WIND AND SNOW. A SEVERE BLIZZARD IN THE NORTH- WEST. LOSS OF LIFE IN WYOMING AND IN TIE NORTH-WEST TERRITORY. CneyenNse Wy., Jan, 14. —Twelve to 18 inches of snow have fallen in the western end of the Territory. The gunow has crusted and, with the freezing of the water holes, cattle, sheep and horses are perishing all over the range. An owner yesterday received word from tis ranch in that section that scarcely an animal that could not be fed would survive. Horses have worn their hoofs to the quick irying to beat through the crusted spow. Cattle helpless, game has been driven ITO tte mountmns, and antelope have been killed with'n the city limits of Evans ton, while the stock has drifted to the vullway., Saturday and Sunday was intensely cold, and two men were fro- zen to death. ST. PAUL, Mien. Jan, 14, —A genu- ine bligzard, the frst of the season, raged over the Northwest the whole of Sunday and part of ye sterday knock- ing out telegraph wires, delaying all trains and retarding the operations ol Joggers in the pineries. Despatches frown the principal points in the Da- kotas. Montana and as far west as Spokane Falls, Washington, are to the effect that on the average the snow fell about ten inches on the level and drifted badly, owing to the strong winds, approaching a hurricane, which prevailed. <1. PAUL, Minn., Jan, 14.—Severe weather is reported generally through out the Northwest. A blizzard 18 raging at Deardsley, Mion. the drifts being piled 20 feet high. A piercing wind accompanies the storm. Trains and wagon traffic isat a standstill, The first great storm of the season ha- struck Grand Rapids, extending all over the Upper Mississippi region. At New Salem the very alr was darkened by falling snow sud pedes- trian could not see their hands io front of them. At Wabash, thirteen inches of snow has fallen. The highways are serivusly blockaded and trains are behind time. From Neche, N D,, comes a report of a veritable blizzard which raged for 35 hours, rendering all travel impossible through the heavy drifts, Rock SeniNags, Wyo. Jan. 14.— Willistu MeEdwards, a promioen businss man of this place, went Int the mountains bunting on Sunday morning with a companion, A Snow storm came up and the weather turnes bitterly cold. Both men becawe greatly exhausted. McEdwards’s companio: was compelled to leave him, and mad. his way to Rock Springs, reachins there badly frozen, A searching party went out after McEdwards, who wa: found 80 badly frozen that he died be fore he could be brought to the city. Prraspuga, Jan. 14.—The severe wind-storm of yesterday and last nigh played havoc with the oll interests inp this section of the State. Great pum- bers of derricks were destroyed, and in some sections the loss has been so great that all work on driliiog wells has been suspended, owing to the loas of derricks, The wretched condition of the roads makes it almost i1mpossi- ble to get lumber to wells to repah the damage done by the storm, and operations are practically suspended. OLxEy, Ill | Jan. 14.—At the village of Machburg, Sunday night, tte ¢j- clone overturned dwelling houses, barp and cut-building and wrought grea damage. The family of Philip Nichol son were seated around the fire wheu the storm came up, The house was completely destroyed and Mrs, Nichol son iostantly killed, and th daughter, Miss Auna Seriously injured, Aaron McWilliams ano family of seven were all caught under the rubbish of their house, and two children sustained serious hi jury The Msthodist Episcopal Church aud parsonage were destroyed. Qualls and other fowls were found d.ad, stnppeo of their feathers, and many large irees uprooted, lying along the path of the storm, which was about 50 rods wide. Ausrenpadm, N. Y., Jan, 14 —A cyclone raged in the Mohawk Valley nearly all of last nigh, and the wind blew at the 1ate of 70 miles an hour The telegraph and telephone wires were prostra’ed, and considerable dam- age is reported done to farm buildings, Many chimneys, fences and tress were blown down. At Albany DBush a farmer Is reported to have been fatally injured by being struck by bricks from a falling chimney, which had bees blown from a house NEWS OF THE WEEK, — Henry and Martin Remus, section hands on the Penosylvama Rallroad. were run down ty a light locomotive on the evening of the 12th near Wheeler Station, Indiana, snl were instantly killed. Two freight trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad were in coillsion on the morning of the 13th at Linden, between Elizabeth and Rah- way, New Jersey, and both locomo- tives and a number of cars were de- molished. The engineers and firemen escaped injury by Jumplog. A freight train on the Pennsylvania Rallway, was derailed near Iselin, belcw Rab- way, Ou the morning of the 13th, and the cars were piled up on oue another. Engineer Blerman fell under the en- gine and was seriously injured. -«The strike in the nail factory of the Brooke Iron Co, at Bicrdsboro, Peuna,. ited on the 14th in a vie- tory for wen, aod 250 men go back to work, the firm agreeing to restore the 10 per cent. red made four and a half mon