ROSTON'S BIG LOSS, Blizzard in That City More De- structive Than Fire. MANY WERE DROWNED. Wrecks Dot the Coast From Cape Ann to Cape Cod—-The Loss to Property on Land by the Storm Was Tremendous— Horses Electrocuted in the Streets by Falling Trolley Wires, A despatch from Boston, says: At least twenty-one persons were drowned and $2,000,000 loss was infifeted by the blizzard that swept over New England Monday night and Tuesday, Four unidentified bodies lia in the coro- ner’s office at Gloucester, Five more are in Lyons, brought over from Little Nahant, where the schooner Charles I. Briggs was wrecked. Twelve unidentified bodies are at Baker's Island, in Salem harbor. They, too, while in life, must have manned some of the schooners that were lost in (iloucester har bor. That there are others in the waters of the Bay seems almost certain. Wreckage 1s strewn up and down the const from Cape Ana to Cape Cod. Thirty schoon- ers were wrecked In Massachusetts bay, On land the loss to property by the storm was tremendous, While many horses were killed in the streets of Boston, electrocuted by falling trolley wires, no human being was struck, Twenty-four hours elapsed before direct telegraphic communication was restored be- tween Boston and the remainder of world. The cost of the storm in mated as follows Boston Elevated Rallway Co,, City of Boston, $80,000: Western egraph Co., 220,000: Postal Telegraph Co., $10,000; Long Distance Telephone ( $5,000; New England Telephone Co, 000; Electric light companies, 4.000 losses, due to disabled equipment and fective wires, $100,000: Stenm railroads damage to property and loss $125,000; T.oss to ping $250,000: Loss to Boston's busin about $600,000; total, about #1.500 Swept by sn Huge Wave, The pilot-boat Varuna has arri an awful experience in the storm Capt. Willlam H. Falrfleld jared. At 10 o'clock Mc Varuna put Pilot MeMilla ) ard steamer Catalonia and then headed out oto the bay. The utheasteriy hurricane soon afterward swept over the bay and the pilot boat was tossed fearfully. Captain Fairfleld was the on the boat and he was cockpit aft. Suddenly and log a great wave swept over itern, throwing Captain Fairfield binnacle. He was nearly picked up. his r sud he was also hurt on the sh These Vessels Escaped. Among the other arrivals was the steamer Saturn, Captain Wiley, from Newport News, with the barge Lone ar in tow, After passing Highland ¥ the vessel was sheltered remained durin ! was unin- mared. Both the steamer and © were heavily iceclad. Gale mud Snow at Vineyard Haven. The first information trom Vineyard Haven since the storm was received it states that a violent casteriy gale, with a velocity of 53 miles an hour, swept over that section Monday night and cagsed extremely sigh tide, Telegraph and telephone were prostrated and damage the Boston esti- Fire de- interests the ( standing with the 3 diGer, an arge Wednesday ines considerable THE NEWS. The First Presbyterian Church In New A! bany, Ind., has been totally destroyed by fire, Loss, $50,000, Two laborers ware fatally injured by the caving in of the walls of a sewer trench iu which they were, at Newark, N. J. United States District Judge Do Haven has rendered an opinion which will have the effect of erecting another strong bare rier against Chinese laborers and eriminals, The opinlon Is to the effect that the action of the Collector of the Port is not even prima facts evidence of the right of a Chin- ese to land, As a result of the trust recently formed prices of wires and nails are advancing. The Mclutyre block in Winnipeg was de Stroyed by flre. The bullding was four stories, and contained some of the leading stores in the city, The total losses will in the neighborhood of 500,000, A big three-story sulphite mill at Menom- fnee, Mich., was blown to pleces by the ex. piosion of one of the dijectors. Peter Borrst, engineer, was killed outright Bteffon was fatally fvjured, and Louis Lefre had bis skull fractured Ex-collector of Internal Re Fraocisco 0, M. Welbure the United States Grand Ju at large, and the indictment upon the secret file its be made public, Frank 8. Wright shot and killed himsell in Chicago when lmprisonment for confessed embezzlement stared him fn the fac He had been married less than three weeks and bore a good