ~(3, A. Helfer, a commercial trav. sles from New York, was arrested in wow “t Laat | violating law 1mposing a | tdx of ten dollars for the State and five { dollars for the county, He was found guilty on the morning of the 8th, in the County Court and paid the fine and costs, amounting to fifty-five dollars. Immediately on bis release he was re- arrested on a warrant sworn out by the { officer who arrested him, charging him with bribery in offering the officer five of arrest. On the last charge bound over to awalt the action dred and fifty dollars, the was Edward Loew, city editor of Arbeiter Zeitung, in Milwaukee, to thirty days’ labor in the House of Correction for contempt of court in causing to be published libellous state- ments in connection with the Grottkau, the Anarchist, ~The latest estimate of the number of killed by the disaster at White River Junttion, Vermont, makes it 2 the Connecticut river road, 30; White River Junction, on the Boston | and Lowell road, 37; taken on at White River Junction, 6; trainmen, 12. Total on train, 85, accounted for as follows: Injured per surgeon’s official | list, 36; dead bodies recovered to Sun- | day, surgeon's count, 27; fouud Sun- | day, 5; | trains, | home, 35. 12: have It is said that known to Total' 85." threatened, It 18 reported that one life bas Deen lost near Lyons. Heavy freshets are reported in the Mau- mea, SU Joseph's and St. Mary's rivers in Indiana. At Fort Wayne, many to the upper stories of their dwellings, or abandon them altogether. Along the river, between Fort Wayne and Toledo, factories have been closed, and LLere is great distress among the people. ~-A telegram from New Brunswick, “ry “They cover the greatest munieipal reforms were made, the Degraaf defal- cation cceurring, the Sewage Commis- organized, ete, Ex-City Clerk Their loss was City Treasurer Neibon, discovered by The minutes at the scene of the Central Ver- mont accident, shows that the | from which it was broken must have been very defective, It was steel- | plated, and weighed fifty-six pounds to {the yard, The ends are broken and | Jagged, and for a space of two inches { on the ends of one side of the thread is i up 3 3 he steel { piece, shows that the steel was not | thoroughly rolled on or welded to the | Iron. —In Memphis, on the evening of the Sth, Mrs. Thompson, proprietress of a shooting gallery, a target by looking in a mirror | aiming over her shoulder,” and | Killed William Finley, aged 15 vears, | who was employed as marker in the gallery. J.T. Lane, who lived near i De Witt, Illinois, was bitten in the ankle ten weeks ago by a pet dog. A | few days ago he was seized with tetanle or hydrophobic symptoms and became | violently sane from fear. he was Jacksonville for treat- ment, and was temporarily placed in the jail, Two hours afterward he was found dead in the cell, A telegram from Mason City, Iowa, says the hog plague which has been raging iu that section is abating. As an evidence of its fatality it is stated that “within a radius of tw miles of the village of Nora Spr 1407 hogs have died,” and this is exceptional. and shot Un the Sth sent to or * ) Hu Ot in In ~In Green County, Kentucky, on i the 5th, the dead body of John Keeth was found “wrapped in a blanket and concealed inside the carcass of a dead horse.” It is supposed he was mur. Keeth had missing for several days, and discovery was made through a dog belonging to his brother-in-law, William Despain. D ceased leaves a wife and six children Warsaw, Ind Oth, arty of 1 ters foun wdy of Perry Dunhi ance from his hou two-year old g and Mrs, Dunham number of cuts it been the dered, + a Ain, 188, $ T 413 pveseQ Lhe t neighbo and were the oid man, — Heavy fl rivers of Illino Northern N damage perty Twe million feet swept away by the moving gorge above Lock Ilaven, the Sth. foun wxls $ £0 of saw -J.ouis Klepp and Nicholas Minn- baugh, beoiler-makers, were suffocated { on the 9th, while repairing furnace | botler at Girard, Ohlo. | John OC. leighton, for nineteen | years clerk of the Municipal Criminal | Court at Boston, who resigned a short time ago, is reported to be a defaulter, | It was at first sald the amount would “ { the Oth, *‘assured a reporter the crepancy in Leighton’s accounts comparatively small, and that Mr. Leighton could straighten it without drawing heavily on his purse,” -— Raymond RB. Noonan, a young mail | clerk on the New York, Susquehanna | and Western Railroad, was arrested ion the Oth in Jersey City on the charge | of robbing the malls, | the service only three weeks. A gang {of American thieves is attending the { carnival in Montreal, A telegram {rom { that city says that on the 8th *‘they | smashed the plate-glass windows in | closed by a pine board, and rifled the and rings, the operation at another jewelry store on McGill street, the streets were crowded with people, but no arrests were made, ~IDisastrons floods are reported in the Maple, Grand and Raisin rivers in Michigan, At Lyons, three build- mys were demolished and many others damaged on the evening of the 10th, and the water was four feet deep in a number of dwellings and stores, It was ralning again on the morning of the 11th, and further damage was feared. The losses were estimated at over $75,000, A similar condition of affairs existed at Muir. At Monroe, the streets adjacent to the river were filled with great cakes of ice. At Jackson, cellars in the business section of the Lown were flooded to a depth of from one and a half to two and a half feet, Three Rivers is surrounded hey watar: all tha ehane thavn hava of legal complications,’ —Ileports from the lower Susque- hanna continue to show great damage water and lee, The railroad feet. A large quantity of timber is —Burglars entered the shop of Jos, Lowengart, pawnbroken, in Harris- burg, on the 10th, and took away 100 ral gold rimmed spectacles, and two or three revolvers. Albert Gorman and Samuel Mull, of Terre Iill, Lancaster county, Penna., were arrested on the 10th for violation of the revenue laws, m off unstamped cigars and traded the in payment of rent to Mull, who dis- posed of thom. The accused gave ball, Ex-Alderman O'Nelll, convicted recelving a bribe, was senwenced in New York, on the 11th, to four and a half years’ imprisonment, and ordered to pay a fine of A stay of exe- cution for ten days was subsequently granted in order that } have Lo prepare an appeal. of & HHH} 11s counsel might $ Lime u Thomas F. McGowan, a promine citizen of Duluth, fell from proscenium box the theatre in Minneapolis, at a perforn the 10th. his neck an dead when Hui. LAT Ol "a d was storm raged on th At Louls uses and a 1 and the Cath- JATY Were par- a chimney is town.” 1 i oye: $100,000, inroofed, dwell in E in Stark county, seven factory were blown dos olic church tially demolis left standin 18 estimated Wooster houses were and fences levelled, a Was wrecked and the tower of one church was blown through the roof of ano During a Penna., on down, kilils who —Much winds § + Joss al At trees Hing 4) v wher, 1 laborers " . had taken she damage Was done 3 i es were damaged rregate 8185 .000. of which birds are covered by The fire broke out just after a matinee performance by Mrs, Bowers’ The entire stage wardrobe $20,000, is The blacksmith and machine shops of the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway in Savannah, were burned on the morning of the 12th. Loss, $70,000; insurance, $34 000, One hundred and (fty men are thrown out of work. -Tbe Intense cold and deep snow which bave prevailed in Montana since the middle of November, continue, and ine suran ce, lost, raised and reports come from various loss of life will be revealed, Spear 8. Hollingsworth, ex