compa} has voluntarily Inercased its puddier’s wages to $3.75 per ton, —Three young children of Carl Ro galinski, of Erle, Penna., were suffo- cated by the burning of their home on the evening of the 14th, during the ab- senoe of their parents, The fire was caused by the net of a drunken brother : ‘s, in laying his lighted pipe in a bed. The drunken wan escaped, —Misses Lou Asbury and Lizzie Bowles, William Rose and Daniel As- bury, were drowned on the 12th, while boating in a lake abont fourteen miles from Canni, lilinols, —J. H. Murphy, a homesteader near Filaviean. torty wiles from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, was frozen to death on the 12th, He Is supposed to have been drunk. —The boiler of a steam shovel used by the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Com- pany in excavating at Fallston, Penna,, burst on the afternoon of the 15th, iu- juring 14 wen, one of whom, Wesley Francis, of Pittsburg, died on the way to the hospital, Fifteen men Were on the afternoon of the 15th, overcome by wus in the 1luosae Tunnel, and several narrowly escaped death. It is thoueht wll will recover, The damp weather seems to affect the circulation of air in the tunnel, making It dangerous for workmen to remain inside, ~The three Cronin convicts, Burke, Coughlin and O'Sullivan, were assluned to work in the penitentiary at Joliet, illinois, on the 15th, Burke was sent to the cooper shop, Coughlin to the stone cutters’ shop and O'Sullivan to the shioe shop. — Physicians sent mto the mountain district along Cheat river, West Vir ginia, report that two epilemlics are prevallipg—diphthera and the more dreaded “‘biacktongue.” The latter has broken out in the last two weeks and about 30 deaths have occurred Many children are suffering from diph therla, and families attacked by Lhe disease are in want. The county has erected a temporary hospital, and a large force of physicians and nurses are in attendance. —At a meeting of the striking workmen in Woburn, Mass, on the evening of the 10th, Grand Muster Workman Moreland announced that the strike-lock-out in the leather Indus- try was practically ended, and the men were ordered back to work, Doth sides have agieed to submit the matter to the State Board of Arbitration, ~The temperature ranged trom 22 to 80 degrees below zero in Washing ton county, Maine, on the moruiag of he 10th. — An explosion of natural gas oc- curred at the Lucy Furnace, neal Pittsturg, on the loth, and Thomas Welsh was kitled aud five other work- pen fatally burned. —The Health Department In SL Paul, Mipueso'a, on the 16th, sent au juspector to a farm on the outskirts ol he city, where he discovered In one pen 05 vogs infected with cholera, and several carcasses (hat were b log dressed for market, Tuirty diseased sarcasses had been disposed of oun the 14.h. and others were on thelr way to Paul. The luspector condemned the whole outfls, seized the infecied meat 10 trausit, and the County Al- toruey will take steps to bave Lhe guilty parcies lndicted by the Grand Jury. — Four men were killed and several others badly injured by the premature explosion of » blast al & camp, Dear Johnson City, Tennessee, on the morn- ing of the lth, —Mre, James McNeil, three of her children at their homms in Falrbault. Minn., on the 16th, two ratally. She then made ano!her child ake carboiic acid and took a dose ber- wif, but at last accounts boih were still alive. The woman said she had no hope of ge. limg well, Jr., shot Three hundred persons at Carmi [ilinois, have been obliged to leave heir homes on account of a sudden rise in the Littles Wabash river, The river 1s out of its buwks, and the uorthern part of the town Is flooded to a dep h of 20 feet in some places and from 75 to 100 houses are submerged, 51st CONSEL38.~~First Session SENATE, In the U. 8, Senate on the 13th, bills were reported and placed on the calen- dar providing for the erection In Washivgton of a Ulronze statue of Clhirtstopher Columbus; appropriating 51.500,000 for a public building mm Si "aul, and to prevent the latroduction of contagious diseases from one Slale to another, Mr Frye introduced a bill (agreed upon by the varfous maritime easgues of the United States) to piace the American merchant iaring en gaged in the foreign trade on an equal- ity with those of other nations, A message was received from the House announcing its action on the death of Judge Kelley, and, after adopling an appropriate resolution, the Senate, as a mark of respect, adjourned. 