reputation, Wright was collec. tor for the F, H. Publishing Com- pany, C. G. Hoyt, of the Fort Hall Indian Com mission, has practi ally concluded a treaty with the Baunock and Shoshone Indians ! ir the sala of Fort Hall reservation for £525,000, Warrants bave been fssued be SAM Welburn placed is was cannot 80 contents Collier th ihe the Pq forty San Fran- with ing labels, which they from ilce Courts for the arrest of druggists, charged under counterfeit » be bogus, ulacturing company clseo pel piiis Knew The complainant | of New York, The six-year-old daughter of A. of Santa Monies, Cal., was bitten } ¥ over three ago aod died I'uesday, having shown every sympt ’ s ’ J V3 il NAD ious dog weeks Bahia bydr paola, Charles Zan the New ) Was suspected of having m Wives and an employe, harces of {or Al i aarges of forgery and gran i i Grand Jury did not iz in murder which was s Po oping Hat ( W. H. Bird, at former cashier { the Bank of Massachu grand jary or ng 29,000 of the The trout i it The ralire have been swindled t of th r paupe was +5 I rad ’ raers | Fanoer seek his fortune in panied by ( New York. Mrs, Margaret | ently-seven vears Preston, who was ¢ was done along the water front. A fleet of ressels harbored at the Vineyard st their anchorage Ice King, with | as wrecking scow and apparatus, was ob] 0 abandon the Was wo men on board. The danknown, lay safely ihe tug cow, which fata nf BAS OX BOTH TRIED SUICIDE Double Attempt to End Life at Wash ington A dispateh from Washington, D. C ~The su‘ecidal mania attacked Walter for, 8 Treasury clerk, and [ daughter Lucy. Miss Taylor has been in ill-health for lime past, and ber iliness assumed a su dal form. About o'clock in the me ruling ihe plunged through a window and fell into ssnow-bank. She then ran terribly eut i oruised through the streets, and. half-hour search, was found bya police She was taken home and it was lound that during her absence her f tad hanged himself by a rope attached a boller of a stove, Neither father daughter will die, . SAYS Tay- year-old fod Qi BURIED IN THE RUINS, Explosion of a Digester Wrecks =a Paper Min, The three-story brick building of the Park Paper Mills, at Marinette, Wis. was wmpleteiy wrecked by the explosion of a digester, One man, Peter Bor<t, was instantly killed. Samuel Steffen was buried in the ruins and is probably dead. Louis Lefebre was fatally injured by falling debris, The explosion snd collapse of the plant shook the city, Fumes cf sulphur used in the manufacture of paper made the work of rescue extremely bazardous and there is little doubt that Steffen has been smothered. The loss to the Marinette and Menomines Paper Company is about £50 000, QUICK TRAVEL TO KLONDIKE, Completion of Aerial Rallway Over the Chilkoot Passe, Hugh C. Wallace, president of the Chil- koot Railroad and Transportation Company, at Tacoma, Wash. bas advices of the com- pletion of the company's serial railway sver the Chilkoot Pass to Lake Linderman. This marks a new ares from Klondike tray- 8, as the time between tide water and the aeadwaters of the Yukon River is shortened from a month to oue day, besides removing she peril and hardships. The company made / a contract with the Canadian government a fifteen cents per pound for transportacion of all its freight. EARTHQUAKE SHAKEN, Great Distress Cansed In Tarkey Many Fatalities Have Resulted. Violent earthquake shocks have been felt at Balikeer and around Brusa, in Asia Minor. Numerous fatalities hav: resulted, and great damage has been done, The Suitan has subscribed £5800 for the relief of the sufferers. He bas dispatched 8 relies! committee to the sosnes of the die aster, aud bas ordered the Milster of Fi. tstug 10 take stevs to succor the injured. | Presid goidier in two Mrs, William } states amt ass in his | Griggs sent hn Gs dg: y the New Jersey iaty and ate, will take the oath I'he International Paper Com Moy, a bination of nearly all the big firtns i: country, was incorporated at Albany, N. with a capital of 845,000,000, A suit in which prominent silver men interested was begun in the court tiae, Mieb., to the the Bland ison silver act, Five thousand operatives of the and Pacific Cotton Miils, at Mass., accepted the ten per cent. in wages R. 8, Ogden, a merchant of Va., and bis son, George, were arrested ona charge of forgery. The locomotive of a freight t ed near Helena, W. Va., killing and fireman, General Harris M. Plaisted, of Maine, died at Bangor. ¥ re, President Yoorhees, of the as his successor at Lost onstitutionality Atlantic Lawrence, reduction Sandis, W, r a explod- he engineer Lo - Ve Some idea of the atteation that the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad is paying to its passenger traffic may be gained from the fact that during the past 18 months nearly 800 passenger cars received thorough and ordinary repairs, 669 being repaloted. Nearly all of the equipment is pow Royal Blue, and most of it is equipped with Pintach gas, the Pintsch light being used on local as well as through trains, NEW INVENTIONS, now In a new scrubbing brush the handle is made hollow to hold water which can be discharged in small quantities through a BORD compartment to the floor by turning the pivoted handle so its outlet registers with the opening leading to the soap cham- ber, the latter being perforated on the under side to discharge the fluid to the bristies, Needle baths can be taken in ordinary bathtubs by using a newly-designed dis- charge pipe, which is of spiral shape and has perforations on the front side, the de. vies being mounted on the wall of the bath. room and connected to the water pipe by a rubber bose to throw jets of water into the tub, To preserve perishable articles in bottles a newly patented apparatus has a nozzle through which air is exhausted from the bottle, with a tube loosely fixed in the suc tion pipe. A plunger joside has sealing ma- terial at the end, which drops us soon as the exhaustion of air is completed and seals the bottle, Flies are killed by a pew trap, which has a fist board, on which sugar or molasses is placed, a spring board being suspended above It and released automatically by a clock mechanism 10 {uli on the bottom board and cateh the insects, after which the elock raises the board again and bolds it Jong enough to allow more flies to gather on the board, Found Frosen to Death. J. J. Rorns, aged thirty, a prominent druggist, war found dead at South Pors. Loss of the Steamer Channel Queen Off Guernsey, DIE the Vessel-Survivors Were Taken ON with Kopes Escape of the Crew--The Muke Gallant Rescues, A cablegram from Plymouth, Eng., says vielpity la morulug, [tls known that at least twenty-two lives were lost, many years occurred Tuesday I'he mall steamer Channel Queen, plying between this port and tne Island of Je t Vessel lost, reey mptaly was saved baune! Queen struce during un 1 The Wand sank lisuster occurred off the [sland of Grurrosey, At first It was bad been lost, reported that thirty Later in the day the owners of the ( nel Queen announesd persons on board of her when she struck Only two are kuown to have drowned. Still later, however, the news of the vers life turned out to be lucorreet it that twenty twe ban- MUD loss of f! or intest # Duve HYes were j« Ihe ( Jueen 4 engines were re versed, wher but I Was 1 rocks were The first sought help of the fisher meer reached ian men rey dues, aithougt aelr Lost from ap 1 AUD BUIVIVYL who inde gallant t rs bad 8% Lo the the last t report is that twenty ty he oh f i, rit - ' he ie! engineer, three I passengers, ind ing t3¢ Wa Were frowns Lhe paas SLATGHTERED HIS FAMILY, and Wounds Wife and Others. tb Arkans £ piace in HM. F, Autrey, a farmer is family, went . LO visit bi rritvs crimes ever Fr as lo AR 3 estimate « ntag- { ¢ lous diseas port og second ar sleam veasein Secretary Dillag sant to ( SNR Toss of the Dawes Commission Mississippi Choeatows » hoiding that ander their treaties are not entitied to ali the Choctaw citizen. ship rights except an interest the Choo taw annuities, Secretary Bil has sent ¢ Lands Committee s of House a acting s the Yellowst National Park for an exter n of the limits of that Om mies and ung the Renate the d by Col. ¥ endent of bil prepare the v t iperin fie ressrvation square The Baerotary of the Navy has sent to Congress additional def) rienoy estimates for an appropriation of §18 400 for the removal of eonstrustion and repair tools, &o, from building No. 14, Iu the Brooklyn Navy Yard which Is reported in tion. Senator Allen's proposed amendment to the Indian appropriation bill, providing for a Congress of Indian