1a the United States Senate on the 14th, the Sherman blll to declare trus's unlawful was reported and placed on the calendar, Pils were also reported appropriating $250 000 for a public vallding at Allegheny, Penna , and 50.000 for a public building at Beaver Fall, Peuna. Mr. George offered a resolution instructing the Finance Commities to report a bill reducing the penal bonds required of manufacturers of cigars in all cases, or j(at least) where the manufacture is carried on by the manual labor of the manufacturer, He read a letter fionu some cigar makers in Berks county, Pa., asking him to urge that change of law, as it bore very bard on them and helped to erowd them out of business all for the benefit of the large manufacturers, The resolution and letter were referred, Resolutions heretofore of offered by Mr. Call In relstioo to alleged unlawful selections of jand In Florida were taken up and dis- cussed by Messrs. Call and Plumb. After an executive session the Senate adjourned, In the U. 8, Senate on the 104th, Mr, Sherman introduced a bill, wich was referred, to provide for a perma. pent national bank eirculation, He also, from the Committee on Forel n Relations, reported a concurrent reso- lution, which was placed on the calen- dar, providing for arbitration for the settlement of national disputes, Mr, Morgan's resolution recognizing the Republic of Brazil was taken up, and supported by Mr. Turple at some length, It then went over. After an executive session Lhe Senate adjourned. In the Upited States Senate on the 16th, Mr. Hale, from tbe Census Com- mittee, reported adversely the bill re- quiring the Superintendent of the Cen- sus to ascertaln the mortgages on farms. At Mr, Hale's request it was placed on the calendar. Mr, Morrill, irom the Finance Committee, reported a coneurrent resolution requesting the Secretary of the Treasury not to make a new lerse of the Alaska fur seal islands, and to postpone all action in relation thereto until after the 20th of February next, Tre resolution Wis agreed to. bills were reporied and placed on the calendar, to revise the salaries of inspectors of steam vessels, and to provide for the removal ol Geronlmo's band of Indians to Fort Sill, In the Indian Tenitory. The credentials of Wilbur F. Sapders and Thomas CO. Brower as Senators-elect from Montana were presented, and re- ferred to the Committee on Privileges and El :ctions After an execulive session the Senate adjourned. HOUSE. In the House on the 13th, a number of Lis were introduced and referred under the call of States, among them the following: By Mr, Clunie, to pro- Libit the carrying of Chipese Into (he United States; by Mr. Fithian, of 111. nots, directing the Ways and Means (Hmm'iles to report a separate bill placing lumber, salt, jute, hemp, Wa nila and sisal grass on the free list; by Mr. Struble, for the admission of Idaho and Wyoming into the Union; by Mr. Anderson, of Kaisas, to declare the duties, enforce the obligations and regulate the service of ramiroad com- panies as enrriers of ioter-Slale com- merce; by Mr, O'Donnell, of Michigan, granting pensions Lo Army vurses; by Mr. Delano, of New York, fixing the duty on hops, hop auxiliaries and hop substitutes; by Mr. Baker, of New York, extending the suffrage Lo wow- en; by Mr, Stewart, of Georgia, 10 amend the naturalization lawe, Ad- journad, In the House on the 14th, Mr, Mc Kiley, from the Ways and Means Committee, reported the Custo.us Ad- ministration bill, and it was ordered to be printed and recommitted, Me Bingham, of Pennsylvauia, introduced several bills, which were referred, | spong them these: To provide for | ocean mall services; to classify salanes | in the railway ma'l service, and to pro- vide a pastal stamp redemption card. The Sileott report was taken tp and d'scussed, pending which the House | adjourned. In the House on sideration of the report commities on was resumed, and was laken on a Hemphill permi in the Court of Clalros, This was —yens, 136; pays, 138 —and = motion to reconsider was isi! on the tabe, A | vote was then taken on the majority bill, appropriating $75 000 to refund | members their lest salaries, It was | defeated—yeas, 120; nays, 142 A motion to reconsider, and a wolion to jay that motion on the table, were en- | tered, pending which the House ad- journed, In the House on the 16th, a resolu- tion was adopted ecalilng on the Secre- tary of State for copies of the existiog customs duties of Germany, Austria ind Franee, and also Information as to the policy of those countries in regard | to drawbicks and bounti«s on Sugar Mr. O'Neill, of Pennsylvania, presented | resolutions of the Phiiadelphia Mari. time Exchange favoring the passage of | the bill to transfer the Revenue Ma- | rine Bureau to the Navy Department. Bills were introduced by Mr. Lacey, of lowa, 'o amend the election laws, | and by Mr. Dorsey, of Nebraska, to | provide a permanent national bauk eir- | culation. Adjourned. | the 15th, the con of after debate a vole | substitute by Mr. | a THE GRIPPE. BeApixg, Pa, Jan 15. — Physicians | here report that the continued warm | weather is causing a gradual increare in the number of grip cases in this vicinity. In Reading the increase has teen rapid and the dociors say tht where there are two cases discharged at cured they receive five new ones, in the country districts the reports aie | the same, Every small community Las 100 or more cases and in’ some neigh! bothoods not a family has escaped, | I'he estimate is that there are in Rad. | ing to-day 5000 to 7500 cases and within | the (ast two weeks not a day has | passed but there have been one «(r more deaths from pulmonary trouble | directly attributed to grip, Cricaco, Jan, 15,—