tribes next fall at the Omaha exposition, was favorably reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. It provides an appropriation of $45,000 for the service, The Senate Committees on Commerce ag- thorized the reportiog of a bill, in accord. anos with the recommendation of the Treas. ury Department, establishing a steamboat inspectors’ district for Alaska. The purpose of the measure i= to insure the inspection of vessels on the Yukon River, The Ericsson bas sailed from Mobile for Key West, The Alert has arrived at San Juan del Sur, Lieut, L. L. Bsamey and Lieut. G. T. lo gan have been granted two months’ leave of absence, Gep, George H. Weeks, Quartermaster General of the Army was placed on the re. tired list by operation of law on account of age. Benator Carter, who is a member of the sub-committee on Alaska for three different committees of the Senate, has prepared and Introduced a bill to amend an aot providing a civil government for Alaska, The minority report of elections commit. tee No. 1 on the contested election case of William ¥. Aldrich vs, Thomas 8 Plowman. in the Fourth Alabama Distriet, was made to the House Thursday, The majority un. seated Plowman, It claims that Plowmas was elected by over 2.000 votes, The min. ority report is signed by Messrs, Bartiett a dangerous condi Fox and Settle, | FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Turkisa troops tried to enforee the pay- ment of taxes at Lazaring, but the peasants resisted with Nlrearms, and a regular battle followed, In an engagement between Spanish forces, commanded by Gen, Luque, aud the insur gents in the Mejia district of Cubatwo Span ish oMoers, including a son of the general, were wounded, The British forces had an encounter with the tribesmen near Bhinksmer, Indiasua, and suffered serious losses, including the killing of several officers, Chinese officials say that Russian warped China that if Kino Chou were granted to Germany, Russia would demand Ta Lien Wan or Port Arthur, Consul General Loo gave a banquet at the Havana Yacht Club-house to the officers of the warship Maine, Ma. Gladstone with neuralgia, has again been suffering Jules Emile Pean, the French surgeon. is dead Rev, George HH, Hepworth. in a letter from Asintie Turkey, gives inter view with an of his race, interesitog tre AbD Armenian or ubles The Spanish authoritie say that the diary of Arenguren, the lpsurgent leader who was killed, shows that he ordered the execution of Colonel Iuiz, ‘0's staff, who went to him peace, young of General Blan with terms for tak naval The minister of marine at Ottawa Is ing steps to form a forces of Canadian militia for services on the Great Lakes. Canadian manufacturers asked the government at Ottawa to Img a duty of 89 on each blevole imported from the United States [he birthday of } more generally Germany, bicycle have OE mperor William was elebrated thar wual in A of the ted 10 ac majority strik British ex ing se pt Rineers havo y the employers, heavy sn he Black soa. MRIVARO Madrid ter We NOWKDA per GHEAT BOND SALES, More Than S900.000.000 Worth Bought in One Clty CALIFORNIA'S JOMILEE, An Electric Flash Across the Continent Opens a Fair in San Francisco » mining fair, which was ' Pavilion, is teresting exposily It is beid in celebration ¢ versary of the discovery of fornia Amopg the exhibits is 2 of the North Bloomfl hydraulic mine in interesting a represontati drift mining Visitors can aiso see a which different motals sre Lis aver the equally exhibit is roating. Nearly ail represented the different counties of the State have mining machinery is tarkable exhibits of ores. AMMUNITION FOUND WORTHLEsMS Flimsy Shrapnel Said to Have Been Fur. nished by « Washington « ompany. Testa of shirapnel shots fur Army have BE. Babbitt, of Benecia Cailfornia., Twenty-six shells fired, atd 50 per cent, of the ammunition was The flimsy shrapnel was furnished by an ordnance com. pany of Washington. Al fused by electricity were exciudad from the twenty. six rounds selected by Lieut. Babbit, United States arsena) were shells BLOCEKADES IN THE WEST. Furious Storms in Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana. Raports from various towns in Michigan, Northwestern Wisconsin and Northern In- diana tell of a severe Llizzard which raged in that section of the couutry. The wind blew a gale, and buge snow drifts piled in the highways, All trains were more or less delayed, and in some towns stroet raliway traffic has been entirely suspended, The re. port from Marquette, Mich., states that the storm on the Iake was fearful. On a Mission of Peace. Prior to the sailing of the first-class ar- mored erusier Vizeaya from Carthagena for the United States the admira! made a sproch 10 the crew, during which he said: “You are charged with a mission of peace.” This announcement was greeted with cheering, and the other ships in the harbor and the crowds of people au the quays also heered for Spain, Divided as to Sunday Mail, There is a lively contest bn at the peace- ful town of New Market, Tenn, whose post master bas been opening the offles on Sun- day. Some of the preachers object snd bave delivered sermons dwelling upon the subject. Preferred Death to Disgrace, Frank 8 Wright shot and kilied himself at Chieags when Imprisonment for confessed embezzlement stared him io the fase He bad been married less thao three weeks and bad borne a good reputation, SPAIN'S BIG BURDEN. Two Years of War in Cuba Cost Her $240,000,000. MAIL. TAMPERED WITH, Letters From the ( nited States Habltunily Opened and Nowspapeors are Frequently Undelivered The Autonomic Govern. ment of Using the Election Machinery for Its Own Vurposes. Accused Febru ood The cost of the Caban war from ary, 1805, to the end of 1807 mated in Madrid at 240,000,000, besides the nrrears from the ( amounting to £40,000, 000, The Impareial complains that mercial negotiations between Ky ain, and the United States to Benor de Lome, the Washington, and goverpment Appoint experts to examine the terms of treaty on Spain's behalf Mall matter in the Havana Pe tinues tampered with, eighteen extra men duty opening letters and reading DeWEPRApOrs While European mall matter gets i all right, correspondence from the United States, especially from and Key West, Is most carefully exami Ietters from Madrid t ‘ the due uban treasury the com f 21 i iha, are belng intrusted Spanish Minister at urges the 10 tha Las gtoffiee cor to be There are on before hrough l'ampn embers of party are opened. The delivery of News and are often not delivered at all, In V cases, jeter He packages reach thelr ie CRB the fallure causing severe ported that this system of insg prompted by f +} LAr soli ¥ of the gaovernmont Discontent Among the Cubans. fireat dise men # steadily 3 i » eRging flesh] ation eight of Bough ever the streots as others. me to regain is dalls 1 is distrit he insurgents have ited noeentirad iYonmited ard ratiroad line Havana pontoon * stroyed a pear Sa provinee ABOUT NOTED PROPLE I'he recent adpearance of House me i “stogie” illustrates the extent 4 plebeian production of the American t manufacturer bas made its sociely Npeaker jieed in the obby a Wheeling which tbat Dee way into “polite One hundred summoned to appear in mon Pleas Ravenna wherein Mary Ellen Rogers Rogers for a divorce on the grounds that, having lived with her 40 vears. he never took ber anywhere, not even to church. Rev. W, H. Morrison pastor of a Univer salist chureh in Manchester, N. H.. has v« untarily relinquished $500 of his $2000 ap- nual salary, because of the cut-down of 10 per cent. in the wages paid at the mills and the consequent hard times in the parish and the town. The church gratefully accepted the offer. Mme, Verdi's will Las just been proved at ome. The deceased lady saved a modest fortune before her marriage to Verdi. and while she was still a popular operatio primoa donna. Of this about #7500 now goes to bulld a hospital at Villanova, and the bal. ance in smaller sums is devoted to various *haritios, tev. A. T. Porter, D. D., has resigned the tectorship of the Protestast Episcopal Chureh in Charleston, § C., which he has tield for fortysfour years. It is related that be preached bis first sermon to a few on January 8, IS54, fa a long. narrow room. with a few bare benches, without carpet, not a sash in the windows, and without a stove, George Byron and “Bud” Tennyson live near the thriving settlement of High Gap, Ga, Strangely enough they got into an ar- gument on a literary sobject the other day. and it was decided they shonld fight it oat. Both men put up a i fight, but finally, after 17 hotly-comntested rounds. Byron knocked Tennyson out, Truman H. Handy, the banker of Cleve- innd, who has just celebrated his 81st birth. day, loaned $2,500 to John DD. Rockefeller when the latter started in business, Mrs, Susan E. Wattles, who has just died in Kansas, was the widow of Augustus Wattien, the close friend and coworker of John Drown in the “underground railway.” There is a movement on foot in Hartford, Conn., to erect a suitable monument to the memory of Henry Clay Work, the suthor of “Marching Through Georgia.” seven wilnesse the Co Wore irt of Come the Voiney 0, in i sued vie ‘Latest News Gleaned from Various Parts of the State. LARGE COAL SALES. Great Rush for Unsold Land in Fayette County Boys of Tender Years Confess to Robbery in Altoona Clinton Concern Organizes With 8125,000 Capital ~Other Live News, Rome ths pur- ml Ce sales are reported in The latest | shases wers made by Tide C | pany from Harvey J. Kieelo and Joseph HK Elliott, each selling about 160 meres at $185. Heury Ploersheim. the Pittsburg coal opera. | tor recently purchased 550 acres in the same | field. There is a rush on for the unsold eosl ff Fayette county, and it is estimated that | two or threes million dollars worth will be { #0ld this year. Within the last year mueh of f the coal along the be. | tween Bros has | been bought ip. George Wilkins, aged 9, | aged 10, and Louis Levi arrested in Alt { of ! robbed the Union { aud Sunday night | money drawer in the long phote at the Logan House, | the money, At a hearing ti large coal | Monongahela River region the Monongahela River, svilie and Polat Marion, Willlamm Wilkins, aged 11 years, were oua charged with a sumber Saturday unight the boys News Company's broke open robberies, office the tele and extracted on fessed they distance 188 been Haven with fire brick organized oO eroct extensive give employ hande. The com at Monu 25,700 capital, t , whic} im ber « 1,240 acres Millb Al the ment, 16 mii will be Re i vATSeY ir & surprises and h had bee re. Bagiey i age, and at one oy shipped t Minery and ther supplies 1 of a wire tra It will take sev ara woe) 10 reash its destinatios that way will be able t by time that the Associate Judge C. G violent i lis pieigh and ur after Mur lia, was thrown #0 badly injured that he belts ccoveved to his phy and his daught from their home avou noon for a sleigh ride driving along the road the Judge , Started t 8 « alter to Mt While A STOW Sweeper Carmel, on traction line frig ned the horse and it Dar overin hie ng the animal's mad Jight raed and the occupants 1 3 The udge’s head struck against a stone, fracturing his skull Miss Murphy was painfaliy bruised, but not seriously injured. Judge Morphy was & prominent Columbia County eit baving been Associate Judge of that o« uaty the past ten years, ran sway out en, EE — ee u— Enterprising French Village, in the mune of meeau-sur-Oles, not far from only 250 lighted by found in 1 even in farm buildings in the neighborhood of the village are Hluminated in the same manner. More than this, the commune possesses a jarge thrashing machine driven ty electric power and capable of thrashing 0% sheaves of grain per hour, besides turnip entters, crushers, sorters, pumps and other agricultural machinery, all set In motion by elec tricity, he power is derived from a waterfall and by combining their in terests the Inhabitants of the commune have made sclence illuminate their gireets and houses at night and drive their machines bir day more cheaply than these things could be done by the old methods. —8an Francisco Argonaut, = Is inhabitants, are hoaees ¢ he stables, and the Spltzbergen Hotel The hotel recently erected in Spits. hergen Is thus described: Built in Nor weglan style, it has a large hall, and a quantity of smaller rooms, with thirty beds, It ix also provided with a book for visitors’ names, among which may now be seen those of Sverdrup, Fulda, Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerst, E. Vely, and others. The climate of Spitzborgen is said to have the most favorable Influence on persons suffer ing from chest diseases. Two Grand DM visions, Teacher-How mankind are there? Eobby-My paw says it is divided into the people who earn a living
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